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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.
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.)
1 Of Old they read it, Laudate Deum in Sanctis ejus. And their Glose 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 Musicial Instruments were; There being many found in the Country of the Ishmaelites, (or Mahometans) which are not among the Men of Edom, (or Christians.)
It may not be amiss here to mention, what Monsieur Jurieu has observed.
There are Three Sorts of Instruments frequently mentioned in the Psalms; The Cymbals, the Psalteries, and the Harps.
There are Three Sorts of Instruments frequently mentioned in the Psalms; The Cymbals, the Psalierys, and the Harps.