A Preparation to the Psalter . l makeyou partakers of that I know. Effripid. What the Rea«dcrought torcfolue in dif-ficult anddoubrfuUthings. Chapter IX. I. lt\s her efhowne^thai ^contrary to the opinion of theVulgar e, the Pfalmes are Originally in Vcrfe. II. Ihereafons why the manner qftbeHcbrcw Poefie,therein ofed, is hard to be found > & how thofe are de-cerned ^ho imagine to find it in all thingsfutable to theGreeke and Latine or to the Poefie of otherLanguages. Ill The herefy of the Anabaptiftstouching the verle of the Pialmes. IV. Certaine rea-fons which may begiuen> why the holy
A Preparation to the Psalter . l makeyou partakers of that I know. Effripid. What the Rea«dcrought torcfolue in dif-ficult anddoubrfuUthings. Chapter IX. I. lt\s her efhowne^thai ^contrary to the opinion of theVulgar e, the Pfalmes are Originally in Vcrfe. II. Ihereafons why the manner qftbeHcbrcw Poefie,therein ofed, is hard to be found > & how thofe are de-cerned ^ho imagine to find it in all thingsfutable to theGreeke and Latine or to the Poefie of otherLanguages. Ill The herefy of the Anabaptiftstouching the verle of the Pialmes. IV. Certaine rea-fons which may begiuen> why the holy Ghofi fhould commendthem <~vnto <~vsy rather in Vcrfe then Andafloort reprehenfion offuch as are haters flfpoefy. Ince I began to take in hand the Verfion of the Pfal-ters I haue heard fo many publifli a diilike of turningholy Scripture, of what kind foeuer, into Verfejthat ifthe habite, or (hew of graue fan&itie without reafon,had becne fufficient to haue dif-hartned a young verfi- fier,. 58 A Preparation to the Pfelter. Chap. 9. Some thinke itftrange tohcarcofvcrfcin the Bible. Eufeb. in , Epift. 103iio.$»ix$-Variety of Meafkrest-naong the He-brewet. jficr from his refolution; not onely had the Translation of the Pfalmesbeene long before this time left off: but I had alfo renounced Verfe;and (as fome doe) fliouldhaue abhorred it, as the moft prophaneLanguage of the Diuell. But,I thanke God, I haue hitherto efcapedthat difeafe; there is not yet that Antipathie betweene me and Poe-try: & I hope I {hall neuer be fo ouer-wifc,as to grow out of ioue withit,whilftlliue. Nay, if our Verfc-whippers be not obftinate in theirhercfies againft thediuinitieofthe Mufis, I rather perfwademy felfethat I (hall reclaime fome of them; and bring that which they wrong-fully held in contempt, into a iuft and more reuerend efteeme. For I haue found,that the principall caufe, why they difallow thefacrcd Word fliould be exprefled
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