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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 11
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CHAP. XI.
Proving that singing the Praises of God in Public Worship with united Voices, from the Prophecies of the Scripture, that foretold how the Saints and Church of God should sing in Gospel-days.
Proving that singing the Praises of God in Publick Worship with united Voices, from the Prophecies of the Scripture, that foretold how the Saints and Church of God should sing in Gospel-days.
OUR third Proof to demonstrate singing of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs in God's Public Worship with united Voices, shall be taken from those Prophetical Psalms and Passages in the Old Testament, that clearly relate to the Practice of the Saints in Gospel-Times. Take Dr. Roberts words here in the first place. Singing of Psalms, &c. by Believers ⟨p. 76⟩under the New Testament (saith he), is often-times prophetically fore-told […] fore-required in the Old Testament; and therefore Singing of Psalms is clearly an Ordinance of Christ under the New Testament. The Antecedent is evident in sundry instances of the Old Testament. (Wherein pray take notice, that this Argument the Doctor brings, doth not only prove, that Singing is a Duty, but shows the manner of it also, how it should be used in our Congregations). He then proceeds to mention some of those Prophetical Scriptures.