A47407:486
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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'Tis known some have drawn such an Inference: but I am glad to see our London-Elders better instructed; for in the late Treatise, called The Gospel-Ministers Maintenance vindicated▪ (which is recommended to all the Churches by them jointly) you may see, tho they gran• Tithes did appertain to the Mosaical Law, and that that Law is abrogated, yet they affirm the Equitableness of that Law remains: And from hence they urge and press the Duty of the Ministers ⟨p. 165⟩Maintenance now in Gospel-days on our People. Take the words as they lie in that Book, pag. 109.
'Tis known some have drawn such an Inference: but I am glad to see our London-Elders better instructed; for in the late Treatise, called The Gospel-Ministers Maintenance vindicated▪ (which is recommended to all the Churches by them joyntly) you may see, tho they gran• Tithes did appertain to the Mosaical Law, and that that Law is abrogated, yet they affirm the Equitableness of that Law remains: And from hence they urge and press the Duty of the Ministers ⟨p. 165⟩Maintenance now in Gospel-days on our People. Take the words as they lie in that Book, pag. 109.
The Lord's People ought to be as careful in the discharge of their-Duty to Christ's Ministers now, as the Israelites were to the Levites; tho, as we have already said, their Portion is not the Tenths of Mens Increase, nor the first Fruits, which Law is abrogated, yet the Equity of that Law (that is a Moral Duty) remaineth perpetually; as the Apostle observes, Do you not know that they which minister about holy things, live of the things of the Temple? and they that wait at the Altar, partake of the Altar? &c. 1 Cor. 9. 13