1785 AMERICAN PSALMS. First Edition of De-Monarchized Version of Watts' Psalms and Hymns Puritan He knew that a clergyman

He knew that a clergyman would feel much delicacy in attempting to disturb an ancient landmark

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an Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem

1785 AMERICAN PSALMS. First Edition of De-Monarchized Version of Watts' Psalms and Hymns Puritan He knew that a clergymanA superbly preserved first American revision of Watts' influential Psalms and Hymns. Watts original hymns were often deeply "English," appropriating Israel's monarchical language toward the British Crown in a way that too comfortably blended Church and State for the new Americans. Some other early American attempts at revision would attempt re appropriate the same Psalms that had been reconfigured by Watts toward the British Crown instead to America,