A47407:514
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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The Text saith, He went into the Synagogue of the Jews on the Sabbath-day, and stood up to read. And there was delivered to him the Book of the Prophet Isaiah; and when he had opened the Book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, &c. Luk. 4. 17, 18. And he closed the Book (so do not we) and gave it again to the Minister, vers. 20. And began to say unto them, This ⟨p. 179⟩day is this Scripture fulfilled in your Ears, vers. 21. We read of no more he spake unto them from that Scripture. And as touching those general Directions you mention, of comparing spiritual Things with Spiritual, &c. 1 Cor. 2. 13. the Apostle doth not prescribe a Form of Preaching, but shows, as our Annotators observe, how they did disclaim those Orations of the Athenian Philosophers, using a plain and spiritual Stile, giving the naked Truths of God, without any paint of gaudery Phrase, speaking the Oracles of God as the Oracles of God, fitting Spiritual Things to Spiritual Persons, or opening one Scripture by another.
The Text saith, He went into the Synagogue of the Jews on the Sabbath-day, and stood up to read. Aud there was delivered to him the Book of the Prophet Isaias; and when he had opened the Book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, &c. Luk. 4. 17, 18. And he closed the Book (so do not we) and gave it again to the Minister, vers. 20. And began to say unto them, This ⟨p. 179⟩day is this Scripture fulfilled in your Ears, vers. 21. We read of no more he spake unto them from that Scripture. And as touching those general Directions you mention, of comparing spiritual Things with Spiritual, &c. 1 Cor. 2. 13. the Apostle doth not prescribe a Form of Preaching, but shews, as our Annotators observe, how they did disclaim those Orations of the Athenian Philosophers, using a plain and spiritual Stile, giving the naked Truths of God, without any paint of gawdery Phrase, speaking the Oracles of God as the Oracles of God, fitting Spiritual Things to Spiritual Persons, or opening one Scripture by another.