A47407:642
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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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.
Answ. You mistake; we need no Gospel-Institution, 'tis as clear a Precept in these Scriptures, Ephes. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16. as any we have in the New-Testament. But we say Singing the Praises of God is more than a mere positive Duty.
What you further say under this Head, doth but betray your own Ignorance about moral Precepts, and needs no Answer, I having fully explained it in this Tre•••e. Is it absurd and irrational for us to make the Moral Law, or Light of Nature, a Rule to exert the Worship