A47407:411
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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(1.) By way of teaching, whether in expounding or applying Scripture; for this the Apostle accounteth an Act of Authority, which is unlawful for a Woman to usurp over the Man, 1 Tim. 2. 13. And besides, the Woman is more subject to Error than the Man, ver. 14. and therefore might sooner prove a Seducer, if she became a Teacher.
(2.) Yet nevertheless in two cases it is clear a Woman may speak in the Church. •. In way of Subjection, when she is to give ⟨p. 141⟩account of her Offence; thus Peter questioned Sapphira before the Church, touching the price of Land sold by her and her Husband, &c. and she accordingly spake in the Church, to give her Answer to the Question, Acts 5. 8. 2. In way of singing forth the Praises of God together with the rest of the Congregation, for 'tis evident the Apostle layeth no greater restraint upon Women for silence in the Church, than the Law put upon them before, for so himself speaketh in the place alleged, 1 Cor. 14. 34. it is not permitted to a Woman to speak, but to be under Subjection, […] also saith the Law.
(2.) Yet nevertheless in two cases it is clear a Woman may speak in the Church. •. In way of Subjection, when she is to give ⟨p. 141⟩account of her Offence; thus Peter questioned Sapphira before the Church, touching the price of Land sold by her and her Husband, &c. and she accordingly spake in the Church, to give her Answer to the Question, Acts 5. 8. 2. In way of singing forth the Praises of God together with the rest of the Congregation, for 'tis evident the Apostle layeth no greater restraint upon Women for silence in the Church, than the Law put upon them before, for so himself speaketh in the place alledged,