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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
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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, (2 Sam. 23.2.) ⟨p. 28⟩What Spirit of the Lord was that, but the Spirit of the Lord Jesus? And what are then such Songs, but the Songs of the Lamb, through whose Redemption the Church and Saints enjoy all their deliverances? And surely, the Song of the Lamb, recorded (in Revel. 15.3, 4.) seemeth evidently to point at sundry Psalms of David, out of which it was compiled and collected, and which therefore were suitable and fit to be sung upon occasion of their victory over the Beast, especially with respect and reference to those special sentences, which were fetched from thence, though with some small variation, such as is wont to be found in all the Scriptures of the New Testament, quoted out of the old.
And as for the Song of the Lambe, 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 Aegypt, or Babylon, or from other enemies, may justly own and beare 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, (2 Sam. 23.2.) ⟨p. 28⟩What Spirit of the Lord was that, but the Spirit of the Lord Jesus? And what are then such Songs, but the Songs of the Lambe, through whose Redemption the Church and Saints enjoy all their deliverances? And surely, the Song of the Lambe, recorded (in Revel. 15.3, 4.) seemeth evidently to point at sundry Psalmes of David, out of which it was compiled and collected, and which therefore were suitable and fit to be sung upon occasion of their victory over the Beast, especially with respect and reference to those speciall sentences, which were fetched from thence, though with some small variation, such as is wont to be found in all the Scriptures of the New Testament, quoted out of the old.