Use of instruments in mass.

Throughout the early Church, the idea of instrumental music in mass was considered pagan-like. The early Church wanted the highest amount of respect they could have in presence of the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ. Although the idea of a organ or a guitar in mass might not seem wrong to Christians now, this is because the Christians have been desensitized to the idea of music in mass over the last couple hundred years. Consequentially, the assertions of organs and guitars have accrualed into drums, trumpets, electric pianos, and even clapping throughout the mass. Below, are quotes that range from 139 A.D all the way up to around modern time. The earlier quotes see music within the mass as an evil meant for pagan worship, while later quotes just see them as inappropriate in the mass in front of the body, blood, soul and dignity of Jesus Christ.

Justin Martyr (139 A.D.), an early church Father
"The use of [instrumental] music was not received in the Christian churches, as it was among the Jews, in their infant state, but only the use of plain song.... Simply singing is not agreeable to children [the aforementioned Jews], but singing with lifeless instruments and with dancing and clapping is. On this account the use of this kind of instruments and of others agreeable to children is removed from the songs of the churches, and there is left remaining simply singing."

Tertullian (200 A.D.), an early church Father
"Musical concerts with viol and lute belong to Apollo, to the Muses, to Minerva and Mercury who invented them; ye who are Christians, hate and abhor these things whose very authors themselves must be the object of loathing and aversion."

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), one of the greatest Catholics
"Our church does not use musical instruments, as harps and psalteries, to praise God withal, that she may not seem to Judaize."

Adam Clarke (1760-1832),

"I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of much evil. Music as a science I esteem and admire, but instrumental music in the house of God I abominate and abhor. This is the abuse of music, and I here register my protest against all such corruption of the worship of the author of Christianity. The late and venerable and most eminent divine, the Rev. John Wesley, who was a lover of music, and an elegant poet, when asked his opinion of instruments of music being introduced into the chapels of the Methodists, said in his terse and powerful manner, 'I have no objections to instruments of music in our chapels, provided they are neither heard nor seen.' I say the same."

"But were it even evident, which it is not, either from this or any other place in the sacred writings, that instruments of music were prescribed by divine authority under the law, could this be adduced with any semblance of reason that they ought to be used in Christian worship? No; the whole spirit, soul, and genius of the Christian religion are against this; and those who know the Church of God best, and what constitutes its genuine spiritual state, know that these things have been introduced as a substitute for the life and power of religion; and that where they prevail most, there is least of the power of Christianity. Away with such portentous baubles from the worship of that infinite Spirit who requires His followers to worship Him in spirit and truth, for to no such worship are these instruments friendly."

Presbyterian Catechism of 1842
"Question 6. Is there any authority for instrumental music in the worship of God under the present dispensation? Answer. Not the least, only the singing of psalms and hymns and spiritual songs was appointed by the apostles; not a syllable is said in the New Testament in favor of instrumental music nor was it ever introduced into the Church until after the eighth century, after the Catholics had corrupted the simplicity of the gospel by their carnal inventions. It was not allowed in the Synagogues, the parish churches of the Jews, but was confined to the Temple service and was abolished with the rites of that dispensation."