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

Nor is there any resemblance between putting the Ark upon a Cart to be carried by Oxen, which should have been carried by Levites, and the permitting of men out of the Church to join in singing the Praises of the Lord. For neither do the members of the Church (to whom the Lord hath chiefly committed the singing forth of his praises) lay aside this duty, and leave it to Non-Members, (as the Levites laid aside the carrying of the Ark, and left in the Cart and Oxen:) neither are Non-Members as a Cart and Oxen, upon whom this duty was never laid: But are all of them enjoined, as to hear his Word▪ and to call upon his Name, so to sing forth the praises due unto his Name from all his creatures. There is much more just cause of fear, lest this new opinion of Rejecting of singing of Davids Psalms, and disallowing any Psalms to be sung, but such as are invented by ordinary common ⟨p. 50⟩gifts, and the same to be sung only by them that invent them, least this new Opinion, I say, be worse then the new Cart of the Philistines; for that was to carry the Ark of God to his place; but this new Opinion tendeth to carry this Ordinance of singing Psalms out of the Country. And there is the like cause of fear least this over-prizing our personal spiritual common gifts, and the Psalms indited by them, above the Psalms of David, be not indeed the erecting of a golden calf, in stead of the Cherubims of the Tabernacle.

Nor is there any resemblance between putting the Arke upon a Cart to be carried by Oxen, which should have been carried by Levites, and the permitting of men out of the Church to joyne in singing the Praises of the Lord. For neither doe the members of the Church (to whom the Lord hath chiefly committed the singing forth of his praises) lay aside this dutie, and leave it to Non-Members, (as the Levites laid aside the carrying of the Arke, and left in the Cart and Oxen:) neither are Non-Members as a Cart and Oxen, upon whom this dutie was never laid: But are all of them enjoyned, as to heare his Word▪ and to call upon his Name, so to sing forth the praises due unto his Name from all his creatures. There is much more just cause of feare, lest this new opinion of Rejecting of singing of Davids Psalmes, and disallowing any Psalmes to be sung, but such as are invented by ordinary common ⟨p. 50⟩