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<P>Scripture Proof FOR SINGING of Scripture P&s;alms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: OR, An An&s;wer to &s;everal Queries and Objections frequently made u&s;e of to &s;tumble and turn a&s;ide young Chri&s;tians from their Duty to God in Singing of P&s;alms. <HI>Gathered out of the Scriptures of Truth.</HI> To which is added The Te&s;timony of &s;ome Learned Men, to prove that Scripture-P&s;alms are intend|ed by all tho&s;e three words, <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns</HI> and <HI>Songs,</HI> u&s;ed by the Apo&s;tle <HI>Eph. 5. 19. Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 16. By <HI>E. H.</HI></P>
<Q>&mdash;<HI>Sing Prai&s;e unto the Lord with the words of Da|vid and of A&s;aph the Seer,</HI>
<BIBL>2 Chron. 29. 30.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>With the Voice together &s;hall they &s;ing, for they &s;hall &s;ee eye to eye&mdash;break forth into joy, &s;ing together,
<BIBL>I&s;a. 52. 8, 9.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>Prai&s;e the Lord all ye Gentiles, and laud him all ye People,
<BIBL>Rom. 15. 11.</BIBL></Q>
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<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>THis Author is by Face wholly unknown to us; but we have with much &s;atisfa|ction and delight peru&s;ed his en&s;uing Treati&s;e, finding it to be &s;olid and judicious, and full of Scripture-light and &s;trength, and &s;ingularly adapted and &s;uited to enlighten and e&s;tabli&s;h plain Chri&s;tians, who&s;e Con&s;ciences are de|termined by, and Faith bottomed on the <HI>Scriptures.</HI></P>
<P>As to his Opinion, that nothing &s;hould be &s;ung in Publick Wor&s;hip but <HI>Scripture</HI> P&s;alms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, thereby ex|cluding Hymns of <HI>humane</HI> compo&s;ure by a private Gift, which &s;ome &s;ing in their &s;olemn A&s;&s;emblies; We do freely concur with him; and heartily wi&s;h that tho&s;e who practi&s;e other|wi&s;e, would a little better con&s;ider what they do. We know not any thing that &s;uch can alledge for their way, &s;eeing God hath fur|ni&s;hed us with &s;uch a full &s;upply of Spiritu|tual Songs of his own inditing, and &s;eeing there is not any intimation in the Scripture that it was ever practi&s;ed among the People of God of old.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Nathanael Mather, I&s;aac Chauncy.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Scripture Proof FOR SINGING OF Scripture P&s;alms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. OR, An ANSWER to &s;everal Queries and Objections frequently made by tho&s;e who are again&s;t Singing of P&s;alms.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>WHat Rule have ye for Singing of P&s;alms?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> The Scriptures: Pray be plea&s;ed to turn to, and con&s;ider well tho&s;e places of Scrip|ture under-written, and you &s;hall need no more
<PB N="2" REF="4"> to ask for a <HI>Rule</HI> for Singing of P&s;alms, if <HI>God's Word</HI> may (with you) be admitted for a <HI>Rule.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Exo. 15. 1, 21. Numb. 21. 17. Judg. 5. 1, 2, 3. 2 Sam. 22. 50. 1 Chron. 16. 7, 8, 9, 23. 2 Chron. 7. 3. P&s;al.</HI> 7. 17. and 9. 1, 2, 11. and 13. 6. and 18. 49. and 21. 13. and 27. 6. and 28. 7. and 30. 4, 12. and 47. 6, 7. and 51. 14. and 61. 8. and 66. 1, 2, 4, 8. and 67. 3, 4, 5. and 68. 4, 32. and 69. 30. and 59. 16, 17. and 57. 7, 9, 10. and 75. 9. and 81. 1. and 89. 1. and 92. 1, 2. and 95. 1, 2, 3. and 96. 1, 2, 3, 4. and 98. 1, 4, 5. and 100. 2. and 101. 1. and 104. 33. and 105. 2. and 106. 12. and 108. 1, 2, 3. and 111. 1. and 119. 54. and 135. 1, 2, 3. and 138. 1, 2, 5. and 145. 7. and 146. 1, 2. and 147. 1. and 149. 1. <HI>Prov. 29. 6. I&s;a.</HI> 5. 1. and 12. 4, 5, 6. and 24. 14, 15, 16. and 26. 1. and 27. 2. and 35. 10. and 38. 20. and 42. 10, 11, 12. and 51. 11. and 52. 8, 9. and 54. 1. and 65. 14. <HI>Jerem. 31. 7, 12. Ho&s;. 2. 15. Zeph. 3. 14. Zech. 2. 10. Ezra 3. 10, 11. Neh. 12. 42, 43, 46. Matth. 26. 30. Mark 14. 26. Acts 16. 25. Rom. 15. 9, 10, 11. 1 Cor. 14. 15. Eph. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16. Heb. 2. 12. Jam. 5. 13. Revel.</HI> 5. 9. and 15. 3. and 19. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.</P>
<P>Here ye &s;ee what <HI>Rule</HI> we have for <HI>&s;inging of P&s;alms:</HI> Now pray con&s;ider what <HI>Rule</HI> you have for your oppo&s;ing of this <HI>Ordinance,</HI> or for neg|lecting of it, when it is &s;o abundantly exhorted to, and pre&s;&s;ed in the Scriptures.</P>
<P>But if ye judge that the&s;e and the like Scrip+tures are not a &s;ufficient <HI>Rule</HI> for Singing o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> P&s;alms, then what do you think was the De+&s;ign
<PB N="3" REF="4"> of the Holy Gho&s;t in writing them? Sure|ly ye will not &s;ay, it was that all the Churches (except a few <HI>Antipaedo-bapti&s;ts</HI>) &s;hould be de|ceived by them, and &s;o led into <HI>Popery,</HI> (for &s;o you term Singing of P&s;alms) this were Bla&s;phe|my to affirm; but ye have not &s;o learned Chri&s;t. When &s;ome of tho&s;e Scriptures in the Old Te|&s;tament were brought for a <HI>Rule</HI> for &s;inging of P&s;alms, to avoid their force (becau&s;e ye could not an&s;wer them) you put them by, &s;aying, The&s;e are Old Te&s;tament Texts, and we mu&s;t not go to the Old Te&s;tament for <HI>Wor&s;hip:</HI> Which is your Second <HI>Objection.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>We mu&s;t not go to the Old Te&s;tament for Wor&s;hip.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> If this were true, yet what will ye do with the Texts in the New Te&s;tament, that are &s;o plain and full for &s;inging of P&s;alms? But to prove that we may, and ought to go to the Old Te&s;tament for <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> the Holy Gho&s;t &s;aith expre&s;ly, <HI>What&s;oever things were written afore time,</HI> (which mu&s;t be meant of the Old Te&s;tament) <HI>were written for our learning,</HI> Rom. 15. 4. And bids us <HI>behold I&s;rael after the fle&s;h,</HI> 1 Cor. 10. 18. And &s;aith, that (not only the New Te&s;tament, but) <HI>all Scripture is given by In&s;piration of God, and is</HI> (he &s;aith not <HI>was,</HI> but <HI>is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rofitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correcti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in&s;truction in righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> 2 Tim. 3. 16. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>have</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>and the Prophets, let them hear <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">&mdash;if they hear not</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>and the Prophets, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nher will they be per&s;waded though one aro&s;e from
<PB N="4" REF="5"> the dead,</HI> Luk. 16. 29, 31. <HI>Bind up the Te&s;timo|ny, Seal the Law among my Di&s;ciples. To the Law and to the Te&s;timony, if they &s;peak not according to this Word, it is becau&s;e there is no light in them,</HI> I&s;a. 8. 16, 20.</P>
<P>If you are not to go to the Old Te&s;tament for <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> then ye are not <HI>under the Law to Chri&s;t,</HI> as the Law is a Rule of Life: For the fir&s;t Table concerns <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> and you cannot go to that as a Rule without going to it <HI>as a Rule of Wor&s;hip:</HI> Neither can ye be obliged to, or en|couraged in the Duty of Prayer, (or any other Duty to God) by any of the Precepts or Pro|mi&s;es in the Old Te&s;tament, if you are not to go to them for <HI>Wor&s;hip.</HI> Thus to maintain one Error you run into another, and do as <HI>Ephra|im,</HI> of whom the Lord complaineth, <HI>Ho&s;. 8. 12. I have written to him the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a &s;trange thing.</HI></P>
<P>Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles did go to the Old Te&s;tament for <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> Mat. 4. 10. 2 <HI>Cor. 6. 16, 17. 1 Cor.</HI> 10. from the fir&s;t to the twelfth <HI>Ver&s;e,</HI> al&s;o the <HI>18th. 19th.</HI> and <HI>20th. Ver&s;es,</HI> Rom. 15. 9, 10, 11, <HI>Ver&s;es,</HI> are quoted from three &s;e|veral places in the Old Te&s;tament, and all for &s;inging too.</P>
<P>And &s;ome have ob&s;erved, that the <HI>Antipaedo|bapti&s;ts</HI> them&s;elves, when they Preach about the Duty of Prayer, or when they keep publick Fa&s;ts, do make more u&s;e of Old Te&s;tament Texts, and le&s;s of the New than many others do; which proves (when it is for their turn) they will make u&s;e of the Old Te&s;tament for
<PB N="5" REF="5"> <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> as much as others; only upon a pinch, to maintain either of their two <HI>Errours,</HI> they will deny going to the Old Te&s;tament for <HI>Wor|&s;hip,</HI> as hath been often ob&s;erved: But Old Te|&s;tament Proofs will &s;till remain to be good New Te&s;tament Rules in this, as well as in ma|ny other Ca&s;es; for <HI>the Scriptures cannot be bro|ken,</HI> John 10. 35. Therefore <HI>believe his Prophets, &s;o &s;hall ye pro&s;per,</HI> 2 Chron. 20. 20, 21.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Where do ye prove that &s;inging of P&s;alms was practi&s;ed in the New Te&s;tament?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer. 1. We &s;hall prove from the Exhorta|tions and Precepts delivered by way of Prophe&s;ie in the Old Te&s;tament, that it was the Duty of the Churches under the New Te&s;tament to &s;ing P&s;alms;</HI> and that is enough for our purpo&s;e. 2. <HI>Shew that the Spirit of God did give forth &s;everal Songs in the New Te&s;tament. 3. That this Ordinance of &s;ing|ing is commanded in the New Te&s;tament. 4. That in the New Te&s;tament we have &s;everal directions given us how to &s;ing. 5. An account that they did &s;ing in the New Te&s;tament.</HI> All which to|gether will make up a full demon&s;tration of the point in hand.</P>
<P>1&s;t. <HI>The Gentile Churches under the New Te&s;ta|ment are in the prophe&s;ies exhorted and commanded to &s;ing,</HI> I&s;a. 54. 1. <HI>Sing, O barren! thou that did&s;t not bear, break forth into &s;inging,</HI> &amp;c. I&s;a. 35. 2. <HI>Rejoyce even with joy and &s;inging,</HI> ver. 6. <HI>The tongue of the dumb &s;hall &s;ing,</HI> ver. 10. <HI>They &s;hall come to Sion with &s;ongs,</HI> Zach. 2. 10, 11. <HI>Sing and rejoyce, O Daughter of Zion,</HI> &amp;c. I&s;a. 24. 14, 15, 16. <HI>They &s;hall lift up their voice, they &s;hall &s;ing for the Maje&s;ty
<PB N="6" REF="6"> of the Lord, from the uttermo&s;t parts of the Earth have we heard &s;ongs, even Glory to the righteous,</HI> I&s;a. 42. 10, 11, 12. <HI>Sing unto the Lord a new &s;ong, and his prai&s;e from the end of the Earth,&mdash;let the Inhabitants of the Rock &s;ing,&mdash;let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his prai&s;e in the I&s;lands,</HI> I&s;a. 52. 7, 8, 9. <HI>With the voice together &s;hall they &s;ing&mdash;break forth into joy, &s;ing together,</HI> &amp;c. Ho&s;. 2. 15. <HI>and &s;he &s;hall &s;ing there.</HI></P>
