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A47407	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 ...	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1641 (1641)	Wing K50; ESTC R21273	133,739	273

one Man's Singing and divers others in the Book of Psalms before cited The third place is that in Rev. 19. which is a Prophecy of that triumphant Singing tha● shall be in the Church throughout the Earth or in all Nations at the downfal of Babyl●● And after these things I heard a great voice 〈◊〉 much People in Heaven saying Alleluj●● vers 1. And I heard as it were the Voice of 〈◊〉 great Multitude and as the Voice of many W●●ters and as the Voice of mighty Thundrings saying Allelujah for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Vers 6. That Singing that is represented to John by these kind of Noises can 〈◊〉 signify the Singing of one single Man in 〈◊〉 Congregation and though it is said to be 〈◊〉 at that time to such a degree and on that occasion extraordinarily performed yet it makes not against ordinary Singing which is a Gospel-Precept as hath been proved for as there are times of extraordinary Prayer so of extraordinary Praise and Singing to Jehovah Moreover it follows no more that we must not sing at all unless we have an extrordinary cause to be merry or rejoice in God then it doth follow we may not pray at all unless we are afflicted James 5. 13. I shall now shut up this with three or four Arguments and proceed to the next Chapter Arg. 1. If it was never commanded of God nor the Practice of his People under the Old Testament nor in the New in the ordinary Worship of God for one Man alone to sing by himself in the publick Congregation then for any to attempt to bring such a Practice into the Church would be a great Evil and an absolute piece of Will-worship or an Innovation But it was never the Practice of God's People under the Old Testament nor in the New nor commanded of God in the ordinary Worship of God for one Man alone to sing by himself in the publick Congregation Ergo For any to attempt to bring such a Practice into the Church would be a great Evil and an absolute piece of Will-worship or an Innovation The Major certainly every Man will grant that is resolved not to add to or diminish from God's Word or doth believe there must be no Additions nor Alterations to what is laid down in Christ's New Testament for by that Argument if one new Practice may be admitted others may As to the Minor if any can shew me in the Old or New Testament that any one Man in the ordinary Worship of God was allowed thus to do I must confess my Argument is lost but if they cannot do that 't is unan●swerable Arg. 2. If singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs be injoyned on or required of the Churches by the Holy Ghost in the New Testament and that there is no other way manner or 〈◊〉 prescribed than what was used by the S●●●ts under the Old Testament and by Christ and his Disciples in the New viz. a singing together with a melodious Voice then that way the 〈◊〉 sung under the Old Testament and Christ 〈◊〉 his Disciples under the New is to be our Rule 〈◊〉 Practice in Singing and there is no other 〈◊〉 singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual 〈◊〉 is enjoyned on or required by the Holy Ghost 〈◊〉 the Churches in the New Testament and 〈◊〉 is no other way manner or mode prescr●●●d than what was used by the Saints under the Old Testament and by Christ and his Apostles ●●der the New Ergo To sing together with a melodious Voice is to be our Rule and Practice in singing and there is no other No body will surely deny my Major if any can find another way manner or mode prescribed let him shew it us As to the Minor that singing of Psalms c. is injoyned I know no body doth deny it Arg. 3. If whatsoever was writte● aforetime or given forth in the Old Testament by the Spirit especially which were moral Duties nay and given forth afresh in the New was as to matter and manner for our Instruction and Learning and singing of Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs which is a moral Duty was given forth aforetime nay and it is given forth afresh in the New then the matter and manner of Singing as practised in the Old and practised in the New was for our Learning and Instruction that we should do the same But whatsoever was written aforetime or given forth in the Old Testament by the Spirit especially which were moral Duties nay and given forth afresh in the New as to matter and manner was for our Instruction and Learning and singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs which is a moral Duty was given forth aforetime in the Old Testament and afresh in the New Ergo Singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs as to matter and manner as practised in the Old Testament and in the New was for our Learning and Instruction that we should so do and practise the same The Major cannot be denied the Minor is proved from that in Rom. 15. 4. For whatsoever was written aforetime was written for our Learning 2 Tim. 3. 16. and from what I have said in this Treatise wherein 't is evinced that Singing c. is a moral Duty and given forth both in the Old and New Testament If any object and say that then we must sing nothing but David's Psalms or the Songs contained in the Old and New Testament I answer The Matter that then was sung was God'● Word or Divine and Holy Songs and so must the Matter of our Songs be the Psalms of David or the Word of Christ i. e. such things that are certainly Divine and Sacred congruous with the Word of God or spiritual Songs If they object about the manner used under the Law with Musical Instruments I answer 〈◊〉 plead for no other manner than was practised in the New Testament as well as in the Old 〈◊〉 under the Old we read of singing together with united Voices without Instruments and the same in the New So that unless Instruments of Musick as Organs c. were used in the New Testament they are unlawful to be brought into the Worship of God and in vain is it for any to object against Singing because Musical Instruments were used under the Old Testament since the one is given forth in the New viz. singing Psalms without mention made of Instruments of Musick and so practised also But to that Objection I purpose to give a full Answer when I come to consider of Mr. Marlow's Book Arg. 4. If Christ and his Disciples never practised nor injoyned on the Churches any Ordinance or Duty but they left a sufficient Rule how such Ordinances or Duties should be performed and yet Christ and his Disciples did sing and injoyned singing of Psalms c. on the Churches then they left a sufficient Rule how singing of Psalms c. should be performed But Christ and his Disciples did practise and injoin singing of Psalms and Hymns

