Thomas Sternhold
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English courtier and the principal author of the first English metrical version of the Psalms
Books
The Book of Psalmes
This is the Psalter which Queen Elizabeth called a book of "Geneva jigs," and which the Earl of Rochester said would have made King David mad. It was used by the Established Church of England until 1698, and Bishop Jewel says it was a common thing for as many as six thousand persons to be found singing its Psalms at St. Paul's Cross in London.
The whole booke of Dauids Psalmes collected into English metre, by T. Sternh. I. Hopk. W. Whittingham and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apte notes to sing them withall. Newly set forth and allowed to bee song in all churches, of all the people togither before and after morning and euening prayer, as also before and after sermons: moreouer, in priuate houses for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all vngoldly songes and balades, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and
Selections from the old & new versions of the Psalms of David by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, & others ... /c by a Presbyter of the United Church of England and Ireland
The Old and New Testaments
How, if at all, is the New Testament related to the Old? Does the traditional view of the Old Testament as promise and the New Testament as fulfillment still hold? Why are religious services organized so that there are readings from both the Old and the New Testaments? How can we understand the relationship between the testaments in a way that celebrates the similarities and differences between Jews and Christians?