A47407:616
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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Which doth fully appear, if we consider the false and preposterous Mediums or Ways he takes to make out what he pretends to prove.
1. For one while he seems to assert, that the Essence of Singing, which is (he says) in our Spirit, that will serve our turn in discharge of the Duty of singing forth God's Praises, without employing our Tongues or bodily Organs in it, which, as I have, again and again said, doth as well exclude vocal Praying and Preaching, &c. as Singing. See Pag. 8. of his first Treatise.
1. For one while he seems to assert, that the Essence of Singing, which is (he says) in our Spirit, that will serve our turn in discharge of the Duty of singing forth God's Praises, without imploying our Tongues or bodily Organs in it, which, as I have, again and again said, doth as well exclude vocal Praying and Preaching, &c. as Singing. See Pag. 8. of his first Treatise.
2. Then again at another time, because there are other ways to praise God besides singing of his Praises, we must not sing his Praises at all. Appendix, p. 4, 5.