A47407:470
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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Here you tell your Reader, That the Ministers and Worship under the Law were not so ⟨p. 159⟩Spiritual: that Church consisted of Abraham's carnal Seed, (this is all very true thus far) so that their Instituted Worship was Formal, […], Ceremonial, Carnal and Typical, suitable to them; and the Design of God to make them and their Church-state […] Type, Shadow and figure of his calling a spiritual People into a […] spiritual Church-state, to serve him in […] spiritual Ordinances, in Spirit and Truth; and so you go on.
Here you tell your Reader, That the Ministers and Worship under the Law were not so ⟨p. 159⟩Spiritual: that Church consisted of Abraham's c•rnal Seed, (this is all very true thus far) so that their Instituted Worship was Formal, 〈…〉, Ceremonial, Carnal and Typical, suitable to them; and the Design of God to make them and their Church-state 〈…〉 Type, Shadow and figure of his calling a spiritual People into a 〈…〉 spiritual Church-state, to serve him in 〈…〉 spiritual Ordinances, in Spirit and Truth; and so you go on.
Answ. We are not a pleading for Formal prayer, nor Formal Singing, nor Formal Preaching neither, nor for any Ceremony of the Mosaical Law, but for Spiritual Prayer, Spiritual Singing, and Spiritual Preaching, and only for Spiritual and Gospel-Ordinances.
But let me tell you, no Body who shall read these Lines, (who does not know you) but must and would conclude, you are against all […] and external Ordinances; they are Expressions like what are oft sound in Quakers ooks, and seem to be more directly levelled against that Carnal and Formal outward Ordinance of Water-Baptism, and Bread and Wine, (as the Quakers call them) than against Singing; because Singing the Praises of God, is so far from being a Carnal Ordinance, that 'tis that which all believe the Angels and glorified Saints in Heaven are found exercised in; […], and all the Saints shall be found in to all […]. Sure you have less cause thus to […] upon Singing God's Praises, than against […] outward Ordinance whatsoever you could object against.