A47407:624
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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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.
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 shew 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 pittiful threadbare Covering. For if he had thought his other Mediums would have 〈…〉 his turn, or held the Test, we should not have, I am perswaded, heard any of this: But however, we will come to examine his pretended Arguments he brings to prove this Affertion.
His first Argument, to prove Singing was always performed from a special Gift, is in Appendix, pag. 14.