A47407:154
The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…
The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, proved to be an holy ordinance of Jesus Christ with an answer to all objections : as also, an examination of Mr. Isaac Marlow's two papers, one called, A discourse against singing, &c., the other, An appendix : wherein his arguments and cavils are detected and refuted / by Benjamin Keach ...
London: printed for Author, 1691
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Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, an Holy Ordinance of… › Chapter 5
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1. That Singing of Psalms, &c. is not a legal part of Worship, but suitable to Gospel-Times.
1. That Singing of Psalms, &c. is not a legal part of Worship, but fuitable to Gospel-Times.
2. That there is clear and manifest Institution of it;* nay, and that these prophetical Gospel-Psalms and Prophecies, are part of the Gospel, (being Prophecies of it, as the first Chapter of John is). What think you of those places of the Prophets and Psalms, that speak of Christ as they are mentioned and recited in the New Testament? are they not Gospel as well as any thing ye find therein taught or laid down anew? Doth not the Apostle tell us, That unto them (that is, to Israel) the Gospel was preached, ⟨p. 52⟩as well as unto us? And that in Promises and Prophecies it was preached to Abraham?
- *Manuscript Psalmody.
3. Consider that there is no attainment under the Gospel, of special spiritual Privileges, that can exalt Christians beyond th• practice of this Duty; the more our Mercies are, the greater are our Obligations […] praise God by Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs; and so express the Joy of our Hearts, by Singing forth the Praises of God: they that attain to the greatest purity of Gospel-Worship and Institutions, are to do as Moses and Israel did at the Red Sea. Rev. 13. 3.