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The wonderful works of God commemorated. Praises bespoke for the God in heaven in…
The wonderful works of God commemorated. Praises bespoke for the God in heaven in a thanksgiving sermon; delivered on Decemb. 19. 1689. Containing just reflections upon the excellent things done by the great God, more generally in creation and redemption, and in the government of the world; but more particularly in the remarkable revolutions of providence which are every where the matter of present observation. With a postscript giving an account of some very stupendous accidents, which have lately happened in France. / By Cotton Mather. ; To which is added a sermon preached unto the convention of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England, with a short narrative of several prodigies, which New-England hath of late had the alarms of heaven in.
Boston: printed by S. Green & sold by Joseph Browning, 1690
PRAISES Bespoke for the GOD of Heaven, In a Thanksgiving SERMON. › Proposition 2: PROPOSITION II.
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Secondly, There should also be an Instrument used in our Praising of God. But of what kind? Far be it from us to plead for that which is properly instrumental Music in the Church of the Lord Jesus. Indeed before the coming of our Lord, there was in the Church a Divine appointment for such a thing; and between the Neginoth and the ⟨p. 14⟩Nehiloth, I find, if I miscount not, sixteen or more kinds of Instruments for the maintaining of it. But upon the Abolition of the Mosaic Pedagogy, we have uo order-for the continuance of this Temple Worship, by introducing of it into our Synagogues. The Primitive Church had it not, as even a Bellarmine tells you; the Ancients often & loudly declaim against it, and Aquinas himself about four hundred years ago, notwithstanding all his Popery and Bigotry, yet bestows none of the kindest Remarks upon it. The Schoolmen themselves own, that Aliquid Figurabat, it was a Typical thing; and we having in the Tidings of the Gospel that grace and joy which this was a figure of, ought not to Judaize by upholding the shadow in the presence of the Substance; nor ought we to bring into the House of God, a Troop of Officers which the Lord Jesus never instituted. What Instruments are we then to praise God withal? we are all furnished with two at least.
Secondly, There should also be an Instrument used in our Praising of God. But of what kind? Far be it from us to plead for that which is properly instrumental Music in the Church of the Lord Jesus. Indeed before the coming of our Lord, there was in the Church a Divine appointment for such a thing; and between the Neginoth and the ⟨p. 14⟩Nehiloth, I find, if I miscount not, sixteen or more kinds of Instruments for the maintaining of it. But upon the Abolition of the Mosaic Pedagogy, we have uo order-for the continuance of this Temple Worship, by introducing of it into our Synagogues. The Primitive Church had it not, as even a Bellarmine tells you; the Ancients often & loudly declaim against it, and Aquinas himself about four hundred years ago, notwithstanding all his Popery and Bigottry, yet bestows none of the kindest Remarks upon it. The Schoolmen themselves own, that Aliquid Figurabat, it was a Typical thing; and we having in the Tydings of the Gospel that grace and joy which this was a figure of, ought not to Judaize by upholding the shadow in the presence of the Substance; nor ought we to bring into the House of God, a Troop of Officers which the Lord Jesus never instituted. What Instruments are we then to praise God withal? we are all furnished with two at least.