I highly recommend John Price's new book "Old Light on New Worship" concerning this topic. I recently took a course at RPTS on Worship and was quite convicted by this nice tome. Also recommend Girardeau's "Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church"

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

Good books.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

You might try out our search feature on those names and titles; there have been some extended discussion about that subject, as well as psalmody, and the regulative principle of worship (RPW) generally.

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Chris Coldwell, Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Dallas, Texas.
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The Regulative Principle: The Scriptures are the “only infallible rule of faith and practice, no rite or ceremony ought to have a place in the public worship of God, which is not warranted in Scripture, either by direct precept or example, or by good and sufficient inference” (Samuel Miller).

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Besides the aforementioned, also see:

Robert Nevin, Instrumental Music in the Christian Worship
James Begg, Anarchy in Worship (including his father's treatise)
Brian Schwertley, Musical Instruments in the Public Worship of God

Books on Worship
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Andrew

I can see you are the man to go to with book questions

No kidding. I joined PB six months ago and am blown away daily by our brother's bibliographic mastery. He is the Jedi Master of books, at least those of Reformed theology and Puritan provenance.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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Oh my library still has books I acquired when I was still on the dark side. For references purposes, anyway.

Hey, Andrew, what are the volumes beside you in your avatar?

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Donald P. Grubb
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Berean Baptist Church, Mansfield, OH
Mansfield, OH

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

complete collection of the hardy boys

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Joe
Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte
SC

Actually, that would be (from the Puritan Resource Center in Grand Rapids, MI) the Works of William Perkins (3 volumes); The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible: viz. God’s Covenants with Man and Clavis Bibliorum, The Key of the Bible, unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures by Francis Roberts; and Naaman the Syrian, his disease and cure by Daniel Rogers.

But are the works of William Perkins only 3 volumes? I thought there were more.

It was published early on as three volumes. The forthcoming RHB edition is supposed to be six volumes.

When is it coming out?

In the thread above, I posted the last update that I've heard about it: Feb/March '08 for the first volume. Hopefully, any day now.

The great thing about the works of Perkins in his Avitar is that it is the works of William Perkins that was owned by Charles Spurgeon (it has his seal on the inside) then it was owned by Arthur Pink and it is filled with side notes by Pink.

Very interesting piece of Reformed history.

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