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The whole Book of Psalms faithfully translated into English metreThe vvhole Booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre
The whole Book of Psalms faithfully translated into English metre. ; Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfulness, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture psalms in the churches of God. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]The vvhole Booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. ; Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullness, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture psalmes in the churches of God. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Cambridge, Mass. : Stephen Day, Imprinted 1640
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Touching the first, certainly the singing of Davids psalms was an acceptable worship of God, not only in his ow•e, but in succeeding ti•e• ▪ as in Solomons time 2 Chron. 5.13. in […] time 2 chron. 20.31. in Ez•• […] time Ez•a 3.10, 11. and the text is evident in Hezekiahs time they are commanded to sing praise in the words of David and Asaph, 2 chron. 29, 30. which one place may serve to resolve two of the questions (the first and the last) at once▪ for this commandment was it ceremonial ⟨image ?⟩or moral? some things in it indeed were ceremonial, as their musical instruments &c but what ceremony was there in singing praise with the wo•ds of David and Asaph? what if David was a type of Christ, was Asaph also? was every thing of David typical? are his words (which are of moral, universal, and perpetual authority in all nations and ages) are they typical? what type can be imagined in making use of his songs to praise the Lord? If they were typical because the ceremony of musical instruments was joined with them, then their prayers were also typical, because they had that ceremony of incense admixt with them: but we know that prayer then was a moral duty, notwithstanding the incense; and soe singing those psalms notwithstanding their musical instruments. Beside, that which was typical (as that they were sung wi•h musical instruments, by the twenty-four orders of Priests and Levites. 1 chron 25.9.) must have the moral and spiritual accomplishment in the new Testament, in all the Churches of the Saints principally, who are made kings & priests Reu. 1.6. and are the first fruits unto God. Reu. 1• 4. as the Levites were