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A49810	A mite into the treasury being a word to artists, especially to heptatechnists, the professors of the seven liberal arts ... shewing what we own herein, being according to God and Godliness, and of God and what we deny, proceeding from and favouring of those deceitful lips which seduced man from his primitive station, a state of blessedness / [by] Thomas Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing L726; ESTC R30492	34,955	52

Cotgrave Printed in the Year 1650. That it was the Stile of France at first as well as of other Countries Tutoyer that is to say Thou to any particular Person they spoke unto but when the Common wealth of Rome turned into an Empire so much Power came into one Mans Hand then in regard he was able to confer Honour and Offices the Countries began to magnifie him and to use You unto him See Symmathus his Epistles to the Emperor Theodosius and to Valentinian Again Pope Clement in his Letter to Sigismund the Emperor wrote We when it was sent from him only and You when it was sent to Sigismund the Emperor only See the Turkish History pag. 1081. Thus the Language of the Spirit of the Holy Men of God of all Nations came to be denied and an improper impertinent and absurd Custom of Speech came to be entertained and is spread as a foul Leprosie and is pleaded for yea by such as would be accounted sharers in Reformation CAP. II. Of LOGICK LOgick is defined to be the Manner or Art of Reasoning and Disputing well of which I have to say as follows The Ante-diluvian and Post-diluvian Patriarchs that is the Fathers that lived before and after the Flood Prophets Seers Evangelists Apostles Bishops Elders Deacons yea all the Holy Men of God Children of Light Children of the Day formed in the Womb of Eternal Wisdom were Qualified and Impowered from above to defend and maintain the Cause Concern and Worship of the Lord in their respective Dispensations with having recourse to Pagan Means Fallen Arts Earthly Wisdom Infectious Sophistry as many Instances left upon Record clearly demonstrate The Lord said unto Moses when he sent him with a Massage to Pharaoh Go therefore I will be with thy Mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say Exod. 4. Here he was drawn from the Puddle of Prophane Arts and Sciences Worldly Wisdom Deceitful Sophistry to have Reliance and Dependance on the living God the Well-Spring of pure Wisdom savoury Knowledg and sound Understanding and he streamed out heavenly Eloquence saying My Doctrine shall drop as the Rain my Speech shall distill as the Dew as the small Rain upon the tender Herb and as the Showers upon the Grass Deut. 32. Moses in the Wisdom from above contended for the Concern of God his Will his Worship maintained the same against Pharaoh Magicians Wise Men Inchanters Apostates without recourse to Pagan Means Arts or Sciences Again Christ who is Alpha and Omega the Amen made a Promise unto his Disciples saying I will give you a Mouth and Wisdom which all your Adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist Luk. 21.15 Thus the Disciples derived heavenly Wisdom from Christ whereby they defended and maintained the Concern of Christ his Kingdom Doctrine Worship against all Adversaries Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites Painted Sepulchres Faithless Lawyers Spoiling Phylosophers Painted Orators Subtil Sophisters Pagan Logicians Christ commended them not to Heathen Schools not to Aristotle Plato or any other Heathen to enable them to refute Hereticks but to his own Gift his Wisdom Armour of Proof his Sword put into their Hands enabling them for his Work Again Certain Libertines Cyrenians Alexandrians Cilicians Asians disputed with Stephen What was the issue of the Contest 't is there Recorded They were not able to resist the Wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke Acts 6 9 10. Thus Stephen obtained Victory over the Champions of the Dragon And how Not by Heathen Wisdom Pagan Logick Spoiling Philosophy but by the Sword of the Spirit Shield of Faith Wisdom from above in this Armour he prevailed So Pagan Logick an Art of the Old Man is not Gospel Armour whereby Stephen refuted the Adversaries of Truth Paul though eminent in Tongues Natural Parts and Abilities and knew what Key opened into the rich Cabinet of heavenly Wiscom and Treasures yet he excluded Natural Arts and Endowments from being that Key saying The Natural Man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are Spiritually discerned 1. Cor. 2.14 A Natural Man though mounted to the Terret of Philosophick Elevations and to the Zenith of Scholastick Notions and stored with the