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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.
ILLUSTRATIONS on the CXXVI. PSALM.
Behold the Surprise of the Israelites Returned and Restored by the Messiah,
BEhold the Surprise of the Israelites Returned and Restored by the Messiah,
1 Some take it so, We were in such a Frame, and it was at such a Time, that we took all the Prophecies about our Deliverance, to have been so many Dreams.
4 A Thing as welcome as the Enjoyment of Streams in a thirsty Land. So Munster: Non mimis erit illud, quam si in Deserto squalido et exusto, Rivos facias urrere aquarum. The South of the Holy Land is every parched Land; a dry and a faint Wilderness.