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

Neither do Forms of Gods Praise stop the breathing of the lively Gifts of Gods Spirit, when the Forms are no other, but such as were indited by the immediate Inspiration of the Holy Ghost; For when the Psalms of David, and of other holy men of God, were commended to the Church of Israel, and by them were ordinarily sung in the Temple and elsewhere, would you say it did hinder the free passage of the breathing of the lively gifts of Gods Spirit, either in the Ministry of the Priests, or in the writings and Sermons of the Prophets? Surely Elisha found it otherwise, 2 Kings 3.15. and the whole Church of Judah. As for 666 (which you call the fatal figure of Antichrist) judge you in your own soul before the ⟨p. 71⟩Lord, whether it do more savour of an Antichristian spirit, for the whole Church to sing the Psalms of David with one accord, or to sing Te Deum, or some other Anthem devised by a private spirit, one man alone? Sure it is (as we said before) Antichristian Churches do utterly reject the singing of Davids Psalms in the Meter of each Nation in their Mother Tongue, yea and do reproach such Psalms as Geneva jigs; so far are they off from closing with singing of them as an Invention of their own.

Neither doe Formes of Gods Praise stop the breathing of the lively Gifts of Gods Spirit, when the Formes are no other, but such as were indited by the immediate Inspiration of the Holy Ghost; For when the Psalmes of David, and of other holy men of God, were commended to the Church of Israel, and by them were ordinarily sung in the Temple and elsewhere, would you say it did hinder the free passage of the breathing of the lively gifts of Gods Spirit, either in the Ministery of the Priests, or in the writings and Sermons of the Prophets? Surely Elisha found it otherwise, 2 Kings 3.15. and the whole Church of Judah. As for 666 (which you call the fatall figure of Antichrist) judge you in your own soule before the ⟨p. 71⟩Lord, whether it doe more savour of an Antichristian spirit, for the whole Church to sing the Psalmes of David with one accord, or to sing Te Deum, or some other Anthem devised by a private spirit, one man alone? Sure it is (as we said before) Antichristian Churches doe utterly reject the singing of Davids Psalmes in the Meeter of each Nation in their Mother Tongue, yea and do reproach such Psalmes as Genevah jiggs; so farre are they off from closing with singing of them as an Invention of their own.