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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.
CHAP. II. Propounding and clearing the second Proof for singing Psalms with lively voice.
CHAP. II. Propounding and clearing the second Proofe for singing Psalmes with lively voyce.
The second Proof is taken from the examples of Christ himself, and of his Saints and Disciples in the New Testament. Christ himself with his Disciples sung a Psalm or an Hymn together in the end of the administration of the Lords Supper, Math. 26.30. And Paul and Silas are said to have ⟨p. 8⟩sing a Psalm in the Prison, so as the Prisoners heard them, Acts 16.25. Now if in singing they had only spiritually rejoiced, and not expressed their joy and their song in audible and lively voice, the Prisoners could not have heard them. The stranger doth not know nor meddle with the spiritual joy of the heart, Pro. 14.10.
THe second Proof is taken from the examples of Christ himself, and of his Saints and Disciples in the New Testament. Christ himselfe with his Disciples sung a Psalme or an Hymne together in the end of the administration of the Lords Supper, Math. 26.30. And Paul and Silas are said to have ⟨p. 8⟩sing a Psalme in the Prison, so as the Prisoners heard them, Acts 16.25. Now if in singing they had onely spiritually rejoyced, and not expressed their joy and their song in audible and lively voyce, the Prisoners could not have heard them. The stranger doth not know nor meddle with the spirituall joy of the heart,