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A92933	A Serious answer to a late book stiled, A reply to Mr. Robert Steed's epistle concerning singing wherein the chief scriptures and arguments are examined, and the weakness thereof shewed : together with an answer to the several reflections, and false charges, against both churches and persons, recommended to the elders, ministers, and members of baptized churches.	Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Steed, Robert, of Dartmouth.; Barrett, George.; E. M. (Edward Man)	1692 (1692)	Wing S2607; ESTC R42860	36,728	64

declare his Name to give Glory to him by believing and the Profession of our Faith is the end of all we do Thus we have the Testimony of that worthy Person that Singing to the Praise of God is not to be restrained according to the Scripture to a Musical Melodious Tunable Voice But further we judg it worthy to be observed and seriously considered the Mind of God concerning that Singing mention'd Rev. 14.2 3. I heard a Voice from Heaven as a Voice of many Waters c. and they sung as it were a new Song before the Throne c. Note First it could not be a Song prepar'd in Meeter or any of the Songs mention'd in the Old Testament Because Secondly It was a Song they only could learn that were redeemed from the Earth Thirdly This they did with Harpers harping The Meaning of which as Learned Forbes tells us was the Hearts of the Redeemed Ones Fourthly The Matter and Substance is ther● expressed And Learned Mede by this Song tells us the whole Mystery of Evangelical Worship is in it contained And Brightman on Rev. 15.2 tells us that Drusius on that Place saith they are called the Harps of God because God sendeth the Joy of his Spirit into their Hearts wherewith they may be able to give God his due Praise And by this Song of the Lamb saith Brightman is meant that whereof mention was made Rev. 14.3 wherein they do magnify God the Father for the Grace of their Adoption in Christ The Joy of their Heart is called a Song by a Metonymy the effect ariseth out of Faith in the Righteousness of Christ whereby we feel the fatherly Love wherewith God doth imbrace us which Song hath been always sung by the Saints in all Ages So that whereas they tell us where-ever Singing is mention'd in Scripture it must be understood with a tunable Voice it appears they did not consider these and such like Scriptures We shall only mention one more Job 29.13 I caused the Widow's Heart to sing for joy whereby it appears there is Heart-singing as well as by Expression in Meeter with the Tongue In which Text it appears that Joy and Singing are convertible Terms From all which and many other Scriptures that might be quoted or alledged it evidently appears that Singing to the Praise of God is not to be restrained to a melodious tunable Voice in the direct stated solemn Praising of God in his Church And that there are Praises sung to God in the Language of the Scripture in Praying and Praising and in all the Administration of Holy Ordinances when there is no tunable or musical Voice heard among them as appears from what hath been mention'd from Heb. 2.12 Which we shall further make evident by these following Considerations First We may conclude it to be a certain Truth that no sober Person will deny that the Gifts of the Holy Spirit wherewith our Blessed Lord furnish'd his Church upon his Ascension to be com●leat and sufficient for the fitting of his People ●nto every good Word and Work for every part of his Worship Eph. 4.8 11 12 13. yet there we find no Singing-Masters appointed which would have been absolutely necessary if musical or tunable Singing with the Voice was a Gospel-Ordinance The Old-Testament-Church had such as taught to sing Praise 1 Chr. 25.7 2 Chr. 25.13 which if the New-Testament-Church had needed we may reasonably judg or conclude she should have had them to a higher Degree than the former For the Worship prescribed in the Gospel ought to exceed that under the Law therefore if Musical Singing be that which is now required then the best Voices in Singing do most acceptably perform that Duty to God at least in the outward part of it and therefore it would be absolutely necessary that all Christians both Men and Women should learn from such as can teach them to elevate their Voices and Tunes in the highest Strain Seeing they call this an Ordinance of the New Testament and that no other can be called Singing though Persons with never so great a Sense of the Majesty of God and of their Mercies received with the greatest spiritual Melody and Inlargement of Heart utter his Praise but no such Gifts being given nor any such Art required we may safely conclude it is not a Gospel-Ordinance Secondly If Musical singing with the Voice be a Gospel-Ordinance as they assert then assuredly the Songs of Praise recorded in the New Testament would have been written in Greek