Here are two brief but forceful works by the famous American Puritan John Cotton. On Psalmody, Cotton addresses the duty of singing Psalms with a lively voice, touching also on those called to sing them and the manner in which they are to be sung. The second piece is Cotton’s defense of the Christian Sabbath.

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John Cotton (December 29, 1585 – December 23, 1652) was a principal among the New England Puritan ministers, who also included Thomas Hooker, Increase Mather (who became his son-in-law), John Davenport, and Thomas Shepard and John Norton, who wrote his first biography. Cotton was the grandfather of Cotton Mather, who was named after him.