<P>The Church is commanded to &s;ing Prai&s;e, up|on the occa&s;ion of Chri&s;t's a&s;cending to Heaven <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;urely that mu&s;t be in New-Te&s;tament-times&punc; <HI>P&s;al. 47. 5. God is gone up with a &s;hout, the Lord with the &s;ound of a Trumpet:</HI> Upon this five times ove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> are we commanded (in the two next ver&s;es) to &s;ing Prai&s;es; 6, 7. ver. <HI>Sing prai&s;es to God, &s;ing prai&s;es; &s;ing prai&s;es unto our King, &s;ing prai&s;es; for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> God is the King of all the Earth, &s;ing ye prai&s;es wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> under&s;tanding;</HI> ver. 8. <HI>God reigneth over the Hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+then,</HI> (for now they were converted pre&s;ently after Chri&s;t's a&s;cen&s;ion) <HI>ver.</HI> 9. (Margin) <HI>th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> voluntary of the people are gathered unto the peopl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the God of Abraham, for the &s;hields of the Earth belong unto God, he is greatly exalted.</HI></P>
<P>And <HI>in P&s;al. 68. ver. 4. Sing unto God, &s;ing prai&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to his name, extol him;</HI> (who?) <HI>him that ridet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon the Heavens:</HI> If you can't &s;ee that this i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;t's A&s;cending, look to the <HI>18th. ver. Thou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ha&s;t a&s;cended on high, thou ha&s;t led captivity cap+tive, thou ha&s;t received Gifts for men, for the re+bellious al&s;o,</HI> (&s;inners of the Gentiles) compa+red with <HI>Eph.</HI> 4. 8. upon this again we are ex+horted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">ing, <HI>ver. 32, 33. Sing unto God ye King|doms
<PB N="7" REF="6"> of the Earth,</HI> (which mu&s;t be the <HI>Gentiles,</HI> and under the New Te&s;tament too, for they were not converted before) <HI>O &s;ing prai&s;es unto the Lord, to him that rideth upon the Heaven of Heavens:</HI> The <HI>1&s;t.</HI> ver. and the 17, 18, 19, 20. ver&s;es of this <HI>P&s;alm,</HI> if well con&s;idered, together with <HI>Eph.</HI> 4. 8. make it plain that he who is here &s;aid to be <HI>Riding on the Heavens,</HI> is <HI>Je&s;us, the Captain of our &s;alvation;</HI> accompanied with many thou&s;ands of the Holy Angels, a&s;cending up to Heaven in Triumph, after his mighty Victory obtained for us, over Sin, Hell and Death, and upon which occa&s;ion it is that we are thus exhorted to &s;ing Prai&s;es to him, and which lays an everla&s;ting Obligation upon us to do it, <HI>&V;s Gentiles,</HI> under the New Te&s;tament as is further clear from the <HI>31&s;t. ver&s;e,</HI> con&s;idered together with <HI>ver. 32, 33. Prin|ces &s;hall come out of Egypt, Ethiopia &s;hall &s;oon</HI> (&s;oon after Chri&s;t's A&s;cen&s;ion) <HI>&s;tretch out her hands unto God,</HI> (that is be converted) then follows this Ex|hortation to the&s;e <HI>Gentiles, Sing unto God ye King|doms of the Earth, O &s;ing prai&s;es unto the Lord, to him that rideth upon the Heavens,</HI> &amp;c. And we have a remarkable In&s;tance of the Conver&s;ion of an <HI>Ethiopian,</HI> &s;oon after Chri&s;t's A&s;cen&s;ion, (<HI>Acts</HI> 8. 26. to the end of the Chapter) as the fir&s;t frui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the fulfilling of this Prophe&s;ie in the Let|ter of it: It is al&s;o very probable that he might &s;oon &s;pread the Knowledge of Chri&s;t in <HI>Ethiopia</HI> it &s;elf, whither he was now returning.</P>
<P>In the <HI>107th. P&s;alm,</HI> after mention made (in the three fir&s;t ver&s;es) of the Goodne&s;s and Mercy of the Lord to his People, in their Redemption
<PB N="8" REF="7"> by Chri&s;t, (compare the 2 &amp; 3 ver&s;es with <HI>Luke</HI> 13. 29.) the Holy Gho&s;t as fore&s;eeing the back|wardne&s;s of Mens Hearts to this work, &s;aith four times over in this <HI>P&s;alm, Oh that men would prai&s;e the Lord for his goodne&s;s, and for his wonder|ful works to the Children of Men;</HI> which mu&s;t in|clude this work of Redemption as one of the mo&s;t wonderful ones, in which his Goodne&s;s and Mercy are &s;o much &s;een, and for which (e&s;pecially) we are to prai&s;e him; and <HI>Rev.</HI> 5. 9. &s;eems to have an Eye to the three fir&s;t ver&s;es of this <HI>107th. P&s;alm,</HI> and there the New Te&s;ta|ment Church is brought in &s;inging, and &s;o obeying this Exhortation given in this <HI>107th. P&s;alm</HI> 1, 2, 3. ver&s;es, with the 8, 15, 21, 31. ver&s;es.</P>
<P>The <HI>95th. P&s;alm</HI> by way of prophe&s;ie &s;peaks of the Go&s;pel-day in general, and e&s;pecially of the Lords-day Sabboth, this the Apo&s;tle &s;new|eth at large in the 3 and 4 <HI>Chap.</HI> to the <HI>Hebrews,</HI> and in this <HI>P&s;alm</HI> we have an account of the <HI>Three &s;tanding Ordinances</HI> for publick wor&s;hip un|der the Go&s;pel; <HI>Of &s;inging of P&s;alms,</HI> the 1, 2. ver. of <HI>Prayer,</HI> the 6 ver. of <HI>Hearing the word,</HI> the 7 ver. and they are brought in here as &s;ing|ing of this <HI>P&s;alm</HI> under the New Te&s;tament, as it &s;hould &s;eem by their &s;peaking in the pre|&s;ent time, <HI>To day,</HI> ver. 7. compar'd with 3 and 4 Chap. of <HI>Hebrews.</HI> And according to <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. and <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 16. They <HI>&s;peak to, teach and ad|moni&s;h one another</HI> in the very act of &s;inging, how they ought to wor&s;hip God by <HI>Singing, Praying and Hearing,</HI> now in this Go&s;pel-day, and on the Lords-day e&s;pecially: Of <HI>&s;inging</HI> 1, 2. ver&s;e.
<PB N="9" REF="7"> <HI>O come let &V;S &s;ing, let &V;S make a joyful noi&s;e to the Rock of our &s;alvation, let &V;S come before his pre&s;ence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noi&s;e unto him with p&s;alms:</HI> Of <HI>praying,</HI> ver. 6, <HI>O come let &V;S wor|&s;hip and bow down, let &V;S kneel before the Lord O&V;R&punc; Maker:</HI> Of <HI>Hearing,</HI> ver. 7. <HI>To day if YE will hear his voice, harden not your hearts;</HI> and thus they go on in the re&s;t of this <HI>P&s;alm to admoni&s;h one another</HI> again&s;t the &s;in of Unbelief and Apo|&s;tacy.</P>
<P>Friends, look back into all the Scriptures quo|ted for a <HI>Rule</HI> for <HI>&s;inging,</HI> and &s;ee what it was they prai&s;ed God for in their <HI>&s;inging of P&s;alms,</HI> and you will find it was for his wonderful works of Creation, Providence and Redemption, and for his glorious Perfections and Attributes, as Eter|nal, Infinite, Wi&s;e, Holy, Powerful, and for his Love, Grace, Mercy, Goodne&s;s, Truth, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to his People. Now will you &s;ay the&s;e were <HI>Typical?</HI> or that there was any <HI>Type</HI> in &s;inging to the Prai&s;e of the&s;e Works and Attributes that it &s;hould n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w cea&s;e? or, have we not as much cau&s;e to &s;ing Prai&s;e upon the&s;e Accounts as ever the Saints had under the Old Te&s;tament?</P>
<P>2dly. <HI>The Spirit of God did continue to give forth &s;everal &s;ongs in the New Te&s;tament;</HI> which doth &s;trongly argue that this Ordinance of &s;inging was to continue under the New Te&s;tament: The Song of the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> recorded in <HI>Luke</HI> 1. 46. to 55. <HI>ver.</HI> the Song of <HI>Zacharias,</HI> Luk. 1. from 67, to the 79 ver&s;e, the Song of <HI>Simeon,</HI> Luke 2&punc; 28, to the 32 ver.</P>
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<P>3dly. <HI>This Ordinance of &s;inging of P&s;alms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, is commanded in the New Te&s;ta|ment:</HI> In <HI>Rom.</HI> 15. the Spirit of God by the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, that we Gentiles are to have &s;ing|ing among&s;t us, and are to glorifie God for his mercy, <HI>ver. 9. And that the Gentiles might glori|fie God for his mercy, as it is written,</HI> (here you &s;ee it was foretold) <HI>for this cau&s;e I will confe&s;s to thee among the Gentiles, and &s;ing unto thy Name,</HI> quoted from <HI>P&s;alm.</HI> 18. 49. and in the 11 <HI>ver&s;e</HI> he &s;aith, <HI>Prai&s;e the Lord all ye Gentiles, and laud him all ye people,</HI> quoted from <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 117. 1. the&s;e two ver&s;es would have beeen a full proof that &s;inging is New-Te&s;tament-wor&s;hip, if the Apo|&s;tle had not gone to the Old Te&s;tament for them.</P>
<P>Eph. 5. 19. <HI>Speaking to your &s;elves in P&s;alms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, &s;inging and making melody in your heart to the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>Colo&s;. 3. 16. <HI>Let the word of Chri&s;t dwell in you richly in all Wi&s;dom, teaching and admoni&s;hing one another in P&s;alms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, &s;inging with grace in your hearts to the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>James 5. 13. <HI>Is any among you afflicted? let him pray; is any merry? let him &s;ing P&s;alms.</HI></P>
<P>Some from this Text <HI>object,</HI> That it is tho&s;e who are <HI>merry</HI> that are commanded to <HI>&s;ing P&s;alms,</HI> but they are not yet <HI>merry</HI> enough to <HI>&s;ing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> And why do ye not al&s;o &s;ay, (and from the &s;ame Text too) that it is the <HI>afflicted</HI> that are commanded to <HI>pray,</HI> but ye are not ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>afflicted</HI> enough to <HI>pray,</HI> and &s;o upon the &s;ame
<PB N="11" REF="8"> ground turn both Ordinances out of doors to|gether? for the Apo&s;tle <HI>James</HI> doth no more forbid the afflicted to &s;ing, than he doth the merry to pray: <HI>Not our frames, but God's com|mand ought to be the rule of our obedience.</HI> It is the Duty of Believers <HI>always</HI> to be merry and <HI>rejoice in the Lord,</HI> Phil. 4. 4. 1 The&s;. 5. 16. and &s;o con&s;equently to <HI>&s;ing</HI> his Prai&s;e. <HI>David</HI> could and did <HI>&s;ing</HI> when he was afflicted, &s;ee the Title of <HI>P&s;alm 51. A P&s;alm of David when N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|than the Prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath&s;heba;</HI> and the Title of <HI>P&s;al. 3. A P&s;alm of David when he &s;led from Ab&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lom his Son:</HI> Were not the&s;e times of affliction with <HI>David,</HI> and had he not (think you) more cau&s;e to weep than to &s;ing, as you phra&s;e it? &s;ee al&s;o the Titles of <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 7. &amp; 34, &amp; 52, &amp; 54, &amp; 56, &amp; 57, &amp; 59, &amp; 102. if <HI>David</HI> the &s;weet P&s;almi&s;t of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> mu&s;t have &s;tayed until he had no afflictions, before he &s;ung, he might not perhaps have &s;ung until he came to Heaven; no more might ma|ny now in our days. Great afflictions could not keep <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Silas</HI> from their duty: There was a <HI>Multitude ro&s;e up together again&s;t them,</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aid many &s;tripes upon them,</HI> and <HI>ca&s;t them into pri|&s;on to be kept &s;afely,</HI> then they were put into the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nner pri&s;on,</HI> and <HI>their feet made fa&s;t in the &s;tocks,</HI> the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ext words tell how they behaved them&s;elves <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nder the&s;e great afflictions; <HI>At midnight Paul <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Silas prayed, and &s;ang prai&s;es unto God,</HI> Acts <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">6. 22, 23, 24, 25. Ob&s;erve what the P&s;almi&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aith, <HI>P&s;al. 104. 33. I will &s;ing unto the Lord:</HI> What, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen he is in a good frame, or hath no afflictions?
