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B04474 Prelimited forms of praising God, vocally sung by all the church together, proved to be no gospel ordinance. In a sober discourse concerning singing. With a large appendix thereunto added, containing several things not treated of before; and wherein the case of singing is more fully opened and discussed in divers principal branches of it: greatly tending to the clearing and confirmation of the truth discoursed of in the former part. / By Isaac Marlow. Marlow, Isaac. 1691 (1691) Wing M693A; ESTC R233424 61,658 128

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of Christ in offering your Praises to God contrary to his own appointed Way therein you do worship God in vain and I fear it will be said of you as it was to him that offered the Thank-offering under the Law Levit. 7.11 to 19. which was to be eaten on the first and second Days and if any of the Flesh of the Sacrifice of his Peace or Thank-offering were eaten at all on the third Day that it shall not be accepted neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it it shall be an Abomination and that Soul shall bear his Iniquity 5thly and lastly It is the Duty of all and of every individual Christian studiously to judg of the Doctrine delivered to them whether it be of Man or of God and to conform to the Authority of the Holy Scripture as the noble Bereans did Acts 17.10 11. who searched the Scriptures daily whether those things preached by Paul and Silas were so or no. And I am perswaded that it is for want of Zeal and Love to the Truths of Christ and through that slothful and idle Spirit attending so many Christians that the Errors of Men do so prevail But to leave what I have said I do beseech you courteous Reader christianly to overlook that Weakness you may espy in my Delivery and seriously to take notice not so much of that as of the main of this Subject without straining my Words beyond the drift and design of the body of my Discourse and to consider that the Authority of the Holy Scriptures is repugnant to such formal and customary Singing herein mentioned and treated of not with any Design to move Controversies or trouble others but to prevent the Divisions that possibly may arise amongst our selves through the Endeavours of some Persons to promote this Error in our Churches And as I hope the Lord hath engaged my Heart herein so he will bless my poor Endeavours to settle the Minds of my wavering Brethren and to prevent any farther Incroachments of this Error which hath been so generally rejected by us for many Years FINIS ERRATA Page 45. line 8. for formerly read formally P. 47. near the end in Margent add the Text Luke 4.17 c. ADVERTISEMENT There is now coming forth a Book intitled A Treatise of the Holy Trinunity in two Parts The First asserteth the Deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the Vnity of Essence with God the Father The Second in Defence of the former answereth the chiefest Objections made against this Doctrine By J. M. Chap. I. THE Case is briefly stated Chap. II. Sheweth that there is but one God the Creator and Former of all things Chap. III. Asserteth a Plurality of Divine Subsistences Chap. IV. Of the Father Chap. V. Proveth the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ 1. By his Names 2. That God in the Old Testament in divers Places is Christ in the New 3. By seven particular Texts of Holy Scriptures 4. That Christ pre-existed his Incarnation in his Divine Nature and is no Angel incarnate but is Coeternal with the Father 5. His Deity is proved by his Works And 6. By Divine Worship given to him Chap. VI. Proveth the Deity of the Holy Ghost 1. That he is a Person 2. His Deity is asserted from several Texts of Scripture 3. By his Works 4. By Divine Worship given to him Chap. VII Proveth the Unity of the Holy Trinity Chap. VIII Containeth some Explications of the Holy Trinunity 1. Of the essential Being of God 2. Of the Divine Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit 3. Of the Distinctions of the Divine Nature and the Persons and some Shadows by way of Comparison of the incomparable and inconceivable Being of God and of the Union of Christ's two Natures PART II. Chap. I. Answereth Objections against the Scriptural Proofs of Christ's Deity Chap. II. Answers to Objections drawn from several Texts of Scriptures Chap. III. Answers to several Arguments against the Deity of Christ Chap. IV. Answers to several Objections against the Scriptures that prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost Chap. V. Answers to some Objections drawn from divers Scriptures to disprove the Deity of the Holy Spirit Chap. VI. Answers to some Scriptures from whence our Adversaries assert that the Father only is the true God With a general Answer and Conclusion Price bound one Shilling AN APPENDIX TO THE FORMER DISCOURSE Concerning SINGING in the Worship of GOD in the Gospel-Church IN the former Part of my Discourse on this Subject I laid a Foundation according to the proportion of Faith which I received from the Light of the holy Scriptures and have asserted something of the nature manner and order of Singing agreeable to the Dispensations of the Mind and Will of God unto his People both under the Old and New Testaments And finding my self concerned in the defence of the Truth of Christ which some have erred from in their practice of formal Singing I shall farther treat on this Subject for the better clearing of it from divers things that lie in the way of some Christians establishment in the Truth SECT I. 1. I Shall premise That to praise God or praising of God is not confined to Songs of Praise but that there are other ways and manners of praising God than with such melodious Singing as in Psal 145.10 All thy Works shall praise thee O Lord and thy Saints shall bless thee and in Psal 148. throughout the whole Creation is required to praise God for he commanded and they were created Their very Being and Subsistence and the order of Nature is a Praise to the glorious Wisdom and Power of God And David saith Psal 50.23 Whoso offereth Praise glorifieth me viz. God And as praising God is glorifying honouring and magnifying of him so also is glorifying God often put for the same as praising of him which in the following Scriptures do also differ from that of Singing as in Mat. 21.16 where the Children crying Hosanna to the Son of David that is Save now is by Christ called Praise and Luke 19.37 The whole Multitude of the Disciples began to rejoyce and praise God saying Blessed be the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord Peace in Heaven and Glory in the Highest And this praising God and Glory in the Highest is in Matthew and Mark said to be crying Hosanna to the Son of David Hosanna in the highest And Luke 18.43 And immediately he received his Sight and followed him glorifying God and all the People when they saw it gave Praise unto God And Acts 3.8 9. The lame Man walking and leaping praised God And also Thanking 2 Cor. 4.15 chap. 9.11 to end Phil. 4.16 chap. 1.3 4. 1 Thes 1.2 Phil. 1.4 is glorifying or praising God which is by the ordinary Gift of the Spirit always to be mixt with Prayer as Paul did making mention of the Saints with Thanksgiving always in every Prayer and therefore as God is thus praised
