A47407:621
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. But lest all these Tricks and Shi•ts should fail him, he flies to another broken Refuge, viz. intimating that the Ordinance of Singing doth not belong to us now, but may be practised by the Saints hereafter in the thousand Years Reign, or seventh thousand Years of this World. Which is a very doubtful Point, I mean, whether there will be such a thousand Years Reign or not, in his sense; and yet this Duty ⟨p. 24⟩lies amongst other Gospel-Ordinances and Precepts given out by the Spirit, and enjoined on the Churches, which is enough to shake the Faith of our People in respect of other Ordinances, which they have as much reason to say, may not belong to us, but shall be practised in time to come, when the Church (as the Seekers say) shall attain its first or original Purity. See Pag. 27. of his Discourse.
4. But lest all these Tricks and Shi•ts should fail him, he flies to another broken Refuge, viz. intimating that the Ordinance of Singing doth not belong to us now, but may be practised by the Saints hereafter in the thousand Years Reign, or seventh thousand Years of this World. Which is a very doubtful Point, I mean, whether there will be such a thousand Years Reign or not, in his sense; and yet this Duty ⟨p. 24⟩lies amongst other Gospel-Ordinances and Precepts given out by the Spirit, and enjoyned on the Churches, which is enough to shake the Faith of our People in respect of other Ordinances, which they have as much reason to say, may not belong to us, but shall be practised in time to come, when the Church (as the Seekers say) shall attain its first or original Purity. See Pag. 27. of his Discourse.
5. And lastly, like a wary and fore-seeing Man, to be sure to carry his Cause, he retires to his last Fort and Strong-hold, and affirms, That the Ordinance of singing of Psalms, Hymns, &c. was only in the Primitive Time performed by an extraordinary Gift; and unless we have such a Gift, we must not sing the Praises of God now in these days.