A Preparation to the Psalter . s deferue,more then they at this dayhaue; and how hard a matter it is for him to giue content, who vnder-takes to make any alterations in this kind : you will confefle that fuchlong difcourfes are very pardonable. I haue alfo determined,though for fome reafons (which I thinke notpertinent to publifli)I omit them,that apt and eafie tunes fliall be fet tothefe PJalmety and(as neere as I can)agrceable to their natures ; thatthofe who haue a defire fo to doe, may in their Families, or by-them-felues, fing them to the prayfe of God, and the comfort of their
A Preparation to the Psalter . s deferue,more then they at this dayhaue; and how hard a matter it is for him to giue content, who vnder-takes to make any alterations in this kind : you will confefle that fuchlong difcourfes are very pardonable. I haue alfo determined,though for fome reafons (which I thinke notpertinent to publifli)I omit them,that apt and eafie tunes fliall be fet tothefe PJalmety and(as neere as I can)agrceable to their natures ; thatthofe who haue a defire fo to doe, may in their Families, or by-them-felues, fing them to the prayfe of God, and the comfort of their good vfe I heartily deftre wee may all make of them; and thatthis my poore endeuour may become acceptable to the Z<0r<J,profita-ble vnto the Cbftrch,and proue to be the fruit of a true and fauing faith111 me. Chapter IIII. I. The different opinions of the Fathers, concerning theInftrumentall Author oftheVfalmcs -, and hoivitislikely,Dauid was Author of them all 11. Whether he might A Preparations tbePfalter. n. might be Author of the 90. Vhlmcjvhich is intituled^A Prayer of Mofes, the man of God. II I. 7hatthofe which are infcribed^Of Solomon, may be Da-uids. That Afaph,Iduthun^ Ethan, Eman, andtheformes ofChore, rather Muficians and fingers^ thencompofersoftheVhlmts. How this difference maybejomewhat reconciled; and that the holy Ghofi beingknowneto be the principal! Author, the dijfenting inopinion about the Inflrunient, need not be offenfiue toany. IV. TheherefieS of the Manichees, Nicho-hitans,and Iewes, concerning Dauid;. Itherto I haue treated of little concerning the Pfalmes,but what hath offered it fclfe as pertinent to the de-fence of my proceeding in the Tranjlation and Expofiti-on formerly mentioned :NowI come to thofe particiulars which immediately appertaine to the Pfalter. Andthough the reft of my labour perfited, or intended,as touchingthe Pfalmes never come to light: yet if the Reader mailwell heed what I haue hereafter deliuered in this Prcpara
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