<PB N="12" REF="9"> no, but <HI>I will &s;ing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will &s;ing prai&s;e unto my God, while I have my be|ing;</HI> and <HI>P&s;al. 146. 1, 2. Prai&s;e ye the Lord, prai&s;e the Lord, O my Soul; while I live will I prai&s;e the Lord, I will &s;ing prai&s;es unto my God while I have any being:</HI> It is not while I have a pro&s;perous, but while I have any being.</P>
<P>4ly. <HI>In the New Te&s;tament we have &s;everal Di|rections given about &s;inging. 1. What we &s;hould &s;ing:</HI> It &s;aith, the <HI>Word of God,</HI> and then that particular part of the Word of God called <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs,</HI> Col. 3. 16. In <HI>James</HI> 5. 13. he directs us to &s;ing, and men|tions only <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> as the <HI>Common Name</HI> by which the P&s;alm-Book was called, which al&s;o contained both <HI>Hymns</HI> and <HI>Songs.</HI> 2. We are directed <HI>how to &s;ing:</HI> Sing with Grace in your Hearts, and &s;ing to the Lord, and teach and admoni&s;h one another in P&s;alms, <HI>&amp;c. Col.</HI> 3. 16. and to &s;ing with the <HI>voice, &s;peaking to,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. and <HI>teaching,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Col.</HI> 3. 16. &s;o they in <HI>Luke</HI> 19. 37. prais'd God with a <HI>loud voice</HI> and the Pri&s;oners <HI>heard Paul</HI> and <HI>Silas</HI> &s;ing, <HI>Act<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 16. 25. &s;o when <HI>Paul</HI> directs us to &s;ing wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the under&s;tanding, his plain meaning is, to &s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with a <HI>voice,</HI> in &s;uch <HI>Language</HI> that others migh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> under&s;tand what is &s;ung, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14. 15, 16. l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;ame place he directs us to &s;ing with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Spirit,</HI> and &s;hews how both are con&s;i&s;tent toge+ther; to &s;ing with the <HI>Spirit,</HI> and al&s;o with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Voice;</HI> &s;o <HI>Mary</HI> did u&s;e both Heart and Voice<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and <HI>Mary &s;aid,</HI> my Soul doth magnifie th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord, <HI>Luke</HI> 1. 46. Then as to Mu&s;ick or Me|lody,
<PB N="13" REF="9"> we are directed to have that in our hearts, <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. 3. We are told <HI>who</HI> are to &s;ing, the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> Eph. 5. 19. and the <HI>Church</HI> at <HI>Colo&s;s,</HI> Col. 3. 26. yea, all the <HI>whole multitude</HI> of the <HI>Di&s;ciples,</HI> Luk. 19. 37. yea, all <HI>People; prai&s;e the Lord all ye Gentiles, and land him all ye people,</HI> Rom. 15. 11. Now to what purpo&s;e are all the&s;e Directi|ons about &s;inging in the New Te&s;tament, if it be not to be practi&s;ed under the New Te&s;tament.</P>
<P>5ly. As it was fore-prophe&s;ied, that the Churches &s;hould &s;ing under the New Te&s;ta|ment, and as the New Te&s;tament containeth &s;e|veral Songs, and as this Ordinance was com|manded in the New Te&s;tament, and al&s;o ma|ny Directions given in the New Te&s;tament about &s;inging of P&s;alms, &s;o al&s;o <HI>We have &s;everal accounts in the New Te&s;tament, that this Ordinance of &s;inging was practi&s;ed both by Chri&s;t, his Apo&s;tles and Di&s;ciples.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The Virgin <HI>Mary</HI> did &s;ing, and al&s;o <HI>Za|charias</HI> and <HI>Simeon,</HI> in the <HI>1&s;t.</HI> and <HI>2d.</HI> Chap|ters of <HI>Luke</HI> before mentioned.</P>
<P N="2">2. There are two Scriptures, one in the <HI>8th. P&s;alm 2. v.</HI> the other the <HI>9th.</HI> of <HI>Zach.</HI> ver. 9&punc; both fulfilled in prai&s;ing of God with (a part at lea&s;t of) the <HI>118th. P&s;alm,</HI> as is plain, and carefully recorded by all the four <HI>Evangeli&s;ts, Mat. 21. 9, 15, 16. Mark 11. 9, 10. Luke 19. 35, 36, 37, 38. John</HI> 12. 13, 14, 15, 16. And <HI>Luke</HI> &s;aith expre&s;ly, it was done by the <HI>Whole multitude</HI> of the Di&s;ciples, and with a <HI>loud voice</HI> too; and our Lord &s;aid, if they had held their peace, the &s;tones would have cried out; &s;uch
<PB N="14" REF="10"> a nece&s;&s;ity there is that the <HI>Scriptures be fulfil|led</HI> as well tho&s;e that &s;peak of <HI>&s;inging</HI> as the re&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Our Lord Je&s;us and his Apo&s;tles did &s;ing a Hymn or P&s;alm,</HI> (as the Margin) <HI>Mat. 26. 30. Mar.</HI> 14. 26. Now mu&s;t we look (in the New Te&s;tament) for a better Example for the practi&s;e of &s;inging of P&s;alms then Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles? or (judge ye) which is be&s;t and mo&s;t &s;afe, to follow Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles in &s;inging, or the <HI>Antipaedobapti&s;ts</HI> in rejecting it as Old Te&s;tament Wor&s;hip?</P>
<P>If you compare <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22. 22. with <HI>Heb.</HI> 2. 12. and then both with Chri&s;t and his Di&s;ciples &s;inging together, it will be mo&s;t probable that they &s;ung <HI>as a Church,</HI> e&s;pecially if it be con|&s;ider'd that they had (in the &s;ame meeting) the <HI>Lords-Supper,</HI> for where <HI>that is rightly ad|mini&s;ter'd,</HI> (as be &s;ure then it was) <HI>it nece&s;&s;a|rily &s;uppo&s;eth a Church:</HI> Yea, they were the fir&s;t New Te&s;tament Church, and &s;o a Pattern or Example to all Churches in after Ages; and it would be very <HI>bold</HI> for any to &s;ay, that we <HI>mu&s;t</HI> not, and they <HI>will</HI> not follow the Example of our Lord and his Apo&s;tles, in <HI>&s;inging</HI> as well as in <HI>breaking of bread:</HI> But it would be <HI>wor&s;e</HI> for any to charge Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles with <HI>Popery</HI> for &s;inging; yet thus they will charge the Churches now, for following of their Ex|ample. But our Lord Je&s;us hath commanded us to follow his Example in &s;inging, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22. a P&s;alm of Chri&s;t's Sufferings, and where he is brought in &s;peaking; he fir&s;t declares that he
<PB N="15" REF="10"> will &s;ing Prai&s;e, (as he did <HI>Mat.</HI> 26. 30.) then commands all that fear God to do &s;o too, <HI>22d.</HI> and <HI>23d. ver. In the mid&s;t of the Congregation,</HI> (or Church, as <HI>Heb. 2. 12.) will I prai&s;e thee,</HI> (then &s;peaks to us) <HI>ye that fear the Lord prai&s;e him, all ye &s;eed of Jacob glorifie him:</HI> That by Prai&s;e here is meant &s;inging of Prai&s;e, the Holy Gho&s;t him&s;elf telleth us, <HI>Heb.</HI> 2. 12. &s;ee al&s;o the <HI>25th.</HI> and <HI>26th.</HI> ver&s;es of this <HI>22d.</HI> P&s;alm, where our Lord doth again declare he will prai&s;e, and promi&s;es that we &s;hall do &s;o too; yea, in the <HI>3d.</HI> ver&s;e it is &s;poke of as one of God's Titles, (<HI>O thou that inhabite&s;t the prai&s;es of I&s;rael!</HI>) and therefore it could not be typi|cal, and &s;o cea&s;e as Types do.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Silas</HI> &s;ang Prai&s;es unto God, <HI>Acts</HI> 16. 25. they did &s;ing with the voice, for the Pri&s;oners heard them.</P>
<P N="5">5. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith, 1 <HI>Cor. 14. 15. I will &s;ing with the Spirit, and I will &s;ing with the under&s;tand|ing al&s;o:</HI> By &s;inging with the Spirit we under|&s;tand &s;inging by the help of the Spirit of God, and with Faith, Intention, Joy, and Fervour in his own Soul, in oppo&s;ition to a formal, trifling Spirit. By &s;inging with the under&s;tanding, &s;ing|ing with &s;uch Words, and in &s;uch Language, as that others might under&s;tand him. It is plain from the whole Chapter that he is pre&s;|&s;ing upon them the orderly performance of preaching, praying, and al&s;o <HI>&s;inging</HI> in the publick Wor&s;hip of the Church, which proves both that they had, and al&s;o that they ought to have <HI>&s;inging of P&s;alms, Prayer</HI> and <HI>preaching
<PB N="16" REF="11"> the Word,</HI> as the three &s;tanding Ordinances for Publick Wor&s;hip under the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P N="6">6. In the <HI>Revelations,</HI> (which is a prophetical Hi&s;tory of the Church, from that time to the end of the World) we have account that they did, and &s;hall &s;ing in the &s;everal ages of the Church, <HI>Rev.</HI> 4. 8, 11. and 5. 9, 10. and 15. 3. and 19. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.</P>
<P>Thus Brethren, ye have had the Holy Scrip|tures given you for a Rule for &s;inging of P&s;alms, and al&s;o to prove that this Ordinance was pra|cticed under the New Te&s;tament; but yet if ye do not believe them, ye will not &s;ing P&s;ams, for indeed (to be plain with you) that is the true Rea&s;on why ye do not &s;ing, though ye have not hit on't among&s;t your Objections; <HI>Exod.</HI> 14. and the la&s;t ver&s;e, with the <HI>15th.</HI> Chapter and the <HI>1&s;t.</HI> ver&s;e, <HI>And the People feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and his Servant Mo&s;es, then &s;ang Mo&s;es and the Children of I&s;rael this Song unto the Lord, and &s;pake, &s;aying, I will &s;ing unto the Lord,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>P&s;alm&punc; 106. 12. Then believed they his words, they &s;ang his prai&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>We may as well pray by a Form as &s;ing by a Form.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer</HI> 1. We readily grant (for any thing we &s;ee to the contrary) that 'tis Mens Inven|tions and Will-wor&s;hip, to perform to God Pub|lick Wor&s;hip in the Church, by &s;inging of any form or forms what&s;oever, that are invented and compo&s;ed by the common Gifts of any Man, or Men, (though never &s;o holy) if he or they were
<PB N="17" REF="11"> not in&s;pired by the Holy Gho&s;t for that end, and therefore we own that (for any thing we yet &s;ee) we may (in the publick Wor&s;hip of God) as well pray by a form of Man's Inven|tion, as &s;ing by a form of Man's Invention; but we believe you know our Practice, which is to &s;ing tho&s;e <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns and Songs only,</HI> that were indited by the Spirit of God, and are re|corded in the Scriptures of the Old and New Te&s;tament; and indeed it was one of tho&s;e that was &s;ung at the time when, place where, and again&s;t which ye made the&s;e Objections: And therefore we conclude your Meaning is, that we may as well pray by a form of Mens in|venting, as &s;ing by &s;uch Scripture forms, as you call them; and we will not di&s;pute about the word Form, but admit it, if it be taken in a good Sence.</P>
<P>And then why &s;hould ye be again&s;t forms in Wor&s;hip, where it hath plea&s;ed the Wi&s;dom of our Lord to appoint them, as he hath done for <HI>&s;inging,</HI> though not for any <HI>other</HI> Ordinance of the New Te&s;tament; the Ordi|nance of <HI>&s;inging</HI> being of &s;uch a Nature that it is not po&s;&s;ible it &s;hould be ob&s;erved without a <HI>Form;</HI> for <HI>many</HI> do joyn <HI>together</HI> in it, and that not only with their hearts, as in Prayer, but al|&s;o with their <HI>Voices;</HI> as the <HI>Prophet</HI> &s;peaks, <HI>I&s;a. 52. 8. With the voice together &s;hall they &s;ing:</HI> But in all <HI>other</HI> Ordinances of Wor&s;hip &s;uch a <HI>con|currence of voices</HI> would make a confu&s;ed <HI>Cla|mour,</HI> and hinder Edification. But more par|ticularly,</P>
<PB N="18" REF="12">
