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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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1. Either this, That any of those Psalms of David may be sung to the praise of the Lamb, out of which those words of praise are fetched (as when the people of God are said to have praised God with such a word in a Psalm, it is meant they sung the whole Psalm; as, 2 Chron. 5.13. & 20.21. Ezra. 3.11.) all of them pointing at Psalm 136.
1. Either this, That any of those Psalmes of David may be sung to the praise of the Lambe, out of which those words of praise are fetched (as when the people of God are said to have praised God with such a word in a Psalme, it is meant they sung the whole Psalme; as, 2 Chron. 5.13. & 20.21. Ezra. 3.11.) all of them pointing at Psalme 136.
Or else secondly, That it may be lawful upon special and extraordinary occasions, to compile a spiritual Song out of Davids words of praise dispersed in several Psalms of David, and other Psalmists in Scripture, and to sing them, composed together as a Psalm of praise unto the Lord. And both these willingly admit: For these are still the divine Meditations, and spiritual expressions of the holy men of God in Scripture, which God hath prepared for the setting forth of his own glory.
Or else secondly, That it may be lawfull upon speciall and extraordinary occasions, to compile a spirituall Song out of Davids words of praise dispersed in severall Psalmes of David, and other Psalmists in Scripture, and to sing them, composed together as a Psalme of praise unto the Lord. And both these willingly admit: For these are still the divine Meditations, and spirituall expressions of the holy men of God in Scripture, which God hath prepared for the setting forth of his own glory.