Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…

THERE had been also prepared and prefixed unto every PSALM, a Short Account of the Scope which it is aimed at; and such an Argument as Dr. Roberts in his Key of the Bible, has given us. But upon a further consideration, this has been laid aside; For it was considered, That there are so various and so glorious Things contained in every PSALM, as render it impossible to give any thing like a Full Account of what is intended in it, without requiring much more of Room for it, than the PSALM it self does occupy. Nor has any Essay that was ever yet made this way, done a Justice (it may have done a Damage) to a BOOK in every Paragraph whereof, there are all manner of pleasant Fruits, new and old, laid up for the Beloved. Certainly, To cramp and stint the Thoughts of him that Reads, with confining him to some Few Things as the Intention of a PSALM, when an Attentive Reader will find that the Argument which the Short-sighted Analysis has offered contains not a Temb part of the Illustrious Things, in which the Holy SPIRIT has designed our instruction there: it appears in effect such a wrong to the Divine Composure, as our PSALTERIUM did not care to be guilty of. Why should a Bill of Fare be brought in, which does not mention one Temb part of ⟨p. xxi⟩the Delicacies, which an ordinary Attention will find on a Table that always yields, A Feast of Fat Things full of Marrow, of Wines on the Lees well refined: A Table more glorious by far then that of Ptolomies in the Temple?

THERE had been also prepared and prefixed unto every PSALM, a Short Account of the Scope which it is aimed at; and such an Argument as Dr. Roberts in his Key of the Bible, has given us. But upon a further consideration, this has been lasd aside; For it was considered, That there are so various and so glorious Things contained in every PSALM, as render it impossible to give any thing like a Full Account of what is intended in it, without requiring much more of Room for it, than the PSALM it self does occupy. Nor has any Essay that was ever yet made this way, done a Justice (it may have done a Damage) to a BOOK in every Paragraph whereof, there are all manner of pleasant Fruits, new and old, laid up for the Beloved. Certainly, To cramp and stint the Thoughts of him that Reads, with confining him to some Few Things as the Intention of a PSALM, when an Attentive Reader will find that the Argument which the Short-sighted Analysis has offered contains not a Temb part of the Illustrious Things, in which the Holy SPIRIT has designed our instruction there: it appears in effect such a wrong to the Divine Composure, as our PSALTERIUM did not care to be guilty of. Why should a Bill of Fare be brought in, which does not mention one Temb part of