Thomas Ravenscroft's Psalter 1621

<p>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</p>