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For we are not to go to Fathers and Conncils
for our Diredtion, but to Chrift and his Apoftks,
who are the only infalUble Guides about all the
Parts of iflftituted Worfhip now under the Gofpel
i
and if any one (although he were an Argcl
from Heaven) fpesk not according to their words,
we are not to receive, Sue to rejedt his Te-
Aiid I perceive Mr. Allen doubfts of his Abilities to
prove from the written Word of God, that their
mode of Singing is a part of the r-vealed arid m-
fticuted Will of Chrift in thefe Gofpel- times
becaufe he leads us to th. t imperfedl Guide, the
Light of corrupted, depraved Nature, fiom
thence to be inftrucled into their way of Smgmg,
it being (as he conceives) a Moral Duty.
Bat this hath been fufficiently confuted by o-
thers, and I fhall have occafion to fpeak more
particularly to it in another place :
However, I
muft fay this of it at prefent. It is^ certainly the
moft infipid way ofReafoning, and the wesKeit
Subterfuge that ever Men of Parts had r€Courre
to, that when they are not able to fhew that their
Pradice is any part of inftituted Worfhip under
the Gofpel, they (hould fend us to that bhcd
Guide of corrupt Nature.
,
It is as if you (hould tell us, It is true indeed,
that our way of Singing, by a prelimited Form
of Words,with conjoined Voices of all the People
together, in Mufical Rhimes,and Tunable Notes,
taught by his
was never commanded by Chrift,
Apoftles, or praftifed by the Primitive Churches.
Bat if yon will hearken to the Light within, and
mind what the qiaates of a cornipt Humane
Underftanding will teach you, then you fh^U be
;
better