A47407:203
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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This very Passage out of Eusebius, 1I find cited by Mr. •• berts, Mr. Wells, Mr. Cott••, and also by Mr. Sidenham […] others. But having the History. I need not mention them; yet for one Reason I shall add the same over again out of Mr. Sydenham's Treat. of Singing, p. 209.
This very Passage out of Eusebius, 1I find cited by Mr. •• berts, Mr. Wells, Mr. Cott••, and also by Mr. Sidenham 〈…〉 others. But having the History. I need not mention them; yet for one Reason I shall add the same over again out of Mr. Sydenham's Treat. of Singing, p. 209.
- 1This Epistle of Pliny is extant in Euseb. Hist. Eccles. lib. 2. c. 17.
Eusebius (saith he) in his Eccles. Hist. lib. 3. cap. 35. quotes two Epistles of Plinius Secundus to Trajan the Emperor, testifying that the Christians were wont to assemble themselves, before day, to sing Psalms and Hymns together. The same doth Philo-Judaeus ⟨p. 67⟩testify, who lived in the Apostles Time, as the same Eusebius saith, Lib. 2. cap. 22. Now in the Time of Plinius and Trajan did the beloved Disciple live, saith Zanch on Ephes. 5. 18, 19.
Eusebius (saith he) in his Eccles. Hist. lib. 3. cap. 35. quotes two Epistles of Plinius Secundus to Trajan the Emperor, testifying that the Christians were wont to assemble themselves, before day, to sing Psalms and Hymns together. The same doth Philo-Judaeus