A47407:610
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If you discourse with learned Persons, they will tell you, that some Greek words do, in an improper or remote sense, bear several Significations; but the direct, genuine, and proper signification of the Word is Singing, or, they sung. And now do you not think you are greatly to blame to make such a stir upon a word you understand not, after the manner you have done, and thereby cause Doubts to arise in the Minds of poor weak Christians about the Translation of the Holy Bible, and render our Famous and Learned Translators unfaithful? But I hope our People will not regard or mind what you unadvisedly have wrote and said upon this Account. Have not the Translators, (who compared divers Greek Copies together,) been more faithful to give the proper, genuine and direct signification of the Word, they hymned, they sung an Hymn, than from the remote sense, they said Grace, or gave Thanks? We read he gave Thanks when he took the Bread, &c. the word there in the Greek is, he Hymned. I have often said, to sing to God in aright manner, is ⟨p. 20⟩praising of God, but all praising of God is not singing his Praises; therefore they that translate the word, they praised God, speak the Truth, but they do not speak all the Truth.
If you discourse with learned Persons, they will tell you, that some Greek words do, in an improper or remote sense, bear several Significations; but the direct, genuine, and proper signification of the Word is Singing, or, they sung. And now do you not think you are greatly to blame to make such a stir •pon a word you understand not, after the manner you have done, and thereby cause Doubts to arise in the Minds of poor weak Christians about the Translation of the Holy Bible, and render our Famous and Learned Translators unfaithful? But I hope our People will not regard or mind what you unadvisedly have wrote and said upon this Account. Have not the Translators, (who compared divers Greek Copies together,) been more faithful to give the proper, genuine and direct signification of the Word, they hymned, they sung an Hymn, than from the remote sense, they said Grace, or gave Thanks? We read he gave Thanks when he took the Bread, &c. the word there in the Greek is, he Hymned. I have often said, to sing to God in aright manner, is ⟨p. 20⟩praising of God, but all praising of God is not singing his Praises; therefore they that translate the word, they praised God, speak the Truth, but they do not speak all the Truth.