S74 VJiaS.t3• A.ni3xpofiti•n;owithNottJ ·CHAP·S• the private dielates of any particular perfon or fpirit in the Church. 'Iis impoffible any lhould be of fuch alarge heart as the P~nmen of the Word, to whom God vouchfafed fuch a publique"high and in. fallible Conduct ; and.therefore their excellem compofares and ad– dreffes to God being recorded and configned to the ufe of the· Church for ever,it feemeth awonderful arrogance and prefumption ·in any to pretend to make-better, or that their private and rafh etfu– tions will be more edifying. Certainly ifwe confult with our own expcrience, we have little caufe to~row weary ofDavids Pfalms , thofe that pretend to the gifc of PfalmonJ, •venting fuch wilde, r111w and indigefied fiuff, bc:lchingout revenge and paffion,and min– gling their private quarrels and interefrs with the pnblique worlbip ofGod ; But fuppofe men of known holinefs,and ability Chonld be (called to this task, und the matter propounded.to be fung be good ;and holy, yet ·certainly then men are like to fuffedofs in their reverence and affection, it being impoffible that they thonld have fuch abfoluce affurance and high efieem of perfons ordinarily gifced, as of chofe infallibly affified:Therd9re upon the whole matter I lhould prenounce, that {o much ·as an infallible gift doth excel acommon gifr, fo much do Scriptural Pfalms excel thofe that are of aprivate compofure. Thirdly, There are 1 divers others ldfer fcruples which I lhall handle britfly. Some will have no tinging with the voyce at all, becaufe the Ap0file faith,ji~tgiHg withiHyo~tr hearts ; I, but the A– pofile faith there too, fpeakJ.ng toJour{elves; the inward part mufi not exclude the outward : the hvely voyce doth not only give vent to affedicms, but increafeth them. David fpeaketh often of bPfal. xo8 1 praijing God with hu tongue, and bwith hiJglory, by which he 'meaneth his tongue; as Pfal.t6 9.- Myheart u glad, andmyglorj rejoyceth; ~cis rendered, ·t~?J tongue rejoyceth, Acts 2..16. Bdides all this, the benefit we m11y convey to others by loud finging; one Bird fets all the ·flock a-chitping. Yluflin fpeaketh how much he was moved with lhe melody and tinging of the Church at MiHaiH; ~antumflevimm in Hymnu &Canticu fuavifonanti4 Eccleji.e, &c. . . , . Orhers will have;che Pfalmtfi only to fmg, and the Congregat_ton fay Amen, which feemeth to be the fafhian in the Church ofCo– rinth, 1 Cor. 14.14,I ;. But mark, thatfinging fpoken of there was the frui£ of ane11maordinarygifc,by which they were ·able todiBare a
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