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The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…
The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, proved to be an holy ordinance of Jesus Christ with an answer to all objections : as also, an examination of Mr. Isaac Marlow's two papers, one called, A discourse against singing, &c., the other, An appendix : wherein his arguments and cavils are detected and refuted / by Benjamin Keach ...
London: printed for Author, 1691
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Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, an Holy Ordinance of… › Chapter 3
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Others understand it directly the contrary way, i. e. Then Men begun to pray, or call on the Name of the Lord, or erected public Worship, Preaching in the Name of the Lord. So Ainsworth.
Others understand it directly the contrary way, i. e. Then Men begun to pray, or call on the Name of the Lord, or erected publick Worship, Preaching in the Name of the Lord. So Ainsworth.
Take it either way, it appears they knew ⟨p. 30⟩it was their Duty to Pray and Preach; yet there was no positive Law, or written Precept for either in those Days, nor▪ for many Years after, even till Moses came; so that 'tis clear, these are parts of moral or natural Worship.
And so is Singing no doubt: for as all the Heathen generally invocate their Gods, pray to them, so they sing their Praises, as might abundantly be demonstrated.
And what is more clear (further to evince this) than that Passage of the Children of Israels's Singing after their great Deliverance at the Red Sea,