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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.
5. After the three hundred years after Christ were expired, yet not long after the times of Persecution returned in the days of Julian the Apostate, when the Christians of Antioch, together with the women and children, sang such Psalms of David as cursed and reproached Heathen Idols and Idolaters, Socrates Eccles. Histor. lib. 2. cap. 16. in Gn. cap. 18. Theodoret expresseth by name. Psal. 115. & Psal. 68. Histor. Eccles. lib. 3. cap. 17.
5. After the three hundred yeares after Christ were expired, yet not long after the times of Persecution returned in the dayes of Julian the Apostata, when the Christians of Antioch, together with the women and children, sang such Psalmes of David as cursed and reproached Heathen Idolls and Idolaters, Socrates Eccles. Histor. lib. 2. cap. 16. in Gn. cap. 18. Theodoret expresseth by name. Psal. 115. & Psal. 68. Histor. Eccles. lib. 3. cap. 17.
6. Although before the three hundred years were expired, we read in Eusebius, that one Nepos (though a Millenary) was well respected, as for other good gifts and works, so for divers Psalms and Hymns composed by him, (which some brethren did willingly use a long time after;) yet we suppose, that was such a ⟨p. 67⟩practise, as your self would not allow, to sing set forms of Psalms invented by men, and to continue to sing them after their departure, and in the mean time, to refuse set forms of Psalms indited by the Holy Ghost; as if the Psalms indited by an extraordinary measure of the Spirit, were more unclean, then the Psalms indited by the common gift of an Ordinary Elder or Brother.