1 The Parts two , in two words ; Potentia and Misericordia , Power and Mercy ; and these voic'd alost , in a sacred and purer straine , fitter for a Quire of Angels than of men ; and that in double Tue , Tua potentia , and Tua misericordia , Thy Power , and Thy Mercy ; Thine , the God of men and Angels ; the God of all Power and Mercie .

2 The ground likewise in two words , Adiutorium and Refugium , Defence and Refuge ; but these pitch'd lower , in a double - Meum , Adjutorium meum and Refugium meum , my Defence and my Refuge ; but , Meum , ATe , and Adte Domine ; this My having Reference to , and Dependance from Thee ; Thee , the God of Defence and Refuge : And therefore my Defence , because of thy Power ; and my Refuge , because of thy Mercy .

3 The Descant , likewise , in two words , Cantabo and Exaltabo , I will sing , and I will sing aloud ; Here is singing onely of Gods Power ; but there is singing aloud of his Mercy ; as if his Mercy were more exaltable than his Power , and That reach'd the very Heavens ; This , unto the Clouds .

4 The Authour or Setter of it ; here singly expressed ( not like the rest ) in a naked Ego , but an Ego with a double Office and Appellation ; I , a King and a Prophet , and not barely so ; but I , David , a Singer too , the sweetest Singer in Israel : I will sing of thy Power , and I will sing aloud of thy Mercy .

5 The Time when 't was sung ; not Vespere , or Post Meridiem ( as the custome of some Churches were , and are ) no Afternoone or Evening-Antheme , when spirits are dull , and devotions sleepie , and voyces flatted ; but in Matutinum , in the morning , when his Thoughts are brush'd and swept , the pipes , formerly obstructed , cleane ; the Bellowes of his Zeale fill'd full with the breath of Gods Spirit ; Then comes he with his Cantabo , and his Exaltabo , then can he best sing of Gods Power , then sing loudest of his Mercy .

6 Lastly , the occasion of the Singing , open'd here in the Adverbe , Quia , Because ; and this Quia being the occasion , looks narrowly to the Ground of the Song , to Adjutorium and Refugium , to God his Defence and his Refuge ; and because he was so , and in the day of his Trouble too , therefore he would sing of his Power , and sing aloud of his Mercie : Nay , he will sing of his Mercy for ever ; With his mouth will hee make knowne his faithfulnesse to all generations , for his Mercy shall be built up for ever , and his faithfulnesse establisht in the very Heavens : So he professes in his 89. Psalme , 1. and 2. verses .

Thus , I have shewed you a Modell of my Discourse , where I shall not dwell punctually on each limbe and parcell of it , the time will not give way ; no , not to touch on some : And seeing wee cannot well sunder the Descant from the Song , or either , from him that sings it , let 's joyne all three together , and so begin , and so end , I will sing , and I will sing aloud .

T Is then most happy with the affaires of Gods people , when Kings are not onely Patrons of the Church , but Ornaments , such as can no lesse beautifie Religion , than propugne it . And this David did in a double way , of Majestie and knowledge , being the prime piece in all , Israel , for Harmony and Eloquence , exquisitely endowed with the perfections both of Poetry and Musicke ; In somuch , that some of the Fathers either to cry downe the vaunts of Heathens in their rarities that way , or else to rivall him with the fertile and richer Wits of their Times , have beene pleased to stile him Simonides noster , Alceus , Catullus , Flaccus , S. Ierome ad Paulinum . and Serenus ; let me adde the Divine Orpheus , and Amphion , one that made Woods , and Beasts , and Mountaines ; brutish , stony , and blockish dispositions to dance after his Harpe ; and sometimes to sing with it in a Laudate Dominum ipsi montes , ipsi arbores , ipsa jumenta , Praise the Lord ye Mountaines and little Hills , Trees , and all Cedars , Beasts and all Cattell , V. 10. Psal. 148. Herein personating Christ himselfe , who was that Poeonius medicus ( as Clemens Alexandrinus stiles him ) the Spirituall Aesculapius , Ille Sanctus aegrotae Animae In cantator , The holy Inchanter of the sicke Soule , who first transform'd Beasts into men , reduc'd Savagenes and Barbarisme into civilitie : Qui sevos , ut Leones , Clem. Alexan. paed . lib. 1. cap. 2. ad mansuetudinem ; Fallaces ut Vulpes , ad sinceritatem ; obscenes ut sues , ad continentiam revocavit : Cruelty , Craft , Obscaenitie ( Hieroglyphically shadowed under Lyons , Foxes , Swine ) he translated to meeknesse , innocencie , temperance , causing the Wolfe to dwell with the Lambe , and the Leopard to lye downe with the Kid , and the young Lyon and the Fatling together , Isai 11.6 . and a little childe leading them , Isai. 11.6 . And although there be no Analogie betweene Truth and Fiction in respect of substance , let us make it up in respect of circumstance : They * * Nugivenduli Ethnicorum vates . by their dexterity in Musicke , and cunning on the Harpe , redeem'd some of theirs from the Gates of Hell ; our Prophet , though by his heavenly touch and warble , that way caus'd not the Redemption of any from below ; yet on his ten-stringed Instrument , hee sung sweetly the Resurrection ; For so Saint Ierome tells his Paulinus , David Christum Lyra personat , Ier. ut supra . & in Dechacordo Psalterio ab inferis excitat Resurgentem .

