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Excerpt from History of the Scottish Metrical Psalms: With an Account of the Paraphrases and Hymns, and of the Music of the Old Psalter
The recent introduction of the Scottish Hymnal, on the authority of the General Assembly, as a supplementary manual of praise in the Church of Scotland, gave rise to considerable discussion and comment throughout the districf in which the Author resides. By one party the step was condemned as an unwarrantable innovation, interfering with the Conservatism of good old ecclesiastical forms, whilst by another it was vindicated as a re-novation instead of an in-novation a returning to the practice of the Church as inaugurated by the First Reformation. The Author embraced the opportunity thus afforded of calling attention, by means of a short article in a local newspaper, to the Liturgy introduced by Knox, and used in the. Reformed Church - quoting the titles of the fourteen spiritual songs which appear immediately after the Psalms, with instructions as to the tune to which each was to be sung. The Article concluded with this paragraph Some of our readers will, doubtless, be astonished to think that John Knox used a Liturgy; but such is the fact. On a future occasion we may give a short historical detail of the steps by which our metrical version of the Psalms has been developed into its present authorised condition.
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