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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.
Now, Christian, Go thy way; Repair to thy Psalter. Go this way to work upon it, and say, That thou hast in thy Hands, the most Glorious Book of Devotions, that ever was in the World!
AND here, Let one Admonition be given once for all, which the Devout Singer will often have occasion to think upon; and which comes in as a Retainer to that Exercise of Godliness which is now in prosecution. Christian, When thou art in the PSALMS that have Imprecations upon Adversaries in them, Let thy Arrows be shot at thy Interior Adversaries. Thy Indwelling Sin, is an Antichrist in thy Soul; and of all Adversaries the most worthy to have all the curses in this Book, fulminated at it. That Old Man ⟨p. xxviii⟩within thee, is too like the Violent Man, the Malicious and Injurious one, which is in the PSALMS complained of. Thy Lusts are the Enemies that Roar and Blaspheme, and Pursue, and indeed the worst of Enemies. And Satan too, with whom these are confederate; he is, the wicked one; the Denned Lion, that lurks to catch the poor. His Evil Angels are the wicked ones, who wait with hopes to ruin thee, under their molestations, thy Soul is with Lions, and among a fiery Crew.
AND here, Let one Admonition be given once for all, which the Devout Singer will often have occasion to think upon; and which comes in as a Retainer to that Exercise of Godliness which is now in prosecution. Christian, When thou art in the PSALMS that have Imprecations upon Adversaries in them, Let thy Arrows be shot at thy Interiour Advesaries. Thy Indwelling Sin, is an Antichrist in thy Soul; and of all Adversaries the most worthy to have all the curses in this Book, fulminated at it. That Old Man ⟨p. xxviii⟩within thee, is too like the Violent Man, the Malicious and Injurious one, which is in the PSALMS complained of. Thy Lusts are the Enemies that Roar and Blaspheme, and Pursue, and indeed the worst of Enemies. And Satan too, with whom these are confederate; he is, the wicked one; the Den'd Lion, that lurks to catch the poor. His Evil Angels are the wicked ones, who wait with hopes to ruine thee, under their molestations, thy Soul is with Lions, and among a fiery Crew.