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

Now, Christian, Discover which of these Affections may be most obvious and evident, in the Sentence, which may be now under thy consideration: And make a Pause!— But Restless until thou find the same Affections beginning to stir in thy own Soul, and marvellously to Harmonize & Symphonize, with what the Holy SPIRIT of GOD raised in His Amanuensis, at the moment of His Writing it. Be not at Rest until thou feel thy Heart-strings quaver, at the Touch upon ⟨p. xxiv⟩the Heart of the Sacred Writer, as being brought into an Unison with it, and the Two Souls go up in a Flame together.

THE Hints which our Excellent Matthew Henry gives in his Exposition on the PSALMS, at the close of every Paragraph, what Affections the Verses of that Paragraph are to be Sung withal, are a noble Commentary; And every Holy Heart who by reason of use may have senses in Exercise to discern such things, may add unto it, EASILY do I concur with my Excellent Franckius, in allowing, That an Unregenerate Mind is poorly qualified for such an Exercise as this. But then I will say, That I Soul pressing after a true Regeneration, cannot readily take a more likely way to arrive unto a Blessed Experience of it, that by waiting upon the Holy SPIRIT of GOD, with proper Trials, whether He will not quicken such Affections in it, as are to be found no where, but in a Soul Regenerated, and Animated and Actuated from Above. Try, O Soul wishing for Quickenings from Heaven, Try, whether upon observing the Heavenly Affections, which are very observable in the Writers of the Word by which we are Born again, and upon Attempting with an Eye on Help from Sovereign Grace, to express the like Affections, in the Sally ⟨p. xxv⟩of Devotion towards the Glorious GOD, thou dost not find some Vital Operations in thee, that shall be the Inchoations of a Life that shall never be extinguished. Most certainly; If thou dost become Affected, as those Favourites of Heaven, whom GOD chose for the Vehicles, and Enkindlers, and Preservers of PIETY in His Church through' all succeeding Ages, it will be an Infallible Mark of GOD upon thee, assuring thee of an Everlasting Mansion with them in His Holy City. Nor is it possible to propound an Exercise, that will more Prepare and Ripen Men to be Partakers in the Inheritance of those Distinguished and Exemplary Saints; or Assure them, that they shall be Associated with these Angelical Men in the Future Blessedness.