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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.
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.
7 The Waters of Jordan put him in mind of his Miseries;—All rolling over him one after another.
10 Because the Jews had no Images of GOD, but worshipped an Invisible GOD, the Pagans derided them. Lucan speaks of their Deus Incerius. And Phach owns, he did not know who he was. Quotations might be Numberless.