A47361:91
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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2. She must not be suffered to be an Evidence in the Church against any Offender, in the case of Discipline.
3. Then she must not ask, where the Text is, if she comes too late, for that is in some sense a speaking and breaking Silence.
4. Nor must she then say Amen at the close of Prayer, for that's a breaking Silence.
5. Which is worst of all, she must not in the Church give an account of her Conversion, or declare how the Lord was pleased to work upon her Heart: for I have showed in that Act there is much instruction, nay, 'tis so full of teaching to others, that what some pious Women have spoke in the Church upon this account, God hath blessed to the Conversion of Sinners, as well as it has refreshed and sweetly comforted divers Believers; and therefore herein you abuse the sense of the Holy Ghost, and indeed are not, I fear, fit to be a Teacher of others, but to learn in silence your self.
5. Which is worst of all, she must not in the Church give an account of her Conversion, or declare how the Lord was pleased to work upon her Heart: for I have shewed in that Act there is much instruction, nay, 'tis so full of teaching to others, that what some pious Women have spoke in the Church upon this account, God hath blessed to the Conversion of Sinners, as well as it has refreshed and sweetly comforted divers Believers; and therefore herein you abuse the sense of the Holy Ghost, and indeed are not, I fear, fit to be a Teacher of others, but to learn in silence your self.