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A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, Together with all the CHURCH-HYMNS, INTO METRE, Smooth, plain and eaſie to the Moſt ordinary Capacities: And yet as cloſe to the Original Languages, and the laſt and beſt Engliſh Tranſlation, as the Nature of ſuch a Work will well permit.
By SIMON FORD, D.D. and Rector of Old Swinford in Worceſterſhire.
LONDON, Printed by J.H. for Brabazon Aylmer, and are to be ſold by Sampſon Evans Bookſeller in Worceſter. MDCLXXXVIII.
IMPRIMATUR.
IT would be an offence ſo unpardonVerſion of David's Pſalms and the Church-Hymns (the laſt efforts of a faint and feeble Vein of Poetry, eſpecially at ſuch an Age as that
But, though (in the great Apoſtles Phraſe, as Eraſmus, and Druſius, and oRom. 1. 14.) I cannot preſume, to pretend to the payment of any Debt hereby to the Learned: Yet I may hope, that what I have done therein, will in ſome meato the Ʋnlearned; whiles I thus endeavour to promote their Edi
And under this conſideration onely (my Lord) I embolden my ſelf (yet with all humility) to offer the Work it ſelf to the Teſt of your Lordſhips judi
IT hath been uſual with moſt Perſons who have formerly attempted any thing Poetically upon this Book of the Pſalms, to preface ſomething either concerning the great Antiquity, ſingular uſefulneſs, and excellent advantage of that way of praiſing God, which is performed by tuneable voices, in ſacred Songs, Pſalms and Hymns; or elſe, concerning the great Serviceableneſs of the Art of Poetry to that noble end, both to aſſiſt the invention of the Compoſers, and the devotion of the Singers of them. Whoſe labours in this Ar
I think, (in the firſt place) that it needs no proof to any one that is but ordinarily converſant with ancient Hiſtory, that the Praiſes of God, and famous Men, were the most Primitive Themes of Poetical compoſures: and that according
Nor is it (ſecondly) leſs clear to any conſide
Whence, (thirdly) it follows, (as a conſequence of eaſie deduction from theſe Premiſſes,) that there can be no better ſervice done to God, or Man, in this World than that, of attempting to recover this Original inclination of mankind to its firſt perApoſtolical Exhortations of St. Paul to the Epheſians, and Coloſſians,
ſpeak to themſelves, and to teach and admoniſh one another, in Pſalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, making melody in their hearts to the Lord: as alſo of that of St. James,
merry, or cheerfully diſpoſed, to vent their mirth in ſinging of Pſalms.
And to this end, it is not to be doubted, that the gift of Pſalmody, whatever it were, was peculiarly beſtowed on ſome Perſons in the ApoſtoApoſtle Paul telling us (in 1 Cor. 14. 26.) that among the reſt of the eminent Gifts of the Holy Spirit in thoſe Times, that was one; and in his directions for the uſe of that, as well as the other there mentioned, appoinEdification: it is hardly to be conceived, how that way of one gifted mans ſinging alone, could edify many, except, by excerciſing the birsk and airy in
And this notion,Baſil had of the uſe of Pſalms in the Church, many Ages ſince: and from him I have it. He takes it to be the ſpecial Artifice of the H Ghoſt, to endeavour the cure of the proneneſs of humane nature to the charms of vicious pleaſure, by inſpiring holy men with ſacred Poetical raptures, wherein they mix the delights of muſick, with the precepts of Religion and Vertue: that they might thereby tempt men (as we ordinarily do children to ſwallow unpalatable medicines, by tempering them with honey,) to admit into their minds and hearts the unpleaſant Doctrines, which, conduce to the healing their ſouls, by the pleaſure they find in the harmonious meaſures wherein they are conveighed to them.
