A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

7. We must sing in the Spirit. As we must pray in the Spirit, Jude v. 20. so we must sing in the Spirit; the Spirit must breathe, as well as Grace act, or the Voice sound in this Duty. Davenant well observes, they are called spiritual Songs, ratione Originis; in point of their Original: ¹the Spirit excites and impels the Soul to this holy Service; and he observes, that the Spirit is the prime Artificer in this work. Thus in the foregoing Verse to the Text, Ephes. 5.18. the Apostle adviseth us to be filled with the Spirit; and in the Text it self, he calls us to be singing of Psalms and Hymns, &c. When the Spirit fell upon the Apostles, Acts 2.1. then they spake those glorious things recorded; and so must we sing, being sublimated and raised with the Spirit. This Wind, as the Spirit is called, John 3.8. must fill our Organ,² before we can make any Music.

7. We must sing in the Spirit. As we must pray in the Spirit, Jude v. 20. so we must sing in the Spirit; the Spirit must breathe, as well as Grace act, or the Voice sound in this Duty. Davenant well observes, they are called spiritual Songs, ratione Originis; in point of their Original: ¹the Spirit excites and impels the Soul to this holy Service; and he observes, that the Spirit is the prime Artificer in this work. Thus in the foregoing Verse to the Text, Ephes. 5.18. the Apostle adviseth us to be filled with the Spirit; and in the Text it self, he calls us to be singing of Psalms and Hymns, &c. When the Spirit fell upon the Apostles, Acts 2.1