Verse as an example for others to have followed them in their Language But that it is otherwise is manifest to all that can read the Greek Testament Moreove● It is not said that those that uttered those Songs d●● it with a Musical tunable Voice but only that they spake after a solemn and audible manner those Praises As may be seen from the Song of the blessed Virgin Mary to those mention'd in the Revelations Lastly Whereas they frequently say that we admit or allow of no singing Praise to or praising of God in the Church but what is in Prayer We answer We are indeed for praising of God with our Supplications to him for Mercy But if the Holy Spirit fills any that are qualified for the Administrations of his House with the Joy of the Lord and so with the matter of Praise such may express it without mentioning any Petitions with a solemn chearful audible Voice as the Spirit of the Lord may give Utterance either with or without a tunable Voice to the Glory of God and Refreshing of others Which is singing Praise in the New-Testament Language whereunto they have not nor can they prove that according to the Scripture-Dialect aforesaid a musical tunable Voice is essential We shall now come to the second Enquiry which is as followeth Quer. 2. Whether singing the Praise of God in the Church of Christ ought to be by a composed Form by the whole Multitude assembled Professors with the Profane or Ignorant or the Church-Members of all sorts lifting up their Voices together in Consort In answer to this Question that we may the more distinctly resolve it we shall divide it into several Branches or Particulars and speak to them severally Namely First We shall consider whether singing the Praise of God in the Church of Christ may be performed by a composed stinted Form Answ 1. In answer to which we desire it may be remembred that the Institutions left by our Lord Jesus in the Gospel as they are very plain so they are more Spiritual and require more of the Spirit than under the Law therefore we have a more plentiful effusion of the Spirit promised It being a State of more Grace as well as of more Truth Therefore our blessed Lord and Saviour as he procured by his Death so by his Resurrection and Ascension he sent his Holy Spirit unto us to fit us for the Worship of God that we might have more intimate Converse with him in the Observation

Scripture because they are resolv'd not to entertain it Obj. But they again cavilingly object Can this be proved by any other place of Scripture if not say they it must be rejected Answ To which we reply That the Lord is here pleased to give a most plain Direction how a Psalm is to be brought forth or sung in a gospel-Gospel-Church not by a composed Form but by special Gift and not by the whole Assembly lifting up their Voices in consort but by one who hath received such a Gift And this being so evidently declared should we not rest satisfied with it Shall we question the Truth of a Divine Oracle because but once mention'd though it be never so plainly delivered Our Lord Jesus is but once called a Surety Shall we therefore question or deny the Truth of it as the Socinians do Heb. 7.22 Surely on this Ground the Hebrews might have rejected the Apostle's Proof of the Being and Excellency of the Priestly Office of our Lord and Saviour that he was a High-Priest after the Order of Melchizedeck because it was but once mention'd in the Old Testament Psal 110.4 Thus having we hope evidently proved that the musical tunable Singing of a composed Form by a whole Assembly with Voices in consort is no Ordinance of our Lord Jesus We shall now examine the Scriptures they earnestly urge to justify their Practice Q. 3. Whether those Scriptures Eph. 5.19 ●ol 3.16 do command or justify that kind of Singing in the Church of Christ which they plead for In answer to this Enquiry it being that on which Mr. Keach and Mr. Whinnel do bottom their Assertion for the introducing the common and popular Way of Singing into the Baptized Churches We shall first premise some Considerations which we desire may be seriously pondered First That those Scriptures supposing they intend a Direction for publick Worship in the Church which we do not grant on the Reason hereafter to be mention'd do plainly testify against the admitting of the Profane the Ignorant and the Unconverted to sing in the solemn Assembly of the Church of Christ forasmuch as they are to be sung for the Teaching and Admonition of others Did the Lord Jesus ever appoint the Ignorant Profane or Unbelievers to be Teachers in or Admonishers of his Church according to his New-Testament-Dispensation Can there be the least shadow of Proof produced for it Certainly as it was then told them in that Epistle of Mr. Steed's which they pretend to answer that he never appointed any to administer Teaching and Admonition to his Church but such as are orderly added to it and are