Status Updates From The Songs of Zion

I am reading the 4th edition, which is not listed on goodreads. Excellent introduction and chapter on the sufficiency and superiority of the Psalter before addressing arguments from the Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW).

On the sufficiency and superiority of the Psalter as opposed to uninspired man-made hymns, Bushell’s argument is very straightforward. We have an inspired songbook, that songbook is about Christ according to Jesus and the NT authors, we are commanded to sing that songbook and are not commanded to compose our own songs for worship.

Bushell asserts in the introduction that being convinced of exclusive psalmody often begins in the heart rather than the mind. When a person begins singing the Psalms regularly, he wonders why anyone would ever want to sing anything else in worship.