Lamb as well as in the Song of _Moses_.

Thus far have we proceeded in a way of Argument drawn from Scripture
and the Reason of Things. Many Objections have been prevented, or
sufficient Hints given for the Removal of them. Those that remain and
seem to have any considerable Strength, shall be propos'd with an
Attempt to answer them; for I would not have Christians venture upon
the Practice of any thing in Divine Worship without due Knowledge and
Conviction.

_Object_. 1. The Directions given for Psalmody in some Parts of the Old
Testament, lead us to the Use of those Songs which are inspired,
_Deut_. 31. 16, 19, &c. _And the Lord said unto_ Moses, _write ye this
Song for you, and teach it the Children of_ Israel, _put it in their
Mouths, that this Song may be a Witness for me against the Children of_
Israel; _for when I shall have brought them into the Land which I sware
unto their Fathers, which floweth with Milk and Hony, &c. Then they
will turn unto other Gods_. And in _Psal_. 81. 1, 2, 3, 4. Where we are
required to worship God by Singing, we are not commanded to make a new
Psalm, but to make one that is already made, for the words run {267}
thus, _Sing aloud unto God our Strength, make a joyful Noise to the God
of_ Jacob; _Take a Psalm and bring hither the Tymbrel, the pleasant
Harp with the Psaltery, blow up the Trumpet in the New Moon, in the
Time appointed, on our solemn Feast-Day, for this was a Statute for
Israel, and a Law of the God of_ Jacob.

_Ans_. 1. I have cited these Texts at large wherein the Objection lies,
that an Answer might appear plain in the Text to every Reader. How
peculiarly do these Commands refer to the _Israelites_? The very Words
of the Precept confine it to the _Jews_, to the Men that dwelt in
_Canaan_, to the Worship that is paid with Tymbrels and Trumpets, to
the Days of the New Moon, and solemn Jewish Festivals; and if we will
insist upon there Scriptures as precise Rules of our present Duty and
Worship, the Men that use Musical Instruments in a _Christian_ Church
will take the same Liberty of returning to _Jewish_ ordinances, and use
then same Text to defend them.

_Ans_. 2 But if we should grant our selves under the Gospel still
obliged by these Commands, yet they do not bind us up intirely to
inspired Forms of Singing, since the same sort of Expression is used
concerning Prayer; Hos. 14. 2. _Take with you Words, and say unto the
Lord, take away all Iniquity, and receive us gr