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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 7
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CHAP. VII.
Proving Singing of Psalms, &c. An Ordinance, because it was confirmed by Miracles, as other Ordinances were.
MY next Argument to prove it is a Gospel-Ordinance to Sing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, is taken from that visible witness that God did bear to it, in the New-Testament, it seems to me, (and others whose Eyes God hath opened) that it was confirmed by a Miracle, as all other Gospel-Ordinances more or less were, Heb. 2. 3, 4. As the whole of Christ's Doctrine, or the Christian Religion, was confirmed by Signs and Wonders, and divers Miracles and Gifts of the Holy Spirit according to God's own Will and good Pleasure; so were most, if not all, Gospel-Ordinances particularly.
1. Meeting together on the first Day of the Week was miraculously owned, and confirmed by that wonderful effusion of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2. 1, 2, 3.