 | William Lines Hubbard - 1908 - 418 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Jean Carter Cochran - 1922 - 260 pàgines
...congregation sang by note, even though the conservative element still maintained, as one writer put it, "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." This dire prophecy has never yet been fulfilled; to this hour... | |
 | Nicholas E. Tawa - 2001 - 494 pàgines
...An Ephraim Rotewell warns: "The new Singers will bring in Popery upon us before we are aware of it. 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; we must have Common Prayer, Forsooth,... | |
 | 1870 - 558 pàgines
...else than a device of the devil. " Truly," says a writer in " The New-England Chronicle," in 1723, "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." When a man learned to read notes so as to sing a melody he... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1880 - 654 pàgines
...note, and some for the old way by rote. A writer in the New England Chronicle of 1723, says: 'I have great jealousy that if we once begin to sing by note, the next thing will be to pray by rote, and then comes popery.' In 1723 the Rev. Samuel Niles, of Braintrcc, suspended eight members... | |
 | 1925 - 720 pàgines
...that an old error is better than a new truth. A writer in the New England Chronicle 1723, observes: "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." The Two-headed... | |
 | Denes Agay - 1975 - 428 pàgines
...older generation, with deep suspicion. A writer in The New England Chronicle in 1723 put it this way: "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 pop»> ery. In spite... | |
 | 1948 - 396 pàgines
...call it, that we are afraid the new Singers will bring in Popery upon us before we are aware of it. 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; we must have the Common Prayer, forsooth,... | |
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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. 
