A47407:445
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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To persuade your Reader, if you could, that the Disciples did not sing with our Saviour, (or they did not sing together) you bring, that Passage of Hannah's mental praying, or speaking in her Heart, 1 Sam. 1. 11, 13. How impertinent this is, I may leave to all. You suppose still, because there is a Mental or Heart-praying, there is a Mental or Heart-singing also: you may, after the same manner say, there is a Mental or Heart-preaching likewise. There is no proper Singing, I tell you again, without the Voice.
To perswade your Reader, if you could, that the Disciples did not sing with our Saviour, (or they did not sing together) you bring, that Passage of Hannah's mental praying, or speaking in her Heart, 1 Sam. 1. 11, 13. How impertinent this is, I may leave to all. You suppose still, because there is a Mental or Heart-praying, there is a Mental or Heart-singing also: you may, after the same manner say, there is a Mental or Heart-preaching likewise. There is no proper Singing, I tell you again, without the Voice.
But you think you have done it at last, from Acts 4. 24. Where it is said, The Disciples lifted up their Voice with one accord to God; and yet did, as you conclude, do no more than pray as we do, that is, only one was the Mouth.
Answ. 1. Some say they lifted up their Voice by an extraordinary manner, by a miraculous Spirit that was upon them, and all uttered the same thing together Prayer-wise.