| 1811 - 566 pages
...pronounced against complex tunes and anthems. ' The repeating of the same words so often, they say, and especially while another is repeating other words, (the horrid abuse which runs through the modern church music,) as it shocks all common sense, so it necessarily brings on dead formality, and has no... | |
| Arminianism - 1863 - 1198 pages
...sing devoutly. The repeating the same words so often, (but especially while another repeats different words, the horrid abuse which runs through the modern...it necessarily brings in dead formality, and has no more of religion in it than a Lancashire hornpipe. Besides that, it is aflat contradiction to our Lord's... | |
| Samuel Warren - Methodism - 1827 - 1048 pages
...devoutly. The repeating the same words so often, (but especially while another is 'repeating different words, the horrid abuse which runs through the modern...it necessarily brings in dead formality, and has no more of religion in it than a Lancashire hornpipe. Besides, it is a flat contradiction to our Lord's... | |
| Christian life - 1842 - 506 pages
...sing devoutly. The repeating the same words so often, but especially while another repeats different words, (the horrid abuse which runs through the modern...it necessarily brings in dead formality, and has no more of religion in it than a Lancashire hornpipe. Beside that, it is a flat contradiction to our Lord's... | |
| Henry Wilkinson Williams - Methodism - 1881 - 398 pages
...asking the people, " Now, do you know what you said last ? Did you speak no more than you felt ? " ' Is not formality in singing creeping in, singing those...words, (the horrid abuse which runs through the modern Church music,) as it shocks all common sense, so it necessarily brings in dead formality, and has no... | |
| Nicholas Temperley - Music - 1979 - 496 pages
...maintained that 'the repeating the same word so often (but especially while another repeats different words - the horrid abuse which runs through the modern church-music) as it shocks common sense, so it necessarily brings in dead formality and has no more of religion in it than a Lancashire... | |
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