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But not one word of this.
For,
1. The Pfalms of David are not fo much as
piention'd \ but inftead thereof. Songs of their
own making,
2. There is not the lead fyllable of their being
tranflated intoRhime ; which was the only thing
he fliould here have proved^if he had known how
For that was the cafe of Clement Marot^ in the
^ays of BezA and Calvin : He tranflated them firft
into Fnpch Metre 5 and f dill fay, t^ey were
fiever (as I find ) tranflated into Metr#in any
Language before. If he knows they were, let
him give his In fl:a nee, or forbear fooling thus
with his new Mode of Ballad-iicging, for it i^ no
better.
3. Nor yet is there the leaft mention made of
bringing thofe Songs, after they had writ them,
into their Aflemblies, and reading them line by
line, and all the People making a noife like madmen,
in linging after them. So that this Inftance
may be difcarded, as impertinent to what he
brought it for, it not being adRm^ but a fainc
Fiourilhoniy, fuitable to that weak and unfcriptural
Caufe he hath unadvifedly undertaken.
Butfuppofe he could have pickt out any one
Inftanceoutof Enfebhs^ in the fecond or third
Century, that fome one Church had fo fung as
they do, (which it*s plain he cannot ; for we had
heard of it before now from fome of the Sin^^fters
who have written about Singing, in cafe "there
;had been any) yet ( I hope ) this is no Rule for
us t© walk by ; for he may find Inftances within
that fpace of time, of Infam-Ba^tifm:^ and other
corrupt Praftices, which
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our Example.
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