A Preparation to the Psalter . re ouer difficultly handled formeane capacities, approouing the Chriftian ingenuity of thofc,whohad admomfhed him to bee more plainejfor in being fo, th- ignorantwould bee the better initrudted : and,as there it is faid, the learnedwould vnderftand him neuer the I will haftento the matter:And the firft Proportions that I purpoieto handle, concerning thePfalmes, flialbe fuchy as do both appertaine vnto them in general!,andtend alfo to the defence of mine owne particular vndertakings. Andwhat thofe are, with the manner of my proceeding (if God permit)(hal
A Preparation to the Psalter . re ouer difficultly handled formeane capacities, approouing the Chriftian ingenuity of thofc,whohad admomfhed him to bee more plainejfor in being fo, th- ignorantwould bee the better initrudted : and,as there it is faid, the learnedwould vnderftand him neuer the I will haftento the matter:And the firft Proportions that I purpoieto handle, concerning thePfalmes, flialbe fuchy as do both appertaine vnto them in general!,andtend alfo to the defence of mine owne particular vndertakings. Andwhat thofe are, with the manner of my proceeding (if God permit)(halbe deliuered in the firftpart of this Trcatife. Chapter II. I. The frmolous opinions of thofe, ypho deny that thePfalmcs3or any part of holy Scripture 3 may beefafelytranflatedinto Verfe, are here anfwered, and the occa-fion of that error dijeouerd. confutation of theirmany obieBions who are impatient of any new transla-tions of the Pfalmes jforfear ojinconueniency W\A Briefe ;». *r ^4 Preparation to the PJalter* 7 *^-. Brife digreffionjoucbingthe Septuagint tranflation,i[f that in the Chaldean tongue^calledthe IV. Of fucb things as are obieShed again/} the libertiesyvhieh may be commendably yfed in a tranflationj,\vhha defence ofthenjariety of Meafures, ^ other thingstouching the right ypay oftran/latingthe Pfalmes. O oppofc this my proceeding, I do expect an armie ofimputations, and that many obiecrions fhall beebrought againfl me, to make fruttrate my paincs; for Ibaits difcouered a whole troupe of them, ready to trythe Arength of my Apologies: And thefc are framedby three forts of men. The firft arefuch, as abfolutely except againftthe whole wcr1Ke. The fecond,diflike onely fome particulars, or themanner of doing it. And the third takeexceptions againfl me for vnder-takingit. The former of thefc three may alfobee diuided into twocompanies. The one of them dif-allowes all translations of holy fcrip-ture into Metre/The fecond allowe Mctte,but are obftinatc a
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