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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
OF THE SINGING OF PSALMS. › Chapter 5OF THE SINGING OF PSALMES. › Chapter 5
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Answ. 2. When David gave his Psalms and Songs to the Musicians in Israel, it was meet he should set his name to them, or by some other mark make it appear, that the Psalms were inspired and delivered by a Prophet of God. But after the Book of Psalms was generally known and received to be of divine inspiration, (as other Oracles of God) the Psalms are as usually alleged in the New Testament, without the name of David, as with it, Luk. 24 44. Acts 13.33.
Answ. 2. When David gave his Psalmes and Songs to the Musitians in Israel, it was meete he should set his name to them, or by some other marke make it appeare, that the Psalmes were inspired and delivered by a Prophet of God. But after the Book of Psalmes was generally knowne and received to be of divine inspiration, (as other Oracles of God) the Psalmes are as usually alledged in the New Testament, without the name of David, as with it, Luk. 24 44. Asts 13.33.
Object. 2. The Psalms here committed to the spiritual Singers ⟨p. 18⟩to be sung, are the words of Christ, which are to dwell richly in us, Col. 3.16. But the Psalms dedicated to the sons of Corah, were the words of David and Asaph. And so the Holy Ghost calleth them. Not but that the words spoken by the mouth of David and Asaph, where the words of Christ, but that the words which are to be the spiritual songs of the Saints, wherein they are to teach one another, and to sing unto God, they are words spoken to the heart, by the voice of the Spirit of Christ. Besides, the word of Christ, is properly the Gospel, by way of eminency, in way of opposition to the Law, given by Moses.
Object. 2. The Psalmes here committed to the spirituall Singers ⟨p. 18⟩