The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…

Now, saith one, Since there is no Man that questions whether Singing of Psalms was instituted and commanded of God of old; how can they avoid the Power of such Precepts, considering, as he minds, particularly Psal. 81. ver. 4, 5. where Singing is called a Statute for Israel, and the Law of the God of Jacob, and ordained in Joseph for a Testament; which, saith he, refers to ⟨p. 48⟩a Time, before they were brought into the Ceremonial Worship? Hence, saith he, it inevitably follows, that until any Man ca• show us, that Singing of Psalms, yea, Singing of the Book of Psalms, was Ceremonial or Judaical, or are changed or abrogated […] the Gospel; those Precepts lie upon us now with the same Power and Obligation as […] laid them under then; for the Antiquity of a Law, or Institution, rather commends it to us, than any ways abates of its Obligation so that had there been no other Institution• for Singing of Psalms, &c. than what is […] the Book of Psalms, we should have had sufficient Authority to be found in them. (A Manuscript called Psalmody.) He might have added, Since especially it is of […] like Nature with Prayer, viz. a moral Precept• as well as brought into a written Law. But […] all I might add, 'tis much more unreasonable to plead an exemption from the Force and Obligation of those Precepts, since the Saints are enjoined to sing those Psalms of David by the Holy Ghost in the New Testament; for […] grant there are no other Psalms, none called Psalms besides the Book of Psalms.

Now, saith one, Since there is no Man that questions whether Singing of Psalms was instituted and commanded of God of old; how can they avoid the Power of such Precepts, considering, as he minds, particularly Psal. 81. ver. 4, 5. where Singing is called a Statute for Israel, and the Law of the God of Jacob, and ordained in Joseph for a Testament; which, saith he, refers to ⟨p. 48⟩a Time, before they were brought into the Ceremonial Worship? Hence, saith he, it inevitably follows, that until any Man ca shew us, that Singing of Psalms, yea, Singing of the Book of Psalms, was Ceremonial or Judaical, or are changed or abrogated the Gospel; those Precepts lie upon us now with the same Power and Obligation as laid them under then; for the Antiquity of a Law, or Institution, rather commends it to us, than any ways abates of its Obligation so that had there been no other Institution for Singing of Psalms, &c. than what is the Book of Psalms, we should have had sufficient Authority to be found in them. (A Manuscript called Psalmody.) He might have added, Since especially it is of like Nature with Prayer, viz. a moral Precept as well as brought into a written Law. But all I might add, 'tis much more unreasonable to plead an exemption from the Force and Obligation of those Precepts, since the Saints are injoined to sing those Psalms of David by the Holy Ghost in the New Testament; for grant there are no other Psalms, none called Psalms besides the Book of Psalms.