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A09922	The praise of musicke wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God.	Case, John, d. 1600, attributed name.	1586 (1586)	STC 20184; ESTC S115011	65,829	162

fostered by curteous speeches with other not vnlike so in the time of solemnising the same they had choise set songs appointed for the purpose The Grecians generally by report of Aristophanes one of their Poets sang Hymen O Hymaenaee O Hymen Calling vpon the name of him whom they made their chiefe superintendent ouer such matters And Plato in his booke intitled Gorgias makes mention of this dittie as peculiarly belonging to those festiual times Formosum esse diuitē bene valere summū existimatur bonū Wilt thou be blessed and happie indeede Be faire rich and healthy if thou wilt speede The Atheniās one of y e best flours in greece sang incōditū carmen perhaps some blacke saunt w tout order or distinction it is reported to be this Bonos ama timidos repelle scimus enim timidorū paruā esse vbique gratiā Embrace loue the good the carpet knights repel How litle fauor they haue foūd elswhere who knowes not wel I wil end w t death the end of al mortality which though it be the dissolutiō of nature parting of the soul frō the body terrible in it self to flesh blood amplified w t a nūber of displeasant vncōfortable accidents as the shauing of the head howling mourning apparel funeral boughes of yeu box cipresse the like yet we shal find by resorting to antiquities that musick hath had a share amōgst them as being vnseasonable at no time I let passe the Thraciās with their triūphes iubilies for the happy estate of their deceased friēds kinsfolk The Lybiās most honorable mētion of those principally which were slain either by elephāts or other wild beasts or spēt their blood liuelihood in y e field for maintenāce of their coūtry I cānot omit w tout iniury to their thākfulnes mine owne cause The rather sith y e cause which moued thē to these exigēts cānot be vngrateful to any loial wel disposed eares Autumn winds are not so cōmon as authorities if I would vse thē Euery grāmer scholer that openeth but an orator poet or historiographer shal see trumpets pshalms singings attributed to funerals And to reduce al vains to the hart al autorities to one head if there were no such remēbring of the dead why haue they deified a goddes of these songs that as Ianꝰ amōgest them was the first god to open the dore entrāce of their liues so Maenia shold be the last to do them any seruice by quickning them after their deathes and raising vp a second life by a wailful and yet musical commemoration of their laudable deserts THE PARTICVLER VSE of musicke in warlike matters CHAP. VIII NOw because musick is reported to be belli pacis alūna vel comes either the daughter or cōpaniō both of war peace I wil set the palm oliue togither as I haue bin short in declaring her peaceable vse so I will take the neerest course that may bee in this warlik treatise Though painters Poets are commonly allowed to ly yet I am sure Theon expressed no more colours than is true in life when he drewe an armed man in compleat harnesse ready to make excursion vppon his enimies and to all mens thinking animated and incouraged therunto by the clamorous soundes of a Musitian I appeale not now to mens integritie and vprightnesse of iudgementes I make prouocation to them as they are men Let them speake if the drum fife trumpet do not excite their spirits make their hearts euen to swel to the ouerthrow of their enimies The kings of Persia first sang a song to Caster Pollux then made incounter with their aduersaries The Lacedaemonians vsed Pshalms whose captain Agesilaus being demanded of one not so wise as curious I will not say hee was a ringleader to our froward questionists now adayes to what end purpose be did it made answere that hereby he was assured of euery mans minde courage For if his pases were consonant and according to measures then it argued he was not appalled If disagreeing it argued that he was faint harted Now if it be expedient for a captaine to knowe whether his souldiers be harts or Lions whose good cheerful harts are the first step to the winning of the field then it is consequent that Musicke should be a Lydius lapis the right touchstone to try their minds Nowe besides the aduertisement giuen hereby to the captaine our own side is incited the aduerse parts amased astonished For which causes all nations ciuil barbarous though in diuerse sorts yet vpon one the selfe same ground haue made euen the earth shake the heauens ring either with outcries braying howling singing clattering of their armour as the old Germanes and frenchmen or with tabering vpon their wagon pelts as the Cimbrians or with drums great iron hāmers as the Parthians or with a gentler and remisser kind of Musicke with their harping or piping or winding the cornets or sounding trumpets or tinkling their cimbals as the Lydians Hetrurians Arcadians Cicilians Corinthians Syrians Troians Aegyptians Arabians and to speake in one word no one word so true al countries Amongst which Athens the mother nurse of the best literature was accustomed to sing hymns to Apollo and Iupiter for the better speeding of their doubtful voiages And Rome the lady Queene of al other cities if they may be credited in their own cause vsed first an oxe horne til Tyrrhenus had deuised the brasen trūpet prouided notwithstanding that in any expeditiō of silēce they gaue but a watch word only without any soūd of instrumēts THE LAVVFVL VSE OF MVSICKE IN THE CHVRCH confirmed by the practise of the church CHAP. IX NOw although there be none but few men so senselesse blockish by nature or of dispositiō so peuish waiward that taking no delight in Musick thēselues measuring y e worth price therof by their own affectiōs do accoūt of it as a thing either vain vnlawful or idle vnprofitable yet there be many who albeit they allow a moderate sober vse of it in ciuil matters do notwithstanding cast it out of the church as an vncleane thing will vouchsafe it no place in the seruice of God But if the vse thereof be proued to be not lawfull only in the church but profitable also and decent by the practise of the church at all times the opinion of the best learned in all ages and the authority of the Scriptures themselues in many places I trust that these men will reforme their opinions from thinking so basely of it or refraine their tounges from inueighing so bitterly against it And first as touching the practise of the church they are not ignorant that the most anciēt church of the Iewes which receiued the doctrine of truth which it beleeued the precepts of life which it obserued the

