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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 5
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There is Prayer and Singing connected, Singing being of equal necessity and authority with other Ordinances […] so the Apostle James joins these two together, Is any […] you afflicted? let him pray. Is any […]? let him sing Psalms, Jam. 5. 13. You […] observe, both these Services are equally calculated for Man's Necessity. Thus Paul and Silas join them in their practice, Acts 16. 26. And so Justice Martyr, in his 117•• Question, ad Orthod•••, tells us, That they sang, and sent up Prayers to God; the Primitive Church confirming David's Injunctions, and the Apostolical Commands. So that by these Instances we may observe, that the Duty of Prayer and Singing have walked in the same Equipage, and lay claim to an equal Authority from Divine Writ, the Scripture jointly favouring both, p. 177.
There is Prayer and Singing con•exed, Singing being of equal necessity and authority with other Ordinances 〈…〉 so the Apostle James joins these two together, Is any 〈…〉 you afflicted? let him pray. Is any 〈…〉? let him sing Psalms, Jam. 5. 13. You 〈…〉 observe, both these Services are equally calculated for Man's Necessity. Thus Paul and Silas join them in their practice, Acts 16. 26. And so Justic• Martyr, in his 117•• Question, ad Orthod•••, tells us, That they sang, and sent up Prayers to God; the Primitive Church confirming David's Injunctions, and the Apostolical Commands. So that by these Instances we may observe, that the Duty of Prayer and Singing have walked in the same Equipage, and lay claim to an equal Authority from Divine Writ, the Scripture jointly favouring both, p. 177.