In Peter Martyr Vermigli's second sacred prayer drawn from Psalm 81* he says this:
I don't recall running across similar references to instruments as an obligation in other Reformers, but this made me wonder if someone knows if Peter Martyr addressed the question at more length somewhere else, and if this take is unique to him or was more widely diffused.
*John Patrick Donnelly, S.J., trans. and ed., The Peter Martyr Library Volume Three: Sacred Prayers Drawn from the Psalms of David (Kirskville: The Thomas Jefferson University Press and Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc., 1994), 78.
O almighty God, because of your supreme benefits we ought strenuously to give you both thanks and praise so that we glorify your name not only with our voices but also with musical instruments.
I don't recall running across similar references to instruments as an obligation in other Reformers, but this made me wonder if someone knows if Peter Martyr addressed the question at more length somewhere else, and if this take is unique to him or was more widely diffused.
*John Patrick Donnelly, S.J., trans. and ed., The Peter Martyr Library Volume Three: Sacred Prayers Drawn from the Psalms of David (Kirskville: The Thomas Jefferson University Press and Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc., 1994), 78.