This booklet is an historical study of the place of Metrical Psalms in the public worship of the Scottish Reformed and Presbyterian Church. It maintains that only the Biblical materials of praise, without instrumental accompaniment have warrant for use in public worship services, a position well supported by the history of the practice of the Reformed and Presbyterian Churches in Scotland and elsewhere.

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This indispensable volume is the most comprehensive resource on the Psalms for use in Christian worship ever published. It offers a single-volume anthology of psalm use, covering the history, reception, and practice of the Psalms in Christian worship. The book contains all 150 psalms, most in multiple formats, and utilizes a wide variety of musical and spoken settings. It also provides complete musical settings for morning and evening prayer. Each psalm appears in its actual biblical text, including as responsive readings. This invaluable resource for churches of all traditions is well suited to congregational use, helping pastors, worship leaders and planners, and choirs bring the Psalms back into the heart of congregational worship.

Excerpt from The Psalmody of the Free Church of Scotland: With an Accompaniment for the Pianoforte In the modern Collections, there is no uniformity in the manner in which the Tunes arc harmonized. This is necessarily the case, from the circumstance already mentioned, that the old harmonies were constructed according to a vocal arrangement which is now universally abandoned. Every modern editor, therefore, arranges the harmonies, well or ill, according to his own skill and judgment and among the numerous collections which we have consulted, we have not found two with the same harmonies. These collections, of course, are of very different degrees of merit but there is not, either in England or Scotland, any one which possesses the authority of a standard work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.