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A47361	An answer to Mr. Marlow's Appendix Wherein his arguments to prove that singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, was performed in the primitive church by a special or an extraordinary gift, and therefore not to be practised in these days, are examined, and clearly detected. Also some reflections on what he speaks on the word hymnos, hymnos: and on his undue quotations of divers learned men. By a learned hand. By B. Keach.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing K43A; ESTC R223737	27,870	57

AN ANSWER TO Mr. Marlow's Appendix Wherein his Arguments to prove that Singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs was performed in the Primitive Church by a Special or an Extraordinary Gift and therefore not to be practised in these Days Are Examined and clearly Detected Also some Reflections on what he speaks on the word ὑμνοσ Hymnos And on his undue Quotations of divers Learned Men. By a Learned Hand Psal 119. 141. I am small and despised yet do not I forget thy Precepts 1 Cor. 14. 22. Wherefore Tongues are for a Sign not to them that believe but to them that believe not but Prophesying serveth not for them that believe not but for them that believe By B. KEACH 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 1691. To all the Saints and Churches of Jesus Christ Christian Salutation Honoured and Beloved IT grieves me I have further occasion to trouble you after this manner I know not what should move Mr. Marlow to write his Appendix just at a time when he was told I was writing an Answer to his first Discourse he might have had a little Patience and have staid till my Treatise was published whereby he might the better have perceived whether what he wrote the last Year would abide the Test or Trial of God's Word or not This is therefore his second Attempt in publick against God's holy Ordinance of singing of Psalms Hymns c. before any body appeared visibly to oppose or put a stop to his undue Proceedings For what Call he had to begin this Controversy at such an unseasonable time I know not but since he has done it certainly none can see any just cause to blame me for standing up in the Defence of that Truth of Jesus Christ which I am so well satisfied about and established in and that too as it is practised by the Church to whom I am related as an unworthy Member and above twenty Baptized Congregations besides in this Nation Tho before I went about it I offered my Brethren him or any other a sober and friendly Conference in the Spirit of Meekness which I could not obtain tho I did not give such a publick Challenge as my Brother intimates in that strange Epistle he hath wrote to me but upon the coming forth of his Book I was troubled and would have had it been discoursed in the General Assembly but that was not consented to and then I told my honoured and Reverend Brethren my purpose was to give an Answer to his Book but did not enter upon it till I was urged by several and particularly by Mr. Marlow himself before divers Witnesses in such kind of words as these i. e. Answer me like a Man Whether he is answered like a Man or but like a Child is left to your Consideration 't is done according to that Light and Ability God hath been pleased to bestow upon me But if he or any of his Helpers do see cause to reply they must answer such Persons who have wrote upon this Truth like Men and Men too of great Parts Learning and Piety or let them not trouble me nor the World any more As touching his Epistle to the Churches I shall take but little notice of it nor of that he hath writ to my self sith in my Judgment neither of them signify much you are Men of greater Wisdom than to be frightn̄ed out of an Ordinance or deterred from seeking after the Knowledg of it with these scurrilous Names of Error Apostacy Human Tradition prelimited Forms mischievous Error Carnal Forms Carnal Worship c. These are hard Words and do not bespeak a trembling Heart nor a humble Spirit and better becomes a Man that pretends to Infallibility But what some Men want of sound Arguments they think to make up by hard Words and Confidence but this will never do with you How hath our Practice of baptizing Believers c. been branded with the reproachful Name of Error and 't is very observable how some Men of far greater Parts and Ability than my Brothers or mine either have cried out against the Reign of Christ Conversion of the Gentiles and calling of the Jews as a gross Error as witness Mr. Richard Baxter particularly of late 'T is Arguments I know you look for and if you find those of Mr. Marlow's to prevail against what I have said do not regard what I have wrote in the least for I would have your Faith as the Apostle speaks to stand in the Power of God and not in the Wisdom of Men. The smallness of the Number of our Churches who are in the Practice of this Ordinance I also know will signify nothing with you provided it be proved to be a Truth of Jesus Christ What tho there was not one of our Churches that had Light in it it would certainly the more concern them to enquire after it And tho he hath so coursly saluted me c. yet I am not concerned at it further than to bewail his Confidence and Ignorance to say no worse I know no Men in any Age who appeared first to vindicate a Truth which others call an Error but have met with the same Usage I meet withal from our Brother who I hope is a good Man and means well yet is he strangely beclouded As I have been a Preacher up of Spiritual Worship as he says and that too more than thirty Years tho a poor and unworthy one so through the Grace of God I hope shall continue to do unto the end of my days and 't is only Spiritual Worship you may perceive I plead for in contending for singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs none of which three can be without their special and particular form But must they needs be therefore carnal and humane Forms which appertain unto them I see 't is time to stand up for the Form of Ordinances for the Form of Doctrine and for the Form of sound Words for if we must part with singing of Psalms Hymns c. from his pretended Arguments about Forms all external Ordinances must go as well as that of Singing In a word we must give up our whole visible Profession and wait for those extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit that were in the Primitive Time if we must not sing till we have that extraordinary Gift to do it which some had in the Apostles Days and the like in discharge of every Gospel-Ordinance which were to abide in the Church to the end of the World He may as well therefore say I do but counterfeit that excellent Gift in Preaching when I preach which was in the Primitive Gospel-Church as thus to charge me in the case of our singing by the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit Read his Epistle to me Append. p. 15. It seems to me as if my Brother does not understand the nature of Moral

