Compiled from the Book of Psalms (KJV 1769) and the Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650), with an introduction to each psalm by John Brown of Haddington, a selection of tunes for singing the metrical psalms, and prayers ("collects") upon the psalms from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1595, transliterated by Jonathan Tay from Scots to English.
Inclusion of materials (other than the Bible itself) for their devotional and historic value does not imply wholesale endorsement of their theology or hermeneutics. As with all of Man's writings, they should be used with spiritual discernment.
John Brown of Haddington, like most theologians of his day, appears to have been an adherent of replacement theology (the view that the Christian Church has entirely superseded the nation of Israel in God's covenants). His Dictionary of the Holy Bible suggests that in terms of eschatology, he was a historic premillennialist (see the entry for "Age").
Love for and use of the Metrical Psalter does not imply endorsement of the exclusive psalmody position concerning public worship, which I consider to be erroneous. For a balanced and biblical exploration of the issue, see Iain Murray's print tract The Psalter: The Only Hymnal?, or the hyperlinked digital articles by Peter J. Naylor and Larry Wilson.
Inclusion of materials (other than the Bible itself) for their devotional and historic value does not imply wholesale endorsement of their theology or hermeneutics. As with all of Man's writings, they should be used with spiritual discernment.
The compiler believes that the theological framework most in harmony with the verbally and plenarily inspired and preserved holy scriptures is Protestant, Reformed, Covenantal, pro-Israel ("dispensational") Premillennial, and the best hermeneutical method is historico-grammatico-literal, with attention to plain sense, context, context and context, by a Spirit-filled believer in Christ's inerrant and infallible Word. A comprehensive and readable systematic theology embodying this tradition is Timothy Tow and Jeffrey Khoo's Theology for Every Christian.