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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04473	A clear confutation of Mr. Richard Allen, and his five commendators, from their own confessions, collected out of the vindication of his essay, and fairly improv'd against them, to the overthrow of their conjoined singing in artificial tunes in gospel-worship. To which is added, an answer to Mr. William Collins's defence from the charge exhibited against him in my book, entituled, The controversie of singing brought to an end, &c.	Marlow, Isaac.; Marlow, Isaac. The controversie of singing brought to an end.	1696 (1696)	Wing M692B; ESTC R180372	25,446	47

about the Hebrew Rhime and to other unfair matters For which publick Failings and all other Sins I desire he may have the Grace of true Repentance given to him that his sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord. Moreover Forasmuch as Mr. Allen and his five Companions have so far followed the Steps of their Fellow-Champions that went before them in this controversie as to set their Names in print as before is shewed to such Deceit and Error that cannot be justified by any of them I think our People have no reason to regard their writings of it nor to credit their publick Testimonies And I hope those Churches that are particularly concern'd will in Obedience to Christ and for Truths sake discourage that Spirit of Deceit and Lying that has appear'd in defence of the common way of singing and is an evident sign of its being false Worship that so the failings of particular Persons may not become their Churches Sin and Shame unto Posterity And that they and other Churches will be watchful against the mischief of false Worship even where it is not practised For while any of our Churches which do not practice the common way of singing hold Communion at the Lords Table knowingly with any of their Members that practise it with other People such Churches defile their Separation in the same nature as if they had Communion with a whole Church that practised the same and lay a foundation of Ruin to their own Reformanion from false worship for if it be lawful by the Word of God for a Church to have such full Communion knowingly with one Person that practiseth false Worship with other Christians why not with ten Persons and with a whole Church that practiseth the same Worship and if this be lawful then why may they not so hold Communion with the same false Worship or with false Worshippers respecting that particular practised in their own Church as well as with another Church that is in the practice of it So that the natural consequence if followed of a Churches allowing full Communion at the Lords Table with one person that practiseth false Worship leads to the bringing of it into use among themselves and so to ruin their Separation and Reformation And if any say that such a strict Discipline as I am for will hazard the breaking or dividing of many of our Churches about London My Answer is That if so 't is chiefly to be attributed to our singing Elders and Ministers that have so far corrupted them that they cannot bear a thorough Separation and Reformation and then we may see what sad work they have made among us The Lord awaken his People unto Righteousness and supply the want of true Reformers that I and others who have walked in Church Communion for many years which at present are unsetled may to our Comfort in the Bosom of a pure and compleatly constituted Church of Christ leave this World when our appointed time is come And that none of our Churches may be under the Conduct of such a Treacherous Popish Principle of the Liberty and Power of a Gospel-Church as appears in Mr. Allen and his five Companions which does not only cast contempt upon the Sufferings of the Saints for Reformation in Divine Worship but openly confronts the Confessions of the Protestant Dissenters in this Nation and is a shame unto those six Ministers that have broach'd it among the Baptists Churches Isaac Marlow London December 1. 1696. FINIS

wounds to confirm the minds of their Brethren whom they have shaken and to satisfie all that are concerned with sincere Acknowledgements of their Errors and Hearty Assurances that hereafter they will joyn with their Brethren against all Innovations in Gospel-worship and Defilements of Humane Inventions whatsoever And in so doing our Churches will have cause to give thanks to God for their Recovery And their Objection against my present being no Member of any Church the occasion whereof is so well known as that they do not neither can they justly blame me for it I hope will quickly be removed for excepting some of them whose Churches differ in Profession and are not in Comnion with the rest of their Churches as I know of 't is they and other Singers that have so muddied the Communion of their Churches that I cannot with Satisfaction of Conscience joyn my self to any of them until I see a Reformation The foregoing matters being concluded I shall now proceed to answer Mr. William Collins's Defence at the end of Mr. Allen's Vindication of his Essay But before I treat thereof I shall here premise That the practice of singing with united voices of Men and Women Professors and Prophane in the Worship of God in his Gospel-Church being first preached up and vehemently prest upon us by several