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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.
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, Deut. 31.19.21, 22.29.
3. Some of these examples doe allow even wicked men and Apostates to sing, though it be to upbraide and convince their wickednesse. As that Song of Moses, Deut. 32. was appointed to be sung by the children of Israel, not onely in Canaan, but in their State of Apostasie, and calamitie, When evill should befall them in the latter dayes, Deut. 31.19.21, 22.29.
Object. 2. It is one of the peculiar privileges of the Church, that the public dispensation of the Word is committed only to them,