11. Being full of gratitude himself, our inspired author
is eager to excite others to join the strain. Singing and preaching, as means
of glorifying God, are here joined together; connected with all revivals of
Gospel ministry there has been a sudden outburst of the spirit of song.
Luther’s psalms and hymns were in everyone’s mouths, and under Wesley and
Whitefield the strains of Charles Wesley, Cennick, Berridge, Toplady, Hart,
Newton, and many others were the outgrowth of restored piety. Sing on,
brethren, and preach on, and these shall both be a token that the Lord still dwellethin Zion. It will be well for us when coming up to Zion to remember that the
Lord dwells among his saints, and is to be had in peculiar reverence of all
those that are about him.
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