A47407:220
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 9
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CHAP. IX.
Showing the true Form or Manner of Singing in the Gospel-days; and that it ought to be with united Voices, or to sing together harmoniously.
Shewing the true Form or Manner of Singing in the Gospel-days; and that it ought to be with united Voices, or to sing together harmoniously.
I Having in the first Chapter proved there is no proper Singing but what is with the Voice, part of my Work here is done already; till I come to the Objections? I need not handle that Point any farther. But the Question is, Whether one Person only, or the whole Church, should sing together with united Voices?
'Tis the latter that I do assert, and shall, by God's assistance, endeavour to make appear; and I shall begin with our Pattern, I mean that Example our Lord Jesus and his Disciples have lest us; Is it not said they sung? that is, Christ himself with his Disciples sung a Hymn• together, in the end of the Administration of the Holy Supper, Matth. 26. 30.