of our Brethren and asserted in Print to the view of all men I thought it necessary for the preservation of the Peace and Purity of the Baptized Churches to present them with some Arguments against that way of Worship which notwithstanding they were offered in a Christian manner and were consonant to the Principles of our Churches yet several of our Singers have appeared in print against me in such a subtil Spirit of Injustice Deceit and Lying as hath cost me much Labour Time and Money out of my own private Purse to maintain the Truth and Common Cause and Interest of our Churches from being crush'd by them an Account whereof has been already given in Print so far as hath been thought sufficient to answer the Calls of Providence and to clear my Books from those false Representations of my Principles about Singing gross Abuses and foul Untruths published in Mr. Keach's Breach Repaired and other Pamphlets in wrong to me and my Printed Treatises which Abuses being justly charged upon him and them in Print many of them under the Hands of several Pastors of Churches and several particular things by nine other Brethren they still remain unanswered on so clear a Record as that they have not since in more than four years time appear'd in vindication of themselves And the reason why they have not done it may easily be perceived for the matter charg'd upon them is in their own Books and so cannot be stifled from the knowledge of any that will take the Trouble to look into it But to proceed my chief Business being to give an Answer to Mr. William Collins's Defence and to clear my self from his Slander I shall here recite Mr. Collins's Words which are the ground of my Charge against him and are as follows Saith he The Author which Mr. M. cites out of Marlorate on Mat. 26.30 pretends it is uncertain with what words they praised God that is whether it was with the common Passover Hymn or some other of Christs own which might be more suitable to the occasion and whether they saug this Praise or spake it simply the following Words of the Author not being well rendred by Mr. Timme I shall set down they are these Graecum verbum laudem quidem maxime quae Deo debetur includit non autem necessario evincit quòd cecinerint i. e. The Greek Word indeed includes praise chiefly that which is due to God but undoubtedly it doth evince that they sang 1. From the genuine signification of the Original Word And 2. From the Current of Learned men who go this way Thus the Latine was falsly Englished for it should be as it was afterwards altered by them in a few of those Books but it doth not necessarily evince that they sang which is the same in sence as my Author Mr. Timme reads it viz. but it doth not thereupon follow that they did sing it Now as to the Correction that was made after this Abuse was taken notice of abroad the whole Paragraph was not taken away as it ought to have been neither was the former part of it at all altered which discovers the Design of Mr. Collins to deceive his unlearned Reader with a false Translation of the Latine as plainly appears from the Paragraph 1. Because for Mr. Collins to tell us that Mr. Timme had not well rendred Marlorate's Latine when he had rendred his true sence he must needs do it on purpose to deceive his unlearned Reader with his false translation of it for otherwise seeing Mr. Timme had done it in the right sence there was no need at all for Mr. Collins to write that Paragraph against him 2. If the word not had only been left out in Mr. Collins's English we might have imputed it to be the Printers fault but we also find that Mr. Collins saith that Mr. Timme pretended it is uncertain whether they sang that Praise or spake it simply and then in contradiction to him he asserts That undoubtedly it doth evince that they sang 3. 'T is plain that the word not was left out on purpose to deceive the unlearned Reader because there is no Reason to believe that Mr. Collins did design positively to affirm from Marlorate's Latine That Christ and his Disciples did not sing the Hymn after Supper by translating the Latine falsly to give an undoubted Testimony against his own Cause but to make his unlearned Reader believe that undoubtedly they did sing when he knew in his Conscience that the Latine leaves it undetermined saying only That it doth not necessarily evince or shew that they sang Mat. 26.30 Moreover I well remember that I told Mr. Collins between him and me alone of his abusing my Author and he excused it with laying the fault upon the Printer but I answered that tho' Printers sometimes correct Words yet they never use to add a whole Paragraph to their Authors Books and therefore I said it look'd like a design'd Abuse to which he made me no answer and so we parted And as to the Correction that was made in some few of those Books to cover the Deceit from me at first it was not of the former part of the Paragraph for the alteration began at the last Clause of the Englishing the Latine And I have yet reason to complain that it was no sufficient satisfaction for the wrong done me because some time after it was told me that this Abuse was corrected I desired my Brother Mr. Luke Leader to go to Mr. Keach for one of them and my Brother testifies that Mr. Keach took down several of those Books from off the Shelf before he could find one that was corrected