A47407:231
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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Nor doth it signify any thing, if some Greek Copy or old Translation should render it, they gave Thanks, from the word [they Hymned:] For of what Authority is such a Translation, when compared to our late faithful and laborious Translators, who having many Greek Copies, and comparing them together, do affirm the Greek Word signifies, they sung […] Hymn? and so saith Learned Dr. Du-Veil.
Nor doth it signify any thing, if some Greek Copy or old Traslation should render it, they gave Thanks, from the word [they Hymned:] For of what Authority is such a Translation, when compared to our late faithful and laborious Translators, who having many Greek Copies, and comparing them together, do affirm the Greek Word signifies, they sung 〈…〉 Hymn? and so saith Learned Dr. Du-Veil.
Object. But might they not be said to sing together, tho none sung but Christ only, and […] Disciples at the close say, Amen; as in Prayer Men are said to pray, when there is but one that is the Mouth?
Object. But might they not be said to sing together, tho none sung but Christ only, and 〈…〉 Disciples at the close say, Amen; as in Prayer Men are said to pray, when there is but one that is the Mouth?
Ans. This can't be, since there is so great a difference between the nature of Prayer, and that of Singing, which I have clearly opened in the first Chapter of this Treatise; there is Mental Prayer, praying in the Heart, and Heart-rejoicing; but there is no proper singing ⟨p. 73⟩without the Voice, so that this would be justly to confound the Propriety of Speech. A whole Multitude that hear a Sermon, and say Amen to what they hear, may as well be said all of them to preach, as many may be said to sing, when there is but one only indeed that doth sing.