A47407:509
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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And truly that want of God's Presence, or liveliness of Spirit, or that cause of Complainings that are in our Churches, (of which you speak) may partly arise from hence, i. e. from the general neglect of this great Duty, in which God of old appeared amongst his People, like a cloud, to fill his House with his glorious Presence, 2 Chron. 5. 13. owned also by God's gracious Testimony in giving his People […] such eminent Victories over their Enemies, 2 Chron. 20. 21, 22. And when they had consulted with the People, and appointed Singers unto the Lord, that they should praise the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness, they went out before the Army, and to say, Praise the Lord, for […] Mercy endureth for ever. And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set Ambushments against the Children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir which came against Judah, and they were smitten. Israel's Success, (saith Mr. Wells) follows Israel's Singing. If the Lord's People will be found in their Duty, they shall not want God's Presence. To this I might add that glorious witness of his Presence in delivering Paul and Silas out of Prison, upon their Praying and Singing Praises to him, Act. 16. There may, 'tis true, be a natural Joy, or false Rapture, by an erring Spirit: but that Joy and Presence of God we meet with in his own Way and Ordinance, nay in the same Ordinance in which he met with his People of ⟨p. 177⟩old, we may be sure is to be prized, and esteemed as no natural or counterfeit Joy, say you what you please.
And truly that want of God's Presence, or liveliness of Spirit, or that cause of Complainings that are in our Churches, (of which you speak) may partly arise from hence, i. e. from the general neglect of this great Duty, in which God of old appeared amongst his People, like a cloud, to fill his House with his glorious Presence, 2 Chron. 5. 13. owned also by God's gracious Testimony in giving his People 〈…〉 such eminent Victories over their Enemies,