A47407:423
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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2. The Rule to regulate these Disorders. And now let this once and for ever be noted, and well heeded, viz. That the ordinary way of the Administration of all Gifts, and performance of all Ordinances in the Churches, must be the Rule for the extraordinary Gifts, and performance of Ordinances.
3. Then in the third place, we must consider the manner of the performance of Ordinances, and exercise of Gifts, according to the Nature of the Gifts and Ordinances.
And now as to the Gift of Teaching, Interpreting, Prophesying, &c. only one was to be ⟨p. 144⟩the Mouth; Let the Prophets speak one by one, and let the other judg: if any thing be revealed to him that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. To act contrary to this Rule, is Confusion; and so of some other Gifts and Ordinances, whole Nature were in themselves the same, so they were to be done. And now as to Singing, that being always performed with Voices together, both in the Old Testament, and by Christ and his Disciples, and by Paul and Silas, and so enjoined on the Churches; they who had a Psalm, that is, as I conclude, a Psalm of David, to bring forth by an extraordinary Spirit, which might not be the Matter of the Psalm, but the Manner of bringing it forth in an unknown Tongue, and it may be in a Tune too that others might not understand, and so upon both respects others could not sing with him, nor the Church be edified; he was not so to bring forth his Psalm, unless there was an Interpreter who might give it forth to the People, that they might sing together, as always that Ordinance was practised in the Public Congregation. And this appears to be the sense of the place by Paul's own words; When I pray, I will pray with the Spirit, and with the Understanding; that is, in a known Tongue, to my own Understanding, and to the Understanding of others. And when I sing, I will sing with the Spirit, and I will sing with the Understanding also: that is, If I sing in the Church, I will not sing in an unknown Tongue, so that others cannot understand what I sing, and so cannot