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An answer to Mr. Marlow's Appendix Wherein his arguments to prove that singing of…
An answer to Mr. Marlow's Appendix Wherein his arguments to prove that singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, was performed in the primitive church by a special or an extraordinary gift, and therefore not to be practised in these days, are examined, and clearly detected. Also some reflections on what he speaks on the word hymnos, hymnos: and on his undue quotations of divers learned men. By a learned hand. By B. Keach.
London : printed for the author, and sold by John Hancock in Castle-Alley on the west side of the Royal-Exchange, and by the author at his house near Horselydown in Southwark, 1691
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1. This you would have refer to the preaching of the Gospel, i. e. as the Apostles sound went forth into all the Earth, Rom. 10. 18. confounding Preaching and Singing together one time, and Prayer and Singing at another.
2. You would have it chiefly to refer to the seventh thousand Years of the World, or Reign of Christ; hinting in your first Part as if then there shall be a Singing, besides the Essence of it in their Spirits: but if that thousand Years you speak of, shall be before the end of the World, or Gospel-Dispensation, pray where lie those Precepts that will authorize them in those days to sing, and yet do not authorize, or warrant us to sing now? Shall they have a new Bible for those Times? But if the Precepts for Singing then are contained in our holy Scripture, and yet do not belong to us; 'tis good for us to consider, whether other Precepts ⟨p. 39⟩written therein, do not wholly refer to those Times too, nay, all Ordinances, till the Spirit comes down in an extraordinary manner; and so now we must throw off all Gospel-Administrations, and turn Seekers. I am sorry to see such Stuff as this published to the World. But what I have said or cited from the Writings of other Godly Men, in respect of those Prophetical Psalms, and other places of Scripture that enjoin the Gentile-Churches to sing the Praises of the Lord, I would have you and others consider well of, before you write again.
In Sect. 7. you heap up a company of confused words to no purpose, about premeditated Matter for Prayer, to oppose premeditated Hymns, &c. Append. pag. 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, &c.