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

BUT, O you who are indeed Born again, Be prevailed withal, to make this Exercise of PIETY more usual with you. When you would bring your selves into the Best Frames that can be wished for, take a short Paragraph of the Word by which Men live, and with humble Addresses to Heaven pertinent unto the occasion, Consider, What Affections of Piety are plainly discernible in the Word now before you: And then, with a Soul Turning to the Lord, assay to utter the Language of the like Affections. Perhaps the ⟨p. xxvi⟩CXIX Psalm, is as likely a Portion for this Purpose as any under Heaven, that the Experiment may be made upon. Friend, Ere thou art aware, thou wilt be caught up into Paradise, in such and Exercise. Thou will mount up as with the Wings of Eagles.

BUT, O you who are indeed Born again, Be prevailed withal, to make this Exercise of PIETY more usual with you. When you would bring your selves into the Best Frames that can be wished for, take a short Paragraph of the Word by which Men live, and with humble Addresses to Heaven pertinent unto the occasion, Consider, What Affections of Piety are plainly discernable in the Word now before you: And then, with a Soul Turning to the Lord, assay to utter the Language of the like Affections. Perhaps the ⟨p. xxvi⟩CXIX Psalm, is as likely a Portion for this Purpose as any under Heaven, that the Experiment may be made upon. Friend, Ere thou art aware, thou wilt be caught up into Paradise, in such and Exercise. Thou will mount up as with the Wings of Eagles.

'Tis true, They that can Examine the Original Tongues, have peculiar Advantages for their Discoveries, when this Design is to be prosecuted. But yet out Translation affords enough, to furnish the Illiterate Christian, for This and every Good Work And if I constantly affirm this, That all the Gommentators in the World, are poor Things to interpret the Bible, in comparison of a• Illiterate Christian, thus coming with […] sanctified Soul, to make his practical Commentary; I could quote a very Great Person who will not leave me alone, but will affirm, That a Commentary made without an Experimental Acquaintance, with such Tempers and Motions, as were in the Minds of the Holy Writers,—Commentarius sine hac Adminiculo, (pio sacrorum motuum scrut into) conscriptus, est vere Commentarius, et Nom ne et Omine talis. i. e. Commentis cerebri refertus. Among all the Hermeneutic Instruments for the the opening of the Scripture we may say of this, There is none like in And certainly, a Preacher of the Gospel, cannot