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

O sing unto the Lord a new Song: sing •• to the Lord all the Earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless his Name, &c. Psal. 96. 1, 2. Again, Make a joyful Noise unto the Lord, O all the Earth. Serve the Lord with Gladness; come before his Presence with Singing. Both which places, all the Earth, (saith he) must needs refer to the Gentiles as well as the Jews at that present Time; to the Gentile• afterwards, when they should be called and converted to the Lord, then the Gentiles also should worship the Lord with Singing of Psalms, with a joyful Noise. Which can't be any other than Singing together with a melodious Voice. But he goes on. So that these Passages (saith he) are tacit Prophecies of calling the Gentiles, and of their New-Testament-worshipping God by Singing forth his Praise. Add hereunto that notable passage; O come let us sing unto the ⟨p. 77⟩Lord: let us make a joyful Noise to the Rock of our Salvation. Let us come before his Presence with Thanksgiving; and make a joyful Noise unto him with Psalms. Psal. 95. 3. This Psalm is undoubtedly a Prophecy of Christ, and of that Worship that shall and ought to be performed to him solemnly in Sacred Churches under the New Testament, and especially on the Lord's-Day-Sabbath. The Sabbatism, or rest of the New Testament, for the Apostle interprets this Psalm of Christ, compare Psal. 95. 7. to the end, with Heb. 3. 6, 7. & 14. 15. as upon that Psalm I have noted. This Psalm judicious Calvin thinks, agrees to the Sabbath-day, wherein Sacred Assemblies worship God. And it is evident in the current Psalm, that herein the Holy Ghost prophetically exhorts to that solemn Worship of God under the New Testament, which was usual on Sabbath-Days, viz.

O sing unto the Lord a new Song: sing •• to the Lord all the Earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless his Name, &c. Psal. 96. 1, 2