A47407:314
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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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, 1 Chron. 25. 9, &c. and these are all said to join together in singing a new Song unto the Lamb. If his Exposition may not be admitted, yet all Expositors agree, that by the four Beasts and twenty four Elders, are meant the Church and the Officers in the Church, and then their singing together doth confirm the manner of Gospel-singing with united Voices together in God's Worship.
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 Patern 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, 1 Chron. 25. 9, &c. and these are all said to joyn together in singing a new Song unto the Lamb. If his Exposition may not be admitted, yet all Expositors agree, that by the four Beasts and twenty four Elders, are meant the Church and the Officers in the Church, and then their singing together doth confirm the manner of Gospel-singing with united Voices together in God's Worship.