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Metrical Order

Metrical Order. For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. I Corinthians 14:33.

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Metrical Order

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  1. Metrical Order For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. I Corinthians 14:33 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:19

  2. Psalms Hymns Spiritual Songs

  3. “A Psalm only read is very much like prayer that is only looked over. Singing Psalms awakes all that is good and holy within you, calling your spirits to their proper duty, setting you in your best posture toward heaven, and tuning all the powers of your soul to worship and adoration.” William Law Is any merry? Let him sing psalms. James 5:13 Metrical Psalm Singing was the routine by the time a man came onto the scene named Isaac Watts.

  4. Isaac Watts 1674-1748 English pastor, preacher, poet, and hymn writer. Wrote hundreds of Psalms & 600 hymns. Considered the founder of English hymnody and children's hymnody. Published books of poetry, hymns, and three volumes of theological discourses. His desire: “…to accommodate the Book of Psalms to Christian worship.”

  5. Immediately after the Protestant Reformation, hymns versus Psalms became an issue. The Lutherans and Moravians began to develop a rich tradition of hymns in the vernacular – the common language. The Calvinists maintained that God had provided His people with a set of inspired hymns in the Holy Scripture, chiefly in the Psalms and that is was not for us to set about to write our own. The conflict stayed until, in 1674, Isaac Watts was born in Southampton, England. His family was involved in Dissenters, or Non-Conformists (Protestants who did not think that the Church of England had departed sufficiently from the beliefs and practices of Rome.) Childhood story of his rhyming His dad’s challenge was accepted as 20-22 years old

  6. Watt’s own response to his critics: “If we can pray to God in sentences that we have made up ourselves, instead of confining ourselves to the “Our Father” and other prayers taken directly from the Scriptures, then surely we can sing to God in sentences that we have made up ourselves.” “Psalms do not deal with specifically Christian themes except in hidden language, and it is fitting that Christians should include in their worship open and clear proclamations of the acts of God in Christ.”

  7. “I grant it necessary and proper, that in translating every part of the Scriptures for our hearing or reading, the sense of the original should be exactly and faithfully represented; for we learn what God says in His Word!” Isaac Watts Therefore, his works were an interpretation, not a translation! After 19 years, his first work with Psalms was completed in 1719 called: The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. “May that God, who has favoured me with life and capacity to this this work for the service of His churches, after so many years of tiresome sickness and confinement, accept this humble offering from a thankful heart.” “May the Lord, who dwelt of old amidst the praises of Israel, encourage and bless this essay to assist Christians in the work of praise.” “May His churches exalt Him on earth in the language of His Gospel and His grace, till they shall be called up to heaven, and the noble society above!”

  8. As a result of Isaac Watts’ works, here is what early America had in the early hymn books. Along with common hymn titles, there was a…

  9. Tune Index

  10. Metrical Index

  11. Metrical Index

  12. Metrical Index

  13. Psalm 98 First, let’s read it from Scriptures… Then how Isaac Watts paraphrased it… 8 Joy to the world! The Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room And heav’n and nature sing! No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found! 6 8 6 Joy to the world! The Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, Rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy! He rules the world with truth & grace And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness And wonders of His love!

  14. We know the meter is Common Meter – 8 6 8 6 Now let’s pick a tune for Psalm 98 that matches 8 6 8 6…

  15. Metrical Index

  16. We know the meter is Common Meter – 8 6 8 6 So, now let’s pick a tune for Psalm 98 that matches 8 6 8 6 and let’s sing the words to these tunes… Tune Index Coronation(531 – All Hail the Power) StAgnes (377 – Jesus! The Very Thought of Thee) Maitland(217 – Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?) CleansingFountain(41 – There Is A Fountain) (55 – At the Cross) AmazingGrace (3 – Amazing Grace) Arlington (132 – Am I A Soldier of the Cross) No Other Plea (294 – No Other Plea) Antioch(137 – Joy to the World) Now, when you are done singing “Joy to the World” to these tunes, go back and sing the words from those same hymns to the tune of Joy to the World!

  17. NO! FINAL THOUGHT: Can we use Isaac Watts’ own philosophy for our ‘new’ music in the churches today? Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Ephesians 5:19 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.Isaiah 23:16 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.Isaiah 51:3

  18. Today’s music is geared for the flesh through rhythm, not melody! (and that, my friends, is another sermon!)

  19. The End!

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