A47407:431
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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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.
For as Singing, (it being a moral Duty as well as Prayer, so it was in the Church of the Jews before the Glory of their Temple-Worship): so Prayer and Preaching, being ordinary Duties, and parts of Natural Religion (as well as brought under Divine Institution for the more orderly and spiritual performance of them), yet in the glorious Time of the Gospel were all done by an extraordinary Spirit, or by Miraculous Gifts; 'tis evident, therefore, extraordinary Gifts in the Gospel-day, were not only suited (as you imagine) to tune their Hearts and Tongues to sing the Praises of God only, but also to Pray, Preach, Prophesy, and so to perform the whole of Gospel-Ordinances and Worship, which was to confirm each Ordinance in particular, and the whole of the Christian Religion in general,