Practical Discourses of Singing in the Worship of God; Preach'd at the Friday Lecture in Eastcheap. By Several Ministers

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J. Darby, 1708 - Church music - 226 pages

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Page 39 - The Lord hath made bare his holy arm, in the eyes of all nations. And all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our Lord.
Page 29 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Page 59 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Page 92 - I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying; Alleluia! Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God ; for true and righteous are his judgments ; for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Page xi - An Epiftolary Difcourfe, proving from the Scriptures, and the Firft Fathers, that the Soul is a Principle naturally mortal; but...
Page 40 - How can those expect good of the word who just let it go as it comes? But we should catch hold of it, retain it, and not forget it. We should lay it up as a precious and enriching treasure, Col. iii. 16. ' Let the word of God dwell in you richly:' As a thing that we are in hazard of losing, and being robbed of. Matth. xiii. 4; and as what we will have use for afterwards, Isa. xlii. 23. ' Who will hearken and hear for the time to come ?' Suppose it reach not your present case, it may be useful for...
Page 92 - Lord, and the Song of the Lamb, faying, Great and Marvellous are thy Works, Lord God Almighty...
Page 181 - L/'VS^ the words of the Text, Singing and making Melody in your Hearts to the Lord. It is not material, whether by (Lord) wehereunderftand God the Father, or the Mediator Jefus Chrift j fince in every Duty Chrift is to be ey'd as the proximate immediate Object, and God the Father as the final ultimate one. There is no Coming to j0[j.
Page 193 - Gossip, what shall we now do at church, since all the saints are- taken away, since all the goodly sights we were wont to have are gone, since we cannot hear the like piping, singing, chanting, and playing upon the organs, that we could before?

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