h belong to all men in their relation to
God.

Over all these endeavours to use the Psalms properly in the Praise part
of our Services, the ruling idea is that which we have already stated,
viz. that God in these things is to be glorified.

[1] A practice is found, in some churches, of singing this Psalm on
Sundays but not when it is read in the ordinary course of the Psalms.
We believe that this is due to a misinterpretation of the Rubric.
There is just as much reason for singing it on the 19th as on any other
day.

[2] _Dict. of Chr. Antiq_. "Psalmody." H. J. Hotham.

[3] The "division of the Hebrews" (see Note in Preface on the Order of
the Psalter) is followed in our Prayer Book and Bible. The Septuagint
and Vulgate unite Psalms ix. and x. and divide cxlvii. into two psalms,
viz. _vv._ 1-11, _vv._ 12-20.

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CHAPTER VI.

PRAISE.

II. The Lessons.

A. The Study of the Bible a help to worship.

The Bible is read in Church as an incentive to the praise of God. It
supplies thoughts of God which are then offered up to Him, as Praise,
in the words of the Canticles. It is therefore necessary that we
should _understand_ the Bible Lessons as well as our abilities will
allow, and that we should _endeavour_ to find in those Lessons
everything which will inspire us to honour and love God.

There are two distinct requirements. A book may help us to
_understand_, but the _endeavour_ to find God in the Bible depends on
ourselves: our Lord has described it in the words _He that hath ears to
hear let him hear_.

In order to understand the Bible when we hear it read, we should study
it at home. Some elementary aids to the study of it may be useful
here; for further help we shall want books specially prepared for that
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Cambridge Bible for Schools, &c.

1. The Old Testament and the New Testament agree together: they have
the same principles of morality, worship and doctrine. God's guidance
of the writers is seen in this--the Old Testament, written at different
times in the centuries before our Lord was Born, was such that the
Gospel of the Revelation in Jesus was able to fit into it. As S.
Augustine says,

"Novum Testamentum in Vetere latet,
Vetus Testamentum in Novo patet."

See also Article VII.

2. The failure of man to live well is shown in the Old Testament.
Though he had favourable conditions and a holy law of life,