TylerRay
Puritan Board Graduate
If the issue is whether we are to sing Psalms, then I agree (and I agree that we are indeed commanded to do so!). However, if the issue is the manner in which we are to obey that command and whether there is room in that obedience for the inclusion of "hymns" derived from the "ideas" of the Psalms but using different words (which I do believe is the intent of the OP), then the metrical adaptation would seem to be at the heart of the issue.
Rev. Curtis,
Do you believe that we can replace the reading of Scripture with the reading of mere human compositions closely based on the scripture, and still remain faithful to the command to read the Scriptures publicly?