Quintessence of Serpentine Wisdom and profess himself to be a great Sophist that is Wise Man yet groping in the gloomy Region and dark Night of Degeneration Alienation and Estrangement from God he cannot thereby open one Seal of the sealed Book The Seven-sealed-Book is a thing of God so no way to be opened and read but by the Spirit of God Plato a Heathen Philosopher through Divine Glimpses said well Vertue is not acquired but infused This Paul a skilful Warrior of Christ desirous that the Church might be so harnessed as to hold out against all the Assaults of the old Dragon and his Confederates Instruments mentions the whole Armour of God Ephes 6. or all the Armour of God What be they Girdle of Truth Breast plate of Righteousness Shield of Faith Helmet of Salvation Sword of the Spirit Feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel Here 's no mention made of Subtil Logick nor of Painted Rhetorick nor of Spoiling Philosophy nor of Pagan Ethicks Physicks Metaphysicks he that mentioned the whole Armour of God mentioned not any of these which clearly demonstrates they are not of the Armour of God Whos 's then Of the Old Dragon the Devil The Apostles harnessed with the Armour of God reduced many to the saving Truth they stopt the Mouths of Gain-sayers they bore faithful Testimony to and contended for the Living Life-giving Soul-quickning Truth against such as was harnessed with the Old Dragons Armour the Wise the Scribe the Disputer of this World Subtil Logicians Crafty Sophisters Painted Orators Spoiling Philosophers Drunk with the Dregs of Pagan Ethicks Physicks Metaphysicks Heathenism By what is said 't is evident that in the Patrirachal M●saical and Evangelical Dispensations yea in all Churches Professing Christianity while the Primitive Faith Doctrine and Worship was sincerely maintained the respective Membess thereof were qualified and impowered from above to defend the same and such lively and truly influenced Confessors of the holy Truth are true and divine Logicians influenced from above to Reason Dispute for and Defend the Faith delivered to the Saints and all this we own And as in this Generation the Lord influences his for the performance of that Work and Service unto the which they are called So the insinuating Serpent the old Dragon hath his Agents and Instruments in every Generation to carry on his Work and they are bred and formed in the Womb of Earthly Wisdom this is seen not only among the Professors of Christianity but also among the old Heathen who had their Logick which they defined to be the Art of Reasoning and Disputing well And this Art was brought in and invented by one Zono Eleates a Heathen who lived in or about the Year of the World 34

of the House God appointed Singers of the Levites instructed in the Songs of the Lord appertaining to the Temple Worship 1 Chron. 6. and 1 Chron. 25. These Singers be arrayed in white Linnen they Praised and gave Thanks unto the Lord whose Mercy endures forever These Singers arrayed in VVhite shadowed out the lively Members of the Evangelical Dispensation A Remnant of the Church in Sardis were to walk in VVhite Rev. 3.4 Again John saw a numberless Multitude of all Nations Kindreds People and Tongues clothed in white Robes Rev. 7. And John saw the Armies in Heaven clothed in fine Linnen Rev 19. VVhat is this fine white Linnen VVhat are these white Robes Not Aarons white Robes no imitation thereof not the white Linnen of the Singers of the Temple not Surplices such as are now used by the Conforming Ministry and Queristers in Cathedrals VVhat then John tells us expresly That the fine white Linnen was the Righteousness of Saints Rev. 19.8 And who or what but Christ is the Saints Righteousness So Christ the Righteousness of Saints is that very thing which the white Linnen of Aaron and of the Levitical Singers shadowed forth So to plead for the Shadow or for an Imitation thereof the Substance being come 't is Antichristian And Paul said to the Ephesians to the Saints and Faithful Brethren who were come to the Righteousness of Saints to the end of Shadows Be not Drunk with Wine wherein is Excess but be filled with the Spirit speaking to your selves not in VVanton Balads Obscene Songs but in Psalms Hymes and spiritual Songs Singing and making Melody in your Hearts to the Lord Ephes 5.18 19. and Col. 3.16 Such Singers we own their Psalms Hymes and spiritual Songs we own they stream out of the Mouth of the New Man not of the Old John tells us of a New Song which none could learn but the Hundred Forty and Four Thousand which were Redeemed from the Earth Rev. 14. And Paul said to the Sanctified at Corinth When ye come together every one of you hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine hath a Tongue hath a Revelation hath an Interpretation let all things be done to Edifying 1 Cor. 14. So a Psalm was a Gift particular to the New Man who sings with the Spirit and with Understanding The Primitive Church while a Virgin to Christ sung with the Spirit with Understanding had to Clark no give them in other Mens Experiences but Christendom being become a Sea the Spirit lost turned from in which true Joy and Singing is then stept in Formal Singing without without the Spirit without Understanding The Wanton who spends his precious Hours in Jollity he sings I am weary with my Groaning I water my Couch with my Tears The proud Atheist who hath banished the Lord out of hie thoughts he sings I have set the Lord always before me The vain Minded who delights in the Company and Society of vain 〈◊〉 he sings I have hated the Congregation of Evil-Doers and will not sit with the Wicked He that is as a withered Tree Plucked up by the Roots Fruitless he sings I am like a Green Olive Tree in the House of God He whose Heart is as a Cage of Uncleanness he sings My Heart is enditing a good matter The daily Feaster such as the Residentarians whose Legs can scarce bear about his Gross Corpulent Body he sings My Knees are Weak through Fasting and my Flesh faileth of Fatness Satans Captive who wallows in the Mire and Puddle of Sin and Iniquity he sings O Lord truly I am thy Servant The Son of Belial who by Persecution would wear out the Flock of the Lord from off the Earth he sings I am a Campanion of all them that fear thee The Lawless man whose Life is a Life of Rebellion subject as I may say to the grand Charter of Sin and Death he sings The Law of thy Mouth is better unto me than Thousands of Gold and Silver He that Adder-wise stops his Ears from the Heavenly Doctrine of the Lords anointed Ones he sings How sweet are thy Words to my Taste yea sweeter than the Honey to my Mouth The Ambitious Man puft up with the Breath of Satans Bellows he sings Lord my Heart is not Haughty my Soul is even as a Weaned Child Do these and such like sing with the Spirit Do they sing with Understanding No. Now who are of God they are distinguishing Persons and with us they contend for singing in the Spirit and with Understanding this Song none but the Redeemed can learn this Song of the Lord cannot be sung in a strange Land Captivity Spiritual Babylon and such as are of God they deny all dead formal Singing and Singers who formally sing other Mens Conditions out of the Spirit without Understanding That the Primitive Christian Church while a Virgin to Christ sung David's Experiences or Testimonies in Meetre that I deny but through the Engress of the Apostacy Singing in the Spirit being lost then a formal Singing in Meetre entred in whereof I have read That In or about the Year 383. Psalms began to be sung being brought in by Damasus Bishop or Pope of Rome though not turned into Meetre Mark this In or about the Year 1552. in the sixth Year of Edward the sixth the Psalms of David first began to be composed in English Meetre by one Thomas Sternhold one of the Grooms of the Pivy-Chamber who Translating but a few left both Example and Encouragement to John Hopkins and others to dispatch the rest a Device first taken up in France by one Clement Merot one of the Grooms of the Bed-Chamber to King Francis the first At first they were sung in private Houses after were taken into the Church of the French And of other Nations they were first allowed for private Devotion after by little and little crept into the use of the Church afterwards Printed and bound up with the Common-Prayer-Book at last added by Stationers in the end of the Bible see Dr Heylin's Ecclesia Restaurata pag. 191. But though by this Author called a Device yet now 't is called a Vice yea a Symptom of a Heterodox Judgment to deny or question the Observation of the same Benedictus an Abbot of the Monestary of Peter and Paul at Wire brought with him from Rome one John the Arch-Chanter who first taught in England how to sing in the Quire after the manner of Rome in the Year 724. Fox Acts and Mon. The Levites that were Singers were divided into twenty four Ranks or Courses Hence the Apostatized Church brought in Queristers so introduce the Levites for a proof for their Office but the truly Redeemed Church receives not Jewdaism for Christianity neither their Practice for Christs Institution and Appointment 'T is a Custom of many Countries and Nations saith Macrobius to accompany Dead Bodies to their Burials with Singing And why Because their Souls are believed to return to the Original of Musical Sweetness or Pleasure that is to