A47407:655
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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3. Then she must not ask, where the Text is, if she comes too late, for that is in some sense a speaking and breaking Silence.
4. Nor must she then say Amen at the close of Prayer, for that's a breaking Silence.
5. Which is worst of all, she must not in the Church give an account of her Conversion, or declare how the Lord was pleased to work upon her Heart: for I have showed in that Act there is much instruction, nay, 'tis so full of teaching to others, that what some pious Women have spoke in the Church upon this account, God hath blessed to the Conversion of Sinners, as well as it has refreshed and sweetly comforted divers Believers; and therefore herein you abuse the sense of the Holy Ghost, and indeed are not, I fear, fit to be a Teacher of others, but to learn in silence your self.
5. Which is worst of all, she must not in the Church give an account of her Conversion, or declare how the Lord was pleased to work upon her Heart: for I have shewed in that Act there is much instruction, nay, 'tis so full of teaching to others, that what some pious Women have spoke in the Church upon this account, God hath blessed to the Conversion of Sinners, as well as it has refreshed and sweetly comforted divers Believers; and therefore herein you abuse the sense of the Holy Ghost, and indeed are not, I fear, fit to be a Teacher of others, but to learn in silence your self.