A47407:631
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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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?
I have demonstrated, that the End of those extraordinary Gifts that were then in the Church in the Administration of every Duty and Ordinance, was to confirm the ordinary practice of all those Ordinances, and so to continue them in the Church to the end of the World. And God hath equally honoured and confirmed Singing of Psalms, &c. to continue, and the ••• ctice thereof to abide, as of any othe• Ordinance.