The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…

And then come and tell your Reader the ⟨p. 122⟩Essence of Sin is in the Heart, and the Essence of other things Good and Evil, and take […] four Pages in this kind of nonsensical way […] speaking, confounding the proper Acts […] God's Worship, nay, destroy them utterly, by starting an uncouth term, as here applied, […] Essence; nay, and I perceive this mighty Ma• of Straw you have made and set up, you […] at a strange manner; 'tis, as it were, the […] on which all the stress of the whole Superstructure of your new-found Contrivance to evade God's blessed Ordinance of Singing […] laid; so that if this be razed, you must find another Singing in the New Testament besides this Essence of Singing, which you say is in the Heart; and I perceive 'tis only that inward joy of the Spirit that you mean by the Essence of Singing, and that to be all the Singing you would have the Saints to use in Gospel-days. And be sure if you have missed the mark here, your Book has nothing in it of instruction. A Man cannot be so vain as to attempt to overthrow an Act of Divine Worship, as it hath been received and practised for many Ages amongst all the Godly generally; but he must set up something in the room of it which he must call by that name, since God's Word bears positive witness to such a Church-Ordinance. A Gospel-Singing there is, as well as a Gospel-praying, preaching, &c. But rather than it shall be that which indeed it is, as owned by the Law, and the Prophets, Christ and his Apostles, and most wise, learned, and ⟨p. 123⟩truly Godly Christians, it shall be something else contrived in the darkness of your Mind.

And then come and tell your Reader the ⟨p. 122⟩Essence of Sin is in the Heart, and the Essenc• of other things Good and Evil, and take 〈…〉 four Pages in this kind of nonsensical way 〈…〉 speaking, confounding the proper Acts 〈…〉 God's Worship, nay, destroy them utterly, by starting an uncouth term, as here apply'd, 〈…〉 Essence; nay, and I perceive this mighty Ma of Straw you have made and set up, you at a strange manner; 'tis, as it were, the on which all the stress of the whole Superstructure of your new-found Contrivance to evade God's blessed Ordinance of Singing laid; so that if this be razed, you must find another Singing in the New Testament besides this Essence of Singing, which you say is in the Heart; and I perceive 'tis only that inward joy of the Spirit that you mean by the Essence of Singing, and that to be all the Singing you would have the Saints to use in Gospel-days. And besure if you have missed the mark here, your Book has nothing in it of instruction. A Man cannot be so vain as to attempt to overthrow an Act of Divine Worship, as it hath been received and practised for many Ages amongst all the Godly generally; but he must set up something in the room of it which he must call by that name, since God's Word bears positive witness to such a Church-Ordinance. A Gospel-Singing there is, as well as a Gospel-praying, preaching, &c. But rather than it shall be that which indeed it is, as owned by the Law, and the Prophets, Christ and his Apostles, and most wise, learned, and