But le ts us not so resemble small things to great , that wee should dare compare those Poeticke Rhapsodies with his sacred Harmony , their sensuall Elegies and Madrigals with his diviner Sonnets : O procul hinc procul ite prophani . 'T is true , his verses consisted of number and feet as well as theirs , and he was as criticall in their Observation as the daintiest Lyrick or Heroicke , yet there was a vast disparitie , both for sublimity of matter and elegancie of expression ; Insomuch , that Petrus Damianus , the great adorer of Humane Eloquence ( and one whose very soule was charm'd with their prophaner Sonnets ) was inforc'd at length to his Dulcius , immurmurat filius Iesse . The Thracian Harpe , and the Mercurian Pipe , and the Theban Lute , were but harsh and grating , when the Jewish Psaltery came in place ; One touch of the sonne of Iesse , one warble of the Singer of of Israel , was more melodious than all their Fabulous incantations , Clem. Alexan. paed . lib. 1. c. 2. their Syrenicall fictions , which were but Iucunda quaedam auribus Raucedo , a kinde of plausible hoarsenesse , in respect of those sweet murmures of that heavenly Turtle . An Iliad of Homer , or an Ode of Pindarus , or a Song of Anacreon , or a Scene of Aristophanes , have not the juyce , and blood , and spirits , and marrow ; the acutenesse , elegance , vigor , majesty , that one of his sacred Ditties are ballac'd and fraught withall : And God forbid that those Ventosae nugae , and Expolita mendatia , those Superbi errores , and Gacculae Argutiae , D. Aug. Ep. 131. ( as Saint Augustine stiles them to his Memorius ) their garnished and beautifull lyes , their windy trifles , their vaine-glorious errours , their elaborate kick-shawes ; their ingenious nothings should stand up in competition with one Michtam of David , his Jewell , his golden Song , farre above their buskin'd raptures , their garish Phantasmes , their splendid vanities ; the Pageants and Land-skips ( if I may so terme them ) of prophaner wits : And yet there have been some Hereticks of old , Gnosticks and Nicolaitans , which have rejected the Psalmes as prophano Sonnets , the births of humane fancie and invention , without any influence or aspiration of the holy Ghost , whereas the very Spirit of God , our Saviour himselfe , and the Uni-vocall Consent of all the Apostles ( nay the hallowed Quire of Heaven and earth , of Saints and Angels ) have acknowledged , that God spake by the mouth of his servant David , that he was the sweet Psalmist of Israel , that his Word was in his tongue , Act. 4.24 . 2 Sam. 23.2 . he in Spirit calling him Christ the Lord , Mat. 22.43 . Notwithstanding , he that hath a little traversed Primitive Records , shall meet with one Paulus Samosetanus , Euseb. l b. 7. cap. 26. & 29. a branded Hereticke , and many other wayes infamous , who in open assemblies , inveighed against Expositors of Holy Story ; Psalmes sung to the Honour of our Lord Jesus hee caus'd to bee expung'd and raz'd out from the Church , accounting them but the work-manship of noveltie , the forgeries of some Neotericks and Vpstarts in the Church ; Instead whereof , in the body of the Temple , upon the high Feast of Easter , he suborned cetaine women ( flickering and unstable creatures , whom he had moulded to his owne purposes ) to sing loud Sonnets of his praise . Though some favourers of the Heretick have been pleas'd to blaunch a little the foulnesse of his practise , Pol. Syntag. l. 1. c. 32. and would not have it thought a disparagement of the Psalmes of David , but of the Hymnes and holy Songs , which Christians in a religious vow and zealous endeavour made afterwards in the honour of Christ , and the commemoration of his Name . But were they religious Songs or Psalmes that had beene thus sacrilegiously debarr'd the inheritance of the Church ; I stand not curiously to discusse , I am sure the custome was abominable , to chant their loud Panegericks there , where onely should be sung Hosannahs to the Lord . For as Temples were first dedicated to the glory of God , so they were still continued to the worship of his Name ; of his Name onely ; except where Superstition had interpos'd , Ignorance or Heresie taken foot ; and so Apostates and Idols , nay Devlis themselves have sometimes shar'd in that worship which was peculiar to the Lord of Hostes . Or else , perchance , the purblind zeale , or devout errours of others , who have erected their glorious Pyramides to the memory ( and it were well , only to the memory ) to the Adoration of some Saint or Martyr , which in their primitive institution were proper onely to the God of both .

