N01895:69
The accomplished singer. Instructions how the piety of singing with a true devotion, may…
The accomplished singer. Instructions how the piety of singing with a true devotion, may be obtained and expressed; the glorious God after an uncommon manner glorified in it, and his people edified. : Intended for the assistance of all that would sing Psalms with grace in their hearts; but more particularly to accompany the laudable endeavours of those who are learning to sing by rule, and seeking to preserve a regular singing in the assemblies of the faithful. : [Two lines of quotation]
Boston: printed by B. Green for S. Gerrish, 1721
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§ 10. BEHOLD, A Sweet Exercise of PIETY, to a share wherein All People are invited: A call to Make the Joyful Shouts of a Jubilee, is what the Tune of, All People, is to be set unto. If the Demand be, Do it O all Kings of the Earth; and (which will soon follow) All the People too; Do it, O Princes and all you, the ⟨p. 21⟩Judges of the Earth: These shall have a Constantine and a Theodosius as well as a David, going before them. Do it, O you that Young Men are, Yea, and Young Women too: Do it, O you that Old Men are, with Babes in Infancy. Even they who are Forbidden to speak in the Church, are Commanded nevertheless to Sing there. The Handmaids of the Lord, forget Miriam, and All the Women that went out after her, if they decline their part in Singing the Praises of GOD; since diverse of our spiritual Songs were composed by Persons of the Female Sex, 'tis but Reasonable that the Female Sex bear their part in Singing of these, and all the rest. A Gorgenia the Renowned Sister of Nazianzen, is commemorated for it. And as no Persons are to be exempted, so no Places are to be excluded from the Reasonable Service; but we are to Sing every where, Lifting up an Holy Voice, unto the Lord. Not only should we with all our Heart Praise the Eternal GOD, where the Upright meet Privately, and where more Publicly; But also the Christian Householder should make this one of his Family-Sacrifices. Yea, how comfortably may the Family go to Rest, when the last Verse of the Fourth Psalm has concluded all? This truly is one of the Excellent Methods, wherein the Word of CHRIST is to Dwell Richly with us, and be a constant and welcome Lodger in our Dwellings. Yea, Theodoret reports, That the Faithful in the Primitive Times, had the Psalms by heart, so that they would Recreate themselves with Singing them in the Streets and in the Fields, as well as in their Dwellings. A Paul and Silas, turn a Dungeon into a Palace, by Singing there. One says, The Earth Danced unto their Music.
§ 10. BEHOLD, A Sweet Exercise of PIETY, to a share wherein All People are invited: A call to Make the Joyful Shouts of a Jubliee, is what the Tune of, All People, is to be set unto. If the Demand be, Do it O all Kings of the Earth; and (which will soon follow) All the People too; Do it, O Princes and all you, the ⟨p. 21⟩Judges of the Earth: These shall have a Constantine and a Theodosius as well as a David, going before them. Do it, O you that Young Men are, Yea, and Young Women too: Do it, O you that Old Men are, with Babes in Infancy. Even they who are Forbidden to speak in the Church, are Commanded nevertheless to Sing there. The Handmaids of the Lord, forget Miriam, and All the Women that went out after her, if they decline their part in Singing the Praises of GOD; since diverse of our spiritual Songs were composed by Persons of the Female Sex, 'tis but Reasonable that the Female Sex bear their part in Singing of these, and all the rest. A Gorgenia the Renowned Sister of Nazianzen, is commemorated for it. And as no Persons are to be exempted, so no Places are to be excluded from the Reasonable Service; but we are to Sing every where, Lifting up an Holy Voice, unto the Lord. Not only should we with all our Heart Praise the Eternal GOD, where the Upright meet Privately, and where more Publickly; But also the Christian Housholder should make this one of his Family-Sacrifices. Yea, how comfortably may the Family go to Rest, when the last Verse of the Fourth Psalm has concluded all? This truly is one of the Excellent Methods, wherein the Word of CHRIST is to Dwell Richly with us, and be a constant and welcome Lodger in our Dwellings. Yea, Theodoret reports, That the Faithful in the Primitive Times, had the Psalms by heart, so that they would Recreate themselves with Singing them in the Streets and in the Fields, as well as in their Dwellings. A Paul and Silas, turn a Dungeon into a Palace, by Singing there. One says, The Earth Danced unto their Musick.