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A09578	Church Musicke finds applause, then why not Hee That sets forth Canons of a Trinity?
A87955	1 sheet([ 1] p.) s.n.,[ London: 1699?]
A89391	music s.n.,[ London: 1700?]
A25223	For what impediment is there of Mutations, confusion of Keyes, substitution of Voices?
A26830	My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
A29150	For indeed what Idea can we form to our selves, of those happy Regions of Joy and Tranquility, of which this will not be a most lively Transcript?
A29150	Is Saul''s Melancholy and Despair to be driven away, and his mind to be set in order, for the discharging his great Office?
A29150	Is the Spirit of the Lord to descend upon Elisha, and that upon an occasion, more extraordinary than usual?
A60946	But how could the soft Notes of Musick Kill?
A60946	But if I Dye, who shall my Death attone?
A60946	The Crime, that''s charg''d, does still unprov''d remain: For the Youth''s Drowning must I plunge the Main?
A60946	Was I the Cause, that while I sung, he drown''d?
A60946	What should he do, whose Sense was thus engag''d?
A38686	How much must our Joys be enlarg''d?
A38686	When the Lineaments of her Picture are drawn by the skilful Hand of a Chast Poet, and colour''d by a good Musician?
A38686	how much have they now been lifted up with these Heavenly Acclamations?
A60536	But is it not grateful to every Gentleman, who is ennobled with such a Soul as yours, to know the divine Harmony of the pleasure he enjoys?
A60536	Is it not the duty and Felicity of a Rational Being, to consider how the whole System of the World is framed in Consort?
A28384	Have you any work for a Tinker, Mistress?
A28384	If any will say, shall we be wise than our Forefathers, to endeavour the discovery of that which they could never find out?
A28384	MY Soul to God shall give good heed, And him alone attend, For why?
A28384	MY Soul to God shall give good heed, And him alone attend, For why?
A28384	MY Soul to God shall give good heed, And him alone attend, For why?
A75767	How are the children of God taught of God, if it be not by the light of God in the conscience?
A75767	How can it be any other then a naturall light which witnesses unto God in that which is holly?
A75767	How is Christ the light of the world, and how doth he enlighten every one that comes into the world, if it be not in the Conscience?
A59892	But do not the Angels then thus Worship God in Heaven?
A59892	But if the Temple- Worship be a fit Precedent for the Worship of Angels, Why may it not be a Precedent for the Worship of Christians?
A59892	But what is it to praise God?
A59892	Does he praise God best, who composes the best Anthems, or Sings them best?
A59892	Does it consist merely in the Harmonious Melody of Voices, and Musical Instruments?
A59892	If there be no force in Musick to give a Good or Bad Tincture to the Mind, Why do any men complain of Wanton Songs?
A59892	Is it only to sing aloud, and to make a joyful noise to God?
A59892	Why then should any Man think Musick improper for the Worship of God?
A55066	But let us proceed yet further, and suppose that the Bass should use a sharp, what is then to be done?
A55066	Can she affect my oaten reed?
A55066	Can she affect my oaten reed?
A55066	I. G. VVIll Cloris cast her Sun- bright Eye upon so mean a Swain as I?
A55066	I. G. VVIll Cloris cast her Sun- bright Eye upon so mean a Swain as I?
A55066	If irrational Creatures so naturally love and are delighted with Musick, shall not rational Man, who is endued with the knowledge thereof?
A55066	Playford, John, 1623- 1686?
A55066	Playford, John, 1623- 1686?
A55066	Sith God doth give me strength& might, why should I be afraid?
A55066	THe L. is both my health and light, shall man make me dismaid?
A55066	What rural sport can I devise, To please her Ears, to please her Eyes?
A44855	HOW long must Women wish in vain, a con — stant How long must Wo — men wish in vain a constant Love to find?
A44855	JACK, whither so fast?
A44855	No art can Fic — kle Man re — Love to find?
A44855	S. WHY wonders beauteous Clo — ris, why, I''ve aim''d so oft at Po — e — try?
A44855	To the Devil; where shou''d I?
A44855	You say she''s false, I''m sure she''s kind, I''le take, I''le take her — Bo — dy, you her Mind; who, who, who has the better Bar — gain?
A44855	why shou''d we room — for Beau — ty make, which wi — ll not let us live?
A44855	why wonders beauteous Clo — ris, why, I''ve aim''d so much at Po — e — try?
