I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walke in my Statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and doe them Cap. 12. Of Prayer Q. IS prayer a meanes to obtaine these spirituall blessings at God's hands A. Psal 51.10 Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Ezek. 36.37 Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to doe it for them Q. May we call upon an unregenerate man to repent and pray A. Act. 8.22 23. Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse and pray God if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity Q. Is there any hopes that God will heare the prayer of an unregenerate man can you give an instance in Scripture of God's hearing an unregenerate man's prayer A. 2 King 13.2 4. And he did that which was evill in the sight of the Lord and followed the sinnes of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom And Jehoahaz besought the Lord and the Lord hearkened unto him For he saw the oppression of Israel because the King of Syria oppressed them Q. What means then John 9.31 A. By a sinner may here be understood a grievous Sinner such as an Impostor and open Sabbath-breaker compare that text with Luk. 7.37 39. If a man be an Atheisticall notorious profane wretch or an Impostor and goe on to sinne presumtuously saying God is with him God useth not to heare such an one so as to worke miracles at his prayer or intreaty so as to cure one that was born blind But yet he that heareth the cry of the young Ravens is found of those men sometimes that seek him not may if he please and sometimes doth hear and answer the prayer of an unregenerate person I no where read that 't is an abominatioÌ„ to God for an unregenerate man to pray for Grace the sacrifice of the wicked is said indeed to be an abomination to the Lord as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if God put it into a man's heart if he prepare his heart to pray for peace with God and sanctifying or regenerating grace from God I think 't is not impossible he should prepare his eare to heare he hath not said he would not heare 't is not necessary he should stop his eares to such prayers And as for Prov. 28.9 I say it proves God wil not ordinarily hear profane obstinate presumtuous Sinners when they are in necessity or distresse but yet he may notwithstanding heare the prayer of an Unregenerate Person when he prayes to have his law written in his heart he may not hear one that hath no grace when he prayes for gold but yet may heare him when he prayes for Grace Chap. 13. Of Marriage Q. ARE the Lawes formerly delivered by Moses concerning Marriage so abolished that now a man may marry to his neer kindred A. Mat. 14.3 4. For Herod had laid hold on John and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias sake his brother Philip's wife For John said unto him It is not lawfull for thee to have her Q. In what case is divorce lawfull A. Mat. 5.32 Whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to commit Adultery Rom. 7.2 For the woman which hath an Husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth Q. Are second Marriages lawfull A. Rom. 7.3 But if her Husband be dead she is free from that Law so that she is no Adulteresse though she be married to another man Chap. 14. Of Mothers nursing their own children Q. DID good women of old time nurse their own children A. Psal 131.2 Surely I have behaved and quieted my selfe as a child that is weaned of his Mother Gen. 21.7 And he said who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck Q. Did ever any Queen or Noble person nurse her own child A. Can. 8.1 compared with chap. 1.1 The song of songs which is Solomons O that thou wert as my Brother â—â—â—at sucked the brests of my mother 1 Kin. 11.20 And the Sister of Tahpenes bare him Jenubath his Son whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house Gen. 23.6 compared with 21.7 Heare us my Lord thou art a mighty Prince amongst us And he said who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck Q. Was it reputed a curse or punishment for women to have dry brests A. Hosea 9.14 Give them O Lord what wilt thou give give them a miscarrying womb and dry brests Q. Shall a mother who is a nurse be dispensed with all from some outward acts of piety from doing of which she is hindred by that means or occasion A. 1 Sam. 1.21 22 23. And the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer unto the Lord the early sacrifice and his vow But Hanah went not up for she said unto her husband I will not goe up untill the child be weaned and then I will bring him that he may appeare before the Lord and there abide for ever And Elkanah her husband said unto her Doe what seemeth thee good tarry untill thou have weaned him only the Lord establish his word so the woman abode and gave her Son suck untill she weaned him Chap. 15. Of Womens painting themselves Q. IS the face the cheif part by which we are commonly known one to another A. Galath 1.22 And was unknown by face unto the Churches of Judea which were in Christ Q. Is the face one of our comely parts which hath no need as others of any superadded honour A. 1 Cor. 12.23 24. And those members of the body which we think to be lesse honourable upon these we bestow more abundant honour our uncomely parts have more abundant comelinesse For our comely parts have no need but God hath tempered the body together having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked Q. Did lewd Women use to paint A. Ezek. 23.40 And furthermore that ye have sent for men to come from far unto whom a messenger was sent and loe they came for whom thou didst wash thy selfe paintedst thy eyes and deckedst thy selfe with ornaments Q. Was that Queen a good or a wicked Woman who stood in a window painting her selfe when Jehu came to Jezreel A. 2 Kings 9.30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel Jezebel heard of it and she painted her face and tired her head and looked out at a window Q. Were the daughters of men in the old world really faire that the Sons of God were so taken with their beauty or did they paint and so only seem