qualified by the Gifts of the Holy Spirit being solemnly allowed or orderly called to such an holy Exercise this being such a Truth which they could not nor did they dare directly to gainsay How grosly do they endeavour to evade it by saying that they are allowed to worship God which is as much as to say to attend on the Worship of God in the Church Now we appeal to their own Consciences whether there be not a great difference between being at or attending on it as them that do worship God and administring Teaching and Admonition to the Church Which if the singing of the Psalms and Hymns c. here mention'd are for that end and use as it 's evident from these Scriptures they are then such Persons are plainly excluded from any such solemn Exercise in the Church if the meaning of it be for a Direction● for the publick Worship of God in the Church as they would insinuate Moreover that it plainly excludes such from that kind of Singing in the Church is most evident inasmuch as it is expresly declared that the Singing there spoken of is to be brought forth from the Word dwelling richly in them Col. 3.16 and from being fill'd with the Spirit Eph. 5.19 Now are Unbelievers c. capable of being so qualifi'd in any degree Indeed in their Way of Singing by a compos'd Form there needs no more than the reading or hearing a Psalm or Song read to them and then they are sufficiently furnish'd for it be they never so ignorant profane or unbelieving In answer to which they say they detest such a Singing But why then do they plead for the Singing of such before mention'd who can sing no otherwise but in a carnal formal Manner Can they in truth say they detest that they allow and openly practise and vehemently contend for Secondly These Scriptures if they be as they say to direct the Church in its publick Worship do also plainly exclude the Women from singing in the Church They are expresly forbidden to teach or admonish in the Church but are commanded to be in silence without any exception that they may teach by Singing but not by an ordinary Speaking as we have before declared Thirdly In like manner if it be meant as aforesaid those Psalms and Hymns c. there mention'd are not intended to direct the Churches to sing David's Psalms or any other Psalms recorded in the Scriptures for then certainly our Lord Jesus would have caused them to have been translated into Greek Verse or Meeter for the use of the Churches in those times and as a Pattern for time to come But none ever did or can assert any such thing neither is that Saying of theirs of any weight whereby they would seem to prove that because the word Psalm c. is there mention'd that it must needs be meant of those called the Psalms of David c. because say they God hath given us a Psalm-Book but not a Prayer-Book an Expression which they have borrowed from others in the Scriptures For in that sacred Book there be abundance of the Prayers of holy Men recorded as well as their Songs and especially that our Lord Jesus hath left as a Platform in the manner of a Form of Prayer usually called by the name of the Lord's Prayer Therefore if we may take their Songs and read and sing them in the Church why may we not also take those Prayers at least such as we may think most sutable to our present occasion and read them there for our Prayers in the Church Let them shew if they can why there is not as much reason for the one as for the other Moreover The Book of Psalms as they were sung in the Old-Testament-time for which season they were ordained were a part of the Temple-Worship Now if that be our Rule for Musical singing of them now as it must be if they be those Psalms that be here commanded to be sung Musically as a part of the New-Testament-Church's publick Worship then it must be our Rule in all parts which must be necessarily included in this Counsel if the Meaning of it be as they affirm and so there must be Instruments of Musick with Singers or Quiristers in the performance of it except they can prove that one part is abolished and the other remains For what God hath joined

A SERIOUS ANSWER TO A Late BOOK STILED A REPLY to Mr. Robert Steed's EPISTLE concerning SINGING WHEREIN The chief Scriptures and Arguments are examined and the Weakness thereof shewed TOGETHER With an ANSWER to the several Reflections and false Charges against both Churches and Persons Recommended to the Elders Ministers and Members of the Baptized Churches Joh. 4.24 God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth Jer. 20.10 I heard the defaming of many Report say they and we will report London Printed in the Year 1692. To the Elders Ministers and Members of the Baptized Churches throughout England and Wales Beloved in our Lord IT is a great Truth that as we are not to omit any thing in the Solemn Worship of God that is of his Appointment so we are not to admit any thing that is not of his Institution