A History of Music in New England: With Biographical Sketches of Reformers and Psalmists |
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Ainsworth alteration Anthems assembly Bay Psalm Book better blessed book of Psalms Boston choir Christ Christian church music Colonies Common Metre congregations Cotton Mather custom Divine doth Dunster duty edition Elliot England version extract GEORGE HOOD God's HARMONY Harvard College heart Henry Ainsworth Henry Dunster holy hymns Increase Mather Jehovah John Josiah Flagg labor learn to sing lished Lord manner of singing matter melody ment ministers Oliver Holden pastor piety poetry practice praise prayer preached preface printed Psalm Tunes psalm-tunes Psalmody Psalms and Hymns Psalms of David published Puritans reading the psalms reformation Regular Singing religion rules of singing sacred Scripture sermon singers singing by note singing of Psalms singing Psalms skill soul specimen spirit Spiritual Songs spirituall Sternhold style sung Symmes says thee things Thomas Thomas Prince tion translation truth unto verse voice Watts's wicked words written
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Page 39 - 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 244 - My soul He doth restore again ; And me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, Ev'n for His own name's sake.
Page 248 - Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God : he made the sky, And earth and seas, with all their train : His truth for ever stands secure ; He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain.
Page 13 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord...
Page 117 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page 113 - Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth ? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
Page 128 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Page 248 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 248 - He loves his saints; he knows them well, But turns the wicked down to hell...
Page 220 - A very learned man he was, and a close student, which much impaired his health. We have heard some, eminent in the knowledge of the tongues, of the university of Leyden, say that they thought he had not his better for the Hebrew tongue in the university, nor scarce in Europe.