And for this , Gods better Reverence and Majestie in his Service , the Churches of old have generally mix'd Psalmes with their Devotions , and Melody , with their Psalmes ; Melody , as well of Instrument as of Voyce ; which , as it hath beene a gray-hair'd custome of most times and places ; so not so obsolete , now , or super-annuated , that it should beburied wholly with that Law of Ceremonies ; for besides the countenance and authoritie which it found in the first ordinance , it hath been the practice of Gods best servants , in most ages of the Church , nay in most ages of the world , except that first age of Sacrifices , when we read of no publike Service , but by Holocaust ; of no Church but the Tents of Patriarchs ; no preaching of the Word but by Dreame or Vision ; when Altars wore the tongue of Religion , and devotions were cast up by Incense , and not by Voice . But not long after them , when there was not yet a Temple built , but an Arke onely ( a mysticall porch or entrance to that Temple to come ) we finde a Representative Cathedrall amongst the Iewes . Singing men , and Psalmes , and Instruments of Musicke , and all the Complements of a full Quire . 'T is true , in the first rearing and forming of the Arke , wee reade onely of Priests and Levites , with their attendance and charge ; of no Songs or Iestruments either prepar'd yet , or enjoyn'd , onely two Trumpets of Silver made by Moses at the command of God ; and these the Israelites used , not meerely for the calling of Assemblies , and journying of the Camp , and the Alarums for Warre , but in solemne daies and times of Gladnesse , the Sonnes of Aaron were to blow them over their Burnt Offerings , and the Sacrifices of their Peace-Offerings ( as if on speciall Festivals and times of joy , God could not bee prais'd sufficiently without this louder Harmony ) and therefore the Text sayes , It was to them for a memoriall before God , Numb . 10.10 . But afterwards the Israelites setting forward in their journey ; when the Arke was to remove from the Mountaine of the Lord , wee finde a kinde of To Deum laudamus amongst the people , Numb. 10.35 . Moses beginning a Magnificat to the Lord , Rise up Lord , let thine enemies be scattered , and let them that hath thee flee before thee . And this Surge Domine , is by David afterwards ( speaking of the removing of the Arke ) voic'd into a Cantate Domino , Sing unto the Lord , sing praises unto his Name , extoll him that rideth upon the Heavens by his Name JAH , and rejoyce before him , Psal. 68.4 . After this , I reade no more of the Arke of God , without some kinde of Musicke , whether in times of peace or warre , of triumph , or overthrow , except once when the Philistines to the disgrace of Israel led it captive , and brought it from Eben-Ezer unto Ashdox , where though it lost a while its former melody , it found a kind of observance from the Pagans themselves , who put it in the house of their God , and because it should not bee long there without reverence , Dagon himselfe falls on his face to worship it , as if hee had blush'd , that mettall , and wood , and stones ( the substance belike of that false God ) should acknowledge a true Divinity , where Barbarisme and Infidelity would not . But ( it seemes ) God was not well pleas'd with this kind of worship , but instead of a blessing , sends a disease ; the Emrods drive the Arke of God from Ashdod to Gath , from Gath to Ekron , from Ekron to Bethshemesh , from thence to Kyriath-iearim , where after some time of lamentation , David fetching it againe to Zion , prepares all manner of Instruments for the removall , and the whole house of Israel play before it with Harpes , and Psalteries , and Timbrels , and Cornets , and Cymballs , 2 Sam. 6.5 . And after the Arke had rest , there being a place prepar'd , and a Tent pitched for it in the Citie of David , the chiefe of the Levites and their brethren were appointed to be their Singers with Instruments of Musick , sounding , by lifting up their voyce with ioy , 1 Chron. 15. v. 1.16 .

