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Of Musick in General,
and of its Divine and Civil Vfes P
MUSIC Kuan Art Unfearchabk, Divine,
and Excellent, by which a trfte Concordance
of Sounds or Harmony is produced, that
rejoycetb and cheareth the Heart $ of Men * and hath
in fill Ages and in all Countries been highly reverenced
andefteemd\ by the Jews/ir Religion and Divine IFor-
jhip in the Service of God f as appears by Scripture ; by
the Grecians and Romans to induce Virtue and Gra-
vity , and to incite to Courage and Valor, Great Du
fputes were among Ethnick Authors about the fit 'ft In-
ventor 9 fame for OrpheiS, fime Linus, both famous
Poets and Mujicians ; others for Am\Mon,whtfe Mu*
fick drew Stones to the building of the Walls of Thebes;
as Orpheus had, by the harmonious Touch of hss Harp y
moved the wild Beafis and Trees to dance: But the
true meaning thereof is, That by virftte of their Mum
fick, and their wife andpleafing Mufical Poems, the
one brought the Savage and Beaft-like Thracians to
Humanity and GentfenefS* the other per/ waded the
rude and careltfi Thebans to the fortifying of their
City , and to a Civil Converfation : The Egyptians
to Apollo attributing the firfi Invention of the
Harp to him j and certainly they had an high efhem
of the Excellency of Mujick^ to make Apolio (wha
was the God of Wifdom) to be the God of Mufick ;
But the People of God do truly ackuowledge 'a far
more ancient Inventor of tbis*£>ivinc Art, Jubal the
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