Henry Bazely, the Oxford Evangelist; A Memoir (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1886 Excerpt: ... For the permanence of it to our own day we are unfeignedly thankful, and we pray that God will preserve it unsullied by novel corruptions to succeeding generations. In fine, we would earnestly beseech all true Presbyterians "to meddle not with them that are given to change," but rather to take, as their safe and honourable motto, "Stare super antiquas vias." INSPIRED PSALMODY: A Plea for the exclusive use of the Psalter in Christian Worship. A Sermon preached in St. Andrew's Scottish Church, Philpot Street, Commercial Road, London, E., on February 10, 1878. By the Rev. H. C. B. Bazely, B.C.L., Brasenose College, Oxford. ' Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."--Eph. V. 19. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."--Col. iii. 16. I wish, dear brethren, to state to you my reasons for the practice which I have constantly followed, since I became your minister, of choosing our songs of praise to Almighty God exclusively from the book of Psalms. I ought, perhaps, to have done this sooner, since you may naturally have desired a fuller statement than the statement I gave in a brief paper on Public Worship, written for your inspection, before I accepted this pastoral charge, of the reasons which compel me, under a solemn sense of duty to God and to our Church, to abstain from the use of uninspired hymns in the public worship of the congregation. Will you now lend me your kind attention, while I set before you, as plainly and as succinctly as I can, my reasons for the exclusive use of the Psalter? And permit me to say, by the way, that I shall est...