An Essay on Psalmody ...1775 - Bible - 368 pages |
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Page 35
... please ; it was expreffive . For it was a memorial . It was to call to mind the facrifice of Imma- nuel , and the joy flowing from it , the greatest joy that poffibly can be : For all the facrifices pointed to him , and were inftituted ...
... please ; it was expreffive . For it was a memorial . It was to call to mind the facrifice of Imma- nuel , and the joy flowing from it , the greatest joy that poffibly can be : For all the facrifices pointed to him , and were inftituted ...
Page 85
... please themselves , and to please God is not in all their thoughts . O confider this , ye that come to church , and join in finging the pfalms . Is it with you an ordinance of God ? Do you look upon it , as fuch , and find it fuch ...
... please themselves , and to please God is not in all their thoughts . O confider this , ye that come to church , and join in finging the pfalms . Is it with you an ordinance of God ? Do you look upon it , as fuch , and find it fuch ...
Page 89
... fings pfalms , or not ,. or whether or no he fings them with , me- tody in his heart unto the Lord ? Certain- ly if he would please God in finging , he - fhould should attend to the fcripture rules before laid down for [ 89 ]
... fings pfalms , or not ,. or whether or no he fings them with , me- tody in his heart unto the Lord ? Certain- ly if he would please God in finging , he - fhould should attend to the fcripture rules before laid down for [ 89 ]
Page 101
... please both God and man in finging . There is another very great and com- mon abuse , which confifts in the choice of improper portions . The perfon , to whofe judgment E 3 of [ 101 ] A bad coarse voice quite out of tune is ...
... please both God and man in finging . There is another very great and com- mon abuse , which confifts in the choice of improper portions . The perfon , to whofe judgment E 3 of [ 101 ] A bad coarse voice quite out of tune is ...
Page 115
... please children , than to inftruct the church . In the third century we read much of pfalm finging . Arius . was complained of as a perverter of this ordinance . St. Auguftine makes it an high crime in certain heretics , that they fung ...
... please children , than to inftruct the church . In the third century we read much of pfalm finging . Arius . was complained of as a perverter of this ordinance . St. Auguftine makes it an high crime in certain heretics , that they fung ...
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