A47407:608
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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Yet we, as I said before, do readily grant, as the Doctor intimates, those other ways of Praising of God, and that Prayer, the Word of •aith, and the Fruits of Obedience, hath a ⟨p. 18⟩tendency to the Praise of God: But if the Doctor, and some other Learned Men, should intimate, that that Greek word Hymnos should in a remote sense signify Praising of God without Singing: we ask, Whether any o• them say those ways of Praises, without Singing, is the immediate, genuine, direct and primary signification of the word?
Yet we, as I said before, do readily grant, as the Doctor intimates, those other ways of Praising of God, and that Prayer, the Word of •aith, and the Fruits of Obedience, hath a ⟨p. 18⟩tendency to the Praise of God: But if the Doctor, and some other Learned Men, should intimate, that that Greek word Hymnos should in a remote sence signify Praising of God without Singing: we ask, Whether any o• them say those ways of Praises, without Singing, is the immediate, genuine, direct and primary signification of the word?
All your Helpers will fail you here. There are other Greek words to express those other ways of Praise to God besides Hymnos. You are upon a dangerous Rock; you make it you• Business to trouble our People with the signification of the Greek word Hymnos, a Hymn, (though you understand not that Language) just after the same manner that the Ped• baptists do with the word Baptiz; say they, i• signifies washing, as well as dipping, which learned Fisher grants. But how? Take his words, 'Tis (saith he) so taken improperly, indirectly, collaterally, by the by, or remotely, it so signifies, viz. a washing: But (saith he) the direct, immediate genuine and primary signification of the word Baptizo, is Immersion, Dipping, or to dip, &c. You, it seems, take the same way to destroy the Ordinance of Singing God's Praises, as they take to destroy the Ordinance of Baptism: But this will do your business no better than that will do theirs; Dipping is Washing, but every Washing is not Dipping. Theirs is (as Mr. Fisher observes) an improper, remote, or indirect Baptism, that they infer