A47407:211
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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Mr. Cotton saith, that one Samosaten•• the Heretic, who denied the Deity of the Lord Jesus, was one of the first that within these first 300 Years, opposed the Singing he speaks of.
Mr. Cotton saith, that one Samosaten•• the Heretick, who denied the Deity of the Lord Jesus, was one of the first that within these first 300 Years, opposed the Singing he speaks of.
No marvel if the Saints sung to Christ, as unto God, that such a Man opposed the practice of Singing such Hymns.
Basil the Great, a most Famous, Pious, and Learned Man, mightily commends the Singing of Psalms, as I find him quoted by several worthy Writers, I need not go lower.
Obj. But they Sung with Organs, or musical Instruments; the Ordinance was corrupted, and we cannot come at it now, &c.
Obj. But they Sung with Orrgans, or musical Instruments; the Ordinance was corrupted, and we cannot come at it now, &c.