Saul and the Lord said they will deliver thee up Matth. 11.21 23. Woe unto thee Chorazin wo unto thee Bethsaida for if the mighty workes which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented long agoe in sackcloth and ashes And thou Capernaum which art exalted unto heaven shalt be brought down unto hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodome it would have remained unto this day Q. How prove you that God did not decree such and such things because he foresaw they would come to passe or come to passe upon such conditions A. Rom. 9.11 13 18. For the children being not yet born neither having done any good or evill that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him that calleth As it is written Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardeneth Chap. 6. Of the Creation and of the first estate of Man Q. VVAS the world Eternall or did God make heaven and earth and all things therein in the beginning A. Gen. 1.1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth Heb. 11.3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which doe appeare Q. In what state did God make man at first did he make him after his own image in knowledge righteousnesse and holinesse upright having the law written in his heart induing him with power to fulfill the Law with dominion over the creatures A. Gen. 1.27 31. So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him And God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Col. 3.10 And have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Eph. 4.24 and that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Eccles 7.29 Loe this only have I found that God hath made man upright Rom. 2.14 15. These having not the Law are a Law unto themselves which shew the worke of the Law written in their hearts Gen. 1.28 And God said unto them replenish the earth subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the Sea and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth Q. Did man continue in that state wherein God made him or did he hearken to the Divell that old Serpent and disobey God and so fell A. Gen. 3.6 13 23. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food she took of the fruit thereof did eate and gave also unto her husband with her and he did cate And the Lord God said unto the Woman what is this that thou hast done And the Woman said the Serpent beguiled me and I did eate Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken Eccl. 7.29 But they have sought out many inventions 2 Cor. 11.3 But I feare lest by any meanes as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ Q. Was Adam the first man or were there any before him or was he a common Father from whom all Persons descended A. 1. Cor. 15.45 47. The first man Adam was made a living soule The first man is of the earth earthy Chap. 7. Of sin and of the bitter fruits of it Q. VHAT is sinne A. 1 Joh. 3.4 Sin is the transgression of the Law Q. Did all mankind sinne in and fall by the sinne or transgression of our first Parents A. 1 Cor. 15.22 For as in Adam all dye c. Act. 17.26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth Rom. 5.12 18 19. Wherefore as by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation c. For as by one man's disobedience all were made sinners c. Q. Can the Act or deed of the Father be imputed to the children is this as 't is the manner of men is it also agreeable to the Scriptures A. Heb. 7.9 10. Levi also who received tithes payed tithes in Abraham For he was yet in the loines of his Father when Melchisedec met him Q. Did Adam after the fall beget children after the image and likenesse of God in knowledge righteousnesse and holinesse or after his own likenesse A. Gen. 5.3 And Adam begat a Son in his own liknesse after his image and called his name Seth. Job 14.4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one Job 15.14 Joh. 3.5 6. Q. Is man since the fall born pure righteous or is he conceived and borne in sin A. Psal 51.5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sinne did my Mother conceive me Job 14.4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one chap. 15 14. What is man that he should be cleane and he which is borne of a Woman that he should be righteous Joh. 3.6 That which is borne of the flesh is flesh and that which is borne of the Spirit is Spirit Q. Can a man by nature now since the fall savingly know God without being spiritually inlightened A. 1 Cor. 2.14 But the naturall man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishnesse unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Joh. 5.20 And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true 2 Cor. 4.6 For God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ Q. Can a man by the strength of nature now fulfill the Law of God A. Ro. 8.7 Because the carnall mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 7.18 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing For to will is present with me but how to performe that which is good I find not Joh. 15.5 For without me ye can doe nothing 2 Cor. 3.5 Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God Q. Should our first Parents have dyed if they had never sinned did actuall death come in by sin A. Rom. 6.23 For the wages of sin is death Rom. 5.12 As by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Gen. 2.17
