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Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse. : Fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches. Which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it; and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it. : Whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Eliot, 1718
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8 Chemnitius, by, our Secret, here, would have Original Sin to be understood; whereof tho' the Fruits are evident and notorious, the Root is yet Secret.
9 The Ancients read it, Like a Spider. And such was their Gloss upon, Ut Aranearum Tela, sic bumana Vita convellitur.
10 Dr. Goodwin observes here, an Allusion to the Condition of a Bird, which has been hatching its full time. When the time for it arrives, the Shell breaks, and it flies away. Death is the breaking of the Shell.
11 Unto the common Annotations I will add that of P. Amana; Siquis te timeat, ira tua ab illo descedit. The Fear of GOD, will deliver us from His Wrath.