This is alſo, the reaſon, why our Church in all its ſervices, mixeth ſinging, at convenient Peoffices of Liturgy: to wit, that thereby the tediouſneſs of ſacred Exerciſes, may, to the generality of men, be alleviated, by
And from the great uſefulneſs of this ſacred ExDivine Poems have been in all Ages of the Church ſo greatly eſteemed: and eſpecially the Pſalms of David; which have therefore been always admitall offices of publick worſhip. And thence alſo, to make them more uſefull to that great end, divers great men have not contented themſelves with the rendering them into the Languages of their own Countries, that ſo the matter of them might be underſtood by the Congregations where they were read; but they have endeavoured alſo, to reduce them to ſuch kinds of Metre, as were moſt acceptable in their Times, that the ſpirit of them likewiſe might be diffuſed among Chriſtians, and raiſe their affections by their harmonious compoſure: The advantage of which undertaking, was notably ſeen in the early days of the Church; in the diverting the natural inclinations of the younger ſort to ſongs of a worſe conſtitution, into that current, in which St. James before quoted, directs holy mirth to run. A great aſſiſtance whereunto, was, the facility of receiving into, and retaining in memory, thoſe devout compoPoetical Meaſures: So that they had generally at all times a ſtock of ſacred Hymns ſtored up in their minds; and were thereby enabled to give vent to the gayety of humour whichBaſil before-mentioned, in the ſame Homily, tells us, that the ordinary Chriſtians in his time, ſung David's Pſalms, at home in their houſes; and whenever they went abroad alſo, they muttered them to themſelves, as the ſolitary entertainment of their minds, in their travels and other imployments.
Romiſh Prefacer to the Commentary upon the Pſalms attributed to Arnobius, ſpeaks more largely concerning the Time of his Authour, and tells his Reader, that the Pſalms then, were ſung by the Plough-man over his Plough, the Pilot at his Helm, the Rowers over their Oars, the Digger whiles he handled his Spade, the Weaver in his Loom, the Spinſter at her Diſtaff, and very Infants that could not ſpeak plain, upon their Nurſes Laps: and withall, makes a ſerious complaint of his Catholick Church, for being ſo far degenerated from the ancient uſage in this particular, that this holy exerciſe was not onely diſuſed, but alſo, even diſdained among them, which was, certainly, the Reaſon, why, when the Reformation began in divers parts of Europe, the vulgar People, who had been long uſed to no devotions, But ſuch as they underſtood not, were ſo much taken with ſinging the Pſalms of David, poetically tranſlated into their own languages, as finding that inward warmth in that exerciſing of Religion, which they never felt in any before.
And this, no doubt, upon the Reformation of this our Church, in particular, was one of the things which very much promoted it. For as the principal Inſtruments in that Reformation compoBook of Common Prayer ſo, as to reduce all publick offices therein to as near a conformity to the primitive Order as might be; and eſpecialScriptures appointed to be read, ſhould be tranſlated inPſalms of David; and theſe laſt (though in Proſe,) yet ſhould be ſo pointed as that they might be ſung, as they have been ever ſince in Cathedral, and Collegiate Churches, by all that can read: So divers Perſecond verſion of them into Engliſh verſe, in that tranſlation which ever ſince hath been bound up with our Bibles, and Common-Prayer Books, and is uſually ſung in Parochial Congregations to this day.
Of the Perſons, who then did the Church of England that remarkable ſervice, I can give little account beyond their Names: and thoſe, (as to three of them) the very Book informs me of, (viz.) Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Robert Wiſedom. Onely, concerning the firſt of them (Tho. Sternhold) Mr. Fuller, in his Church Hiſtory, tells, me was firſt, Groom of the Robes, to K. Henry the VIIIth. and afterPrivy-Chamber (as he ſays in one place, but in another of the Bed-Chamber) to Edw. VI. He had, (as appears by his Will) a Legacy given him by King Henry. He tranFuller's account; John Hopkins, 65; and the reſt were done by W. W. W. K. R. W. (that is, Robert Wiſedom) and others, whoſe Names deſerved not to be loſt in oblivibaldneſs and flatneſs of the Style, and ſome Phraſes which ſound odly in the ears of this Age, uſed to a ſort of more refined Engliſh. It ought raPoetry of that Age would afford: and that God hath received a great deal of praiſe, and the ordinary ſort of Chriſtians a great deal of Edification and Comfort, by the uſe of that Verſion of theirs, for above an hundred years in this Church.
