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Imitation of David’s Psalms

'I must say that I imitated David's Psalms, not as the fittest book that could be made for Christian worship, but as the best which the churches would yet hearken to,' (Isaac Watts, cited in R.M. Stevenson, Patterns of Protestant Church Music, p. 96).

Henry Cooke on Psalm Singing

Henry Cooke (1788-1868) Irish Presbyterian, champion of Trinitarianism against Unitarianism:  "The most celebrated hymns of uninspired men are like Job’s friends, "miserable comforters" (Job 16:2), when compared with the experience of Christ in the day of humiliation,...

What is Praise?

"What is praise? The word is derived from the word “price.” But who knows God’s price or value? To prepare a complete and sufficient manual of praise one must know, on the one hand, all the divine excellences, for they are to be set forth in sufficient measure and due...

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