Well that is a side reason for the promotion of Psalm-singing. That they, unlike our Hymnbooks, force us to sing about all the travails of life, both victory and destruction, unrelenting sadness and unstoppable joy, etc...

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA,
Fairmount ARP Church
Candidate Under Care Pittsburgh Theological Seminary & Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
"In taking this view [the Puritans] understood at once that all the successes of the Reformation were repeatable-as repeatable as the victories of the apostolic age-for Scripture places no limitation upon the Spirit's work of glorifying Christ and extending His Kingdom"
-- Iain H. Murray, The Puritan Hope