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A36257 A treatise concerning the lawfulness of instrumental musick in holy offices by Henry Dodwell ... ; to which is prefixed, a preface in vindication of Mr. Newte's sermon concerning the lawfulness and use of organs in the Christian church, &c. ... Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711. 1700 (1700) Wing D1821; ESTC R14256 104,935 234

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Direction from God and therefore he needed not have Carped at the Expression As were thought fit by them had he not left out the following Words being so Divinely Inspired But then for a sure Retreat he says Ans. p. 12. Shew as a Command in the Gospel for the use of Organs in publick Worship So say the Anabaptists Shews us a Text to command the Baptizing of Infants in the New Testament And a Man who Marries one too near of Kin to him may say the same thing Shew me a Text in the New Testament against it But I conceive a few Words will take off the edge of the Objection and shew there is no need of a Text directly to command either of them For the Reason of a Law continuing and that Law being no where forbidden either directly or by necessary Consequence it is still in force and then the Conscience is bound to the observation of it according to a known Rule of the Canonists Ratio Legis est nexus Conscientiae This is agreeable to the Practise of the Church in those several Instances as well as that concerning Instrumental Musick The admitting Infants into the Jewish Gen. 17. 7. 9. Deut. 29. 10 11 12. Mat. 28. 19. Acts 2. 39. Covenant by Circumcision was a positive Law of the Old Testament and for the same Reason Infants not being forbidden to be admitted into the New Testament Covenant by Baptism are as capable of receiving the Sacrament of Baptism now as they were of Circumcision then the Reason of it being still the same And if this way of arguing from Scripture by just and necessary Consequence be not allow'd then Infants are in a worse Condition since the coming of Christ than they were before and the Gospel Priviledges are now straiter and narrower to them than before which is very absurd to affirm So the State of Marriage within the Degrees and Limitations of Lev. 18 c. is not expresly Commanded in the New Testament yet is of force still and the Reason of it is taken from the Old Test. because it remains still the same the Old Testment as to Moral Precepts being as much the Object of our Faith and Practice as the New 't is both together and not one singly makes the Rule we are to walk by In like manner Instrumental Musick in 1 Chron. 15. 16. 4. 25. 6. 2 Chron. 29. 25. Psal. 149. 3. 150. 4. the Worship of God being expresly Commanded in the Old Testament and not being forbidden in the New and there being still the same Reason for its continuance does shew the Lawfulness and Expediency of it now altho' there be no express Text for it in the New Testament To exact a particular Command or Precept in Scripture for a Practice of this Nature is as reasonable says the Bishop of Cork as to require Duty of Singing p. 403. a Text for having convenient Churches or decent Places to assemble in for having Seats in Churches or Cushions to kneel or lean upon or for any such useful accommodation and honest Advantage of Divine Worship So if we do not allow Mr. Burket of Infant Baptism p. 8. Scripture Consequences * How shall we prove Women ought to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper or that the Sabbath is to be changed from the Seventh to the first Day of the Week c. But then 't is said That Organs or Instruments of Musick were permitted the Jews for the sake of their Weakness to In Loc. stir up their Minds to perform their external Worship with some Delight and for this St. Chrysostom is Quoted and the Author of the Questions and Answers in Ans. p. 21 22. Justin Martyrs Works for saying this use was to Persons in a State of Child-hood after the manner of the Law To the same effect Isidore Pelusiota Clem. Alexand. c. And in the Reign of David 't is intimated That God suited such means Ans. p. 77. to the Infant State of the Church To which it may be Answered That these Fathers do not by their Allegorizing the 150 Psalm argue against the use of Instrumental Musick Absolutely but shew rather the true use of it is because of the Imperfection and Weakness of Humane Nature and that God condescending to a regard of the same did not only permit and allow Instrumental Musick in his Solemn Worship but expresly commanded it And tho' the Command was delivered by David and the Contemporary Prophets to the Nation of the Jews yet it is obligatory still at least by way of Direction to the Governours of the Church in like State of Affairs thro' all Ages and People because the Reasons hereof are not Temporary but likely to last as long as the World does So we may make our Appeal to what St. Chrysostom says as the In Psal. 150. Reason of it with which agrees Clem. Alexandrinus that it was Instituted and Paedag l. 2. c. 4. Commanded rather than permitted for the sake of Mens Weakness to stir up their Minds to perform their external Worship with some Delight And as he goes on For that God had a Mind to bring them to a great deal of Diligence by such Allurements For God considering their Sordidness and Sloth and groveling Nature contrived by this means to awaken them mixing with the labour of Attendance the pleasingness of Melody Much like this speaks St. Basil and from such Authorities as these it was Basil Homil. in Psalm 1. Ser. p. 9. 10. urged to be as useful under the State of Christians as of the Jews because they have sometimes the same Deadness and Dulness and spiritual Indisposition in the Service of God which the Jews had which lack to be shaken off And since the Members of the Christian Church in the performance of their Worship labour under the same defects of these sorts therefore they stand in need of some such Helps and Assistances to move their Affections to raise their Devotion to shake of their Drowsiness and to inspire their Thoughts with Chearfulness and Zeal with Love and Veneration when they make their Addresses unto him in Prayer and Thanksgiving Neither does this use for those Reasons in the least reflect upon the Wisdom of our Saviour by not enjoining of it as it is not very handsomly insinuated Ans. p. 14. p. 83. For our Saviour himself and his Apostles did not disallow of nor speak against the Practice of Instrumental Musick when they Communicated with the Jews who used it in the Temple as certainly they would have done if they had disliked it or thought it improper for Christian Worship Neither did the Primitive Christians declare their dislike of it or judge it unlawful But the State of the Church did not admit of it at that time when Christianity was under Persecution nor Instrumental Musick as the Answerer Mistakes Ans. p. 18. me no more than the Jewish did when under the Babylonish Captivity they hung