Tune ascends eight notes above it."

The turmoil in the churches was settled for a time by Rev. John Cotton,
who issued a tract entitled "Singing of Psalms a Gospel ordinance, or a
Treatise wherein are handled these four Particulars: I. Touching the duty
itself. II. Touching the matter to be sung. III. Touching the singers.
IV. Touching the manner of singing." In this tract the author says:--

"For the first Question we lay downe this conclusion for a Doctrine of
Truth: That singing of Psalms with a lively voyce, is an holy duty of
God's worship now in the day of the New Testament. When we say, singing
with lively voyce, we suppose none will so farre misconstrue us as to
thinke we exclude singing with the heart; for God is a Spirit, and to
worship him with the voyce without the spirit, were but lip-labour;
which (being rested in) is but lost labour, or at most profitted but
little. Concerning the second Question we hold and believe that not
only the Psalms of David, but any other spirituall song recorded in the
Scripture, may lawfully be sung in Christian Churches. 2d. We grant
also that any private Christian who hath a gifte to frame a spirituall
song, may both frame it and sing it privately for his own private
comfort, and remembrance of some special benefit or deliverance. Nor do
we forbid the private use of any instrument of Music therewithall, so
that attention to the instrument does not divert the heart from
attention of the matter of song.

"Whether women may sing as well as men: For in this point there be some
that deale with us as Pharaoh delt with the Israelites, who, though he
was at first utterly unwilling that any should go to sacrifice to the
Lord in the Wilderness, yet being at length convinced that they must
goe, then he was content that the men should goe, but not the women. So
here, some that were altogether against singing of Psalms at all with
lively voyce, yet being convinced that it is a morall worship of God
warranted in Scripture, then if there must be a Singing, one alone must
sing, not all (or if all) the men only, and not the women. And their
reason is: Because it is not permitted to a women to speake in the
Church, how then shall they sing? Much less is it permitted to them to
prophecy in the Church. And singing the Psalms is a kind of
Prophecying."

Peace, however, was of short duration. Fresh quarrels arose. The early
colonists w