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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.
Object. 4. The end of singing is to instruct, admonish, and comfort the Church: but the world must not instruct the Church, the Church having received sufficient gifts by Christs ascension to edify it self, Eph. 4.7. to 12. This were to borrow Jewels of the Egyptians to make a golden calf, and to put the Ark into a Cart, to be drawn by oxen, that should be carried by Levites.
Object. 4. The end of singing is to instruct, admonish, and comfort the Church: but the world must not instruct the Church, the Church having received sufficient gifts by Christs ascension to edifie it selfe, Eph. 4.7. to 12. This were to borrow Jewells of the Aegyptians to make a golden calfe, and to put the Arke into a Cart, to be drawne by oxen, that should be carried by Levites.
Answ. 1. The end of singing is not only to instruct, admonish, and comfort the Church, but such also as are godly, though out of the Church. Praise is comely for the upright, whether in the Church, or out of it. Nay further, the end of singing is not only to instruct, and admonish, and comfort the upright▪ but also to instruct, and convince, and reprove wicked, as hath been showed, Deut. 31.19.
Answ. 1. The end of singing is not onely to instruct, admonish, and comfort the Church, but such also as are godly, though out of the Church. Praise is comely for the upright, whether in the Church, or out of it. Nay further, the end of singing is not onely to instruct, and admonish, and comfort the upright▪ but also to instruct, and convince, and reprove wicked, as hath been shewed, Deut. 31.19.