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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.
64 ETERNAL God, The Earth is full ‖ of thy [most kind] benignity; ‖ O do thou well instruct me in ‖ the things [the which] thou dost appoint. ‖
65 O Thou ETERNAL God, Thou half ‖ one [the best] Good, to One that is ‖ a faithful Servant unto thee; ‖ [even] according to thy Word. ‖
66 Good sense and knowledge teach me; for ‖ thy Precepts [firmly] I believe. ‖
67 Before I was abased, I strayed; ‖ But now I [better] keep thy Word. ‖
67 Before I was abas'd, I stray'd; ‖ But now I [better] keep thy Word. ‖