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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 12
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Arg. 3. If whatsoever was writte• aforetime, or given forth in the Old Testament by the Spirit, especially which were moral Duties; nay, and given forth afresh in the New, was, as to matter and manner, for our Instruction and Learning; and singing of Psalms, and Hymns and Spiritual Songs, which is a moral Duty, was given forth aforetime, nay, and it is given forth afresh in the New; then the matter and manner of Singing, as practised in the Old, and practised in the New, was for our Learning and Instruction, that we should do the same. But whatsoever was written aforetime, or given forth in the Old Testament by the Spirit especially, which were moral Duties, nay, and given forth afresh in the New, as to matter and manner, was for our Instruction and Learning; and singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, which is a moral Duty, was given forth aforetime in the Old Testament, and afresh in the New. Ergo, Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, as to matter and manner, as practised in the Old Testament and in the New, was for our Learning and Instruction, that we should so do, and practise the same.
The Major cannot be denied, the Minor is proved from that in Rom. 15. 4. For whatsoever was written aforetime, was written for our Learning, 2 Tim. 3. 16. and from what I have said in this Treatise, wherein 'tis evinced, that Singing, &c. is a moral Duty, and given forth both in the Old and New Testament.
If any object and say, that then we must sing nothing but David's Psalms, or the Songs contained in the Old and New Testament. I answer, The Matter that then was sung was God'• Word, or Divine and Holy Songs, and so must the Matter of our Songs be the Psalms of David, or the Word of Christ, i. e. such things that are certainly Divine and Sacred, congruous with the Word of God or spiritual Songs.