A47407:298
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 14
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'Tis observable 'tis not said, Do this in your public Assemblies: and therefore some may say, we will break Bread, or celebrate that Ordinance in our own private Families in an upper Chamber, as Christ and his Disciples did, and sing an Hymn when we have done, and so exclude public Assemblies for that part of ⟨p. 101⟩God's Worship. But to proceed; we read, as I have again and again showed you, that the Apostle enjoins Singing on the Churches, Ephes. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16.
'Tis observable 'tis not said, Do this in your publick Assemblies: and therefore some may say, we will break Bread, or celebrate that Ordinance in our own private Families in an upper Chamber, as Christ and his Disciplies did, and sing an Hymn when we have done, and so exclude publick Assemblies for that part of ⟨p. 101⟩God's Worship. But to proceed; we read, as I have again and again shewed you, that the Apostle injoins Singing on the Churches, Ephes. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16.
Object. But he doth not bid the whole Church to sing, &c.