2. Remember to sing David's psalms with David's spirit (Matthew 22:43.)

3. Practise St. Paul's rule—"I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing with the understanding also." (1 Corinthians 14:15.)

4. As you sing uncover your heads (1 Corinthians 11:4), and behave yourselves in comely reverence as in the sight of God, singing to God in God's own words; but be sure that the matter make more melody in your hearts (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16) than the music in your ear; for the singing with grace in our hearts is that which the Lord is delighted withal, according to that old verse:

Non vox, sed votum; non miisica chordula, sed cor:

Non clamans, sed amana, psallit in aure Dei.

Tis not the voice, but vow;

Sound heart, not sounding string;

True zeal, not outward show,

That in God's ear doth ring.

5. Thou mayest, if thou thinkest good, sing all the psalms over in order, for all are most divine and comfortable; but if thou wilt choose some special psalms, as more fit for some times and purposes, and such as, by the oft usage, thy people may the easier commit to memory.

Then sing:

In the morning, Psalm 3.v. xvi. xxii. cxliv. In the evening, Psalm 4.cxxvii. cxli. For mercy after a sin committed, Psalm 51.ciii. In sickness or heaviness, Psalm 6.xiii. lxxxviii. xc. xci. cxxxvii. cxlvi. When thou art recovered, Psalm 30.xxxii. On the Sabbath day, Psalm 19.xcii. xcv. In time of joy, Psalm 80.xcviii. cvii. cxxxvi. cxlv. Before sermon, Psalm 1.xii. cxlvii. the 1st and 5th parts of the cxix. After sermon, any Psalm which concerneth the chief argument of the sermon. At the communion, Psalm 22.xxiii. ciii. cxi. cxvi. For spiritual solace, Psalm 15.xix. xxv. xlvi. lxvii. cxii. cxvi. After wrong and disgrace received, Psalm 42.lxix. lxx. cxl. cxliv.

After the psalm, all kneeling down in a reverent manner, as is before described, let the father of the family, or the chiefest in his absence, pray thus: