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But there is one Exercise of our Lips which God is more peculiarly to be praised with; and that is the Singing of Psalms. In those Commands of God which require the praises of God, even in our Days, we have such clauses as those, in Psal. 95 1. O come, let us sing to the Lord, let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our Salvation. The New Testament sufficiently inculcates this way of praising the most High; and if you will believe Tertullian, the Primitive Christians ⟨p. 16⟩hardly ever had a Feast without it. There are savoury Hymns, of an Humane Composure, which no doubt we may praise God by singing of. But Scriptural and inspired Hymns are those which we should principally thus put Regards upon. The Psalms of David are those which God is to be Praised by a Reverent, and Attentive Singing of. These were those, no doubt which our Saviour Himself Sang, at the Passover, more than a score of Times. And the very Angels whose Melodies the Shepherds overheard of old, seem to sing out of the Eighty fifth Psalm. Hence when the Apostle says, in Eph. 5.19. Speak to your selves in Psalms and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs; he alludes to the well-known Division of the Psalter. q. d. Go sing all the Psalms of David over. Till we can mend them, never let us leave them. He that shall sing those Blessed Psalms, and ordinarily spend at least one Observation, and one Ejaculation, upon every verse, as he goes along, will therein praise the great God, at no common rate.

But there is one Exercise of our Lips which God is more peculiarly to be praised with; and that is the Singing of Psalms. In those Commands of God which require the praises of God, even in our Dayes, we have such clauses as those, in Psal. 95 1. O come, let us sing to the Lord, let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our Salvation. The New Testament sufficiently inculcates this way of praising the most High; and if you will believe Tertullian, the Primitive Christians ⟨p. 16⟩hardly ever had a Feast without it. There are savoury Hymns, of an Humane Composure, which no doubt we may praise God by singing of. But Scriptural and inspired Hymns are those which we should principally thus put Regards upon. The Psalms of David are those which God is to be Praised by a Reverent, and Attentive Singing of. These were those, no doubt which our Saviour Himself Sang, at the Passover, more than a score of Times. And the very Angels whose Melodies the Shepherds overheard of old, seem to sing out of the Eighty fifth Psalm. Hence when the Apostle says, in