James Gibson on psalm-singing in the Church of England

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We have, in the course of our lives, both at home and abroad, attended for months English Episcopal churches, where no other Protestant worship could be found, and we never once heard anything sung but the Psalms of David. Anything else is a modern innovation in the Church of England.

James Gibson, The Public Worship of God: Its Authority and Modes, Hymns and Hymn Books (London: James Nisbet and Son, 1869), p. 32.
 
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Was it human hymns that preserved the orthodox faith with the Bishop Bulls, the Leslies, the Waterlands, older Edwardses, and many others who defended the divinity of Christ against Arians and Socinians in England? There were none such then in the Church of England. Better were it that she had none such yet, and then tractarian and other sectarian hymns would not be so rife in promoting error and sectarianism, and preparing, as they have done, so many for going over to the tents of the " man of sin."

James Gibson, The Public Worship of God: Its Authority and Modes, Hymns and Hymn Books (London: James Nisbet and Son, 1869), p. 61.

P.S. I presume by the "older Edwardses" he is referring to Thomas and John Edwards?
 
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