A47407:258
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 12
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I shall now shut up this with three or four Arguments, and proceed to the next Chapter.
Arg. 1. If it was never commanded of God, nor the Practice of his People under the Old Testament, nor in the New, in the ordinary Worship of God▪ for one Man alone to sing by himself in the public Congregation; then for any to attempt to bring such a Practice into the Church would be a great Evil, and an absolute piece of Will-worship, or an Innovation. But it was never the Practice of God's People under the Old Testament, nor in the New, nor commanded of God in the ordinary Worship of God, for one Man alone to sing by himself in the public Congregation. Ergo, For any to attempt to bring such a Practice into the Church, would be a great Evil, and an absolute piece of Will-worship, or an Innovation.
Arg. 1. If it was never commanded of God, nor the Practice of his People under the Old Testament, nor in the New, in the ordinary Worship of God▪ for one Man alone to sing by himself in the publick Congregation; then for any to attempt to bring such a Practice into the Church would be a great Evil, and an absolute piece of Will-worship, or an Innovation. But it was never the Practice of God's People under the Old Testament, nor in the New, nor commanded of God in the ordinary Worship of God, for one Man alone to sing by himself in the publick Congregation. Ergo, For any to attempt to bring such a Practice into the Church, would be a great Evil, and an absolute piece of Will-worship, or an Innovation.
The Major certainly every Man will grant, that is resolved not to add to, or diminish from God's Word, or doth believe there must be no Additions nor Alterations to what is laid down in Christ's New Testament: for by that Argument, ⟨p. 86⟩