Time this Prophecy did refer to which you may soon see if you read the Context How beautiful upon the Mountains are the feet of them that bring good Tydings c. Which the Apostle absolutely applies to the Time of the Gospel and to Gospel-Ministers Rom. 10. 15. And the Prophet doth not only say The Watchmen shall lift up their Voice and with the Voice together sing but also calls upon the desolate and waste places to sing together which can refer to none but the Lord's People who in Gospel-Days shall be made a Praise to him who had been as a poor barren and waste Wilderness For saith the Prophet in the next words The Lord hath made his Arm bare in the Eyes of all Nations and the ends of the Earth shall see the Salvation of God Vers 10. Now this place directly declares the manner how we ought to Sing that is with Voices together And thus I find a most Reverend and Learned Man speak upon the place David's Psalms saith he were Sung together in Heart and Voice by the twenty four Orders of the Musicians who typed out the twenty four Elders which our Annotators and others say signify the Church and Ministers of Christ and so saith this Author viz. All the Members of Christian Churches Rev. 5. 8. who are made Kings and Priests to God to praise him as they did for if there had been any other Order of Singing besides the Body of the People to succeed those formerly used the Lord would doubtless have given directions how or what it was Not Moses only but all Israel sang and the Women as well as the Men also intimateth that that Song John speaks of Rev. 15. 3. which saith he the Protestant Churches getting Victory over the Beast with Harps in their hands and Singing the Song of Moses refers to that Song and manner of Singing Exod. 15. 1 2. And there is no doubt of it but it doth Moreover saith he Isaiah foretells in the days of the New Testament that God's Watchmen and dissolates lost Souls signified by desolate and waste places should with their Voice Sing together Isa 52. 8 9. The Song of the Lamb saith he was with many together Rev. 7. 9 10. And the Apostles expresly command the Singing of Psalms Hymns and spiritual Songs not to any select Christians but to the whole Church Ephes 5. 19. Col. 3. 16. Paul and Silas sang together in Prison Act. 16. 25. and must the Publick hear only one Man Sang I must say it would be a strange sight to see and hear and without any Warrant from God's Word or Practice of any Church of Christ To all these saith he we may add the Practice of the Primitive Churches the testimony of the ancient and holy Basil is instead of many Epist 63. When one of us saith he hath begun a Psalm the rest of us set in to sing with him all of us with one Heart and with one Voice and this saith he is the common practice speaking of Basil of the Churches of Egypt Lybia Thebes Palestina Syria To the same purpose Eusebius gives witness Eccles Hist lib. 2. cap. 17. The Objections saith he made against this do most of them plead against joying to Sing in Heart as well as in Voice as that by this means others out of the Church will sing as also that we are not always in a suitable Estate to the matter Sung and likewise that all cannot Sing with understanding and are not all therefore who have understanding to join in Heart and Voice together Are not all the Creatures in Heaven Earth Seas Men Beasts Fishes Fowles c. commanded to praise the Lord and yet none of these but Men and Godly ly Men too can do it spiritually and with understanding The third Scripture Prophecy is Hos 2. 15. which clearly alludes to the Gospel-days 〈◊〉 Expositors shew viz. when God should make a New Covenant with his People and betr●●● them to himself for ever vers 19. I will all●●● her and bring her into the Wilderness and speak comfortably unto ber Vers 14. And 〈◊〉 give her Vineyards from thence and the Valey of Achor for a Door of Hope and she shal● sing as in the days of her Youth and as in the day when she came up out of the Land of Egypt which is clear has respect to that of Exod. 15. see our Annotators on this Text for it fully confirms Singing under the Gospel and such a Singing as was of Old I shall close this with what Dr. Roberts saith in his Key to the Holy Bible pag. 175. Finally that passage in the Prophet Thy Watchmen shall lift up the Voice with the Voice together shall they Sing is saith he prophetically spoken of the Times when the Feet of the Messengers of glad-tidings shall be beautiful who shall say unto Sion Thy God reigneth This is interpreted by the Apostle Paul of the Gospel-times under the New Testament I rather chuse to give my Understanding of this glorious Truth in the words of other Men such worthy and renouned Men as these than in my own thinking some may more readily incline to receive the Truth from them than from such a poor Nothing-creature as I am yet did not I verily believe as they did in this matter I should not have cited a word from their Pens Besides some of their Works ●ie in great Folio's that very few may meet ●ith and what they say which they prove from God's Word we ought carefully to receive though in some things they differ from us Therefore if any Answer me they must also answer them in what I have cited out of their Writings or I shall conclude I have no Answer at all CHAP. XII Proving 'tis our Duty to sing the Praises of God with united Voices from the great Noise such are said to make when they sing THis appears by that in Exod. 32. 17 18. And when Joshua heard the noise of the People as they shouted he said to Moses There is War in the Camp vers 17. And he said It is not the Voice of them that shout for mastery neither is it the Voice of them that cry for being overcome but the noise of them that sing do I hear vers 18. Certainly one Man's Voice could not have made such a Noise nothing can be more clear but that they sung with united Voices together Obj. But here it is objected This was in praise of the Golden Calf and so no rule Answ 'T is no matter to whom they sung it was their Sin and horrid Wickedness to give that Divine Worship and Praise to a molten●mage that belonged to God only but there is no question but they sung now to this false God as they had done cap. 15. to the true God of Heaven and Earth and therein lay part of their wicked and horrid Deed. The second Scripture is Psal 81. 1 2. Sing aloud unto God make a joyful Noise which cannot be apply'd to