On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    With respect to singing , ( whether alone or accompanied with instrumental music ) , I see no reason in the New Testament to conclude , that it was designed by Jesus or his apostles to be introduced into public worship as a

    part of public devotion . This position may at first sight appear to some of your readers as altogether unfounded ; and so it would have done to myself before I examined the New Testament and

    the practice of the early Chris , tians , with a specific view to this object ; but the result is what I have stated . The grounds of the ppinion , and of some other conclusions respecting devotional music , I shall proceed to shew , only

    premising , that I do in no degree mean to say , that the employment of chorus . singing in public worship is contrary to apostolical precepts &nd practice , but simply that it is altogether without any direct support from them .

    To clear , the way a little , I shall first consider the import of those words in the New Testament which are . connected with my object ; and next examine in their order the different passages in the

    history and epistles of the apostles which have any reference to the use of music , in connexion with devotion ; and then the other passages of the New Testament which bear upon the inquiry .

    Adou ( ado ) is the verb which is most clearly appropriated to the act of singing * It is continually employed in the Septuagint as the representative of shur , the generic

    force of which appears to be , * to regulate , and thence to regulate the voice in singing , to sing , to utter musicall y * " ( See Parkhurst . ) It is employed in Eph . V- 1 £ . Col . Hi . 16 . Rev . v .

    Untitled Article

    9 . xiv . 3 . xv . 3 , Schleusner gives aJiw a second meaning , viz . to praise , to celebrate , and refers to the two above-mentioned passages in Paul's Epistles , and to Hos * vii . 2 . Jer . xxx . 19 ** but it is

    greatly to be doubted , whether there is any sufficient authority to suppose that it means praising in any other way than by singing . £ 18 r ) ( ode ) is the correspondent substantive , and is well expressed in English by song or ode . It de » notes a verse or system of verses designed to be employed in sing » ing .

    < Ypveoo ( humneo ) according to Schleusner , signifies to repeat a hymn ( hymnutn dicere ) to sing a song , to celebrate , to praise ^ to give thanks either by a song or hymn , or in any other way * Parkhurst says the verb is used intransitively , to sing or recite a

    hymn , and transitively , to celebrate or praise with a hymn or hymns , to hymn . In the Septuagint it is three times used for eude , ( to confess , to praise , to -give thanks , ) twice for elel , ( to praise , ) twice for eshir , ( 10 sing , ) twice for zsmsr , ( to sing with music , to

    hymn , ) and twice for rsnen ( to sing or utter joyful ty ) . The substantive c v ^ vo $ t a hymn , from which the verb comes , has its ori - gin in vdou to celebrate , to sing ;

    ? In the passage in Hosea there is nothing in the Hebrew corresponding to the word : in Jeremiah , the word is used for thude , praise or thanksgiving , " With two exceptions , which do not respect the inquiry , it is in all other instances used as the rendering of shur ; and it is , I should suppose , most likely ' , either that the LXX found in their

    Hebrew copies of Jcr . xxx . 19 . a vord denoting praise by singing , or thnt they considered , from the connexion , that the import of our present reading it praise by singing .

    Untitled Article

    Oh . the Use of Vocal and Instrumental Music in Public Worship . 45

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/43/