A47407:672
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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Was Singing, or any other Ordinance performed in the Gospel-Days by an extraordinary Spirit, not performed then also, and afterwards as well and as acceptable to God by the ordinary Gifts? Show, if you can, that other Ordinances which had such special Gifts then to attend them as well as Singing, do notwithstanding remain Ordinances, and yet Singing of Psalms and Hymns doth not so continue.
Was Singing, or any other Ordinance performed in the Gospel-Days by an extraordinary Spirit, not performed then also, and afterwards as well and as acceptable to God by the ordinary Gifts? Shew, if you can, that other Ordinances which had such special Gifts then to attend them as well as Singing, do notwithstanding remain Ordinances, and yet Singing of Psalms and Hymns doth not so continue.
If therefore a Man should premeditate every word of his Sermon by the Assistance of the Spirit, who dares to say he speaks not by the Help of the Holy Ghost, or that his Sermon is not part of Spiritual Worship? 'Tis no matter whether we have our Sermons or our Hymns, mediately or immediately, composed and brought forth, provided they be Spiritual, and done by the help of the Spirit. But to close all, Are not David's Psalms part of Spiritual Worship? and are not the Churches exhorted to sing them?
In Sect. 8. Appendix, pag. 43, 44, &c. in answer to what we say, That our Psalms and Hymns are Spiritual, though precomposed, you say,