A47407:491
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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2. From the nature of the Law it self, which was given forth and charged to be kept with such strictness, that it plainly appears to appertain to the Yoke of Bondage; they were not to kindle a Fire through all their Dwellings on their Sabbath, nor to speak their own Words, nor think their own Thoughts: from hence Calvin shows God discovered the absolute need and necessity of a perfect and complete Righteousness in order to Justification and Acceptation with God, i. e. that the Creature must be without Sin, or attain to a Cessation from the Thoughts of Evil, which figured forth the necessity of Christ's perfect Righteousness, and of that Spiritual Rest such who believe in him enter into. All that are in the old Nature, or whilst they remain under the old Covenant-state, do labour and are heavy laden, there is the six days work in the Antitype, but when they come to Christ, believe in Christ, then they cease from their own Works, and enter into Rest, according as Christ hath promised, Mat. 11. 28, 29. then they enter into the Antitype of the Jewish Sabbath, Heb. 4.
2. From the nature of the Law it self, which was given forth and charged to be kept with such strictness, that it plainly appears to appertain to the Yoke of Bondage; they were not to kindle a Fire through all their Dwellings on their Sabbath, nor to speak their own Words, nor think their own Thoughts: from hence Calvin shews God discovered the absolute need and necessity of a perfect and compleat Righteousness in order to Justification and Acceptation with God, i. e. that the Creature must be without Sin, or attain to a Cessation from the Thoughts of Evil, which figured forth the necessity of Christ's perfect Righteousness, and of that Spiritual Rest such who believe in him enter into. All that are in the old Nature, or whilst they remain under the old Covenant-state, do labour and are heavy laden, there is the six days work in the Antitype, but when they come to Christ, believe in Christ, then they cease from their own Works, and enter into Rest, according as Christ hath promised, Mat. 11. 28, 29. then they enter into the Antitype of the Jewish Sabbath, Heb. 4.