And therefore, though it be to be deſired, that as both Engliſh, and Poetry, are very much improved ſince that time, ſo theſe holy Poems ſhould partake alſo of that improvement, by being rendred more ſutably to the Genius of this Age: yet it were (in my judgment) but decent, to bury that former Tranſlation with honour, for the ſervice it hath done, when ever it ſhall be, if ever it be, exchang
And now, having ſaid ſo much in general, by I way of Preface to this Tranſlation of mine; I think fit, in the next place, to deſcend to ſome particularities in reference thereunto, which I judge neceſſary the Reader ſhould take notice of, in order to the Judgment be makes of the ſutableneſs there
The deſign aimed at, by me in this verſion, was not to vaunt my skill in Poetry, for had that been my aim, I ſhould have choſen a ſubject, wherein I might have given my ſelf greater liberty both of fancy, and language, then the verſion of a book of Holy Scripture will allow me: nor was it, to entertain the devout inclinations of the more ingeelevated invention and expreſſion, ſuited to their Genius; for this, I know is already done by many, better then I can ever hope to do, ſhould I undertake it. But, that which I at firſt deſigned when I undertook this work, was meerly to render theſe pieces of holy writ, which are thought fit to be made parts of God's publick worſhip, in ſuch a tolerable manner, as they might be for the uſe of all Chriſtians; gratifying the more ingenious and learned Parts of all Congre
For I conſidered, that moſt of the verſions exone, or the other, of two extremes: That is, either they were too Poetically done, above the reach of ordinary capacities, and adapted onely to the guſt of perſons of ſcholaſtical breeding, who onely are able to reTranſlatours, eiEngliſh: or elſe, performed (by thoſe who have pretended to amend that fault) ſo flatly and ſlovenly, to accommodate their Verſions to the capp
Wherefore, I thought it expedient, to attempt ſomething in the midle, betwixt both theſe extremes; by avoiding thoſe heights of fancy, or language, on the one ſide, as might render the Tranſlation unintelligible to perſons of ordinary caflatneſs and dulneſs of invention, and expreſſion, on the other, as might make it ſubject to diſguſt thoſe of more learned pa
This, therefore, being my profeſſed deſign, I muſt next acquaint thoſe that are pleaſed to be my readers, what Courſe I have taken in purſuance of it.
I. And(firſt) as to the Words and Phraſes of this verſion, I endeavoured to keep as near to the New Tranſlation of the Pſalms, made in the Time, and by the command, of K. James I. as convery expreſſions where they would handſomely fall into verſe, and, where they would not, I laboured to give the full ſenſe of them in other words; except now and then, where the Original words or Phraſes had ſomething ef Emphaſis in them, which I thought fitter to comply withall. And this I did, both bethat Tranflation is confeſſedly the beſt, which is extant in the Engliſh Tongue: and alſo, becauſe it is now generally in the hands of all perother, by diſuſe (for the, moſt part) in a ſort ſuperannuated.
