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A51997 Some short observations made on a book newly published by Mr. Benjamin Keach intituled, The breach repaired in God's worship, &c. wherein is contained a pretended answer to Isaac Marlow's Brief discourse concerning singing in the publick worship of God; as also to an appendix, lately published, and thereunto added. Marlow, Isaac. 1691 (1691) Wing M694B; ESTC R221787 10,792 18

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Some short OBSERVATIONS made on a Book newly Published by Mr. Benjamin Keach Intituled The Breach repaired in God's Worship c. wherein is contained a pretended Answer to Isaac Marlow's Brief Discourse concerning Singing in the Publick Worship of God as also to an APPENDIX lately published and thereunto added IT is not without some Sense that there is cause of Mourning for the occasion that lays me under some necessity of making Remarks of this nature on Mr. Keach's Treatise of Singing that I have given publick Birth unto this Paper Had it been to preserve my Personal Reputation only I should have born with much as I shall herein be silent wherein I am provoked by his unjust reflections beyond the perceivance of any ●y barely reading his Book rather than to have taken ●ny such way as this is which I have no need of to de●end my self in any wrong received from any But as I believe that my keeping Silence would give the greater Advantage to the spreading of the practice of that Er●or among our Churches which is received by some ●ersons whom Mr. Keach hath now openly headed in ●●e publick Defence thereof and that the Truth will ●●ffer if I give not timely notice of his disingenuous ●ealings with me in this Concern So I am ob●ed in love to the Truth of Christ to present this fol●●ing Information to you to prevent your credential receiving of all that he hath taken out of my Book and cited to you in his own as my true Sense and Meaning First I shall take notice of Mr. Benj. Keach's undue Citations and Misrepresenting of several things publickly to the World to the great abuse of my aforesaid Book concerning Singing 1st In page 12. the end and pag. 13. he saith thus Now this being so what is become of Mr. Marlow's Essence of Singing who saith what can be more plain than that Singing and other Gifts of the Holy Spirit have their Essence in our Spirits wherein we are capable of worshipping God without verbal and vocal Instruments of the Body These are his very Words I answer saith he some have so smiled at this Expression that they cannot tell what he intends by it unless he would shew himself skilful in Chymistry But since he meddles with Divine Things I must confess I am troubled to see such kind of Words used that no Body knows what to make of them And are we not as capable in our Spirits to worship God in all other Ordinances without the verbal or vocal Instruments of the Body as well as in Singing without Voice by your Argument Pag. 14. you have said more to justify the Quakers silent Meetings than you are aware of c. And pag. 123. And saith he I am afraid you little think of the bitter Consequents of this Attempt of yours and how you seem hereby to ridicule tho not wittingly I have better Thoughts of you the whole of Gospel-Ordinances by turning them into a thing you call Essence a Heart-Service only without the Bodily Organs and rendring your self to be but little better in your so doing than a meer Enthusiast Rep. But how grosly I am here misrepresented an● abused by Mr. K. appears from what follows pag. My Words are these That Spiritual and Vocal Singin● was used in the Primitive and Apostolical Church of Christ is undeniable and that such Spiritual Singing is allowed is freely granted And after my naming of the First Head to be treated of viz. The Essence of Singing in the same Page c. it is said Tho intelligible Singing for teaching and admonishing others cannot be without the use of the Organical Instruments of the Voice yet the Essence or Being of Singing consists in an inward spiritual Exercise of the Soul or Mind of Man And this must be granted for we all do own that true Prayer may be made in our Hearts to God without the use of our Voice otherwise we deny all worshipping of God in the Church save only what is done by the Minister and exclude the Members of it from adding to joining with or having any share in Divine Worship and consequently that nothing can be properly called Sin that is only in the inward exercise of the Spirit but that which is so manifested by Words or Deeds Pag. 6. And then I speak of the Essence of Sin and of Prayer And afterwards in pag. 8. coming to discourse of the Essence of Singing and citing 1 Cor. 14.15 I say True this is meant of vocal Prayer and Singing in the Church and in this same Page he taketh out what he cites unfairly to brand me with as justifying the Quakers Silent Meetings and turning the whole of Gospel-Ordinances into a Heart-Service only A thing I never thought of and am as far from it as he or any others whatsoever for I farther say in the same Page that tho vocal Joy and Singing may be teaching to others yet the speaking to Gr. in according to Pool's Annot. before cited your selves viz. in your own Hearts in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs singing and making Melody in your Heart to the Lord is Musick of an higher strain in the Ears of God So that tho in this Section is shewed that God is to be worshipped in our Spirits both in Prayer and Praises yet it is evident that there is no ground from hence nor in any part of my Book to think that I should intend an Exclusion of the vocal exercise of any of Christ's Ordinances in his Church and therefore this Clamour rather proceeds from his Passion of Spirit with the badness of his Cause Moreover what I have here said as to the Essence of Spiritual Singing is secretly confessed by him in his Answer to Appendix p. 42. where he saith of Singing And yet as I have shewed the Essence of it is not in the Heart as it is in the Voice That is if I mistake not his Sense it is not in the Heart like as it is in the Voice so that it hath its Essence in the Heart as it is inward and spiritual and in the Heart and Voice too as it is inward spiritual and vocal in which we do both agree But because I find so much of his Discourse against me depending on the parity and likeness of the Essence of Singing to the Essence of Preaching and not of Prayer which he acknowledgeth may be only inwardly in the Heart p. 174. I shall hear treat something further on it In pag. 14. he saith The Essence of Singing then if that Word may be admitted lies no more in our Spirits than the Essence of Preaching c. Repl. Not to speak of their Compound viz. our Spirits or our Spirits and Voice with the Spirit and Word of God I shall briefly say That there is such a difference in the significations of the words Singing and Preaching as will admit of a difference in their Essences Singing is a word of a tuning and musical nature and signification