... to sing in the churches, Richard Mather, Thomas Welde, and John Eliot supervised the preparation of a new metrical version of the Psalms. , as it came to be called, was the first book published on America n soil, and passed through twenty-seven editions between 1640 and 1752, when it was superseded by John Barnard's . It surpasses even Sternhold and Hopkins in uncouthness, and as a monument of bad ta...