Wherefore, I judged it moſt expedient, not to give any occaſion to any perſon of doubtfull apprevariety of Interpretations. Which is alſo the true Reaſon, why, (though I think their labours of great uſe to thoſe who exHammond, and others: and choſen rather, in ſuch Texts, as by reaſon of their difficulty, may admit of different expoſitions, to render them in words expreſſing the ſtrict literal ſenſe of that Tranſlation; then to expound them, either according to theirs, or mine own apprehenſithis
verſion, where ſuch Texts occur, may rather ap
II. I have alſo declined all running out into Paraphraſe, beyond what, either the Scope of any Text, compared with the context, or the general evident deſign of the Pſalm, or the apparent occaſion of penning it, or the Emphaſis of the words themſelves, or the reference they have to other Scriptures, wherein the things uttered in any Pſalm briefly and obſcurely, or it may be barely glanced at, are more largely, and profeſſedly handverſion, is as cloſe to the Text it renders, as any of this kind extant; not excepting even thoſe, whoſe Authours pretend to tye themſelves the moſt ſtrictwords and phraſes, either of the original Hebrew, or the Engliſh Proſe-Tranſlation. For even the exacteſt of thoſe Authours, who, to the mangling the Syntax of words, to the making incoherent ruptures in the ſenſe, and the deſtruction of Meaſures and Rhythm, have ſo fettered themſelves: yet are fain, ever, and anon, to inſert ſome ſuch Particles, or Paren
III. As to the manner, wherein I have per
(1.) That I have waved, (for the generality of this verſion) all learned words, other then ſuch as are by common uſe make familiar to En
(2.) On the other ſide, I have avoided all obſolete, courſe, and unhandſome words, or phraſes, ſuch as are beneath the dignity of the matter extautological expreſſions, or inſignificant words, that are onely ſerviceable to aſſiſt the Rhythm. Inſomuch, that if there be a
(3.) Next, I have denyed my ſelf, and mine own inclination, very much, in many places the uſe of thoſe flights of elevated fancy, which offered themſelves to me in the compoſure of the work; and ſince, upon frequent reviews of it, expunged many Words, and Phraſes, which ſeemed to me too Poetical for ordinary capacities, to which height of fancy is as unintelligible, as learned language. And though in ſome Pſalms, where, in the original language it ſelf, there is more Poetry then ordinary, in the compoſure, ſutable to the matters treated of in them; it ſeemed but equal to me, that there ſhould be ſomething of extraordinary in the rendring of them: yet I have endeavoured ſo to go
(4.) I have, (as I muſt ingenuouſly confeſs) contrary to the advice of divers of my learned and judicious friends, whom I conſulted when I undertook this task, made uſe of Rhythm at leaſt twice in every four lines; whereof, I think my ſelf obliged, to give them, and others, this ſhort account. Thoſe that diſſuaded me from it, laid before me the danger of being too much fettered in my invention and expreſſion by ſtudying to make ſo frequent a chime of words, and the ocuſeleſs and impertinent words for cadencies ſake.
But I was prevailed withall to act otherwiſe' then they adviſed; by conſidering (on the other ſide) (1.) That our Engliſh Poetry for many Alaſtly, that it affords a great aſſiſtance to memory (which in ſuch Poems as are penned for devotional Uſes, ſhould be much regarded) whereby, when men have loſt one part of a ſtanza, they are enabled more eaſily to recover it, by running over in their minds ſuch words as chime to the periodical ones of that other, which they remember. Theſe things, and the like, being taken into my conſideration, I choſe rather, to run the risk of the dangers, and diſadmoderate uſe of Rhythm, then to take the contrary courſe I was adviſed to. I ſay, moderate uſe; becauſe I judge the proportion I have generally made uſe of, to be ſo: whereas, the crowding it into ſhorter periods, as ſome have done, too much emaſculates a grave Poem, by ſpreading the matter too thin, and occaſome Pſalms, and Verſes of others: But I perſuade my ſelf, that I have, in a competent meaſure, overcome it; at leaſt, that I can, in caſe any one will be ſo friendly, as to let me know in what particular Inſtances the Rhythm hath enervated the ſenſe, with no great labour, a
(5.) As to the Tunes, to which I have adapted each Pſalm, they are ſuch as are moſt in uſe among us. Such Pſalms as are compoſed of eights and ſixes, will fall into any of the ordinary Tunes, ſuited to that proportion of ſyllables, in the old Verſion. The reſt of the Tunes that I have made choice of, are theſe. Firſt that of the Old 100th. Pſ [All people, &c.] To which all the Pſalms that are compoſed of 4 eights to a ſtanza, may be ſung; or (according to the matter of the Pſalm) may be varied to that of Pſ. 51. or the
Lamentation, in the old Pſalm Book. Then to the meaſures of Pſal. 113. [Ye children, &c.] I have turned divers of mine; that being a Tune eaſily ſung, and withall, ſufficiently grave and ſoTune, is the firſt Metre of Pſalm 119. wherein, according to the meaſures therein required, every three lines make up a verſe, which reduceth all of its Parts to an equality. I have not omitted that of the old 25th. Pſalm; nor that of the 148th. to both which, divers of theſe are adapted. And ſome few are ſo ordered, as that they may be ſung to the Tunes of the old 111th, 112th, and 127th. Pſalms; but thoſe have commonly others in eaſier Tunes to attend them.
