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

CHAP. IV. Propounding the second Question, Stating it, and Proving it.

CHAP. IV. Propounding the second Question, Stating it, and Prooving it.

The second Question about singing of Psalms, concerneth the matter of the Psalms to be sung; for there be some who do not scruple singing with the voice (as the former sort did) but singing of the Psalms of David now in these days of the New Testament. As conceiving Davids Psalms ⟨p. 15⟩were penned for Temple worship, during the Pedagogy of the old Testament. But now in the days of the New Testament, when God hath promised to pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, now the whole worship of God should be carried on, not by set forms of Psalms, (no more then by set forms of Prayer) b•t by personal spiritual gifts, whereby some one or other of the members of the Church, having received a Psalm by the indictment of the Spirit, he singeth it openly in the public Assembly of the Church, and the rest of the Brethren say Amen to it in the close.

THe second Question about singing of Psalmes, concerneth the matter of the Psalmes to be sung; for there be some who doe not scruple singing with the voyce (as the former sort did) but singing of the Psalmes of David now in these dayes of the New Testament. As conceiving Davids Psalmes ⟨p. 15⟩were penned for Temple worship, during the Paedagogy of the old Testament. But now in the dayes of the New Testament, when God hath promised to powre out his Spirit upon all flesh, now the whole worship of God should be carried on, not by set formes of Psalmes, (no more then by set formes of Prayer) b•t by personall spirituall gifts, whereby some one or other of the members of the Church, having received a Psalme by the enditement of the Spirit, he singeth it openly in the publique Assembly of the Church, and the rest of the Brethren say Amen to it in the close.