A47407:406
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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By the way then it appears, the bare Melody in the Heart, where you say is the Essence of Singing, that is not Singing, by your own Assertion. Thus you destroy what you would build.
Answ. But if Women may not speak nor ••ach in no sense in the Church, they must not be admitted to give an account of their Conversion in the Church, or how God was pleased to work upon their Souls: for that Practice is full of Teaching and Instruction, and has been blessed to the Conversion of some other Persons that have been by.
But I will be at the pains to transcribe what worthy Mr. Cotton hath said to this Objection, it appears others have brought it before you.
The second scruple about Singers is, saith he, whether Women may sing as well as Men? for in this Point there be some deal ⟨p. 140⟩with us, as Pharaoh dealt with the Isr••lites who, tho he was at first utterly unwilling that any of them should go to sacrifice […] the Lord in the Wilderness, yet being […] length convinced that they must go, then […] was content the Men should go, but not […] Women,