(6.) I have deſignedly, for the moſt part, ſuited the Matter of each Pſalm, to proportionable Metre, and Tune. Heroical Pſalms, (thoſe I mean, whoſe matter is more lofty, and the style in which they are penned, more ſtately, and majeſtical, if I may ſo ſay, in the original Language,) I have not onely endeavoured, as far as my deſigned plainneſs would permit, to fit with a ſutable ſtyle in the Engliſh: but have alſo in the meaſures accomTunes. And the like I have done to the Penitential Pſalms, and generally, to all ſuch as are penned in a querulous and lamenting ſtrain: which as I have endeavoured to expreſs more paTunes, as moſt aptly comply with the Paſſions delineated and repreſented in them.
(7.) In moſt of the Pſalms, which are comold verſion, if they be tolerably there tranſlated, I have waved the meaſures in which they are therein compoſed, and put them in this of mine into other Meaſures, and Tunes, that ſo, thoſe that are uſed to ſing them, may take their own choice of the one or the other: which I choſe rather to doe, then to undertake, in all, (as I have done for trials ſake, in one, or two, of them) onely, to amend the ſenſe, and words, where they ſeemed moſt to need it, and let the main ſubſtance of them ſtand in my verſion: becauſe I found it by experience, more eaſie to my ſelf, and thought it would be more acceptable to my Readers, as well as more civil to the Authours of the former verſion, to raiſe a new frame altogether, then to patch up an old one with ſuch pieces, as, when all was done, would not exactly ſuit with the building they were intended to beautify.
(8.) I have made a double verſion of divers Pſalms, ſome of them quite differing each from o
(9.) I have ſubjoyned to the Pſalms of David, the reſt of the Hymns uſed in our Church: to wit, that excellent one of St. Ambroſe, uſually called, Te Deum, &c. the Magnificat, or Song of the bleſſed Virgin, Mother of our Lord; thoſe of Zacharias and Simeon, entituled, Benedictus,
Nunc Dimittis, &c. That of Gloria Patri, I have adapted to all the Tunes; that it may (at choice) be ſung at the end of every Pſalm. So that thoſe, who cannot ſing them in Proſe, as in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches they doe; may have them at hand for their uſe, in better verſe, I hope, then that in which they are tendred to them in the Common Pſalm-Book.
(10.) Laſtly, (for the different opinions of picus and learned Men engage me to a concluſive Apology in this matter) I have taken in the whole Book of Pſalms into my verſion: and not confined my ſelf (as ſome would have confined me) to ſome few Pſalms, and parcels of Pſalms, the Matter of which is of common concern to all Chriſtians; becauſe the reaſons urged for ſuch curtailing of them, ſeem not to me to he cogent; yea rather, I think, I have weightier grounds to move me to the contrary. For I know not, why thoſe Pſalms which expreſs the troubles which David lay under; or the perſonal mercies which he received; or, refer to the particular poliJews, or their peculiar Worſhip; or contain promiſes of ſuch mercies as God determined to beſtow on them, or Hiſtorical Relations of their miraculous preſer&c. may not be ſung with advantage by us, though they do not immediately or directly concern us. Conſidering, that (1.) the
State of David, both as to his troubles and merTypical, and bare relation to Chriſt, and his Circumſtances: Eſpecially, ſuch of them, as he mentions in thoſe remarkably Prophetical Pſalms, which are accommodated to our Saviour, as being fulfilled in him, in divers InEvangeliſts. And (2.) the Jewiſh occurrences are by the Apoſtle Paul (1 Cor. 10. 6, 11.) ſaid to befall them for examples to us: And (3.) their Rites, and Ceremonies, were notably ſignificative of the ſpiritual worſhip of the Goſpel; as the Epiſtle to the Hebrews every where ſhews us: And (4ly.) the Propheſies made to them, are eminently fulfilled to us: And (5ly) the miraculous deliverances wrought for them by God, are of uſe to encourage our faith in like caſes; yea (laſtly) the charges and aggravations of the ſins charged on them are warnings (as we are told Heb. 4. 11.) to us, that we fall not after the ſame examples of unbelief or diſobedience.
