A47407:269
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 13
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CHAP. XIII.
Showing what the Matter is the Saints and Churches of Christ should sing i• Gospel-Times; opening what Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs are.
Shewing what the Matter is the Saints and Churches of Christ should sing i• Gospel-Times; opening what Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs are.
ONE Objection that is brought against Singing, is this, viz. We do not know what we should sing, and therefore do not sing in our Congregations. I must confess, if Singing was practised and enjoined, and nothing was left in God's Word to show us what it is we are to sing, it would be strange, and a sufficient Plea against the practice of it; but such a thing could not stand consistent with the Wisdom of the Spirit. But, blessed be God 'tis not so, as we by his Assistance shall now further make appear: For we have, first, our Pattern, which is Christ's practice with his Disciples, in this Case as in others. 2dly, The Rule, which are those Precepts laid down in the New Testament; Christ and his Disciples sung an Hymn. And be sure the Matter of it was Spiritual, it being performed by those Sacred and Holy Persons, ⟨p. 91⟩and in the Sacred Worship of God, i. e. just as they had celebrated the Holy Supper. But to speak to the Rule; see