A47407:645
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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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 ⟨p. 32⟩of God? see Append. p. 28. 'Tis not so much the matter of Moral Duties, as the manner of the performance of them, that renders them Spiritual; and for the more orderly and spiritual performance of such Duties, that are in their own nature Moral, they are brought under Gospel-institution, as Prayer, Preaching, and Singing the Praises of God are; and therefore all Moral Duties must be discharged by the help of the Spirit, and with Grace in the Heart, if accepted of God.
What you further say under this Head, doth but betrary 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 ⟨p. 32⟩of God? see Append. p. 28. 'Tis not so much the matter of Moral Duties, as the manner of the performance of them, that renders them Spiritual; and for the more orderly and spiritual performance of such Duties, that are in their own nature Moral, they are brought under Gospel-institution, as Prayer, Preaching, and Singing the Praises of God are; and therefore all Moral Duties must be discharged by the help of the Spirit, and with Grace in the Heart, if accepted of God.
In pag. 33. of your Appendix, you repeat your former Objection against Women's Singing in the Church, because the Apostle saith, he suffered not a Woman to teach, nor usurp Authority over the Man, but to be in silence.
In pag. 33. of your Appendix, you repeat your former Objection against Womens Singing in the Church, because the Apostle saith, he suffered not a Woman to teach, nor usurp Authority over the Man, but to be in silence.