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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.
ILLUSTRATIONS on the XXVI. PSALM.
3 Psalmist, How durst thou have said, Judge me O Lord; if thou hadst not also said, Thy loving kindness is always before mine eyes? This Note is a very Ancient one.
3 PSalmist, How durst thou have said, Judge me O Lord; if thou hadst not also said, Thy loving kindness is always before mine eyes? This Note is a very Ancient one.
4 The Dissemblers here, Aben Ezra says, ar• Young People who mind none but the Delights of th• World. The Hebrew Word would favour such a Thought. O Young People, consider it.
6 What? Was David a Priest? Our SAVIOUR […] Consider Him speaking here. Yea, David might we• say. I have not satisfied my self with the ceremony of washing my Hands, before I went unto the offering of a Sacrifice, but I endeavoured sincerely to keep free from all moral and sinful impurities.