A47407:636
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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Answ. Doth not the Apostle pray that God would •ill all the Saints with Joy and Peace? Rom. 15. 13. And pray, that they might be filled with the Fruits of Righteousness? Now singing flows from that Joy that all the Saints ought to labour after; and also from the Fruits of Righteousness, we have an equal need to be filled with the Spirit, to pray, to meditate, to praise God, and to preach and hear the Word, as well as to sing Psalms and Hymns, &c.
But you say, pag. 18. That the Gifts of the Holy Spirit were not given alike to every Member of the Church.
Answ. 'Tis granted: But doth it follow, because some had the extraordinary Gift of the Spirit to pray, must not the others who had not those Gifts, no more than we have them now, not pray at all? Brother, I am grieved to see how you are deceived, and would •eceive others: But as they who had not the extraordinary Gift of the Spirit to pray, were, notwithstanding, to pray; so they who had not the extraordinary or special Gift to sing, were, nevertheless, to sing the Praises of God. What you speak, pag. 18. about the diversity of Gifts, but the same Spirit, from 1 Cor. 12. is rather more against the performance of those other ⟨p. 30⟩D•ties and Ordinances than Singing, because Singing is not there mentioned. But all that you say there, has been answered already; so is what you infer from Col. 3. 16