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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53658	Church-pageantry display'd, or, Organ-worship, arraign'd and condemn'd, as inconsistent with the revelation and worship of the Gospel, the sentiments of the ancient fathers, the Church of England, and several eminent divines, both Protestants and Papists. By Eugenius Junior - in answer to a letter about organs.	Owen, James, 1654-1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing O706A; ESTC R25513	24,345	29

Church-Pageantry DISPLAY'D OR Organ-Worship Arraign'd and Condemn'd As inconsistent with the Revelation and Worship of the Gospel the Sentiments of the Ancient Fathers the Church of England and several Eminent Divines both Protestants and Papists That it may please Thee to bring into the Way of Truth all such as have Erred and are Deceived We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. Amen! The best Musical Instrument for God's Praise is an upright Heart Bishop Cowper's Works Printed at London 1621. Page 371. By Eugenius Junior In ANSWER to a Letter about ORGANS Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata Is any Merry Let him sing Psalms LONDON Printed for A. Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1700. CHAP. I. The Introduction The Patriarchal and Old Testament-Church about Three Thousand Years without Organ-Worship An Account of other Instrumental Musick us'd in Divine Praises Organs and other Musical Instruments under the Legal Dispensation Parts of the Ceremonial Law instituted by Divine Authority are not obligatory under the Gospel no more than other Branches of the Ceremonial Law which by the Confession of Organical Advocates are abrogated SIR THERE 's no Request of yours but is equivolent to a Command with me Whereas in your Letter to the 20th Current you earnestly crav'd my Sentiments about the use of Church-Musick because a Friend of yours was going to erect a Pair of Organs in his Parochial-Church I have comply'd with your Desires and in the following Observations have deliver'd my own Thoughts and the Judgment of many oothers touching it's unlawfulness under the Evangelical Oeconomy Before I go on I must beg the favour of you as to give Place to calm and sober Thoughts and impartially to weigh the force of my Evidence And in order to that I hope you 'll be so just as to read over the whole Essay before you proceed to a judicial definitive Censure I am perswaded you are of a candid Temper and therefore I can the more freely communicate my Sentiments to you and that I may the more effectually set the Affair in debate in it's true Light I 'll begin with the first Rise and Use of Musick and Musical Devotions 1. 'T was about Three Thousand Years after the Creation before any Organs were us'd in Divine Worship That they were invented in the Infancy of the World we readily grant Gen. 4.21 Jubal he was the Father of all such as handle Harp and Organ but if one of the Posterity of Bloody Cain was the Contriver of these paltry sidling Pipes will it therefore follow that their use in Sacred Services was equally Ancient with their first Invention But it 's doubtful whether the Organs mention'd in this Scripture be the same with ours for the Hebrew Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Organs which comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lusit adamavit signifies quodvis instrumentum Musicum quasi amabile dictum Schindl The Chaldee renders it he was Master of all that Play on the Psaltery and knew Musick And the Greek Version reads it this was he that show'd the Psaltry and the Harp We have no Account of 'm as us'd in the Devotions of the Antediluvian Patriarchs and 't was about Seven Hundred Years after the Deluge before any sort of Instrumental Musick was us'd in Divine Worship The first remarkable Instance that occurs we have in Exod. 15.20 21. Where it 's said that Miriam the Prophetess took a Timbrel in her Hand and all the Women went after her with Timbrels and with Dances There are Three Things that shew the invalidity of this Instance in reference to the Point in debate 1. You must Note that this Woman was a Prophetess and what she did was by an extraordinary impulse now Sir when any of our Organical Friends are actuated by a Prophetick Spirit e'en let 'm use all the Cymbals Timbrels Tabrets and Harps upon the Terrestrial Globe and spare not and I do assure you I 'll never interrupt their Musical Mirth only let 'm stay till then 2. You must observe that these were Women who plaid and sung but Paul has been so kind to the Female Sex in our Days as to tye their Tongues at Church tho' now and then notwithstanding his Apostolical Injunction many of 'm will have their full share in iouncing and racketting David 's Psalms and be as clamorous in their Responses as any of their Masculine Neighbours and therefore if you 're inclin'd to follow the Miriamite Pattern you may soon find a parcel of brisk singing Girls for the Purpose without going as far as Billingsgate for ' m. 3. These Musical-Women danced at the same time so that Sir you may see without the help of a pair of Canonical Spectacles that Dancing in Divine Worship is of the same Age with Instrumental Musick A cap'ring Devotion can pretend to as great Antiquity in the Church as any sort of Instrumental Musick And therefore I know no Reason why you shou'd graciously receive the Musical Part of the Old Service into the Church and utterly reject the Dancing part 2. It 's acknowledged that Organs and other Instruments of Musick were Parts of the Ceremonial Law or things peculiar to the Jewish Pedagogy as Circumcision Passover Sacrifices Trumpets Cymbals were Now if these and other Parts of the Legal Ceremonies are perfectly abolisht how comes it to pass that Organs are continu'd Why shou'd not the same Arguments conclude against the Ecclesiastical Use of Organs as conclude against the Church-use of other Jewish Musical Instruments Why shou'd the worshipful Organs forsooth be readmitted into the Bosom of the Church when other famous Instruments of Musick are totally excluded What warrant have you to restore and retain one Part of the Ceremonial Law more than another Part Why a pair of Organs and not a brace of Timbrels I believe neither you nor the Parson wou'd Consent to have the Jewish Harps Dances Tabrets Trumpets Cymbals and Psalteries us'd in the Divine Service and yet all these may be warrantably introduc'd into our Church if your Arguments for Organs hold Water Pray good Sir e'en let 's have a parcel of Ecclesiastical-Trumpeters Church-Dancers Canonical-Harpers and Tinkling-Cymbalists as well as a cumbersome Herd of expenceful jovial Organists The Greek Churches ‖ Vid. Monsieur Lortie de Coen ●om p. 1. Cap. 6. have upbraided the Papists for using a Roasted Lamb in the Lord's Supper because 't was Part of the Ceremonial-Law But I 'll not insist upon the monstrous Effects of Superstitious Love and Testy Zeal because both of 'm are Blind which if you 'll believe Scarron made Eneas once when he went to Sacrifice mistake a black curl'd Spaniel for a black Ram. 3. But under the Law the Musical Instruments in the Church were appoined by the Infallible Directions of Heaven 2 Chron. 29.25 He set the Levites in the House of the Lord with Cymbals with Psalteries and with Harps according to the Command of David and of Gad the Kings Seer and