John Trapp on Amos 6:5

Verſe 5. That chant (or quaver) to the ſound of the viol,] That ſing diviſion with much variation of their voyces, and many diſtinctions of diverſe tones,Particularizant, they ſing their parts in conſort. modulations fractions. The Hebrew root-word ſignifieth the ſingle grains of grapes, that remain after the vintage: or the particular berries, Lev. 19.10. Our word parting, anſwereth to the Hebrew peret. It is their wanton and unſeaſonable muſick (emaſculating, diſſolving, and drawing out their ſpirits) that they are here threatned for. This abuſe of Muſick (given to men for better purpoſes) is elſewhere condemned, chap. 5.23. Eſay 5.12. Exod. 32.18. Eccleſ. 2.8. God made not man more avium minurire to ſport on earth, as Leviathan doth in the ſea: to ſpend his whole time (as the people of Tombutum in Africk are ſaid to do) in ſinging and dancing: and, when he is caſt out of one paradiſe, to make himſelf another. It is charged as a foul fault upon thoſe ſenſualiſts in St. James, that they had lived in pleaſure on the earth, and been wanton, Jam, 5.5.

and invent to themſelves inſtruments of muſick, like David.] Whoſe example, likely they pleaded, to patronize their fidlings, and chaunting of ribald ſongs. But his muſick and theirs agreed like harp and harrow, as the proverb is. Two may do the ſame thing, and yet it not be the ſame; becauſe not from the ſame principles, and for the ſame purpoſes: as we ſee in Cain and Abel, the Phariſee and the Publican, David and theſe ſingſters, who did nothing leſſe then help forward their devotion by Muſick, as did David: and as did our late holy Eſty, who when he ſat and heard a ſweet conſort of Muſick,D. Halls Art of div. Medit. ſeemed upon this occaſion carried up for the time before-hand, to the place of his reſt, ſaying very paſſionately; What muſick may we think there is in heaven?