With regards to the time when organs had been first launched into use within the Roman Catholic Church, allow us to hear Bingham:1 “It’s now usually agreed amongst realized males that the usage of organs got here into the church because the time of Thomas Aquinas, Anno 1250; for he, in his Summs, has these phrases: ‘Our church doesn’t use musical devices, as harps and psalteries, to reward God withal, that she might not appear to Judaize.'”…Mr. Wharton additionally has noticed that Marinus Sanutus, who lived concerning the yr 1290, was the primary who introduced the usage of wind-organs into church buildings, whence he was surnamed Torcellus, which is the title for an organ within the Italian tongue….Allow us to pause a second to note the very fact, supported by a mass of incontrovertible proof, that the Christian church didn’t make use of instrumental music in its public worship for 1200 years after Christ type beats….

It deserves severe consideration, furthermore, that however the ever-accelerated drift in direction of corruption in worship in addition to in doctrine and authorities, the Roman Catholic Church didn’t undertake this corrupt apply till concerning the center of the thirteenth century….When the organ was launched into its worship it encountered robust opposition, and made its approach however slowly to normal acceptance. These assuredly are details that ought to profoundly impress Protestant church buildings. How can they undertake a apply which the Roman Church, within the yr 1200, had not admitted…Then got here the Reformation; and the query arises, How did the Reformers cope with instrumental music within the church?…Zwingle has already been quoted to indicate instrumental music was one of many shadows of the old regulation which has been realized within the gospel. He pronounces its employment within the current dispensation “depraved pervicacity.” There isn’t any doubt in regard to his views on the topic, which had been adopted by the Swiss Reformed church buildings…

Calvin may be very categorical in his condemnation of instrumental music in reference to the general public worship of the Christian church…In his homily on 1 Sam. xviii. 1-9, he delivers himself emphatically and solemnly upon the topic: “In Popery there was a ridiculous and unsuitable imitation [of the Jews]. Whereas they adorned their temples, and valued themselves as having made the worship of God extra splendid and alluring, they employed organs, and plenty of different such ludicrous issues, by which the Phrase and worship of God are exceedingly profaned, the folks being far more hooked up to these rites than to the understanding of the divine Phrase…”