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Mr. Allen gives us the Reafon of it in his Epiftle ^
*^That what he hath omitted in any
for he faith,
*^ one place, he hath endeavoured to fupply in
*^ another, for our full Satisfadion.
Now in
bis fifth and Sixth Chapters he gives
bis Judgment for Singing in Verfe or Rhinfie, rather
than Profe, and that in Mulical Verfe, by
Artificial Tones *, which is indeed their way of,
Singing, and therefore we are bound to underftand
him in that fence,, according to his owa
Explanation.
1 Ihall therefore lay dt)wn his PcCdon, as he
would have us underftand it
'
That Singing the Praifes of God,notin Profe,
' but ill metre and Rhime, with an extention of
' the Voice, and a peculiar modulation thereof in
*
mufical Verfe, by Artifical Tunes, v^ith con-
* joined Voices of all the People together, and
' that by a prelimited Form, ( viz., the Pfalms
^ofDavidy as trafillated into Rhime,) isaChri-
* ftian Duty, and not peculiar to the Jewilh Dif-
'
penfation.
This (faith he) / p^H frove thcfe three ways :
Fir ft, From its king a Moral Duty,
Secondly,
:
From the Examfk of oar Lord Jifns
herein.
Thirdly, From the Apojfolical InJMnBions thereof.
I (hall briefly confider thefe Three ways by
which he Eflays to prove it, in the Order he
hath placed thenru
Firfl^ Be faith it is a Moral Duty : And before
he proceeds to prove it, be tells us a long
Story of the diftinftion betwixt Moral and meer
Pofittve Dntiesyznd gives feveral Jnftances in things
wholly foreign to the matter inControvcrfic
But