A47407:313
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 14
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Christ (saith Mr. Cotton) and his Disciples when they received the Lord's-Supper, which was a Church-Act, they were an entire Congregation, and they after Supper, sung an Hymn. To say that one sung it, saith he, and the others joined in Spirit, saying, Amen, hath no foot-hold in the Text, it might as well be said, they all took the Bread, they all blessed it, and gave it, in that one did ⟨p. 105⟩it, and all the rest joined in Spirit and consented in that, and in the blessing of it.
Christ (saith Mr. Cotton) and his Disciples when they received the Lord's-Supper, which was a Church-Act, they were an intire Congregation, and they after Supper, sung an Hymn. To say that one sung it, saith he, and the others joined in Spirit, saying, Amen, hath no foot-hold in the Text, it might as well be said, they all took the Bread, they all blessed it, and gave it, in that one did ⟨p. 105⟩it, and all the rest joyned in Spirit and consented in that, and in the blessing of it.
But 'tis said [they] sung the Hynm, not he alone, yet [he] is said to give Thanks, or to bless the Bread, &c.
It is no strain of Wit, saith he, but a solid and judicious Exposition of the fourth Chapter of the Revelation, to make it a Description of a particular visible Church of Christ, according to the Platform and Pattern of the New Testament; whereas the four living Creatures are four sorts of Officers, so the twenty four Elders set forth the Brethren of the Church in respect of their ripe Age, Gal. 4. 1, 2, 3. and twenty four in number answering to the twenty four Orders of Priests and Levites,