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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.
BUT Particularly; The Reader will allow, JEHOVAH, to be Translated, The ETERNAL ⟨p. x⟩GOD. It is the truest English of that Incommunicable Name: A Name, tho' not Unutterable, (according to the Jewish Superstition,) yet what should not be too commonly uttered. And the French Translation will here speak a Good Word for ours. And where's the wrong done, if Elohim should be Translated, GOD the Judge? or, Adonai, be Translated, The GOD on whom I lean, or, The GOD from whom is my support? It is in the Hebrew Term. What if, Col Haijom, should be Translated, All Day, and Every Day? What if Gnani, should be so Translated, as to carry both Suffering and Meekness in it? What if G•alam should be Translated, Who can tell the Term? 'Tis no more than what is in the Hebrew. When Two English Words are employed for One Hebrew Word, we have signified it sometimes with an * Asterisk. But, Reader, Know, that the Hebrew signified Both: and since it is not easy to determine, which to take, exclusive of the other, it will not be disagreeable unto the Glorious Inditer, that Both be considered.
BUT Particularly; The Reader will allow, JEHOVAH, to be Translated, The ETERNAL ⟨p. x⟩GOD. It is the truest English of that Incommunicable Name: A Name, tho' not Unutterable, (according to the Jewish Superstition,) yet what should not be too commonly uttered. And the French Translation will here speak a Good Word for ours. And where's the wrong done, if Elohim should be Translated, GOD the Judge? or, Adonai, be Translated, The GOD on whom I lean, or, The GOD from whom is my support? It is in the Hebrew Term. What if, Col Haijom, should be Translated, All Day, and Every Day? What if Gnani, should be so Translated, as to carry both Suff•ring and Meekness in it? What if G•alam should be Translated, Who can tell the Term? 'Tis no more than what is in the Hebrew. When Two English Words are employ'd for One Hebrew Word, we have signifyed it sometimes with an * Asterisk. But, Reader, Know, that the He•rew signifyed Both: and since it is not easy to determine, which to take, exclusive of the other, it will not be disagreeable unto the Glorious Inditer, that Both be considered.