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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 15
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Answ. 'Tis not a falling away from Truth, to restore a lost or neglected Ordinance of the Gospel, (as you I perceive dare not deny, but this of Singing is); The main difference is about the Manner, or what Singing is. We say it is going forward i• the glorious Work of Reformation. What though some Baptized Churches (who I do believe have attained to greater Purity in some things, than some others) have born such a Witness against Singing of David's Psalms; is it therefore no Ordinance of Christ? must they needs know every Truth of Christ? Is there any Church that is yet arrived to such a perfection of Knowledge, that they need not the discovery of any Truth but what they have received? I am afraid some of those Churches are yet short of the Knowledge and Practice of another Ordinance as well as this, and speak against it as against this, though it is one of the first Principles of the Doctrine of Christ, Heb. 6. 1, 2. Are they against the Singing of David's Psalms and Hymns, do ye say? God forbid! since the Holy Ghost hath enjoined the Churches to sing them, pag. 3, 4.
Answ. 'Tis not a falling away from Truth, to restore a lost or neglected Ordinance of the Gospel, (as you I perceive dare not deny, but this of Singing is); The main difference is about the Manner, or what Singing is. We say it is going forward i• the glorious Work of Reformation. What though some Baptized Churches (who I do believe have attained to greater Purity in some things, than some others) have born such a Witness against Singing of David's Psalms; is it therefore no Ordinance of Christ? must they needs know every Truth of Christ? Is there any Church that is yet arrived to such a perfection of Knowledg, that they need not the discovery of any Truth but what they have received? I am afraid some of those Churches are yet short of the Knowledg and Practice of another Ordinance as well as this, and speak against it as against this, though it is one of the first Principles of the Doctrine of Christ, Heb. 6. 1, 2. Are they against the Singing of David's Psalms and Hymns, do ye say? God forbid! since the Holy Ghost hath enjoyned the Churches to sing them, pag. 3, 4.