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Psalms Alone.   When Sola Scriptura (scripture alone) is applied to worship, Sola Psalmis or (Psalms alone) is the result.

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The only reason we sing is because God commanded it.  Where do we find this in the New Testament?

“…be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16).

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Jesus and the apostles used the Septuagint (the Greek Translation of the Hebrew) as the bible of their day. The Septuagint reads:

Psalm 4 – For the End, a Song of David among the Psalms.
Psalm 5 – For the End, a Psalm of David…
Psalm 6 – For the End, a Psalm of David among the Hymns…

The Hymns and spiritual (or inspired) Songs were simply subcategories of the Psalms.

I hope that wasn’t too difficult for you… 🙂

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“No psalms composed by private individuals nor any uncanonical books may be read in the church, but only the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testaments.”

That means it is as wrong to preach on the Apocrypha as it is to sing anything but the inspired Psalms of God.

The great Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (AD 451)

affirmed the Canons of the Council of Laodicea for the entire Church, the Bride of Christ prohibiting everything but the inspired Psalms of God to be sung in worship.

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Sola Psalmis is the position of the Bible as interpreted and applied by the councils and creeds of Christ’s Bride, the church over the past 2000 years.   It is distinguished from the exclusive psalmody crowd who have departed from the position of the councils in singing the Psalms – forbidding the Psalms to be sung with instruments.

The ecumencial council of the Synod of Dordt (AD 1618) commissioned a new Bible and Commentary in Dutch.   In 1645 the Westminster Assembly commissioned the translation of this commentary into English.   It is the only Bible Commentary to receive the approval of two major councils of Christ’s Bride defining what are the fundamental doctrines for the Christian Church in their faith and practice.

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This Dordt-Westminster commentary repeats the Biblical worship decrees of Laodicea and Chalcedon to sing only the inspired Psalms of the Bible.   It’s commentary on Ephesians 5:19 instructs:

“These three sorts of spiritual singing serve one end: namely to recreate the spirit and are in this way distinguished: Psalms are all kinds of spiritual songs which are exercised not only with the voice, but also with the stringed instruments, of music. Hymns: thanksgiving to God and metrical celebration of God’s grace towards us. Spiritual songs: such as contain all manner of spiritual doctrines — see Colossians 3:16). And these several names seem to be taken from the several inscriptions of the Psalms of David.[They are to be sung] not only with the tongue or instruments but also with the heart” (https://bijbel-statenvertaling.com/authorised-version-annotated/ephesians/5/#19)

We again find the clear teaching that Paul’s definition and meaning of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Ephesians and Colossians, are, in fact, the 150 Psalms of the Bible.    They are to be sung with with thanksgiving in the heart AND with instruments.

This is the Biblical Confessional position of Sola Psalmis.

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Read the Dordt-Westminster commentary on Psalm 150:

“An exhortation to praise the holiness, power and kindness of God, with all manner of musical instruments, and with the voice also” (https://bijbel-statenvertaling.com/authorised-version-annotated/psalms/150/#1)

Again we see the obvious instruction of Psalm 150 that is also the position of the councils of Christ’s body, that the Psalms alone are to be sung with all manner of musical instruments.   Oh, and with the voice also.

This simply follows the pattern of Psalm 150 which first emphasizes the praising of God with  instruments and ends with the exhortation ‘Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord'”

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