Singing of Psalms a Gospel-ordinance, or, A TreatiseSinging of Psalmes a Gospel-ordinance, or, A Treatise

Answ. 1. All these examples prove no more, but what we willingly grant, and what in the former part of this discourse, we have been occasioned to maintain and prove, to wit, that it is lawful, not only for one man alone, but for a whole Church, Officers and Members, to sing the praises of the Lord in heart and voice together with one accord, and so much all these places do evince.

Answ. 1. All these examples prove no more, but what we willingly grant, and what in the former part of this discourse, we have been occasioned to maintaine and prove, to wit, that it is lawfull, not onely for one man alone, but for a whole Church, Officers and Members, to sing the praises of the Lord in heart and voyce together with one accord, and so much all these places doe evince.

2. We live not by examples only, but by precepts also. And evident precepts have been alleged already, for the general practise of Singing by all the sons of men upon the face of the earth.

2. We live not by examples onely, but by precepts also. And evident precepts have been alledged already, for the generall practise of Singing by all the sonnes of men upon the face of the earth.

3. Some of these examples do allow even wicked men and Apostates to sing, though it be to upbraid and convince their wickedness. As that Song of Moses, Deut. 32. was appointed to be sung by the children of Israel, not only in Canaan, but in their State of Apostasy, and calamity, When evil should befall them in the latter days,