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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.
PSALM XXIV. A Psalm of David.
1 TO the ETERNAL God, the Earth ‖ and what fills it belongs; ‖ the habitable World, and all ‖ that do inhabit it. ‖
2 For the foundations of it He ‖ hath laid upon the Seas; ‖ and He hath firmly fixed it ‖ against the rolling floods. ‖
3 Who shall ascend into the Mount ‖ ⟨p. 52⟩of the ETERNAL God? And who is it shall ‖ stand in the ‖ place of His Holiness? ‖