5. Sing unto the Lord with the harp. Skill in music should not be desecrated to the world’s evil mirth; it
should aid the private devotions of the saint. God’s praises should be
performed in the best possible manner, but their sweetness mainly lies in
spiritual qualities. The concords of faith and repentance, the harmonies of
obedience and love are true music in the ear of the Most High. With the harp. The repetition of the word is highly poetical, and shows that the
daintiest expressions of poetry are none too rich for the praise of God. All
repetitions are not vain repetitions; in sacred song there should be graceful
repeats; they render the sense emphatic, and help to fire the soul; even
preachers go not amiss when they dwell on a word and sound it out again and
again, till dull ears feel its emphasis. And the voice of a psalm, or
with “a musical voice,” as
distinguished from common speech. Our voice has in it many modulations; there
is the voice of conversation, the voice of complaint, the voice of pleading,
the voice of command, and there ought to be with each of us the voice of a
psalm.
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