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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.
THE INTRODUCTION: To be Attentively perused, that so the whole BOOK may have the Good and Great ENDS of it, the more effectually Accomplished.
§. 1.THERE have appeared in the World some Humane Composures, which have been so favoured, and perhaps flattered by Mankind, as to have it asserted concerning them, That no Mans Reproach could lessen, and no Mans Applause could heighten, the Reputation which belonged unto them. The Assertion may be made without Controversy concerning the Divinely Inspired Book of PSALMS; ⟨p. ii⟩than which the Church of GOD is enriched with nothing more Glorious, among all its Incomparable Writings.
§. 1.THERE have appeared in the World some Humane Composures, which have been so favoured, and perhaps flattered by Mankind, as to have it asserted concerning them, That no Mans Reproach could lessen, and no Mans Applause could heighten, the Reputation which belong'd unto them. The Assertion may be made without Controversy concerning the Divinely Inspired Book of PSALMS; ⟨p. ii⟩than which the Church of GOD is enriched with nothing more Glorious, among all its Incomparable Writings.
THE Commendations which the Ancients gave of this Unparalleled Book, are as high, as the Tongue of Men can carry them; And the Commendations would not be too high, if the Tongue of Angels, who possessed the Writers of this Book, were employed for the giving of them. Let Chrysostom and Basil alone be called in, to declare unto us the sense of all the rest! Chrysostom, who calls this wonderful Book, The Christian Panoply; And Basil, who Styles it, The Common Treasure of all Good Precepts, and, A Complete Body of Divinity.