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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29150	Church-musick vindicated a sermon preach'd at St. Bride's church, on Monday, November 22, 1697, being St. Caecilia's day, the anniversary feast of the Lovers of musick / by Nicholas Brady.	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1697 (1697)	Wing B4169; ESTC R6317	9,287	27

Church-Musick Vindicated A SERMON PREACH'D At St. Bride's Church on Monday November 22. 1697. BEING St CAECILIA's Day The Anniversary Feast of the Lovers of Musick By Nicholas Brady M. A. Minister of Richmond in Surry and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty Published at the request of the STEWARDS LONDON Printed for Joseph Wilde at the Elephant at Charing-Cross 1697. To the Stewards of St. Caecilia's Feast Hugh Colvill Esq Capt. Tho. Newnam Orlando Bridgman Esq Theophilus Butler Esq Leonard Wessel Esq Paris Slaughter Esq Jeremiah Clerk Gent. Fran. Le Riche Gent. Gentlemen However favourable a Reception this Discourse might meet with at the time and place of it's Delivery when every body was disposed to Applaud Church-Musick by the irresistible charms of that Admirable performance which by a management peculiar to your selves laboured under no inconveniencies of Disorder or Confusion Yet now that the Pulpit is no longer backed by the Organ-Loft when that which was spoken from the One is no longer supported by what was acted in the Other I have just reason to fear that it will but indifferently answer either the prepossessed Opinion of those who heard it or the expectation of those that did not Notwithstanding this since only I am to be the Sufferer and not the Cause which has been already too well defended by Abler Pens to undergo any prejudice by the weakness of mine I shall gladly run that hazard in Compliance with your desire and shall not dispute giving even this Dangerous Testimony of that sincere Respect which shall be always paid you by GENTLEMEN Your Obliged Humble Servant N. BRADY A SERMON Preached on St. Caecilia's Day 2 Chron. 5th Ch. 13th 14th Verses verse 13 It came even to pass as the Trumpeters and Sing rs were as one to make one Sound to be heard in Praising and Thanking the Lord And when they lift up their Voice with the Trumpets and Cymbals and Instruments of Musick and praised the Lord saying For he is good for his Mercy endureth for ever That then the House was filled with a Cloud even the House of the Lord verse 14 So that the Priests could not stand to Minister by reason of the Cloud For the Glory of the Lord had filled the House of God WE do not I think meet in the whole Book of God with a more Signal Instance of his favourable Acceptance of that Devout Employment in which we are now Conversant our praising him and giving him Thanks with Voices and Instruments of Musick than we have in those words which I have now read to you and which I have chosen for the Subject of my following Discourse where we find it makes up a very considerable part of one of the most Eminent Solemnities of Religion that we ever heard of under the Legal Dispensation A Solemnity Regulated by the Wisest amongst Men and in which we cannot suppose anything to have been allowed of but what was suitable to the Gravity and Majesty of the occasion It was Solomon's Dedicating that Glorious Temple which was justly Reputed the Noblest Structure in the World and his Solliciting the Almighty that he would Arise into his Resting-place He and the Ark of his Strength To set off a performance so Remarkable as this with all the Characters of a becoming Grandour he Summons the Elders and Heads of Tribes and even all the Men of Israel to attend him at Jerusalem where having offered up Sheep and Oxen without number they accompanyed the Priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant and conducted it with Reverence into the most Holy place whilst to add to the Magnificence of the Ceremony the Levites which were the Singers having Cymbals and Psalteries and Harps stood at the East end of the Brazen Altar and with them a hundred and twenty Priests Sounding with Trumpets as you may read in the Verses just preceding my Text. And certainly if an incredible Multitude of Spectators and Assistants if the quality as well as number of the Persons Assembled if the Stateliness and Beauty of the Scene and Action if a pompous expence of almost innumerable Sacrifices and a Delightful Variety of all sorts of Musick can give Life and Quickness Majesty and Splendour to any performance the Religious Festival which this Chapter gives an account of may justly challenge the preference above all others that ever occurred throughout the whole Jewish Oeconomy And therefore we find that according to God's method of proceeding with that People whose more eminent Acts of Piety he usually Honoured with some Sensible Demonstration of his favour he Manifested his Approval of this Devout Solemnity by filling the Temple with his Glory and giving visible Tokens of of his more immediate Presence But if amongst all those Religious performances which were severally exercised upon this Solemn occasion we may be allowed to Conjecture or Determine which was most valuable in the sight of God we may I believe very safely conclude that it was not the bare Assembling themselves together nor the Costly Pageantry of their Numerous Oblations since these were but so many dumb shews of Religion and a compliance only with the dead Letter of the Law But it was that Lively Sacrifice of Praises and Thanksgiving that agreeable Melody and Harmonious Consort of many Hearts and Voices and Instruments as one that drew down upon the devout performers an unquestionable evidence of his Approbation to this it was that he set his own Seal and made it as it were the Signal of his extraordinary Appearance For we are not told that he took any publick notice of all the foregoing Exercises of Devotion But says the Text it came even to pass as the Trumpeters and Singers were as One to make one Sound to be heard in Praising and Thanking the Lord and when they lift up their Voice with the Trumpets and Cymbals and Instruments of Musick and praised the Lord saying For he is good for his Mercy endureth for ever that then and not before the House was filled with a Cloud even the House of the Lord So that the Priests could not stand to Minister by reason of the Cloud For the Glory of the Lord had filled the House of God Such an Authentick Testimony of his favourably accepting that Religious Entertainment which employ● us at the present as may justly encourage us to Repeat the Practice frequently and may stop the Mouths of all Gainsayers I shall therefore single out in my following Discourse from the great variety of Matter with which my Tent abounds some few instructive and useful Observations which may be proper to the occasion of our present meeting together And 1 st We may from hence observe that Musick whether Vocal or Instrumental may both innocently and profitably be made use of in the publick Service and Worship of God 2dly We may observe yet farther that the proper Office of Musick in the Service of God is to praise him and give him thanks because he is good and