Select Portions OF PSALMS AND HYMNS, FOR THE USE OF TRINITY CHURCH, ST. MARY-LE-BONE. London: PRINTED AND SOLD BY W. REYNOLDS, PRINTER AND STATIONER, OF AN ADMONITION, PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY For Promoting Christian Knowledge, ON THE REVERENCE REQUIRED IN order to reform the Custom, which has prevailed, of SITTING While the Psalms are sung in the Public Service of God; it is necessary to observe that the Church has, in all ages, appointed the reverent Practice of STANDING in singing praises to God. It plainly appears from several Passages of Scripture, that this was the Practice of the Jewish Church. And whenever the Angels are said to sing praises to God (as in the Visions of Isaiah and St. John) they are represented as Standing. One of the Fathers, describing the Practice of the Church in his time, says, “The 66 People rising from Prayer STAND UP to sing Psalms." And as we STAND UP with reverence to praise God when the Psalms are read, we ought to do the same when they are sung. Let the people praise THEE, O GOD! Let ALL the People praise THEE ! PSALM I. HOW blest is he who ne'er consents, By ill advice to walk; Nor stands in sinners' ways, nor sits But makes the perfect law of God Like some fair tree which fed by streams For God approves the just man's ways, To happiness they tend; But sinners, and the paths they tread, |