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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.
Resh. XX.
153 My Trouble view, and save me; for ‖ I don't forget Thy Law [therein.] ‖
154 Plead Thou my Cause and rescue me; ‖ Quicken me for [to do] thy Word.‖
155 Salvation is far distant from ‖ [all of] such as are wicked ones: ‖ for they seek not to know and do ‖ the things [the which] thou dost appoint.‖
156 Many Thy tender Mercies are, ‖ [and great] O Thou ETERNAL God: ‖ According to thy Judgments now, ‖ O do Thou [therefore] quicken me.‖