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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.
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.
4 'Twas very notably so, when the Psalmist brought the Ark to its dwelling place. Compare, I Chron. XV. 25, 28.
6 All Jordan, from the Spring to the Mouth of it, is here measured out.—He was banished unto the utmost Countries, both North and South, washed by the River Jordan.
6 All Jordan, from the Spring to the Mouth of it, is here measured out.—He was banish'd unto the utmost Countr•es, both North and South, wash'd by the River Jordan.