A47407:535
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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Object. But, saith he, you object singing of Psalms with the Voice, is but a Type of that Melody in the Heart, or to that purpose I find he speaks.
Answ. 1. No Scripture (saith he) speaketh of it as a Type, nor doth any Evidence of Reason declare it.
2. You might as well say, that praying with the Voice was a Type of praying with the Heart, and so it is abolished.
3. If singing of Psalms with a loud Voice had been a typical Worship, David would ⟨p. 189⟩not have exhorted us to the Practice of it on the Lord's-Day under the New Testament, Psal. 95. 1, 2, 7.