A47407:435
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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You mistake that Text in Cant. 2. for all Expositors generally agree, that that Place refers to two things; first, to the coming of Christ in the Flesh, the time of the Jewish-Church-state, or the dark and cloudy days before Christ came, is set forth by Winter; 'tis known the Afflictions and Miseries of God's People, before Christ came, was great, but then the glorious Sun arose, or the Day-spring […] on high visited the Earth, (Luk. 1. 79.) and the longed-for Spring came in, and then the […] of the Turtle was heard in that and other Lands; and the Birds of Heaven and Earth began to sing, I mean, both the Angels, and Saints also, with Grace in their Hearts, in a most spiritual and heavenly manner, to the Lord.
You mistake that Text in Cant. 2. for all Expositors generally agree, that that Place resers to two things; first, to the coming of Christ in the Flesh, the time of the Jewish-Church-state, or the dark and cloudy days before Christ came, is set forth by Winter; 'tis known the Afflictions and Miseries of God's People, before Christ came, was great, but then the glorious Sun arose, or the Day-spring 〈…〉 on high visited the Earth, (Luk. 1. 79.) and the longed-for Spring came in, and then the 〈…〉 of the Turtle was heard in that and other Lands; and the Birds of Heaven and Earth began to sing, I mean, both the Angels, and Saints also, with Grace in their Hearts, in a most spiritual and heavenly manner, to the Lord.
Secondly, By Winter may be meant, as they show, that time while a Soul abides in its natural estate, and when regenerated by the Grace of God, then Winter is past, and then the time for that Soul to sing is come; and such also then hear the Voice of Christ, that blessed Turtle, sweetly by his Spirit, speaking peace to their Souls.