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Originally Posted by Backwoods Presbyterian  Thomas Aquinas, who is more Roman than anyone in history, also wrote against the use of instruments in worship. Quote: |
Further, in the Old Law God was praised with musical instruments and human song, according to Psalm 32:2-3: "Give praise to the Lord on the harp, sing to Him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. Sing to Him a new canticle." But the Church does not make use of musical instruments such as harps and psalteries, in the divine praises, for fear of seeming to imitate the Jews. Therefore in like manner neither should song be used in the divine praises.
| The premise seems very weak.
Not sure what your point is? 15 I shall offer to You burnt offerings of fat beasts,
With the smoke of rams;
I shall make an offering of bulls with male goats. Selah.
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1) Aquinas, as many others of the time, used the phrase "of the Jews" to describe the old economy.
2) If the Psalms are proscriptive for NT worship (as you claim) why do you not follow what they teach completely?