<P><HI>2dly. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">ch.</HI> 12. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. we find <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> (for New Te&s;tament times) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ort of Adult Believers, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">ctually <HI>given,</HI> Rom. 8. 15, 26, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> 18. and Experience &s;hews <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">lever hath received the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> or le&s;s, but there is no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> of Spiritual Poetry, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> it, and therefore not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> as &s;ing by a form, for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">nch the Spirit of Prayer.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> find in Scripture that any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">s or Apo&s;tles, who were in&s;pi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> did compo&s;e forms of Prayer, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> them to others to pray with, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ny did u&s;e the forms of others to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">oth which we find of P&s;alms, as will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">anon.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> The Spirit of God hath provided for us <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Scripture called <HI>The Book of P&s;alms,</HI> but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> part called <HI>The Book of Prayers.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Eph. 5. 19. Col.</HI> 3. 16. We are com|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ing <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns</HI> and <HI>Spiritual Songs,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> writ by <HI>Mo&s;es, David, A&s;aph,</HI> &amp;c. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">, Hymns</HI> and <HI>Spiritual Songs,</HI> therefore <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">ommanded to &s;ing them.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Nay further, it cannot be proved by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> that ever the Church did &s;ing any <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">ymn</HI> or <HI>Song,</HI> compiled by a common <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">y ways fir&s;t given out, but by a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">u&s;piration. <HI>Thy &s;tatutes have been my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">.</HI> 119. 54.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">he <HI>matter</HI> of &s;inging is limited, fir&s;t
<PB N="19" REF="12"> to the <HI>Word of Chri&s;t,</HI> and then to <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns</HI> and <HI>Spiritual Songs,</HI> as the Poetical part of the Word of Chri&s;t, <HI>Col.</HI> 3. 16. Now we mu&s;t &s;ing tho&s;e penn'd by <HI>David, A&s;aph,</HI> &amp;c. unle&s;s you can &s;ay (and prove it too) that they are not <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> nor <HI>Hymns,</HI> nor <HI>Spiritual Songs;</HI> but time was they were accounted &s;uch, and the Peo|ple of God commanded to &s;ing them too, yea and they did do it, what&s;oever <HI>things were writ|ten afore time, were written for our Learning,</HI> and there is a <HI>Command</HI> writ afore time for &s;inging with the Words of <HI>David</HI> and of <HI>A&s;aph</HI> the <HI>Seer,</HI> 2 Chron. 29. 30.</P>
<P><HI>8thly.</HI> When <HI>David</HI> &s;ung the <HI>18th. P&s;alm,</HI> it is writ he kept to the <HI>words</HI> of it, &s;ee the Title of <HI>P&s;al. 18. To the chief Mu&s;ician a P&s;alm of David the Servant of the Lord, who &s;pake unto the Lord the words of this Song, in the day that the Lord deliver|ed him,</HI> &amp;c. See al&s;o 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 22. 1, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>9thly.</HI> And that Prophetical Song of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> recorded in <HI>Deut. 32. Mo&s;es</HI> is commanded to write it, and then to teach it the Children of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and put it in their Mouths, <HI>Deut.</HI> 31. 19. &s;urely whatever it was to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> it mu&s;t be a &s;orm (in your &s;ence) to the Children of <HI>I&s;|rael;</HI> yea, much more to their <HI>Seed,</HI> in who&s;e <HI>Mouths</HI> it was al&s;o to be; <HI>ver&s;e</HI> the 21&s;t. <HI>Mo&s;es therefore wrote this Song the &s;ame day, and taught it the Children of I&s;rael,</HI> ver. 22. <HI>And Mo&s;es &s;pake in the ears of all the Congregation of I&s;rael the words of this Song, until they were ended,</HI> ver&s;e 30. again 32 <HI>Chap.</HI> 44. and <HI>Mo&s;es came and &s;pake all the words,</HI> (Mark that, all the words,) <HI>of this Song in the ears of the people.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>10ly.</HI> Tho&s;e that were in&s;pired to write <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns</HI> and <HI>Spiritual Songs,</HI> after they had compo&s;ed them, did not only &s;ing them them|&s;elves, but did al&s;o <HI>deliver</HI> them to the Church and People of God to &s;ing; thus <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> did teach the People his Song, and did commit it to wri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ting for their Seed, as hath been &s;hewn, (and indeed if they were &s;ung only by the Authors in an <HI>extemporary</HI> way, and were not to be &s;ung any more, why were they always committed to writing?) <HI>David</HI> did often deliver tho&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> penn'd by him into the hands of tho&s;e wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> were mo&s;t skilful in, and chief leaders of the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> re&s;t of the People in this work of <HI>&s;inging;</HI> thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> appears by the <HI>Titles</HI> of them, which frequent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ly are thus, <HI>To the chief Mu&s;itian;</HI> or thus <HI>For the Sons of Korah.</HI> There is a Scriptur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> plain for this, 1 <HI>Chron. 16. 7. Then on that da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> David delivered fir&s;t this P&s;alm, to thank th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord, into the hands of A&s;aph and his Brethren.</HI></P>
<P>11ly. <HI>David</HI> was &s;o famous for his inditin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>P&s;alms</HI> for the prai&s;e of God, and <HI>for the u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Church,</HI> that he was called <HI>The &s;we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> P&s;almi&s;t of I&s;rael;</HI> and when he came to dye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> taking a review of tho&s;e <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns</HI> and <HI>Song<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> which he had penn'd, in his la&s;t words &s;ait<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>The Spirit of the Lord &s;pake by me, and his wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was in my tongue,</HI> 2 Sam. 23. 1, 2. Tho&s;e tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cannot &s;ay thus, we think &s;hould not preten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be <HI>P&s;almi&s;ts</HI> in God's <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> to invent and co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+po&s;e matter for publick &s;inging; and indeed it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pitty &s;ome Churches are &s;o ea&s;ily <HI>impo&s;ed</HI> upo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by them that do &s;o: Can they &s;ay, <HI>The Lord ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="21" REF="13"> the word, which the great company publi&s;heth in &s;ing|ing?</HI> P&s;al. 68. 11. But to go on:</P>
<P><HI>12ly. David</HI>'s, and the other <HI>Prophet's P&s;alms, and Songs,</HI> &amp;c. were known and called by the Name of <HI>The Songs of Zion,</HI> and <HI>The Lords Songs,</HI> which &s;hews they were for the publick u&s;e of the Church, <HI>P&s;al. 137. 3. They required of us a &s;ong;</HI> (did not bid them compo&s;e one, but) <HI>they &s;aid, &s;ing us one of the Songs of Zion,</HI> Ver. the <HI>4th.</HI> How &s;hall we &s;ing <HI>The Lord's Song,</HI> &amp;c. 2 <HI>Chron. 29. 27. And when the Burnt offering began, the &s;ong of the Lord began al&s;o.</HI></P>
<P><HI>13ly.</HI> Likewi&s;e when we are call'd to &s;ing to God, we are not bid to <HI>make,</HI> but to <HI>take</HI> a P&s;alm, <HI>P&s;al. 81. 1, 2. Sing aloud to God our &s;trength, take a P&s;alm,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>14ly.</HI> Accordingly we find often in Scripture, when they were to &s;ing, they did take one of the P&s;alms in the P&s;alm-book, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 5. tho' here is but one ver&s;e &s;et down in the Hi&s;tory, yet it is very probable that they &s;ung <HI>mo&s;t,</HI> if not <HI>all</HI> of the <HI>136th.</HI> P&s;alm, and while they were &s;ing|ing, they had a glorious token of God's gracious acceptance, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 5. 13, 14. we have the like account 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 20. 21, 22. and here is but one <HI>ver&s;e</HI> likewi&s;e mentioned, yet it is plainly inti|mated that they went on &s;inging of <HI>more,</HI> by the&s;e Words, <HI>And when they began to &s;ing and to prai&s;e;</HI> and it &s;hould &s;eem they did very of|ten upon extraordinary occa&s;ions &s;ing this <HI>136th.</HI> P&s;alm, &s;ee al&s;o 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 7. 3. and <HI>Ezra</HI> 3. 10, 11. yea, it &s;eems fore-told that this <HI>P&s;alm</HI> &s;hould be &s;ung under the New Te&s;tament, <HI>Jer. 33. 11th.</HI> ver&s;e, compar'd with the 15 and 16 <HI>ver&s;es</HI> of
<PB N="22" REF="14"> the &s;ame Chapter, and in the Texts of the <HI>Evangeli&s;t</HI> before-mentioned. The <HI>Whole mul|titude</HI> of the Di&s;ciples did prai&s;e God with a <HI>loud voice,</HI> with a part at lea&s;t of the <HI>118th. P&s;alm,</HI> though it is mo&s;t likely they &s;ung it all, by the time they were prai&s;ing God, which was both in their way from Mount <HI>Olivet</HI> to <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and al&s;o after they came into the Temple. It need not &s;eem &s;trange, that there is in the&s;e places but a ver&s;e or two (and not the whole P&s;alm) repeated in the Hi&s;tory, though it &s;hould be meant that they &s;ung the whole P&s;alm, for we have a like In&s;tance in <HI>Exod.</HI> 15. 20, 21. and here (we &s;uppo&s;e) none will deny but that they &s;ung all the Song which the Men did &s;ing, though only the fir&s;t ver&s;e of it be repeated.</P>
<P>Yet which is more plain, we read that they did &s;ing the 15 fir&s;t ver&s;es of the <HI>105th. P&s;alm,</HI> and the <HI>96th. P&s;alm,</HI> both at a time, 1 <HI>Chron. 16th.</HI> Chap. and this was done by the Prophet <HI>David</HI>'s appointment; and here you have not a ver&s;e only but the whole repeated, and this place may warrant the <HI>&s;inging of part of a P&s;alm,</HI> or <HI>part of &s;everal P&s;alms</HI> at the &s;ame time, ac|cording as the Matter of them is &s;uited to the pre&s;ent Occa&s;ion: And the New Te&s;tament Church is &s;aid to &s;ing the Song of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> Rev. 15. 3.</P>
<P><HI>15ly.</HI> The Title of the <HI>92d. P&s;alm,</HI> is, <HI>a P&s;alm or Song for the &s;abbath-day,</HI> which &s;hews that this very P&s;alm was written for <HI>publick u&s;e,</HI> and is to be &s;ung on the <HI>Sabbath-day,</HI> and al&s;o that <HI>Singing is an ordinance, ordinarily to be performed
<PB N="23" REF="14"> on the Sabbath,</HI> the two fir&s;t ver&s;es commend it for <HI>A good thing to &s;ing prai&s;es,</HI> and to do it both in the <HI>Morning and Evening</HI> of the Sabbath e&s;|pecially, for the which this is a P&s;alm.</P>
<P><HI>16thly.</HI> The <HI>26th.</HI> Chapter of <HI>I&s;a.</HI> is a <HI>Song,</HI> and this very Song is to be &s;ung now under the New Te&s;tament, &s;ignify'd by the term <HI>that day,</HI> in <HI>ver.</HI> the fir&s;t, <HI>In that day &s;hall this Song be &s;ung,</HI> and we are <HI>in that day,</HI> and therefore are to &s;ing it, (notwith&s;tanding your Objection about &s;ing|ing by a form) yea, <HI>that day</HI> here meant, being the Go&s;pel-day, doth la&s;t until the <HI>Re&s;urrection,</HI> &s;ee <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 19.</P>
<P><HI>17thly.</HI> And in <HI>Hezekiah</HI>'s time (which was many Generations after <HI>David,</HI> Mat. 1. 6, 7, 8, 9.) the Text is &s;o clear, as <HI>Nothing can be clearer for &s;inging of Scripture-P&s;alms;</HI> here is both a plain <HI>command</HI> for it, and al&s;o a <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> they did do it, 2 <HI>Chron. 29. 30. Hezekiah the King and the Princes commanded the Levites,</HI> (who were chief Leaders of the People in this work) <HI>to &s;ing prai&s;e unto the Lord with the Words of David and of A&s;aph, and they &s;ang prai&s;es with gladne&s;s:</HI> Were not their words as much a form in <HI>Heze|kiah</HI>'s <HI>time</HI> as they are <HI>now?</HI> what? could not <HI>He|zekiah,</HI> nor his <HI>Princes,</HI> nor <HI>Levites,</HI> (think you) by their common Gifts have invented an Hymn (as they are now call'd?) yea, the Prophet <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> was then living with them, who did by a &s;pirit of In&s;piration write &s;everal Songs, as appears by his Book? Surely then it was not out of meer nece&s;&s;ity of want of others, (but becau&s;e it was <HI>an ordinance of God, and right in his &s;ight,</HI> ver&s;e 2. <HI>to
