A47407:630
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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Therefore it follows that you strangely mistake, pag. 15. Appendix, in intimating, when Paul exhorts the Saints to covet after the best Gifts, he means the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit; for certainly those are the best Gifts that most tend to the edification of the Church, which Tongues could not be said to do. And in the very next words he speaks of a more excellent ways, viz. that of Charity or Love, which refers to the Graces of the Spirit. And of so little use were those special or extraordinary Gifts to the Church, that if there were no Interpreter, they were to be silent, and not use them in the Church at all who were that way gifted.
2. You confound Tongues (which did appertain to all sorts of Gifts) with Prophecy and Singing: He that had a Doctrine, might have the Gift of Tongues to bring it forth; so might he that had the Gift of Prophecy, and he also that had the Gift to Interpret; and so might he also that had the extraordinary Gift to bring forth a Psalm. And, pray, why must ordinary praising of God be now admitted? and Preaching, Prophesying, and Interpreting the ⟨p. 28⟩Scripture by the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit be still allowed, and yet Singing by the same ordinary Gifts must not be admitted? What Reason do you give for this? Is not this to darken Counsel with words without Knowledge?
2. You confound Tongues (which did appertain to all sorts of Gifts) with Prophecy and Singing: He that had a Doctrine, might have the Gift of Tongues to bring it forth; so might he that had the Gift of Prophecy, and he also that had the Gift to Interpret; and so might he also that had the extraordinary Gift to bring forth a Psalm. And, pray, why must ordinary praising of God be now admitted? and Preaching, Prophesying, and Interpreting the ⟨p. 28⟩Scripture by the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit be still allowed, and yet Singing by the same ordinary Gifts must not be admitted? What Reason do you give for this? Is not this to darken Counsel with words without Knowledg?