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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.
ILLUSTRATIONS on the CII. PSALM.
WAS not the Writer of the Psalm, Daniel the Prophet, who in the approaches of a Great Revolution, and the Deliverance of the Church from the Babylonish Captivity, spent Three Sevens of Days, in Secret Prayer, with Fasting before the Lord? But, methinks, the Prophetic Spirit here expresses Prayers and Groans for the Jewish Nation, in their Dispersion, and in the approach of their Deliverance.
3 The Patrician Paraphrase is well; 'My Days are 'spent as dismally, as it I lived and breathed in Smoke.
3 The Patrician Paraphrase is well; 'My Days are 'spent as dismally, as it I liv'd and breath'd in Smoke.
7 Bochart will maintain my Version for the Names of the Birds.