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A96385	Cain's generation discover'd. In ansvver to an epistle directed to the reader, in a book titled, A short and full vindication of that svveet and comfortable ordinance, of singing of Psalms. Put forth by one Jonathan Clapham, vvho calls himself M.A. and minister of Christ in VVramplingham in Norffolk; wherein he is found in envy, in Cain's way, in his false accusations and fierce despising and envious railing against the innocent, which is answered by me whose name in the flesh is George VVhitehead, who am one of them who are called Quakers, ... and wee having answered before six of his chief arguments for singing Psalms, which are answered in that book called, Davids enemies discovered, which this priest Clapham durst not answer nor reply to; therefore he makes excuse to the reader, that we left out some of his arguments, for the which cause I am moved further to answer to some of his arguments concerning singing, ...	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1898; Thomason E844_12; ESTC R202146	13,314	16

CAIN'S GENERATION DISCOVER'D IN ANSVVER TO An epistle directed to the Reader in a BOOK TITLED A Short and Full vindication of that svveet and comfortable Ordinance OF Singing of PSALMS Put forth by one Jonathan Clapham vvho calls himself M. A. and Minister of CHRIST in VVramplingham in Norffolk Wherein he is found in envy in Cain's way in his false accusations and fierce despising and envious railing against the innocent which is answered by me whose name in the flesh is George VVhitehead who am one of them who are called QUAKERS who are despised and hated of that Generation of Priests who go in Cain's way and Balaam's way And wee having answered before six of his chief Arguments for singing Psalms which are answered in that Book called Davids Enemies discovered which this Priest CLAPHAM durst not answer nor reply to therefore he makes excuse to the Reader that we left out some of his Arguments for the which cause I am moved further to answer to some of his Arguments concerning singing that all that have eyes to see may see his folly laid open his torment increased Also several Quaeries to them that profess the Scriptures to be their rule to walk by and some to them that profess the Scripture to be their Rule and the Saints Rule to try the SPIRITS by London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1655. CAINS GENERATION DISCOVER'D c. IOnathan Clapham thou having given forth a Book which thou hast Titled A short and ful Vindication of that sweet and comfortable Ordinance of singing of Psalmes Together with some profitable Rules to direct weak Christians how to sing to edification Thou sayest wherein thou desires the Reader to take notice that this short Vindication of singing of Psalms was not intended by thee for the Press but was transcribed for the private satisfaction of thy neighbour Capt. I. L. which thou sayest thy relation to him engaged thee to endeavour to this I answer Answer That the Reader may see thy deceit and folly manifested that he may take notice of thy deceit how thou would have hidden it in corners and not suffered it to be published lest then it should have been known and thy shame discovered shewing thy self to be out of the truth which seeks no corners although thou calls them profitable Rules yet they were but transcribed for the private satisfaction of Capt. I. L. here let the Reader see how thou art a respector of persons and out of the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which doth not respect persons but here thou art found to be one of them which Iude speaks of who has mens persons in admiration because of advantage Iude 16. Priest And thou sayest thy papers were given to some of those persons commonly called quakers and part of them were printed without thy knowledg or consent the other part left out and an Answer framed thereto by two of them viz. Chr. Atkinson George VVhitchead which thou sayest thou thinks no rationall man could have taken for an Answer to thy Arguments if we had not so called it in our papers Answer Let the Reader take notice that these six Arguments wherein thou art going about to prove singing of Davids conditions a custome and an Ordinance of Christ and a common duty to all men as also thou hast declared the same over in these Arguments which thou sayest are left out the which six Arguments are plainly answered in our Book which is tituled Davids Enemies discovered and the rest which thou sayest are left out with them comprehended where the Reader may see thy lies and wresting of Scripture laid open and there he may see that in this thy paper thou hast given no satisfaction to the scrupulous Reader as thou sayest and if the Reader scruple at it by thinking he cannot be satisfied but he may see thee to be a Back-biter and a fierce despiser who hast given forth such an Epistle to him and to satisfie the scrupulous Reader now declares thy thinking who art found in thy wickedness in thy rage and vain Imaginations against the righteous who are called by thee and thy generation QVAKERS who are witnesses of David and the Saints conditions who quaked and trembled and therefore we deny all such Back-biters as thou art who makes a Trade of their conditions and a custome of singing his conditions which now they that witness them are become a proverb and a by-word to thee and thy generation and the Song of Drunckards as David was Priest And thou tells the Reader it is not thy desire to have any contest with this generation of men cals us such as the Apostle speaks of in 2 Thess 3.2 calls us absurd and unerasonable meat such as are not worthy to have place among men being more like bruits than men saith the word the Apostle there useth signifies men of no setled abode Vagabond persons absurd fellows compact of meer incongruities and leaves it to the Readers discerning and requests the Christian Readers Prayers to be delivered out of the hands of such absurd and unreasonable men Answer The Christian Reader may see thy deceit here laid open and thy envy and rage how it appears here who art going in Cains way and in Cains nature art found who art afraid to meddle with us or to bring thy deeds to the Light least it should reprove them and therefore art found in the works of Darkness in thy Back-biting and false Accusations esteeming us Vagabonds because we are sent to declare against the deceit which thou and thy generation lives in which if the Apostle Paul were here now who had no certain dwelling place who did declare against such proud men contentious men as thou art thou would call him a vagabond who now art foun̄d wresting his words to thy own destruction who speaks no such word as absurd fellows hats one of thy great sweling words which Peter cried against who called them natural bruit-beasts who went in Balaams way and Cains way in covetousness and envy as thou dost 2 Pet. 2 3.12 18 Iude 10 11. and there thou art found to be the vagabond who art out of the doctrine of Christ and a transgressor of the command of God in envy as Cain who was a vagabond Gen. 4.14 and Cain was an unreasonable man who was envious and such the Apostle bad the Thessalonians pray that he might be delivered out of the hands of and Paul who had no certain dwelling place was counted the off-scouring of all things and a fool not worthy to have place among men and not worthy to live and these who charge Paul was the Vagabonds as thou art now who art found in envy against us who are partakers of Pauls sufferings thou bidding the Reader pray that thou may be delivered out of our hands here thou would accuse use to be persecutors here I charge thee to be a false accuser and a slanderer for