A60542	?
A60542	And indeed, Sir, what ruin may I not expect from such a formidable Encounterer?
A60542	And what more easie for the Practicioner''s eye to apprehend?
A60542	And what more natural?
A60542	Does he mean out of Greek, or into Greek?
A60542	For how can a sweet Musical Ingenuity, be any way tainted with the least Rudeness or Ingratitude?
A60542	For if I do allow G sol re ut to stand in two places, why doth he not write the double relish, as''t is in the Diagram?
A60542	Now who could expect the poor dumb Lute should receive any kind usage from an Observer that begins so terribly?
A60542	To transpose a Lesson from any Key given, to any Key required; and shew which must be the Sharps and Flats in that Key?
A60542	To what purpose are all these Mathematical Contrivances?
A60542	Well, Sir, but how if people wo n''t conclude so?
A60542	What a base fellow was this Monsieur Samboneer?
A60542	What shall I do in this case?
A60542	Which are the proper assignments of all regular Flats and Sharps in any position of Mi?
A60542	Will they teach a man to make Air, or maintain the point of a Canon?
A60542	qualis mutationum mora, confusio clavium, substitutio vocum?
A60542	than for two Octave notes; which are so much the same, and have the same equivalent respect to all other Notes, should stand in the same place?
A08534	1 Euery accent of Epistles and Gospels are taken out of the sillables of the finall sentences, and their number?
A08534	5 A Point of Interrogation, which is made thus(?)
A08534	By how much therefore Sounds are neerer one another, they are so much the sweeter?
A08534	De li be rans autem a mi co rum Le po ri as istas carnes essem con do na tu rus?
A08534	For the Naturals are doubtfull, and will agree with ♮ Dures, and b Mols, thus?
A08534	For what( saith Coelius) makes the powers of the soule so sundry and disagreeing to conspire oftentimes each with other?
A08534	Hesterna luce cum aequitassem in campū virentem, herbosum, floridum, spaciaturus in eo?
A08534	Is man therfore inferiour to beasts?
A08534	Moses spake not, yet heard these words, Why doest thou cry vnto me?
A08534	Now farewell they that forbid Church- men to vse Musicke; what solace( setting singing aside) can they haue either more healthfull, or more honest?
A08534	Quantas ha be o in i qui tates& pecca ta?
A08534	The like sayd Boêtius, how can this quick- mouing frame of the world whirle about with a dumb and silent motion?
A08534	Vnde es tu Quid est homo?
A08534	Who doeth ought, yet knoweth nought, is brute by kind: If voices shrill, voide of skill, may honour finde?
A08534	inte rogans comitem meum quid esset sua surus?
A08534	who reconciles the Elements of the body?
A58211	And are not many parts of David''s Psalms excellent Forms of Petitions to God?
A58211	Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fathers house: if God be with thee, who can be against thee?
A58211	Can you reasonably think, that impious abuse by some, concludes a necessary abolition of an holy use of these, to all others?
A58211	Doth not our Saviour Christ teach us to say, and do we not accordingly say — Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven?
A58211	I answer, So doth the Feverish Palate distaste sweet and wholsom meats: where must the Cure be made?
A58211	If so, how cometh it since to be unlawfull?
A58211	Must we pray to be enabled to do that which( however enabled) we may not do?
A58211	On whom is their not understanding to be charged?
A58211	Was it then lawfull and expedient to sing holy Elegies, solemn Prayers, and Doxologies to God?
A58211	and did not he, and the Church of God, with, and after him, in every Age since, sing the same?
A58211	in some contrary season of those Meats, or the disaffected Palate?
A58211	that the Priests that offer gifts according to the Law, serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, — what things?
A58211	what, is this lawfull in Heaven, but not in Christ''s Church on earth?
A48911	And all this while, where lyes the stress of so much Trinitonian fury, but only against the miserable Vt, and forlorn Re?
A48911	And therefore, Zoile, quid solium subluto podice perdis?
A48911	But Trim Tram,''t is all could be expected; the whole business being as it seems, rather to write, than what, or how?
A48911	But amongst the rest of his My''s, What think you of My Stationer?
A48911	But what has Martial to do with the Observer?
A48911	But what''s your Answer to this?
A48911	But whence all this joy?
A48911	But whence comes this red Face?
A48911	Cur ludere nobis Non liceat, licuit si jugulare tibi?
