N01640:2433
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.
14 For He is well acquainted with ‖ the [feeble] frame wherein we're made, ‖ He very well remembers this, ‖ that we are very [sorry] dust. ‖
15 For soon-forgotten Man, his days ‖ are like unto the [fading] grass; ‖ As the flower that is in the field, ‖ so 'tis He flourishes [a while.]
15 For soon-forgotten Man, his days ‖ are like unto the [fading] grass; ‖ As the flowre that is in the field, ‖ so 'tis He flourishes [a while.]
16 For the wind passes over it, ‖ and ••• sently [at once] 'tis gone; ‖ and in the place where once it stood, ‖ it will be [seen and] known no more. ‖
17 But the m•st kind benignity ‖ of [Him who's] the ETERNAL God, ‖ is from unknown Eternity [lasting] even to Eternity; ‖ Upon such as do exercise ‖ a [real] constant fear of Him; ‖ and unto Children's Children is ‖ His [faithful] constant righteousness. ‖