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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

or Instituted by him ●fore the Promulgation of the Decalogue and ●ver afterward declared to be Typical is a ●oral Duty or else this Assertion may be justly ●cepted against For all Uncommanded Worship ● forbidden and therefore Unlawful Worship ●either can any thing be properly a Moral Duty ● be performed in the Church of God as a Part ● his Worship which hath not the Stamp of Di●ne Authority upon it For the Agreeableness of Practice to that which is called Right Rea●●n or the Light of Nature is no sufficient Ground ● a Church Observation except it be also com●nded by God I do not in the least Question but ●● the True Church of God in all Ages was guid●● by his Holy Spirit in the Worship they per●●●med and he accepted or else I know not how ●●y could be the True Church or perform ac●●ptable Service to him For the True Church hath ●●d Christ all along for it's Head of Government and Influence to suppose it at any Time to be wit● out him for it's Legislator and Guide were to ma●● it cease it 's very Being For the Being of the Tr●● Church consists in it's Union with and special R●lation to Christ as it's Head And for the Servic● which it performs to God they must be of his Pr●paring and not the Issues of our own Priva●● Studies and Contrivances F●● * Reynold's on Hos 14.1 2. nothing can go to God i. ● meet with Acceptance at h●● Hands but what first com● from him From whence it doth apparently follow th● whatsoever was practised in the True Church of Go● and approved by him as a Part of his Worship eve● before the Giving the Sinai Law had his Comman● for it because it could not otherwise be acceptab●● Worship to him For he accepts of none but wha● he has Appointed To this it may perhaps be Objected that befo●● the Giving of the Law at Mount Sinai there wa● no written Law and so no Command for th● Churches Direction in Worship But Moral D●ties of Religion were written in Mens Hearts b● Nature and by serious Attention thereunto the could discern what they were without any speci●● Revelation and so perform true and acceptab●● Worship to Almighty God Answ This Objection is in part answered alread● where I have shewn that Moral Duties of Religio● are not written in Mens Hearts by Nature b●● by the God of Nature and that serious Attentio● alone is Morally Impossible to make the great Di●coveries which are attributed to it for Man● Natural Condition in the Fa●● being as the Holy Scriptures d●clare † Acts 26.18 Eph. 5.8 Col. 1.13 1 Thes 5.5 Darkness how is ● possible for him to see his M●ral Duty to God and to perform it with Acceptance without special Revelation for he must needs fail who hath not this Unerring Guide to direct him And tho' there was no written Law before the giving of that at Sinai and so no written Precept for Direction in Church-Worship yet this Defect was supplied by Divine Revelation * Ushers's Body of Divinity p. 6. In the beginning of the World saith one God delivered his Word by Revelation And a little after † Ibid. p. 7. From the Creation until the time of Moses for the space of 2513. years God immediately by his Voice and Prophets sent from him taught the Church his Truth Heb. 1.1 ‖ Taylor 's Ductor Dubit l. 2. c. 1. r. 1. n. 44. p. 180. Another hath this excellent Saying Christ is called by Peter and the Greek Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Word of the Father and the Law and it is remarkable this Word or Law of the Father was the Instrument of teaching Mankind in all Periods of the World And * See Baxter's More Reasons for the Christian Religion p. 94 95. a Third makes no doubt but the Eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Word that had undertaken Mans Redemption and thereupon was our Lord Redeemer gave even to Socrates Plato Cicero Seneca Antonine Epictetus Plutarch c. what Light and Mercy they had tho' they understood not well from whom or upon what Grounds they had them Sect. 6. Many Learned Men do tell us of the Seven Precepts which pass'd from one to another by Oral Tradition Six whereof were first given to the Sons of Adam and the Seventh super-added to the Sons of Noah and altogether by the Rabbins stiled the Seven Precepts of the Sons of Noah which the Church of God had before the Sinaical Promulgation and the same in Substance with the Decalogue They are set down in this Order by a great † Hammond's Annot. on Act. 15. d. Critick 1. The First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Strange Worship or of renouncing the Idolatry of the Heathens the not Worshipping other Gods 2. The Second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Benediction that is the Worship of the Name that is the true God 3. The Third 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Judgment or Administration of Justice 4. The Fourth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of disclosing Nakedness that is of Abstaining from all Vncleanness and interdicted Marriages within those Degrees which are set down Lev. 18. 5. The Fifth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of shedding of Blood or against Homicides 6. The Sixth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Theft or Rapine and doing as they would be done to by others 7. The Seventh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Member of any living Creature or that they should not cat the Flesh of any Creature with the Blood in it See also Synopsis Critic in Act. 15.20 Schindler in Pentaglot p. 1530. Curcell Rel. Christ Institut lib. 4. c. 11. Sect. 3. Tho' this Discourse may seem a Digression to those who conceive the Church of God was chiefly directed in Matters of Worship by meer Rational Principles before the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai yet to others who Believe Divine Revelation was her only Guide it will appear very necessary for the clearing of the Truth to all such as are imposed upon by the Asserters of Natural Worship as tho' that as such were Acceptable to God Unless therefore R. A. be understood according to the Explication before given I think there is sufficient Reason to except against his Consideration which he proceeds to prove thus That singing the Praises of God was thus practised viz. In the Church of God and approved by him before the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai and never afterward declared Typical is evident Exod. 15.1 Then sang Moses and the Children of Israel this Song to the Lord Essay p. 10. Sect. 7. Answ If this Text doth not prove Conjoint Singing with Plurality of External Voices which is the Point he contends for he hath then lost one main Proof of the Morality of it and that this Instance doth not prove it the following Considerations I hope will evince First It is altogether improbable that Moses and the Children of Israel all Sang Vocally