And because this sacred melody might not breed confusion in publike services , speciall men are cull'd out by David for speciall Instruments , others for Songs , for the better raising up of mens hearts , and sweetning their affections towards God ; Eleezer and Iehosaphat the Priests were appointed to sound with Trumpets continually ; Heman and Ethan with Cymballs of brasse , Zacharit and Maasiah with Psalteries on Alamoth , Maitathia and Azzacia with Harps on the Sheminith to excell , Chenaiah chiefe of the Levites was for Song ; for Song as well to instruct others , as to sing himselfe , so sayes the Text , Hee instructed about the Song , because he was skilfull , V. 19 , 20 , 21 , 22. 1 Chro. 15. Insomuch , that though our Prophet here seriously profest , that he himselfe would sing , and sing aloud , yet we understand it for the most part rather of his Pen , than of his Voyce ; for though the greater bulke of Psalmes was compos'd by David , yet ( as Saint Augustine observes ) hee sung onely nine in his owne person , Asaph , Eman , Ethan , Ieduthun . D. Aug. de Tit. primi Psal. Reliqui dicti a quatuor principibus juxta titulorum inscriptionem , the rest were sung , or at least commanded to be sung by one of those foure chiefe Musicions specified in the inscription fronted to each Psalme ; and these were men , Spiritu sancto mundati ( sayes the Father ) whom the holy Ghost had purified and apted for a sacred modulation , and hee that had the greatest measure of the Spirit for the present , he for the most part sung , and not onely sung , but sometimes prophesied , prophesied with instruments too ( for so we reade ) Asaph , Eman and Ieduthun were to prophesie with Harpes , Psalteries and Cymballs , and this custome was continued untill the dayes of Salomon , 1. Chron. 6.32 .

Neither did it cease in the beginning of this wise Kings Reigne , but we heare an Eccho and resounding of it , at the Dedication of his glorious Temple , where we have a touch againe of this melodious Hierarchy , Priests , Levites , Nethynims , Singers , Trumpeters ; the Levites with their Sonnes and brethren ( which were Singers ) being arrayed in white linnen , and having Cymballs , and Psalteries and Harpes , stood at the East end of the Altar , and with one hundred and twentie Priests sounding with Trumpets , and the Trumpeters and Singers were as one , to make one sound to bee heard in praising the Lord God , 2 Chron. 5.12 .

And this manner of Jubilation and magnifying of God aloft , continued ( onely the time of Captivitie excepted ) till the expiration of the Law , and though in the first seeding of the Gospell , it seeme swept cleane away with those Ceremonies of Israel ( wee having no mention by the Evangelists , either of vecall or Instrumentall melodie , except in a solitary Quire , by a Song of Simeon , or a Magnificat of Mary , or a Benedictus of Zacharias ) yet some of the Fathers will tell us , that in the Iewish Synagogue , even in the times of Christ , there was a kinde of Diapsalma , a leaping into Dances ; which though some jeering Michals may account to be little lesse than mimicall or ridiculous , yet no doubt religious enough , if sincerely done , as we may see by the holy practices of David and Myriam , and many thousands more .

