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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	hymn_n	psalm_n	song_n	3,209	5	9.5347	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41008	The gentle lash, or, The vindication of Dr. Featley, a knowne champion of the Protestant religion also seven articles exhibited against him with his answer thereunto : together with the said Doctor his manifesto and challenge.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing F583; ESTC R176981	28,467	44

the Church and he notwithstanding would not so much as bow a knee I passed him for the present but when afterwards he presented himselfe againe at the same communion and I saw teares in his eyes I came to him and demanded of him whether he came prepared and refused to kneele meerely upon scruple of conscience and when he seriously affirmed that he did so I gave him the communion and wished him to come to me the next day to take away his scruples and when he ca●…e because Andrewes his wife had said before many that this apprentice of hers could make a better Sermon then I I examined him in points of Catechisme and sound him tardy and ignorant enough The third Article He preacheth for Organs shewing how necessary they are to be in Churches and hath preached against prayer ex tempore and saith of such praying whereas such were never in so they are ever out and the said Doctor preacheth but seld●… ne to his people having two great livings yet he pressed hard for 2 s. 9 d. in the pound of his parishioners untill it came neere the commencing of a suit at law to prevent him Answ. For Organs I remember that commenting upon that text of the Apostle Col. 3. 16. admonish●…ng one another in Psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songs I said that some noted upon the word Psalmoi derived from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} tango to touch that psalmes properly signified such songs as were made to be sung and plaid upon the lute harpe or some such like instrument hereupon inferred the lawfull use of instrumentall musick vhich though I conceived to be no very strong argument because drawne from a meere etymologie yet for the doctrine it selfe I held it very sound and good that it is lawfull to proise God as well with instrumentall as vocall musick And for Organs in particular I said they were not to be accounted popish for S. Ambrose and S. Austine commended the use of them in the Church in their time at this day the protestants use them both in the low Countries and in England and for the Pope he hath none in his Chappell yet his Majesty hath in his as his predecessors had before him Howsoever I am sure that no man can testifie that ever I undertooke to shew how necessary Organs be I doe not hold them necessary but very lawfull and of good use both in the Kings Chappell Cathedrall Chutches Colledges and elsewhere The law forbiddeth them for the Act of Parliament forbiddeth any to use any other forme or manner of Prayer Service or Sacraments then is there expressed I deny your argument and my reason is an Organ is no manner or forme of singing or service but a meere instrument wherewith we stir up our affections the more to praise God and sing more tunable and delightfully As a sword is no forme or manner of fighting a toole is no forme or manner of working a knife is no forme or manner of cutting so neither is an Organ Lute or Harp any forme or manner of singing or praysing God but an instrument onely wherewith we pray or praise or sing more melodiously gracefully sith it is evident that no Organ or other musicall instruments are any types of Christ or parts of the abrogated Law of Moses I am yet to learne why we may not as lawfully use Organs in our Churches as King David used them in the Temple Praise God with the sound of the Trumpet praise him with the Psal●…ery and Harpe praise him with the Timbrell and Pipe praise him with the stringed instruments and Organs For praying ex tempore I never condemned it absolutely but contrariwise when I preached at Lambeth upon these words of the Apostle The spirit maketh intercession withsighes and groanes which cannot be expressed I much pressed the use thereof especially when according to our Saviours precept we retire into our closets and pray to our Father in secret but I found fault with some carelesse preachers in our dayes who came into the Pulpit at publike Fasts and presumed without any premeditation to pray many houres ex tempore in which their prayers they used much Battologie and vaine repetitions against the expresse commandement of our Saviour excluded his prayer which is the perfect pattern of all prayer The words of my Sermon transc●…ibed verbatim are these They expunge the Lords prayer and doe not at all rehearse before or after it their owne how long soever they make them Whereas the Reformed Churches generally conclude their prayers before Sermon with the Lords prayer partly in opposition to Papists who close up their devotions with an Ave Maria partly to supply all the defects and imperfections of their owne these leave out that sanctified forme of prayer in which it being the quintessence of all prayer one drop is more worth and hath in it more vertue being powred out in Faith then an Ocean of their conceived abortive prayers in which they are never out because indeed never in neither can they easily make an end because they never knew how to begin For my seldome preaching Besides ten distinct bookes and some of them of no small volumne which I have published in the defence of the Orthodox Protest●…nt Religion against Atheists Papists and Arminians I have beene a constant preacher in England and in France for these 32 yeares at least This last yeare I have preached sometimes twice and sometimes thrice in a weeke though not so often at Lambeth as I used to doe partly by reason of my attendance two moneths at Court by command of the then Lord Chamberlaine the Earle of Essex partly in reg●…rd of a double taske recommended to me from some Members of the Honourable House of Commons the former writing annot●…tions upon all S. Pauls Epistles the latter an answer to a treatise of a Popish Priest Intituled A safegard from Shipwrack the former ready for the Presse the latter Printed with the approbation of the House Onely this is true that I have very seldome or never preached at Lambeth Church this y●…are in their hearing for five of them have not beene at Lambeth Church at divine prayer these 9 mon●…ths for which their delinquency I humbly desire that according to the Statute they may pay their ●…2d to the poore for every Sunday and Holyday they have beene absent from their Parish Church For my two great Li●…ings They were I confesse good Livings if I might have my 〈◊〉 but f●…rst for rent of houses and the tenth part of ●…he cleare gaines of Merchants and Artificers according to the Statute of K Edward the sixt I never received a peny and for the land in the Parish whereof there was wont formerly to be 1000 acres in tillage t●…ere are now not above 120 the Parishioners turning their a rable land the tenth where of was worth at least 4s per acre into pasture