A47407:520
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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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, Nehem. 8. 14. which had not been done from the days of Joshua the Son of Nun, vers. 17. so that none were then living to tell them the Form of those Booths. Suppose now that one had said, they must be made this way, and another that way; and they should not have agreed about the Form or Fashion of these Booths, would this have justified some others among them to have said, We will have no Booths at all, unless there be some extraordinary Prophet to show us the Form or Manner how they should be made? No sure, there were none among them that we read of that were of such a Spirit; or if there had, doubtless they would have been worthy of Reproof: but they all, according as they found it written in the Law, which God commanded