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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.
§. 8. AND yet I show unto you a more Excellent way. Go on, O People of GOD, in His Way, and in the Path of the Just which is now becoming plain before you; And proceed unto the Reading of the Psalter, and of the Bible, in that which we will call, The Affectuous way, according to a PROPOSAL which is now to be seriously thought upon.
§. 8. AND yet I shew unto you a more Excellent way. Go on, O People of GOD, in His Way, and in the Path of the Just which is now becoming plain before you; And proceed unto the Reading of the Psalter, and of the Bible, in that which we will call, The Affectuous way, according to a PROPOSAL which is now to be seriously thought upon.
WE are to consider, That the Holy Men of GOD, who wrote the SCRIPTURE, were moved by His Holy Spirit, in and for the Writing of it; and the Spirit of Holiness at the Time of the Inspiration made suitable Impressions on the Affections of His Faithful Servants, The Good Men had their Hearts Holily, Graciously, Divinely, and suitably Affected with the Matter, which the Spirit of GOD employed their Pens to leave upon, their Parchments. It might not merely be said of them, as it was of a Balaam, That the Lord put a Word into his MOUTH. No, A David who has an Heart after the Heart of GOD, most certainly had his HEART also Holily affected, with the Word of GOD, that ⟨p. xxii⟩came unto him. In the Written Passages here under our Contemplation, there will be found Evident Indications of such AFFECTIONS working in the minds of the Inspired Writers; as, A Flaming LOVE towards GOD; and then towards Men, for the sake of GOD: LOVE, the Root of all Spiritual Affections.
WE are to consider, That the Holy Men of GOD, who wrote the SCRIPTURE, were moved by His Holy Spirit, in and for the Writing of it; and the Spirit of Holiness at the Time of the Inspiration made suitable Impressions on the Affections of His Faithful Servants, The Good Men had their Hearts Holily, Graciously, Divinely, and suitably Affected with the Matter, which the Spirit of GOD employ'd their Pens to leave upon, their Parchments. It might not meerly be said of them, as it was of a Baloom, That the Lord put a Word into his MOUTH. No, A David who has an Heart after the Heart of GOD, most certainly had his HEART also Holily affected, with the Word of GOD, that