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?
Cotton MatherCharity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
Cotton MatherThat there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
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