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Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…
Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns / left fitted for the press by his own hand.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 6. I have in the end showed why I have done that which no man ever did before me, to fit the same Psalms to various Tunes and Measures, longer and shorter, specially to gratify them by variety, that are used to be dulled ⟨image 9⟩with Customariness in the same; and to give them Expository Notes, who use but Obscure Abbreviation and Conciseness in words. And I hope the Printer will make so visible a difference in the Characters, that the additional words shall stumble none.
§ 6. I have in the end shewed why I have done that which no man ever did before me, to fit the same Psalms to various Tunes and Measures, longer and shorter, specially to gratifie them by variety, that are used to be dull'd ⟨image 9⟩with Customariness in the same; and to give them Expository Notes, who use but Obscure Abbreviation and Conciseness in words. And I hope the Printer will make so visible a difference in the Characters, that the additional words shall stumble none.
§ 7. I have added the Apocryphal Hymns, 1. For their Excellency and Usefulness. 2. To confute them that think that no forms of Worship but those found in Scripture may be used, or imposed. 3. To confute the Casuists, that tell the World that we are against all such Liturgic Forms.
§ 7. I have added the Apocryphal Hymns, 1. For their Excellency and Usefulness. 2. To confute them that think that no forms of Worship but those found in Scripture may be used, or imposed. 3. To confute the Casuists, that tell the World that we are against all such Liturgick Forms.
Those that published the Old Church-Psalms, added many useful Hymns, that are still printed with the Psalms in Metre. And doubtless Paul meaneth not only David's Psalms, when he bids men sing with grace in their hearts, Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs: Yea, it is past doubt, that Hymns more suitable to Gospel-times, may and ought to be now used: And if used, they must be premeditated; how else shall Congregations sing them? And if premeditated, they must be some way imposed; How else shall the Congregations all join in the same? I plead not for Imposing by cruel Penalties, nor laying the Churches