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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01093	Atheomastix clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels: 1. That, there is a God. 2. That, there is but one God. 3. That, Iehouah, our God, is that one God. 4. That, the Holy Scripture is the Word of that God. All of them proued, by naturall reasons, and secular authorities; for the reducing of infidels: and, by Scriptures, and Fathers, for the confirming of Christians. By the R. Reuerend Father in God, Martin Fotherby, late Bishop of Salisbury. The contents followes, next after the preface.	Fotherby, Martin, 1549 or 50-1620.	1622 (1622)	STC 11205; ESTC S121334	470,356	378

though some bee not greatly strong yet they strongly shew that euen the Heathen held this as a sacred opinion that Musicke is Gods gift and not mans inuention Yea and that which the Heathen haue so ingenuously acknowledged of the whole body of Musicke they likewise acknowledge of both the kindes of it both of Vocal and Organical For Vocal Musicke Homer expresly affirmeth of the Singer Demodocus the most excellent in those times that the Sweetnesse of his voyce whereby hee so greatly delighted all men was a speciall gift which God had giuen vnto him divinum Cantorem Demodocum huic quidem Deus excellenter dedit cantilenam Ad oblectandum quocunque animus ipsum impulerit canere A most diuine and heauenly Songster Demodocus was Who did in most delightfull layes all other men surpasse What ere his mind did leade him to he did excell in singing And all this excellency of his was giuen by God vnto him And that which hee affirmeth particularly of him doth Seneca affirme in generall of all men Ille Deus est qui non calamo tantùm cantare atque agreste inconditum carmen ad aliquam tantùm oblectationem modulari docuit sed tot Artes tot vocum varietates tot sonos alios spiritu nostro alios externo cantus edituros commentus est It is God that hath taught men not onely to play vpon rude and homely pipes fit for rude and Country song's but that first hath invented all those Arts all those varieties of voices and all those sounds whereby either with our owne breath or with others we expresse all those songs And therefore the Psalmist concludeth the booke of Psalmes with this Epiphonema Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord. That so God who gaue those instruments vnto men might with his owne gift be praised by them For so is Organicall Musicke as well as Vocal it also is Gods gift Yea and that also by the Confession euen of the very Heathen For so Homer affirmeth in expresse and plaine words Alij tribuit Deus bellicaopera Alij autem saltationem alij cytharam cantum God giu's to one the feates of Armes t' another art of dansing He giu's another skill to harpe another voice for singing So that both playing and Singing he acknowledgeth to be the gifts of God vnto men Yea and Maeximus Tyrius reproueth the Musition Demodocus whom before I named because he ascribed not vnto God his gift in playng as well as in singing Neque fide dignus Demodocus cùm de seipso dicit Ipse mihi Doctor tribuerunt Numina vocem Demodocus is not to be beleeued when he vaunteth of himselfe That the Gods indeede had giuen him his voice but as for all his cunning hee learned that onely of himselfe This arrogancy he reproueth as vnto God iniurious from whom he receiued the gift of them both He was indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he boasted of himselfe Neither did the Heathen onely ascribe vnto God to bee the giuer of the skill of playing vpon all sorts of Musicall instruments but also to haue bene the first inuentor of making the very instruments themselues Heraclides affirmeth of Amp●ion who was Iupiters sonne that hee was the first in the world that euer taught men the vse of the Harpe But hee addeth there further that he himselfe had learned that skill of his Father Patre nimirùm docente But Plutarch himselfe reduceth it higher not allowing of any mortall man to bee the first inuentor so much as of the Pipe but ascribing euen it as well as the Harpe to be the inuention of the learned god Apollo But Bion more distinctly referreth those instruments vnto those seuerall gods that we●● their seuerall inuenters not heaping the glorie of all vpon one but reseruing vnto euery god the glorie of his owne inuention ●●stulam obliquam Pan invenit Minerva tibiam Tes●ud●●em Mercurius Et Cytharam dulcis Apollo The crooked Pipe was Pans deuice Minerua's was the Flute The Harpe Apollo did inuent and Mercury the Lute Thus not onely Musicke it selfe of all kindes but also all Musicall instruments of all sorts are euen in the iudgment of the very Heathen confessed to bee the gifts of God vnto Men. Which though they bee made by the hand of man yet were they directed by the wisdome of God And therefore the Heathen haue iustly ascribed them not vnto him that wrought them but vnto him that taught them 5 Now as God hath giuen vnto man a natural kind of Musick wherewith his soule is delighted so hath hee also giuen him a naturall sense and instinct to worship God with it as a tribute due to him from whom it was first giuen As may be euidently seene by the generall practice both of Christians Heathens Who as they doe agree by the light of Nature in worshipping of God so doe they likewise agree by the same light of Nature to vse Musicke in his worship For the practice of Christians the whole Booke of Psalmes is an euidence of it Which as it was dayly sung in the old Church of the Iewes so is it still dayly sung in all the Churches of Christians through the whole world of Christianitie In which Booke being penned by the Holy Ghost we may obserue three remarkeable things First that as God hath appointed vnto man a Sabbath day wherein to praise and serue him so hath hee also appointed them to serue him with hymnes and psalmes and spirituall songs Yea and among them hath selected certaine speciall Psalmes from among all the rest as specially appropriated vnto those Sabbath Dayes As may be euidently seene by the title and inscription of the 92. Psalme A Psalme or Song for the Sabbath Day Secondly that hee hath further had a speciall care not onely of the Dittie but also of the Tune too As it likewise appeareth by the Titles and inscriptions of diuers other Psalmes Magistro Symphoniae ad pneumatica instrumenta Magistro Symphoniae fidium ad grauem symphoniam Magistro Symphoniae acutae ad medianam and diuers others such like Thirdly that not contented with the Musick of mens naturall voices he hath further added to them for the quickning of deuotion the helpe of all sorts of Musicall instruments Praise him in the sound of the Trumpet Praise him vpon the Lute and Harpe Praise him with Timbrels and Flute with Virginals and Organs and with high sounding Cymbals Thus God himselfe hath required to haue his Seruice furnished with all the seuerall sorts of Musick both Harmonical Rithmicall and Organicall And therefore Boetius ascribeth vnto the Art of Musick a principa●l honor aboue all the other Inter septem Artes Liberales principatum oblinet Musica And Beda who reporteth his opinion alledgeth for it a good Reason Because it of all other Arts hath onely the honour to enter into the