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If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?'yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?

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