A47407:519
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 let me tell you, to admit of this nice Exception against practising of an Ordinance, because we do not know the exact Form, this will run us into a multitude of needless and frivolous Objections in the administration of other Ordinances; one or two of which I have met withal.
As for Example. In Breaking of Bread, (saith one) you ought to have but one Loaf, because Christ's Body was but one entire Body, and the Church is said to be but one Bread; therefore (saith he) if you have many Loaves, you err, in the form of this Ordinance; and as by you practised, 'tis humane and devised. Saith another, As soon as you have broke the Bread, you must pour forth the Wine; because so soon as Christ's Body was broke, his Blood came forth. Saith a Third, You must eat all, and let none remain; which others deny. One says, We must eat plentifully, for Christ so bids his Friends, Cant. 5. 1. Saith another, A little ⟨p. 182⟩quantity of Bread, and so of the Cup, will answer the Form of the Administration.
So in the Form of Baptism, one may say, You must Baptize the Person forwards; saith another, Backwards; one may say, with a swift Motion; another may say, it must be done with a slow Motion, and let the Person lie some time buried in the Water, that we may have the clear Representation of the Burial of Christ. Would not these be silly Objections? And yet these appertain to the Form of the Administration of Christ's Ordinance. But as the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 11. 16. If any seem contentious, we have no such Custom, nor the Church of God. We read, the Children of Israel for a long time had lost an Ordinance, viz. that of sitting in Booths in the Feast of Tabernacles,