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Title: A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody
Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church.

Author: Isaac Watts

Release Date: November 6, 2009 [eBook #30409]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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IMPROVEMENT OF PSALMODY***

E-text prepared by Lewis Jones

Transcriber's note:

This essay was included at the end of the first printing of
Isaac Watts (1707) "Hymns and Spiritual Songs" but was omitted
from the 1818 reprint from which the Project Gutenberg edition
of that work (e-book #13341, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13341)
was transcribed.

The original 1707 page numbers are retained within curly brackets.

The spelling and punctuation of the 1707 printing are also
retained; so are any inconsistencies and errors (e.g. "Excercise"
on p. 265) except that a mistake at the bottom of page 246, as
noted in the publisher's concluding "Errata," has been corrected.

The long 's' has been replaced by its modern equivalent.

Words broken off and hyphenated at the ends of lines have been
joined up and the hyphens deleted.

Italics in the original are indicated by underscores around the
text. Watts uses italics for proper nouns and quotations; when
proper nouns occur within quotations their italics are removed.

Greek letters have been transliterated (e.g. _Psalmos_).

A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody:

Or, An Enquiry how the Psalms of _David_ ought to be translated into
Christian Songs, and how lawful and necessary it is to compose other
Hymns according to the clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of
the Christian Church.

by

Isaac Watts

{233} A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody: Or, An Enquiry
how the Psalms of _David_ ought to be translated