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Bong, faying, Thou art worthy to take the Book, and to open the Seals thereof: for thou waft flain, and baft redeemed us to God by thy Blood, out of every Kindred, and Tongue, and People, and Nation; and haft made us unto our God Kings and Priefis: And we fall reign on the Earth. Rev. 5. 8, 9,

10.

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb food on the Mount Sion, and with kim an bundred forty and four Thoufand, kaving his Father's Name written in their Foreheads. And I beard a Voice from Heaven, as the Voice of many Waters, and as the Voice of a great Thunder: And I heard the Voice of Harpers harping with their Earps: And they Jung as it were a new Song before the Throne, and before the four Beafts and the Elders: And no Man could learn that Song, but the hundred and forty and four Thoufand, which

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avere redeemed from the Earth. Rev.

14. 1, 2, 3.

Imitating thefe fine paffages, our Milton has thus nobly reprefented those harmonious Beings.

"Then crown'd again, their golden Harps

[they took, "Harps ever tun'd, that glitt'ring by their Side "Like Quivers hung, and with Preamble fweet "Of charming Symphony they introduce

"The facred Song, and waken Raptures high: "No one exempt, no Voice but well couldjoin "Melodious Part; fuch Concord is in Heav'n."

The Chriftians in the first Ages of the Church are full in their Recommendation of divine Harmony.

Is any merry?

PSALMS.

Let him fing

St. James.

Let the Word of Chrift dwell in you richly in all Wifdom; teaching and admonishing one another in PSALMS, and HYMNS, and SPIRITUAL SONGS, finging

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finging with Grace in your Hearts to

the Lord.

St. Paul to the Coloffians.

Speaking to yourselves in PSALMS and HYMNS and SPIRITUAL SONGS, finging and making Melody in your Heart to the Lord.

St. Paul to the Ephefians.

I will fing with the Spirit, and I will fing with the Understanding alfo. St. Paul to the Corinthians.

And when Chrift and his Apoftles had fung an HYMN, they went out into the Mount of Olives.

St. Matthew.

"The Chriftians used on a set " folemn Day, to meet together be"fore Sun-rifing, and to fing among themselves an HYMN to Chrift, as God."

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Pliny to Trajan.

This Evidence is abundantly fufficient to fatisfy ferious and candid Chriftians that there is no Impropriety in our making ufe of Hymns as well as Pfalms in our religious Adoration of almighty God.

Some gloomy Beings indeed there are, who explode all Mufic, vocal and inftrumental. What fuch Perfons mean to make of themselves when they arrive at Heaven, where there is an eternal Hallelujah, fung in full Chorus before the Throne of God, I leave them to confider. present however, I think the ftrong Sentiment of Shakespear, with little Softning, is not unapplicable:

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"The Man that hath no Mufie in himself, "Nor is not mov'd with Concord of fweet [Sounds, "Is fit for Treafons, Stratagems, and Spoils; "The Motions of his Spirit are dull as Night, "And his Affections dark as Erebus: "Let no fuch Man be trusted."

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Various are the Creatures we have got to deal with. Others have rooted and infuperable Prejudices against the Ufe of an Organ in our religious Affemblies.

As that noble Inftrument is frequently conducted, I own it is rather hurtful to Devotion than otherwife. But an Organ, in good Hands, and under judicious Management, 'is attended, if I may be allowed to judge from my own Feelings, with most rare and delightful Effects upon the Mind.

"Oh! what Art can teach,

<< What human Voice can reach, "The facred Organ's Praife?

"Notes infpiring holy Love,

"Notes that wing their heavenly Ways "To mend the Choirs above."

Dryden.

"Now let the pealing Organ blow, "To the full voic'd Quire below, "In Service high, and Anthems clear,

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