O F SINGING IN THE Worship of GOD; Preach'd at the Friday Lecture in By Several MINISTERS. Ifa. LII. 8. Thy Watchmen fhall lift up the LONDON; Printed by J. Darby for N. Cliff at the Golden 100. 5. 307. THE PREFACE T HE Duty of Singing in the Worship of God had been very much neglected and unskilfully perform'd among our felves, in comparison of the greater Knowledg and better Care of the foreign Churches till Some late Attempts were fet on foot to teach the Art, and incourage the Practices Among other Defigns of this Nature, the Week-day Lecture, at which the following Sermons were preach'd, and that has been continu'd several Years for the Service of Religion, and particularly the En couragement of Singing, has not been the leaft confiderable, nor the leaft ferviceable and fuccessful. And as we thought fit at fome time or other to confider a Subject, as much neglected as the Practice, and as rarely handled as it was generally ill perform'd; fo we thought it could be no where more proper· than at fuch a Place. And tho they were first undertaken, and now publifh'd at the De fire of the Gentlemen that encourage and fupport it, and for their particular Ufe; yet we think our felves concern'd to declare, That as we profefs to follow the Guidance of no other Spirit but that of God, nor to be of any Party but that of all ferious Chriftians; fo they are fincerely directed to the common Benefit, and have no lower or more confind an Aim, than the Satisfaction and Affiftance of all the Serious and Sincere. Many of our Reverend Fathers imploy'd excellent Pains in the feveral Volumes of the Morning-Lectures that were devoted to the Service of Prac tical Religion, instead of medling with the angry DifA 3 putes, |