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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52247	Mr. Newte's sermon concerning the lawfulness and use of organs in the Christian church	Newte, John, 1655?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing N1040; ESTC R2838	31,676	58

Infelicity alone we owe the want of Instrumental Musick to help out and exalt their Devotion And Pliny giving an account to the Emperour Trajan of the Christians says Hanc fuisse summam vel Culpae vel Erroris Christianorum quod essent soliti stato die ante Lucem convenire Carmenque Christo quasi De● dicere secum Invicem Lib. 10. Ep. 97. de Christianis It will be too tedious to mention what great things are spoken concerning the Singing among the first of Christians both by the Greek and Latin Fathers St. Chrysostom St. Basil Just Martyr St. Augustine Tertullian c. And that the grave and plain Tune to the Psalms now retained in our Cathedral Churches was set by Gregory the Great who flourished about the end of the Sixth Century a man very diligent in regulating and accomplishing all the Publick Offices of the Church whom none of his Successors ever equalled Platina de Vit. Pontif. Greg. 1. many other Authorities are reckoned up by the Bishop of Cork in his Duty of Singing c. And I know not why I might not with them mention the Authority of the Worthies of our own Age the great Lights of the English Church Hooker Hammond and others who were men of as great Learning and Piety as they and why not of as great Authority among us concerning that other way of Singing with the Instruments of Musick joyned to their Voices If this be Ceremonial why not the other and both be abolished or neither from the very beginning of Christianity the Apostles of our Lord and the Primitive Christians practising it themselves and recommended it to others And Instrumental too when it got Establishment in the World and had the Protection of Kings and Emperours being freed from the severe and lasting Persecutions it lay under for above Three hundred years together And then afterwards through the Disconsolateness of the Times which followed it could not presently appear with that Splendour as to have all those Ornaments and Advantages which might well belong to it We may conclude therefore That 't was through the Necessity and not the Choice of the Primitive Christians that so helpful a Thing as Instrumental Musick in the Service of God was not more early received into the Christian Church And the just * Prolectat Aures Religiosa Mulcedo S. Cypr. Epist ad Donatum Vide S. Basil Homil. in Ps 1. S. Aug. variis in locis Encomium they give of it shews what was their Mind and Desire about it though they were not able to bring it to effect § 3. It is observable That when the Apostle St. Paul recommends the use of Psalms and Hymns Ephes 5.19 Col. 3.16 and Spiritual Songs and to singing and making Melody in our Hearts to the Lord Ephes 5.19 And St. James James 5.13 when he speaks of Singing in token of a Religious Joy says Is any merry let him sing Psalms By which doubtless they understood the Psalms of David which are used in the Jewish Church And by singing them in both those places it is to be supposed Vide Criticos Guelpt Grot. in Ephes 5.19 they mean with Instruments of Musick And to make the Truth of this Observation the more manifest to you it is plain they express themselves by words Psalmus est in quo concinendo adhibetur Musicum aliquod Instrumentum praeter Linguam Hymnus est propriè Laudis Canticum sive alta Voce sive aliter Canatur Oda non Laudes tantùm continet sed Paraneses alia Argumenta Calvinus in Col. 3.16 which in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence that Instrument called the Psaltery signifie most properly a singing with an Instrument And a Reverend * Bishop of Derry's Discourse concerning the Inventions of men in the Worship of God c. 1. § 1. Prelate observes from hence If they had not approved the Jewish way of Singing them which was with Instruments they would not have used a word that imported it Nay it is not to be doubted but that they who took so much care for the Regulating and well Ordering of the Church in after Ages would have cautioned against it if they thought it improper and that Singing with Instruments was not consistent with the Spirit and Vnderstanding also But the Lawfulness of this 1 Cor. 14 15. and that Singing with the Spirit and Vnderstanding also is consistent with Singing with Musical Instruments I shall further urge from the New Testament and the Analogy it has with the Angelical Songs and Heavenly Exultations in the Quire of Blessed Saints Rev. 14.2 who are represented Rev. 14.2 As Harpers harping with their Harps And having the Harps of God 15.2 Chap. 15.2 Which Places concern the Publick Worship of God in the Church The Joys of the Saints in Heaven and in Earth Baxter Bullinger Hammond and the Triumphant Rejoycings of Christians for the Victory over their Enemies according to the Judgment of some Expositors § 4. And however meanly this way of making melody in our hearts unto the Lord may be thought by some it has been certainly of above a Thousand years standing in the Christian Church and been Received and Approved of by the Reformed as well as as the Popish Churches and therefore no part of † Those that have gotten the Victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the Number of his Name stand on the Sea of Glass having the Harps of God Rev. 15.2 Popery From these latter I draw no President any farther than they agree with the Churches in the purest and best Times And for the former the Opinion of Luther Calvin and their Followers will bear me out whose Judgments in this matter I shall just mention Luther speaking of the Communion-Service that it ought to be in the Mother Tongue says † Missam vernaculam opto magis quam promitto quòd impar sim huic Operi quia Musicam simul spiritum desiderat In vit Lutheri He laments the want of Poets and Musicians to Compose and Sing Godly Songs Poetae Musici nobis desunt c. I rather wish than promise it being not sufficient for so great a Work for it requires both Musick and a Spirit It is plain from hence what he meant but because of the troublesome Times wherein he lived he could not effect it But its Followers it seems who must be supposed to have best understood their Teacher's meaning have affected it For in a great part of Germany Swedeland Denmark Switzerland and part of Poland where his Doctrine is received they have the Exercise of Vocal and Instrumental Musick in the Worship of God as we have and where they have not this Advantage 't is reckoned more their Unhappiness than their Choice So likewise Calvin gives his Approbation of it in some Places but being a Man of intemperate Heat and Passion is

