OR THE

ANTIQUITIES

OF

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,

AND

OTHER WORKS,

OF THE

REV. JOSEPH BINGHAM, M.A.

Formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford; and afterwards Rector of
Headbourn Worthy, and Havant, Hampshire;

WITH A

SET OF MAPS OF ECCLESIASTICAL GEOGRAPHY,

TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED,

SEVERAL SERMONS,

AND OTHER MATTER, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED,

The whole Revised and Edited, together with

A Biographical Account of the Author,

BY HIS GREAT GRANDSON,

THE REV. RICHARD BINGHAM, B.C.L.

Prebendary of Chichester, Vicar of Hale Magna,

Incumbent of Gosport Chapel, and formerly Fellow of New College, Oxford.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.-VOL. V.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM STRAKER,

433, WEST STRAND.

MDCCCXXXIV.

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CONTENTS.

BOOK XIV.

CATE-

OF THAT PART OF DIVINE SERVICE, WHICH THE ANCIENTS

COMPRISED UNDER THE GENERAL NAME OF MISSA

CHUMENORUM, THE SERVICE OF THE CATECHUMENS, OR

ANTE-COMMUNION SERVICE, ON THE LORD'S DAY.

CHAP. I.

Of the Psalmody of the Ancient Church.

SECT. 1. That the Service of the ancient Church on the Lord's Day usually

began with Psalmody.-2. The Psalms intermixed with Lessons and

Prayers in some Churches.-3. These Psalms called by a peculiar

Name, Psalmi Responsorii. - 4. Some Psalms appropriated to particular

Services.-5. Others sung in the ordinary Course as they lay in Order,

without being appropriated to any Time or Day.-6. And some appoint-

ed occasionally, at the Discretion of the Bishop or Precentor.-

7. Prayers in some Places between every Psalm, instead of a Lesson.-

8. The Gloria Patri added at the End of every Psalm in the Western

Church, but not in the Greek or Oriental Church.-9. The Psalms some-

times sung by one Person only.-10. Sometimes by the whole Assembly

joining altogether.-11. Sometimes alternately by the Congregation

divided into two Parts, and answering Verse for Verse to one another.-

12. Sometimes by a single Precentor, repeating the first Part of the

Verse, and the People all joining with him in the Close. This was
called Ὑπηχεῖν, and Ὑπακέειν. What meant by Diapsalms, Acroteleu-

tics, and Acrostics in Psalmody.-13. An Answer to a Popish Objection

against the People's bearing a Part in Psalmody.-14. Psalmody al-

ways performed in the standing Posture.-15. Of the Use of plain

Song, and its Commendation among the Ancients.-16. Artificial and

melodious Tuning of the Voice allowed in Singing, when managed with

Sobriety and Discretion.-17. No Objection made against Psalms or

Hymns of Human Composition, barely as such.-18. But two Corruptions

severely inveighed against. First, over great Niceness and Curiosity

in Singing, in Imitation of the Modes and Music of the Theatre.-

19. And, Secondly, pleasing the Ear without Raising the Affections of

the Soul.

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