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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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Fire and Hail, Snow and Vapours, Mountains and all Hills, fruitful Trees and Cedars, Beasts and all Cattle, creeping things, and flying Fowl are exhorted to sing and praise God, Psal. 148. 8, 9, 10. which all know they cannot truly and in a proper sense be said to do.
Fire and Hail, Snow and Vapours, Mountains and all Hills, fruitful Trees and Cedars, Beasts and all Cattel, creeping things, and flying Fowl are exhorted to sing and praise God, Psal. 148. 8, 9, 10. which all know they cannot truly and in a proper sense be said to do.
'Tis frequent (as Mr. Caryl observes) in Scripture to attribute Acts of Life to Lifeless Creatures, and Acts of Reason to those which have no Sense; the Earth is said to mourn, Tsa. 33. 9. the Trees of the Forest, as the Hills and the Valleys, are said to rejoice, Isa. 65. 12. 13. the Birds praise God, saith he, by their singing, and the Stars by their shining. Caryl on Job, chap. 38. 7.
Now in like manner, if there be any such sort or kind of singing as these Men plead for, viz. a mental singing, i. e. a Heart-singing without the Tongue, mentioned in Scripture, (tho I must confess I know none) yet it could be no more a proper singing, than the Blood of Abel, which is said to speak, is a proper speaking: so that if they could show us in any place of God's Word, where any Godly Man is said to sing, and yet his Voice was not heard, it would signify nothing to their purpose in turning all singing unto Heart-Melody, or inward rejoicing only, without the Tongue expressing of it musically, or in a melodious manner; for this is just to destroy the Propriety of different Actions and Things said to be done. As to the other Objection, take what Mr. Sid am,