VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
**Note: This thread is not for debating exclusive psalmody. It is intended to cover the works of New England Puritans on the subject of psalmody. Thanks.**
There are several works by New England Puritans on the subject of psalmody which I have heard of but never seen reprinted. I do have a copy of the Bay Psalm Book (still seeking Ainsworth's Psalter), but if possible, I would love to find the following works in some form. Any others that I should add to the list?
John Cotton, Singing of Psalms, a Gospel Ordinance (1647)
John Eliot, A Few Psalms in Meetre Translated into the Massachusetts Indian Language (1658)
Cotton Mather, Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, In a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse, fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches (1718)
Cotton Mather, The Accomplished Singer "¦ Intended for the Assistance of all that would Sing Psalms with Grace in their Hearts, etc. (1721)
Cotton Mather, A Pacificatory Letter [on psalm singing in churches] (1723)
I am also interested in reading or hearing more about Raymond A. Craig, 1996. Polishing God's Altar: Puritan Poetics in John Cotton's Singing of Psalms. Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 5; and Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, 1982. The Singing of Psalms. In The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Discipline in Seventeenth-Century New England, 111-16. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
There are several works by New England Puritans on the subject of psalmody which I have heard of but never seen reprinted. I do have a copy of the Bay Psalm Book (still seeking Ainsworth's Psalter), but if possible, I would love to find the following works in some form. Any others that I should add to the list?
John Cotton, Singing of Psalms, a Gospel Ordinance (1647)
John Eliot, A Few Psalms in Meetre Translated into the Massachusetts Indian Language (1658)
Cotton Mather, Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, In a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse, fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches (1718)
Cotton Mather, The Accomplished Singer "¦ Intended for the Assistance of all that would Sing Psalms with Grace in their Hearts, etc. (1721)
Cotton Mather, A Pacificatory Letter [on psalm singing in churches] (1723)
I am also interested in reading or hearing more about Raymond A. Craig, 1996. Polishing God's Altar: Puritan Poetics in John Cotton's Singing of Psalms. Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 5; and Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, 1982. The Singing of Psalms. In The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Discipline in Seventeenth-Century New England, 111-16. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.