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

Name: The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…
Author: Benjamin Keach

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 ...

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed for Author, 1691

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Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, an Holy Ordinance of… › Chapter 15 › Section 2: II. Of David's Psalms.

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Object. There is no Institution to sing David's Psalms, and that Christ nor his Apostles ever […] practised. And also if the Apostles had occasion to translate any Text out of the Hebrew […] the Greek, they did never turn them into Metre.

Object. There is no Institution to sing David's Psalms, and that Christ nor his Apostles ever 〈…〉 practised. And also if the Apostles had occasion to translate any Text out of the Hebrew 〈…〉 the Greek, they did never turn them into Metre.

:386p. 133–134

Answ. There is an Institution to sing David's Psalms; Ephes. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16. If there be […] •ther Psalms mentioned in the Scripture, besides David's Psalms, or the Book of Psalms, and the Churches are required to sing Psalms as well […] Hymns; Then there is a Gospel-Institution for singing of David's Psalms. But there are no other Psalms mentioned in the Scripture besid•• David's Psalms, or the Book of Psalms, and the Churches are required to sing Psalms as ⟨p. 134⟩well as Hymns. Ergo. The singing of David's Psalms, or Psalms contained in the Book of Psalms, is a Gospel-Institution.

Answ. There is an Institution to sing David's Psalms; Ephes. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16. If there be 〈…〉 •ther Psalms mentioned in the Scripture, besides David's Psalms, or the Book of Psalms, and the Churches are required to sing Psalms as well Hymns; Then there is a Gospel-Institution for singing of David's Psalms. But there are no other Psalms mentioned in the Scripture besid David's Psalms, or the Book of Psalms, and the Churches are required to sing Psalms as

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III. Of prescribed and precomposed Songs and Hymns.