A47407:429
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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I am now come to your last Thesis, wherein you pretend to answer some of our Arguments and Scriptures for Singing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. And if I meet with any thing pertinent, I shall reply to it, or else pass it by as not worthy of an Answer. And such is the first you bring, as alleged by us from […]. 15. And the second is like to it, about […] and Barak, as if they together did not, could no: sing that Song, when the Holy Ghost positively says they did. The Holy Ghost saith, that Moses and the Congregation of Israel sung, and you would fain make us believe, it was some extraordinary Ecstasy: […] we from thence must have Dancing too, which I have already fully answered.
I am now come to your last Thesis, wherein you pretend to answer some of our Arguments and Scriptures for Singing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. And if I meet with any thing pertinent, I shall reply to it, or else pass it by as not worthy of an Answer. And such is the first you bring, as alledged by us from 〈…〉. 15. And the second is like to it, about 〈…〉 and Barak, as if they together did not, could no: sing that Song, when the Holy Ghost positively says they did. The Holy Ghost saith, that Moses and the Congregation of Israel sung, and you would fain make us believe, it was some extraordinary Extasy: 〈…〉 we from thence must have Dancing too, which I have already fully answered.
Your third Reply, That the Singing that was in the Temple was extraordinary, and so in the Apostles Time.
Answ. We deny the latter, Singing was no more performed in the Gospel-time, by an extraordinary Spirit and Manner, than Prayer, Preaching, and all other Ordinances; and by the Argument we have not those extraordinary […] now to perform one Duty, so not another.