A47407:632
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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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.
You need not therefore spend your time to prove the Apostles Prayed, Preached, Prophesied, and also Sung by an extraordinary Gift; we acknowledge it, but say, this is no mo•e against our Singing, than against our Praying, &c. who have not now those special Gifts.
You need not therefore spend your time to prove the Apostles Prayed, Preached, Prophesied, and also Sung by an extraordinary Gift; we acknowledg it, but say, this is no mo•e against our Singing, than against our Praying, &c. who have not now those special Gifts.
2. He that had a Psalm of David, might bring it forth in an unknown Tongue, as well as he that had a Doctrine, and so not to the Edification of the Church: For if he brought out a Psalm of David in an unknown Tongue, who could sing with him? But if he had been to sing alone, the Melody might have refreshed those who sung not […] as some say they have been in hearing the French Protestants sing, who understand not their Language. But to prevent this, the Apostle Paul resolved when he sung, he would sing with the Spirit, ⟨p. 29⟩and with the Understanding also, because 'tis the Matter sung that is fruitful to the Understanding: and what is the Melody without that?