MurrayA wrote: Warrant that, I looked up your link, and I have bookmarked it. I haven't the time tight now to go right through it all, but the first few paragraphs have whetted my appetite.....
MurrayA
It seems to me that the Psalms only camp have failed ever to produce conclusive evidence on the one point which would win everyone over viz. that the Psalter is the only authorised song book of the church. They cannot even demonstrate that it was so for Israel!
Just one single verse from the entire Bible to demonstrate that this is so would suffice! Simple challenge one would think.
I concur with you re: the so called contemporary worship style.
DR wrote: There is no Biblical warrant for uninspired hymns. That is the only argument I need...
We read a great deal these days from the Psalms only camp, but very little in defense of Hymnody, which is a great sadness to me.
So how refreshing to come across a piece written in favour of Hymns, which not only counters the major arguments of the Psalms only singers but also makes a positive case for Hymn singing, demonstrating that no violence is thereby done to the regulative principle!
SA readers wishing to read this excellent article can access it here:
[URL=http://www.presbyterianlife.blogspot.com/]]]Singing Hymns in Reformed Worship [/URL]
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