A48911	Did ever any Master of Art so forget himself, as to grant that any Art or Science can require an Absurdity?
A48911	For how can this be apply''d to a person that has neither Brains nor Spirits?
A48911	How his fond Soul skips and leaps, like a fat Heifer in the plentiful Elysian Fields of Nonsence?
A48911	Hoyday — What''s here?
A48911	If there be a nearer and an easier way( than the Old Scale) why should not those Guides be so honest to lead us in it?
A48911	Is not the Octave to Gam ut in the Bass G sol re ut in the Mean?
A48911	Is this the bragging Puller down and Crusher that Rodomontado''d so but just now?
A48911	More Blossommings of his Master of Artship?
A48911	More of his Learning?
A48911	Now behold, good Sir, is not this Tune prickt according to the STATUTE of your Hypothesis or new Method you would impose upon us?
A48911	Now that this is the Advancement of Musick, which he so craftily designs, is as plain as his pretty picture before his Book, for why?
A48911	Playford, John, 1623- 1686?
A48911	This is Prophaneness too, Sir, is it?
A48911	To A re, A la mi re; To B mi, B fa b mi; To C fa ut, C sol fa ut; To D sol re, D la sol re?
A48911	WHat a murrain is the matter here?
A48911	We thank you for this as well, but, Sir, will it do no better?
A48911	What a heavenly Rapture is the Gentleman now in?
A48911	What a strange Map of Modesty this is, to be dash''d out of Countenance by his own Face?
A48911	What abominable dunce made this?
A48911	What fairer Argument would this great Musitian have, than such a one, to prove that there is no need of his Ledger du main?
A48911	What will the World think of your Book, cramm''d with so many imperfect and insipid untruths?
A48911	Who ▪ but he ▪ that the Observer was forced to quit, the Places of his Obligations at Hackney for his ill behaviour?
A48911	quoth Burgersdicius, In the name of the Lords of Holland and West- Freesland, What''s here?
A48911	then why do you propose it to us, when there''s no advantage in it?
A48911	what a crime it was to assault his publisher?
A47361	23?
A47361	And have not we the Fruit of it, i. e. Joy, Peace,& c. in believing?
A47361	And pray, that they might be filled with the Fruits of Righteousness?
A47361	And, pray, why must ordinary praising of God be now admitted?
A47361	Appendix( unpublished?).
A47361	But how?
A47361	But must they needs be therefore carnal and humane Forms which appertain unto them?
A47361	But say you, If we should say such a vocal Singing together is for a Teaching, then where are the Hearers, if all be Teachers?
A47361	But to close all, Are not David''s Psalms part of Spiritual Worship?
A47361	But, pray, what Call has he to rebuke me, after this publick manner, especially before the whole World?
A47361	Can any sober Christian think he hath done well to publish the Private Affairs of a Particular Church to the whole World?
A47361	Do not the Saints now rejoice in hope of the Glory of God, as well as they did then?
A47361	Doth not the Apostle pray that God would fill all the Saints with Joy and Peace?
A47361	Have not Believers now the Holy Spirit, as well as they had it then, though not in such an extraordinary manner?
A47361	How absurd would it be to affirm either?
A47361	How hath our Practice of baptizing Believers,& c. been branded with the reproachful Name of Error?
A47361	Is it absurd and irrational for us to make the Moral Law, or Light of Nature, a Rule to exert the Worship of God?
A47361	Is not this to darken Counsel with words without Knowledg?
A47361	My Portion is, I perceive, to undergo hard Censures from Men; but''t is no more than my Blessed Master met with; and what am I that I should complain?
A47361	Now what is this to your purpose?
A47361	Shall they have a new Bible for those Times?
A47361	These things being so, What Authority have you to say our Saviour and his Disciples did not sing?
A47361	What Reason do you give for this?
A47361	Whose Work is it thus to do, but the Devil''s?
A47361	Why must not Spiritual Songs be allowed, as well as Psalms and Hymns?
A47361	and are not the Churches exhorted to sing them?
A47361	and how grievous is it to all truly Godly Ones, and grateful to the Enemies of our Sacred Profession?
A47361	and what a reproach doth it bring upon the Truth?
A47361	or, what reason has any sober or Godly Christian to believe you, if you so boldly affirm it?
A34693	?
A34693	And how shal they search ● hem, except they reade them?
A34693	And how then can they sing such Psalmes, as Songs of their own?
