A47407:475
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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Have we not a kind of Form prescribed us by our Brethren ⟨p. 162⟩and Sisters, and others too when they put up their Bills, and tell us what they would have us to ask or desire of God for them? this would run us into strange Scruples. Must we tell them they must not put words into our Mouths, we must pray as the Spirit moves us, and can't tell whether we shall pray for them or no?
Your eleventh Reply is this, viz, You intimate that we say, that Prayer under the Gospel is an Ordinance of the same nature it was under the Law, and therefore Singing under the Gospel may be of the same nature, &c.
To this (you say) that it is true, that private Prayer is a Duty of the same nature under the Gospel as it was under the Law.
But their Prayers, you say, were delivered formerly with dark Shadows and carnal Ordinances; for whilst the Priest was offering the Sacrifices, the Priests and Levites in Songs with Instruments of Music delivered such Prayers, and Psalms, and Praises as were appointed for the public Service of God: Therefore (say you) whatsoever Singing hath been, or still may be in Gospel-times, may as well differ from the Old-Testament-Temple-singing.