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The Bay Psalm-Book. This tract thoroughly considered the duty of singing, the matter sung, the singers, and the manner of singing, and, like all the literature of the time, was full of Biblical allusion and quotation. It had been said that
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Cotton fully answered and contradicted these false reasoners, who would have had to face a revolution had they attempted to keep the Puritan women from singing in meeting. The tract abounds in quaint expressions, such as,
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Though he wrote this tract to encourage good singing in meeting, his endorsement of
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gave support to the very element that soon ruined the singing. His reasons, however, were temporarily good,