And, as for thoſe Pſalms, which contain Imprecations againſt David's Enemies; the moſt of our People underſtand, that, as he was a Type of Chriſt, ſo, under his Enemies names, Chriſt's Enemies are curſed, or prayed againſt, in the Pſalms that are of that nature. And they are often told, that David himſelf allowed not himEnemies to God rather, and more, then to him: and that thoſe Imprecations themſelves whichPropheſies of what evil would befall them, then Prayers, that ſuch evils might befall them. And as for the reſt, that are properly imprecating, they are (ſecondarily, at leaſt) diChriſt's Enemies, as well as God's, and David's. Of which nature, (for inſtance) are thoſe againſt Doeg, and Achitophel; which are in the New Teſtament appplied to Judas, and his Complices, the Betrayer, and Murtherers of the Lord Jeſus. And ſurely, it is not at all (whatever ſome imagine) unbecoming the Goſpel-temper, for Chriſtians, with holy rejoycing to repeat thoſe fulfilled Imprecations: and curſe the memories of Judas, and the Murtherers of our Lord Jeſus.
Other Pſalms there are, wherein David, indeed, prays againſt his Perſonal Enemies, as (for inſtance) againſt Saul, and Abſalom: but then, the matter of his imprecations againſt them, onely amounts to requeſts that God would divide, and infatuate their Counſels, and diſſipate, and overthrow their forces, and convince, if not convert them, by the remarkable out-goings of his providence againſt them. All which, ſurely, we may pray for alſo, without tranſgreſſing againſt the meekneſs and gentleneſs, which the Goſpel Spirit begets in the hearts of Chriſtians; whenPſalms as theſe, lies onely in the danger of miſapplying them to ſuch Perſons, and in ſuch caſes;, wherein they ſuite not the Deſign of the Holy Ghoſt, in deriving them down to us; which we are to endeavour to prevent, by inſtructing our People, when occaſion is offeright uſe of them, and not to debar them the uſing of them altogether.
Thus much may ſuffice for the particular Anſwers to the particular Topicks of Argument, urged uſually in this matter. But there is one conſideration more, which reacheth to the full vindication of the lawfulneſs and expediency of Chriſtians ſinging all the Pſalms indifferently; which (becauſe it is, to us of this Church, at leaſt unanſweCatholick Church, for ſo many Ages in all parts of the world, hath thus practiſed, without ſcruple, or contradiction, in its Publique Congregations And our Church, in particular, makes tke Pſalms indiſcriminately, a part its daily Liturgy: Dividing them into ſuch parcels, as, they may be ſaid, or ſung, interlocutorily, (as they are in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, as well as other Congregations of eminent Note) throughPſalm
Pſalms, upon any of the accounts before menMetre, as indiſcriminately, as the Church comProſe.
