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A49810	A mite into the treasury being a word to artists, especially to heptatechnists, the professors of the seven liberal arts ... shewing what we own herein, being according to God and Godliness, and of God and what we deny, proceeding from and favouring of those deceitful lips which seduced man from his primitive station, a state of blessedness / [by] Thomas Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing L726; ESTC R30492	34,955	52

of the House God appointed Singers of the Levites instructed in the Songs of the Lord appertaining to the Temple Worship 1 Chron. 6. and 1 Chron. 25. These Singers be arrayed in white Linnen they Praised and gave Thanks unto the Lord whose Mercy endures forever These Singers arrayed in VVhite shadowed out the lively Members of the Evangelical Dispensation A Remnant of the Church in Sardis were to walk in VVhite Rev. 3.4 Again John saw a numberless Multitude of all Nations Kindreds People and Tongues clothed in white Robes Rev. 7. And John saw the Armies in Heaven clothed in fine Linnen Rev 19. VVhat is this fine white Linnen VVhat are these white Robes Not Aarons white Robes no imitation thereof not the white Linnen of the Singers of the Temple not Surplices such as are now used by the Conforming Ministry and Queristers in Cathedrals VVhat then John tells us expresly That the fine white Linnen was the Righteousness of Saints Rev. 19.8 And who or what but Christ is the Saints Righteousness So Christ the Righteousness of Saints is that very thing which the white Linnen of Aaron and of the Levitical Singers shadowed forth So to plead for the Shadow or for an Imitation thereof the Substance being come 't is Antichristian And Paul said to the Ephesians to the Saints and Faithful Brethren who were come to the Righteousness of Saints to the end of Shadows Be not Drunk with Wine wherein is Excess but be filled with the Spirit speaking to your selves not in VVanton Balads Obscene Songs but in Psalms Hymes and spiritual Songs Singing and making Melody in your Hearts to the Lord Ephes 5.18 19. and Col. 3.16 Such Singers we own their Psalms Hymes and spiritual Songs we own they stream out of the Mouth of the New Man not of the Old John tells us of a New Song which none could learn but the Hundred Forty and Four Thousand which were Redeemed from the Earth Rev. 14. And Paul said to the Sanctified at Corinth When ye come together every one of you hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine hath a Tongue hath a Revelation hath an Interpretation let all things be done to Edifying 1 Cor. 14. So a Psalm was a Gift particular to the New Man who sings with the Spirit and with Understanding The Primitive Church while a Virgin to Christ sung with the Spirit with Understanding had to Clark no give them in other Mens Experiences but Christendom being become a Sea the Spirit lost turned from in which true Joy and Singing is then stept in Formal Singing without without the Spirit without Understanding The Wanton who spends his precious Hours in Jollity he sings I am weary with my Groaning I water my Couch with my Tears The proud Atheist who hath banished the Lord out of hie thoughts he sings I have set the Lord always before me The vain Minded who delights in the Company and Society of vain 〈◊〉 he sings I have hated the Congregation of Evil-Doers and will not sit with the Wicked He that is as a withered Tree Plucked up by the Roots Fruitless he sings I am like a Green Olive Tree in the House of God He whose Heart is as a Cage of Uncleanness he sings My Heart is enditing a good matter The daily Feaster such as the Residentarians whose Legs can scarce bear about his Gross Corpulent Body he sings My Knees are Weak through Fasting and my Flesh faileth of Fatness Satans Captive who wallows in the Mire and Puddle of Sin and Iniquity he sings O Lord truly I am thy Servant The Son of Belial who by Persecution would wear out the Flock of the Lord from off the Earth he sings I am a Campanion of all them that fear thee The Lawless man whose Life is a Life of Rebellion subject as I may say to the grand Charter of Sin and Death he sings The Law of thy Mouth is better unto me than Thousands of Gold and Silver He that Adder-wise stops his Ears from the Heavenly Doctrine of the Lords anointed Ones he sings How sweet are thy Words to my Taste yea sweeter than the Honey to my Mouth The Ambitious Man puft up with the Breath of Satans Bellows he sings Lord my Heart is not Haughty my Soul is even as a Weaned Child Do these and such like sing with the Spirit Do they sing with Understanding No. Now who