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A compendium, or, introduction to practical music in five parts / by Christopher Simpson
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Where mutual Hearts in Sympathy do move,Some few embrace it by the na me of LOV E:But where the Soul and Body do agreeTo ferve their God, t it is DIV IN IT1E :

In all Melodious Compofitions we

Declare and know it to be ST MP HO N 1E :

Where all the Parts in Complication roll,

And every one contribures to the whole.

He that can Sett and Humour Notes aright ,

Will move the Soul to Sorrow, to Delight,

To Courage , Courteß,e, to Confolation ,

To Love, to Gravity, to Contemplation :

It hath been known (by its mxgnatic Motion )To raife Repentance , and advance Devotion.

It works on all the Facylties , and why ?

The verv Soul itfelf is Harmony.

M u s i c / it is the breath of Second Birth ,The Saints Emplopnent and the Angels Mirth ;The Rbetoric of Seraphims ; a GernIn the Kings Crown of new Jerufalem :

They /mg continualiy ; the Expoßtionmuß needs iofer, there is no Intermißion.

1 hear, fonte Men bäte MUS IC ; Let themßmwIn holy Writ what elfe the Angels do :

Then thoje that do dejpife fuch Sacred MirthAre Jieither fit for Heaven nor for Eartb.

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