Dr. _N._ would hardly have denied, the Church of _Rome_ was become Antichristian, when they were first brought in; even though we should allow _Bellarmine’s_ first date of them to be the true one. But a Reformed Divine may well be ashamed of that antiquity, that does not exceed the rise of Antichrist. But I am fully satisfied both _Bellarmine’s_ dates are false, and that instrumental music, in the worship of God, is much later than either of those accounts allow. For as to _Platina_, he seems to suspect the truth of what he wrote: “_Vitalian_,” _says he_, “being careful about the worship of God, made an ecclesiastical rule, and ordered the singing, with the addition (as some think) of organs.” In Vital. Again, _Bellarmine’s Aimonius_ is not the true _Aimonius_. For (as Dr. _Cave_ says) _Aimonius of Fleury_, who wrote, _De gestis Francorum_, flourished about the year 1000; and his History, which begins at the destruction of _Troy_, is brought down as far as the coronation of King _Pipin_, or to the year 752. For what comes after that, and makes up the fifth book, and the latter part of the fourth, is the continuation of another hand. Hist. Liter. _p._ 597. Farther, that these instruments were not used in God’s worship, in _Thomas Aquinas’s_ time, that is, about the year 1250, he himself is witness. “In the old Law,” _says he_, “God was praised both with musical instruments and human voices, and according to that _Psalm_ xxxiii. _Praise the Lord with harp, sing unto him with the psaltery, and an instrument of ten strings._ But the Church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize. Therefore, by parity of reason, she should not use singing.” Secunda secundæ Questio 91, _art._ 4. & _conclus._ 4. The like objection is made by our author. But _Thomas_ answers: “As to this objection, we must say, as the philosopher, _Lib._ viii. _Polit._ that Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatever will make the hearers good men. For these musical instruments rather delight the mind, than form it to any good disposition. But under the Old Testament such instruments were used, partly because the people were harder and more carnal; upon which account they were to be stirred up by these instruments, as likewise by earthly promises; and partly because these bodily instruments were typical of something.” Upon which place Cardinal _Cajetan_ gives us this Comment: “’Tis to be observed, the Church did not use organs in _Thomas’s_ time. Whence, even to this day, the Church of _Rome_ does not use them in the Pope’s presence. And truly it will appear, that musical instruments are not to be suffered in the ecclesiastical offices we meet together to perform, for the sake of receiving internal instruction from God; and so much the rather are they to be