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A65267 The Right Reverend Doctor John Cosin, late Lord Bishop of Durham his opinion (when Dean of Peterburgh, and in exile) for communicating rather with Geneva than Rome ... / by Ri. Watson ... Watson, Richard, 1612-1685. 1684 (1684) Wing W1094; ESTC R15810 37,284 110

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Beza's Psalms to cherish and encourage one another in their Rebellious attacks and Sacrilegious spoils The Dutch and Germans have employed theirs to a like good purpose but what their Poets name was I have not hitherto been informed Our Puritans have done the like in our late Civil Wars with Sternhold and Hopkins when they have gone about to charge their more Loyal Countrey-men then in Arms for the King as may be made good from their forces in Lincolnshire and other Countries Nay I fear we have outdone the Foreigners in one very profane practice I have observed that I mean is libelling parties yea and single persons in the choice of a Psalm the sense whereof shall be forced to reproach a Sentence judicially pronounced at the end of some suit at Law and sometimes to ridicule conformity to the order of our Church That our Rebels guilt made them jealous of the like project in those whom they suspected for more Legal principles than their own is not amiss noted from that act of folly if not more criminal I have read perpetrated by Isaac Penington London's Lord Chief Justice in his time who sent a fellow to Newgate perhaps a Clerk of some Church there only for setting a Malignant Psalm as he did another for Reading a Malignant Chapter possibly the 13th to the Romans such a one as he would have had encerped among many others toward constituting a new Apocrypha to secure a Scriptural Canon if he and other such misereants could have compiled it to countenance their Rebellion as they did in misapplied Texts too often by Holy Writ Some other improper uses they made of 'em as at their City Feasts in the place of more artificial Musick that commonly attend such entertainments And as an hypocritical property to gain the reputation of Piety in the strict observance of family-family-duties as they call them whereof some of their own Children have taken notice as did that Boy who being reproached by his Play-fellow That they Sung no Psalms upon Sabbath days in the Evening as his Father and the rest did at their House received this in answer with too much truth as the young Gamester ingenuously meant it That the reason why at his Fathers house no Psalms were wont to be Sung was because they had no Window toward the street Many odd passages in reference to those Psalms have affected the minds of most judicious persons whose ears they have arrived but none upon that account have in their merriment made more reflections in contempt and scorn of our Religion which they will needs suppose either allows or tolerates 'em than some in the Roman Communion who to my knowledge mimically sing their Tunes and act such Farces with ridiculous circumstances as have been credibly reported to 'em observing also the rusticity of their language and inconsonancy of their Rhime as no man in his right mind can better temper an excuse of what he must not disown than by a smile and silence To what end they were first ordained may be shrewdly guessed by the critical season of their composition which we read was about the same time when by the formality of a Commission accompanied with the irregularity of Riotous and Sacrilegious people not only the Plate and rich Ornaments of the Altars were seized on in the Kings name E. 6. for their own commodity but most furniture of all sorts belonging to the several Quires throughout the Realm were rifled and the very structures in a great part demolished or defaced that in St. Paul's Cathedral it self not escaping as if so well the daily Sacrifice of praising God in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs whatsoever the new Liturgy order'd otherwise were thence to be exterminated as that of the Mass. They that had such apprehension or other conceit in fancy for innovation might easily be induced to entertain this new device at least in their private Houses and as formerly they had been gratified with the priviledge of reading the Scripture in our vulgar language so now be yet more pleased with the liberty they might enjoy at will of singing their Psalter thus Poetically improved in the same Howsoever this may be not invidiously nor partially observed from the first publication of 'em that they were by none more regarded nor more eagerly contended for than by those that were most seditiously inclined and disaffected to the established order of the Church which in this particular among others was carefully provided for especially after the coming of the precise Brethren from Geneva where they had not only learned from their great Master Calvin a new Institution or System of Religion but acquainted themselves well with his subtile methods of Sacriledge or Sequestation of any Church Revenue which they could pretend to have been superstitiously employed that is in more truth applied to the external decency or solemnity of Divine Service and Religious Worship of God in his Holy Temple for little less than a suspicion of Rapine in some such sort seemeth to be implied in the 49 Injunction of Queen Elizabeth whereunto it occurs thus Because in divers Collegiate and also some Parish Churches heretofore there have been livings appointed for the maintenance of Men and Children to use singing in the Church by means whereof the laudable service of Musick hath been had in estimation and preserved in knowledge the Queens Majesty neither meaning in any wise the decay of any thing that might conveniently tend to the use and continuance of the said Science neither to have the same in any part so abused in the Church that thereby the Common Prayer should be the worse understanded of the hearers willeth and commandeth that first no alterations be made of such assignments of living as heretofore hath been appointed to the use of Singing or Musick in the Church but that the same so remain And that there be a modest and distinct Song so used in all parts of the Common Prayers in the Church that the same may be as plainly understanded as if it were read without singing and yet nevertheless for the comforting of such that delight in Musick it may be permitted that in the beginning or in the end of Common Prayers either at Morning or Evening there may be sung an Hymn or such like Song to the praise of Almighty God in the best sort of Melody and Musick that may be conveniently devised having respect that the Sentence of the Hymn may be understanded and perceived My Remarks upon which Injunction are these 1. That not only in Cathedrals but in some Parochial Churches also means had been setled upon Singing-men and younger Choristers to begin and carry on the Solemn Tunes of the Psalms in Prose as they are Verse after Verse prickt out by a middle distinction to that purpose 2. That the said settlement advanced the estimation of Musick accounted a laudable Service when diligently attended and performed according to the true intent and first institution thereof 3. That