An Essay on Psalmody ...1775 - Bible - 368 pages |
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... - gation to their primitive usefulness . This is my present attempt . Succefs in it de- pends on help from God . He revealed the book of pfalms , and he alone can A 2 make make the finging of them profitable . I hope he { iii ] PREFACE. ...
... - gation to their primitive usefulness . This is my present attempt . Succefs in it de- pends on help from God . He revealed the book of pfalms , and he alone can A 2 make make the finging of them profitable . I hope he { iii ] PREFACE. ...
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... present and eternal good . While he lives by faith , he knows it , and has the comfort of it . His heart is kept in tune , and whatever befalls him , he has reafon to rejoice in the Lord his God . Thus the Lord would have his people to ...
... present and eternal good . While he lives by faith , he knows it , and has the comfort of it . His heart is kept in tune , and whatever befalls him , he has reafon to rejoice in the Lord his God . Thus the Lord would have his people to ...
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... present , whenever the church meet together in public to fing their own compofitions , or to make them full of joy with the light of his countenance , when they have been doing despite to his Spirit , and putting dishonor upon his word ...
... present , whenever the church meet together in public to fing their own compofitions , or to make them full of joy with the light of his countenance , when they have been doing despite to his Spirit , and putting dishonor upon his word ...
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... private judgment ? I fet it up against no body in indifferent things I would wish to yield to every man's infirmity : For I want the fame in- F 3 dulgence dulgence myself . But in the present cafe the fcripture [ 125 ]
... private judgment ? I fet it up against no body in indifferent things I would wish to yield to every man's infirmity : For I want the fame in- F 3 dulgence dulgence myself . But in the present cafe the fcripture [ 125 ]
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William Romaine. dulgence myself . But in the present cafe the fcripture , which is our only rule of judgment , has not left the matter indiffe- rent . God has given us a large collection of hymns , has commanded them to be fung in the ...
William Romaine. dulgence myself . But in the present cafe the fcripture , which is our only rule of judgment , has not left the matter indiffe- rent . God has given us a large collection of hymns , has commanded them to be fung in the ...
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