by Singing 'T is well known Dr. Owen owned no other Singing than what we do he doth nowhere talk of the Essence of Singing in our Spirit and so exclude vocal or proper Singing 1. He acknowledges Singing is Praising of God so do we and say 't is one of the highest ways of Praising him too 2. He intimates there are other ways of praising of God besides Singing his Praise though it clearly holdeth forth that our Saviour would praise God that way namely by Singing And you would do well to observe what our late Learned Annotators speak upon that of Heb. 2. 12. these are their words Christ and they are of one Father that is the Saints are here called his Brethren he by Nature and they by Grace and from one Humane Parent Luke 3. 23 38. and both of one Flesh He solemnly sung and Praised his Father with them say they at his Supper Matth. 26. 30. in that Representative Church Mark 14. 26. Yet we as I said before do readily grant as the Doctor intimates those other ways of Praising of God and that Prayer the Word of Faith and the Fruits of Obedience hath a tendency to the Praise of God But if the Doctor and some other Learned Men should intimate that that Greek word Hymnos should in a remote sence signify Praising of God without Singing we ask Whether any of them say those ways of Praises without Singing is the immediate genuine direct and primary signification of the word All your Helpers will fail you here There are other Greek words to express those other ways of Praise to God besides Hymnos You are upon a dangerous Rock you make it your Business to trouble our People with the signification of the Greek word Hymnos a Hymn though you understand not that Language just after the same manner that the Pedobaptists do with the word Baptizo say they it signifies washing as well as dipping which learned Fisher grants But how Take his words 'T is saith he so taken improperly indirectly collaterally by the by or remotely it so signifys viz. a washing But saith he the direct immediate genuine and primary signification of the word Baptizo is Immersion Dipping or to dip c. You it seems take the same way to destroy the Ordinance of Singing God's Praises as they take to destroy the Ordinance of Baptism But this will do your business no better than that will do theirs Dipping is Washing but every Washing is not Dipping Theirs is as Mr. Fisher observes an improper remote or indirect Baptism that they infer from the improper Signification of the Greek word Baptizo and so no true Baptism at all So you asserting from those Learned Men that the Greek word Hymnos signifies a meer or common praising of God in Prayer 't is say I but an improper indirect and remote sort of Singing of God's Praise that the Word will admit of in that sense and so no Singing at all If you discourse with learned Persons they will tell you that some Greek words do in an improper or remote sense bear several Significations but the direct genuine and proper signification of the Word is Singing or they sung And now do you not think you are greatly to blame to make such a stir upon a word you understand not after the manner you have done and thereby cause Doubts to arise in the Minds of poor weak Christians about the Translation of the Holy Bible and render our Famous and Learned Translators unfaithful But I hope our People will not regard or mind what you unadvisedly have wrote and said upon this Account Have not the Translators who compared divers Greek Copies together been more faithful to give the proper genuine and direct signification of the Word they hymned they sung an Hymn than from the remote sense they said Grace or gave Thanks We read he gave Thanks when he took the Bread c. the word there in the Greek is he Hymned I have often said to sing to God in aright manner is praising of God but all praising of God is not singing his Praises therefore they that translate the word they praised God speak the Truth but they do not speak all the Truth But if our Saviour and his Disciples did no more than in an ordinary manner give Thanks as we do after Supper our Translators do affirm a false thing to say they sung an Hymn as elsewhere I have more fully demonstrated because Singing is more and a different thing from saying of Grace as you hint an old Dutch Translation reads it But not to muster up a multitude of learned Men as I might do who exactly agree with our Translators on that word take once again what Dr. Du-Veil doth affirm who understood as I am informed all the Oriental Tongues in his literal Explanation of the Acts of the Apostles Acts 16. 25. tho I quoted him before citing Ruff Presbyter of Aquilia in the Title of the 72d Psalm saith Hymns are Songs which contain the Praise of God If it be Praise and not of God it is not a Hymn if it be Praise and of God if it be not sung it is not an Hymn it must therefore saith he that it may be an Hymn have these three things Praise and of God and a Song therefore Paul and Silas saith the Doctor sung Praises to God for the Honour put upon them in that they suffered innocently for promoting the Glory of Christ Many of the Learned Men you quote say Hymnos is Praise you need not say any more to that we all own and grant it but yet also say the proper and genuine Signification of it is praising of God by Singing Now this being so you basely abuse the Translators Append. p. 12. in saying Surely it must be granted that the word sung and sing in those four Scriptures were imprudent Additions to those sacred Texts These are your words 'T is a shame a Man of your Learning should to defend your own Fantasy charge the faithful and renowned Translators after this sort These things being so What Authority have you to say our Saviour and his Disciples did not sing or what reason has any sober or Godly Christian to believe you if you so boldly affirm it Therefore I upon good Authority in opposition to what you say p. 12. that therefore from the Signification of the word Hymnos there is a good and sacred Foundation or Warrant for such vocal melodious singing at or after the Lord's-Supper seeing the word doth bear that as the direct and proper Signification of it And also we say that what Christ did was a Rule for us in that of Singing as well as in taking the Bread and breaking it and blessing it and taking the Cup c. Must not we sing the Praises of Christ who have the Spirit but in measure because Christ had the Spirit without measure And because the Primitive Gospel-Church had the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit in