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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.
1 Compare, Job XXXVIII. 7. Munster notes well, ⟨p. 65⟩There is nothing so high and so great, but what is obliged unto the Praises of God.
3 P•meranus whom Lather cried up as the best and the first Interpreter of the Psalter, and whose Commentaries, as Frankins notes, Referti sunt Meditationibus de CHRISTI Magnitudine et Majestate; would have what we read here about, The Voice of the Lord; compared with what the Apostle to the Hebrews writes about, The quick and powerful Word of GOD, and what John writes about, The Word of God by which all things were created.
9 But, Oh! why not the whole World a Temple of GOD! R. Moseh has this Gloss. The Levites Praise GOD, for His preserving of them from hurt by Thunder.