A34693	And what are then such Songs, but the Songs of the Lambe, through whose Redemption the Church and Saints enjoy all their deliverances?
A34693	And where it was not understood, there it might most easily be translated out of a language well knowne unto the severall language of every Nation?
A34693	And wherefore did all the Apostles and Evangelists write the New Testament in Greeke?
A34693	But that which is ground of your scruple seemeth to be this, that that which is no gift of Grace, how can it redound to the Praise of Grace?
A34693	But what cause hath any flesh to boast, either of his spirituall, or common gifts?
A34693	David foretelleth, that all the Kings of the earth( and why not thei ● people as well?)
A34693	How then can you say, that to sing the Prophecies of David, doth not yet appeare to be a worship of God commanded or taught in holy writ?
A34693	If it be said, Why, is it not a confusion for so many voyces to joyne together in singing a Psalme, though it be one and the same Psalme?
A34693	If most of them could not reade, how could they joyne in singing that Psalme, unlesse some or other read, or pronounced the Psalme to them?
A34693	In Davids dayes?
A34693	In Meeter Devised?
A34693	In Order, after the Reading of it?
A34693	In Tunes Invented?
A34693	Is any merry?
A34693	Praised with ten stringed Instruments: When was he so to be praised?
A34693	Seeing both are gifts, and received of God: and if received, why should men boast, as if they had not received them?
A34693	So it is here, what if many a man know not what, nor how to sing to Gods Praise?
A34693	So the Lord was to be praised?
A34693	Was this a confusion?
A34693	What Spirit of the Lord was that, but the Spirit of the Lord Jesus?
A34693	What delight can the Lord take in such Praises of himselfe, where sinfull men, or the Man of sinne hath an hand in making the melody?
A34693	What if a man know not what nor how to pray?
A34693	What singing doe you meane?
A34693	What though there be an ordinary gift of Prayer and Prophecying, as well as of singing?
A34693	Whether carnall men and Pagans may be permitted to sing with us, or Christians alone, and Church- Members?
A34693	Whether carnall men and Pagans, as well as Church- members and Christians?
A34693	Whether carnall men may sing, as well as godly Christians?
A34693	Whether in Tunes invented?
A34693	Whether it be lawfull in Order unto Singing, to reade the Psalme?
A34693	Whether it be lawfull to sing Psalmes in Meeter devised by men?
A34693	Whether one be to sing for all the rest, the rest joyning onely in spirit, and saying, Amen; or the whole Congregation?
A34693	Whether one for all the rest, the rest onely saying Amen?
A34693	Whether women as well as men, or men alone?
A34693	Whether women, as well as men; or men alone?
A34693	Who must Sing?
A34693	Who shall not feare thee, O Lord, and glorifie thy Name?
A34693	but where shall wee finde the like innocency, with the like calamitie met together in the children of Israel, whilest the Temple was standing?
A34693	how then shall they Sing?
A34693	or the whole Congregation?
A36257	* True Devotional Musick, will excite or heighten our Devotional Passions; Why then should any Man think it improper for the Worship of God?
A36257	27. Who sees not that those Words of the Apostle, are designedly us''d concerning these very Changes which were to be made by the Gospel?
A36257	AND what is there in all this Reasoning, wherein our Adversaries can think our present Cause concern''d?
A36257	And do we say otherwise?
A36257	And how can they possibly prove a Revelation that is no where Written?
A36257	And that the Heavenly things, are those which are suppos''d uncapable of that shaking, and therefore to remain?
A36257	And what Proof can our Adversaries pretend to that can be thought so evident?
A36257	And what if we should grant him his last Consequence concerning Dancing, so far at least, as to acknowledge that the Church might lawfully reduce it?
A36257	And what is there in this Hypothesis, that can, in Reason, be suppos''d Temporary?
A36257	And what may that be?
A36257	And where can our Adversaries find any express Revelation of the N. T. against this Custom?
A36257	And where is the Fault, that so useful an Art is now much improved beyond what it has been?
A36257	And why may not the like use of Instrumental Musick entitle us to that now as well as represent it?
A36257	BUT what if we should turn this way of reasoning, us''d by the Apostles, against our Adversaries?
A36257	But to please whom shall we be perswaded to lay aside or alter our Church Service?
A36257	But what Proof can they produce for this Proposition, so crudely and so generally express''d?
A36257	But why should they think it derogatory to the Providence of God, that he should make use of the Power, himself has given to the Natures of Things?
