A47407:386
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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Answ. 'Tis nothing to your purpose, 'tis rather an Argument for singing Psalms by the whole Church; for the whole Church is that spiritual Priesthood, to offer up spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ▪ 1 Pet. 2. 5. That as the Priesthood, or Levites, sung together under the Law, with Instruments of Music, it might typify out how the whole Church should sing spiritually with Grace in their Hearts to the Lord together under the Gospel.
Answ. 'Tis nothing to your purpose, 'tis rather an Argument for singing Psalms by the whole Church; for the whole Church is that spiritual Priesthood, to offer up spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ▪ 1 Pet. 2. 5. That as the Priesthood, or Levi••s, sung together under the Law, with Instruments of Musick, it might typify out how the whole Church should sing spiritually with Grace in their Hearts to the Lord together under the Gospel.
You say in the next place, pag. 15.
Object. There is no Institution to sing David's Psalms, and that Christ nor his Apostles ever […] practised. And also if the Apostles had occasion to translate any Text out of the Hebrew […] the Greek, they did never turn them into Metre.
Object. There is no Institution to sing David's Psalms, and that Christ nor his Apostles ever 〈…〉 practised. And also if the Apostles had occasion to translate any Text out of the Hebrew the Greek, they did never turn them into Metre.