 | 1888 - 798 pągines
...outside of the church doors till it was over. A writer in the Neiv England Chronicle in 1723 declared : "Truly I have a great jealousy, that if we once begin to sing by rule, the next thing will bo to pray by rule and preach by rule ; and then comes Popery." A council... | |
 | Andrew D. Mellick - 1889 - 802 pągines
...pamphlets and articles published on the subject displayed much rancor and ignorance. Said one writer : — Truly, I have a great jealousy, that if we once begin...sing by note, the next thing will be to pray by rule, preach by rule, and then comes popery. In the Mendham Presbyterian church singing by note was introduced... | |
 | Heman Packard De Forest - 1891 - 672 pągines
...instruments yet; the very names of the notes were blasphemous. And a writer in the "New England Chronicle " said : " Truly, I have a great jealousy that if we once begin to sing by rule, the next thing will be to pray by rule and preach by rule; and then comes Popery." In 1723 the... | |
 | W. Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms - 1895 - 452 pągines
...The innovation was denounced as an insult to the memory of the fathers, and as tending to Papacy. " If we once begin to sing by note, the next thing will be to pray by rule, and then comes Popery." Ministers and people, deacons and congregation, were in many places, at open hostility... | |
 | William Smythe Babcock Mathews - 1895 - 752 pągines
...improvement in the barbarous psalmody then current was made by a writer in the New England Chronicle: "Truly, I have a great jealousy that if we once begin to sing by rule, the next thing will be to pray by rule and preach by rule, and then comes Popery." And this view... | |
 | 1895 - 700 pągines
...improvement in the barbarous psalmody then current was made by a writer in the New England Chronicle: "Truly, I have a great jealousy that if we once begin to sing by rule, the next thing will be to pray by rule and preach by rule, and then comes Popery.'' And this... | |
 | 1898 - 1292 pągines
...singing at that place;" while a writer in the New England Chronicle, of nearly the same date, says : "Truly I have a great jealousy that if we once begin to sing by rule, the next thing will be to pray by rule, and preach by rule; and then comes Popery," thereby,... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Registry Department - 1905 - 614 pągines
...— that is, by rote or note. " I have great jealousy," said a writer in the "New England Chronicle," "that if we once begin to sing by note, the next thing will be to pray by rote, and then comes popery." Mr. Walter's sermon, "The Sweet Psalmist of Israel," delivered in 1722,... | |
 | William Lines Hubbard - 1908 - 416 pągines
...members of the church for persisting in their singing by rule." The following statement also appears : " If we once begin to sing by note, the next thing will be to pray by rule, and preach by rule." As a general thing, however, the clergy took a decided stand for better music in their respective churches.... | |
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Truly I have a great jealousy, that if we once begin to sing by rule, the next thing will be to pray by rule and preach by rule, and then comes popery. 
