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

xii, [6], 192, 55, [1] p. · 66k words · Wing K50 · ESTC R21273

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Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, an Holy Ordinance of… › Chapter 15 › Section 4: IV. Of Womens Singing.

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:404p. 139

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.

:405p. 139

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.

:406p. 139–140

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, Exod. 10. 11. So here, some that were altogether against singing of Psalm•• at all with lively Voices, yet being convinced that it is a Moral Worship of God, warranted in Scripture, then if there must be a singing, one alone must sing, not all, […] (if all) the Men only and not the Women. He then mentions your Objection, to which he replies.

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⟩

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V. Of the Order of Singing.