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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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Object. Indeed the gift of Tongues, wherein these Psalms seem to be uttered, was extraordinary, but it doth not follow that the gift of composing those Psalms was an extraordinary gift, no more then prayer wherewith it was joined, ver. 15. or Prophecy, ver. 26. Singing Psalms and Prophecy differing no otherwise then Poetry and Prose; and if it was extraordinary in the Corinthians, we have no warrant for public ordinary ⟨p. 35⟩singing in the New Testament from any example.
Object. Indeed the gift of Tongues, wherein these Psalmes seeme to be uttered, was extraordinary, but it doth not follow that the gift of composing those Psalmes was an extraordinary gift, no more then prayer wherewith it was joyned, ver. 15. or Prophecy, ver. 26. Singing Psalmes and Prophecy differing no otherwise then Poetry and Prose; and if it was extraordinary in the Corinthians, wee have no warrant for publique ordinary ⟨p. 35⟩singing in the New Testament from any example.
Answ. 1. As the gift of Tongues was extraordinary, so was every Ordinance dispensed in it, whether Prayer, or Psalm. or Prophecy, all of them extraordinary, both for sublimity of matter, (in the Spirit he speaketh Mysteries, ver. 2.) and for power and demonstration of the Spirit, and for suddenness and dexterity of utterance without previous study, or meditation, as Acts 2.4.11. What though there be an ordinary gift of Prayer and Prophesying, as well as of singing? Yet nevertheless the Apostles and Prophets had an extraordinary gift of Prayer and Prophesying: and so had those Corinthians also an extraordinary gift (though in less measure) of Praying and Prophesying and Singing also.
Answ. 1. As the gift of Tongues was extraordinary, so was every Ordinance dispensed in it, whether Prayer, or Psalme. or Prophecy, all of them extraordinary, both for sublimity of matter, (in the Spirit he speaketh Mysteries, ver. 2.) and for power and demonstration of the Spirit, and for suddennesse and dexteritie of utterance without previous study, or meditation, as