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V
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R.19.
Epktefanr,Chap.
5.
The
¡aft
thing to
be
marked
,
That
in
flinging
ire
7041411
not
bring
our
voyce alone, but our
heart
to God.
tJtly
foule
'ha
m,ignife the Lord,
nay
f
yirit
/hall
rejoysein
god
my
Saviour.
o
my
fettle praife the
Lard.He that
will fing
aright,
muff
with
the
ufe of
his
Pfalme joyne fenfe, under
(fand
it, with fenfe,affcftion; (get
ti
elpirit
of
David to
fing
a
Pfalme
of David) with
affeétion, exultation
with that gravity,
left
our mirth
favour oflightne(fe.
Get the
fpirit
, till we play on this
Organ,
there
is
no
mufick
in
Gods
Bare.
Therefore the
Eafferne and
Wefterne
Churches
ufed
a
kinde
of
finging,
not
much
different
from reading,
it may be our
Colledge
kinde
of
finging
is a
remainder
of
their
anci-
ent
cutome
:
They
more cared
to
bring
the cry
of
the
heart,
then
confort
of
voice.
Againe, on the other
fide,
Heretiques
haverefined
theirfong,
as
the
Arians
in
Chryföflomes
time , and
the Donatifts
in
Aaguflins
time. Let
us
not ftand fo much upon
the
melodie
of
voice,
as
on the harmony
of
holy
affctions. Gad
is
a
Spirit,
and he will be
worfhipped
in
(pint.
Againe, the
Lord detefterb
emplie
founds:
It
is
odious
to
his care
to
heare
the
din
of
them.
Take thou
away
from
me
the
noy
fe
of
thy
fangs,
for
I
will
not
heare the melodie
of
thy
Viods.
Efay
29.13.
It
is
occurfcd
to
draw
neere
with
the tongue, c.
Which
doth
rebuke many who never
looke
to
their hearts
in
per-
formance
of
thefe
duties ;
Let
us
further looke to our hearts
that
they
fpeake;As
he
that
will make mufick,
muff
tune
his
inftrument
:
So we
muff
tune our hearts,a kind
of
inftrument
that
is
ftrungwith
affeEtions,
or
all will
bee but
an
unpleafant difeord
in
the
care
of God.
Now if
you would underftand how your hearts
fhould fing,
I
will
tell
you:
God.
The
matter
we fingBoth
refpedf His
people.
Or the
enemies
of
his
Church.
Now
that
we fing
of
God
is
of
his
properties, or worker.
If
I
fing
of
his
goodneffe,
I muff finde
my heart enflamed with
love to him;
if
of
his
wifdome, or power,
I
muff have
a
holy admiration
of
them; if
of
his
works ofmcrcy
to the Saints, I
muff
congratulate
in
it;
ifof
his
j
udgements,
I muff
feare.
For our
felves,
we
fing
for
the molt part
of
things
we
want
and
would
have, of
things we have
received ,
of
evils
which dwell with
us,
from which wewould be delivered.
Now
in
the
fìrff, I
muff
labour
to
have
a
delire
ofthofe
things. In
the
men-
tioning
the
fecond, labour for thankfulneffe
;
In
the third
,
for feare,
igriefe,lowlineffe.
When
we
fing
of
wicked mens
wayes,
wee
muff
have hatred, zeale, compalfion,&c.
Now
before we
leave this
place, I will point at
the
confiderations
in it
which doe overthrow
all
their
abut-es,
the rather
becaufe
they are
not
afhamed
to bring
this and
col.3r16. to
juftifie
their caufe.
«
a.
Paul fpeaketh
not to the
Quire
of
finging
men,but to
all corn-
"
mon Chriffians
that
were able, exhorting them
to
this
duty
;
which
«
doth teach,That
lay
Chriflians have
right
to
joya
in this
part
ofChurch
«ftrvice,
in
the Pfaltnodie
of
the Church. Tertullian
faith,
the Chrifti-
it
ans
635
Doti.
Amos
5.23.