James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
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Footnites
... us being the character of the music; so that we should require musical illustration,
for though the common distinction between sacred and secular music is in ...
/.../bridges/a practical discourse on some principles of hymn-singing/footnites.htm

Ambrosian Church Music
... [3]. In course of time, however, there is no doubt that Church music had become
deteriorated by the introduction of a more secular style, and that this was one ...
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A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing
... Ambrose introduced it, much akin to the secular music of the day, if it was not
directly borrowed from it: and the history of hymn-music is a history of the ...
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Church Music
... Germany, and though harmonized by Eccard, was based on a secular air, as ... voices or
for organ accompaniment; while compared with the Gregorian music which had ...
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Conclusion
... If they had, we are unacquainted with them. It is fair to assume that secular
poetry and music eventually exerted an influence upon hymnody. ...
/.../messenger/christian hymns of the first three centuries/vii conclusion.htm

Introduction.
... Unrhythmical singing could not always hold its own; and when polyphonic music came
into public favor, secular airs gradually found their way into the choirs. ...
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Missionary Hymns.
... He was associated with Root, McGranahan, and others in making secular and church
music books, and later with DL Moody in evangelical work. ...
/.../brown/the story of the hymns and tunes/chapter iv missionary hymns.htm

Dignity of the Scripture Language.
... Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills ...
will forgive me, and consider that I speak as a mere secular man, impartially ...
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The Early Dawn of German Sacred Poetry and Song. AD 800-900
... The very genius of the people"its inborn love for music, especially for part-singing ...
their gift in the service of religion as well as in secular ways; though ...
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Martin Luther
... as he calls it, he studied the old stores of church music, with which ... hymns, others
of German origin"whether sacred, or, in some cases, secular"were thus ...
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