<PB N="24" REF="15"> &s;ing with the words of David and A&s;aph</HI>) that the King and the Princes gave this command to &s;ing Prai&s;e unto the Lord <HI>with the words of Da+vid and of A&s;aph the Seer;</HI> mark that, with the words of <HI>A&s;aph the Seer;</HI> but why &s;hould it be &s;aid with the words of <HI>A&s;aph,</HI> the Seer, (or Prophet) and not al&s;o with the Words of <HI>David</HI> the Pro|phet? upon the very naming of <HI>David</HI> all could under&s;tand the Prophet <HI>David</HI> was meant, but we read of &s;everal other <HI>A&s;aphs</HI> in Scripture, but we mu&s;t &s;ing the words of that <HI>A&s;aph</HI> only who was the <HI>Seer;</HI> no <HI>A&s;aph</HI>'s Words are fit matter for &s;inging, but the Words of <HI>A&s;aph</HI> the <HI>Seer;</HI> this Text &s;hews us, that when we &s;ing Prai&s;e, <HI>We mu&s;t &s;ee to it, that we &s;ing with the words of tho&s;e who were in&s;pired by the &s;pirit of God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Objection.</HI> At the In&s;titution of the Lord's Supper, Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles did &s;ing a Hymn or P&s;alm, but it is not &s;aid it was a Scripture one, or an in&s;pired one.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer</HI> 1. We read they &s;ung a <HI>Hymn,</HI> or <HI>P&s;alm;</HI> and we read of none called <HI>&s;o</HI> in Scrip|ture but tho&s;e indited by the Holy Gho&s;t, and recorded in Scripture.</P>
<P>2. If Chri&s;t did compo&s;e one upon this oc|ca&s;ion, it makes nothing again&s;t us, for we hope none will deny Chri&s;t to have had an <HI>infallible&punc;</HI> Spirit to guide him in it; then what is this to &s;inging of tho&s;e indited by the common Gifts of Men? But we conclude that Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles &s;ung one, or more of <HI>David</HI>'s, or o|ther <HI>Scripture P&s;alms;</HI> becau&s;e, if Chri&s;t had up|on this extraordinary occa&s;ion indited one, we
<PB N="25" REF="15"> believe the Evangeli&s;ts would have recorded the very words of it, for they did record tho&s;e of <HI>Mary, Zacharias, Simeon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> It hath been <HI>objected</HI> by &s;ome, that mo&s;t of the Scripture P&s;alms, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> are written in the <HI>Old Te&s;tament,</HI> and are too <HI>Legal</HI> for this New Di&s;pen&s;ation.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> Is there not cau&s;e to fear, lea&s;t that Spirit which is elevated above <HI>Scripture &s;trains,</HI> would be found too <HI>light</HI> and <HI>airy</HI> if weighed in the even Ballance of the Sanctuary? But,</P>
<P><HI>18ly.</HI> We mu&s;t &s;ing <HI>Scripture P&s;alms, Hymns and Songs,</HI> for there are &s;everal u&s;es and ends of the Ordinance of &s;inging (which are profita|ble to us) that cannot be fully (if at all) an|&s;wered, unle&s;s the matter of our Song be the Word of God. It is an Ordinance for our <HI>In|&s;truction,</HI> as appears by the Titles of the P&s;alms; many of which are thus, <HI>A P&s;alm to give in|&s;truction:</HI> And when we &s;ing them, we <HI>&s;peak to our &s;elves in P&s;alms,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. And <HI>teach and admoni&s;h one another in P&s;alms,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Colo&s;. 3. 16. Deut.</HI> 31. 19, &amp;c. When the very <HI>Mat|ter</HI> of our Song is the <HI>Word of God,</HI> and that which <HI>he hath appointed</HI> to be in our mouth to &s;ing, <HI>while it is in our mouth,</HI> &s;inging of it, '<HI>tis to be a Witne&s;s</HI> for God again&s;t us, if we are in evils; and for this end it was God command|ed <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to write and teach them this Song re|corded in the <HI>32d. Chap. Now therefore write ye This Song</HI> (he doth not bid them <HI>invent</HI> and compo&s;e one by their common Gifts, <HI>but write This Song) for you, and teach i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Children of
<PB N="26" REF="16"> I&s;rael,</HI> (God doth appoint the <HI>Song</HI> as well as the <HI>&V;&s;e</HI> of it) <HI>put it in their mouths, that this Song may be a Witne&s;s,</HI> &amp;c. read the 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, <HI>ver&s;es</HI> of this 31 <HI>Deut.</HI> Now how can we expect that God &s;hould ble&s;s the &s;inging of tho&s;e Forms that are of <HI>humane invention</HI> unto us for tho&s;e <HI>ends,</HI> to <HI>in&s;truct</HI> and <HI>teach</HI> us, to <HI>admoni&s;h</HI> us of our Duty and again&s;t Sin, to <HI>Wit|ne&s;s and te&s;tifie</HI> again&s;t our Evils? Can Mens <HI>in|vented</HI> forms be &s;uppo&s;ed to have like Autho|rity upon the <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> with the Word of God? therefore <HI>Let his &s;tatutes be our &s;ongs,</HI> P&s;al. 119. 54.</P>
<P><HI>What is not of Faith is &s;in,</HI> Rom. 14. 23. How can we perform Wor&s;hip to God in <HI>Faith,</HI> when we offer him that which he hath not <HI>commanded,</HI> yea, may he not ju&s;tly &s;ay, as once he did, <HI>Who hath required this at your hands?</HI> I&s;a. 1. 12.</P>
<P>Are tho&s;e forms compo&s;ed by <HI>Men,</HI> better than tho&s;e indited by the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t?</HI> Are any &s;o bold to &s;ay they are? if not, but the contrary; then take a <HI>Caution,</HI> and con&s;ider what the Lord &s;aith, in <HI>Mal. 1. 13. 14. Ye brought that which was torn, and the lam&egrave;, and the &s;ick, thus ye brought an offer|ing, &s;hould I accept this of your hands, &s;aith the Lord, but cur&s;ed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male, and voweth and &s;acrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing, for I am a great King, &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts, and my Name is dreadful among the Heathen.</HI></P>
<P>Thus we have been proving, <HI>That we are to &s;ing by a form, and by Scripture ones only:</HI> And to conclude this Head, if the Congregation might
<PB N="27" REF="16"> not &s;ing with a <HI>form,</HI> how then could they ever &s;ing with the <HI>voice together,</HI> as is foretold they &s;hould, <HI>I&s;a. 52. 8, 9. With the voice together &s;hall they &s;ing&mdash;and &s;ing together,</HI> &amp;c. But how &s;hould they all know what is to be &s;ung with|out a <HI>form?</HI> and if they do not <HI>all know,</HI> they can|not <HI>all &s;ing with the voice together.</HI></P>
<P>Fifthly, <HI>We mu&s;t not &s;ing P&s;alms when there is a mixed company of &V;nbelievers pre&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> Pray what need of this <HI>Objection,</HI> when you are not for &s;inging of P&s;alms at all? If they be <HI>ab&s;ent</HI> ye will not &s;ing, yet if they be <HI>pre&s;ent</HI> ye will lay your fault at their door.</P>
<P>But all the Ordinances of our Lord <HI>Je&s;us</HI> for his <HI>publick</HI> Wor&s;hip in the Church, are to be per|formed by the <HI>Church as a Church,</HI> and no rule in God's Word to omit them, or any of them, when and becau&s;e Unbelievers are pre&s;ent, nor to give over any part of publick Wor&s;hip in the Church, when Unbelievers come into their A&s;&s;emblies, but quite the contrary, <HI>Mat. 5. 16. Let your Light &s;o &s;hine before men, that they may &s;ee your good works, and glorifie your Father:</HI> 1 Tim. 3. 15. <HI>The Church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of the Truth.</HI></P>
<P>Among&s;t the variety of matter (&s;uited to all particular Per&s;ons and Ca&s;es) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> at the Holy Gho&s;t hath provided in the Scripture P&s;alms, (which we are to &s;ing in the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">ck Wor&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> of God) there are many Exhortations, Com|mands, Cautions, <HI>&amp;c. to &V;nbelievers, (P&s;al.</HI> 2. 10, 11, 12. and 4. 2, 3, 4, 5. and 33. 8. and
<PB N="28" REF="17"> 34. 8. and 49. 1, 2, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and 96. 1, 9. and 7. 11, 12.) which doth &s;uppo&s;e that <HI>they</HI> may be pre&s;ent when the Church doth &s;ing them. Yea, further, the Church in &s;inging the&s;e and other &s;uch like places, do (while they are prai&s;|ing God) as it were turn their Speech to <HI>&V;nbe|lievers,</HI> to exhort them to Faith and Obedience: And we &s;inging only <HI>Scripture</HI> P&s;alms, Hymns, and Songs, which are the <HI>Word of God,</HI> may ex|pect to have it ble&s;&s;ed to them; and could (if need were) in&s;tance in &s;everal Per&s;ons, to whom God did ble&s;s this Ordinance in their fir&s;t <HI>Con|ver&s;ion:</HI> It is the <HI>Lord's Word,</HI> though <HI>publi&s;hed by a great company</HI> in &s;inging, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 68. 11.</P>
<P>The fore-mentioned Scriptures, which &s;peaks of the whole <HI>multitude</HI> of the Di&s;ciples (which includes the Apo&s;tles) crying <HI>Ho&s;anna to the Son of David, and prai&s;ing of God with a loud voice,</HI> do prove that they did it <HI>publickly</HI> in a va&s;t and mixed company, both upon the way from the Mount of <HI>Olives</HI> to <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and al&s;o in the <HI>Temple,</HI> and they had our <HI>Lord's pre&s;ence</HI> to countenance them in it, and he &s;ilenced the Pha|ri&s;ees who found fault. Read the places,</P>
<P>1 <HI>Corin. 14. 14, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26. ver&s;es;</HI> It is evident from this Chapter, (as was &s;aid) 1. That in the <HI>publick</HI> Wor&s;hip of the Church, they had Prayer&punc; Preaching the Word, and al&s;o <HI>&s;inging of P&s;alm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 2. That there was di&s;orders in the practice of each of them, which hinder'd Edification: And, 3. That this Chapter is &s;pent (not to take any of the&s;e Ordinances away, but) to &s;et the&s;e <HI>Corinthians</HI> (and &s;o con&s;e|quently
<PB N="29" REF="17"> us) right in the performance of each of them. And one ground upon which the Apo|&s;tle urgeth them to the orderly performance of Praying, Preaching, and <HI>Singing,</HI> is, becau&s;e of <HI>&V;nbelievers</HI> coming into their A&s;&s;emblies, (the <HI>23d.</HI> ver. and the <HI>26th.</HI> compar'd) which proves <HI>That we are to &s;ing,</HI> (and that the <HI>Corinthians</HI> did &s;o) <HI>notwith&s;tanding the pre&s;ence of &V;nbeliev|ers.</HI></P>
<P>If any further <HI>Object,</HI> and &s;ay, If unbelievers may be pre&s;ent when we &s;ing P&s;alms, they will join with the voice, and &s;o &s;ing with us.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> What if they do? where are they for|bid? or where have the Church authority from Chri&s;t to forbid them, or a command not to &s;ing in their pre&s;ence unle&s;s they will be &s;ilent? but on the contrary, doth not the Church rather &s;tir them up to &s;ing, and that by or in the very act of &s;inging of &s;uch Pa&s;&s;ages as the&s;e, <HI>66th. P&s;al. 1, 2, 4, 8. Make a joyful noi&s;e unto God, all ye Lands, &s;ing forth the honour of his Name, make his prai&s;e glorious; all the Earth &s;hall wor&s;hip thee, and &s;hall &s;ing unto thee, they &s;hall &s;ing unto thy Name: O ble&s;s our God, ye people, and make the voice of his prai&s;e to be heard;</HI> this is joining with the voice, <HI>P&s;al. 96. 1. O &s;ing unto the Lord a new &s;ong, &s;ing unto the Lord all ye Earth,</HI> P&s;al. 117. 1. <HI>O prai&s;e the Lord all ye nations, prai&s;e him all ye people;</HI> &s;ee al&s;o <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 100. 1, 2. and 67. 3, 4, 5. and 68. 32. and 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 16. 23. the&s;e Scriptures do encou|rage, yea, exhort them to &s;ing, and who then &s;hall forbid them?</P>
<P>In <HI>Luke</HI> 19. 37. it is &s;aid, <HI>The whole multitude
<PB N="30" REF="18"> of the Di&s;ciples began to rejoice, and to prai&s;e God with a loud voice,</HI> &amp;c. By whole <HI>multitude</HI> of Di&s;ciples cannot be meant the Apo&s;tles and the Seventy only, but al&s;o Di&s;ciples at large, all that did follow the Lord Chri&s;t to hear his Word, though not really converted, yet the&s;e did join with the Voice to prai&s;e God; indeed the Phari&s;ees were offended at it, <HI>Mat.</HI> 21. 15. (perhaps becau&s;e they would not join with a mixed company, as was prophe&s;ied of them, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 65. 5. compared with 1, 2. <HI>ver.</HI> In the <HI>39th.</HI> ver. of this <HI>19th.</HI> Luke, <HI>Some of the Phari&s;es from among the multitude &s;aid, Ma&s;ter, rebuke thy Di&s;ciples,</HI> (but) <HI>he an&s;wered, I tell you, if the&s;e &s;hould hold their peace, the &s;tones would im|mediately cry out:</HI> Here we &s;ee our Lord doth countenance the multitude in joining with their voice to prai&s;e God, and &s;ilences tho&s;e that find fault too.</P>
