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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 CL. PSALM.
The Psalm relates to the Reign of the Messiah, when every thing that hath Breath will Praise the Lord. Maimonides gives us a Jewish Tradition, That when the People brought up their First Fruits, to present them unto the Lord, according to the XXVI. of Deuteronomy, as soon as they came to the Mountain of the Temple, every one took his Basket into his hand, and Sang this whole Psalm; till they came to the Courts of the House of the Lord: And then the Levites met them, Singing, the XXX Psalm.
THe Psalm relates to the Reign of the Messiah, when every thing that hath Breath will Praise the Lord. Maimonides gives us a Jewish Tradition, That when the People brought up their First Fruits, to present them unto the Lord, according to the XXVI. of Deuteronomy, as soon as they came to the Mountain of the Temple, every one took his Basker into his hand, and Sang this whole Psalm; till they came to the Courts of the House of the Lord: And then the Levites met them, Singing, the XXX Psalm.
1 Of Old they read it, Laudate Deum in Sanctis ejus. And their Gloss was; 'Tis done, Quando corum imitamur ⟨p. 409⟩Exempla, sequimur Monit•, Regulam obtine•us. Aben-Ezra observes, we have no way left now, to know, what these Musical Instruments were; There being many found in the Country of the Ishmaelites, (or Mahometans) which are not among the Men of Edom, (or Christians.)