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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.
4 GOD often sends His Angels, into the Winds, and into the Lightnings and Thunders to execute His Royal Pleasure.
15 The Fating of Oil, and the Ointing with it, we all know, produces this effect. But besides this, hear David Kianchi. Indicat noctis Lampades, qua illuminant facies bominum.
22 Behold a rare stroke in the Midrash Tillin; a rare stroke from the Infidel Jews: The Sun is the MESSIAH. Yea, they proceed further, to find Hell, the Dens of the Wild-Beasts.
24 Is every one of the Fixed Stars, whereof the Telescope has brought great Numbers into view, a Sun attended with a Chorus of Satellites? Come from our Sun and pass by the Planets in our System, and pass by the Mete•rs of our Atmospsiaere; In our Globe the Fossils are without Number. Of the Beasts including Serpents, we know 150 sorts; Of Birds 500; O Fishes 500; the Shell-Fish Six times as many; Of Insects little short of 20000, according to Rays Computation,