A47407:598
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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Answer. We never yet asserted there was no other way or manner to praise God, than by singing of his Praise. Nor is there a Man who affirms any such thing that I know of; but it is one thing to own those other ways of praising of God, and another thing for you utterly to deny this way, or the way we use in singing his Praise.
But I must tell you, most Learned Men, nay, all that I have met with, do conclude, the Disciples, or those Children you speak of Matth. 21. 16. Luke 19. 37. did sing those Hosanna's to the Son of David, as I have showed in the first Chapter of the foregoing Treatise.
But I must tell you, most Learned Men, nay, all that I have met with, do conclude, the Disciples, or those Children you speak of Matth. 21. 16. Luke 19. 37. did sing those Hosanna's to the Son of David, as I have shewed in the first Chapter of the foregoing Treatise.
I perceive you have now at last raised the Auxiliaries against this Blessed Truth of Jesus Christ. But as a worthy Brother hinted the other day, Dr. Owen is a pressed Man, and as forced in so, he doth you no service at all, as ⟨p. 16⟩will appear by what follows; but more especially by what my worthy Friend has wrote at the close of this our Answer.