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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51669	The spiritual vvorship exalted. Or A treatise concerning the worship and service of God shewing how uncapable men are in their natural and unconverted state of worshipping and serving God acceptably in this Gospel day. And that it is the light, grace and spirit of Christ revealed in men, which doth renew, fit, prepare and [q]ualifie them for performing that pure spiritual and acceptable worship which was instituted by our Lord, and practiced by his disciples and followers. As also several other things here inserted, worthy of observation. By a lover of truth, and wel-wisher of the souls of all men, George Myers.	Myers, George, 1653?-1714.	1687 (1687)	Wing M3174; ESTC R213894	43,291	111

in them before he mentions Singing or making Melody to the Lord and also the same Apostle gives an account what he himself will do upon this account saying I will sing with the Spirit and I will sing with the Vnderstanding also 1 Cor. 14.15 As for the Songs of wicked vain and ungodly People who daily rebel against the Light and Spirit of the Lord and the pure motions and conceptions thereof in themselves we do no where find that such have ever obtain'd divine acceptance in their excercise therein whilst they have continued in Vanity and Wickedness for the Lord by his Servants hath still testified against them Concerning Israel he saith Take thou away from me the noise of thy Songs for I will not hear the melody of thy Viols Amos 5.23 Also I will turn your Feasts into Mourning and all your Songs into Lamentation Amos 8.10 And of Tyrus he saith I will cause the noise of thy Songs to cease and the sound of thy Harps shall no more be heard Ezek. 26.13 And what was the reason of all this Even Sin and Iniquity for that has always been the cause of Dis-union and Separation between God and man. Object It s probable some may alledge the saying of the Apostle James Is any among you Afflicted let him Pray Is any Merry let him sing Psalmes And would infer from thence That if any be inclin'd to Mirth they may Sing by the Apostles Directions Answ In answer thereunto I say That there are two sorts of Mirth The one is a Mirth or Joy that springs up in the Hearts and Souls of Gods People being touch't and overcome with the Love and Presence of God as David said In thy Presence is fullness of Joy at thy right hand are Pleasures for evermore Psal 16.11 Also in Isaiah Behold my Servants shall sing for joy of Heart Isa 65.14 And Christ saith I will see you again and your Hearts shall rejoyce and your Joy no man taketh from you John 16.22 The other sort of Mirth or Joy is the Joy of wicked and sinful Men or that Mirth which arises from a vain foolish and wanton Mind The Apostle James is so far from directing such to sing Psalms that in the same Epistle he tells them of Mourning and Heaviness saying Cleanse your Hands ye Sinners and purifie your Hearts ye double minded be Afflisted and Mourn let your Laughter be turned into Mourning and your Joy into Heaviness James 4.8 9. Also Solomon spoke of this Mirth and said In Laughter the Heart is sorrowfull and the end of that Mirth is heaviness Prov. 14.13 Again he saith The Heart of Fools is in the House of Mirth Eccles 7.4 Also the Prophet speaking concerning Israel that was Apostatized and gone from the Lord and the counsel of his Spirit amongst other things says I will also cause her mirth to cease Hosea 2.11 Thus then as it is manifest that there is two sorts of Mirth or Joy and that the Mirth or Joy of the Wicked is but Vanity therefore we may conclude that the Mirth spoken of by the Apostle was that true Mirth or Joy that arises in the Hearts of Gods People being secretly toucht and overcome with the Love and Goodness of God and those who are witnesses of this true Mirth and Joy may sing Psalms according to the Apostles directions upon that account Object Some may object and say That although the Lord disowns vain Mirth yet David 's Psalmes are very good and useful and may be sung by those professing Christianity Answ Although David's Psalmes are very good and useful yet it does not therefore follow that any can sing them acceptably unless they be in some measure endued with that Spirit of God David was endued with and be under the fence and exercise of what they speak It is not only the repeating or singing over of good Words that the Lord looks at as hath been before observ'd but it is the frame and disposition of their Souls and Spirits from whom those words do actually proceed There 's no question but the Singers of Israel could express themselves with great Curiosity and draw out their Notes very exactly but what signified all that so long as it was not real but only formal and that their Hearts were adulterated from the Lord To what purpose can any rationally suppose it to be for People to sing David's Psalmes in Saul's Spirit or for those who spend their precious time in Wickedness Folly and Vanity and do very seldom think of Divine and Spiritual matters or of the Eternal and Irrevocable decree that must in one day be past upon them to sing thus I am weary with my Groanings All the Night make I my Bed to Swim I water my Couch with Tears My Heart is like Wax it is melted in the midst of my Bowels My Heart is not haughty nor my Eyes lofty My Soul is even as a weaned Child I have hated the Congregation of Ev l-Doers and will not sit with the Wicked I have set the Lord always before me My Heart is endicting a good matter I have remembered thy Name O Lord and have kept thy Law. Thy Statutes have been my Songs in the House of my Pilgrimage Thy Testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever for they are the rejoycing of my Heart Lord I have loved the habitation of thy House and the place where thine Honour dwelleth These were David's Words and it s very likely that he was a Witness of what he spoke in these respects but then for any to undertake to sing them before the Lord because David spoke them and not because they are witnesses of such things in themselves nor of the Work and Influence of the Grace and Spirit of Christ by which these things are effected such Singers will not meet with divine acceptance in such performances nor is Singing in the least suitable to their State and Condition but rather Mourning and Lamentation because of Sin and Transgression Howbeit still although the Songs of the Wicked shall be turn'd into Lamentation and their Mirth into Heaviness in one day if they report not yet the Righteous shall Rejoyce and be exceeding Glad in the Lord and shall sing to his Praise and Glory in the Congregations of his People as David said Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his Holiness Psal 30.4 Again Sing unto the Lord a new Song and his Praise in the Congregation of Saints Psal 149. 1. It s only those who by the Power and Spirit of Christ are gathered and redeemed out of the Defilements and Vanities of this World that can truly sing this new Song as John said No man could learn that Song but the hundred and fourty four thousand which were redeemed from the Earth Rev. 14.3 Such can sing the Songs of Sion and the Songs of Deliverance in the Land of the Living and can truly Magnifie and Extol that great and powerful