The Psalmody of Covenanting Times

Millar Patrick indicates that little evidence exists for the study of the subject.  Noting that Church music (like music in general) in Scotland had reached a very low ebb by these times, he asserts that the blame is not to be laid at the door of the Reformers but was due to “a pestilent type of Puritanism” imported from the South, he nevertheless takes a strongly positive view of the words-only1650 Psalter not only in the life and witness of the Covenanters  but in the spirituality of church and people to his own time