Archive for July 5th, 2010

Religion and the Arts

Yazan: ayong | 05 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology

Increase Mather (Discourse Concerning the Danger of Apostasy, an election sermon preached before the Massachusetts General Assembly in 1677, published in A Call From Heaven (1679)): Some have well and truly observed that the interest of religion and good literature hath risen and fallen together. Martin Luther, Letter No. 580 to Eobanus Hessus (March 29, [...]

Cases of Conscience on Psalmody

Yazan: ayong | 05 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology

William Ames, Conscience and Cases Thereof (1639), Book IV, pp. 43-44: Chap. XIXOf Singing Question I. What use has Singing above the ordinary pronunciation? 1. A.1. It brings a kind of sweet delight to godly minds, Psalm 104.342. A.2. It has a more distinct and fixed meditation, Ibid.3 A.3. It has a more copious and [...]

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