A47407:344
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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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 Heb. 3. 13.
Now as to the first part of your Assertion; had you read Reverend Mr. Cotton, it might have removed this Mistake, and so prevented your pains to trouble the Reader with such an Exposition of the Text: I find him answering an Objection, that directly includes part of yours, in these words following.
Object. The Apostle to the Ephesians and Colossians doth not say, Sing one to another in Psalms, but speak or preach one to another; or, in other words, Teach and admonish one another; the Psalms dwelling in their Hearts they were to dispose them in a way of teaching and admonishing; but as for singing, he makes no mention of that, until he came to teach them the manner of dispensing the words of Christ unto God in one Verse, and then indeed he teacheth them to sing in the Spirit, making Melody with Grace in the Heart.