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B02400	Two letters of the right reverend father in God Doctor John Cosin, later Lord Bishop of Durham, with annotations on the same. Also the opinion of the Reverend Peter Heylin, D.D. concerning the metrical version of David's Psalms, with remarks and observation upon them. / By R. Watson, D.D.	Watson, R.; Cosin, John, 1594-1672.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1686 (1686)	Wing C6363B; ESTC R220851	37,011	111

Injunction of Q. Eliz. That no man shall willingly let or discourage any Curate or Minister to sing or say the Divine Service now set fourth c. And yet surther than so the fact infringeth the 15th Canon of the Synod at Laodicea held about the year 364. which though objected in another case to be but a Provincial Council and of very little authority in the Church the Reveverend Dean of Peterburgh in his Scholastical History pag. 62. affirms it to be a Council that consisted of divers Provinces or Regions of Asia which makes it greater than any Provincial Synod Secondly That it was always held to be of great Veneration and Authority in the Greek and Latin Church and why should it not be of like esteem with us antiqua nobilitate celeberrimum Graecorum atque Latinorum Scriptis celebri memoriae commendatum as Binius But the greatest honour done it is by the Canons those Fathers made being put into the Code of the Universal Church whereof the 219th Canon is this Quod non oportet praeter Canonicos cantores qui ambonem ascendunt ex codice canunt alios quoslibet canere in Ecclesia By which according to the learned Patriarch Th. Balsamon's explication although Laies were not absolutely forbid to sing in the Church yet they were restrain'd from a bold practice some of them had adventur'd on to begin the Canticle and lead the Quire by whom they were to be led 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in contempt of the Clerks or Canonical Chanters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they were called whose priviledge or right it was and who therefore were advanced to a Pulpit or Desk above the people where they might be better heard and regarded by the Assembly And these were they that in our Parochial Churches were of old called The Priest and his Clerks who only until our Reformation were to sing in the Church and none else says the Answerer to Liturgical demands which at this day is no otherwise observed by the Romanists themselves than in Balsamon's sense newly recited to you Now as the Singers were limited so were the Psalms too by the 163 Canon in the Code the very last of the Laodicean Council thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Quod non oportet privatos Psalmos in Ecclesia legere privatos dici as translated by Gentian Hervetus psallere vel legere Caranza has in the title In one of Peter Crabbe's editions I find it thus Quod non oporteat plebeios Psalmos in Ecclesia cantare c. in his other Non oportet ab idiotis Psalmos compositos vulgares in Ecclesiis dici From all we have in view I collect these denotations of the Psalms prohibited privati plebeii compositi vulgares private plebeian composed vulgar which may pass for the same with Plebeian And as to the publick use of them is this variety legere dici psallere cantare All which will be comprized in saying or singing that is in uttering them any way by the voice which is plain enough but what is meant by Private or Plebeian Psalms may not be so toward discovery whereof what I found ready at hand or with little search Sir I shall briefly communicate The Greek Scholiast says that beside the 150 Psalms that are called Davids there were others that went under the name of Solomon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and some other perhaps obscurer or meaner authors the Fathers therefore calling them Private decreed they should not be recited in the Church The learned Christopher Justel further notes from Eusebius That the ancient Christians were wont beside the Divine monuments praeter divina monumenta the canonical Book of Psalms he means to compose and sing to the praise of God certain Psalms and Hymns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. that they were devised in variety of Verse and Rhime such are they this Council disallows the use of in the Church and care enough was taken by our Reformers to prevent the like abuse until our Calvinistical Puritans grew bold and packt with the like-affected Stationers to impose upon publick authority for private ends which can be no more justified I mean Singing their Psalms as pitifully paraphrased in Church-Assemblies than the Reading Books Apocryphal that are truly such and so of old accounted for those are not such though called so that are bound up mostly with our Bibles but Ecclesiastical some parts of which you know Sir are selected and appointed to be read at certain times as first of the two Lessons in the Church there being other more properly styled Apocryphal as our Reverend Dean hath demonstrated the exact disference from ancient and modern Writers in his Scholastical History and both so Reading and Singing are prohibited by the Fathers in this Councel as it follows in the Canon aut libros non-canonicos sed solos canonicos veteris et novi Testamenti the irregularity being the same of Singing non-canonical Psalms as of reading Apocryphal Books in our publick Assemblies and one no less than the other inhibited by this Council Nor ought it to pass unobserved That the Psalter is a peculiar part or portion of the Canon the use whereof is intimated by the very title and consequently of a like Divine institution to be Snng as dictated by the Holy Spirit so well as the other Books to be Read as they are penned by the sacred Writers without the disguise of a Paraphrase for the two and twenty Books of the Old Testament are thus divided twelve Historical five Prophetical four Paranetical or of Doctrine and Instruction as our Reverend Dean translates Leontius Byzantinus and one of Psalmody Now for our Puritans to tell God plainly as in effect they do That they like not to Sing the Psalms as he hath inspired and left them but will have them in their own Rhime and Meeter is no less unsufferable and profane than if they should reject the Song of Solomon because we have it in Prose or paraphrase the other Sacred Hymns that are dispersed in the Holy Bible and prefer them to the same as they find them without any such Metamorphose in the Canon But in stretch of time which must not be forgotten providence permitted these Singularists to be payed home in their own kind as Doctor Heylyn historizeth more at large than I shall take liberty to transcribe for their brethren of the Second Separation became so licentious as in their three kinds of spiritual Worship Praying Prophesying and Singing of Psalms they would be under no kind of restraint but as to the third we are treating of proposed these Queries 1. Whether in a Psalm a man must be tyed to Meeter Rhime and Tune and Whether Voluntary be not as necessary in Tune and Words as well as Matter and 2. Whether Meeter Rhimes and Tune be not quenching the Spirit According to which Resolution of the New separation every man when the Congregation shall be met together may first conceive his own