A47407:324
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. You will say, They cannot perf••• it aright.
Sol. 1. Their want of Ability doth […] discharge them from such a Duty engrav•• on their Consciences, from the natural respects they have to God as a Creator; […] perform which, God gave them full power▪ Let every Man do his Duty conscientiously▪ he may afterwards come to do it spiritually […] though I should lose the sense of a Duty i• my Conscience, yet the Duty lies on my Conscience from God's Authority, and my Relation to him.
Sol. 1. Their want of Ability doth 〈…〉 discharge them from such a Duty engrav•• on their Consciences, from the natural respects they have to God as a Creator; 〈…〉 perform which, God gave them full power▪ Let every Man do his Duty conscientiously▪ he may afterwards come to do it spiritually 〈…〉 though I should lose the sense of a Duty i• my Conscience, yet the Duty lies on my Conscience from God's Authority, and my Relation to him.
By the same Rule, every one should abstain from performance of a Duty for […] of present Ability, whereas the Duty mu•• be done, and strength expected from Heaven, and waited for according to the divin manner of Dispensation.