The Reasonableness of Setting Forth the Most Worthy Praise of Almighty God: According to the Usage of the Primitive Church; with Historical Views of the Nature, Origin, and Progress of Metre Psalmody |
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... Lord honoured with his presence , and joined in the psalmody of his mother church ; and after his ascension , his apostles were " continually in the temple praising God , " in the forms of his own inditing . Derived from Jesus and his ...
... Lord honoured with his presence , and joined in the psalmody of his mother church ; and after his ascension , his apostles were " continually in the temple praising God , " in the forms of his own inditing . Derived from Jesus and his ...
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... Lord in your hearts , ' that surely there is more cause to fear lest the want thereof be a maim , than the use a blemish in the service of God ? " * To these testimonies of illustrious Ecclesias- ties it is proper to add the declaration ...
... Lord in your hearts , ' that surely there is more cause to fear lest the want thereof be a maim , than the use a blemish in the service of God ? " * To these testimonies of illustrious Ecclesias- ties it is proper to add the declaration ...
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... Lord have celebrated the Jewish Passover , or instituted that of the Christian Church , without chanting the appropriate hymns of his own institution , without dishonouring the law ? Could Peter and John , with their associates , have ...
... Lord have celebrated the Jewish Passover , or instituted that of the Christian Church , without chanting the appropriate hymns of his own institution , without dishonouring the law ? Could Peter and John , with their associates , have ...
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... Lord , in their abodes of bliss , as having no other em- ployment than that of singing hallelujahs " to Him that sitteth upon the throne , and to the Lamb . " Now , we cannot but think , that he who prescribed them that employment ...
... Lord , in their abodes of bliss , as having no other em- ployment than that of singing hallelujahs " to Him that sitteth upon the throne , and to the Lamb . " Now , we cannot but think , that he who prescribed them that employment ...
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... Lord God of hosts ! " And the other cherub responded , " The whole earth is full of his glory . " Whether This hymn , performed by the cherubim , divided into two choirs , the one singing responsively to the other , which Gregory Nazian ...
... Lord God of hosts ! " And the other cherub responded , " The whole earth is full of his glory . " Whether This hymn , performed by the cherubim , divided into two choirs , the one singing responsively to the other , which Gregory Nazian ...
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Page 194 - And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
Page 214 - 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 251 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.
Page 194 - Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is; who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said.
Page 211 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Page 250 - Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 194 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 101 - THEREFORE with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts ! heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Page 153 - It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord : so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud ; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of...
Page 211 - Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in, a higher state than poetry can confer.