beautifull A. Gen. 6.2 The Sons of God saw the Daughters of men that they were faire and they took them wives c. Q. Were Job's three Daughters naturally faire or were they painted so A. Job 42.15 And in all the land were no women found so faire as the Daughters of Job Q. Was it usuall for the Blackamore to chang his skin by painting it white any more than for the Leopard to chang his spots or was it usuall for men to change their haire white or black from it's naturall colour A. Jerem. 13.23 Can the Ethyopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots Mat. 5.36 Neither shalt thou sweare by thy head because thou canst not make one haire white or black Q. Is it probable that Christ was naturally of a beautifull countenance that the Son of David was like David yea fairer then the children of men A. Psal 45.2 Thou art fairer than the children of men grace is powred into thy lips Cant. 5.10 My beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand Q. Was our Saviour's countenance much marred by reason of sorrowes and sufferings that he seemed older than he was and not so lovely as he was before A. Isa 53.2 He hath no forme nor comelinesse and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him Q. When Christ's countenance was so marred did he recover his complexion and beauty by art or when our Saviour's countenance was transfigured and made outwardly glorious was it done by any art of man did that brightnesse of his countenance continue A. Mat. 17.1 2 9. And after six dayes Jesus taketh Peter James and John his brother and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart and was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sun and his raiment was white as the light And as they came down from the mountaine Jesus charged them saying tell the vision to no man untill c. Q. Doe we find Vermilion or the paint amongst all the store and furniture for ornament and bravery which the delicate dames of Judah had in the dayes of the Prophet Isaiah A. No Isa 3.18 to the 24. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their trinckling ornaments about their feet and their cauls and their round tires like the moon the chaines and the bracelets and the mufflers the bonnets the ornaments of the legges and the head-bands and the tablets and the ear-rings the rings and nose-jewels the changeable suits of apparrel and the mantles and the wimples and the crisping pins the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoods and the vailes Q. How did religious women of old time adorne or beautify themselves did they paint to gaine or keep the affections of their husbands A. 1 Pet. 3.3 4 5. Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the haire and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparell but let it be the hidden man of the heart For after this manner in old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves Q. Is it probable that Christian women to whom the Apostle Peter wrote or concerning whom the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy did use painting as well as gold and silver and plaiting the haire A. 1 Pet. 3.3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrell 1 Timoth. 2.9 In like manner also that women adorne themselves in modest apparell with shamefastnesse and sobriety not with broided hair or gold or pearles or costly array If painting had been used then by Christian women that had been lyable to have been abused too and if so 't is not improbable that the Apostles would have mentioned it as well as other things wherein were excesse Q. Would it be better for a religious Woman to come into the Congregation vailed or painted A. 1 Corinth 11.5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head for that is even all one as if she were shaven Q. Is it expedient for a religious woman to paint A. Philip. 4.8 Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things Q. Were common Harlots usually known or distinguished from sober and modest women by their cloathes or outward Garbe A. Prov. 7.10 And behold there met him a woman with the attire of an Harlot and subtill of heart Q. In case religious women should not be disswaded from painting would it not be expedient that they should doe it either with other colours or in some other manner then lewd women use to doe that so they might be known to be honest and modest women A. Rom. 12.2 And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind c. Q. Will painting or auxiliary beauty certainly and continually win or conquer others affections A. See Jerem. 4.30 And when thou art spoiled what wilt thou doe though thou clothest thy selfe with crimson though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold though thou rentest thy face with painting in vaine shalt thou make thy selfe faire thy Lovers will despise thee they will seek thy life Q. What is the best meanes for a woman to have and hold her husbands affections is not the feare of God and meek discreet carriage towards her husband A. Prov. 31.30 Favour is deceitfull and beauty is vaine but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised 1 Pet. 3.1 3 4. Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversatiō of the wives whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrell but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek quiet spirit Pr. 11.22 Q. Had the Virgins who were prepared for and presented to Ahasuerus any paint as well as perfumes allowed them A. Esther 2.12 Now when every Maids turne was come to goe into King Ahasuerus after that she had been 12 moneths 6 moneths with oyle of myrrhe and six moneths with sweet odours and with other things for the purifying of the women Q. But doth not the Scripture say Psal 104.15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oile to make his face to shine And Eccles 9.8 Let thy garments be alwaies white and let thy head lack no oyntment A. In those Easterne hot countryes they did use oile frequently to anoint themselves withall possibly to make their skin smooth and cleare free from beeing too much dried and parched and so wrinkled before ' its time
