Excerpt from A Defence of the Book of Psalms, Collected Into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others: With Critical Observations on the Late New Version, Compar'd With the Old Old singing-pfilmr. Defence of that, which hath been ufed in their own, and all the parilh-churches in England, Time out of Mind. But they, perhaps, may lookupon it as ftanding up on fo firm a Bottom, that ail Attempts againfi: it will, in a fhort Time, come to nothing And I am much of the fame Mind: Yet neverthelefs, hoping that it, may do fome Service to the Church, or, at leafi, lhevv my Good-will to it, I {hall endea vour to recolleet and put in or der, fome of the Objervatian: that I have made upon each'ver'o lion, efpecially'the Old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.