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... understanding seldom united .--- The heart should go with the lips .--- Church music generally an unmeaning sound .-- What tunes inconsistent with divine worship . - God probably never ordered musical instru- ments . Singing used in the ...
... understanding seldom united .--- The heart should go with the lips .--- Church music generally an unmeaning sound .-- What tunes inconsistent with divine worship . - God probably never ordered musical instru- ments . Singing used in the ...
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... understanding also . ” PSALMODY , or singing the praises of God , is an exercise equally pleasing and pro- fitable , and has always been considered an essential part of divine service . But gener- ally in our congregations the spirit ...
... understanding also . ” PSALMODY , or singing the praises of God , is an exercise equally pleasing and pro- fitable , and has always been considered an essential part of divine service . But gener- ally in our congregations the spirit ...
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... understanding also ; " and to make " melody in their hearts to the Lord . " It does not clearly appear any where in Scripture that God ordered musical instruments to be employed in his service , except the two trumpets of silver . Numb ...
... understanding also ; " and to make " melody in their hearts to the Lord . " It does not clearly appear any where in Scripture that God ordered musical instruments to be employed in his service , except the two trumpets of silver . Numb ...
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... understanding , offers a sacrifice to God as acceptable as the dog's head and swine's blood would have been under the law of Moses . * • See Dr. A. Clarke's Com . Introd . to the Book of Psalms , sec . xi . D 2 : The propriety and ...
... understanding , offers a sacrifice to God as acceptable as the dog's head and swine's blood would have been under the law of Moses . * • See Dr. A. Clarke's Com . Introd . to the Book of Psalms , sec . xi . D 2 : The propriety and ...
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... understanding and the devotional feelings of a Christian congre- gation . The old version , though in a great The metrical version of the Psalms was made about A.D. 1550 , and is earlier by many years than the prose translation in the ...
... understanding and the devotional feelings of a Christian congre- gation . The old version , though in a great The metrical version of the Psalms was made about A.D. 1550 , and is earlier by many years than the prose translation in the ...
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Page 35 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon...
Page 61 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 3 - For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Page 4 - Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 76 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Page 76 - BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Page 3 - HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 20 - And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Page 34 - And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart : And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 7 - For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.