A47407:85
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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Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, an Holy Ordinance of… › Chapter 2
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I find an Eminent Writer paraphrasing thus on these words, viz. Where wast thou when I laid the Foundation of the Earth? &c. at which sight the Morning Stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for Joy. Taking the words as carrying an Allusion to, or a Similitude taken from some noble Buildings or Structures, whose Foundations use to be laid with ⟨p. 23⟩Solemnity, and with Singing or shouting Acclamations.
See Mr. Caryl on the Place, who after he hath given several Opinions of Men about these Morning Stars, some supposing they mean the Stars in the Firmament of Heaven, he gives two Reasons to prove, by them are meant the Angels of God.
There are some (saith he) who take these Stars Metaphorically or Figuratively, for the Angels, and then their Singing is proper: And there are two Reasons given why, by the Stars in this place, we should understand the Angels.
First, If we consider the Truth or Course of the History; because the Earth being created the first Day, the Stars were not in being till the Fourth; unless we comprehend them (as was said before) as to their Matter and Reality, under those words of Moses, In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. But as to their Appearance and Formality, so they were not till the fourth Day; and if so, how could they sing together the Praises of God at the laying the Foundation of the Earth?