<P>And though true Believers can do it be&s;t, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 145. 10. yet it is the Duty of others al&s;o to prai&s;e and glorifie God, and they are capa|ble of doing it; and in Scripture, yea, in the New Te&s;tament, we often read that they did prai&s;e and glorifie him, <HI>Luk. 18. 43. Mat.</HI> 9. 8. and 15. 31. <HI>Mar. 2. 12. Luk.</HI> 4. 15. and 5. 26. and 7. 16. and 19. 37. And Natural Wor&s;hip, performed by Men as Men, may have a kind of acceptance, &s;o far as to the diverting of tem|poral Judgments, as in the Ca&s;e of <HI>Ahab</HI> and the <HI>Ninevites, 1 Kings 21. 29. Jonah</HI> 3. chap. &s;ee al&s;o 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 12. 12, 14. And when Men, <HI>as Men,</HI> or as rational Creatures, do perform
<PB N="31" REF="18"> Wor&s;hip to God as Creator, Pre&s;erver, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> may not the Spirit of God come and work Faith in their Hearts, and enable them <HI>as Believers</HI> to Wor&s;hip God in Chri&s;t? is not this often done for them when they are hearing the Go|&s;pel? And we have known it done when they have been &s;inging too, as was &s;aid, The Word of God &s;ung, as well as preached, may be made powerful to Conver&s;ion. As to that <HI>Objection</HI> of making the words their own, and &s;o <HI>&s;inging</HI> of a lye, there is nothing in it; and upon the &s;ame ground you may as well deny them the <HI>reading</HI> of P&s;alms, for then they &s;ay <HI>We, &V;s,</HI> and <HI>I,</HI> as much as in <HI>&s;inging</HI> of them, &s;o you may as well &s;ay, they <HI>read</HI> a lye, as that they <HI>&s;ing</HI> a lye. But they that make the&s;e <HI>Objecti|ons,</HI> forget that Prayer and Prai&s;es are Natural Wor&s;hip, and &s;o the Duty of all Men; of Men as Men, and why they may not be pre&s;ent when we &s;ing, who&s;e Duty it is to &s;ing as well as our own, is worth the while to con&s;ider.</P>
<P>You &s;ay we mu&s;t not &s;ing P&s;alms when <HI>&V;n|believers</HI> are pre&s;ent; but the Prophet <HI>David</HI> being of another mind, it is but Ju&s;tice to hear both &s;ides: And it mu&s;t be confe&s;&s;ed that <HI>David</HI> hath one great Advantage on his &s;ide, (enough to &s;way with us) becau&s;e (accord|ing to 2 <HI>Pet. 1. 21.) He &s;pake as he was moved by the Holy Gho&s;t:</HI> And 2 <HI>Sam. 23. 2. The Spi|rit of the Lord &s;pake by him.</HI> Now then let us hear what he &s;aith as to &s;inging when Unbelie|vers are pre&s;ent, <HI>P&s;al. 108. 1, 3. I will &s;ing and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ive prai&s;e&mdash;I will prai&s;e thee, O Lord, among
<PB N="32" REF="19"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">le, and I will &s;ing prai&s;es unto thee among <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">:</HI> P&s;al. 18. 49. <HI>Therefore will I give <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> thee, O Lord,</HI> among the Heathen, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>prai&s;es unto thy Name:</HI> P&s;al. 35. 18. <HI>I will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">&s;e thee</HI> among much People: <HI>P&s;al. 96. 1, 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Sing unto the Lord, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">clare his Glory</HI> among the Heathen, <HI>and his wonders</HI> among all People: <HI>P&s;al. 109. 30. I will greatly prai&s;e the Lord with my mouth, yea, I will prai&s;e him a|mong the</HI> multitude: <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 57. 7, 8, 9, 10. He doth not &s;peak doubtfully, but &s;aith, <HI>My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed, I will &s;ing and give prai&s;e, awake up my Glory&mdash;I will prai&s;e thee, O Lord,</HI> among the People, <HI>I will &s;ing unto thee</HI> among the Nations, <HI>for thy Mer|cy is great unto the Heavens, and thy Truth unto the Clouds.</HI> Is not his Mercy as great now, and hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Truth the &s;ame as it was? why then upon the &s;ame grounds are not our Hearts thus fixed to &s;ing his prai&s;e <HI>among the people?</HI> 2 Sam. 22. 50. <HI>I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord,</HI> among the Heathen, <HI>and I will &s;ing prai&s;e unto thy Name.</HI></P>
<P>There is one further End and U&s;e of Singing which cannot be an&s;wered, unle&s;s the Church in their publick Wor&s;hip may &s;ing when <HI>&V;n|believers</HI> are pre&s;ent, which is to declare and &s;hew forth the Name and Works of God un|to them, <HI>I&s;a. 12. 4, 5. In that day &s;hall ye &s;ay, prai&s;e the Lord, proclaim his Name,</HI> (&s;o the Mar|gin) <HI>declare his doings</HI> among the People, <HI>make mention that his Name is exalted; &s;ing unto the Lord, for he hath done excellent things;</HI> that is,
<PB N="33" REF="19"> for our Salvation, as appears by the whole Chapter, (which is a Song of the Church) read the <HI>2d.</HI> and <HI>3d. ver&s;es:</HI> P&s;al. 9. 1, 2, 11. <HI>I will prai&s;e thee, O Lord, with my whole heart, I will &s;hew forth all thy marvellous works&mdash;I will &s;ing prai&s;e to thy Name, O thou mo&s;t high&mdash;Sing prai&s;es to the Lord which dwelleth in Zion, declare among the people his doings:</HI> P&s;al. 96. 1, 2, 3, 4. <HI>Sing unto the Lord a new &s;ong, &s;ing unto the Lord all the Earth, &s;ing unto the Lord, ble&s;s his Name, &s;hew forth his &s;alvation from day to day, declare his Glory</HI> among the Heathen, <HI>his Wonders</HI> among all People; <HI>For the Lord is great, and greatly to be prai&s;ed:</HI> P&s;al. 105. 1, 2. <HI>Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his Name, make known his Deeds</HI> among the People; <HI>Sing unto him, &s;ing P&s;alms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.</HI> Now the&s;e Texts do prove that it is the Duty of the Church to &s;ing P&s;alms when others are pre|&s;ent, and for glorious Ends too.</P>
<P><HI>Heb.</HI> 3. 2, 5. tells us twice over, that <HI>Mo&s;es was faithful in the Hou&s;e of God,</HI> yet he could &s;ing when a <HI>mixed company</HI> were pre&s;ent; yea, he was Head and Chief in the Work, when the <HI>whole</HI> Congregation of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> Men and Wo|men, &s;ung that Song in <HI>Exod.</HI> 15. and there was then a <HI>mixed company</HI> with them, as you may &s;ee, if you compare <HI>Exod.</HI> 12. 37, 38. with <HI>Numb.</HI> 11. 4.</P>
<P>The <HI>Second of Ho&s;ea</HI> is a Prophecy of New-Te&s;tament-Times, as is plain by comparing the <HI>23d.</HI> ver&s;e with <HI>Rom.</HI> 9. 26. and with 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 10. and in this <HI>&s;econd of Ho&s;ea</HI> we are very
<PB N="34" REF="20"> plainly and clearly re&s;olved in the&s;e matters, <HI>ver&s;e 15. And I will give her her Vineyards from thence, and the Valley of Achor for a door of Hope, and &s;he &s;hall &s;ing there as in the days of her Youth, and as in the day when &s;he came up out of the Land of Egypt:</HI> This Text (as well as many others) doth &s;hew, that the true Church is always one and the &s;ame, both under the Old and New Te|&s;tament: <HI>Give her her Vineyards,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and &s;he &s;hall &s;ing there, as in the days of her youth, and as when &s;he came up,</HI> &amp;c. Only during the time of the Old Te&s;tament &s;he was in the days of her youth, and under the Old Church Covenant or Di&s;pen&s;ation, &s;ee <HI>Gal.</HI> 3. 28, 29. with <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 1, 2, 3, 24, 25, 26. and this fir&s;t Covenant is &s;aid to be the Covenant with them in the days of their youth, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16. 60. under which Covenant they were <HI>As Children under age, until Chri&s;t came,</HI> Gal. 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. or until the New-Te&s;tament-times, &s;ignified by the <HI>Gentiles</HI> Con|ver&s;ion, whom the <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> Church was to receive as her Si&s;ters, but not by their Covenant, that's now at an end, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16. 60, 61. and then again <HI>ver.</HI> 62. the Covenant is promis'd to be e&s;tabli&s;h|ed as everla&s;ting, never to give place to any more New Di&s;pen&s;ations: And &s;he &s;hall &s;ing <HI>There as in the days of her youth;</HI> here it is &s;aid the Church did &s;ing <HI>In the days of her youth,</HI> under the Old Te&s;tament, which is abundantly proved in the Scriptures. But now in this Text here is <HI>another time</HI> &s;et for the Church to &s;ing, and put after, and by way of di&s;tinction from the days of <HI>her youth,</HI> (or being under the Old Te&s;ta|ment)
<PB N="35" REF="20"> which mu&s;t mean the time of her <HI>full age</HI> under the New; <HI>She &s;hall &s;ing there as in the days of her youth:</HI> And then leads us to a Particu|lar In&s;tance of her &s;inging, and <HI>as in the day</HI> (not days, as the other) <HI>when &s;he came up out of the Land of Egypt,</HI> an account of which we have in the 14, &amp; 15. Chapters of <HI>Exod.</HI> neither is this the only place where the Valley of <HI>Achor</HI> is put to &s;ignifie the <HI>Days of the Go&s;pel,</HI> &s;ee <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 65. 1, 10. and as it was the place or door where the People of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> fir&s;t entered <HI>Canaan,</HI> and &s;o gave them hope of Re&s;t in the good Land, &s;o is it here called a <HI>Door of Hope</HI> to us under the New Te&s;tament, compare it with <HI>Acts</HI> 14. 27. and with 1 <HI>Cor. 16. 8, 9. And &s;he &s;hall &s;ing there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when &s;he came up out of the Land of Egypt:</HI> This one Scrip|ture doth fully an&s;wer all the former <HI>Objections</HI> again&s;t &s;inging of P&s;alms. <HI>1&s;t.</HI> They &s;ung when they came up out of the Land of <HI>Egypt, Exod.</HI> 15. and they &s;ung often under the Old Te&s;ta|ment, the days of their <HI>youth,</HI> and this Text bids us &s;ing <HI>as they did;</HI> here is a <HI>Rule for &s;ing|ing.</HI> 2dly. <HI>We mu&s;t go to the Old Te&s;tament for Wor&s;hip;</HI> for we are bid to &s;ing as they did, therefore we mu&s;t go thither to &s;ee how they &s;ung. <HI>3dly.</HI> This proves <HI>they &s;ung in the New Te&s;tament,</HI> for here it is foretold they &s;hould &s;ing as the Church did under the Old Te&s;tament, and the <HI>Scripture mu&s;t be fulfilled:</HI> And as they &s;ung when they came up out of <HI>Egypt,</HI> accord|ingly they are &s;aid to &s;ing the Song of <HI>Mo&s;es, Rivel.</HI> 15. 3. 4ly. <HI>We are to &s;ing with a form, and
<PB N="36" REF="21"> a Scripture one too,</HI> for we are to &s;ing as they did, and they &s;ung with the words of <HI>David,</HI> and of <HI>A&s;aph</HI> the Seer; and the Song of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is &s;ung, <HI>Revel.</HI> 15. 3. 5ly. <HI>We are to &s;ing notwith|&s;tanding the pre&s;ence of &V;nbelievers;</HI> for they did &s;o, (as hath been proved) and we are to &s;ing as they did.</P>
<P>Objection. <HI>&V;nder the Old Te&s;tament &s;ometimes they made u&s;e of In&s;truments of Mu&s;ick when they &s;ung:</HI> And if we are to &s;ing as they did, then we mu&s;t have Mu&s;ick too. <HI>An&s;wer.</HI> Yes, &s;o we mu&s;t have our <HI>Harps,</HI> when we &s;ing P&s;alms, <HI>Rev.</HI> 5. 8, 9. &amp; 14. 2, 3. &amp; 15. 2, 3, 4. that is, <HI>Me|lody in our Hearts,</HI> which their Mu&s;ick did typi|fie, <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. which place &s;eems purpo&s;ely in|tended to prevent, or to an&s;wer this <HI>Obje|ction:</HI> For the&s;e <HI>Ephe&s;ians,</HI> (and &s;o others al&s;o) might have &s;aid, you exhort us to &s;ing P&s;alms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, which are the Titles of the Scripture P&s;alms, but under the Old Te&s;tament &s;ome of the&s;e were &s;ung with Mu|&s;ick, mu&s;t not we &s;ing them with Mu&s;ick too? Yes, &s;ays the Apo&s;tle, but let it be in your <HI>Heart, Singing and making melody in your Heart to the Lord:</HI> This place doth (as we think) repeal, and take away the u&s;e of all outward Mu&s;ick, except that of the Voice; the New Te&s;tament requires only fit <HI>Matter,</HI> the <HI>Heart</HI> and <HI>Voice</HI> in &s;inging, and where the&s;e <HI>three</HI> are, the Exhortations to &s;inging are an&s;wer|ed and obeyed. But ob&s;erve, that this <HI>Objection</HI> is not now made with de&s;ign to bring <HI>Mu&s;ick</HI> into the Church, but to ca&s;t <HI>&s;inging</HI> out: They
