A47407:217
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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But ought not we to labour to restore it […] its primitive Practice (as in other Ordinances through Grace, we have been helped to do?) Shall we not have the pure Food of God• Word, because Antichrist hath put Poison […] theirs?
But ought not we to labour to restore it 〈…〉 its primitive Practice (as in other Ordinances through Grace, we have been helped to do?) Shall we not have the pure Food of God• Word, because Antichrist hath put Poison 〈…〉 theirs?
There is one thing I omitted which is worthy to be noted in Eusebius; It seems the Christians would not part with this sweet Ordinance of the Gospel, though it cost them the loss of ⟨p. 69⟩their Lives, for though they were discovered by their Singing in their Assemblies, yet they would not leave it off.
To pass by the Wald•nses practice in Singing, &c. and all other Godly Christians since the beginning of the Reformation; How zealous were the Godly Puritans (as they were called) for this blessed Ordinance, in whom Godliness shone so gloriously, that few since may compare with them?