A47407:408
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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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, 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⟩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,