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

2. The matter of some Psalms doth evidently argue, they were not appointed to be sung always in the Temple; or at least did agree more properly to other times then those, wherein the Temple stood. The 74th Psalm (which was a Psalm of Asaph, but joined with the Psalms of David) complained that the enemies had sent Gods Sanctuary into the fire, (as the Hebrew words be) and had defiled by casting down the dwelling place of her Name to the ground, ver. 7. The 44th Psalm, though it was committed to the sons of Corah, yet surely it was chiefly intended (as Paul applieth ⟨p. 23⟩part of it) to the times of the New Testament; For I suppose it could never be verified of any times of the Jewish Temple, (first, or second) that ever God gave up the people of Israel as sheep for meat, to be killed all the day, to be appointed for the slaughter to be sore broken in the place of Dragons, and covered with the shadow of death, when as yet though all this evil was come upon them, they had not forgotten their God, nor dealt falsely in his Covenant; nor their hearts turned back, nor their steps declined from his way▪ ver. •7. to 23. Paul indeed acknowledgeth this very word to be accomplished in the Saints of the Primitive Churches in the Apostles times, (Rom. 8.36.) but where shall we find the like innocency, with the like calamity met together in the children of Israel, whilst the Temple was standing? And is it credible, the Psalm was confined to be sung in the Temple, where they could not sing it, but with a sad reproof to themselves for their discord in practise, and yet forbidden to be sung in the Churches of the New Testament, where (in some ages at least) they might sing it, both with heart, and voice, and practise, all of them keeping holy consent and harmony together?

2. The matter of some Psalmes doth evidently argue, they were not appointed to be sung alwayes in the Temple; or at least did agree more properly to other times then those, wherein the Temple stood. The 74th Psalme (which was a Psalme of Asaph, but joyned with the Psalmes of David) complained that the enemies had sent Gods Sanctuary into the fire, (as the Hebrew words be) and had defiled by casting downe the dwelling place of hir Name to the ground, ver. 7. The 44th Psalme, though it was committed to the sonnes of Corah, yet surely it was chiefly intended (as Paul applieth