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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48617	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, July 26, 1668, in defence of the liturgy of our church by Richard Lingard ...	Lingard, R. (Richard), 1598?-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing L2353; ESTC R15769	12,930	31

Musick in Gods service was the Jewish Practise none can deny that Christians did derive this from them is very evident for besides the example of the Angels Luk. 2.13 and Christ Mat. 26.30 and the Saints that Sing the Song of Moses and the Lamb Rev. 14.3 and 15.3 it was the Christians Practise when the Inspirations lasted 1 Cor. 14.26 and they are enjoyned to teach and admonish one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Col. 3.16 Thus the Jews had Mizmor a concise verse called here a Psalm Tehillah Praise which is here the Hymne and Shir a Canticle which is here required to be Spiritual in opposition to the sensual Songs and Drolleries of the Heathens in their Bacchanalia and they are mentioned in the most Antient Church-Writers as a special part of the Christian service and this is testifyed by Pliny to Trajan that in their coetus antelucani they were wont to sing Hymns to Christ as to God and for this they are quarrelled with by Paulus Samosatenus in Eusebius l. 7. c. 29. Afterwards in the Loadicean Council there are authorized Canonical Singers that shall sing at the Desk out of the Parchments and Rolls of the Church Can. 15. and when they were thus regulated Holy Men composed Hymns and Anthems as St. Hillary and St. Ambrose to the great comfort and edification of the Church I shall leave these Memories with you concerning this Practise 1. There was a degree of Inspiration peculiar to this among the Jews when Men were Transported to endite Psalms and speak the Praises of God and Divine things to his Glory without any extasie or abolition of sense this is called the Holy Spirit Thus Saul the seventy Elders and Eldad and Medad Prophesied and hence the word Prophesie came to signifie the Singing of Psalms and all that proportion which in the division of S. Scripture is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was endited by this Inspiration this David had 2 Sam. 23.2 and prayed should not be taken away from him Psal 51.11 2. Those things that were thus uttered were oft in the Form of Poems and confined to number and Metre thus Moses his Songs were in verse and measure and though I do not ascribe the beginnings of Musick to him Gen. 4.21 Job 35. 10. and 38.7 yet as he first found out the use of Letters so I make him the first Poet in the World Thus also the Songs of Solomon and David and the Book of Job were metrical so Josephus says of David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he composed Verses in several kinds of Metre some Trimeters some Pentameters Antiq. 7.10 3. The same expressions would be oft insisted on and there might be an elegancy in the Musick or the Verse to repeat the same if in our Prayers using of Ingeminations and enforcing the same Petitions when we importune Heaven and would excite our Devotions and the sense of our Condition be a commendable piece of Rhecorick much more in Hymns and Anthems so Psal 136. David uses twenty six times the same words For his Mercy endureth for ever in Deborahs Song Jud. 5.27 At her Feet he bowed he fell he lay down at her Feet he bowed he fell where he bowed there he fell down Dead a like instance is Psal 47.6 7. Sing praises to God sing praises sing praises unto our King sing praises For God is King of all the Earth sing ye praises with understanding And there might be a great Grace and Elegance in dwelling upon the same words though we that Trade in Translations may not perceive it for they like Arras with the wrong side out discover only some great lines but the gloss and beauty cannot be discerned 4. The matter of these Psalms were not always of the same Nature not always depredications of Gods Name but sometimes things Doctrinal and for Instruction and some things for Consolation Confessions of Faith and Confessions of Sin as well as Confessions of Praise Petitions and Supplications Therefore Singing Prayers ought not to be strange for the Penitential Psalms and the Titles of many others as Psal 86. and 102. and 142. and the Psalmists frequent addresses to hear his Prayers abundantly confirm this so that it is not the matter that distinguishes them from the other parts of the service but the manner of performing them 5. The Musick with which they were managed must answer the ends of Religion and be for Edification all wanton Musick therefore that tends to effeminacy and softning Mens Minds such as the Phrygians used called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to be banished Mutatâ Musicâ mut antur mores itaque curandum ut Musica quam gravissima sedatissima retineatur says Tully For this reason St. Austin commends the Chanting at Alexandria that pronuncianti vicinior esset quam canenti What it was with the Jews is not easie to determine I find there could be no less then twelve voices one Cymbal two Harps and nine Psalteries but there might be many more As for the Trumpets which might be 120. I conceive they were no part of the Quire there could be no Singing to them for as the Jewish Doctors inform us there were three rests or intermissions in the Singing of every Psalm and at each of these pauses the Trumpets sounded and the People Worshipped so the Trumpets sounded not but when the Quire was silent 6. Remember that all this Musick and Singing is propter carnales in Ecclesia non spirituales rather for the weak then for the strong Isidor The design being ut per oblectamenta aurium animus in affectum pietatis a surgat Aug. That by delighting the Ear the Heart may be affected and devotion advanced We sing therefore not for Gods sake but our own not to work on him but on our selves the Angels in Heaven need not these spurs to Devotion they utter the Praises of God at a rate beyond our apprehensions and the more spiritual we are the less we require them but yet he that is not moved in some measure with them forgets he is flesh and blood St. Austin had many tears pumped out by them quantum flevi in Hymnis canticis tuis suave sonantis Ecclesiae vocibus commotus acriter the melting of the Soul the thawing and entendering the affections the exorcising the evil spirit out and fitting us for Divine Thoughts and Heavenly Impressions which are vast advantages considering the stupidity of our Hearts makes them useful instruments in Religion and sure we should be glad of any Crain or Pully any Device or Engine to elevate our Souls and bring us nearer Heaven seeing we labour under so great a chilness and heaviness in the service of God 2. Another circumstance is the interest the People had in the service by way of response or alternation which practise I shall not derive from St. Ignatius his Vision nor Flavianus Damasus or St. Ambrose when it is founded on Holy Scripture thus was Sung the Song of