heathens or Infidels A. See 1 Cor. 7.14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean but now are they holy see Galath 2.15 See Rom. 11.16 Q. Hath God any praise or glory from babes and sucklings A. Psal 8.2 compared with Math. 21.15 16. Out of the mouth of Babes sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger And when the chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderfull things that he did and the children crying in the Temple and saying Hosanna to the Son of David they were sore displeased And said unto him Hearest thou what these say And Jesus sayth unto them yea have ye never read Out of the mouth of Babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise Q. Was it ever the custome of the Jewes according to Gods own command to present Infants to the Lord at his Temple or place of publique worship A. Luk. 2.22 23. And when the daye of her purification according to the Law of Moses were accomplished they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. As it is written in the Law of the Lord every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord. Chap. 18. Of time for publique worship Q. DID ever God require any set day weekly for his worship service A. Exod. 20.8 9 10. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Six dayes shalt thou labour and doe all thy worke But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God Q. Had our Lord Christ power to alter the weekly Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the first A. Luk. 6.5 And he said unto them That the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath Q. Was the first day of the week observed a day of meeting of Christians for the worship of God by the primitive Christians A. Joh. 20.19 26. Then the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doores were shut where the disciples were assembled for feare of the Jewes came Jesus c. And after eight dayes again his disciples were within and Thomas with them then came Jesus c. Act. 20.7 And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread Paul preached unto them 1 Cor. 16.2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come Q. VVhat day was it when the Apostle John was in the spirit A. Rev. 1.10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet Q. VVere the Jewish Sabbaths shadowes of things to come and to end in Christ A. Col. 2.16 17. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath dayes which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ Q. Are the prayers and Administrations of the Elders of the Church more desirable than of others A. Jam. 5.14 Is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him anointing him with the oyle in the name of the Lord. Q. Is it lawfull for Christians delivered from the Jewish observation of dayes to have a set day or time appointed for any duty A. 1 Cor. 16.1 2. Now concerning the collection for the Saints upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come Q. Should Christians Assemble themselves together to worship God A. Heb. 10.25 Not forsaking the assembling of our selves togeither as the manner of some is but exhorting one another c. 1 Cor. 11.20 33 34. When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lord's supper Wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eate tarry one for another And if any man hunger let him eat at home that ye come not together unto condemnation Q. Is there to be teaching in the Church when the Church meets A. 1 Cor. 14.19 28. Yet in the Church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that by my voice I might teach others also then ten thousand words in an unknown tongue But if there be no Interpreter let him keep silence in the Church and let him speak to himselfe and to God Q. Are women to be publique teachers in the Church A. 1 Tim. 2.11 12. Let the women learne in silence with all subjection But I suffer not a woman to teach but to be in silence 1 Cor. 14.34 35. Let your women keep silence in the Churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak And if they will learne any thing let them aske their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the Church Q. Doth 1 Cor. 11.5 Philip. 4.2 3. Joel 2.28 Doe all these together authorize Women to be publique teachers in the Church of the Saints A. Prophesying may perhaps be found taken three wayes in Scripture first for foretelling things to come by an extraordinary spirit and so we read of Huldah a Prophetesse and Deborah in the Old Testament and of Anna in the New 2ly For singing or framing or both of Psalmes Hymnes or spirituall songs and so I suppose the word is taken 1 Chron. 25.1 2. And so both Miriam and Deborah prophecyed and perhaps Women did so too in the Church of Corinth whilst they had the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost 3ly For teaching and instructing by expounding and applying some part or portion of God's word and I dare not say because of those Scriptures above named that it was never lawfull for Women to teach in the Christian Church namely whilst those extraordinary gifts lasted and they were not prohibited by the Apostle Paul but I dare not embolden a Woman to be a publique teacher in the Church Q. Do we read of a Woman who pretēded her selfe a Prophetesse would have this preheminence to be a teacher of others in the Church who did really seduce Christians A. Revelat. 2.20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezabel which calleth herselfe a Prophetesse to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication Q. May a Woman teach her children at home the Principles or mysteries of religion A. Prov. 31.1 c. The words of King Lemuel the prophecy that his mother taught him Prov. 1.8 My Son forsake not the law of thy Mother So chap. 6.20 Q. May not Women as well teach authoritatively in the Church as Governe in a Common-wealth A. See Isa 49.23 And Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and Queenes thy nursing Mothers c. Q. If a crown be her Patrimony descending to her
