A47407:49
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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Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, an Holy Ordinance of… › Chapter 1
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First, It may not be unnecessary to consider of those several distinct and internal Acts of the Mind and Heart of a Man.
Secondly, Of those external Acts of the Tongue of a Man.
1. To think, muse, or meditate, is an inter•al Act of the Mind, wherein the Excellency of the Soul is discovered unto a Man's own •elf; as David saith, I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and that my Soul knoweth right-well, Psal. 139. 14. The Soul has its divers Passions, ⟨p. 8⟩as Fear, Anger, &c. there lie the Desires; Sense of Want or Fullness; 'tis the Seat of Joy and Sorrow. But yet nevertheless there are several Acts that the Soul can't do without the bodily Organ; 'tis capable of praying, or to join wi•• others in Prayer, without the Tongue; because there are the Desires (as I said before) an• God hears and knows the Groans, Sighs, an• earnest Desires of the Soul, as well as if the• were expressed by words, yet ought the Tongue to be employed in that Service notwithstanding and not only for the sake of others who are […] join in with them in those fervent breathings […] Man may put up to God, but it may be expedient when a Man is alone verbally to express his Desires to the Lord, for several reason• which I shall not mention here, it being not […] our present business: Yet nevertheless the So•• without the Tongue can't preach God's Word can't dispute for it, &c. nor do many othe things; neither can the Soul, I say, be said […] sing in a proper sense without the Tongue True, there is a Metaphorical Singing spoke of in the Scripture, so by a Metonymy the Tre of the Wood, and Mountains, and Fields […] said to sing; and thus, in an improper Sense the Heart may be said to sing, when it on rejoices in God. Many proper Acts of Me are often in the Scripture ascribed to Veget bless and Animal Creatures, and many prop Acts of Men are attributed to God.