A47407:34
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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The Introduction.
IT cannot but be lamented to see what Temptations many Men have been laid under, by the great Enemy of Truth, in every Age of the World, in their fierce opposition against one or another blessed Ordinance and Institution of Jesus Christ; and this not only by bad Men, but also by Men fearing God: All which, no doubt, arises, either from their Ignorance, or else from that Prejudice there is in their Hearts against it; from a fond Conceit that it can't be a Truth of Christ, because they never looked upon it so to be, (nor some wiser than they); nor are they willing to believe it to be a Truth, since some (who have not such Light and Knowledge in other blessed Truths) do practise it: as if, because some Men, who hold and maintain some gross Errors and Falsities, can hold and practise no Truths at all; whereas 'tis evident, the Church of Rome, which is Mystical Babylon, are sound in the Doctrine of the Trinity, as far as I can gather, and possibly in some other Points also: For they believe the Resurrection of the Body, and the Eternal Judgment, and that Christ died without the Gate of Jerusalem: but I am afraid ⟨p. 2⟩some Men have a Fancy they know all the whole Mind of Christ, and that they need not be taught any other Truths, than those which they have received: notwithstanding can't but know, the Church is but newly come out of the Wilderness, or Popish Darkness; and not so fully neither, as to be as clear as the Sun, as in due time she shall.
IT cannot but be lamented to see what Temptations many Men have been laid under, by the great Enemy of Truth, in every Age of the World, in their fierce opposition against one or another blessed Ordinance and Institution of Jesus Christ; and this not only by bad Men, but also by Men fearing God: All which, no doubt, arises, either from their Ignorance, or else from that Prejudice there is in their Hearts against it; from a fond Conceit that it can't be a Truth of Christ, because they never looked upon it so to be, (nor some wiser than they); nor are they willing to believe it to be a Truth, since some (who have not such Light and Knowledg in other blessed Truths) do practise it: as if, because some Men, who hold and maintain some gross Errors and Falsities, can hold and practise no Truths at all; whereas 'tis evident, the Church of Rome, which is Mystical Babylon, are sound in the Doctrine of the Trinity, as far as I can gather, and possibly in some other Points also: For they believe the Resurrection of the Body, and the Eternal Judgment, and that Christ died without the Gate of Jerusalem: but I am afraid