A47407:488
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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Why even so it is in the case of singing the Praises of God. Under the Mosaical Law the Lord's People used Musical Instruments in that Ordinance, which was a Legal Rite, and is abrogated; but Singing is a Duty still: and from hence too it appears so to be upon the very same scot of Account, viz. because the Equity of it in all respects remains, and is the same, i. e. God deserves equally to be praised now as then; […] there is the same reason we should sing his Praises now as they had. Nay, since we have received greater Grace, greater Light, clearer Discoveries of his Will, and greater and more glorious Blessings and Privileges than they had (we having the Substance of those things which they had but the Shadow of) there is more reason we should sing the Praises of God now than they had then. For now under the Gospel, the time ⟨p. 166⟩of singing of Birds is come, Cant. 2. 12. […] 'tis to be done more spiritually (without Musical Instruments) only with our Voices together, with Grace in our Hearts to the Lord Col. 3. 16. In like manner also Israel in their assembling together to worship God (which also is a moral Duty) had then a glorious external Temple to worship in, as well as Musical Instruments in their Worship; but because […] under the Gospel have no such glorious external Temple, must we not meet together to worship God at all? or was their assembling together so to do, no Rule for us to perform that great religious Duty? 'tis easy to […] Ceremonial Rites, and places then used, from moral and perpetual Ordinances, and to show how those external Rites and Shadows are gone, and yet that part which is moral remains forever.
Why even so it is in the case of singing the Praises of God. Under the Mosaical Law the Lord's People used Musical Instruments in that Ordinance, which was a Legal Rite, and is abrogated; but Singing is a Duty still: and from hence too it appears so to be upon the very same scot of Account, viz. because the Equity of it in all respects remains, and is the same, i. e. God deserves equally to be praised now as then; 〈…〉 there is the same reason we should sing his Praises now as they had. Nay, since we have received greater Grace, greater Light, clearer Discoveries of his Will, and greater and more glorious Blessings and Priviledges than they had (we having the Substance of those things which they had but the Shadow of) there is more reason we should sing the Praises of God now than they had then. For now under the Gospel, the time