under any pretence whatsoever to be intruded upon us But it is greatly to be lamented that there is a proneness in Professors except by Grace prevented to turn aside from this Holy Rule either through the Infirmity of the Flesh or the Deception or Infection which through Temptation they meet withal in the World whereof there hath been and still is continually sad Experience An Instance whereof we have in the matter we have now to present to your serious Consideration When it pleased the Lord in Times past to inlighten some gracious Holy Persons in that great Ordinance of Baptism as it was commanded by our Lord and Saviour and practised by Him and his Apostles and the Primitive Churches And therefore to cast off Infants Sprinkling which was set up in the room of it as a Humane Invention They were then also on Scripture-Grounds well weighed and seriously considered convinced that the common way of praying to God or praising of God in what manner soever it were performed by a composed Form as usually then was and still is the Custom of many Protestants was not of Divine Institution and therefore to be rejected And accordingly it was in those Days laid aside by the Baptized Churches whom the Lord then graciously and eminently owned by many signal Tokens of his Presence among them But now to our great Grief some whose Duty and Place it was to have setled and further to have established the Churches in that Work of Reformation are declined from it asserting with Heat and Confidence that to sing by a composed Form with a whole Multitude lifting up their Voices together the Ignorant and Profane the Unbelievers or Unconverted with the Church-Members is an Ordinance of our Lord Jesus which they practise and with vehement Earnestness are contending for whereby the Peace and Edification of the Churches is hindred and the Minds and Consciences of many gracious Souls perplexed and intangled By this they are not only building again what hath been destroyed but thereby also there is plain Introduction unto a farther declining in Prayer and others of the Holy Ordinances of our Blessed Lord and Law-giver This common or popular way of Singing they also with great endeavour are labouring to promote in all the Churches by their publick pleading for it by Preaching and Printing in the defence of it And therein they not only vehemently contradict and oppose whatever is presented by any from the Holy Scriptures to deliver them or others from that Humane Invention which hath been so long rejected by the Churches aforesaid but they also take a licentious Liberty to reflect upon them that would hinder their design in this matter not only most falsly aspersing them but also uttering a most false Accusation and Slander against the Baptized Churches in their first gathering laying that to their Charge as a received Principle owned by them which they had openly declared against to the whole World in their Confession of Faith which was in those Days Printed and Published whereby they stigmatize or brand them with the deepest Hypocrisy that depraved Mortals can be guilty of These Things which are matter of great Lamentation are either evidently insinuated or plainly declared in a late printed Tract concerning Singing in answer to a small Sheet published by Mr. R. Steed which was intended chiefly for and therefore written by way of Epistle to that Church to which he is related which by some Friends that had perused it was given also into the Hands of the Members of other Churches wherein he only gives his understanding of what the Holy Scriptures speak concerning that Subject without mentioning or reflecting on any others that are of a contrary Mind But Mr. Keach who is the chief Promoter of this Controversy so as to heighten it to a Contention said It must be answered and that he would answer it And we do not question on good grounds but that he and Mr. Whinnel by his Instigation joined together to contrive that Answer which they have printed Tho Mr. Keach as we are informed did say to some that Mr. Wh. was not the Author of it It 's very probable that he was not the principal but Mr. K. expects to have the greatest Honour in due time of that Enterprize as being the chiefest Contriver of it But that their Book might pass with the greater Applause and Credit it is in the beginning of it recommended by an Epistle as a very sober Answer subscribed with several Names at the Conclusion of it Some of those Persons whose Names are there subscribed are such as we have no Communion with being such as are called Free-willers or Arminians holding a falling away from true Grace And some others whose Names are set down have professed that they did not subscribe it And some that did give their consent say they had not done it had it not been for Mr. Keach's Importunity And one of the chief of them saith that he never saw the Epistle till after it was