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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 8
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Here I shall give you what Mr. Roberts in his Key to the Holy Bible, hath said upon this account, pag. 173.
And as Singing of Psalms, &c. (saith he) was used in the purest Primitive Apostolical Times in the Church-Assemblies: so ⟨p. 66⟩it was continued all along in the successive Churches hitherto, though it is too evident that some Corruptions and Vanities, by little and little, crept into this, as into other parts of God's Worship.
Singing of Psalms, &c. was used in the second Century, to celebrate Christ and his Deity, against the Calumny of Theodosi•• Euseb. Eccl. Hist. Lib. 5. cap. 28.
Eusebius tell us, that Pliny the Second, abo•• Anno 98, wrote an Epistle to Trajan the Emperor, that the Christians being gathered together before day, were wont to sing Hymns together, and praise Christ as God. And the same Eusebius affirmeth, that Philo-Judaeus did testify the same of this Christian Practice; and also assures us, that the said Pliny and Trajan lived in the Time of the Apostle John, who did not die till about 100 Years after Christ.