A36257	But why with more Strength?
A36257	Can our Adversary therefore gather, that Kings, and Sacrifices, and Ephods, were Sins then?
A36257	Can they pretend, that our present Dispute has any Relation to those which devided the Jews and Christians in the Apostolical Age?
A36257	Can they shew any Text of the New Testament against it as a thing that was to cease and to be no more practis''d?
A36257	Can they then pretend any thing inconsistent with it in the constitution of the Gospel, or of the new Peculium?
A36257	Can they therefore say, that it is at least supposed in the Reasonings of the N. T?
A36257	Can we suppose God to have made new Rules, for the Influences of the two Spirits now, that were not in the Age of the Apostles?
A36257	Do we revive the Literal Sense as it concern''d the particular Nation of the Jews?
A36257	Doth God take care for Oxen?
A36257	For what can that Fatness and Sap of the natural Olive be, but the Mystical benefits of their Sacrifices, and their Temple Solemnities?
A36257	How can they therefore doubt, but that it might still have the same effect on the like Bodies, alike Influencing the same kind of Souls?
A36257	How contrary is this whole way of Reasoning, to that used by our Adversaries, on many others as well as this Occasion?
A36257	How could that have been taken for an Imposition which they had freely taken upon themselves, without any regard to the practice of the Jews?
A36257	How could that have made a breach between them, wherein they did not differ?
A36257	How could they therefore unite all Nations into one Body, as it was the Design of our Christian Religion to unite them?
A36257	How so, if that Instrumental Musick had been unlawful, even to the Gentiles?
A36257	If therefore they were not shaken, what can hinder by the Apostles reasoning, why they should not still remain?
A36257	Is it the admitting us to the Joys of the Heavenly Society, represented by Instrumental Musick?
A36257	Must Milstones therefore and Candles be unlawful also?
A36257	Offer it now to thy Governour, will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy Person saith the Lord of Hosts?
A36257	Or saith he it not for our sakes?
A36257	So if we do not allow Scripture Consequences;* How shall we prove Women ought to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper?
A36257	The Excellent Mr. Mead, has long since made this Observation on those Words of the Evangelist: He hath a Devil, and is Mad; why hear ye him?
A36257	They may accuse the Surplice for being such, but with what shew of Reason to satisfie an unprejudiced Man?
A36257	Thou hast a Devil: Who goeth about to kill thee?
A36257	Thus I think I have obviated all that has been said or can be said, from our Adversaries Principles, with relation to my own principal Argument?
A36257	What else can he mean?
A36257	What then should hinder, but that still our Minds should be Influenc''d by the Good and Evil Dispositions of our Bodies as much as formerly?
A36257	What then will become of their Negative Arguments from our present Scriptures?
A36257	Where can they find any new Establishment of the new Peculium inconsistent with it?
A36257	Who sees not, from these and the like Places, that these Expressions are used to describe a State not Sinful but Penal rather and Calamitous?
A36257	Why might not then this Natural History be adapted to signifie the Seat of the Devils Influence?
A36257	Why should he have allow''d even Vocal Musick, if even our Senses could contribute nothing to the raising of the Devotion of our Spirits?
A36257	Why should we therefore think it strange, that the Church of Jerusalem in the Revelations, should be represented Harping with the Harps of God?
A36257	Why should we think that such Laws as these should have any prospect farther than those Ages, and that Nation for which they were design''d?
A36257	Why so, if God had not been to have been regarded in the Duty here insisted on?
A36257	Will our Adversary therefore say, that all sorts of Crafts are here condemn''d as unlawful?
A36257	Will they therefore think it reasonable for avoiding Surfeits, to disswade from Eating?
A36257	Yet how great a part do Surfeits make in our Bills of Mortality?
A47407	& c. Can this be a part of Sacred Gospel- Worship?
A47407	& c. What is Singing but praising of God?
A47407	( or seven Stars) or loose the Bands of Orion?
A47407	12. Who made our Tongues, and placed that singing Faculty in them but the Almighty?
A47407	23?
A47407	32. r. Is the Greek word there, he hymned?
A47407	And do not our Souls need those sweet Soul- refreshing Comforts and Consolations which many ▪ meet with in that Ordinance, as much as they did?
A47407	And doth not God deserve the like Glory and Honour from us, as from them?
A47407	And have not we the Fruit of it, i. e. Joy, Peace,& c. in believing?
