Letters on Psalmody: A Review of the Leading Arguments for the Exclusive Use of the Book of Psalms |
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Page 173 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God : and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God...
Page 87 - 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.
Page 99 - Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy sting ? 0 grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 167 - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Page 173 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Page 73 - The Lord was ready to save me : therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
Page 191 - For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle : thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Page 214 - And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite; My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 77 - Praise him with the sound of the trumpet : Praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance : Praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals : Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Page 76 - And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.