one city or country although they have many severall Pastors or teachers over them be called a Church A. Act. 20.17 28. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the Elders of the Church Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the flock over which the H. Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his owne bloud Q. Do all the Churches or believers in them make up one Church of Christ A. Col. 1.18 And he is the head of the body the Church who is the beginning the first borne from the dead Q. May the Elders and brethren of severall churches meet and conferre together about questions or matters of difference which may arise amongst them or any of them A. Act. 15.1 2 6 7. And certaine men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and said except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certaine others of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the Apostles and Elders about this Question And the Apostles and Elders came together for to consider of this matter And when there had been much disputing Peter rose up and said unto them c. Q. Are the multitude of believers to be satisfied if it may be in those matters in question Ans Act. 15.30 31. So when they were dismissed they came to Antioch and when they had gathered the multitude together they delivered the Epistle which when they had read they rejoyced for the consolation Q. May the multitude have a hand or voice in the choice of church officers A. Act. 6.2 3 5. Then the twelve called the multitude of the Disciples unto them and said c. wherefore brethren look ye out among you 7 men of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and wisdome whom we may appoint over this businesse And the saying pleased the whole multitude and they chose Stephen a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost c. CHAP. 24. Of Singing of Psalmes Q. ARE we to sing with the voice or are we only to make melody in our hearts to the Lord A. Acts 16.25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang prayses unto God and the prisoners heard them Q. Is it lawfull to sing a psalme which containes a history of others and whose case was not every way as mine is at this present or may Psalmes be sung as the Scriptures are read for instruction and comfort A. Colos 3.16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdome teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spirituall songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 2 Chron. 29.30 Moreover Hezekiah the King and the Princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer and they sang praises with gladnesse Psal 22. Compare title and Psalme So Psal 51 52 54. titles and Psalmes compared 2 Chron. 35.25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations Q. Were women allowed to sing A. Exod. 15.20 21. And Miriam the Prophetesse the sister of Aaron took a timbrell in her hand and all the women went out after her with timbrels with dances And Miriam answered them sing ye to the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously c. 2 Chr. 35.25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day Q. May an Unregenerate man sing a Psalme A. Exod. 15.1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord and spake saying I will sing unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the Sea Q. May many joine to sing a Psalme together and may a Godly man or woman joine with those who are not truly Godly in singing of a Psalme A. Exod. 15.1 20 21. Then sang Moses the children of Israel this song unto the Lord. And Miriam the Prophetesse the Sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her hand and all the women went out after her with timbrels c. Q. May we sing on a day of Humiliation or in a time of sadnesse Is it not said Jam. 5.13 If any be merry let him sing Psalmes A. See the title to the 102. Psal A prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed and poureth out his complaint before the Lord. Besides as we may pray when we are not afflicted so we may sing although we have no present extraordinary cause of mirth but whereas others ungodly men when they are filled with wine and carnall mirth burst out into singing vaine and oft times wild songs Christians when they are filled with the spirit with joy unspeakable and glorious may expresse their joy seasonably in Psalmes hymnes spirituall songs Eph. 5.18 19. Times of mirth are fit and seasonable times for this duty but not the only times Paul and Silas sang in prison and so our Saviour and his Apostles immediately after his last supper not long before he was betrayed into the hands of sinners as times of affliction are speciall times of prayer but not the only times Christ himselfe being in an Agony prayed the more earnestly so times of mirth or rejoicing are speciall but not the only seasons of singing of Psalms Q. Is singing of Psalms to be allowed in the Church A. 1 Cor. 14.26 How is it then brethren when ye come together every one of you hath a Psalme hath a Doctrine hath a tongue hath a revelation hath an Interpretation let all things be done unto edifying Psal 95.1 2. O come let us sing unto the Lord let us make a joyfull noise to the rock of our Salvation Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyfull noise unto him with Psalms Mar. 14.26 And when they had sung an hymne they went out into the mount of Olives CHAP. 25. Of Church Discipline Q. OUght men first to be admonished once twice or thrice before they be cast out of the Church or that men are bound to separate from their society A. Math. 18.15 16 17. Moreover if thy brother shall trespasse against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone but if he will not heare thee then take with thee one or two more and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the Church but if he neglect to heare the Church let him be unto thee as an Heathē man a Publican Tit. 3.10 A man that is an Heretick after the first second admonition reject Q. If a man that hath given offence professe true repentance may not he be