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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. 1. The words of David and Asaph, as they were the words of Christ in the mouth of David and Asaph: so they were the words of Christ also in the mouths of the sons of Corah, or any other Singers in the Temple. If any of them did not sing them with the Spirit of Christ as well as David and Asaph spake, and penned them by the Spirit of Christ, it was a sinful defect in them, but not in the word it self▪ nor in the godly Singers of the Temple, (such as Heman, and Jeduthun, and others) who were spiritual, and holy men, and sang them with melody in their hearts, as well as in their voices. And it will be alike sinful defect in the New Testament, in such as sing the Psalms of David, to sing them without some measure of the Spirit of David. For the Apostle expressly requireth, that we should sing with grace in our hearts. But if the words of David and Asaph, be the words of Christ, and be sung of the Church, with grace in the heart, we demand whether this act of the Church be not an act of Faith, and of the obedience of Faith to the word of Christ, in that Text of the Apostle?
Answ. 1. The words of David and Asaph, as they were the words of Chtist in the mouth of David and Asaph: so they were the words of Christ also in the mouths of the sonnes of Corah, or any other Singers in the Temple. If any of them did not sing them with the Spirit of Christ as well as David and Asaph spake, and penned them by the Spirit of Christ, it was a sinfull defect in them, but not in the word it selfe▪ nor in the godly Singers of the Temple, (such as Heman, and Jeduthun, and others) who were spirituall, and holy men, and sang them with melody in their hearts, as well as in their voyces. And it will be alike sinfull defect in the New Testament, in such as sing the Psalmes of David, to sing them without some measure of the Spirit of David. For the Apostle expresly requireth, that wee should sing with grace in our hearts. But if the words of David and Asaph, be the words of Christ, and be sung of the Church, with grace in the heart, wee demand whether this act of the Church be not an act of Faith, and of the obedeince of Faith to the word of Christ, in that Text of the Appostle?