. An essay for composing a harmony between the Psalms, and other parts of the Scripture, but especially the New Testament : wherein the supplicatory and prophetick part of this sacred bool are disposed under proper heads . THE H E Chriftian Church has in all Ages, withgreat Reafon, appointed the Pfalms to beconftantly read in its Publick Service : Therebeing no Book in the Holy Scriptures, where-fuch high Raptures of Devotion, tranfmit-Mankind the moft awful and fublime Ideasof the Supreme Being, and the Immenfity of hisGoodnefs in the Redemption of the World by theMeffiah. The
. An essay for composing a harmony between the Psalms, and other parts of the Scripture, but especially the New Testament : wherein the supplicatory and prophetick part of this sacred bool are disposed under proper heads . THE H E Chriftian Church has in all Ages, withgreat Reafon, appointed the Pfalms to beconftantly read in its Publick Service : Therebeing no Book in the Holy Scriptures, where-fuch high Raptures of Devotion, tranfmit-Mankind the moft awful and fublime Ideasof the Supreme Being, and the Immenfity of hisGoodnefs in the Redemption of the World by theMeffiah. The Learned Dr. Hammond, in his Preface to theParaphrafe on the Pfalms, fays, That the Fathers A 2 of inting areto Introductio N. C( of the Church allure us, that in the firft Ages ofu Chriftianity, Pfalmody was the conftant Attendant,u fometimes of their Meals, generally of their Bufi- nefs, in the Shop and in the Field \ that they learnt the whole Book by Heart, and their whole Age con- tinued finging or faying Pfalms. There is nothing certainly doth more prepare theMind for the higheft Felicities, than the Contempla-tion and Love of the Supreme Being ; for InfiniteGoodnefs, Omnipotence and Omnifcience, do dilate,awe, and chear the Spi
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