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These are the songs of God which the catholic Church of God sings. These are what this our assembly performs even with the sound of the voice: these not only do not loosen the singer, but rather strengthen him. These songs please God, where all that is done looks to the glory of the Creator. Rightly does the same prophet exhort all men and all things to the praise of God who governs all things, saying: Let every spirit praise the Lord (Ps. 150:6). Promising himself also as a praiser, he said: I will praise the name of the Lord with a song, and I will magnify him with praise (Ps. 68:31). Praise the Lord in your life, offer to God the sacrifice of praise for your soul and your life, and through it is shown to you in your soul whereby you may attain to his salvation.
Praise sent up from a pure conscience delights our Lord, as the same hymn-writer exhorts, saying: Praise the Lord, for the psalm is good; let praise to our God be joyous and comely (Ps. 146:1). Bearing this knowledge, knowing this office to be pleasing to God, the same Psalmist testifies: Seven times a day have I given praise to thee (Ps. 118:164). And he promises yet something more: And my tongue, he says, shall meditate on thy justice, thy praise all the day long (Ps. 34:28). For he felt, without doubt, the benefit from such a work, as he himself recalling says: Praising I will call upon the Lord, and I shall be saved from my enemies (Ps. 17:4).