A47407:657
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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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.
2. The way therefore to understand this as ⟨p. 34⟩well as other Scriptures, is to have recourse to the main drift or purport of the Spirit of God therein. And evident it is, the main thing the Apostle drives at in both these places, or doth intend, is this viz. That Women ought not to be allowed to take part in the ordinary Ministration of preaching the Gospel, or ministerially, or authoritatively to preach the Word: because he that has received a just Call so to do, may and ought to exhort and command in the Name of our Lord Jesus with all Authority, Tit. 2. 15. and this Work therefore Women should not take upon them, because they must be in Subjection, and not usurp Authority over the Man. To take the bare letter of the Text, without showing the scope and drift of the Spirit of God in it, would make sad work, as I might show from many Scriptures, and has occasioned many abominable Errors, nay Heresies, to abound in the World.