The Free-rhythm Psalter: The Words Pointed and Accented, and Chants of All Periods Selected and Rendered, with Speical Regard to the True Rhythm and the True Antiphony of Both Words and Music Together with the Traditional Plainsong of the Prayer Book, Rendered, So Far as it Can Be, Upon the Same Priniciples (The Music Throughtout in Both the Staff and Letter Notation) with Some Further Aids to the Ready Understanding and Use of the Whole in Public Worship

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Henry Frowde, 1898 - 400 pages

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Page 9 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Page 313 - LORD, and that soon ; for my spirit waxeth faint : hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Page 152 - Why hop ye so, ye high hills ? this is God's hill, in the which it pleaseth Him to dwell : yea, the Lord will abide in it for ever.
Page 19 - And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead : Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Page 243 - I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.
Page 230 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 197 - He shall defend thee under His wings, and thou shalt be safe under His feathers : His faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Page 324 - Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink : let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Page 10 - Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his Holy Spirit, that those things may please him, which we do at this present ; and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure, and holy ; so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.* Amen.
Page 352 - The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

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