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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.
7 Our Ancestors in Egypt did ‖ not wise attention give ‖ to understand the wondrous things ‖ which were done by thee there. ‖ They minded not the multitude ‖ of thy benignities; ‖ but they rebelled near the Sea, ‖ even at the Reedy-Sea. ‖
7 Our Ancestors in Egypt did ‖ not wise attention give ‖ to understand the wondrous things ‖ which were done by thee there. ‖ They minded not the multitude ‖ of thy benignities; ‖ but they rebelled near the Sea, ‖ ev'n at the Reedy-Sea. ‖
8 Nevertheless for the sake of ‖ His Name He saved them; ‖ That so He might make to be known ‖ His mighty Power abroad. ‖
9 So He rebuked the Reedy-Sea, ‖ and it was dried up; ‖ and then He lead them through' the deeps ‖ as through' a wilderness. ‖
9 So He rebuk'd the Reedy-Sea, ‖ and it was dried up; ‖ and then He lead them thro' the deeps ‖ as thro' a wilderness. ‖