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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29417	A breif and full account of Mr. Tate's and Mr. Brady's new version of the Psalms by a true son of the Church of England.	True son of the Church of England.	1698 (1698)	Wing B4528; ESTC R35383	16,825	47

the Authority of the King which is backt by that of Act of Parliament and Convocation I can see no reason why the same Authority should not interpose and be allow'd of which has appear'd in the Approbation of this New Translation of the Psalms And as for that Version which has hitherto been used it never found that Encouragement from any persons legally vested with Authority in spirituals that this new one has been favour'd with no not from a Convocation it self and sor the rest of the late ones they cannot pretend to it And the silence of so many Convocations since the Reformation is so far from being an Argument for the Old One that on the contrary it is a presumptive Evidence that that Religious Assembly thought it their Prudence not to interpose their Influences in encouraging such a thing as in their Opinion did not deserve it Whoever therefore it is that opposes that Authority which the New Translation has obtain'd seems plainly to deprive the Convocation of those Signal Honours and Immunities appertaining to them which the Parliament has been pleas'd to confirm and the King and the Bishops are pleas'd to Act by who have the executive Power of those Laws and Constitutions which the other fram'd confer'd on them As appears in that Order which was given by King Charles II. for using the three Forms of Prayer which are annext to the Common prayer-Prayer-Book CHARLES R. Our Will and Pleasure is That these three Forms of Prayer and Service made for the 5th of November the 30th of January and the 29th of May be faithfully Printed and Publish'd and for the future annext to the Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy of the Church of England to be used yearly on the said Days in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels in all Chappels Colleges and Halls within both our Vniversities and of our Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish Churches and Chappels within our Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Given at our Court at Whitehall the 2d day of May in the 14th Year of our Reign By His Majesty's Command Edw. Nicholas And what is more observable these very Forms were with such Alterations as were then necessary receiv'd and us'd in the Church by virtue of a like Order from the late Queen of ever blessed Memory For the Right that is attributed by our Laws to our Kings is lodged in the Constitution of our common Laws and is an Original Contract between the King and the Estates of this Realm and that upon a civil Incorporation of the Church and its Powers and Ordinances into the Civil State and Secular Authority Municip Eccles. p. 136. But still you 'l say that tho' by this Rubrick which I lately mention'd the Use of any Psalms but the New Ones is forbid because they only are approv'd of and by Authority recommended yet are we not enjoyn'd to Sing these publickly and there fore it is at our liberty to forbear in our Churches all Psalmody if we please But in Answer to this I only desire that that solemn Ingagement which was made to the Bishop at the Time of Ordination may be consider'd For then the Bishop asks the Person that is to be ordain'd Priest this Question Will you reverently obey your Ordinary and other chief Ministers unto whom is committed the Charge and Government over you following with a good Mind and Will their godly Admonitions and submitting your self to their godly Judgments Answ. I will do so God being my helper Where it is plain that the Priest obliges himself by a Solemn and formal Promise reverently to obey his Ordinary and submit himself to his godly Judgment therefore if any one reject this New Translation of the Psalms recommended to him by his Bishop I cannot see how he can avoid the Censure of casting a scandalous Reproach upon the godly Judgment of his Ordinary and palpably violating that religious obligation which he solemnly enter'd into at the time of his Ordination before the Bishop the Priests and all the Congregation But I fancy the Persons are but few who will be so hardy against their own Conscience and cancel all that Veneration which is due both to their Diocesan and themselves if they hope that God should be their Helper However it is apparent that the Use of this New Version is conformable to the Constitution of our Church which lays upon all her Sons a very strict Ingagement of acting suitably to her pious Intentions And therefore those that encourage and promote it tell us this in their own vindication that till a civil complyance with our Governors must pass for an instance of factious Obedience and the Observance of the Constitutions of the Church and the Authority of Convocations in a thing lawful and commendable is Vncanonical Till it be prov'd that the Governours in Church and State have countenanc'd a thing impious or unlawful or have recommended a thing for which they had no just Authority this New Translation cannot easily be rejected by them 2. And they justly think it cannot be inveterately oppos'd by any unless it be by some few persons who may envy the production because it is not their own or because it has met with such good Success or those that are prejudic'd against the Royal Allowance because William R. is on the Front of it or such as look upon the recommendatory Letter of a Diocesan as only a meer matter of Form or lastly those who are such zealous Admirers of Antiquity that they will object against any thing barely for its being New The third Argument for the reception of the New Psalms is That they are subservient to the advancement of Piety and Devotion And this arises from the genuine Excellence and Composure of this New Version which by many degrees surpasses the Old But if any will vindicate the Old and think them preferable to these their Judgment it seems runs quite counter to that of the Government which would never have thought fit to encourage this New Version had it not esteem'd it far Superiour And that the Wisdom of the Government was not herein if any one imagin it mistaken I appeal to the Sense of all Mankind who will please as the Patrons and Promoters of this Version have done impartially to peruse and compare them and I could easily make appear by several Instances taken from such Old Psalms as are esteem'd the most unexceptionable among them But I rather choose to cast a Veil upon their Infirmities and since they formerly liv'd in some Repute to let them die without exposing their weaknesses Whereas in the Translation which is recommended we commonly find such devout and shining Sense as makes them fit to be Sung in the Beauty of Holiness such heavenly Expressions as are apt to inflame and inspire the Soul and raise it to David's seraphick pitch and with such a mixture of Majestick Gravity as fully represents the