And now, Chriſtian Reader, having given thee ſo large an account of my deſign, and the particulars of my performance in this undertaPorch of the Edifice, but give thee free entrance into all the Rooms of it, and leave thee to paſs thy Judgment upon the contrivance and furniture of them all. In the paſſing of which Judgment, I will emgreat Poet of our own, (too Poetically, I think) Mr. Cowley paſſeth upon all the former Tranſlatours of theſe Holy Poems, that they do their holy Authour neither honour nor juſtice, and (to his thinking) revile him worſe then Shimei. For all that I deſire of thee, is, to conſider, before thou paſs too ſevere a ſenTranſlation: (what he requireth in ſuch a Tranſlation as he affecteth) to wit, to imitate, or repreſent to thee the true Genius and Spirit of that excellent vein of Poetry, with which the royal Pſalmiſt wrote: But onely to tranſcribe the Piety and Devotion of his
IN the Preface, I acquainted thee, that [where ever this verſion of mine runs out into Paraphraſe, (let me add here, or ſeems to do ſo,) it is occaſioned either by the Context of the verſe Paraphraſed; or the general deNow, that thou mayſt be the better able to judg, how I have kept to theſe meaſures: I think it not amiſs to give thee, as to each of theſe particulars, a few Inſtances.
1. As firſt, for the Context: confer Pſ. 2. 4, 6, 9. and 2, 3. Pſ. 11.2, 3. with v. 1. Pſ. 48. 12, 13 Pſ. 73. 1 l. 1, 2. with v. 3, 4, 5. As al
And to this Head, may be reduced, thoſe Emphatical Epithets, amplifying the ſubjects to which they are applyed, where the matter treated of, ſeemed to require them: and ſeveral pregnant Phraſes ſpred larger, to make them more intelligi
Deſign of the Pſalm Confer the Title of Pſ 18. with ſeveral expreſſions in it. And the Titles of other Pſalms, or the Contents, by our Tranſlatours prefixed to them, with the Pſalms to which they are prefixed.
3. For Emphatical Words or Phraſes in the original; he that underſtands that will ſee reaſon, for the rendring, parted Streams:
men watch me:
ſtrong cords:
wilt wreſtle: ſo alſo, drops moſt free.
ye that from mighty men derive &c. didſt bore:
profanely tranſgreſs:
Aſcends:
Pig-trees, ſeeing that word, in the maſprofan'd:
ſhorter ſtanza, ſo often repeaBenedicite, Above all praiſe And many other Inſtances I might add of the ſame nature, but that this Poſtſcript would thereby become too large. Scriptures related to. Confer Pſ. 8. 2. & Mat. 21. 16. & Luk. 10. 21. Pſ. 18. 19 & 1. Sam. 22. 1. 23. 19. 24. 3. Pſ 22. 16. & Mat. 27. 35. v. 18. & foh. 19. 23, 24. Pſ. 24 6. & 1 King. 6. 32, 34. Pſ. 40. 6. & Exod. 21. 6 Heb. 10. 5. v 7. & Heb. 10. 9, 14. Pſ. 45. 2. & Job 7046. Pſ. 51. 7. & Levit. 14. 6. Pſ. 68. 18. & Eph. 4. 8. Pſ. 69. 21. & Mat. 27. 48. Mark. 15. 23. Pſ. 78. 48. & Exod. 9. 19, 20: v. 52. &
Phraſe of the Scriptures) many oalluſive expreſſions, wherein I ſee cauſe to recede from the Phraſe of the Proſe Tranſlation, to comply with the Text alluded to; as more emphatically, and ſignificantly anſwering the genius, ſcope, or texture of the Pſalms wherein they are made uſe of by me in this Verſion.
To conclude. I have through the long ſtay of this Book in the Preſs, had the liberty of taking a more ſtrict review of it, in the ſheets as they were ſent me: and in that review, have noted. ſome things which I ſaw cauſe to deſire had been altered in the original Copy before it was put into the Printer's hands. But ſeeing a great part of it was wrought off without my knowledg: I am fain to take the occaſion of this Poſtſcript, to add ſome of the chief alterations here, and adventure them, to the canwalking, ſtanding, ſitting, ungodly, ſinners, ſcornfull:] as alſo [counſel, way, ſeat,] as having all of them an EmphaClimax, much heightening the ſenſe: in compliance with them; (though I think the verſi
Pſ.17.2. [Tribunal] being a word not readily underſtood by ordinary perſons, alter line 1. thus,
[Before thy judgment ſeat me try]
Pſ. 18.38. read [Before my feet they conquer'd fell.]
