A Tractate On Church Music

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A Tractate On Church Music
James Peirce
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176. F Lib. Vili. C. 32.
( '9 ) The fecond ceremony, " fays he, ** are the muiical inftruments, which began to be ufsd in the fervice of the church, in the time of Pope Vitalian, about the year 660, as Platina relates out of the Pontifical ; or, as Aimonius rather thinks, //^. Iv, De gejlis Francorumy c. 114. After the year 820, in the time of Lewis the pious "f*. " Proteftants are not difpofed to deny that the church of Rome was become antichrif- tlan, when they were firft brought in ; even th
...ough we ihould allow Bellarmine*s firft date of them to be the true one. But a member of any part of the reformed church, may well be afhamed of that an- tiquity, which does not exceed the rife of antichrift. Neverthelefs, it is pretty clear that both Bellarmine's dates are falfe, and that the ufe of inftrumental mufic, in the worfhip of God, is much later than either of thofe accounts allow. For as to Platina, he feems to fufpedl the truth of what he wrote ; ** Vitalian, " fays he, •* being care- - f4 ♦ De Mifla, lib.

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