order of discipline which it practised from God himself vsed no one spirituall exercise more than singing vnto the Lord. When the Ark which was vnto them a visible signe of Gods presence amōg them and vnto which they resorted to aske counsell of the Lord to poure out their praiers as wee do vnto the church was brought into the citie of Dauid not only the foure thousand Leuits whom Dauid had assigned this office to praise the Lord with instruments which he had made song made melody but Dauid himself also sang reioiced daunced before it Afterward when the Temple was buylded by Solomon and the Arke with other thinges dedicated thereunto by Dauid were brought into the tēple the Leuits according vnto their office sang vnto the lord songs of praise and thankesgiuing lifting vp their voices with trumpets and Cimbals w t instrumēts of Musick which seruice the Lorde did so gratefully accept that hee vouchsaued his visible presence and filled the temple with his glory And whē as Ezechias opened the temple which had been shut reestablished the seruice of the lord which had beene intermitted by the wickednes of Ahas among other thinges there is especiall mention that he restored this exercise for he appointed the Leuits in the house of the Lord with cimbals and vials and with harpes according to the commaundement of Dauid and Gad the kings seer and Nathan the prophet for the commaundement was by the hand of the lord by the handes of his prophets And his holy ordinance which the lord himselfe had sanctified cōtinued in that church as other parts of his seruice did though corrupted euen vnto the comming of Christ in the flesh Neither was it then as a bodily and vnprofitable exercise abolished but retained as a spirituall seruice vnto the Lord albeit not in that order and forme as before And Isidor testifieth that Ad antiquum morem Psalmistarum in veteri ecclesia Iudaeorum c. of the auncient custome of singers in the old church of the Iewes the primitiue church tooke example to noorish singers by whose songs the minds of y e hearers might be stirred vp to god And y e psalmistor singer ought to be most excelēt both in voice art that he may the better delight the hearers with the sweetnesse of his Musicke yea euen our sauiour Christ vsed this diuine exercise for when he had eaten the passouer with his disciples S. Mathew addeth when he had song a psalme they went out into the mount of Oliues As for the times wherin the apostles themselues liued it cannot bee denied but that this exercise was vsed in the churches which they planted for many exhortations are by them made in their epistles as it shall after appeare vnto their churches that then flourished cōcerning this matter and I trust their practise then was agreeable to their exhortatiōs Plinie in an epistle he writeth to Troian the Emperor whiles yet S. Iohn was liuing testifieth that it was the custome of the Christians to sing himnes vnto their Christ in their assembles before day for they could not freely come togither by day for the persecutions that thē raged against them Afterwarde when the church of Christ had a breathing time and might freely serue their God they did that openly in their churches which before they vsed secretly in their assemblies Look vpon the East the West the Greeke Latine Churches you shall finde this to be true It had his beginning in the East Church and from thence being deriued vnto the West spredde it selfe vnto all Churches as Sainct Augustine reporteth in his confessions It were too long to runne ouer all the particular Churches which frequented this exercise it shall bee sufficient to take a view of the patriarchall seates by whome the others were to bee directed in matters of doctrine and discipline Theodoret reporteth that Flauianus and Diodorus ordayned in the Church of Antioch that the Psalmes of Dauid shoulde bee song interchangeably by a quire of singing men diuided into partes first at the monumentes of Martyrs and afterwardes in the Church hortabantur sayeth hee socios sui ministerij vt in Ecclesia sanctissimum Dominum nostrum hymnis celebrarent And they exhorted their fellowe Ministers to prayse their holie Lorde Christ with hymnes and songes The which order once begunne at Antioche was deryued farther and farther euen vnto the vtmost partes of the worlde In Zozomenus likewise it is recorded that when the people of Antioch had intelligence that the Emperour Theodosius was incensed against them for a sedition raysed in their Citie they made their prayers vnto GOD to allay and mitigate his rage vsing thereunto mournfull songes and melodie The which when Flauianus the Bishoppe had caused to bee song before the Emperour as hee satte at meate the storie sayeth that Theodosius was thereat not onely mooued to pytty but forgaue the offence also and himselfe with teares encreased their lamentations And in another place he sayth that the Cleargy people of Antioch diuiding themselues into two parts did according to their accustomed maner praise God with himnes and songes To these former autorities accordeth Socrates who although he attribute not the originall of this singing of Antiphones and psalmes in the church of Antioche to Flauianus and Diodorus as Theodoret both but vnto Ignatius one auncienter than they for he was the third bishope of that place after Peter and was very conuersant with the Apostles themselues yet he agreeth with him in the veritie of the matter wherof I speake affirming that Ignatius hauing seene a vision of Angels lauding the holy Trinitie with himnes interchangeably sung constituted in the church of Antioche that forme and maner of singing which had beene manifested vnto him in that vision And albeit this may seeme some what fabulous as perhaps it is and as the Magdeburgenses are of opiniō saying that this is not a matter of so great moment that therefore Angels should come downe from heauen appeare singing yet this clause which they ad especially because the church in those daies wanted neither psalmes nor himnes is a sufficient proofe of mine assertion Now concerning the church of Alexādria as I doe confesse this exercise was not so much vsed there as in Antioch so must I needes say that sometimes it was there also frequented for proofe whereof I referre the reader to Socrates and the tripartite historie where they declare how Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria being by the Arrians depriued of his Bishoprick escaped out of the hands of Sirianus the Captaine of that armie who came with a band of 3000. souldiers beside the ayd of the Arrians which were in the citie as well to place Gregorius in that sea as to apprehend Athanasius For the historie saith thus The euening grewe on and the people watched all night because they looked for a communion