A Selection Of Psalms For Social Worship

Excerpt from A Selection of Psalms for Social Worship That fentiments unconnected, or not clofely connected, with devotion, fuch, for infiance, as arife folely from pure pieturefque defcription of natural fcenes, are not proper fubjeets of jarred mufic: Let me be permitted, fince no other infiances at this moment occur to me, to exemplify this obfervation in much of the fe cond and fourth fiauzas of Addifon's twenty t'hird pfalm; of Dr. Watts' hymn, beginning with, There is a land of pure delight and of Mrs. Barbauld's hymn, beginning thus, Jehovah reigns, let every nation hear. 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.

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