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Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…
Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in the churches of New-England. : With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches. : [Seven lines from Ezekiel]
Boston: printed for S. Gerrish, 1726
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Their Way of Singing is not with such BOAI ATAKTOI, disorderly Clamours, as were condemned by the old Council of Trullo: But in such Grave Tunes, as are most used in our Nation; and it may be hoped, not without some Sense of that which Zonaras gives as the Reason of the Trullan Condemnation, The Singing of Psalms is a Supplicating of GOD himself, wherein by humble Prayer we beg the Pardon of our Sins. Their Psalmody is neither set off with the Delicacies, which Austin complained of, nor is it rendered unseemly by the Exorbitances we find rebuked by Chrysostom. It has been commended by Strangers a• generally not worse than what is in many other parts of the World; but rather as being usually according ⟨p. 55⟩to Origen's Expression, ΕΜΜΕΛΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΜΦΟΝΩΣ Melodiously and Agreeably. However, of later Times they have considerably Recovered it, and Reformed, and Refined it, from some Indecencies, that by length of Time had begun to grow upon it. And more than a Score of Tunes are heard Regularly Sung in their Assemblies.
Their Way of Singing is not with such BOAI ATAKTOI, disorderly Clamours, as were condemned by the old Council of Trullo: But in such Grave Tunes, as are most used in our Nation; and it may be hoped, not without some Sense of that which Zonaras gives as the Reason of the Trullan Condemnation, The Singing of Psalms is a Supplicating of GOD himself, wherein by humble Prayer we beg the Pardon of our Sins. Their Psalmody is neither set off with the Delicacies, which Austin complained of, nor is it rendred unseemly by the Exorbitances we find rebuked by Chrysostom. It has been commended by Strangers a• generally not worse than what is in many other parts of the World; but rather as being usually according ⟨p. 55⟩to Orîgens Expression, ΕΜΜΕΛΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΜΦΟΝΩΣ Melodiously and Agreeably. However, of later Times they have considerably Recovered it, and Reformed, and Refined it, from some Indecencies, that by length of Time had begun to grow upon it. And more than a Score of Tunes are heard Regularly Sung in their Assemblies.