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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26830	The lawfulness and expediency of church-musick asserted in a sermon preached at St. Brides-Church upon the 22d. of November, 1693 being the anniversary meeting of gentlemen, lovers of musick / by Ralph Battell ...	Battell, Ralph, 1649-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing B1149; ESTC R10687	9,816	28

the Errour of the Christians as he calls it he takes notice of no other Prayers that they had but a Verse or Hymn to Christ directed as to God The Author of Philopatridis also observes that the Christians sang Hymns etiam tota nocte even all night long Amongst the Ancient Fathers of the Church we have Justin Martyr mentioning their Hymns and Clemens Alexandrinus calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Daily Liturgies and a Cloud of Witnesses might be brought for the confirmation of this thing The Cathemerina of Prudentius the Odes of Nazianzen the Psalms of Athanasius and Apollinarius and the Hymns of Synesius all yet extant are so many standing proofs of this matter and do sufficiently declare how much the Devotion of the Ancient Christians did consist in Harmony They sang together in the Church and they sang there also alternately for so Philo mentions them singing with a Praecentor and the People answering the extreams or ends and Pliny also joyns with him to this effect They sang at home in the Family and abroad in the Field at their daily Labour they sang in Prison and under Persecution yea and many times moved with the Spirit of God they sang forth Hymns of Praise even at the Stake and amidst the Flames of Martyrdom So that for the first of these Vocal Musick I suppose there can be no Objection raised against it or any doubt but that it was ever used in the Christian as well as the Jewish Church but there lies an exception which some have framed against Instrumental Musick because we do not read that that was in use so early amongst the Primitive Christians and Justin mentions no other Musick used among them but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bare singing with the Voice unaccompanied with any Musical Instruments Now as to this Exception let these two things be considered First That if it were thus for a time amongst the Primitive Christians yet is it not any good Argument for its Perpetuity any more than that because the upper Rooms and the subterraneous Caverns were the places where the persecuted Christians did use to meet therefore also these are still to be used rather than the Churches now the Persecution is by God's Mercy ceased in a great part of the World And Kings and Queens are become the nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers to the Church If it were so for a Season we may and ought to look upon it as the necessity of the first Christians rather than their Choice and that they had not wherewithall to be at the charge of these Aids and Ornaments to their Religious Worship rather than that they withheld the Expence because they thought it unlawfull or unbecoming their Assemblies For no sooner did the Church begin to flourish but they grew into use and esteem And we read of St. Ambrose who lived about the latter end of the fourth Century soon after the time of Constantine and who it is also said composed the Te Deum the same Hymn of Praise which we still retain in our Liturgy directed to the glorious Trinity that he joyned Instruments of Musick with the publick Service in the Cathedral Church of Milan where he was then Bishop Which Example of his was so well approved of that by degrees it became the general Practice of other Churches thereabouts and has since obtained in almost all the Christian World besides Secondly Others have referr'd this to another Cause namely that as Inspiration in singing Psalms which was doubtless an extraordinary Gift common to the Primitive Christians began to cease Instruments and Skill were brought in in its Room even as Learning and ordinary means took place instead of extraordinary Gifts And this also might be another reason why Instrumental Musick was not so much in use at first as it was afterwards Now both these things together if one of them alone be not sufficient I hope may pass for a good answer to that Exception that has been taken by some from that passage in Justin or any other of a like kind if any such be found in the most ancient Fathers To this I may add farther that the New Testament is not without some Texts which seem to point out this thing as in Rev. 14. 2. where the voice of harpers harping with their harps is mentioned which place is ordinarily expounded of publick Worship in the Church And again in the Epistle of St. Paul to the Eph. 5. 19. the Apostle there speaking of Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs adds in the Conclusion of the Verse the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as the former word signifies only singing so this latter does properly denote the use of the Psaltery But notwithstanding all these things we find the Annotation which in the Geneva Bibles is affixed to the third Verse of the 150. Psalm runs thus David maketh mention of those Instruments which by God's Commandment were appointed in the old Law but under Christ the use thereof is abolished in the Church Now this indeed is very peremptorily said but without offering us any proof of the thing However I will examine an Objection which is most commonly brought by those men who side with the men of Geneva in this matter and endeavour to shew you its Defects Now the Objection is that Instrumental Musick is a part of the Ceremonial Law of Moses which vanished with Christ But it is a great mistake in any who look upon this as a thing of this nature for had it really been such it would either have been a Type of Christ or at least it would have been of Moses his Institution and yet it was neither the one nor the other Not a Type because its representation cannot be set forth not of Moses his Institution because in his time it bore no part in the Sanctuary We read indeed of Trumpets upon Mount Sinai which were to assemble the People together And for the like use they were appointed unto Moses as we read Numb 10. 2. for the calling of the Assembly and the journeying of the Camps but they went no farther in his Days So that this Objection if it were of any Force should rather be against our Bells that call us to Church than our Organs or other Instruments that accompany our Psalms and Anthems when we are there And yet I have not heard that any are offended with the former and I hope there is as little cause why they should be so with the latter For in short it was not Moses but David who first applied Instruments of Musick to Religious Purposes as I have before shewed and this he might do partly out of a Sence of Natural Religion and also farther as we may piously believe he being an inspired Man and a Prophet by the Spirit of God And his example is the first of the kind which our own Church does follow and which we look upon as Authentick in