Today it is quite natural to want to be sung in worship. In some communities, the song has its own permanent place of worship. He is then called worship or praise. What I read today by Bullinger (decade 5, sermon 5), has attracted attention myself again. Is what is now done as a matter of course, really in order? The passage from the sermon by Bullinger seems to me to speak directly to our time. But self
read very much in church singing is reprehensible. First, many, even most of the true fear of God contrary to sing and not everything is from the Holy Scriptures, but from all sorts of living and human traditions. And what is sung from the Scriptures is so twisted and distorted, that nothing of the divine spirit remains. Thus, creatures and dead people called. Second, this song is mandatory and not voluntary, and you sing with a free spirit, but to get under duress, yes you sing even to wages and an ecclesiastical benefice, as they call it. Also sing clerics who have been hired to do so and not as once the whole Church of Christ. Of singing is no end and no mass. It is sung day and night. This foolish, indeed wicked Singing is as if he were a godly and commendable work, more conceded than the true faith allows. One could say it's the talk that the Lord has in Matthew banned as a pagan superstition and sentenced. Furthermore, one sings in a foreign language that few people know why the Church has no profit. You hear a long tone without words that mean something to float, that expands up and down sound. Not infrequently, the singers compete with each other with their voices, echoes that the whole Church by a harsh cry, and understand the listener through the competition of the vote hardly what is sung. I say anything at this point about the music that you> called figurative, "and the musical instruments, almost all of which are included in the organ. I say nothing of Lamentations or the prayers for the dead, which I have spoken elsewhere. These and similar things, but take all the time so in the service claim that only a very small part or none of the true prayers and sacred divine preaching the Word of God can be given. Therefore lead those who believe in the gospel, with good reasons not tolerate such a song from him and not God in the Church. In the highest mass God-fearing and wise action is to be considered those what is the best or even the entire period of the church meetings for devotional and quiet prayers and for the saving preaching of the word used of God, and omit this song, because it is difficult to isolate a decent se singing so that he does not at some point the legitimate bounds exceed.
