A47407:622
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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5. And lastly, like a wary and fore-seeing Man, to be sure to carry his Cause, he retires to his last Fort and Strong-hold, and affirms, That the Ordinance of singing of Psalms, Hymns, &c. was only in the Primitive Time performed by an extraordinary Gift; and unless we have such a Gift, we must not sing the Praises of God now in these days.
Tho I have said enough to detect this […] Conceit, yet since he leads me in this Path, I must, I perceive, reply again, as I have already done, that this Objection lies equally against Prayer, Preaching, and interpreting the Scripture, &c. sith all these Gospel-Duties and Ordinances in the Primitive and Apostolical Days, were performed by the said extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit.
Tho I have said enough to detect this 〈…〉 Conceit, yet since he leads me in this Path, I must, I perceive, reply again, as I have already done, that this Objection lies equally against Prayer, Preaching, and interpreting the Scripture, &c. sith all these Gospel-Duties and Ordinances in the Primitive and Apostolical Days, were performed by the said extraodinary Gifts of the Spirit.
If he could make this appear, there was no need for him to trouble us with the Greek word, nor with any of his other Mediums he uses to exclude Gospel-Singing; it cannot but appear by this last shift, he acknowledges that Singing is somewhat more than that Praising of God he speaks of: But these things betray the ⟨p. 25⟩Man's Integrity, or rather his Weakness, and show he doth not argue, but plays the part of a Sophister, though not a cunning One, because his Nakedness plainly appears to the meanest Capacity, through his pitiful threadbare Covering. For if he had thought his other Mediums would have […] his turn, or held the Test, we should not have, I am persuaded, heard any of this: But however, we will come to examine his pretended Arguments he brings to prove this Assertion.