A47407:511
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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In Pag. 47. of your Book, you say, As to Forms of Prayer and Singing, you have sufficiently treated of them before, and that the sufficient Gifts of the Spirit shall continue for the Worship of God in the Gospel-Church to the end of the World; and therefore your Business here you say is, only to show that the using a Form of Preaching, is no Example for a Form of Singing—Because, say you, there is reason for a Form of Preaching from God's Word, and Example of Christ himself, who read a Text, and then preached from it; though as he was not, so others are not limited to that, or any particular Forms; yet it is lawful for them, and required of them to compare Spiritual Things with Spiritual, and to give themselves to reading and meditation, and to hold fast the form of sound Words, rightly dividing the Word of ⟨p. 178⟩Truth—So that where the Scripture gives us a liberty, we may use it; but it is our Sin to take it where it is forbidden, as you say, you have showed in a form of Prayer and Singing.
In Pag. 47. of your Book, you say, As to Forms of Prayer and Singing, you have sufficiently treated of them before, and that the sufficient Gifts of the Spirit shall continue for the Worship of God in the Gospel-Church to the end of the World; and therefore your Business here you say is, only to shew that the using a Form of Preaching, is no Example for a Form of Singing—Because, say you, there is reason for a Form of Preaching from God's Word, and Example of Christ himself, who read a Text, and then preached from it; though as he was not, so others are not limited to that, or any particular Forms; yet it is lawful for them, and required of them to compare Spiritual Things with Spiritual, and to give themselves to reading and meditation, and to hold fast the form of sound Words, rightly dividing the Word of ⟨p. 178⟩Truth—So that where the Scripture gives us a liberty, we may use it; but it is our Sin to take it where it is forbidden, as you say, you have shewed in a form of Prayer and Singing.