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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93924	A paraphrasticall explication of the prophecie of Habakkuk, which is a prophecie that may supply us with fit matter of meditation for these times.	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5718; Thomason E314_30; ESTC R200510	27,751	36

me chearfully in the way to those high places and Sanctuaries above where I shall be set out of the feare of all danger in everlasting blisse And as a Testimony of my Ioy and Solace in that I will take order with the chiefe Master of the Musicke to have this Prayer set to some Instrument that may help to rouse up my spirits and my solace in God my Saviour A farther enlargement in contemplation of the Melodious Musick here defended and the sad Discord of these Times THe Honour and Praise of that our gratious Lord and Saviour is the everlasting Ioy and Song of the holy Quire above Where that it may be ours after the more-then Babylonish Confusion and Captivity that we may live to see here in the persecution of our Soules as well as of our Bodies Let us use the Prophet Habakkuk's Prayer with his Spirit and labour as he did to place all our delight and content in God alone and in his Glory And as men desirous to joyne with that heavenly Quire and adde our Musick to theirs which seems to be the summe of the Royall Prophets earnest invitation in the last Psalme Let us follow that Prophets advice that saith Praise him in his * Psal 150.1 Our latter Translation doth well expresse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Sanctuary as it is taken Psal 68 24. 78.55 and elsewhere Sanctuary In his holy Temple above all other places whatsoever some begin to say let him have those solemne melodious Praises And praise him there while we may Not only upon the Neginoth as the Prophet Habakkuk doth here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and calls for him that excelleth in that kind calls for him at the commemoration of a heavie and publick calamity for such was the occasion of the Prophets Prayer Not only so But if you will goe on with the sweet Singer of Israel that put all his dolefull Penitentiall Prayers into Musicall Psalmes and therefore sure would leave out none of his Church-Musick for any other occasions Praise him in the sound of the Trumpet Psal 150.3 praise him upon the Lute and Harpe Praise him in the Cymbals and Dances praise him upon the Strings and Pipe Praise him upon the well-tuned Cymbals praise him upon the loud Cymbals Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. All this may well befit the Service of God in his materiall Temples here below And in that above not made with hands where all make but one Congregation and one Quire if they doe any thing else then praise God yet they doe nothing more willingly We may find them busie at it in sundry places of the Apocalypse In the 4th Chapter after the Doxologies of the foure Creatures Rev. 4.8 10. we have the 24 Elders casting their Crownes before the throne and falling to their Acclamations of divine Praise And Chap. 5.8 10 11. in the next Chapter we have them every one with Harps and golden Phiales full of odours which are the Prayers of the Saints Prayers there againe accompanied with heavenly Musick And at the Close of their Song Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousand thousands have no other taske but that In the 7th Chapter C. 7. 11. All the Angels round about the throne fall downe upon their faces with the like joyfull worship After all this C. 14. 2 3. The 14th Chapter acquaints us with the sweet voyce of Harpers and their Angelicall Harmony accompanied with a new Song in the mouth of a hundred forty foure thousand which were bought from the Earth Then againe in the 15th Chapter C. 15. 2 3. there is another great number that have the Harpes of God and sing the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lambe And lastly C. 19. 1 3. The 19th Chapter tells us againe and againe of a great multitude at their severall Halelujahs Now if we must flye to mysticall expositions somewhat may be seen out of what hath been said They specially cannot but see it that can understand greater mysteries of this Revelation if they please Therefore after all this Musick in Heaven and Earth in the Prophet Habakkuk's Neginoth in King David's Psaltery in the Angells Harpes and Voyces in all which Musick and Prayers as well as Musick and Praises are put together After all this let us leave our vaine Scruples obey the Dictates of our Mother Church and with so good Company desire to joyne all together both in our Prayers and in our hearty Praise and Service and Glory to God which is the happy and welcome employment of the glorious Angels and Saints above They cease not day nor night inviting one another and saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Rev. 4.8 which was and which is and which is to come I Have said the more of Celestiall Musick in this kind because I desire we should all fall in love with it or at least with that sweet Accord and Harmony and Consent which is most eminent in that For we are a miserable distracted Nation out of all Tune and out of all Order even to the wonder and astonishment of those that are about us who not long since were as much taken with the admiration of our Conformity and our happy Peace But we are now so much or rather so all for Jarres and Discords that we are for nothing else We are growne such Strangers or rather such deadly Enemies to Vnity and Concord and Vniformity that we cannot indure a motion for them and are troubled at the very name and offended with all that will not dance after our Pipe while we are so disordered And all this by reason of some idle fancies and crotchets of our owne that have had too much hold of our Thoughts and carried them almost beyond the hope of all Recovery and true Reformation If all this be spoken not only out of that Duty and Charity that binds us to call upon others which we think are ready to fall into a dangerous pit but with an eye to that Truth also which every true Christian is bound to obey then why should not that which is said be heard with Patience and gladly received of those who say They fight for Truth though they take away our Peace But if any thing be suspected as spoken in the defence of some grand Error Let not that Error be shewed us out of some new Revelations which must undertake to discover more then ever appeared to Saint John who by his Eagle seemes to be pointed out as the quickest sighted of all the divine Apostles and as the loving Disciple doth so earnestly exhort us to Love one another and so urge the necessity of that Love that the serious consideration of what he writes were enough to make whole Armies of Christians throw downe their weapons fall to mutuall embraces and resolve rather to be Armies of Martyrs then what they are From such Acts of Love that are called for by the spirit