A47407:353
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 15
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2. 'Tis by this they teach one another the Unity and Harmony that is and should be among Saints, as one Body, that their Happiness and Joys are bound up together, and so the Misery of one is the Misery of the whole; and this is a glorious Lesson to know their Union together, as a Body equally concerned in the Joy or Sorrow of one another, equally interested in the Praises of God. There is no Duty practised in all the Gospel, that doth fully express the Communion of Saints, and represent Heaven, as the Saints singing together. The Lord's Supper doth represent the Communion of Saints very lively, but not so as mutual singing, when all at once, not by consent only, but expressly speak the same thing the same moment. In the Lord's Supper, th• afterwards they were all one Bread, yet they all do not receive it at the same instant of time, but may take successively the Elements; but in singing they all join perfectly at once, to sound forth the Praises of God, as if they had but one Heart and one Voice too. This ⟨p. 120⟩is the perfect Emblem of Heaven, no jarring, all with one Voice and Heart, crying Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
2. 'Tis by this they teach one another the Unity and Harmony that is and should be among Saints, as one Body, that their Happiness and Joys are bound up together, and so the Misery of one is the Misery of the whole; and this is a glorious L•sson to know their Union together, as a Body equally concerned in the Joy or Sorrow of one another, equally interested in the Praises of God. There is no Duty practised in all the Gospel, that doth fully express the Communion of Saints, and represent Heaven, as the Saints singing together. The Lord's Supper doth represent the Communion of Saints very lively, but not so as mutual singing, when all at once, not by consent only, but expresly speak the same thing the same moment. In the Lord's Supper, th• afterwards they were all one Bread, yet they all do not receive it at the same instant of time, but may take successively the Elements; but in singing they all joyn perfectly at once, to sound forth the Praises of God, as if they had but one Heart and one Voice too. This ⟨p. 120⟩is the perfect Emblem of Heaven, no jarring, all with one Voice and Heart, crying Hallelujah, Hallelujah.