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Originally Posted by Coram Deo  I did say "I Believe", so I did qualified that answer about the URCNA, but I did thought they only sang hymns that are sometimes considered new testament hymns, or the Lukan Hymns, song of mary, etc.. |
Perhaps you received that impression from some of the early Dutch Synods. For instance, the Synod of Dort 1618-19: "In the churches only the 150 Psalms of David shall be sung. The 10 Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Articles of Faith, the Songs of Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon, the hymn 'O God who is our Father', and so on, shall be left in the freedom of the Church, whether they want to use them or not, as they see fit. The rest of the songs shall be taken out of the church, and similarly any which have previously been imported into the church shall be omitted in the most decent way possible."
However, that decision is not considered binding on any contemporary churches descended from Dort. As far as I'm aware the only Reformed churches of Dutch ancestry that practice nearly- or exclusive psalmody are the Free Reformed, the Protestant Reformed and the Netherlands Reformed.
As for the Canadian Reformed, we have 150 Psalms and 65 hymns, arguably closer to the Dort decision than the URCNA with 150 Psalms (in various styles/rhymings, etc.) and 182 hymns.