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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.
158 When I transgressors have beheld, ‖ I have been grieved [very] much; ‖ The reason of it was; because ‖ they have not [duly] kept thy Word.‖
159 Behold, O Thou ETERNAL God; ‖ thy Precepts how I love [and prize!] ‖ according to thy Mercy now ‖ O do Thou [kindly] quicken me.‖
160 Thy Words beginning* and main point ‖ is [ever] most undoubted truth; ‖ and all thy righteous Judgments are ‖ [still such] to perpetuity. ‖
XXI. Schin.
161 Great Men, but without any Cause, ‖ have [siercely] persecuted me; ‖ But of thy Word my Heart hath still ‖ maintained a [silial] Reverence. ‖