A47407:668
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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2. You would have it chiefly to refer to the seventh thousand Years of the World, or Reign of Christ; hinting in your first Part as if then there shall be a Singing, besides the Essence of it in their Spirits: but if that thousand Years you speak of, shall be before the end of the World, or Gospel-Dispensation, pray where lie those Precepts that will authorize them in those days to sing, and yet do not authorize, or warrant us to sing now? Shall they have a new Bible for those Times? But if the Precepts for Singing then are contained in our holy Scripture, and yet do not belong to us; 'tis good for us to consider, whether other Precepts ⟨p. 39⟩written therein, do not wholly refer to those Times too, nay, all Ordinances, till the Spirit comes down in an extraordinary manner; and so now we must throw off all Gospel-Administrations, and turn Seekers. I am sorry to see such Stuff as this published to the World. But what I have said or cited from the Writings of other Godly Men, in respect of those Prophetical Psalms, and other places of Scripture that enjoin the Gentile-Churches to sing the Praises of the Lord, I would have you and others consider well of, before you write again.
2. You would have it chiefly to refer to the seventh thousand Years of the World, or Reig• of Christ; hinting in your first Part as if then there shall be a Singing, besides the Essence of it in their Spirits: but if that thousand Years you speak of, shall be before the end of the World, or Gospel-Dispensation, pray where lie those Precepts that will authorize them in those days to sing, and yet do not authorize, or warrant us to sing now? Shall they have a new Bible for those Times? But if the Precepts for Singing then are contained in our holy Scripture, and yet do not belong to us; 'tis good for us to consider, whether other Precepts ⟨p. 39⟩written therein, do not wholly refer to those Times too, nay, all Ordinances, till the Spirit comes down in an extraordinary manner; and so now we must throw off all Gospel-Administrations, and turn Seekers. I am sorry to see such Stuff as this published to the World. But what I have said or cited from the Writings of other Godly Men, in respect of those Prophetical Psalms, and other places of Scripture that enjoin the Gentile-Churches to sing the Praises of the Lord, I would have you and others consider well of, before you write again.