A47407	And have we not for this 12 or 14 Years sung in mixt Assemblies, on Days of Thanksgiving, and never any offended at it, as ever I heard?
A47407	And is any merry?
A47407	And is not every Word of God alike pure and righteous, and equally to be esteemed?
A47407	And is not that a piece of Art as well as Singing?
A47407	And may not Prayer be carnally performed too, as well as Singing?
A47407	And pray, that they might be filled with the Fruits of Righteousness?
A47407	And that in Promises and Prophecies it was preached to Abraham?
A47407	And therefore may the not, 〈 ◊ 〉 they not praise God?
A47407	And what Precepts the Saints shall have to sing then, that do not impower us to sing now?
A47407	And which is that Day of our Lord Jesus?
A47407	And who can be so gross as to deny Prayer to be part of God''s natural Worship?
A47407	And why not, say I, Preaching the Word, Baptism, and Breaking of Bread also?
A47407	And why then did David 〈 ◊ 〉 upon all Men on Earth to sing and praise God?
A47407	And would you not have ● ny to do this but the Saints?
A47407	And 〈 ◊ 〉 not the hundred and forty four thousand 〈 ◊ 〉 a new Song under Antichrist''s Reign?
A47407	And, pray, why must ordinary praising of God be now admitted?
A47407	Ar ● you Infallible?
A47407	Are not all Creatures called upon to sing and praise their Creator?
A47407	Are not all equally concerned to praise God?
A47407	Are not all the Creatures in Heaven, Earth, Seas, Men, Beasts, Fishes, Fowles,& c. commanded to praise the Lord?
A47407	Are they against the Singing of David''s Psalms and Hymns, do ye say?
A47407	Away, ● ● ith one, with your carnal and human preaching,''t is a Form invented and done by Art, will you call this Gospel- preaching?
A47407	Besides, can you find any ground from God''s Word, that will warrant you to separate your selves from the Church upon this account?
A47407	Besides, did not the Church agree to sing only after Sermon, and when Prayer was ended?
A47407	Brother, who do you encounter with now?
A47407	But how?
A47407	But is it unlawful to premeditate what we design to ask of God in Prayer?
A47407	But must they needs be therefore carnal and humane Forms which appertain unto them?
A47407	But now will you say we have not the Spirit of Christ in composing the Hymn which is part of Christ''s Word?
A47407	But ought not we to labour to restore it 〈 ◊ 〉 its primitive Practice( as in other Ordinances through Grace, we have been helped to do?)
A47407	But say some, Did not the Lord''s People of Old in their Captivity, say, How can we sing one of the Lord''s Songs in a strange Land?
A47407	But say you, If we should say such a vocal Singing together is for a Teaching, then where are the Hearers, if all be Teachers?
A47407	But some may object, Doth not James only injoin Singing of Psalms, when People are merry, or find great cause of inward Joy in the Lord?
A47407	But some may say, he doth not bid every one of them to break Bread; how doth it follow every Member ought so to do?
A47407	But the Question is, Whether one Person only, or the whole Church, should sing together with united Voices?
A47407	But to close all, Are not David''s Psalms part of Spiritual Worship?
A47407	But what ground is there for the Church to joyn in singing of Psalms,& c. with Vnbelievers?
A47407	But what ground is there to sing thus in the Church before or after Sermon?
A47407	But what is this to the purpose?
A47407	But why shall any call Singing a low or carnal thing?
A47407	But will your utter neglect of it upon this pretended Ignorance excuse you before the Lord?
A47407	But, pray, what Call has he to rebuke me, after this publick manner, especially before the whole World?
A47407	But, pray, what Ordinance hath not been corrupted and the purity of it( as practised in the Primitive Time) lost?
A47407	Can any be so weak as to think it was given to be imployed to sing any other Songs, but such as are sacred and divine?
A47407	Can any sober Christian think he hath done well to publish the Private Affairs of a Particular Church to the whole World?
A47407	Canst thou bind the sweet Influences of the Pleiades?
A47407	Did any one of you, at that time say, if we did proceed to sing at such times, you could not have Communion with us?
A47407	Did not Christ and his Disciples sing, just 〈 ◊ 〉 the most dismal Time of Sorrow and 〈 ◊ 〉?
A47407	Did not Christ sing an Hymn after th ● Supper?
A47407	Do but read the Text, Is any among you afflicted?
