An Examination of Authority for Making Uninspired Songs, and for Using Them in the Formal Worship of God.
James Dodson
1871-J.B. Johnston, now a minister in the United Presbyterian Church (of North America), found himself necessitated to defend an inspired Psalmody against the rising tide of modernizers who sought to introduce uninspired human hymnody in the worship of this church. Johnston, born in the Associate (Seceder) Church and, then, raised in the Covenanter Church, there could be nothing used in the worship of God other than the inspired Psalmody of the Scriptures. In this book, he defends an inspired Psalmody without standing on the old Psalter. Setting aside the question this raises about the 1650 Psalter, the arguments Johnston employs for the use of an inspired Psalmody are often creative and helpful. The value of this work is that it contains several important arguments for an inspired Psalmody which are seldom made by its defenders.
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