The Psalms of David in meeter: newly translated, and diligently compared with the originall text, and former translations, more plaine, smooth, and agreeable to the text, then any heretofore. ; Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in congregations and families.
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- The Psalms of David in meeter: newly translated, and diligently compared with the originall text, and former translations, more plaine, smooth, and agreeable to the text, then any heretofore. ; Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in congregations and families.
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"The Psalms of David in meeter: newly translated, and diligently compared with the originall text, and former translations, more plaine, smooth, and agreeable to the text, then any heretofore. ; Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in congregations and families." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76561.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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EDINBURGH, 6. August, 1649. Ante meridiem, Sess. ult.
Reference to the Commission for publick Af∣fairs for re-examining the Paraphrase of the Psalms, & emitting the same for publick use.
THe General Assembly having taken some view of the new Paraphrase of the Psalms in Meeter, with the cor∣rections and animadversions there∣upon sent from several persons and Presbyte∣ries, and finding that they cannot overtake the review and examination of the whole in this Assembly; Therefore now after so much time, and so great pains about the correcting and ex∣amining thereof from time to time some years by gone, that the Work may come now to some conclusion, They do Ordain the Brethren ap∣pointed for perusing the same during the meet∣ing of this Assembly, viz. Masters James Ham∣miltoun, John Smith, Hew Mackail, Robert Trail, George Hutcheson, and Robert Lowrie, after the dissolving of this Assembly, to go on in that Work carefully, and to report their travels to the Commission of the General Assembly for publick affairs, at their meeting at Edinburgh in November. And the said Commission after perusal and re-examination thereof, is hereby authorized with full power to conclude and e∣stablish the Paraphrase, and to publish and emit the same for publick use.
A. Ker.
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EDINB. 23. Nov. 1649. Postmeridiem.
THE Commission of the General Assembly having with great diligence considered the Paraphrase of the Psalms in meeter sent from the Assembly of Divines in England, by our Commissioners, whilst they were there, as it is corrected by former Generall Assemblies, Committies from them, and now at last by the Brethren deputed by the late Assembly for that purpose: And ha∣ving exactly examined the same, Do approve the said Paraphrase, as it is now compiled: And therefore ac∣cording to the power given them by the said Assembly, Do appoint it to be printed and published for publick use; Hereby authorizing the same to be the only Para∣phrase of the Psalms of David to be sung in the Kirk of Scotland; And discharging the old Paraphrase, and any other then this new Paraphrase to be made use of in any Congregation or Family after the first day of May in the year 1650. And for uniformitie in this part of the worship of God, Do seriously recommend to Presbyteries, to cause make publick intimation of this Act, and take special care that the same be timeously put to execution, and duely observed.
A. Ker.
EDINBURGH, 8. Jan. 1650.
THE Committee of Estates having considered the English Paraphrase of the Psalms of David in meeter, presented this day unto them by the Commiss. of the Gen. Assembly, together with their Act, and the Act of the late Assembly, approving the said Paraphrase and appointing the same to be sung through this Kirk. Therefore the Committee doth also approve the said Pa∣raphrase, and interpone their authority for the publish∣ing and practising thereof: Hereby ordaining the same, and no other to be made use of, throughout this King∣dom, according to the tenour of the said Acts of the General Assembly and their Commissioners.
T▪ Henderson.