A47407:466
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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Did not Christ and his Disciples sing, just […] the most dismal Time of Sorrow and […]? and Paul and Silas sung when in […], and their Feet were in the Stocks? And […] not the hundred and forty four thousand […] a new Song under Antichrist's Reign? For […] Expositors generally agree, that that place […] to that Time: And 'tis plain, before the […] Angels came out of the Temple, clothed […] white Raiment, these sing for being […] by Christ's Blood from among Men•• this we still say is the chief Cause of Singing: And shall we be such Hypocrites, to be […] affected with outward Blessings, than […] inward Spiritual and Eternal Blessings? […] did not the Christians, in the Time of the […] Persecutions, when they suffered the […] Torments Men could invent, sing Psalms […] Hymns unto God? This can be no more […], than that there were such Persecutions, since they that relate the Story of their Sufferings, gave us an account of this their Practice. Nay, and though they were discovered by their singing, and put to death, yet they would not decline this sacred and sweet Duty.
Did not Christ and his Disciples sing, just 〈…〉 the most dismal Time of Sorrow and 〈…〉? and Paul and Silas sung when in 〈…〉, and their Feet were in the Stocks? And 〈…〉 not the hundred and forty four thousand 〈…〉 a new Song under Antichrist's Reign? For 〈…〉 Expositors generally agree, that that place 〈…〉 to that Time: And 'tis plain, before the 〈…〉 Angels came out of the Temple, clothed 〈…〉 white Raiment, these sing for being 〈…〉 by Christ's Blood from among Men•• this we still say is the chief Cause of Singing: And shall we be such Hypocrites, to be 〈…〉 affected with outward Blessings, than 〈…〉 inward Spiritual and Eternal Blessings? 〈…〉 did not the Christians, in the Time of the 〈…〉 Persecutions, when they suffered the Torments Men could invent, sing Psalms Hymns unto God? This can be no more , than that there were such Persecutions, since they that relate the Story of their Sufferings, gave us an account of this their Practice. Nay, and though they were discovered by their singing, and put to death, yet they would not decline this sacred and sweet Duty.