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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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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.
If I do not mistake you, this Objection contains part of what you say, and pray take his Answer; I do not doubt but he gives the true sense of the place.
Answ. Such as tremble at the Word, saith he, (as the framer of this Objection professeth himself to do) they should rather bow their Judgments and Practice to Scripture-Language,