A47407:473
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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But I perceive what you aim at, viz. th• Matter must not be precomposed; that's the Formal Business with you. I will tell you, […] an extraordinary Gift of Singing was given to a Man, both in Matter and Manner, ye• it must be a Form to others that sing with him; for he must either write it, and so give […] forth to them, or else speak the words of the Hymn he has to sing, or else how should they sing with him? So that since you would […] none to sing but one Man alone, 'tis no marvel you so oppose the Singing of the Psalm of David, or precomposed Hymns taken […] of the Word of Christ.
But I perceive what you aim at, viz. th• Matter must not be precomposed; that's the Formal Business with you. I will tell you, 〈…〉 an extraordinary Gift of Singing was given to a Man, both in Matter and Manner, ye• it must be a Form to others that sing with him; for he must either write it, and so give 〈…〉 forth to them, or else speak the words of the Hymn he has to sing, or else how should they sing with him? So that since you would 〈…〉 none to sing but one Man alone, 'tis no marvel you so oppose the Singing of the Psalm of David, or precomposed Hymns taken 〈…〉 of the Word of Christ.
Moses, that you say sung by Inspiration, th• he had the Matter of his Song given to him immediately from God, yet did he give it ou• by speaking or writing to the Congregation• else how could they have sung it with him, […] the Holy Ghost positively says they did? so that that was formal too with you. Nay, […] extraordinary Prophets first received the Word of the Lord, and may be sometimes some considerable while before they delivered it out to the People; nay, we find Jeremiah wrote par of his Prophecy in a Roll, was not that a Form they could repeat the same words over again and sometimes did. 'Tis not material whether the Form be David's Psalms, or Hymns give out by an extraordinary or by an ordinary hel of the Spirit, if others sing with him that ha it, you will, I perceive, say that 'tis formal tho it be never so spiritual; but I deny that […]