A47407:530
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… › Conclusion: The Conclusion.
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First, I infer, That to sing David's Psalms and Scripture-Hymns, and sacred Songs taken out of the Word of Christ, together in the public Worship of God, is an holy Ordinance of Christ, and not in the least to mingle Law and Gospel together any otherwise than the Holy Ghost hath done it; for Moral Duties are the same in the Law and Gospel.
First, I infer, That to sing David's Psalms and Scripture-Hymns, and sacred Songs taken out of the Word of Christ, together in the publick Worship of God, is an holy Ordinance of Christ, and not in the least to mingle Law and Gospel together any otherwise than the Holy Ghost hath done it; for Moral Duties are the same in the Law and Gospel.
Secondly; Whereas you say, This will lead us to return from whence we came, at a Dog to his Vomit, and as a Sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the Mire. I say, 1. You do not write like an humble and trembling-hearted Christian, but show too much Gall and Worm-wood in your Spirit. And, 2. I say, to sing the Psalms of David, and other sacred Scripture-Hymns and spiritual Songs, is to build up the old waste places, and restore the ancient Paths to dwell in, and a going forward and not backward.
Secondly; Whereas you say, This will lead us to return from whence we came, at a Dog to his Vomit, and as a Sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the Mire. I say, 1. You do not write like an humble and trembling-hearted Christian, but shew too much Gall and Worm-wood in your Spirit. And, 2. I say, to sing the Psalms of David, and other sacred Scripture-Hymns and spiritual Songs, is to build up the old waste places, and restore the ancient Paths to dwell in, and a going forward and not backward.
Thirdly; You would, you say, have the Leaders among us seriously consider, that are for such formal Singing (as you call it) whether they will be able to plead at the Bar of Christ for this Practice, tho they may urge it on their fellow-Brethren here, &c. and you put up a kind of Prayer, that God would give us a true sight and sense of the evil Consequences of this Error (as you are pleased to call it) that we may not cause his People to sin, but that with sound Doctrine we may strengthen the weak Hands and feeble Knees, &c.