Pſ. 29.9. l. 3. [Bright day thoſe piercing flaſhes—]
Pſ. 45 (2 Verſion.) Sons born of thee &c.
v. 16. l. 2. read
Pſ. 48. v. 2. (2 Verſion) [The Lord abides.]
Pſ. 51. v. 5 (3 Verſion.) [From my mothers
Together, ſin, and life, deriv'd.]
Pſ. 55.13. [But 'twas thou, one, whom—]
V. 20. [With out-ſtretcht hand he fought—]
Pſ. 102.7, 8, 9. alter thus.
9. Whence my food, &c.
Pſ. 119 162 l. 1. alter thus.
Thence doth ſuch joy in me abound.
Pſ 123.2. l. 1, & 2. thus As ſervants looking ſtand Unto their maſters hand,
Pſ. 126.6. l. 2. thus. And ſow's choice ſeed in tears:
Thus far, the Preſs had prevented me, before I could make, the laſt review which I intended, of the original Copy: but from thence forward I have taſecond verſions of aTo the tune of Pſ. 100.] All people, &c.
And now, I have no more to deſire of thee, Chriſtian Reader, but, that before thou readeſt, thou wilt correct the Errata of the Preſs, as thou art here directed; except; where thou findeſt them corrected to thy hands which labour (in the groſ
IN the Preface p. 13. l. 13. r. made. Pſalm 17. 11. line I. read, us.. Pſ. 22. 18. (Verſion 1.) l. 1. r.ſee. Pſ. 38. Title, r.[To the Tune of Pſ. 51. O Lord, conſider, &c. or the Lamentation, O Lord in thee, &c.] Pſ. 41. 4. l. 3. r. thou. Pſ. 48. 4. (Verſ.2) l. 2. r. altogether. v. 9. l. 3. r. Temples holy place. Pſ. 50. 2. l. 2. r. combin'd, v. 16. l. 4. r. teach. Pſ. 51. v. 10. l. 3.(Verſ. 1) r. new create. Pſ. 66. 9. l. 3-r. ſtrength. v. 15. l. 3. r. nor ram. Pſ. 68. 32. l. 4. r. your. Pſ. 71. 18. l. 1. r. don't. 1. 6. r. wrought off. Pſ. 72. 17. l. 2. r. evermore. Pſ. 77. 16. l. 4. r. ſore. Pſ. 78. 7. l. 3. works. v. 35. 1. 1. r. they. v. 54. l. 4. r. gain'd. Pſ. 88. v. 3. l. 4. r. envy'd. Pſ. 92. 12. r. But as Palm-tree grow. Pſ. 104. 4. r. flames. Pſ. 109. 11. l. 3. dele his. Pſ. 115. 1. l. 5. r. Againſt them, then, by aiding us.. Pſ. 118. 13. r. thought'ſt. Pſ. 119. (1. Verſ) v. 9. r. word, 's.v. 62. l. 2. r. due v. 72. l. 3. r. to. v. 147. for, and chaſed, read had chaſed; or radiſpers'd. (Verſon 2.) v. 12. l. 3. r. bliſs. v. 82. l. 1. r. mine. v. 84. l. 3. r. When ſhall thy Judgments take effect v. 120. l. 4. r do Pſ. 126. 5. l. 2. r. harveſts. Pſ. 127. v. 2. l. 4. r. without. Pſ. 129. 2. l. 2. r. check. of. 131. 3. l. 3. r. thoughts Pſ. 132. v. 16. l. 1. (1 Verſion) r. Her Prieſts inveſted. Pſ. 136. 1. l. 6. r. time's. Poſtſcript P. 455 l. 4. r. verſion.
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