PAR. 12.
IT is true that every latter reformation of Religion went by former precedents: King Iosiah said,e 1.1 2 Chron. 35.4. Prepare by the houses of your Fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David King of Israel, and according to the writing of Salomon his sonne: Againe,f 1.2 2 Chron. 29.25. The Levites were set in the house of the Lord, with Cymbals, Psalteries, and Harpes, according to the commandement of Da∣vid, and of Gad the King Seer, and Nathan the Prophet, as the Lord commanded; the song began with the Trumpets, and instruments ordained by David, ver. 27. And they sang prayses to the Lord, with the words of David, and of Asaph the Seer, ver. 30. This was in Hezekiahs Passeover: Salomon before them, ordered the sacred things in the Temple, he did not order those things by his owne will, but by the last words of David, Ecclesiasticall affaires were ruled, as you may discerne, if you compare,g 1.3 1 Chron. 23.27. with 1 Chron. 24.3. And he was instructed for the building of the house of God,h 1.4 2 Chron. 3.3. Neither was Salomon ruled by Davids mouth-speech alone, but David gave to Salomon his sonne the patterne of the porch, and other particulars,i 1.5 1 Chron. 28.11. And the patterne of all that he had by the Spirit, ver. 12. Whence justly resulteth, that David had especiall divine Revelations from God; and it is likely, that from the day of the first unction by Samuel (when it was said,k 1.6 1 Sam. 16.13. The Spirit of the Lord came upon David, from that day for∣ward) that he made divers of these gracious and divine Psalmes, and tooke on him the extraordinary thoughts of heavenly things: yea, David himselfe framed the services of the Levites according to their manner under Aaron their Father, as God commanded himl 1.7 2 Chron. 24.19.