A47407:601
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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The Doctor, from Heb. 2. 12. from the Greek word Hymneso see, I will hymn thee, i. e. I will praise thee; saith, (1.) what Christ will do, viz. He will sing Praise to God. (2.) Where he will do it, i. e. in the midst of the Congregation. The expression of both these (he saith) is accommodated unto the Declaration of God's Name, and praising of him in the Temple. The singing of Hymns of Praise unto God in the great Congregation, was then a principal part of '•is Worship, &c.
The Doctor, from Heb. 2. 12. from the Greek word Hymneso se, I will hymn thee, i. e. I will praise thee; saith, (1.) what Christ will do, viz. He will sing Praise to God. (2.) Where he will do it, i. e. in the midst of the Congregation. The expression of both these (he saith) is accommodated unto the Declaration of God's Name, and praising of him in the Temple. The singing of Hymns of Praise unto God in the great Congregation, was then a principal part of '•is Worship, &c.
2. The cheerfulness and alacrity of the Spirit of Christ in this Work, he would do it with Joy and Singing. These are the Doctor's words, as cited by you, Appendix, pag. 4. And thus did Christ sing with his Disciples, in that great Representative Church, as our Annotators call it.
2. The chearfulness and alacrity of the Spirit of Christ in this Work, he would do it with Joy and Singing. These are the Doctor's words, as cited by you, Appendix, pag. 4. And thus did Christ sing with his Disciples, in that great Representative Church, as our Annotators call it.