<PB N="37" REF="21"> &s;ay, Mu&s;ick was u&s;ed when they &s;ung, but Mu|&s;ick is at an end, and why not &s;inging too? If this be good arguing, go on; <HI>Incen&s;e</HI> was u&s;ed with <HI>Prayer,</HI> but if we mu&s;t not offer <HI>Incen&s;e</HI> now, but that is at an end, then why not <HI>praying</HI> too, <HI>Luke</HI> 1. 9, 10, 11. according to this way of rea&s;oning you may quickly have done with <HI>prayer</HI> as well as <HI>&s;inging.</HI> Mu&s;ick was but an outward <HI>Ceremony,</HI> or Type, of that Joy of Heart with which the &s;ame P&s;alms were to be &s;ung under the New Te&s;tament, <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. and was no <HI>e&s;&s;ential</HI> part of this Ordinance of &s;inging of P&s;alms; and all the ends and u&s;es of &s;inging of P&s;alms are pre&s;erved and an&s;wered without it; be&s;ides we find the Ordinance of &s;inging often commanded and practi&s;ed in the New Te&s;tament, but we never find there a Command to &s;ing with Mu&s;ick, nor one Ex|ample that it was practi&s;ed. Nay, indeed we do not find that <HI>In&s;trumental Mu&s;ick</HI> was ever practi&s;ed under the <HI>Old Te&s;tament</HI> in their <HI>Syna|gogues;</HI> to which, rather than to the <HI>Temple,</HI> our <HI>Meeting-hou&s;es</HI> an&s;wer; and yet in their <HI>Syna|gogues</HI> they had all <HI>natural Wor&s;hip,</HI> and &s;ome Learned Men do judge that their Mu&s;ick was an Appendix to their Sacrifices. It is plain, that by the <HI>ordinary</HI> and <HI>&s;tanding</HI> Rule, all their <HI>Mu&s;ick joined with Wor&s;hip was fixed to the Taberna|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le, and afterwards to the Temple, where all their &s;acri|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ces were to be offered, and therefore it cea&s;ed with their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea&s;ing under the New Te&s;tament:</HI> A thing &s;o clear <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o our fir&s;t Reformers, that they reflect by name <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pon the Piping, Singing, Chaunting and Play|ing
<PB N="38" REF="22"> upon the Organs u&s;ed in Churches in times of Popery, as things for our Deliverance from which we ought greatly to rejoice, and give God thanks; and things which were &s;orely di&s;|plea&s;ing to God, and filthily defiled his Holy Hou&s;e, and his Place of Prayer; and things for which he hath ju&s;tly de&s;troyed many Nations: The&s;e are their very words in the <HI>2d.</HI> part of the Sermon of the Place and Time of Prayer, in the Second Book of <HI>Homilies,</HI> Hom. 8. and the 39 Articles do &s;ay, the <HI>Homilies</HI> contain godly and whol&s;ome Doctrine.</P>
<P>Sixthly, <HI>We may prai&s;e God in Prayer, therefore what need is there of a di&s;tinct Ordinance for it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> Becau&s;e the Wi&s;dom of our Lord hath though meet &s;o to appoint it, who com|mands us not only to <HI>prai&s;e,</HI> but al&s;o to <HI>&s;ing</HI> his Prai&s;e; and it is matter of &s;hame to us not to have <HI>Re&s;pect to all his Commands,</HI> P&s;al. 119. 6. Luke 1. 6. John 14. 15. and 15. 14. Cannot you remember and think on the Death and Suf|ferings of our Lord Je&s;us when you pray, hear, or read? and is it not one great end of the Or|dinance of Preaching to &s;hew forth the&s;e? yet do you not al&s;o come to the <HI>Lords Table,</HI> as ano|ther <HI>di&s;tinct</HI> Ordinance, appointed e&s;pecially for the remembrance of him, and to &s;hew forth his Death? 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 24, 25, 26. So likewi&s;e here we may, and we ought to prai&s;e God in Prayer, and al&s;o in all we do, but &s;inging o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> P&s;alms is an Ordinance appointed in an e&s;pe|cial manner for the celebrating of his Prai&s;e
<PB N="39" REF="22"> by the Congregation, with one joint Con&s;ent of Heart and Voice.</P>
<P>God hath taken many ways for the manife&s;t|ing of his great and everla&s;ting Love, and of his rich, free and di&s;tingui&s;hing Grace to his Children and People, and &s;hall any of them be &s;o di&s;ingenuous as to &s;ay, what need is there of a di&s;tinct Ordinance for to prai&s;e him, be|cau&s;e they can do it in Prayer? <HI>Do ye thus re|quite the Lord?</HI> Deut. 32. 6.</P>
<P>When our Lord Je&s;us in&s;tituted the Supper, was not his praying and &s;inging two <HI>di&s;tinct</HI> things, and at two times? in <HI>Mat.</HI> 26. 27. it is &s;aid, he <HI>gave thanks,</HI> but in <HI>ver.</HI> 30. it is &s;aid <HI>they &s;ung,</HI> they are al&s;o di&s;tingui&s;hed <HI>Acts 16. 25. 1 Cor. 14. 15. James 5. 13. P&s;al.</HI> 42. 8.</P>
<P>And there are other <HI>&V;&s;es</HI> and <HI>Ends</HI> of <HI>&s;inging</HI> of P&s;alms than of <HI>Prayer,</HI> which proves they are two <HI>di&s;tinct</HI> Ordinances: When we <HI>pray</HI> we &s;peak to God only, <HI>Luke</HI> 11. 2. but when we <HI>&s;ing</HI> P&s;alms, we al&s;o &s;peak to our &s;elves in P&s;alms, <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. and teach and admoni&s;h one another in P&s;alms, <HI>Col.</HI> 3. 16.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides all this, If your &s;inging of Prai&s;e be included in Prayer, as ye did plead, then you mu&s;t all pray together with the voice, for &s;o we are to &s;ing, <HI>I&s;a. 52. 8, 9. With the voice to|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ether &s;hall they &s;ing, and &s;ing together,</HI> &amp;c. &s;ee al&s;o <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 95. 1, 2. and 100. 1, 2. This <HI>52d.</HI> of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;a.</HI> is a Prophe&s;ie of New-Te&s;tament-times, as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s clear by comparing the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"><HI>th.</HI> ver&s;e with <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. 15. and the 10 <HI>v.</HI> with <HI>Luk.</HI> 3. 6. and the 15 <HI>v.</HI> with <HI>Rom.</HI> 15. 21. and it is a Prophe&s;ie that &s;peaks
<PB N="40" REF="23"> not only of the Apo&s;tles days, but al&s;o doth rea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto our day, and as to Wor&s;hip too; f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this compare the <HI>11th.</HI> ver&s;e with <HI>Rev.</HI> 18. and with 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 17.</P>
<P>It being clear by the&s;e Quotations in t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> New Te&s;tament, that this <HI>52d.</HI> of <HI>I&s;a.</HI> do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;peak to us now under the New Te&s;tamen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the <HI>8th.</HI> and <HI>9th.</HI> ver&s;es do fully prove th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>&s;inging,</HI> and &s;inging with the <HI>voice,</HI> and &s;ingi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with the voice <HI>together,</HI> is New Te&s;tament Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;hip, and that it is our duty to be found <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the practice of it; <HI>With the voice together &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they &s;ing, and &s;ing together.</HI> Yea, it foretold <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> us now in New-Te&s;tament-times, not only th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it &s;hould be our Duty thus to &s;ing with the voi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> together, but al&s;o that we &s;hould be in the pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ctice of it; <HI>With the voice together &s;hall they &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> It al&s;o &s;hews that it is for want of Light in t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Antipaedobapti&s;ts</HI> that they do not &s;ing with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and al&s;o it contains in it a Promi&s;e that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hall &s;ee into their Duty, and come and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with us; <HI>Together &s;hall they &s;ing, for they &s;hall &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &amp;c. This Promi&s;e is already in part fullfille<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for &s;everal of their Congregations have of la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;een into, and publickly practi&s;ed this Ord<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+nance of &s;inging of P&s;alms: <HI>Thy watchmen &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> lift up the voice, with the voice together &s;hall th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ing, for they &s;hall &s;ee eye to eye.</HI> Some peradve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ture (that are apt at <HI>Objections</HI>) may here <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ject,</HI> that this is &s;poke of the Watch&punc; men, or <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ficers</HI> of the Church, and not of the whole <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+gregations</HI> &s;eeing and &s;inging together. <HI>An&s;we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> (1.) If the <HI>Officers</HI> of the Church do &s;ee and pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ctice
<PB N="41" REF="23"> their Duty, we hope they will al&s;o be faithful to their Light, and in&s;truct the Peo|ple into theirs, and &s;o it may quickly come to be practi&s;ed by the Congregation. (2.) Read the <HI>2d.</HI> and <HI>3d.</HI> Chapters of <HI>Revel.</HI> with Chapter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 11. and you will find that what was &s;poke to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Officers,</HI> or Angels of the &s;even Churches, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as &s;poke al&s;o to the <HI>Churches</HI> them&s;elves: So <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">kewi&s;e here, and thus in the next ver&s;e, the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eople &s;ignified by <HI>wa&s;te places,</HI> are command|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d to &s;ing: <HI>Break forth into joy, &s;ing together ye <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;te places of Jeru&s;alem, for the Lord hath com|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ted his people, he hath redeemed Jeru&s;alem,</HI> ver. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>All the ends of the Earth &s;hall &s;ee the &s;alvation of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> God,</HI> ver. 15. <HI>So &s;hall he &s;prinkle many Nations:</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he&s;e are New-Te&s;tament-times be &s;ure.</P>
<P>Now Bretheren pray con&s;ider &s;eriou&s;ly, whe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er you and your party (for the&s;e many <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ars) have not been &s;triving again&s;t the Scrip|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">res, and al&s;o again&s;t all the other Churches <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;t, in their concurrent Judgment and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">actice as to <HI>Singing of P&s;alms? What, came <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Word of God out from you? or came it unto you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y?</HI> 1 Cor. 14. 36&punc;</P>
<P>Thus <HI>Brethren</HI> we have (as you de&s;ired) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t to the &s;earch of the Scriptures, and from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> have <HI>An&s;wer'd</HI> (as we tru&s;t) your <HI>Objecti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> again&s;t &s;inging of P&s;alms. But now to con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that &s;ence of the words <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Spiritual Songs,</HI> in which we have took and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e u&s;e of them, <HI>Eph. 5. 19. Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 16. and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to an&s;wer a further <HI>Objection,</HI> which tho'