are of God they are distinguishing Persons and with us they contend for singing in the Spirit and with Understanding this Song none but the Redeemed can learn this Song of the Lord cannot be sung in a strange Land Captivity Spiritual Babylon and such as are of God they deny all dead formal Singing and Singers who formally sing other Mens Conditions out of the Spirit without Understanding That the Primitive Christian Church while a Virgin to Christ sung David's Experiences or Testimonies in Meetre that I deny but through the Engress of the Apostacy Singing in the Spirit being lost then a formal Singing in Meetre entred in whereof I have read That In or about the Year 383. Psalms began to be sung being brought in by Damasus Bishop or Pope of Rome though not turned into Meetre Mark this In or about the Year 1552. in the sixth Year of Edward the sixth the Psalms of David first began to be composed in English Meetre by one Thomas Sternhold one of the Grooms of the Pivy-Chamber who Translating but a few left both Example and Encouragement to John Hopkins and others to dispatch the rest a Device first taken up in France by one Clement Merot one of the Grooms of the Bed-Chamber to King Francis the first At first they were sung in private Houses after were taken into the Church of the French And of other Nations they were first allowed for private Devotion after by little and little crept into the use of the Church afterwards Printed and bound up with the Common-Prayer-Book at last added by Stationers in the end of the Bible see Dr Heylin's Ecclesia Restaurata pag. 191. But though by this Author called a Device yet now 't is called a Vice yea a Symptom of a Heterodox Judgment to deny or question the Observation of the same Benedictus an Abbot of the Monestary of Peter and Paul at Wire brought with him from Rome one John the Arch-Chanter who first taught in England how to sing in the Quire after the manner of Rome in the Year 724. Fox Acts and Mon. The Levites that were Singers were divided into twenty four Ranks or Courses Hence the Apostatized Church brought in Queristers so introduce the Levites for a proof for their Office but the truly Redeemed Church receives not Jewdaism for Christianity neither their Practice for Christs Institution and Appointment 'T is a Custom of many Countries and Nations saith Macrobius to accompany Dead Bodies to their Burials with Singing And why Because their Souls are believed to return to the Original of Musical Sweetness or Pleasure that is to

things were Devised or Invented by the Aegyptians as Calculating of Nativities that is from the Day or Hour of ones Nativity foretelling what his Fortune shall be as 't is called what Death he shall dye and what manner of Man he shall be Pol. Virg. lib. 1. cap. 17. Are Astrologers now though professing Christianity and Redemption from Spiritual Aegypt the House of Bondage clear of these Dregs Do not many Ungodly and Prophane Astrologers from the Observation of the Heavens Contemplation of Celestial Bodies Course and Conjunction of the Stars take upon them to foretell what Good or Evil shall betide Men States Persons People so to determine things of future Contingence Yes To which I say the great Former of all things the Almighty having made two great Lights Moses mentions their Use End and Service The greater Light to rule the Day the lesser Light to rule the Night Gen. 1.16 He saith not that they were made for that end that Men by the Contemplation thereof should Predict Foretell Prophecy Prognosticate what Good or Evil should betide Men c. True it is The Heavens declare the Glory of God c. Psal 19.1 And not only Sun Moon and Stars but every Product as with open Mouth Proclaims Preaches forth the Power and Wisdom of the great Former But that men by the observation of them should foretel what Good or Evil would betide Men Seates Persons People c. this I cannot receive One reasons thus What saith the Astrologer Why is the Star of Jupiter or Venus in Conjunction with Luna at the Nativity of Children happy or a portender of Good but the Star of Saturn or Mars contrary The Prophets of the Lord his holy Seers as holy Records tell us fore-saw things and what should befall in the World to Men States Persons People but this they did by the Indwellings of the Anointing the Word of Prophecy not by the observation of Celestial Bodies And how fallible Astrologers in this thing are we have annual evident and pregnant Demonstration Pharaoh having Dreamed not any of the Magicians of Aegypt not any of the Wise Men thereof could Interpret the same though doubtless eminent in Astrological Judgment but Joseph