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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

as well as other Ordinances are What you say in the 27th Page about the Winter of Afflictions when that is past and the time of the Singing of Birds is come at the appearance of Christ's Kingdom which will fully perfect the Glory of Temple-worship You mistake that Text in Cant. 2. for all Expositors generally agree that that Place resers to two things first to the coming of Christ in the Flesh the time of the Jewish-Church-state or the dark and cloudy days before Christ came is set forth by Winter 't is known the Afflictions and Miseries of God's People before Christ came was great but then the glorious Sun arose or the Day-spring 〈◊〉 on high visited the Earth Luk. 1. 79. and the longed-for Spring came in and then the 〈◊〉 of the Turtle was heard in that and other Lands and the Birds of Heaven and Earth began to sing I mean both the Angels and Saints also with Grace in their Hearts in a most spiritual and heavenly manner to the Lord. Secondly By Winter may be meant as they shew that time while a Soul abides in its natural estate and when regenerated by the Grace of God then Winter is past and then the time for that Soul to sing is come and such also then hear the Voice of Christ that blessed Turtle sweetly by his Spirit speaking peace to their Souls But if in the third place it should also allude to the Churches final Deliverance from all outward Afflictions in the latter Days and so they have an extraordinary Cause to praise God and sing his Praises forth in those Times for temporal Salvation doth it follow from thence we must not sing forth his Praises till then 't is a horrible mistake to think Saints are more to be concerned to ●ing to the Lord for outward Blessings and worldly Peace and Prosperity on Earth than for their spiritual Blessings and Priviledges through Christ for the redemption of their Souls from Sin and eternal Wrath no For these Mercies we have infinitely more cause to sing than for all those great things you hint at besides that Song will be rather the Song of Moses than the Song of the Lamb the one was for temporal Deliverance and Salvation the other is for spiritual and eternal Mercies True when that time comes when we shall sing both those Songs together then the Melody may be the sweeter but though there are extraordinary times of Prayer and Praises yet that ought not to hinder the Saints from praying and singing at other times Your Reply in the fourth place to that in Isa 52. 8 9. viz. Thy Watchmen shall lift up the Voice with the Voice together shall they sing is nothing to the purpose at all What though the word will bear their making a noise o● shouting yet 't is a joyful Noise or a Noise of Singing and a Singing with their Voice together as a found of the great Jubilee And now though you would have this place to refer to the thousand Years Reign yet the Apostle applies it positively to the time of the Gospel see Rom. 10. 15. Come the Day of Gospel-Grace Gospel-Light Gospel-Glory and Priviledges is like the great Jubilee when desolate Souls who like waste places come to be renewed and the Church rebuilt and Ordinances restored this is the time to sing this is the chief cause of Joy and Gladness Many Men ignorantly apply Prophecies to the thousand Years Reign that refer to the time of the Gospel which began in the Apostles days besides there is a Doubt in the Hearts of many Men about that thousand Years 't is a Mystery not yet understood clearly No doubt the Antitype of Solomon's Temple say you what you please was the Gospel-Church in the days of the Apostles and so downward and not the thousand Years Reign for the Glory of the second Temple was a Type of the Glory of the Church in the latter days of the World as the best of our Expositors have excellently opened it to be so therefore what you speak pag. 28. makes against your self for if the Institution of Singing which was in the Levitical Temple-worship was compleated as to the Antitype in the Apostles Days as touching the beginning of it and not as you imagine and there is no doubt but 't is so for when the Antitype was come then the Shadow of Aaron's Order and musical Instruments fled away and then nothing was left but Singing with Heart and Voice by the Spirit to the Lord. Your fift Reply is to that of Christ and his Disciples singing of an Hymn after the Supper pag. 29. which you say might be no more than giving of Thanks or saying Grace Answ We have answered this Objection fully already but by the way had it been no more than his giving of Thanks why doth the Hloly Ghost express it in the plural Number 't is said He took Bread and blessed it and he 〈◊〉 the Cup and gave Thanks so some Translations render it but now at the close 't is said they sung an Hymn Besides multitudes of Learned Men do tell you that from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they hymned it is truly and rightly translated into English they sung an Hymn Dr. Du Veil who was as Learned a Man as most this present Age hath in it saith in his literal Explanation of the Acts of the Apostles Chap. 16. ver 25. pag. 67. thus Hymns are Songs which contain the Praise of God If it be Praise and not of God it is not an Hymn if it be Praise and of God if it be not sung it is not an Hymn it must therefore that it may be an Hymn have these three things viz. 1. Praise 2. And of God 3. And a Song Now this being an Hymn our Saviour and his Disciples used in praising of God the Doctor affirms they sung and so did Paul and Silas But this is the old way of such who ever opposed a Truth when pinch'd presently fly out upon the Translators 't is so to be read in the Greek c. whereas all the World knows that as our Translators were able Scholars so they were very holy and upright Men Besides our Annotators and all Expositors generally say 't is truly rendred and 't is a bad thing unjustly to find fault with the Translators of the Holy Bible To perswade your Reader if you could that the Disciples did not sing with our Saviour or they did not sing together you bring that Passage of Hannah's mental praying or speaking in her Heart 1 Sam. 1. 11 13. How impertinent this is I may leave to all You suppose still because there is a Mental or Heart-praying there is a Mental or Heart-singing also you may after the same manner say there is a Mental or Heart-preaching likewise There is no proper Singing I tell you again without the Voice But you think you have done it at last from Acts 4. 24. Where it is said The Disciples lifted up