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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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2. 'Tis observable how you seem to confound this great Duty enjoined in ordinary Worship on these two Churches, with the exercise of those extraordinary Gifts, mentioned 1 Cor. 14. 26. which hereafter I purpose to explain, and show the purport or main drift of the Spirit in that place in 1 Cor. 14, &c. If any Man did sing in an unknown Tongue alone, 'twas because others were not capable to sing with him, and he from thence was not to use such a Gift in the Church, unless there was an Interpreter to give forth that Psalm or Hymn, that so all might sing with him, and be edified in that Ordinance as in others.
2. 'Tis observable how you seem to confound this great Duty injoined in ordinary Worship on these two Churches, with the exercise of those extraordinary Gifts, mentioned 1 Cor. 14. 26. which hereafter I purpose to explain, and shew the purport or main drift of the Spirit in that place in 1 Cor. 14, &c. If any Man did sing in an unknown Tongue alone, 'twas because others were not capable to sing with him, and he from thence was not to use such a Gift in the Church, unless there was an Interpreter to give forth that Psalm or Hymn, that so all might sing with him, and be edified in that Ordinance as in others.
3. In the third place, which is yet worst of all, you would have this of Teaching and Admonishing one another in Psalms, &c. singing with Grace in your Heart, to refer to that Heb. 3. 13. which you apply to such who had the Gift to preach Ministerially, and to sing too by ⟨p. 116⟩the said Gift. In answer to this, in the first place, I thought we should not have had you to affirm, the Apostle means, by Teaching and Admonishing here in this place, to be Preaching, according to that (in your sense) you refer to in citing