A47407:439
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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And now, though you would have this place to refer to the thousand Years Reign, yet the Apostle applies it positively to the time of the Gospel, see Rom. 10. 15. Come, the Day of Gospel-Grace, Gospel-Light, Gospel-Glory and Privileges, is like the great Jubilee, when ⟨p. 150⟩desolate Souls, who like waste places come to be renewed, and the Church rebuilt, and Ordinances restored, this is the time to sing, this is the chief cause of Joy and Gladness. Many Men ignorantly apply Prophecies to the thousand Years Reign, that refer to the time of the Gospel which began in the Apostles days: besides, there is a Doubt in the Hearts of many Men about that thousand Years; 'tis a Mystery not yet understood clearly.
And now, though you would have this place to refer to the thousand Years Reign, yet the Apostle applies it positively to the time of the Gospel, see Rom. 10. 15. Come, the Day of Gospel-Grace, Gospel-Light, Gospel-Glory and Priviledges, is like the great Jubilee, when ⟨p. 150⟩desolate Souls, who like waste places come to be renewed, and the Church rebuilt, and Ordinances restored, this is the time to sing, this is the chief cause of Joy and Gladness. Many Men ignorantly apply Prophecies to the thousand Years Reign, that refer to the time of the Gospel which began in the Apostles days: besides, there is a Doubt in the Hearts of many Men about that thousand Years; 'tis a Mystery not yet understood clearly.
No doubt, the Antitype of Solomon's Temple (say you what you please) was the Gospel-Church in the days of the Apostles, and so downward, and not the thousand Years Reign: for the Glory of the second Temple, was a Type of the Glory of the Church in the latter days of the World, as the best of our Expositors have excellently opened it to be so: therefore, what you speak, pag. 28. makes against your self; for if the Institution of Singing which was in the Levitical Temple-worship, was completed as to the Antitype in the Apostles Days, as touching the beginning of it, and not as you imagine; and there is no doubt but 'tis so, for when the Antitype was come, then the Shadow of Aaron's Order, and musical Instruments, fled away, and then nothing was left but Singing with Heart and Voice, by the Spirit, to the Lord.