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Singing of Psalms a Gospel-ordinance, or, A TreatiseSinging of Psalmes a Gospel-ordinance, or, A Treatise
Singing of Psalms a Gospel-ordinance, or, A Treatise wherein are handled these particulars 1. Touching the duty itself, 2. Touching the matter to be sung, 3. Touching the singers, 4. Touching the manner of singing / by John Cotton ...Singing of Psalmes a Gospel-ordinance, or, A Treatise wherein are handled these particulars 1. Touching the duty itselfe, 2. Touching the matter to be sung, 3. Touching the singers, 4. Touching the manner of singing / by John Cotton ...
London: printed for J.R., 1650
OF THE SINGING OF PSALMS. › Chapter 5OF THE SINGING OF PSALMES. › Chapter 5
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.
The Song of those who had gotten victory over the beast, (Rev. 15.) is said to be the Song of Moses and of the Lamb, ver. 3. And surely the matter of Moses Song, (Exod. 15.) might justly yield fit matter for the like Doxology (or thanksgiving) upon the like occasion: As the like did fall out in the year 88. Rome being spiritual Egypt, Rev. 11.8. And the Pope with his Prelates resembling Pharaoh with his Task-masters, and the Spanish Armada marching forth with the like pride and fury, to bring us back to the Egyptian bondage; and the Redemption from them all being alike miraculous; upon which miraculous deliverance, not only the matter of Moses Song, but the very words also were then fitly used, and still may be for a spiritual Song of thanksgiving unto the Lord, both for that and the like deliverances.
The Song of those who had gotten victory over the beast, (Rev. 15.) is said to be the Song of Moses and of the Lambe, ver. 3. And surely the matter of Moses Song, (Exod. 15.) might justly yeeld fit matter for the like Doxology (or thankesgiving) upon the like occasion: As the like did fall out in the yeare 88. Rome being spirituall Aegypt, Rev. 11.8. And the Pope with his Prelates resembling Pharaoh with his Task-masters, and the Spanish Armado marching forth with the like pride and fury, to bring us backe to the Aegyptian bondage; and the Redemption from them all being alike miraculous; upon which miraculous deliverance, not onely the matter of Moses Song, but the very words also were then fitly used, and still may be for a spirituall Song of thankesgiving unto the Lord, both for that and the like deliverances.
And as for the Song of the Lamb, which those that had victory over the Beast did sing surely all those Songs of David, which celebrate either his own deliverances from Saul, or the deliverance of the Church from Egypt, or Babylon, or from other enemies, may justly own and bear that Title. For when David acknowledgeth and professeth, that in his Songs, the Spirit of the Lord spake by him, and that his word was in his tongue, (