N01640:982
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 Some have applied this unto Baptism, •fter which, even the Infant-Soul does pant, as having been envenomed by the Old Serpent. Many of the Fathers had this Notion. And Aquinas quotes it out of Jerome, That these Verses were Sung at the Solemn Times, when Baptism was administered.
1 Some have applied this unto Baptism, •fter which, even the Infant-Soul does pant, as having been invenomed by the Old Serpent. Many of the Fathers had this Notion. And Aquinas quotes it out of Jerom, That these Verses were Sung at the Solemn Times, when Baptism was administred.
2—Who would have expected it from a Jew? And yet Aben-E•ra says, The coming of the Messiah is here longed for.
3 q. d. I have been so taken up with Weeping, that I have had no time or heart for Eating.