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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
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.
Answ. No more now in the New Testament, then it was in the Old, when the Trumpeters and Singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising the Lord, and when they lift up their voice, with the Trumpeters, & Cymbals, and Instruments of Music▪ and praised the Lord, saying, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever, 2 Chron. 5.13. For then God showed his approbation and acceptance of that concourse and consent of so many voices together, by filling the house of the Lord with a Cloud, which was a gracious sign of his visible presence with them, and acceptance of them, and of their worship. And surely, If the concourse and consent of so many voices had been a confusion, doubtless it would ⟨p. 40⟩have been as much displeasing to God in the old Testament, as in the New. For God is not a God of confusion in the Churches of the Saints, whether of the New Testament, or of the old, 1 Cor. 14.33. And if our desire be, the will of God may be done on earth as it is done by the Angels in Heaven, we read of a multitude of an heavenly host of Angels, praising God, and saying, Glory be to God on High, &c. without any confusion.
Answ. No more now in the New Testament, then it was in the Old, when the Trumpeters and Singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising the Lord, and when they lift vp their voyce, with the Trumpeters, & Cymbals, and Instruments of Musick▪ and praised the Lord, saying, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever, 2 Chron. 5.13. For then God shewed his approbation and acceptance of that concourse and consent of so many voyces together, by filling the house of the Lord with a Cloud, which was a gracious signe of his visible presence with them, and acceptance of them, and of their worship. And surely, If the concourse and consent of so many voyces had been a confusion, doubtlesse it would ⟨p. 40⟩have been as much displeasing to God in the old Testament, as in the New. For God is not a God of confusion in the Churches of the Saints, whether of the New Testament, or of the old,