by-Respects and sinister selfish Ends let us firmly adhere to its Doctrine Discipline and Worship So shall we best Secure the Protestant Religion in General by Securing this best part of it Established among us But chiefly hereby shall we Secure our League with Heaven and the Interest of our Immortal Souls far beyond our Temporal Welfare and Interest which this however through the Blessing of God will honestly promote and therefore the more securely help to obtain We have all things that we can desire to accomplish Those great Ends we of this Town particularly have the Daily Sacrifice of Prayer in this House of God we have with others an Accurate Form of Prayer containing the most proper Method and pious Matter and suitable Expressions fit for our Devotion We have proper Psalms appointed to Praise God with and proper Lessons and constant Sermons to Instruct us in our Duty We have excellent Collects and a most pathetical Litany to solicit our Heavenly Father for the Mercies we want and to avert the Judgments and Dangers we fear And now by a kinder Providence to our selves than to our Neighbours we have the most proper Means of Instrumental Musick to quicken our Hearts and to raise our Affections to make us the more Devout All so Edifying and Instructive that it must be our fault if we be not constantly made the wiser and better for being here It behoves us therefore to take care that we be here often and that our Hearts be full of Faith and Love of Humility and Devotion when we come and then we need not doubt of having been heard and accepted when we go away And I must remind you That since now we have the best Advantages of any Church in the World we should endeavour to be the best Christians in the World We must be most wanting to our selves if we be not and our Accounts at the last will be required according to the Talents given We may perhaps have the Vanity to imagine That God will Excuse us for our well Meaning though in many Things we come short of our Duty But let us not deceive our selves and think to mock God 'T is only doing of it will make us acceptable Let us then endeavour to be as good Christians as we ought to be by doing what is required of us So shall we oblige God to dwell among us and to delight to bless us with what we wish with Health and Happiness with Peace and Plenty but above all with the Security of our Church and Religion which we are most of all to desire For the doing of what is required is the best Sacrifice we can offer unto him 'T is by our good Lives we Praise and Engage him most This makes the best Musick in the Ears of the Almighty and is the Chief Melody of our Hearts to which Musical Instruments are purely subservient as being a proper means to excite our Devotion to quicken our Minds and to raise our Affections towards him But all this is to make us the more enflamed in our Love and more ready in our Obedience 'T is a severe Judgment not to be so affected Ezek. 33.30 31 32 33. It being almost impossible to know God and to be lively and devoutly affected towards him but we must be obedient to him And then we shall love what he loves and hate what he hates consequently we shall be more just in our Dealings more upright in our Conversations and more holy and sincere towards God and our Neighbour Every way better fitted to glorifie him in Heaven when we can in fervent Devotion be raised to glorifie him here with our cheerful Hearts and vertuous Lives through the help of Musical Instruments It will now Argue a great deal of Arrogance and Singularity in any of us to speak against the Use of These which the generality of Christians not only in this Age but in those that have been purer and better have approved of and looked upon as of singular Use and Advantage for those great Ends and to help us forward in our way to Happiness according to the Primitive way of Worship by Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs and making Melody in our Hearts unto the Lord. Surely this which is the Entertainment of Angels and just Men in their glorified State ought not to disgust any of us who should endeavour the utmost we can to be qualified for their Company and to bear a part of their happy Employment which is with constant Readiness and Agility to obey the Will of God and with Everlasting Songs of Praise to magnifie his ever glorious Name This we are to begin here and to perfect with them above in the Quire of Heaven And I will not detain you any longer at present from the grateful Harmony which is to follow through the Excellency of our Organ and the Sweetness of so many well tuned Voices as joyn in Consort with it The Art of Singing Psalms which some of you have happily learnt may not unfitly be reckoned among those that are Divine and has no less than the Holy Ghost for its Original who taught the Patriarchs the Prophets and the Primitive Christians to utter the Praises of God with a Song It being so commendable and so religious an Accomplishment as does become the greatest Person and is not debased by the meanest and in all probability will not only raise your Esteem but your Devotion too By the Grace and Melody of this Vocal and Instrumental Musick together I hope This Congregation will be kept in a continual Fervor fit for Devotion and for retaining such Instructions from this Place as may conduce to the making us first Sober and Religious Christians then happy and glorious Saints The Charms of which may in time melt us into Love and so charitable an Affection as that we may all seek the Good and Welfare of each other And I hope bring the Use of Artificial Singing and Divine Anthems again in request and be both studied and practised too as they were in the earlier Times of Christianity immediately after the ceasing of that sort of Inspiration in singing Psalms and Hymns which was then extraordinary and to supply the place of it Even as now since the Expiration of some other Extraordinary Gifts which were then in the Church the latter Ages must be supplyed from Study and Learning if at all And the Pretenders now to Preaching and Praying by the Spirit without these will be altogether as vain as their ex tempore Singing can be supposed to be without the Advantages of Art I am perswaded if any thing takes us off from that Vanity and prevents greater Confusion and Discord from the Minds of Men it will be the Charms of Musick which by the Subtlety of its Nature and the Insinuating Sweetness of its Sound will strike deeper into the Heads of some than the closest Reason possibly can into their Hearts It may work out that Malady which first