A47407:378
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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True, all Types, Shadows, and Ceremonies▪ are removed and done away; but Singing th• Praise of God was no Ceremony, but a Mora• Duty, and performed by the Children of Israel, before the Law of Shadows and Ceremonies was given forth, Exod. 15. 1, 2. You may […] well say Prayer was a Ceremony, because the•• were divers ceremonial Rites used in the performance of it, particularly that of Incense.
True, all Types, Shadows, and Ceremonies▪ are removed and done away; but Singing th• Praise of God was no Ceremony, but a Mora• Duty, and performed by the Children of Israel, before the Law of Shadows and Ceremonies was given forth, Exod. 15. 1, 2. You may 〈…〉 well say Prayer was a Ceremony, because the•• were divers ceremonial Rites used in the performance of it, particularly that of Incense.
2. Did not Christ sing an Hymn after th• Supper? Would he have left that as a Patte•• to us, and annexed it to such a pure Gospel-Ordinance, had it been a Ceremony, and only belonging to the Jewish Worship? Or, would the Apostle Paul have given, by the Authority of the Holy Ghost, such a Precept to th• Church of Coloss to sing Psalms, &c. whom […] strives so much to take off from Jewish Rites• Days, and Ceremonies? Had singing of Psalms• Hymns, and spiritual Songs been a Jewish Ceremony, he would not have done thus. This is sufficient to convince any sober and unbiae Person, i. e. that Singing the Praises of God i a Gospel-Duty; and that it did not belong only to the Jews, in the Days of the Old Testament. But you contradict this your self; fo afterwards you grant that the Saints, when the extraordinary Gifts are given, as you suppose they