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Spiritual melody
Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark
London: printed for John Hancock, 1691
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.
Nor is there, as I have lately shown, any more reason to object against compiling Sacred Hymns to be sung out of the Word of Christ, than there is to object against pre-compiled Sermons that are to be preached, though I am satisfied the Lord doth enjoin his Churches to sing the Psalms of David, both in Eph. 5.19. Col. 3.16. we reading of ⟨image 8⟩no other Psalms but the Book of Psalms; so by Hymns and Spiritual Songs I see no reason to doubt but he intends all Sacred Hymns, &c. taken out of the holy Scripture by the help of God's Spirit. Mr. Marlow cites a Passage out of Learned Ainsworth, as if he favoured his Notion of Praising God only without Vocal Singing; yet I have lately met with a Book of that worthy Man on the Psalms of David, where I find him speaking thus, These Psalms (saith he) have ever since by the Church of Israel, by Christ and his Apostles, and by the Saints in all Ages, been received and honoured as the Oracles of God, cited for Confirmation of true Religion, and sung in the public ⟨image 8⟩Assemblies (as in God's Temple) where they sung praises unto the Lord with the words of David, &c.
Nor is there, as I have lately shewn, any more reason to object against compiling Sacred Hymns to be sung out of the Word of Christ, than there is to object against pre-compiled Sermons that are to be preached, though I am satisfied the Lord doth enjoyn his Churches to sing the Psalms of David, both in Eph. 5.19. Col. 3.16. we reading of ⟨image 8⟩no other Psalms but the Book of Psalms; so by Hymns and Spiritual Songs I see no reason to doubt but he intends all Sacred Hymns, &c. taken out of the holy Scripture by the help of God's Spirit. Mr. Marlow cites a Passage out of Learned Ainsworth, as if he favoured his Notion of Praising God only without Vocal Singing; yet I have lately met with a Book of that worthy Man on the Psalms of David, where I find him speaking thus, These Psalms (saith he) have ever since by the Church of Israel, by Christ and his Apostles, and by the Saints in all Ages, been received and honoured as the Oracles of God, cited for Confirmation of true Religion, and sung in the publsck