A47407:493
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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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, Col. 2. 17.
And thus you may see how to exclude Ceremonial Rites used under the Law, that were joined to Moral Duties, and yet preserve that which is Moral in them. Doubtless though it is not our Duty to observe that Jewish Ceremony of the Seventh-Day-Sabbath, which was given forth and enjoined on them, yet the Law of the Fourth Commandment, as to a time of Worship (as before) remains to us, so doth Singing the Praises of God; but the External Place of Jewish Worship, the Time and external Rites of their Worship, and the external Instruments of Music then used in their Worship, went away altogether, and were buried with Christ.
And thus you may see how to exclude Ceremonial Rites used under the Law, that were joined to Moral Duties, and yet preserve that which is Moral in them. Doubtless though it is not our Duty to observe that Jewish Ceremony of the Seventh-Day-Sabbath, which was given forth and enjoined on them, yet the Law of the Fourth Commandment, as to a time of Worship (as before) remains to us, so doth Singing the Praises of God; but the External Place of Jewish Worship, the Time and external Rites of their Worship, and the external Instruments of Musick then used in their Worship, went away altogether, and were buried with Christ.
Object. Your twelfth Reply is, To that we ⟨p. 169⟩say of precomposed Forms of Preaching, since the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit are ceased; […] must now pray and preach by its ordinary Gifts; and if we are allowed to use precomposed Forms of Preaching, why not of (they might say) say you, Prayer and Singing also? pag. 46.