<PB N="42" REF="24"> made by others, yet doth concern us, and hath a tendency to lead us back to Mens <HI>Inventions</HI> and <HI>Will-wor&s;hip;</HI> we &s;hall therefore make u&s;e of the Te&s;timonies of &s;everal, who as to their Abilities and al&s;o faithfulne&s;s have obtained a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> good report in the Church of God. Only fir&s;t Ob&s;erve, That as there are &s;carce any among&s;t tho&s;e who call them&s;elves <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> that &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> up any thing of Mens Inventions in the Wor|&s;hip of God, but pre&s;ently they will plea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Scripture-rule for it, and rather than want <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Rule, their fruitful fancy will imagine one t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> them&s;elves; &s;o tho&s;e who plead for, and pra+cti&s;e their own invented Forms for publick &s;ing+ing in the Church, &s;ay, that we read of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> P&s;alms of <HI>David,</HI> and of the Songs of <HI>Mo&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Deborah, Solomon,</HI> &amp;c. but in <HI>Eph.</HI> 5. 19. an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 16. we are exhorted to &s;ing not onl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>P&s;alms</HI> and <HI>Songs,</HI> but <HI>Hymns</HI> al&s;o, and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> plead that by <HI>Hymns</HI> is meant &s;uch Forms <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> are invented and compo&s;ed by the comm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gifts of Men, which are now in the Churc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and accordingly to bring their own compo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Forms under a &s;uppo&s;ed Rule, they call the <HI>Hymns,</HI> not P&s;alms, nor Songs; and when th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> would &s;ing one, they &s;ay, let us &s;ing a <HI>Hym<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> which when &s;ome out of Con&s;cience have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fu&s;ed, they have &s;aid, Why do you &s;cruple &s;ing <HI>Hymns?</HI> we have a Command for it, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> quoting <HI>Eph. 5. 19. Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 16. but can little or no command there for &s;inging of Scr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ture P&s;alms and Songs, (yet confe&s;s them to meant) as appears by their practi&s;e, which
<PB N="43" REF="24"> to &s;ing generally out of their <HI>Hymn</HI>-Books (as they are called) but very rarely out of the <HI>P&s;alm</HI>-Book.</P>
<P>We cannot believe that the Apo&s;tle in his Exhortations to &s;ing <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns</HI> and <HI>Spiritual Songs,</HI> would have placed the Word <HI>Hymns</HI> be|twixt the Words <HI>P&s;alms</HI> and <HI>Songs,</HI> if by <HI>P&s;alms</HI> and <HI>Songs</HI> he had meant Scripture ones, and by <HI>Hymns</HI> quite other things, and e&s;pecially becau&s;e he hath both in <HI>Eph. 5. 19. Col.</HI> 3. 16. kept the &s;ame order, putting the word <HI>Hymns</HI> in the middle, and that without the lea&s;t note of di|&s;tinction. If <HI>Paul</HI> by P&s;alms, Hymns and Songs, or any one of them, doth intend any thing more than <HI>James</HI> doth by P&s;alms, then he di|rects to &s;ing other and different matter than <HI>James</HI> doth, which cannot be, becau&s;e both were guided by the &s;ame Spirit.</P>
<P>Now to prove that by the word <HI>Hymns</HI> (as well as by P&s;alms and Songs) is meant <HI>Scrip|ture P&s;alms,</HI> We &s;hall (as was &s;aid) produce the Te&s;timony of &s;ome both Learned and Faith|ful Witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Henry Ain&s;worth</HI> (in his Preface before his Annotations on the P&s;alms) &s;aith, <Q REND="inline">This Book of <HI>P&s;alms</HI> (mo&s;t whereof <HI>David</HI> made) is a glorious Te&s;timony, wherein by manifold <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> and <HI>Hymns,</HI> and Spiritual <HI>Songs,</HI> he &s;et forth the Prai&s;es of God.</Q></P>
<P>And he tran&s;lates the Title of the <HI>145th. P&s;alm.</HI> <Q REND="inline"><HI>An Hymn of David,</HI> and in his Notes on the fir&s;t ver&s;e of this <HI>145th. P&s;alm,</HI> &s;aith, the whole Book in <HI>Hebrew</HI> is called <HI>The Book of Hymns.</HI></Q></P>
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<P>And he tran&s;lates the Title of the whole Book thus, <Q REND="inline"><HI>The Book of P&s;alms, or Hymns;</HI> &s;ee al&s;o his Notes on the Title of the <HI>P&s;alms.</HI></Q></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>John Cotton</HI> of <HI>New-England</HI> &s;aith, <Q REND="inline"><HI>Hymns</HI> is the general Title of the <HI>Book of P&s;alms,</HI> for though it be tran&s;lated the <HI>Book of P&s;alms,</HI> yet every one that know|eth that Language, knoweth the word is, The Book of <HI>Hymns; Cotton of &s;inging of P&s;alms,</HI> pag. 25. Printed <HI>London,</HI> 1647.</Q></P>
<P>And upon tho&s;e two Texts, <HI>Eph. 5. 19. Col.</HI> 3. 16. &s;aith he, <Q REND="inline">In both which pla|ces as the Apo&s;tle exhorteth us to &s;ing, &s;o he in&s;tructeth us what the <HI>matter</HI> of our Song &s;hould be, to wit, <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns,</HI> and Spiritual <HI>Songs.</HI> Now tho&s;e <HI>three</HI> be the very Titles of the Songs of <HI>David,</HI> as they are delivered to us by the Holy Gho&s;t him&s;elf, &s;ome of them are called <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Hymns,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Songs,</HI> now what rea&s;on can be given, why the Apo&s;tles &s;hould direct us in our &s;inging to the very Titles of <HI>David</HI>'s P&s;alms, if it were not his meaning that we &s;hould &s;ing them? <HI>Cotton of &s;inging,</HI> pag. 16.</Q></P>
<P>Again, he &s;aith, <Q REND="inline">The Apo&s;tle expre&s;ly nameth <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns,</HI> and Spiritual <HI>Songs,</HI> and they <HI>three</HI> are the very expre&s;s Titles of the P&s;alms in the P&s;alm-Book,
<PB N="45" REF="25"> now why he &s;hould direct them to the very Titles of <HI>David</HI>'s P&s;alms, and yet not mean the P&s;alms that bear tho&s;e Titles, can a good Con&s;cience give a good rea|&s;on for it? <HI>Cotton of &s;inging,</HI> pag. 17.</Q></P>
<P>Tho&s;e <HI>New-England</HI> Mini&s;ters who tran&s;lated the P&s;alms, Hymns, and Spi|ritual Songs (for &s;o they call them in the Title Page) of the Old and New Te&s;ta|ment into <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Meeter, in their Pre|face &s;ay, <Q REND="inline">The whole Church is com|manded to teach one another in all the &s;everal &s;orts of <HI>David</HI>'s P&s;alms, &s;ome being called by him&s;elf <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Hymns,</HI> &s;ome Spiritual <HI>Songs,</HI>&mdash;and if we are expre&s;ly commanded to &s;ing P&s;alms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, then either we mu&s;t &s;ing <HI>David</HI>'s P&s;alms, or el&s;e may affirm they are not Spiri|tual Songs; which being penned by an extraordinary Gift of the Spirit, for the &s;ake e&s;pecially of God's Spiritual <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> are not to be <HI>read</HI> and <HI>preached</HI> only (as other parts of Holy Writ) but to be <HI>&s;ung</HI> al&s;o, they are therefore mo&s;t &s;pi|ritual, and &s;till to be &s;ung of all the <HI>I&s;|rael</HI> of God; and verily as their &s;in is exceeding great, who will allow <HI>Da|vid</HI>'s P&s;alms (as the other Scriptures) to be <HI>read</HI> in Churches, (which is one
<PB N="46" REF="26"> end) but not to be <HI>preached</HI> al&s;o (which is another end) &s;o their &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> is crying before God who will allow them to be <HI>read</HI> and <HI>preached,</HI> but &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to deprive the Lord of the Glory of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> third end of them, which is to <HI>&s;ing</HI> them in Chri&s;tian Churches.&mdash;Mu&s;t the or+dinary Gi&s;ts of a private Man quenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Spirit, &s;till &s;peaking to us by the ex+traordinary Gifts of his Servant <HI>David</HI> There is not the lea&s;t foot-&s;tep of Ex+ample, or Precept, or Colour of Rea&s;on for &s;uch a bold practice.&mdash;Speakin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Man's bringing into the Church &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> forms of P&s;alms of his own Inventio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for which (&s;ay they) we find no Wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+rant or Pre&s;ident in any ordinary Off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+cers of the Church throughout the Scrip+tures,&mdash;The Book of P&s;alms is &s;o com+pleat a Sy&s;tem of P&s;alms, which the Ho+ly Gho&s;t him&s;elf in infinite Wi&s;dom hat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> made to &s;uit all the Conditions, Nece&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ties, Temptations, Affections, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in all ages (as mo&s;t of all our Interpre+ters on the <HI>P&s;alms</HI> have fully and particu+larly cleared) therefore by this the Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;eemeth to &s;top all Mens Mouths an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Minds, ordinarily to compile or &s;ing an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> other <HI>P&s;alms</HI> (under colour that the o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ca&s;ions and conditions of the Church a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="47" REF="26"> new, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>) for the publick u&s;e of the Church, &s;eeing let our condition be what it will, the Lord him&s;elf hath &s;up|plied us with far better.</Q></P>
<P>The next Te&s;timony is, the Judgment of a Cloud of Witne&s;&s;es, in their Epi&s;tle before the <HI>Scotch</HI> Tran&s;lation of the P&s;alms, where Dr. <HI>Owen,</HI> Dr. <HI>Manton,</HI> Dr. <HI>Langley,</HI> Mr. <HI>Poole,</HI> with many more, (in all twen|ty &s;ix Mini&s;ters) give their Judgment in the&s;e words: <Q REND="inline">To u&s;e <HI>David</HI>'s P&s;alms &s;eem plainly intended by tho&s;e Terms of <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> and <HI>Hymns,</HI> and Spiritual <HI>Songs,</HI> which the Apo&s;tle u&s;eth <HI>Eph. 5. 19. Col.</HI> 3. 16.</Q></P>
<P>In <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI>'s time they thus under|&s;tood the word <HI>Hymn,</HI> and &s;ung their <HI>Hymns</HI> out of the Book of P&s;alms, as ap|peareth by his own words, cited by <HI>Cal|vin:</HI> <Q REND="inline">One <HI>Hillarie</HI> (&s;aith he) did in every place where&s;oever he could, with malicious blaming rail at the manner,&mdash;that the <HI>Hymns</HI> &s;hould be pro|nounced out of the Book of P&s;alms, him (&s;aith <HI>Augu&s;tin</HI>) I an&s;wered, <HI>Calvins</HI> In&s;tit. Book 3. Chap. 20. Sect. 32.</Q></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Cuthbert Sidenham,</HI> in his excellent Di&s;cour&s;e of &s;inging of P&s;alms, doth &s;ay: <Q REND="inline">He finds the three <HI>Hebrew</HI> Words that an&s;wer to <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns,</HI> and <HI>Songs,</HI>
<PB N="48" REF="27"> u&s;ed in general as the Titles of <HI>David</HI>'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> P&s;alms, and that &s;ometimes two of them and &s;ometimes all three of them are put as the Title of one and the &s;ame P&s;alm, which he proves at large: An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></Q> al&s;o, that the New Te&s;tament &s;peaks o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> no other <HI>P&s;alms, Hymns,</HI> or <HI>Spiritual Songs</HI> but tho&s;e of <HI>David, A&s;aph,</HI> and other &s;uch like <HI>in&s;pired</HI> P&s;alms, Hymns, and Spiritua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Songs, which are writ in the <HI>Scriptures</HI> and that it is <HI>Will-wor&s;hip,</HI> and <HI>Antichri&s;tian</HI> to introduce an Ordinance to be practi+&s;ed among the Churches, which hath not been commanded by Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles, which he proves tho&s;e do who ca&s;t off <HI>Scripture</HI> P&s;alms, Hymns, and Spi+ritual Songs, and in&s;tead thereof do bring into the Congregation their own <HI>invent+ed</HI> forms, to be &s;ung in the publick Wor|&s;hip of God: The&s;e things being too large to tran&s;cribe, &s;ee his own proofs, in his own Words, in his Di&s;cour&s;e of &s;inging of P&s;alms, bound up with, and belong|ing to his Book of Infant-Bapti&s;m.</P>
<CLOSER>Now to him that <HI>Inhabiteth the Prai&s;es o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> I&s;rael, be Glory in the Church by Chri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Je&s;us, throughout all Ages, World with+out end,</HI> Amen. <HI>P&s;al. 22. 3. Eph.</HI> 3. 21.</CLOSER>
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