Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
In Dr. [Alexander] Whyte’s opinion, at no time has any land for its size, save Palestine, produced “so many men and women of a profoundly spiritual experience, and of an adoring and heavenly mind, as Scotland possessed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”.
In his ecstasy he exclaims, “What minds and what hearts those men and women had! And how they gave up their whole mind and heart to the life of godliness in the land, and to the life of God in their own hearts! How thin and poor our religious life appears beside theirs!”
To the causes which he suggests for this superiority — the persecution, the new Reformation doctrines, the masculine and Pauline preaching — other two at least may be added, the solid and serious books then in favour, and the place assigned to the inspired psalms, now too often usurped by frothy hymns.
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In his ecstasy he exclaims, “What minds and what hearts those men and women had! And how they gave up their whole mind and heart to the life of godliness in the land, and to the life of God in their own hearts! How thin and poor our religious life appears beside theirs!”
To the causes which he suggests for this superiority — the persecution, the new Reformation doctrines, the masculine and Pauline preaching — other two at least may be added, the solid and serious books then in favour, and the place assigned to the inspired psalms, now too often usurped by frothy hymns.
For the reference, see:
David Hay Fleming on the importance of good books and the Psalms to Scottish spirituality
In Dr. [Alexander] Whyte’s opinion, at no time has any land for its size, save Palestine, produced “so many men and women of a profoundly spiritual experience, and of an adoring and heavenly …
reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com
