Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
Cotton MatherYe monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.
Cotton MatherIf we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?โyea, 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?
Cotton Mather