A47407	Do not the Saints now rejoice in hope of the Glory of God, as well as they did then?
A47407	Doth it follow, because they can not 〈 ◊ 〉, nor praise God as they ought, they ought 〈 ◊ 〉 to pray nor praise God at all?
A47407	Doth not the Apostle pray that God would ● ill all the Saints with Joy and Peace?
A47407	Doth not the Apostle tell us, That unto them( that is, to Israel) the Gospel was preached, as well as unto us?
A47407	Have not Believers now the Holy Spirit, as well as they had it then, though not in such an extraordinary manner?
A47407	How absurd would it be to affirm either?
A47407	How hath our Practice of baptizing Believers,& c. been branded with the reproachful Name of Error?
A47407	How is it Brethren?
A47407	How is it then, Brethren?
A47407	How rarely and ● egantly do some Men express themselves to ● ● ify others, by improving their natural Parts?
A47407	How shall they use a legal and Typical Rite, that only appertained to the Jews and Levites, in that glorious state of the Church?
A47407	I cried to the Lord with my Voice: Shall a Man detract from his meaning, and say( saith Mr. Cotton) he cried to God only with his Heart?
A47407	I have answered this twice already 〈 ◊ 〉 What though we have Sorrow and Afflictions, 〈 ◊ 〉 God lose his Praises therefore?
A47407	I know it is objected, Hath not God given to the Tongue a faculty to laugh as well as to sing?
A47407	If any of you should say, How can we be satisfied to have Communion with the Church, when we believe''t is an Innovation?
A47407	If any should object, How can Vnbelievers joyn with the Saints in singing, if this be so?
A47407	If it had not been for Art and Learning, how should we have come to the knowledg of the Scriptures, they being locked up from us in unknown Tongues?
A47407	If the Trumpet gives an uncertain Sound, who shall prepare himself to the Battel?
A47407	Is any afflicted?
A47407	Is any afflicted?
A47407	Is any merry?
A47407	Is any merry?
A47407	Is any 〈 ◊ 〉?
A47407	Is it absurd and irrational for us to make the Moral Law, or Light of Nature, a Rule to exert the Worship of God?
A47407	Is not Hearing the Word of God preached, and Publick Prayer, as Sacred Ordinances of Gospel- Worship, 〈 ◊ 〉 Singing?
A47407	Is not Reading of God''s Word an Ordinance of the Gospel, and part of God''s Worship?
A47407	Is not the Essence of Preaching in our Spirits, as much as the Essence of Singing is there?
A47407	Is not this to darken Counsel with words without Knowledg?
A47407	Is there any Church that is yet arrived to such a perfection of Knowledg, that they need not the discovery of any Truth but what they have received?
A47407	Let it be with inward Joy; remember it is your Duty to rejoice evermore, and what then can hinder your Singing God''s Praises at any time?
A47407	May you not as well say they are of no use to us?
A47407	Must not the Children have their Bread, because Strangers will get some of it?
A47407	Must we tell them they must not put words into our Mouths, we must pray as the Spirit moves us, and ca n''t tell whether we shall pray for them or no?
A47407	My Portion is, I perceive, to undergo hard Censures from Men; but''t is no more than my Blessed Master met with; and what am I that I should complain?
A47407	Nay, have they not cause to praise God for Christ and the Gospel?
A47407	Nay, may they not sing his Praises for 〈 ◊ 〉, and the Gospel, and for the Means of 〈 ◊ 〉 Conversion?
A47407	Nor would the Unbeliever, to hear a Congregation sing together, say, Are they not mad?
A47407	Now because all legal Forms are gone, must all Gospel and Spiritual Forms go too?
A47407	Now this being so, what is become of Mr. Marlow''s Essence of Singing?
A47407	Now what is this to your purpose?
A47407	Ought not all Men on Earth to pray, tho till they have Faith their Prayers are not accepted of God?
A47407	Prayer without the bodily Organs; why may not the Spirit or Heart perform Singing too?
A47407	Sh ● ● any Men now dare to say, There are no P ● ● cedents for Singing Psalms and Hymns,& c. 〈 ◊ 〉 the New Testament?
A47407	Shall they have a new Bible for those Times?
A47407	Shall they sing to see the good Will of God towards us, and shall we be dumb?
A47407	Shall we not have the pure Food of God ● Word, because Antichrist hath put Poison 〈 ◊ 〉 theirs?
