A47407:661
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. Whereas you affirm, that Women were not admitted to pray nor prophesy in the ⟨p. 36⟩Church neither in the Old nor New Testament, is doubtless false, as our late Annotators well observed on 1 Cor. 14. 34. which is the very Text you mention, take their words; This Rule must not (say they) be restrained to ordinary prophesying: for certainly, if the Spirit of Prophesy came upon a Woman in the Church, she might speak. Anna, who was a Prophetess in the Temple, gave Thanks to the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for the Redemption of Israel: and I cannot tell how Philip's Daughters prophesied, if they did not speak in the presence of many. The reason given why Women should be silent, is, because they are commanded to be in Obedience. A Woman (say they) might say, Amen, to the public Prayers, and also sing with the Congregation to the Honour and Glory of God, but for her to speak in an ordinary course of Prophesy to instruct People, &c. she is forbidden. The Apostle, saith a Friend (in a Manuscript) doth not prohibit all manner of speaking, for that is directly contrary to 1 Cor. 11. 5, 6. where Women are admitted to pray and prophesy: for Prayer, they may say, Amen to the public Prayers of the Church: and for Prophesy they may sing Psalms, the Apostle using the Expression according to the Idiom of the Jews, 1 Sam. 19. 20, 21. 1 Sam. 10. 5. they shall prophesy; and for they shall prophesy, the •ald. Paraphras. reads, they shall sing• ⟨p. 37⟩and thou shalt praise with them. Vid. Wilson's Dict. Dr. Hammond's Annotat. on 1 Cor. 11. 5. and so it's used 1 Chron. 25. 1, 2, 3.