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

Yea but this bindeth us no more to make such a manner of loud noise, as our form of singing is, then to make such a loud noise, as was made in Davids days, with ten stringed Instruments; for so the Lord was to be praised.

Yea but this bindeth us no more to make such a manner of loud noyse, as our forme of singing is, then to make such a loud noyse, as was made in Davids dayes, with ten stringed Instruments; for so the Lord was to be praised.

Answ. So the Lord was to be praised? Praised with ten stringed Instruments: When was he so to be praised? In Davids days? True: And therefore it was the duty of all the people in any land, that became Proselytes to the Church of Israel in the days of David, and during all the time of the Temple worship, to come before the Lord, not only with the loud noise of singing Psalms, but of playing with Instruments. But after the days, not only of David, but of the Temple, and that worship be past, in the day when our Jehovah (the Lord Jesus) hath entered into his rest, in the day of our Lord, when he commandeth us not to harden our hearts, but to hear his voice, to fall down and worship before him in prayer, (both which are to be performed every Lords day) he then commandeth us to come and sing unto the Lord, to make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation, and to make a joyful noise unto him with Psalms, Psal. 95.1, 2. Here is now no mention of making a joyful noise with Instruments, but with Psalms. And therefore the making a joyful noise with Psalms doth still continue, even on our Lords days: when making a joyful noise with Instruments continueth not, but is laid down in silence: save only so far as it is kept alive in the antitype, the affections of our hearts (our Praecordia) making melody with the songs and professions of our lips, and with the gracious and peaceable conversation of our lives.

Answ. So the Lord was to be praised? Praised with ten stringed Instruments: When was he so to be praised? In Davids dayes? True: And therefore it was the dutie of all the people in any land, that became Proselytes to the Church of Israel in the dayes of David, and during all the time of the Temple worship, to come before the Lord, not onely with the loud noyse of singing Psalmes, but of playing with Instruments. But after the dayes, not onely of David, but of the Temple, and that worship be past, in the day when our Jehovah (the Lord Jesus) hath entred into his rest, in the day of our Lord, when he commandeth us not to harden our hearts, but to heare his voyce, to fall downe and worship before him in prayer, (both which are to be performed every Lords day) he then commandeth us to come and sing unto the Lord, to make a joyfull noyse to the rock of our salvation, and to make a joyfull noyse unto him with Psalmes,