A47407:37
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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I must confess, (as one observes) that the great Design of Satan is, and always was, to put a Cheat upon God's People, as well as to hold the World in Blindness and Wickedness; by the one (saith he) Satan holds Men in a state of Impenitency, and by the other he deludes Christians to neglect their Duties, and to obstruct their own Comfort and Privilege. He acts as well in the shape of an Angel of Light, as of a Prince of Darkness, stirring up vain Scruples and Objections, especially in the Minds of weak Christians, and filthy Imaginations in those who have not yet turned to God.
I must confess, (as one observes) that the great Design of Satan is, and always was, to put a Cheat upon God's People, as well as to hold the World in Blindness and Wickedness; by the one (saith he) Satan holds Men in a state of Impenitency, and by the other he deludes Christians to neglect their Duties, and to obstruct their own Comfort and Priviledg. He acts as well in the shape of an Angel of Light, as of a Prince of Darkness, stirring up vain Scruples and Objections, especially in the Minds of weak Christians, and filthy Imaginations in those who have not yet turned to God.
I must confess, I my self, when first God enlightened me into his Truth, was an opposer of this Sacred Ordinance; but it was not for want of Ignorance, and partly through Prejudice, ⟨p. 4⟩perhaps to such who I esteem, and even looked upon since that time, a corrupt People, and false in their Church-Constitution, and polluted with humane Innovation, or Inventions of Men: the abuse of an Ordinance is subject to raise Mens Spirits to a dislike of the thing it self.
I must confess, I my self, when first God enlightned me into his Truth, was an opposer of this Sacred Ordinance; but it was not for want of Ignorance, and partly through Prejudice, ⟨p. 4⟩perhaps to such who I esteem, and even looked upon since that time, a corrupt People, and false in their Church-Constitution, and polluted with humane Innovation, or Inventions of Men: the abuse of an Ordinance is subject to raise Mens Spirits to a dislike of the thing it self.