A47407:664
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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Answ. We have showed you Singing is a distinct thing from that which is called Teaching or Preaching, tho in Singing there is a Teaching, but chiefly we speak to our own selves, as the Apostle exhorts, in Psalms, &c. and the matter of the Psalm or Hymn is full of Teaching and Admonition, yet 'tis the Matter •ung which teaches, rather than the Singers may •e said to do it: nor is it any Contradiction to say when I teach others, yet I am thereby taught and admonished my self.
Answ. We have shewed you Singing is a distinct thing from that which is called Teaching or Preaching, tho in Singing there is a Teaching, but chiefly we speak to our own selves, as the Apostle exhorts, in Psalms, &c. and the matter of the Psalm or Hymn is full of Teaching and Admonition, yet 'tis the Matter •ung which teaches, rather than the Singers may •e said to do it: nor is it any Contradiction to say when I teach others, yet I am thereby taught and admonished my self.
So that if it were admitted to be a common or ordinary Teaching, which must not be allowed, and all might be said to teach, &c. yet nevertheless all are Hearers also, and are in a sweet manner taught, admonished and instructed ⟨p. 38⟩in singing the Word of Christ, in Psalms, Hymns, and spiritual Songs, as elsewhere I have showed: Nor is it any Contradiction to say, according to the sense of the Apostle, Women must keep silence in the Church, and yet suffer them to sing, &c. no more than […] contradicts their Silence, when they speak […] other times, which they are allowed to do.
So that if it were admitted to be a common or ordinary Teaching, which must not be allowed, and all might be said to teach, &c. yet nevertheless all are Hearers also, and are in a sweet manner taught, admonished and instructed ⟨p. 38⟩