A47407:492
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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3. This also appears by the Nature of the Precept it self, as laid down Exod. 20. wherein all may see it seems to be a mere carnal Ordinance, ⟨p. 168⟩like others which were imposed on the People till the Time of Reformation, or till the Substance came. What was it God enjoined on them, but a cessation from all external Labour or Work? In it thou shalt do no manner of Work, Thou, nor thy Son, nor thy Daughter, […] thy Man-servant, nor thy Maid-servant, nor thy Cattle, nor the Stranger which is within thy Gates. Exod. 20. 10. Here (as this Law was written in Tables of Stone) are no Religious Duties enjoined on that Day, but a ceasing from bodily Labour, which fully shows the purport of it.
3. This also appears by the Nature of the Precept it self, as laid down Exod. 20. wherein all may see it seems to be a meer carnal Ordinance, ⟨p. 168⟩like others which were imposed on the People till the Time of Reformation, or till the Substance came. What was it God enjoined on them, but a cessation from all external Labour or Work? In it thou shalt do no manner of Work, Thou, nor thy Son, nor thy Daughter, 〈…〉 thy Man-servant, nor thy Maid-servant, nor thy Cattel, nor the Stranger which is within thy Gates. Exod. 20. 10. Here (as this Law was written in Tables of Stone) are no Religious Duties enjoined on that Day, but a ceasing from bodily Labour, which fully shews the purport of it.
4. 'Tis called by the Apostle, (amongst other Mosaical Rites) a Shadow of things to come, but the Body (or Substance of them) is Christ,