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the Pagans curing Difeafes of the Body and Mind by Inftrumen- 

 tal Miifick. 



It's fa id, when an evil Spirit from God was upon Saul^ 



David took a Harp and play d ivith his Hand, fo Said was re- 



Jre/Jjcdj a?7d loas iceil, and the evil Spirit departed from him. 



1 Sam. xvi. 23. 



.... AND Elijl:a /aid to Jehorara^ King of Ifrael . . . Were it 

 ?20t that I regard the Pre/ence of the Ki?ig of fudah^ I would not look 

 towards thee^ but now bring me a M in fire I . And it came to pafs 

 when the Minjirel phiyd^ that the Hand of the Lord came upon him. 



2 Kings iii. 13, — 15. 



\ T is ohfcrvable here, that the Mind of Elijloa the Prophet 

 was very much rufiled; now, under tliis Difcompofure, he calls 

 for a Minftrel, not out of Levity, but for a rehgious End; and 

 that was, to compofe his Mind, and to bring it into a ferene and 

 fedate Frame, and thereby to prepare himfelf for divine Exer- 

 cifes ; or perhaps, a devout Levite^ well fkill'd in mufical Per- 

 formances, might play before him, and intermix with it, Pfalms 

 and fpiritual Songs, according to tlie Conflitutions of thofe 

 Times. 



A s the Prophets might indifpofe themfelves for the Spirit of 

 Prophecy, fo they were to ufe Means to difpofe themfelves for 

 the Impulfes of the Holy Spirit ; and for this End the School of 

 the Prophets was appointed, in which the Students were trained 

 up in the Science ofMufck, inflriB Virtue^ Self-denial^ Contempt 

 of worldly Grandeur^ K?2owledge of the Law, &c. Thefe Schools 

 were Seminaries of Religion, in which the intended Guardians of 

 the Spirituality were inflrudied, and prepared to receive the ex- 

 traordinary Gifts of the Spirit. 



We read how the Indians performed their Worfliip by dancing 

 to Songs, the Priefls of Cybele \\'\i\i Cymbals, the Curetes with 

 Drums and Trumpets, the Rotna?is fung Spondaic Verfes, while 

 they offer'd their Sacrifices ; the mufical Sound that calm'd the 

 Pallions (confiding of Spondees principally) Ariftotle calls moral ; 

 (to diflinguiili it from the Diatonic and Phrygian) from whence . 

 the Cuftom might be derived. When the Sparta?2s went to War, 

 they niarch'd to the Sound of Flutes, to animate the Soldiers; 

 as is now done by Drum and Trumpet, to lefien the Terror of 

 Death, 



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