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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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Answ. 1. The Lord is as full of the Spirit now, and as able to furnish us with a Prophetical Spirit now to indict Prophetical Scriptures, as he did furnish the Prophets in the old Testament. But yet God thought it no dishonour to Christ to leave us the Scriptures of the old Prophets for our edification in the New Testament, as well as in the old. It is the same Spirit of the same Christ that spake by the Prophets of the old Testament, and speaketh in the Saints of the New. And it is no dishonour to Christ to dispense his word, and to guide the body of his Church, as well by the unity of the same Spirit, as by the variety of the divers gifts of the Spirit now. And though we do not exercise the glorious and various Administrations of the spiritual gifts of the New Testament, in the inditing of New Psalms, no more then in the inditing of new Scriptures. Yet we can neither sing the old Psalms of David, nor read the old Scriptures of the Prophets acceptably to God, nor comfortably to our selves without the exercise of the gracious and various spiritual gifts of the New Testament.
Answ. 1. The Lord is as full of the Spirit now, and as able to furnish us with a Propheticall Spirit now to endite Propheticall Scriptures, as he did furnish the Prophets in the old Testament. But yet God thought it no dishonour to Christ to leave us the Scriptures of the old Prophets for our edification in the New Testament, as well as in the old. It is the same Spirit of the same Christ that spake by the Prophets of the old Testament, and speaketh in the Saints of the New. And it is no dishonour to Christ to dispense his word, and to guide the body of his Church, as well by the unity of the same Spirit, as by the variety of the divers gifts of the Spirit now. And though we doe not exercise the glorious and various Administrations of the spirituall gifts of the New Testament, in the enditing of New Psalmes, no more then in the enditing of new Scriptures. Yet wee can neither sing the old Psalmes of David, nor read the old Scriptures of the Prophets acceptably to God, nor comfortably to our selves without the exercise of the gracious and various spirituall gifts of the New Testament.
Object. 11. We have examples in the New Testament, of exercising personal gifts, as well in singing, as in praying and Prophesying,