A47407:708
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Next he comes to Mr. L. in his Critic• Sacra, where you will find Mr. L. giving this sense of the word [Greek or Hebrew], that it is carnem se• peculiariter in honorem Dei, i. e. Verse, but peculiarly designed for the Honour of God. This is agreeable to what was said before from other Authors. And further to confirm this sense of ⟨p. 53⟩the word, I might here add, Zanch. Dav•n. Beza, &c. Then he proceeds to the word [Greek or Hebrew], which he renders Hymnum cano, I sing an Hymn; this word is used Mat. 26. 30. Mar• 14. 26. Acts 16. 25. Heb. 2. 12. and in all these places is rendered by Beza (who was eminently skilled in the Greek Tongue) after the same manner, and on Mat. 26. 30. he commends Erasmus for correcting the vulgar Latin, in changing dicto Hymno, the […] being said, to cùm ceci•issent Hymnum, i. e. when they had sung an Hymn. On ver. 20. he gives an account out of Joseph•s of the Jews manner in eating the Passover, and closing it with an Hymn, consisting of Psalm 113. and the five immediately following, which the Jews call their Magnum Hallelujah, their great Song of Praise to God; and it is the Opinion of many Learned Men, that Christ sang this with his Disciples, tho Grotius thinks that Christ made another on that occasion. Now as to the three Authors Mr. M. mentions out of Mr. L. who differ in their version of these words, we may justly suppose that by Praises, they mean Praises in Verse, and by saying Praises, they mean such a saying as was accompanied with singing, otherwise their rendering may be censured as improper.
Next he comes to Mr. L. in his Critic• Sacra, where you will find Mr. L. giving this sense of the word , that it is carnem se peculiariter in honorem Dei, i. e. Verse, but peculiarly designed for the Honour of God. This is agreeable to what was said before from other Authors. And further to confirm this sense of