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A63010	A sermon concerning vocal and instrumental musick in the church as it was delivered in the parish church of St. Andrew Undershaft, upon the 31th of May, 1696, being Whit-Sunday, and the day wherein the organ there erected was first made use of / by Gabriel Towerson.	Towerson, Gabriel, 1635?-1697.	1696 (1696)	Wing T1974; ESTC R18086	14,209	32

did not Or because Men had an unreasonable scruple against it as a thing only suited to the Infant-state of the Synagogue Or because where it was received it was not managed with that Gravity wherewith all Ecclesiastical Offices ought to be attended For against the thing in it self considered there can be no scruple at all neither have there been more devout Men upon Earth than those who have delighted in it and practised it with signal advantage to themselves if the Prophet David and our Divine Herbert may pass for such What remains then but that having in the first place endeavour'd to get our selves replenished with the Spirit and particularly with those Graces of it which serve more immediately to the exciting of a Spiritual and Heavenly Joy we endeavour to keep it up and improve and express it by Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Singing indeed and making Melody in our Heart to the Lord because without that it can be no Melody in the Ears of the Divine Majesty but withal Singing and making Melody with our Voices and Instruments as well as in our Hearts because these do in their way express our grateful resentment of his Benefits and do moreover excite and improve that Melody of the Heart which we have said to be so acceptable to him After which the following Hymn was sung The HYMN COme Holy Ghost and with thy Light and Fire Dispel our Mists and kindle our Desire That we at once thy saving Truths may know And with thy gracious Fruits enamour'd grow The greater and the lesser World to thee Doth owe its Light and Life and Purity By thee the Patriarchal Age was taught By thee the Christian was to Knowledge brought By thee each came to love as well as know What their Great Lord had ordered them to do Thou didst to each their Light and Heat impart For thou the Teacher of their Teachers wer 't O may'st thou still the same kind Beams display Direct us to and chear us in our way Prompt us to love as well as to fulfil The harshest parts of our Creatours Will. The fear of Ill may drive Men to his Law But thou alone to it can'st sweetly draw And may we also when w' are thus inspir'd And with a calm but ardent Zeal are fir'd Make liveless Organs joyn with us in Praise And to thy Grace a grateful Trophy raise For 't is not they but we those Accents frame Which our Devotion and thy Praise proclaim FINIS Some Books Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill THE Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions Together with the Rule of Faith Being all that were Published by his Grace himself and now collected into one Volume To which is added an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters Price 20 s. The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow D. D. late Master of Trinity-College in Cambridge The Third Volume Containing Forty Five Sermons upon Several Occasions In Folio Practical Discourses upon the Consideration of our Latter End and the Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance By Dr. Isaac Barrow in Octavo Price 18 d. The Four Last Things viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell Practically Considered and Applied By W. Bates D. D. in 120. Price 2 s. The Great Duty of Resignation to the Divine Will in Afflictions Also by Dr. Bates In 8 vo Price 18 d. Sermons of the Forgiveness of Sins On Psal 130. v. 4. Also by Dr. Bates Price 18 d. The Cure of Distractions in Attending upon God In several Sermons By Nath. Vincent M. A. In 8 vo Price 2 s. Also several Sermons against the Love of the World By N Vincent In 120. Price 12 d. Also his Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. Lawrence 6 d. The Tryal and Condemnation of Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkins Knights for the Horrid and Execrable Conspiracy c. who upon full Evidence was found guilty of High-Treason at the Sessions-house in the Old Baily Together with a true Copy of the Papers delivered to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex by them at the place of Execution owning their Crimes To be sold at 12 d. each Tryal By B. Aylmer The Bishop of Gloucesters Thanksgiving Sermon preached before the House of Lords April 16. Mr. Stephens of Sutton in Surrey his Thanksgiving Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen at Bow Church the same day Mr. John Showers his Thanksgiving Sermon the same day Mr. Strype of Low-Layton in Essex his Thanksgiving Sermon the same day Mr. Gardiner of London his Thanksgiving Sermon the same day The Christian Merchant described in a Sermon Humbly Dedicated to all the Merchants of the City By W. Gostwyke Rector of Purley in Berks. The Advice of a Father Or Counsel to a Child Directing him how to demean himself in the most important passages of this Life By E. C. Gent. In 120. Price 12 d. A Conference with an Anabaptist By Dr. Asheton of Beckenham in Kent Price 12 d.

