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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.
CHAP. VIII. Whether Women may sing as well as Men.
The second scruple about Singers is, Whether women may sing as well as men. For in this point there be some that deal with us, as Pharaoh dealt with the Israelites, who though he was at first utterly unwilling that any of them should go to sacrifice to the Lord in the Wilderness, yet being at length convinced that they must go, then he was content the men should go, but not the Women, Exod. 10.11. So here, some that were altogether against singing of Psalms at all with lively voice, yet being convinced, that it is a moral worship of God warranted in Scripture, then if there must be a Singing, one alone must sing, not all, (or if all) the Men only, and not the Women.
THe second scruple about Singers is, Whether women may sing as well as men. For in this point there be some that deale with us, as Pharaoh dealt with the Israelites, who though he was at first utterly unwilling that any of them should goe to sacrifice to the Lord in the Wildernesse, yet being at length convinced that they must goe, then hee was content the men should goe, but not the Women, Exod. 10.11. So here, some that were altogether against singing of Psalmes at all with lively voyce, yet being convinced, that it is a morall worship of God warranted in Scripture, then if there must be a Singing, one alone must sing, not all, (or if all) the Men onely, and not the Women.