A47407:88
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, an Holy Ordinance of… › Chapter 2
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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?
A second Reason is given from this Chapter afterwards, Vers. 31, 32. Canst thou bind the sweet Influences of the Pleiades? (or seven Stars) or loose the Bands of Orion? &c. Here the Lord treats with Job about the Stars in proper Senses; therefore ⟨p. 24⟩probably the Morning Stars here mentioned, are not to be taken Properly, but Tropically, for the Angels. And then he goes on to prove how fitly the Angels may be called Stars, &c. And from this of the Stars or Angels Singing, he infers;
First, Singing is an Act of Divine Worship, they sang to the Glory of God.