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Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…
Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. Another Instance is in the Tunes and Metre of Psalms, which we use as Subordinate Acts of Worship. It is but lately that the Churches used Metre and Melody of Tune; but Prose read with a loud Voice: yet I hope we are not Idolaters for our Metre and Melody: which I may say also of Church Music, which David used, and we may do, where it's Edifying; but it's no Institution now. Yea, when Paul directs the Church to use Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs; which is for singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord, and therefore it is Worship, which some men must indite and make.
7. Another Instance is in the Tunes and Metre of Psalms, which we use as Subordinate Acts of Worship. It is but lately that the Churches used Metre and Melody of Tune; but Prose read with a loud Voice: yet I hope we are not Idolaters for our Metre and Melody: which I may say also of Church Musick, which David used, and we may do, where it's Edifying; but it's no Institution now. Yea, when Paul directs the Church to use Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs; which is for singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord, and therefore it is Worship, which some men must indite and make.
8. Another Instance is, in the versions of the Psalms of David; where among many we may choose which seems best.
8. Another Instance is, in the versions of the Psalms of David; where among many we may chuse which seems best.
9. Another Instance is, in the public and private Reading of the Scriptures Translated: where every word is the work of man: God wrote it not in English, but in Hebrew and Greek; but man Translates it, some well, and some defectively; yet I hope, an English Bible is not an Idol.