A47407:685
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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If what I have said have no more strength of Argument and Scripture, and good Sense in it for Singing of Psalms, &c. than appears in your Book against it, I do entreat my Reader to reject what I have said, and […] it as ⟨p. 44⟩worth nothing; but if it be otherwise, viz. upright, even words of Truth, O then ye Saints receiv• this Ordinance, and let what I have said by the assistance of God's Spirit, be as Gourds, and as Nails fastened by the Master of Assemblies, which are given from one Shepherd, Prov. 12. 10, 13.
If what I have said have no more strength of Argument and Scripture, and good Sense in it for Singing of Psalms, &c. than appears in your Book against it, I do intreat my Reader to reject what I have said, and 〈…〉 it as ⟨p. 44⟩worth nothing; but if it be otherwise, viz. upright, even words of Truth, O then ye Saints receiv• this Ordinance, and let what I have said by the assistance of God's Spirit, be as Go•rds, and as Nails fastened by the Master of Assemblies, which are given from one Shepherd, Prov. 12. 10, 13.
One word more to those Texts in Paul's Epistles, Ephes. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16. where he enjoins those Churches to admonish one another in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, &c. Can any Man suppose […] these words the Apostle exhorts Ministers to preach, and so sing in Preaching, or to admonish one another to pray, and so to sing in Prayer?