1786 JAMES PEIRCE. A Tractate on Church Music. Boston Church Organ Evil and Unscriptural. Abolition Both these issues had America

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1786 JAMES PEIRCE. A Tractate on Church Music. Boston Church Organ Evil and Unscriptural. Abolition Both these issues had AmericaA very scarce re issue of James Peirce's work on the evils of instruments in divine worship, aimed directly from the divines of London to those in Boston. Prefaced to Rev. Charles Chauncy and RevJohn Clarke, both pastors in 18th century Boston, it was intended to dissuade them from their attempts to install organs and thus "pollute" the worship of God. Peirce, James. A Tractate on Church Music; Being an Extract from the Reverend and Learned Mr.