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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.
Austin makes a Remark on the Order of the Words; first, Mercy, then Judgment. Now and Here, the former; Anon the Latter. Par Tempor a distinguinuis haec duo.
2 Arnobiu, has a fire Thought here. A Saint will be an Almagiver. He will understand when a CHRIST comes to him, in the Person of a distressed Brother.
8 Early.] Munsters gloss is, Before others are corrupted with them.
Athanasins has a Note of Piety here, which tho' it be not the Sense of the Place, is worth our thinking on.
As the Morning is the Beginning of the Day, so, the Beginning of our Sin is in the fraudulent suggestion of our Enemy the Devil. To Destroy the Wicked in the Morning is to Observe and Defeat the Devil, in the Beginning of his Temptations. The Soul of Man is the City of the Lord. We should betimes destroy the Designs of the wicked, therein, by an Early Mortification bestowed upon them.