printed to which his Hand was subscribed So that it 's ushered in with a gross Forgery in the beginning of it as it is carried on with unchristian Reflections and false Accusations which certainly cannot consist with Christian Sobriety or common Honesty whatever may be pretended But Mr. Keach who knows how to take Refined Gold out of another Man's Mine or Lines made ready to his Hand and present it as his own finding tho to the great prejudice of him whose indeed it was may know also how to take the Liberty to subscribe other Persons Names tho without their Consent The serious Consideration of these Things as they have been matter of Trouble and Sorrow to us so they have engaged some of us who have hitherto been silent as to these things now to appear for the Truth of our Lord against such Innovations And therefore to endeavour that the Churches may not be abused nor their Members deceived by such Artifices as these are We do not intend to answer every seeming Argument and carping Cavil or to take notice of every unseeming Reflection contained in

Churches So we do as boldly in the fear of the Lord declare that the Way of common Singing which they contend for is after the Rudiments of the World after the Traditions of Men but not after Christ It is their lawless Liberty they take thus to accuse and represent us without cause in this Epistle and the like that hath necessitated us for Truth 's sake that 〈◊〉 may not suffer by such false Reports to declare ●uch things concerning some of them which otherwise we should have buried in oblivion But it was not enough it seems that we should be thus scandalously represented by Mr. Wh. in the Epistle that did not give a sufficient vent to their Indignation when we look into the Book where we might expect nothing but Answers to his Arguments there also as we said before we must be exercised with the reading their needless causeless Reflections on Mr. Steed and with their most false slandering of the Baptized Churches in their first gathering We shall say little to their taunting Reflections against him or their imperious treating of him in their Answer to him Only whereas they impertinently say that Mr. Knowles preach'd up the Singing they plead for in the Forenoon and that he preach'd against it in the Afternoon We upon enquiry of the Members of that Church that were present at that time in the Assembly find it to be utterly false a meer Invention put into the Head of some unwary Person to vent which Mr. Wh. and Mr. Keach greedily take up to proclaim without Modesty Sobriety or Verity on which we may with great cause use their own exclaiming Expression Sad Case But it is not with Mr. Steed only that they thus deal but they exhibit a very grievous and a very false Charge against those of the same Profession that were more ancient in it than the Authors of this Reply who vent this Scandal or any of those that by their Epistle have commended the same When those ancient Brethren were convinced of their duty That Believers upon Confession of their Faith were the only Subjects of Baptism and accordingly sate down together in Communion as a Congregation or Church of Christ and many in the Nation began to enquire into the truth thereof they met with many harsh Censures and false Charges cast upon them to make the Truth of Christ contemptible viz. That they were corrupt in the Doctrines of the Gospel That they denied Subjection to Magistates that they held that to maintain Ministers was Antichristian c. They to clear themselves and to take off those false Charges did think it their duty to publish to the Nation a Confession of their Faith which when drawn up was read in the Churches being then seven in number and consented to by all the Members not one dissenting and subscribed by two of each Church in the name of the rest Which Confession of Faith was five times printed in that year 1644 and from that to the year 1651 without the least alteration of any one Article of what was first printed which Confession gave such general Satisfaction to most Christians of all sorts of differing Perswasions from us that it took off from many that Prejudice and Offence that was formerly taken by them against our Profession What the Judgment of those Churches 〈◊〉 their first Constitution was concerning the Maintenance of Ministers may be seen in the 38th Article in these words We do believe that the du● Maintenance of Ministers should be the free and voluntary Communication of the Church That according to Christ's Ordinance they that preach the Gospel should live on the Gospel c. And accordly they did then and we have ever since made it our Practice as a Duty required of all the Members of the Church that are able to give True it ●s that our Churches since the first have not been filled with many of them that have the Riches of this World the Poor receive the Gospel But this we can say with comfort