'T is true , in the dawne and rising of the Primitive Church , we read of Spirituall Songs , Hymnes , and Psalmes ; but these ( it seemes ) spoken only , not sung ; or if there were singing then , no singing aloud . No Melody so proper then , as of the heart ( and surely then , and now , that is the best private Melody ) . Speaking to your selves ( saith Saint Paul ) and making melody in your bearts to the Lord , Ephes. 5.19 . And this was the loudest melody the Church could or durst make awhile , being yet but a handfull of Apostles , with their Proselites or Catechumeni , and these for the most part under the sword of persecution too ; but not long after , this custome of singing aloud began againe to revive in the Church , in the dayes of * * Euseb. l. 3. c. 32. Socrat. lib. 6. cap. 8. Ignatius ( that Ignatius that trode so neere on the heeles of the Apostles , the Disciple of Iohn , and second , or as some would have it , third Bishop after Saint Peter in the Church of Antioch , M. H. Eccle. Chron. ad ann. 100. T. C. lib. 1. pag. 203. martyred in the time of Traian neere 100. yeeres after Christ ) though * * Euseb. l. 3. c. 32. Socrat. lib. 6. cap. 8. some , who labour not onely to deface , but to cry downe Antiquity this way , derive the pedigree a little lower from the times of Constantius the Emperour 25 5. yeeres after , when this solemne custome bloom'd againe by the zealous endeavours of Flavian and Diadore , men that stoutly propugn'd the Apostolike Faith , M. H. Eccl. Chren . ad ann. 355. against the Bishop of the same See , Leantius the Arrian ; nay , lower yet 23. yeeres after to the times of Damasus in the Reigne of Valentinian , by Chronologicall computation 378. yeeres after Christ , Theod. lib. 2. c. 24. though it be evident , that this custome was on foot long before in the Greeke Church : M. H. Eccles. Chron. ad ann. 178. And for proofe hereof , a learned * * Idem ad annum , 367. Antiquary quotes both the Authority and Practice of S. Basil , who first brought it into Caesarea , where hee was Bishop , and afterwards bequarrell'd by Sabellius the Hereticke , and Marcellus , who tooke occasion to exasperate the Churches against him , as being the Authour of Innovation , he alledgeth the examples of many Churches in this kinde , Sanct. Basil . Ep 63. those of Aegypt , Lybia , Thebes , Palestina , Tharabians , Phenicians , Syrians , Mesopotamians , &c. And after a voluminous quotation of Text and Fathers , the unparalell'd Hooker ( for I must name him , and I must name him so ) concludes , Lib. 5. Eecl . pol. sect. 39. whosoever were the Author , whatsoever the time , whencesoever the example of beginning this custome in the Church of Christ , the practice was not lesse ancient than devout , nor devout than warrantable , having had acquaintance with the world since the first times of the Gospel above twelve hundred yeeres , even by the consent and account of those who have fifted the Antiquitie and manner of it to the Branne , T. C. pag. 203. not so much to know as to deprave ; and yet at last are inforc'd tacitely to assent , that all Christian Churches have receiv'd it , most approved Councels and Lawes ratified it , the best and wisest of Gods Governors applauded it ; and therfore not only without blemish or inconvenience , but with some addition of lustre & majesty to Gods service as having power to elevate our devotions more swiftly towards Heaven ; to depresse and trample under foot ( for the present ) all extravagant & corrupter thoughts , rowzing & relieving those spirits which are drooping , and even languishing in a solitary and sullen , and ( oftentimes ) a despairing heavinesse ; nay , the very Hammer that bruizes and beats into Devotion those dispositions which will not be otherwise suppled and made tender , but by the power and vertue of those sounds which can first ravish the affections , and then dissolve the heart .

And yet there are some eares so nice and curious ( I know not whether through weakenesse or affectation ) to which this Harmony in the Church is no more passable than a Saw or a Harrow , which in stead of stroaking , dragg's and tortures them . Davids Cantabe is generally current , but his Exaltabe passes for Apochryphall ; Singing in private families , or congregations , have a taste , questionlesse of Geneva ; but singing aloud relishes too much of the Romish Synagogue ; and though perhaps it doe , yet there can be no Plea here for those , who obtruding to us the use of Instruments by Pagans in honour of their Idols ; or the moderne practice of some places , where Religion lyes a little sluttish and undress'd , that therefore they are not warrantable , or at best but offensive in a reformed Church ; for immediately upon the reigne of Ahaz , that idolatrous King , who made a molten image for Baalim , and burnt incense in the Valley of the Sonnes of Hinnon , where those lowder Instruments were in use for drowning the cryes of little children whom they barbarously forc'd through their cruell fires , to the worship of their God Moloch , the good King Hezekiah , labouring to restore Religion to its primitive lustre as it shin'd in the dayes of our Prophet ( and then questionlesse it shin'd without Idolatry ) with the Rulers of Israel , goeth to the house of the Lord , and in a solemne Sacrifice sets there the Priests and the Levites with Cymballs , Psalteries , and Harpes , and this upon no particular or private fancie of his owne , but the Line and Rule of his uncorrupted predecessor , David ; so sayes the Text , According to the command of David , 2 Chron. 29. And not onely so , but ( that Kings may be knowne to rule as well by speciall revelation , as by prescription , or their owne will ) by the assent of the Lord too , his principall Agents , Gad the Kings Seer , 2 Chro. 29.15 . and Nathan the Prophet , in the 15. verse of the same chapter ; and after this , when Manasseh his sonne revolted from the sincerity of his Father , and followed the abominations of the Heathen , whom God had cast out before Israel , building againe the high places that his Father had broken downe , making Groves and erecting Altars for all the Hoste of Heaven ( when no doubt all the pompe and raritie of Musicke was in request both to allure and besot the people ) the immediate Successor after Ammon ( the sonne of his Idolatry and witch-craft ) the good Iosiah , when hee had demolished those Baalitish Altars , cut downe the Groves and carved Images , and their molten Gods , cinder'd and brayed into dust , repairing againe the house of the Lord his God , calls for the Sonnes of Merari and Zechariah and Meshullam , and others of the Levites that could skill of the Instruments of Musicke , and the Singers , the Sonnes of Asaph were in their place , according to the commandement of David , and Heman , and Ieduthun , the Kings Seer , 2 Chron. 35.15 .

