While I set not up my own convictions as a rule or measure of the consciences of others, I cannot fail to pity those who…
Tag: psalm-singing
As to public prayers, there are two kinds: the one consists of words alone; the other includes music. And this is no recent invention. For…
James Durham, Scottish Presbyterian (1622-1658) In praising then, we would neither simply look to our frame, nor to the matter in itself, which is to…
(1) Preface to the Revised Edition of the German Psalter (1531) The Psalter has been lauded and loved by many holy fathers above the other…
Below is the text (with some modernisation of spelling and punctuation etc.) of a letter to the reader affixed to an edition of the 1650…
1. Introduction to The Bay Psalm Book “The Bay Psalm Book,” writes Horton Davies, “was the first book to be printed in New England [or…
William Perkins (1558-1602), the “father of English Puritanism:” “[The Book of] Psalms contains sacred songs suitable for every condition of the church and its individual members,…
The title page of the first printing of the Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650): “Newly Translated and diligently compared with the Original Text, and former Translations,…
Westminster Confession 21:5: “The reading of the Scriptures with godly fear; the sound preaching, and conscionable hearing of the word, in obedience unto God, with…
Prof. Barry Gritters Introduction Strange fire is being offered on the altars of worship in many churches today. That fire is being offered on Reformed…
