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Ephefians,
Chap.
5.
V
E
R.zo.
ansmet
totheir
4ntelucanos
Cantle.
Yea after
the order
of
lingers
was
received,
it
is a
canvafe
whether the
people did
not
fing
with
«them,
though they
led ,
and
fitting
in
a
higher place,
gave
direCti.
tt
on
;
but at length men ordered came to
fing
onely ;
and
that
at
the
firft
joyntly
:
After theycameto
refponforie
Fong,
one halfe
of
the
«tZuire finging
one
while,the other another;
and
lait
of
all inftrumen-
«tall
mufick was entertained
by the
Church.
« z.
S.Pauls
mft
flek mull
give
mule
inflrutiion.
Where
then
is
the
u
Latin
Fong
e
«
3. Church
muf
ck
muff not
be onely
vocal[, but
interned from
the
«
heart
;which
we urge
not,as they flander,to
take
away
the
voyce,but
«the
unknowne language.
1c4.
The
Apofle
his Songs muff
be
fplrituall,outof the
Word,
Col.
.t
3. r
6.
they
haveHymnes containing matter not grounded in the
Word.
"
5. The Church
and
hou/i
Pfalmes
muß
be
fung
to
God, they have
u
Mimes
to S.Peter,
S.Paul,&c,
VE
R
S
E
20. Giving
thanks
alwayes
for
all things
unto God,and
the
Father,
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
lefro Chrifl.
Now
followeth the
fecond meane, Giving thanks. In
the
verfe be
-
fide
the perfonto whom
and in
whom, (which
often meet
us) marke
two
things.
t.
That
than/of-giving
procureth increafe
ofGods
gracious
Spirit.
a.
That
we are
in
all
things,in daily little things
as
well
as
in
great,
in
evill as well
as
good, to
give
thanks.
For the firit,
Nothing
cloth
more make
God billow
bleßings
on us
then
the
praifing ofhiminthings
he
hath
be/lowed.
Let
your reyuefisbeknowne
with thankfgiving ;
What
followeth
e
Gods
peace
'hall
keep
your
hearts
and
minds in Chrifl
refire.
It
is
true
of
prayer, but
fpecially of
thankfgiving
;
It
is
the
key
of
Heaven ,
it unlocketh the
treafuries
of
God;
up goeth thanks, downe
commeth
bleffing
:
In
outward
things
thankfulneffe
procureth
encreafe
,Prov.3.g,ro.
o
fer
to God
the
firf$
fruits of
e/o
flibfiance,
there
is
thankfulneffe, and
thy
harms
fhalbe
filed,
aria
ti.'
r
vrrffes
Thal
burfi
out
with
new
Wine,
there
is
an increafe
:
Un-
thankfa
neffe
maketh God ftrip
us
of
that
we have,
Hof.
a. 8,
g. For
God (that
wife
husbandman of the
Church)
he
doth
as
husbandman,
who
there
calk
their
feed
plentifully, where
they know theground
is
good,
and will give it them
with advantage.
This
therefore mutt
rebuke our backwardneffe
to thanks;Which
of
us
have
not
beene in fome
ff
rails
,
which
we
thought
we
fhould never
have forgotten!'
but
eaten bread
is Toone
out
of
remembrance. How
many are
like
Swine
that
Bate
the matt
,
but looke not
up
e
likeAffe
colts, that when they are
filled,
kick
the damme
e
And
in fpirituall
things,we
goe not
fo
fárreasthat
Pharifee,
who
laid,
/thank
thee
lam
notthus
andthus. But here we
are our
owne
foes.
wee doe
Phut
Gods
hand againft us,
that
we
goc with
leane foules
,
becauf
bee bath not
praifc
in
that which
he
bath done for
us in his
C
hrift.
For
riivres
cwie-
Qav,
xonp,
Cbry/bft.
Seeehe
2.9.
DLit.
Grat.
VERS:
20.
Doff.
Phi1.4.6.
Yfè.
Luke
18.x
s.
a