[Sidenote eh: _Prosper Luther Hugo Card._]
[Sidenote ek: _Iosua. 6. Strictior est tuba ex parte buccinantis quàm ex altera, quia prædicator strictius se debet examinare. Hugo Card. in loc._]
[el]Other say that the Saints are these _trumpets_, and _harpes_, and _Cymbals_, and that their [em]members make this musicke to the Lord, our eyes praies the Lord, while they be [en]lifted vp vnto their maker in heauen, and waite vpon his mercy: our tongues praise the Lord, in singing [eo]Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs vnto the Lord: our eares praise the Lord, while they [ep]heare the word of God with attention: our hands praise the Lord, while they be [eq]stretched out vnto the poore, and while they [er]worke the thing that is good: our feete praise the Lord, when they bee not [es]swift to shed blood, but [et]stand in the gates of Gods house, ready to [eu]run the wayes of his commandements. _In Tympano sicca & percussa pellis resonat, in choro autem voces sociatæ concordant_ said [ex]_Gregorie_ the great: wherefore [ey]such as mortifie the lusts of the flesh praise God _in tympano_, and they who keepe the [ez]vnity of the spirit in the bond of peace, praise God _in choro_: the _Brownist_ in separating himselfe from the Church though he seeme to praise God _in tympano_, yet hee doth not praise God _in choro_: and the _carnall gospeller_ albeit he ioyne with the Church _in choro_, yet he prayseth not God _in tympano_; they praise God in _well tuned Cymbals_ who tune their soules before they preach or pray, whosoeuer desires to bee a sweete singer in Israel must bee learned in the schoole, before hee be lowd in the temple: the heart likewise must be prepared for praying, as the harpe for playing, if our instruments of praise be not in tune, then our whole deuotion is like _the [fa]sounding brasse or as the tinckling Cymbal_: in Gods quier there is first _tune well_, and then _sound well_, if once we can say with [fb]_Dauid_, _O God mine heart is ready, mine heart is ready_, then our lute and harpe will awake right early: let thy soule praise the Lord, and then all that is either without or about thee will instantly doe the same.
[Sidenote em: _Chrysost. Euthym. in loc._]