However , there are amongst us some anti-harmonicall snarlers , which esteeme those bellowings in the Church ( for so they have bruitishly phras'd them ) no better than a windie devotion , as if it cool'd the fervor of their zeale , damp'd the motions of the Spirit , clogg'd the wheeles of their firy Chariot mounting towards Heaven , choak'd the livelihood and quicknesse of those raptures , which on a sudden they ejaculate ; when , if they would but wipe off a little those wilfull scales which hang upon their eyes , they could not but see the admirable vertues and effects which melody hath wrought even in that part of man which is most sacred ; Insomuch , that both Philosophers and Divines have jump'd in one fancie , that the Soule is not onely naturally harmonicall , but Harmony it selfe . And indeed , the whole course of nature is but a Harmony ; the order of superiour and inferiour things , a melodious Consort ; Heaven and Farth , the great Diapason ; both Churches , a double Quire of Hosannahs and Halleluiahs , Magnus Divinae Majestatis praeco , mundus est , saith the loftie Nazianzene , the world is the great Trumpeter of Divine Glory , Suave canticum , as Saint Bernard hath it , a sweet Song ; D. Aug. lib. 11. de civit . Dei , cap. 18. or else Carmen pulcherrimum ( as S. Augustine will ) a golden Verse ; as if in Art and Consent both , it resembled both a Verse and a Song . Now Carmen in most languages is nothing else but laus ; and therefore that Psalmodicall Tract , which we call Liber carminum , the Hebrewes call Liber landationum ; So that a Song is nothing else but a Praise ; and therefore the whole world being a kinde of Encomium , or praise of the glory of God , we may not improperly call it a Song also .

And as the greater world is thus a Song , so is the lesser too : Ephes. 2.10 . Ipsius factura sumus ( saith Saint Paul ) wee are Gods workmanship , which some from the Greeke render Ipsius poema sumus , wee are his Poeme , his Heroicke Poeme : All creatures , men especially , being certaine luculent Songs or Poems , in which divine praises are resounded . Nay some of the Fathers have call'd Christ himselfe a Song ( for so Clemens Alexandrinus ) pulcherrimus Dei Hymnus est homo , P. ed. lib. 1. c. 2. qui in justitia aedificatur , the man of Righteousnesse is a most beautifull Hymne or Song , and so is his Spouse a Song too , and the love betweene both , Canticum canticorum , a Song of Songs , there being such a harmony betweene God and the World , and the World and the rest of his creatures there , that the one is like a well-set Antheme ; the other as so many Singers and Choristers to voice and chant it : First , the Heavens , they sing , Isai 49.13 . and then the Earth , that sings Psal. 98.4 . the Mountaines also they break forth into singing , Isai. 55.12 . the Valleys they laugh and sing too , Psal. 65.13 . the Cedar and the Shrub are not without their Song neither , Isai 14.8 . ( as well the * * Isai 42.11 . Inhabitants of the Rocke , as those that dwell in the * * & 26.9 . dust ) nay , those creatures that cannot yet speake , doe sing , The lame leapes as an Hart , and the tongue of the dumbe sings , Isai . 35.6 .