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, Preacher of God's Word, and Pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horselydown, Southwark.Job 6. 25. How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?Isa. 52. 8. Thy Watchmen shall lift up the Voice, with the Voice together shall they sing.London, Printed for the Author, and sold by John Hancock in Castle-Alley on the West side of the Royal-Exchange, and by the Author at his House near Horselydown in Southwark. 16••.Title page of The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…, London, 1691The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…Benjamin Keach, 1691

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Proving 'tis our Duty to sing the Praises of God with united Voices, from the great Noise such are said to make when they sing.

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This appears by that in Exod. 32. 17, 18. And when Joshua heard the noise of the People as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is War in the Camp, vers. 17. And he said, It is not the Voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the Voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing, do I hear, vers. 18. Certainly one Man's Voice could not have made such a Noise, nothing ⟨p. 84⟩can be more clear, but that they sung with united Voices together.

THis appears by that in Exod. 32. 17, 18. And when Joshua heard the noise of the People as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is War in the Camp, vers. 17. And he said, It is not the Voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the Voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing, do I hear, vers. 18. Certainly one Man's Voice could not have made such a Noise, nothing ⟨p. 84⟩can be more clear, but that they sung with united Voices together.

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Obj. But here it is objected, This was in praise of the Golden Calf, and so no rule.

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CHAP. XII.

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Proving 'tis our Duty to sing the Praises of God with united Voices, from the great Noise such are said to make when they sing.

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Obj. But here it is objected, This was in praise of the Golden Calf, and so no rule.

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Proving 'tis our Duty to sing the Praises of God with united Voices, from the great Noise such are said to make when they sing.

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Proving 'tis our Duty to sing the Praises of God with united Voices, from the great Noise such are said to make when they sing.