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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. 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.
Answ. 2. The end of singing, is not only to instruct, and convince, and edify men but also to praise and glorify God, Psal. 96.1, • Though the Church might be sufficient to edify it self: yet is it not sufficient to glorify God alone: which is a duty lying upon all the sons of men, yea in their kind, upon all the creatures.
Answ. 2. The end of singing, is not onely to instruct, and convince, and edifie men but also to praise and glorifie God, Psal. 96.1, • Though the Church might be sufficient to edifie it selfe: yet is it not sufficient to glorifie God alone: which is a duty lying upon all the sonnes of men, yea in their kinde, upon all the creatures.