From "Translations and Paraphrases in Verse, of Several Passages of Sacred Scripture" approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1781, appended to the Scottish Metrical Psalter.
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.