Five disputations of church-government and worship

§. 45. 5. And for Organs or other instruments of Music in Gods worship, they being a Help partly natural, and partly artificial, to the exhilarating of the spirits, for the praise of God, I know no argument to prove […] simply unlawful, but what would prove a cup of wine unlawful, or the tune and meter, and melody of singing unlawful. But yet if any would abuse it, by turning Gods worship into carnal Pomp, and levity, especially by such non-intelligible singing, or bleating as some of our Choristers used, the Common people would▪ have very great reason to be weary of it, a• accidentally evil.

§. 45. 5. And for Organs or other instruments of Musick in Gods worship, they being a Help partly natural, and partly artificial, to the exhilarating of the spirits, for the praise of God, I know no argument to prove 〈…〉 simply unlawfull, but what would prove a cup of wine unlawful, or the tune and meeter, and melodie of singing unlawful. But yet if any would abuse it, by turning Gods worship into carnal Pomp, and levity, especially by such non-intelligible singing, or bleating as some of our Choristers used, the Common people would▪ have very great reason to be weary of it, a• accidentally evil.

§. 46. 6. And as for Holy days, there is great difference between them: Those are liable to most question that are obtruded on the Church with the greatest confidence ▪ As for such days as are appointed upon some emergent occasions, that arose since Scripture was indited, and are not common to all times and places of the Church, there is no more question whether the Magistrate may command them, or the Pastors agree upon them, then whether a Lecture-day, or fast-day, or thanksgiving-day may be commanded, or agreed on: some time for Gods worship, besides the Lords Day must be appointed: And God having not told us which, the Magistrate may, on fit occasions And this is no derogation from the sufficiency of Scripture: For the occasion of the day was not existent, when the Scripture was written: such occasions are various according to the various state of the Church in several ages and Countries. And therefore to keep an Anniversary day of Thanksgiving, such as we keep on the fifth of November for our deliverance from the Papists powder plot, is no more questionable then to keep a lecture. Nor for