Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44281	Gospel musick, or, The singing of Davids psalms, &c. in the publick congregations, or private families asserted, and vindicated, against a printed pamphlet, entitled, Certain reasons by way of confutation of singing psalms in the letter, objections sent in, in writing, scruples of some tender consciences by thy loving brother, N.H., D.D., M.M.S. ; vnto which is added, the iudgement of our worthy brethren of New-England touching singing of psalms, as it is learnedly and gravely set forth in their preface to the Singing psalms, by them translated into metre.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1644 (1644)	Wing H2567; ESTC R13654	26,991	33

as well as Moses the women also as well as the men ver 20 21. and Deut. 32. whereto some think John had reference as well as to Exod. 15.1 when he brings in the Protestant Churches getting the victory over the beast with Harps in their hands and singing the song of Moses Rev. 15.3 this song Moses is commanded not only to put into their hearts but into their mouthes also Deut. 31.19 which argues they were with their mouthes to sing it together as well as with their hearts Thirdly Isaiah foretells in the dayes of the new Testament that Gods watchment and desolate lost souls signified by wast places should with their voices sing together Isa 52.8.9 and Rev. 7.9 10. the song of the Lamb was by many together and the Aposte expresly commands the singing of Psalms Hymnes c. not to any select Christians but to the whole Church Eph. 5.19 Col. 3.16 Paul and Silas sang together in private Acts 16. 25. and must the publick heare only one man sing To all these we may adde the practice of the primitive Churches the testistimony of ancient and holy Basil is in stead of many Epist 63. When one of us saith he hath begun a Psalme the rest of us set in to sing with him all of us with one heart and one voyce and this saith he is the common practice of the Churches of Egypt Lybia Thebes Palestina Syria and those that dwell on Euphrates and generally every where where singing of Psalmes is of any account To the same purpose also Eusebius gives witnesse Eceles hist lib. 2. cap. 17. The objections made against this doe most of them plead against joyning to sing in heart as well as in voyce as that by this means others out of the Church will sing as also that we are not alway in a suteable estate to the matter sung and likewise that all cannot sing with understanding in all not therefore all that have understanding joyn in heart and voyce together Are not all the creatures in heaven earth seas men beasts fishes fowles c. commanded to praise the Lord and yet none of these but men and godly men too can doe it with spirituall understanding As for the scruple that some take at the translation of the book of Psalms into meeter because Davids Psalmes were sung in his own words without meeter we answer First there are many verses together in severall Psalmes of David which run in rithmes as those that know the Hebrow and as Buxtorf shewes Thesau p. 629. which shewes at least the lawfulnesse of singing Psalmes in English rithmes Secondly the Psalmes are penned in such verses as are sutable to the Poetry of the Hebrew language and not in the common stile of such other books of the old Testament as are not poeticall now no Protestant doubteth but that all the books of the Scripture should by Gods ordinance be extant in the mother tongue of each nation ☟ Observe Reader that this Note viz. that they may be understood of all hence the Psalms are to betranslated into our English tongue and if in our English tongue we are to sing them * See Mr. Mede on 1 Cor. 11.5 where he proves that it is so far from being unlawful for a woman to sing because she is not permitted to speak in the Church that in singing she ought to speak as being her duty of prophesying I say this note being omitted in his place must be referred thither viz. 10 pa. 9. lin the last then as all our English songs according to the course of our English Poetry do run in meeter so ought Davids Psalms to be translated into meeter that so we may sing the Lords songs as in our English tongue so in such verses as are familiar to an English care which are commonly Metrical and as it can be no just offence to any good conscience to sing Davids Hebrew songs in English words so neiher to sing his Poeticall verses in English Poeticall meeter men might as well stumble at singing the Hebrew Psalms in our English tunes and not in the Hebrew tunes as at singing them in English meeter which are our verses and not in such verses as are generally used by David according to the Poetry of the Hebrew language but the truth is as the Lord hath hid from us the Hebrew tunes lest we should think our selves bound to imitate them so also the course and frame for the most part of their Hebrew Poetry that we might not think our selves bound to imitate that but that every nation without scruple might follow as the graver sort of tunes of their own countrey songs so the graver sort of verses of their own countrey Poetry FINIS