Interpreted the same to him not by the Contemplation of the Heavens but by the Gift of God Pharaoh said Can we find such a one as this is a Man in whom the Spirit of God is And for as much as God hath shewed thee all this there is none so discreet and Wise as thou art Gen. 41. Joseph's Interpretation Pharach ascribed to the Lord's Work and not to any Astrological Judgment of Joseph Nebachadnezzar having Dreamed he sent for all the Inchanters Astrologians Socerers Southsayers Wise-Men of Babel promising Gifts Rewards and great Honour to such as could declare to him his Dream and the Interpretation thereof if not they should all be put to Death Notwithstanding Wealth Honour and Death was set before them which set their Wits upon Work yet they could not answer the King notwithstanding their Astrological Prudence But the Lord that reveals Secrets revealed that secret unto Daniel Dan. 2. So the King was answered yet not by Astrological Judgment of the Artists of Babel or of Daniel but by the Revelation of the Lord. Relshazzar King of Babylon saw a Hand-writing upon the Wall so sent for the Astrologians Caldeans Southsayers Wise Men of Babel promising great things to him that could read the Writing and interpret the same but it was hid from them But Daniel read the Writing and shewed the Interpretation thereof not by Astrological Judgmeat but by the Gift of the Lord Dan. 5. The Caldeans said That the Planets conduced very much to the bringing of Good or Evil to Man Whereupon Hermione complains in Ovid Quae mea caelestes injuria fecit iniquos Quodque mihi miserae Sydus obesse querar What fault of mine hath made the Heavens unkind And that a Star should not be well inclin'd Diodorus Pol. Virg. lib. 1. cap. 17. And this conceit hath got entrance among many that profess Christianity That the Seven Days of the Week are named after the the Seven Panets 't is thought to be the Invention of the Aegyptians Dion Histor Pol. Vir. Lib. 6. Cap. 5. And this is observed not only by Astrologers but also by Schools and Colledges professing Christianity Thus the Mist and Darkness of Aegypt is continued among the Professors of Christianity In most Ages and Generations the Lord Hath had his Witnesses against the Vanity and Naughtiness of Judicial Astrology There shall not be found among you any one that useth Divination or an observer of Times c. Deut. 18.10 The Lord frustrateth the Tokens of the Lyars and maketh Diviners Mad c. Isa 44.25 The Prophet bears Testimony against the Caldean Astrologers saying Thou art wearied in the Multitude of thy Counsels let now the Astrologers the Star-gazers the Monethly Prognosticators stand up c. Isa 57.13 14. ' The Art of Astrology saith Pol. Virg. was devised or invented to make sound Minds Rave or go out of the Way ' lib. 1. cap. 17. Calvin Born at Noviodune a City of France a stout opposer of the Apostatized Roman Church about the Year 1548. discovered in a Book the Vanity and Falshood of Judicial Astrology which many began then too much to heed Clark in the Life of John Calvin Bion said ' That Astronomers were very ridiculous who when they cannot see Fish swiming near them on the Shore yet say That they see Fish that is the Constellation Piscis in Heaven ' Stob. Serm. 78. ' The Prosterity of Noah saith Theoph. Gale degenerating from the pure Philosophy that is Wisdom of the Patriarchs plunged into the bottomless Pit of Diabolical Astrology and Idolatry For in their Contemplation of Celestial Bodies the feeling of the Creator being lost they were first of all hurried to the Admiration of them afterwards to the Adoration of them ' So those Glorious Creatures being lifted up to the Throne of the Creator became the Object of monstrus Idolatry Rom. 1.21 Deut. 4.19 Epiphanius Basil Chrysostom Augnstin ancient Fathers eminent in the Church in their respective Days give Reasons why Judicial Astrology is to be exploded cast out Augustin Bishop of Hippo sadly complains in his Confessions That he was Deluded in making any account of that Art and bitterly Inveighes against it and the Professors thereof Nov. Pol. Judicial Astrology was often forbidden by the Canons of Councils Conc. Tolet. prim Nov. Pol. Phavorinus was wont to check Judicial Astrologers by this witty Dilemma or Argument ' They saith he do say That either Unfortunate or Prosperous things will befall If they say Prosperous things and deceive thee thou shalt be made Miserable by expecting If they say Unfortunate things will befall yet Lye thou shalt be made Miserable through fearing Therefore by no means saith he must we have to do with such like men who take upon them to foretel what shall happen