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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.
1 Arnobius reads it so: Deus, Laud•m meam no tacueris. He desires that GOD would not jet His Praise be unmentioned; Because His Adversaries loaded Him with their Vituperations. Dr. Patrick thus comprehensively Paraphrases it. As thou hast given me hitherto continual cause to praise Thee, so I hope, Thou wilt still vindicate my Honour.
11 The Ancients here understood the Romans, with their Demands of Tributes.
18 That Illustrious Dutchman Dr Neuwentyt, (whose Contemplations are translated by the valuable Dr Chamberlain,) does on the occasion of this Text admire the precise knowledge of Nature which the Holy Spirit, who indicted our Scripture, has discovered in a vast variety of Instances. Here he says, Any one who reads this Text, and has ever seen the Caries Ossium, or Corruption of the Bones produced by Liquid or Olouginous matters, must needs confess, that the Wrath and Curse of GOD, cannot be described by more lively Comparisons.
18 That Illustrious Dutchman Dr Neuwentyt, (whose Contemplations are translated by the valuable Dr Chamberlayn,) does on the occasion of this Text admire the precise knowledge of Nature which the Holy Spirit, who indicted our Scripture, has discovered in a vast variety of Instances. Here he says, Any one who reads this Text, and has ever seen the Caries Ossium, or Corruption of the Bones produced by Liquid or Olouginous matters, must needs confess, that the Wrath and Curse of GOD, cannot be described by more lively Comparisons.