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all thefe places there is cot one word of their
finging in Rhime, which is the thing he Ihould
have proved, if be could have doni ft, for o-
therwife it is nothing at all to his pirpofe.
Bat, Fourthly^ He faith, that fuch finging is enjoined
upon all men of ail Nations, and therefore
a moral duty.
Ohferv, i. That h^ hath omitted a principal
member ia this Argument: For,he fhould have
faid, that fuch finging was enjoined upon ell
men of all Nations by the light of Nature, and
therefore a moral duty : And if he had proved
that, then the confequence had been good ;• buE
irillcad of that, he tells us it is fo revealed in
the
Word of God, and brings feveral Texts of
Scripture
to prove it.
I (hall therefore in the Second place examine
thofe Texisby him alledgcd
for probation thereof,
Pfdm ^.4. aiid 100. i, 2. and 47. 7*
in Ffdmg^ 4. Make a joyful-noife all the Earthy
make a loud noife^ and rejqyce^ and fmg \ thofc
Words, All the Earthy feem to fall under that
Trope called by Rhetoricians Senecdoche totms
integralis^ divers Examplesof it arc to be found
arfiongft thofe eminently Learned ; Vt cum ^ofuit
Cicero^ orhem terrarum pro Imperie Romano 5 the
like figure of Speech is ufed Lnke 1. 1, There wem
out a Decree from Cefar Afi^uftHSy that all the world
fhould be taxed '^ whereby is intended, only that
part of it in fubjcdion to the Roman Yoke ;
For X^i^yAretz.^ is a Noun primitive, fignifying
Earth or Land, and it*s applied to a particular
Countrey, 'viz., the Land of Egypt^ in the Decalogue,
and in divers other places : And in the
I/?. Tcrfe it'5 faid why they jihould rejoice, be-
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