A47407:640
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 shall conclude this Section of yours with one honest and plain Argument.
That Assertion or Notion against Singing the Praises of God, that hath a natural tendency in it to overthrow the practice of all Gospel-Ordinances, as well as singing the Praises of God, is a vile and pernicious Assertion or Notion. But for a Man to assert, the Saints and People of God now in these days, ought not to sing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, because we have not that special or extraordinary Gift of the Spirit to do it, hath a natural tendency in it to overthrow the practice of all Gospel-Ordinances in these days. Ergo. That Assertion is vile and pernicious.
The Major cannot be denied: the Minor I have abundantly proved in this Treatise.
The Major cannot be denyed: the Minor I have abundantly proved in this Treatise.
In Sect. 4. You seem to Answer what we say about Singing being a moral Duty. Which you say, Is the refuge of some who cannot maintain their practice of formal Singing by Gospel-Institution. Append. pag. 27.