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Old 05-19-2008, 08:11 PM
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Is mandatory acapella singing part of EP and the regulative principle or is that an entirely separate issue?
They tend to hang together, but I guess anyone could come to conclusions and hold to only one and not the other. For instance, Southern Presbyterians like Thornwell, Girardeau, Dabney, Adger, etc. were non EP but opposed to musical instrumentation in worship. There were some exceptions the other way I suspect though rarer I think; I don't recall any names.
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The Regulative Principle: Samuel Miller gives a succinct statement of this principle when he writes that since the Scriptures are the “only infallible rule of faith and practice, no rite or ceremony ought to have a place in the public worship of God, which is not warranted in Scripture, either by direct precept or example, or by good and sufficient inference.”

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