and appeal to the Lord herein That according to our Abilities we have given to the Maintenance of our Ministers nor have any had any just cause to complain to the contrary that we know of although it hath been and is our trouble that we have not been able to make so great a Provision for them as we desire Herein we would be understood in this that we now assert concerning the Churches that we mean principally as they were in the beginning And we do find to our great Grief that which was then falsly charg'd upon us by those that did not know us is now as falsly with a far greater Aggravation of their Sin charg'd upon us by some of us who might have satisfied themselves had they perused our Confession of Faith But either they were willingly ignorant or negligent in enquiring but resolv'd to calumniate and therefore in the 9th Page of the said Book they charge us with the same things in these words It is a Question whether the said Baptized Churches in those times did not as unanimously conclude and declare too that for a Gospel-Ministry to have a yearly Allowance or a competent Maintenance was a humane Invention or Anti-christian We speak say they in part upon our own Knowledg and by good Information we have had from others To this Charge we answer That nothing can be more falsly asserted or more slanderously uttered For if this their Charge have the least shadow of Truth against the Baptized Churches in their first beginning here in England they must needs be the grossest fort of Hypocrites in professing the contrary by their Profession of Faith and yet believing and practising quite otherwise to what they solemnly professed as their Faith in that matter And we believe they cannot give one true Instance that any Church of the Baptists that are sound in the Faith ever did in the least conclude or declare against a competent Maintenance for a Gospel-Ministry as a humane Invention or Anti-christian since those times To conclude as to this matter concerning their unworthy Reflections and false Accusations tho we might instance in mo●● 〈◊〉 one sort or other in that Book we must declare that we do wonder that any Persons professing Piety would commend that Book as a sober Discourse ●●●●out any Limitation or Exception against 〈◊〉 gross and fulsom Slanders which with so much Confidence are delivered whatever their Judgments be concerning the Controversy about Singing Moreover We hope the Baptized Churches their Elders Ministers and Members do hereby at least see great cause to suspect and to be very cautious in believing that Spirit that would perswade them to the way of common or popular Singing which would make way for its Entertainment by such notorious Falshoods and abominable Slanders which were certainly devised by the Father of Lies thereby to offend or stumble the Weak tho otherwise honest and well-meaning Having now answered to some of their unrighteous and scandalous

Grace farther delivered from it than many others and therefore their turning back will be the more grievous and provoking to the Spirit of the Lord though our gracious Lord is pleased to deal very gently with his People in all their Weaknesses or Mistakes while a perverse Spirit is not found among them Wherefore we declare We have no disgust against nor would we maintain any Distance or Difference with those Brethren whose Apprehensions may not be the same with ours in this matter about Singing who carry it not only piously but peaceably in their Stations and among the Churches Some of whose Names are set to the Recommendation of this Book which we in the Substance of it have endeavoured to answer tho without their Knowledg or Consent For we believe they are so sober and righteous that whatever their Opinion might be of the Argument they would never have set their Names to such a universal Appropation without a faithful Witness against those abominable and lamentable extravagant false Accusations Reflections and Slanders contain'd in it As for Mr. Whinnel whose misguided Zeal may have misled him with some Misinformings to reflect upon us without cause as he hath He being a Person of a very courteous and obliging Conversation we hope he will for time to come if not better consider his Arguments for that common set-form Singing which he doth endeavour to promote yet at least forbear such causless Reflections against those that do in Judgment and Conscience dissent from him in that matter As for Mr. Keach who hath been the chief Instrument to raise up this Controversy which may occasion more Contention than Edification in the Baptized Churches we heartily desire he may for time to come labour after the things which make for Peace We know and he himself also how long he hath maintained a Wall of Partition between him and the rest of the Baptized Churches allowing no Church-Communion but such as can agree with him in his Opinion and Practice of