Excerpt from A Plea for Peace in the Presbyterian Family, on the Subject of Psalmody
To prevent the reader from laying aside this little book, as soon as he discovers the subject, some apology, or at least, some explanation is deemed proper. The subject is connected with the peculiarities of some branches of the church, and hence has as sumed, in their esteem, a very prominent and important position. Of course, it has had controversy waged in its behalf; gallant champions, in burnished armor, have crowd ed around it, every one anxious to wield his sword or to 'sling his stone. In religious controversies, it not seldom happens, that some persons get possessed with the polemic contagion, who are distinguished more by the violence of their action and the loudness of their battle-cry, than by the skill of their tactics or the brilliancy of their exploits. Thus has it been with the subject of Psal.
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