A47407	Should one alone sing in the midst of the Congregation, like a Ballad- Singer, what Word of God is there to justify any such Practice?
A47407	Singing is a piece of Art; Who can 〈 ◊ 〉 if he be not taught, so that he may do it artifically?
A47407	The second scruple about Singers is, saith he, whether Women may sing as well as Men?
A47407	There is nothing, I tell you again, without its Form: Is not the reading of God''s Word a formal thing?
A47407	These things being so, What Authority have you to say our Saviour and his Disciples did not sing?
A47407	What Reason do you give for this?
A47407	What do you mean?
A47407	What ground hath the Church to pray with Unbelievers?
A47407	What is done more now?
A47407	What then, must not we sing Psalms in the Gospel- days, with Grace in our Hearts to the Lord?
A47407	What think you of those places of the Prophets and Psalms, that speak of Christ as they are mentioned and recited in the New Testament?
A47407	What though they mistake in Baptism, doth it therefore follow they must needs mistake here too?
A47407	What was it God enjoined on them, but a cessation from all external Labour or Work?
A47407	What was this which David calls his Glory?
A47407	What will you sing your Prayers?
A47407	Where do we read of singing in all the Scripture without a Voice?
A47407	Where is the Man that saith the Word will bear a praising of God without Singing?
A47407	Where wast thou when I laid the Foundation of the Earth?
A47407	Who shall not fear that, and glorify thy Name, O Lord?
A47407	Whose Work is it thus to do, but the Devil''s?
A47407	Why is that then a Vocal Singing?
A47407	Why may they not be wrong, and off the Rule in their Preaching and Praying and all else they do?
A47407	Why must not Spiritual Songs be allowed, as well as Psalms and Hymns?
A47407	Why 〈 ◊ 〉 they suffered to hear the Gospel preached?
A47407	Will you lie, and express that with your Lips to God, which you have not in your Hearts?
A47407	Will you say Very Tightly Bound we must not sing Psalms, when the Churche ● are exhorted so to do?
A47407	Will you take upon you to countermand God''s holy Precept?
A47407	Would not these be silly Objections?
A47407	You may ask whether they are to praise God as well, and demand a word of Institution for their Breaking of Bread with the Church?
A47407	and Paul and Silas sung when in 〈 ◊ 〉, and their Feet were in the Stocks?
A47407	and are not the Churches exhorted to sing them?
A47407	and have not Unbelievers cause to praise God, nay, sing his Praise for the Mercies and Blessings God doth bestow upon them?
A47407	and how grievous is it to all truly Godly Ones, and grateful to the Enemies of our Sacred Profession?
A47407	and must not People learn to read?
A47407	and must not weak Christians 〈 ◊ 〉 this as well as strong, because they have no ● arrived to the Faith of Assurance?
A47407	and they that wait at the Altar, partake of the Altar?
A47407	and what a reproach doth it bring upon the Truth?
A47407	and whether the Spirit of God doth not, may not assist God''s Servants now in precomposed Hymns, as he did of old?
A47407	and yet dare you say that is no Duty to be performed in the Church?
A47407	and, is it their Duty to laugh?
A47407	are they not Gospel as well as any thing ye find therein taught or laid down anew?
A47407	but what doth your arguing reprove?
A47407	can People read unless they are learned?
A47407	can sin be no where but in the Heart, because it is there?
A47407	has Christ not been faithful then( who is the Son over his own House) in declaring the manner how we should sing?
A47407	hath he not left us a Pattern, or an Example himself?
A47407	he himself with his Disciples?
A47407	must they needs know every Truth of Christ?
A47407	nay, what not?
A47407	or can a thing be where its Being or Essence is not?
A47407	or was their assembling together so to do, no Rule for us to perform that great religious Duty?
A47407	or what is singing?
A47407	or, what 〈 … 〉 any 〈 ◊ 〉 or Godly Christian to believe you, if you so boldly affirm it?
A47407	ought you not to do it as well as you can?
A47407	the consideration of Redeeming and Regenerating Grace, though sometimes to such degrees, they do not find that liveliness in their Spirits to do it?
A47407	the great God of Heaven and Earth?
A47407	this is strange Doctrine What is Singing to God, but to celebrate 〈 ◊ 〉 Praises?
A47407	which if you had, I perceive the Church, nay every one of us who had born our Burden for many Years, would have born it a little longer?
A47407	— Now if thus it be, then where is the Spirit of Singing?