Andrew Mulford
Of the praise, virtue, and efficacy of the Psalms. The Kingly Prophet David, Psalm 47.6. Sayeth; O sing praises, sing praises unto our God, O sing praises, sing praises unto our King: Sing praises with understanding. Again, Psalm 95.2. Let us show ourselves glad in him with Psalms. And good reason have we to sing cheerfully unto God, for the Angels join their presence and congratulation with the singer devotion, as the same Psalmist singeth, Psalm 138. In conspectus angelorum psallam tibi; Even before the Gods will I sing praise unto thee: Wherefore we ought diligently to take heed, that by our idleness, negligence, and want of practice, we cause not the Angels to depart from us. And indeed there is no mortal man which can express in words, or conceive in thought, the virtues of the Psalms, and the praises of the Lord, if with a pure and serious attention of the heart they shall be performed as they ought to be. Thomas Ravenscroft 1621
