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

The Papists, or Church of Rome, also have, by the subtlety of Satan, and pride of their own Spirits, changed and corrupted these and other Ordinances of the Gospel another way, […] they have set up something in their stead, which they call by their Names; for, first, they have that they call Baptism, but it is not Christ's Baptism, but Rantism, with many Ceremonies added to it. They have that they call the […] Supper, but 'tis not Christ's Ordinance, but another thing, &c. Also let me tell you, in the fear of God, you have adventured to raze or take away Christ's Ordinance of Singing, and have invented something to put in its room, which you call a Gospel-singing: And I am afraid you little think of the bitter Consequents of this Attempt of yours, and how you •eem hereby to ridicule (though not wittily, I ha•e better thoughts of you) the whole of Gospel-Ordinances, by turning them into a thing you call Essence, a Heart-service only without the Bodily Organs, and rendering your self to be but little better in your so doing, than a ⟨p. 124⟩mere Enthusiast; and whilst you plead for Spiritual Worship, and cry down all Forms, you seem to overthrow all external Acts of Religion, by intimating, that because the Heart […] perform one Duty at some Seasons acceptably to God, viz. Prayer without the bodily Organs; why may not the Spirit or Heart perform Singing too? say you. And why not, say I, Preaching the Word, Baptism, and Breaking of Bread also? The Quakers have not only got a Spiritual or Heart-Baptism, and a Spiritual or Heart-Breaking of Bread, but an assembling together for Heart-Preaching also: And what you say about the Essence of these Duties being in the Heart, (and how 'tis the Heart or Spirit only in Duty and Ordinances that God looks at) and from hence seek to make void Singing with the Voice, it doth (as all Men may see) strike through the Loins of all External Acts of Divine Worship, as before showed: For as I told you in the first Chapter, the Essence of Preaching, and every other External Duty, may as well be said to lie in the Spirit as this of Singing Psalms and Hymns, &c.

The Papists, or Church of Rome, also have, by the subtilty of Satan, and pride of their own Spirits, changed and corrupted these and other Ordinances of the Gospel another way, 〈…〉 they have set up something in their stead, which they call by their Names; for, first, they have that they call Baptism, but it is not Christ's Baptism, but Rantism, with many Ceremonies added to it. They have that they call the Supper, but 'tis not Christ's Ordinance, but another thing, &c. Also let me tell you, in the fear of God, you have adventured to raze or take away Christ's Ordinance of Singing, and have invented something to put in its room, which you call a Gospel-singing: And I am afsaid you little think of the bitter Consequents of this Attempt of yours, and how you eem hereby to ridicule (though not wittily, I hae better thoughts of you) the whole of Gospel-Ordinances, by turning them into a thing you call Essence, a Heart-service only without the Bodily Organs, and rendering your self to be but little better in your so doing, than a