A47407:430
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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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.
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.
And if we must throw one Ordinance away from thence, we must (as the Non-Churches say) lay them all aside, and practise none at all, till we are endowed with Power from on High, as the Apostles were, viz. to Preach, ⟨p. 147⟩Prophesy, and sing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, by Inspiration, or by the extraordinary Gifts of the Holy Ghost.