A47407:500
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 to proceed. There may be, 'tis plain, an extraordinary Spirit of Prayer at some times, and an extraordinary Influence in Preaching, and an extraordinary Occasion to perform those Duties likewise, and so in Singing: But must not we therefore be found in the performance of each of these Duties at any other time? And have not all true Christians always in themselves the chiefest cause or ground of Singing forth the Praises of God that can be, viz. the consideration of Redeeming and Regenerating Grace, though sometimes to such degrees, they do not find that liveliness in their Spirits to do it? Moreover, we ought to strive to be filled with the Spirit, that we may both Pray, Preach, and Hear also. But sometimes we have not those fillings of the Spirit in such a measure as at other times, yet must Pray, Preach, Hear, and Sing also; for the Argument or Motive of Singing, ⟨p. 172⟩(as of our other Duties,) doth not lie in our being so exactly qualified to do it, or in our extraordinary fitness for the Duty, but in the requirement of God, 'tis his Ordinance, and may be our Sin if we are not so fit to praise God as we should be, nor are no more fit to pray and hear the Word preached.
But to proceed. There may be, 'tis plain, an extraordinary Spirit of Prayer at some times, and an extraordinary Influence in Preaching, and an extraordinary Occasion to perform those Duties likewise, and so in Singiug: But must not we therefore be found in the performance of each of these Duties at any other time? And have not all true Christians always in themselves the chiefest cause or ground of Singing forth the Praises of God that can be, viz. the consideration of Redeeming and Regenerating Grace, though sometimes to such degrees, they do not find that liveliness in their Spirits to do it? Moreover, we ought to strive to be filled with the Spirit, that we may both Pray, Preach, and Hear also. But sometimes we have not those fillings of the Spirit in such a measure as at other times, yet must Pray, Preach, Hear, and Sing also; for the Argument or Motive of Singing, ⟨p. 172⟩(as of our other Duties,) doth not lie in our being so exactly qualified to do it, or in our extraordinary fitness for the Duty, but in the requirement of God, 'tis his Ordinance, and may be our Sin if we are not so fit to praise God as we should be, nor are no more fit to pray and hear the Word preached.