A47407:454
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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Besides these, 1. Here is Singing enjoined, that's evident.
2. Here is the Word of Christ prescribed, as the Matter in general to be sung.
3. Here are Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs as the Form; and this cannot be denied, without palpable Violence offered to the Spirit.
But you would not have Old-Testament Names given to New-Testament Things, in Singing, but give no reason for it; Prayer was called Prayer in the Old Testament, and Praises called Praises, and Laws called Ordinances; and so they are called in the New: And why not Singing calling Singing, and Psalms of David called Psalms, and Hymns called Hymns in the New Testament, as well as in the Old? These Cavils argue you want Matter to object against Christ's Ordinance of Singing, as you fain would do. You intimate, as if the Holy Ghost had enjoined Singing of such Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, that no Body knows what they be; but you think they may be known hereafter; as if we had an imperfect Gospel, and can't understand the Duties of it, till some extraordinary effusion of the Spirit comes upon us. So it may be objected in other Cases, as the Quakers do about Baptism and the Lord's Supper, who cry down our Ordinances, as none of those the Holy Ghost gave forth, nor our Preaching neither, but they are all spiritual Things, and must be done by a Spirit of