will not reject your Manner and Forms of Singing from the observation of the Command and Rule of Christ for the manner of Praising God which is contrary to your Manner and Forms I see not how you can escape the battering and confounding of your own Profession in other things Do ye provoke the Lord to jealousy 1 Cor. 10.22 are ye stronger than he Hath he not said What things soever I command you Deut. 12.32 observe to do it thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it And have we not divers instances of his sore Displeasure for breaking his Rule of Worship as in Nahab and Abihu Lev. 7.11 to 19. who for offering of strange Fire died before the Lord And might not some have thought it a small matter to have eaten of the Peace or Thank-offering after the First-day or of the Vow-offering if any of it had been left on the Third-day but we see how great an Offence it was to make so small an Addition to God's Ordinance as that it should not be accepted neither should it be imputed unto him that offereth it it should be an Abomination and that Soul should bear his Iniquity 2 Sam. 6.6 Moreover We read how Vzzah lost his Life for touching the Ark of God because that they sought him not after the due order and how Vzziah the King for medling with God's Ordinance 2 Chron. 26.16 1 Chron. 15.13 and burning Incense before the Lord contrary unto his revealed Will was smote with Leprosy unto his dying Day But notwithstanding these Old Testament Examples and the Word of Christ which saith In vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of Men yet some there are amongst us that dare adventure to break the Commands of Christ in their Vocal-singing together in the Worship of God contrary to the Rule of Worship and Institution of Jesus Christ And therefore seeing that their Practice is charged with the guilt of Sin yea and of such a Sin as indangers the well-Being and Peace of the Church of Christ and the bringing of God's Displeasure upon us I hope they will be awakned to a serious Consideration of what is proposed to them herein as the Mind and Will of God And surely if they were truly sensible of the natural Consequences of such a Practice of formal Singing that the introducing of it into those Churches that have been established on contrary Principles is the ready way to divide and break them into pieces and that those Persons who should be instrumental therein would be looked upon as the Troublers of the Churches and may be justly charged with Schism it would be a Bar to their zealous promoting of it And it is rational to believe that if such formal Singing should be admitted and imbraced by the Churches it would lay such a Foundation for other formal and carnal Worship that if it be followed in its natural Tendences and Consequences it will greatly indanger our reformed Separation and make it easy for us to glide into the National Way of Worship And therefore whatever our mistaken Brethren may think of themselves as if they were reforming the Gospel-Church and restoring the Primitive Worship of God therein yet the holy Scriptures witness against them and I believe that they will be found in this matter Leaders to Apostacy and Defilers of the pure Worship of God with Mens Traditions Which that the Lord may graciously prevent and preserve the Churches in Peace and Union and in the mutual fellowship of the Gospel and that they may flourish and grow in Grace and in the Knowledg of Jesus Christ and become a great Mountain and fill the Face of the whole Earth is and shall be the Prayers of your unworthy but affectionate Brother and Servant to his power in Jesus Christ our Lord. I. M. THE Author's EPISTLE TO Mr. Benjamin Keach Christian Brother AS the holy Apostle Paul praised the Church of Corinth in all things so far as they kept the Ordinances of Christ as they were delivered to them and yet faithfully reproved their disorderly manner of eating the Lord's Supper 1 Cor. 11.2 17. so in imitation of him as our Example I commend you in those things wherein you are praise-worthy and do honour you for your labour in the Ministry of the Word which God has been pleased to bless to the awakning of many Souls and to the comfort of many Christians But yet Sir seeing you have divers ways I think I may safely say singled forth your self more than others in London in pushing forward the Practice of formal Singing and in your private and publick Challenges of Disputes which have been divers times accepted of by some of our worthy Elders but were never thought convenient by others and so have been laid aside and in that you have lately brought in the practice of it into your own Church to the grief and trouble of many of your Members I conceive that it is not improper for me to acquaint you in this manner That I think I am divers ways engaged and do believe it is my Duty to imploy the Talent which God hath given me according to my Capacity in the defence of his sacred Truth against that mischievous Error which you so vigorously promote to the disturbance of your Brethren Have not you been for many years a Preacher up of spiritual Worship how is it then that you are now so zealous for that which is asserted to be natural Have you begun in the Spirit and do you leave the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ to go on unto perfection in natural Worship On what Foundation does your Practice stand We do all agree that it is our Duty to praise and thank God as well as to pray unto him and I believe that you will not say but that we do thank and praise him in his Worship thô not with Songs in your way And I am perswaded that our thanking and praising God in Prayer or Prayer-wise is suitable to the other ordinary Gifts of the Holy Spirit which are only attained unto in our present Day and is proportionably accepted of God and that as your manner of vocal singing together hath neither Divine Command nor Example for it in either the Old or the New Testaments so your singing of formal precomposed stinted matter is no better than counterfeitiag that excellent Gift of the Holy Spirit which was in the Primitive Gospel-Church And herein also I believe that we do not differ That by the Light of Nature the Eternal Power and Godhead is made manifest unto us from the things that do appear and that we are capable thereby to understand that we should perfectly keep the Law of God and praise and worship him But from hence ariseth a double Question 1. Whether the Light of Nature it self as it is in us can direct us the Manner how we should worship God and whether we should rely on it under the Gospel as our Rule of Worship 2.