THE PSALTER - THE ONLY HYMNAL?
By Iain H. Murray
The Banner of Truth Trust
32 pages. £1.50. ISBN 0 85151 809 5
Quiet, please, as we tiptoe down the corridor and briefly listen at the door. Inside are the Puritans, agonising over whether it's safe to sing hymns yet. Hitherto they have stayed with Old Testament Psalms, but uneasy rumours have somehow wafted outside. Their 17th century dictionaries and rulebooks are on the table.
That picture is unfair to the author, who here introduces a short summary of biblical common sense into the discussion. The wonder is that it is still needed. But some prefer to sing of Jehovah than of Jesus; of Canaan than of Christ; of Levi and Lot, than of the Lamb of God.
