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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39936	Singing the psalmes the duty of Christians under the New Testament, or, A vindication of that gospel-ordinance in V sermons upon Ephesians 5, 19 wherein are asserted and cleared I. That, II. What, III. How, IV. Why [brace] we must sing / by Tho. Ford ...	Ford, Thomas, 1598-1674.	1659 (1659)	Wing F1517; ESTC R35534	65,438	180

which inclines us to them and not onely to pray against great transgressions and presumptuous sinnes but against the least motions and workings of sin whether in word or thought The Twentieth Psalme teacheth the duty of people towards their godly lawfull Magistrates and Governours and though it were penned upon a particular occasion probably when David went forth against the Ammonites 2 Sam. 10. yet it hath this Doctrine of generall concernment viz. That Godly Christian Rulers who are nursing fathers to the Church of God ought to be remembred in our prayers for a blessing upon their designes and endeavours for Gods people and against his and their enemies It teacheth likewise that it is Gods blessing alone that keeps the City as we have it in another Psalme Psal. 127. The 21. Psalme shews likewise that the safety of the Church and of all Christian States depends on God alone and gives us also occasion of admiring the glory of Christs Kingdome which is so great through Gods salvation seing David in his kingdome over Israel was a Type of Christ reigning in his Church and so also the passages in David's Psalmes that respect his rule and government have an aim at somewhat answerable to the Kingdome of Christ What more comfortable Consideration can any poor soul have than the subject matter of the 24th Psalm wherein the Question is resolved Whether God have any peculiar company divided from the rest of the world of which he is more especialiy tender and carefull and where this company is and what manner of men they are who as I may say are the fellows of this society Here we may learn that God hath a Church on earth call'd out of the world and distinguished from it that not hypocrites and formall Professors but hearty and upright Christians onely communicate in the spirituall and everlasting blessings which God poureth upon the Church and that all even the greatest are invited and called upon to enter into this societie of Gods people out of which there is no salvation The 25th Psalme was penned when David was in great distress and is an eminent testimony of his faith in God which he expresseth in his earnest prayer unto which he encourageth himself by the consideration of Gods faithfulness in his Promises and in all his wayes of Providence more especially in that he manifests himself to his people in the guidance and goverment of his good Spirit that they may not mistake and so miscarry in their Christian race Now what can be more sweet to any pious soul than the serious consideration of such gracious and mercifull dealing of God with his people Or how can such a soul chuse but be much inlarged towards the Lord when it meditates as it ought upon such things as these Would a Christian express his integritie and innocency and resolution to cleave close to God in wayes of holiness righteousness however he be defamed in the world or whatever else befalls him how pertinent is the 26th Psalme The 27th Psalme teacheth us wherein lieth a Christians safetie peace comfort and all viz. in Gods protection and gracious Providence over him It teacheth also what must be a Christians chiefest care in all estates and conditions viz. that he may continue and abide in the sincere Profession of the truth and the faithfull service of God according to his will and so to comfort himself and encourage his heart till God be pleased to come in with deliverance The 28th Psalme to say no more of it may teach us That God alone is to be prayed unto in all dangers and he alone to be praised for all deliverances And also that in all our addresses to God we are more especially to commend unto him the safetie and enlargement of his Church May we not sing the 29th Psalme with much comfort and spirituall benefit if we set our selves to meditate on the matter scope and drift of it which is to invite all to lay aside carnall confidence in wealth strength wisdome or any such like things and to submit themselves to the rule and government of God Almighty who doth wonderfull things in the world shews his glory in the thunder of his power to make all creatures even the dead and dumbe in a manner to stand in awe of him and by all these terrible doings of his teaches his own people the more to trust him who is so able to preserve them and destroy all his and their enemies with the least blast of the breath of his nostrills If we sing the Thirtieth Psalme we may see the frame of our own spirits in that of David's who was as much cast down in adversity as he was before lifted up in prosperity and how easie a matter it is for God to make sudden changes as to our outward estates so to our inward also and that whatsoever changes pass upon Gods people he can easily and suddenly change all their mourning into mirth and so give them matter of rejoycing in his salvation In the One and Thirtieth Psalme David teacheth us from his own experience that there is an inexhaustible store of all good laid up with God for all that trust in him yea and that notwithstanding our infirmitie and diffidence God of his meer faithfulness will deliver us in his appointed time There also we may learn that though Gods people be many times low in their own apprehensions by reason of many and great dangers yet so long as their eyes and their hearts are towards the Lord as David's were they may comfortably exspect a good issue at last and thereupon are to encourage themselves and pluck up their spirits as they are exhorted to do in the last Verse of that Psalme The 32d Psalme teacheth us wherein lieth true blessedness viz. in the pardon of sin and that we can never attain to assurance of that pardon and peace arising from it till we come freely off from sin and so are farre from guile in our spirits as David was at last after much adoe It teacheth us also in what way we must come to God and that is in a way of true humiliation and hearty confession of sin and that all such humble penitents have matter of rejoycing when impenitent and hardened rebells shall have sorrow enough How can we admire Gods gracious dispensations towards his Israel better than by an affectionate singing the Thirty third Thirty forth and Thirty seventh Psalmes which set forth in most ample manner the goodness of God towards his own and his just indignation against all his and their enemies though for the present it is not easie for us to apprehend the righteousness of God in his dealings with the one and the other And have not Gods people alwaies occasion from Gods dayly Providences to sing such Psalmes as those that so they may confirm their hearts in confidence on God and comfortable exspectations from him though for the present they are in heaviness through manifold temptations Thou mayest