Laying on of Hands upon the Members of the Church both Men and Women which Practice we find no where commanded by our Lord Jesus nor his Apostles yet we have not made it a Bone of Contention between him and us neither concerned our selves for many Years to make any publick Contest about it but to say no more of that matter only what relates to the Book it self 1. Whereas in the Title of it it 's recommended by divers Elders and Ministers of Baptized Churches mentioning the Names of several some of them affirm they never set their Hands to it saying they know not how their Hands came there and that the Epistle it self to which their Names are set they never saw until they saw it printed And where●● in the Title it 's farther said it is recommended by divers Elders and Ministers of the Baptized Churches we know that some of them are not Ministers nor Elders nor so much as Members in Communion with any Baptized Church as we know of 2. He hath very unjustly charged the Churches which were first gathered that they were of Opinion and did unanimously declare that for a Gospel-Minister to have a Yearly Allowance was an Human Invention and Antichristian whereas the contrary to which they have declared in their Confession of Faith printed by them soon after they came together as may more at large be seen in the former part of our Answer and it may farther appear what their Practice was in those Times by a late Printed Book entituled The Life and Death of Mr. Hanserd Knowlls written in his Life-time with his own Hand wherein he hath left this Testimony pag. 23 24. that he was Pastor to a Church in the Year 1645 and he received from the Church always according to their Ability most of the Members being poor What Man fearing God and desiring to preserve the Truth he himself professeth durst affirm so false a thing And what use may be made of it by such as are glad of any Opportunity to speak Evil of the Ways of God we leave to the Consideration of all Men. Finally We earnestly intreat the Baptized Churches their Elders Ministers and Members to consider what hath been said concerning this Question about Singing and that they would not any of them rashly or hastily upon any plausible Pretences be perswaded to set up that Way of set-form Singing which those Churches in times past did on matur● Deliberation from the Light afforded reject together with set-form Prayer But the Lord grant that we all may be pressing after more Purity b●th in the Form and Spirit of Holy-Worship n●t declining to any thing that is not of Divine Ins●●tution In the mean time bearing one with another in Love wherein we may be of differing Ap●rehensions in those or other Matters that are of ● lower Concernment not being desirous of vain ●lory provoking one another studying and earne●●●y labouring every one of us to maintain Peace a●● Holiness in our Souls in our Families and in th● Churches of our Lord Jesus that the God of Love and Peace may be with us We shall conclude with that Word Heb. 1● 20 Now the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the Sheep through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good Work to do his Will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight ●hrough Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen We subscribe our selves Your Brethren in the Faith and Fellowship of the Gospel William Kiffin George Barrett Robert Steed Edward Man FINIS Errata Pag. 16. l. 11. for we r. some P. 23. l. 16. r. in them do they ADVERTISEMENT THere is now coming forth a Book entituled Truth Soberly Defended in a Serious Reply to Mr. B. Keach's Book called The Breach Repaired in God's Worship or Singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs proved to be an Holy Ordinance of Jesus Christ As also a Vindication of a Book entituled Prelimited Forms of Praising God vocally sung by all the Church together proved to be no Gospel Ordinance With a Postscript in Answer farther to a Book entitled Folly Detected Published by M. Joseph Wright And 〈◊〉 a Paper called an Appendix or a brief Answer to Mr. Marlow Notion of the Essence of Singing by T.W. And to a Paper called an Answer to a brief Discourse concerning ●●nging by H. K. Whereunto is added a brief Narative of the ●ise Occasion and Management of the present Controversy of ●●nging between I. M. and Mr. B. K. with some Reflections on Book called Truth Vindicated or Mr. Keach's Sober Appeal ans●red Wherein also his Abuses c. are detected under the ●nds of several worthy Pastors of Churches By Isaac Marlow Price bound together 1 s. There is also published a Book ●itled A Treatise of the Holy Yrin-unity in two Parts The first ●●serteth the Deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the ●●ty of Essence with God the Father The second in defence the former answereth the chiefest Objections made against 〈◊〉 Doctrine By Isaac Marlow Price bound 10 d.