What Would David Do?

“But on the sudden the Clerk has proposed the next line to your lips with dark sayings and prophecies, burnt offerings or hyssop, with new moons and trumpets and timbrels in it, with Confession of Sins which you never committed, with Complaints of Sorrows you have never felt, cursing such Enemies as you never had, giving Thanks for such Victories as you never obtained…and how have all your souls been discomposed at once!” (p. 127)

Yeah, I hate when that happens too. Watts wanted to express what David would have expressed if he had lived in eighteenth-century England. He was making the case for songs of human composition because David did. After all, what David had only sung the songs of Moses in Exodus 15 and Psalm 90?