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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.
The Psalm was always esteemed so excellent that the Title of the whole Book of Psalms was taken from it. It is wholly spent in Praising of GOD, with such admirable Devotion, that (as has been by Schindler long since observed) the Ancient Hebrews did use to say, He could not fail to be a Child of the World to come, who would recite this Psalm Three times every Day. And, as Dr. Patrick observes, This might be the Reason, why it was composed Alphabetically; even that so every Body might the more easily learn and remember so useful a Psalm.
THe Psalm was always esteem'd so excellent that the Title of the whole Book of Psalms was taken from it. It is wholly spent in Praising of GOD, with such admirable Devotion, that (as has been by Schindler long since observed) the Ancient Hebrews did use to say, He could not fail to be a Child of the World to come, who would recite this Psalm Three times every Day. And, as Dr. Patrick observes, This might be the Reason, why it was composed Alphabetically; even that so every Body might the more easily learn and remember so useful a Psalm.
Dr. Allix will have it, An Hymn of the Synagogue, Restored unto the Favour of GOD. The Destruction of the Wicked, and the Conversion of the Nations, under the Glorious Reign of the Messiah, is here particularly celebrated.
13 How did the Letter Nun come to be lost at this Verse of the Acrostic? If it were lost when the Psalm came to the Hands of the Collector of this Book, •he would not supply it with one of his own. The ⟨p. 398⟩Modern Greek, (I say Modern, for the Ancient and Theodotion and Aquila have it not;) and so the Arabic and Syriac, and vulgar Latin supply it so, — The Lord is Faithful in all His Words, and Holy in all His Works. But this differs little from the Seventeenth Verse. And why might not the Psalmist be carried, [as in the XXV. Psalm,] through' the strength of the Inspiration upon him, out of the method he at first proposed? Or, O Masorites, Do you give us a reason for this Omission.