ever ravish from us The Passion of Joy though for the most part arising from a present Good yet arising no less from such a one as is present to us by Faith provided that that Faith be firm and stedfast and we find that in us which may as certainly entitle us to the object of it The former whereof he cannot want who hath a due sense of Gods Truth as well as Goodness no more than he can be without the latter who finds in himself an ardent Love for God because the whole both of the Law and the Gospel 3. That therefore being the due sense and meaning of being filled with the Spirit and the Passion of Joy the end for which we are exhorted to get our selves so fill'd Enquire we in the Third place by what means we may come to be filled with it which as it is a much more important enquiry so may seem also of more difficult resolution Because that no doubt depends more upon the good pleasure of the filler than it doth upon any thing that we can do toward the attaining of it But as if we be well assured of the good Will of him that is to fill us as well as of his calling upon us to get our selves filled with it we cannot doubt of his chalking out wayes whereby we may come to be filled with it so we shall find if we consult the Scripture or our own Reason what those wayes and means are because directed to either by the one or the other Of which 1. The first and no doubt most especial one is to invite that Spirit into us by Prayer and beg of God to fill us with the Graces of it because expresly recommended to us as a means to attain it yea assured of obtaining it from him For after our Saviour had set before his Disciples the general efficacy of Prayer and confirm'd it from the disposition of Earthly Parents to gratifie their Children in all those good things which they may be supposed to ask of them He not only infers from it the greater likelyhood of Gods gratifying the Requests of his Children in all their Reasonable Demands and particularly as to what they make of his Holy Spirit but represents it as a thing inconceivable how God should deny that Spirit to them For if ye saith he * Luk. 11.13 being evil are not yet so evil as to deny good Gifts to your Children how much less shall your Heavenly Father deny the Holy Spirit to them that ask him 2. I look upon as no less sure a mean though not so particularly directed your cherishing that Spirit when you have it in any measure as to be sure all Believers have by attending to the Motions of it and readily complying with them in all those things to which they shall incline you Such an attention and complyance naturally disposing a Benign Being not only to continue his Graces to you but to give you more and more instances thereof as knowing that what he shall farther vouchsafe you shall be as kindly received and comply'd with as what he hath already afforded to you Which supposed it will not be difficult to shew which is all that will be farther necessary on this Head how you may come to be filled with those particular Graces which I have said St. Paul to refer more especially to when he exhorts to be filled with the Spirit For then may you expect to be filled with a grateful sense of Gods Goodness a firm belief of his Promises and as ardent a love for himself when you not only endeavour to cherish them by a due consideration of the excellency thereof but set your selves to the doing of all those things which such a sense and belief and love will prompt you to the performance of because that is all beside Prayer which can be supposed to be requir'd of you to invite God to fill you with them 4. The Fourth and last thing comes now to be spoken to even of what use our being filled with the Spirit is and particularly as to that Joy for which I have said it to be design'd Which we shall find upon examination to be to direct our Joy in an especial manner to Spiritual Objects to moderate it as to Earthly and Sensual ones and both keep it up and express it if not by means purely Spiritual yet by such as are principally and especially such For whereas he that is inspir'd with Wine will by that very Wine of his be prompted to place his Joy on Sensual Objects if not also on forbidden ones He who is filled with the Spirit of God and particularly with those Graces of it which I before described will by that very Spirit be directed especially to fix his Joy upon God and the things of God to delight in his Commands and to aspire after his Favours In fine to set as high a value upon them as the Men of the World do upon their most pleasing Enjoyments yea to suffer the want of all Sensual Enjoyments rather than run the hazard of more Spiritual and refined ones Whereas again he who is inspir'd with Wine will by that very Wine of his be tempted to an immoderate Joy in Earthly and Sensual Things and such a one as shall not only prompt him to forget that God who is the giver of them but abuse them also to his dishonour He who is filled with the Spirit of God will by that very Spirit of his be prompted to enjoy them with Moderation because no way comparable to those Spiritual Enjoyments which he himself suggests and much less to those Blessed and Heavenly ones which he assures us of in another World Whereas lastly he who is inspir'd with Wine will by that very Wine of his be prompted to keep up and express his Joy by Extravagant Actions or Lewd Songs and such as tend rather to corrupt his own and other Mens Minds than either to refresh or improve them He who is filled with the Spirit of God and particularly with a grateful sense of his immense Goodness a stedfast belief of his Heavenly Promises and a no less ardent love and affection for him will be thereby prompted to keep up and express his Joy by Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs by such as will put new Life into his Devotion as well as shew it forth and put new Life into other Mens Devotions as well as into his own The Second General to be spoken to and equally enjoyned with the former He who as you have heard exhorts Men to be filled with the Spirit exhorting them in like manner to speak to themselves or rather to one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs singing and making melody in their Heart to the Lord. II. In the handling of which Second Exhortation I will proceed in this Method 1. I will enquire what the Apostle meant by Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs 2. What he meant by speaking to themselves as our