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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33245	An answer to Richard Allen's essay, vindication and appendix wherein he endeavors to prove that singing of Psalms with conjoyn'd voices is a Christian duty / by R.C.	Claridge, Richard, 1649-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing C4431; ESTC R33307	88,028	139

placed after ●he Destruction of the Amorite when it was long ●efore compare Exod. 12.35 51. with Numb ●1 24 'T is Hierom's Observation upon Amos 2. ●hat In reciting the Praises of God the Order of Hi●●ory is not kept but it often falls out that things first ●●me are mentioned last and the last first Sect. 3. Now if any shall Object that to admit of these Trajections may be of dangerous Consequence to Religion because the Enemies of the Holy Scriptures may improve them against Christ and Christianity I Answer Trajections are usual in all other Writings and if the Style of the Holy Scriptures be an Objection against them in the Minds of any upon that Account by the same Rule they may reject all other Writings in the World because they have their Trajections as well as the Holy Scriptures But some will be ready to say If the Holy Scriptures are full of Trajections and other sort of Figures how shall we who are Illiterate Persons know them and will not this tend to a Confining o● the Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures to Learned Men only and so to an Enslaving of us to thei● Dictates and Authority I Reply Humane Learning is singularly useful in Translations and in giving the Grammatical Historical Topographical an● Chronological Explications of the Holy Scriptures bu● 't is Divine Learning alone that instructs to the Kingdom of God and makes a Man wise to Salvation For 't is the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation tha● leads into the Saving Knowledge of Christ and th● Spiritual Understanding of the Mysteries of th● Gospel And therefore if a Man or Woman be ignorant of Humane Learning meer Strangers t● Arts and Languages yet if they have Divine Learning are taught and instructed by the Holy Spiri● and yield Obedience thereunto they come to kno● the Mind of the Lord in the Holy Scriptures an● to be sensible Witnesses of the same while othe● with all their Humane Literature and Skill i● Originals not regarding the Inward Revelatio● of the Spirit of God upon their Minds but d●pending upon and trusting to their Natural an● Acquired Abilities which cannot possibly unfol● the Mysteries of the Gospel spiritually unto them are in the dark about the Things of God and wholly void of all Spiritual Sense and Understanding of them These know more indeed of the Outward ●etter which is but as the Cabinet to the Jewel at the other coming to the Spirit and Life are ●ruly made Possessors of the Jewel it self The Holy ●criptures with respect to all saving Spiritual Under●tanding thereof are as a Sealed Book till the Lion ●f the Tribe of Judah breaks off the Seals and o●ens the Sacred and Spiritual Contents to the Soul And hence it is that so many Learned Doctors ●nd Rabbies have Ears and hear not Eyes and ●e not and Understandings and perceive not ●ecause they consult with Flesh and Blood with ●heir own Carnal Wisdom and Reasonings and ●eject the Counsel of God which he gives in by ●he Spirit of his Son to direct and guide us ●to all Truth But they that wait upon the ●ord in the true Poverty and Humility of their ●wn Spirits and do purely resolve their Faith ●to the Glorious Power of God without any Mixture of the Wisdom of Man these have the ●yes of their Minds opened by the Great and ●ble Illuminator Christ Jesus to see the Works ●f the Lord and his Wonders in the Depths of ●oly Scripture while the meer Letter-Wise cannot ●ith all their Worldly Wisdom discern them ●or the Things of God saith the Apostle knoweth no ●an but the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.11 No Man can ●er come Spiritually to know the things of God ●at is the Mysteries of the Gospel but by the Imme●ate Revelation of the Spirit of God He hath re●●aled them to us by his Spirit v. 10. Now as they were ●●rst revealed unto the Apostles by the Spirit so ●●st they again be revealed unto us tho' we have ●●em in their Words already by the same Spirit or ●●ere is no possibility of Knowing and Understanding 〈◊〉 them Spiritually Sect. 4. R. A. 3. Much less is there any Reason to imagine that it was peculiar to the Jewish Passover as a part of it and so of the sam● Mutable Nature with it Singing to the Praise o● God being as I conceive hath been sufficientl● proved a Moral Duty and therefore of Un●versal and Perpetual Obligation and so fit t● be used upon that or any other Joyful Occasion Essay p. 22. Reply 3. He hath not sufficiently proved Singin● to the Praise of God to be a Moral Duty as I hav● shewn in my first Chapter where his Notion o● the Moral Duties of Religion as being Origina●ly Written in the Heart of Man by Nature an● still in a great Measure to be discerned by ser●ous Attention and Consideration without an● Special Revelation and his Five Considerations t● prove the Morality of Singing according to th● aforesaid Notion are Examined and Disproved and therefore the Singing he contends for is n● of Universal and Perpetual Obligation R. A. 4. There is the greatest Reason to co●clude that our Lord Sang this Hymn with h● Disciples at least especially upon the Occasio● of his own Supper and the Commemoration ● his Sufferings and redeeming Love therein fo● asmuch as it was immediately joyn'd thereto ● the Evangelists plainly shew Essay p. 23. Reply 4. This Answer is coincident with h● Second in my Reply whereunto I have shew● the frequent use of Trajections in the Holy Scri●tures that Immediety of placing a Word or Se●tence doth not always prove Immediety of Tim● Concord or Relation and that there is a greate● Probability that this Hymn appertained to the Pass●ver than to the Lord's-Supper R. A. Nor is there any Force against this Conclusion in that Objection which some make That had this Hymn belonged to the Lord's-Supper doubtless the Apostle would have mention'd it when he * 1 Cor. 11.23 c. sets down the Institution of this Ordinance as he had received it from the Lord. For to this I reply That were there any Force in this Objection we might also thence conclude that Giving of Thanks before the Cup doth not belong to it Of which tho' it be plainly express'd by the † Mat. 26.27 Mark 14.23 Evangelists yet the Apostle makes no Mention His Design being as I conceive not so much to give an Account of all things pertaining to the Lord's Supper as to correct those Gross Abuses which were crept into that Church in the Use of this Holy Ordinance Essay p. 23 24. Rejoinder The Force of the Objection is rather strengthned than weakned by his Reply For tho' the Apostle doth not immediately mention in so many Words that the Lord Jesus Gave Thanks before the Cup as Matthew and Mark do yet they being express'd before he Brake Bread and the Cup said to be taken after the same manner his giving of Thanks before