violent hands on any man we deny to lay but it is thy generation that upholds such as thou art who are persecutors who haile out of your Synagogues and do imprison and haile before Magistrates and to before Judgment seats which the Saints never practised who were done so with Mat. 10. ●8 Iohn 16.2 so the Reader may see here plainly what to pray for and thy malice and envy against the innocent who are redeemed out of Cains way and Baalams way which now thou art in Priest And whereas thou sayest thou judges it not wisdome to meddle with such irrationall men from whom a man can expect no reasons but railings no answers but accusations and that one had as good deale with those mad men of Bedlam Answer Here the Reader may see how thou hast vomited thy venome and who it is that are railers and false accusers and fierce despisers and thou now who art found a railer and a raging wave which Iude speaks off who art foaming out thy own shame calls us railers because we declare against thee and thy generation who are found in their steps the Prophets Christ and his Apostles cryed against who seek for your gaine from your quarter and are hirelings which Isajah and Ieremiah and Micah cryed against who were no railers nor mad men of Bedlam and you that are called of men Masters stands praying in the Synagogues and have the chiefest places in the assemblies the greetings in markets are found in their steps which Christ cryed wo against Mat. 23. and such as go in Cains way to envy and in Balaams way to covetousness as thou dost such did Peter and Iude cry wo against and the Apostle Paul who was counted a mad man and a deceiver did declare against covetous men and proud men and false accusers and incontinent and fierce despisers such as thou art 2 Tim. 3. and these were no deluders nor mad men of Bedlam though they were accounted deceivers and mad men by that Generation which thou art now found in filling up the measure of their iniquity who reviled and persecuted the Saints Priest And thou sayest the first time when we came to that Town thou came to oppose us judging it thy duty but when thou sound us such absurd unreasonable men thou sayest thou presently turned thy back upon us Answer Being at the meeting and sitting in silence a little while after I sate down three of you Priests came and thou like a busie-body began to oppose me before I spoke a word and out of the Apostles Doctrine and life thou was found for the Apostle saith be swift to hear and slow to speak but thy tongue was unruly not bridled shewing thy religion to be vaine and the beginning of thy discourse was about the heathenish Customes which the world lives in as bowing and being called Master and such like and for an example thou did instance the Aegytians bowing and confessed they were in Darkness and Blindness and yet pleaded for their Customes and shewed me how to bow the Body as many who were there can witness and such vain traditions for Doctrine thou would'st have taught but thy folly that day to the understanding of the simple was laid open and when thy deceit was laid open thou came and shewed me one of our friends books and read a few words and left out other words which struck at thy deceit so I asking thee a question thou presently got away in thy rage which thou hast now uttered forth that of the Scripture might be fulfilled where Christ saith the hireling Heeth because he is an hireling Iohn 10.13 and here the Reader may see thy oppressing of us how it could not stand the tryall Priest And thou sayest that since that time being reviled in the publick assembly and cursed thou sayest thou departed with silence not replying as men use to depart from angry Dogs and sayest that it is our trade to raile and revile and calls us bawling creatures Answer It is thou that art the reviler and the cursed speaker who art here found uttering so many lyes and slanders and false accusations but it is that thou might be made manifest and thy folly laid open so I do charge thee to declare who they were that cursed thee and reviled thee and what the words were they spoke wherein they cursed or else stop thy mouth and never profess thy self to be a Minister of Christ and be ashamed of these thy false Accusations in comparing us to angry Dogs in which nature thou thy self art found who art in Cains way in envy and in Balaams way in thy covetousness who seeks for thy gain from thy quarter one of the blind Watchmen which the Prophet Isajah called greedy dumb dogs that can never have enough as thou may read Isa 56.10 11. so let all that reads this read thee to be among the dogs and wild Beasts which the Apostle speaks of Priest And thou sayest that it would be but a scandall for thee to deale with us Answer Let shame cover thy face thou Back-biter who dare not come again to the tryall face to face thou being already tryed and thy folly laid open nor darest thou reply to our answers to thy six Arguments and therefore thou calls them absurd non-sence and vain repititions and foolish impertinences which thou canst not prove nor make manifest that any of our Answers are contrary to Scripture but as the Reader may see in that book Entituled Davids Enemies c. how thou art disapproved in thy adding to Scripture and wresting of Scripture to thy own destruction and now art found speaking evill of that which thou knowest not and what satisfaction thou hast given to the scrupulous Reader let all that have eyes to see judg who canst not answer our Answers nor prove any thing contrary to Scripture in them and yet was not ashamed to put forth thy Arguments wherein thou hast uttered forth thy folly who here in this Epistle to the Reader also hast added so many more of thy lyes and railing accusations and whereas thou sayest to the Reader that it is the will of God to make this discourse publike and that thou shalt pray that his blessing may be with it to make it profitable here let the Reader see thy confusion who before said that it was not intended by thee for the Press and that they were printed without thy knowledg and consent here the Reader may see that thy purpose and intent was not to consent unto the will of God and that thou would have covered thy deceit which thou prayes for a blessing upon but we being moved to bring it to the Light and lay thee and thy deceit open this causeth thee to rage and thy torment to encrease thy rage and vaine imaginations being so uttered forth which thou hast imagined against the innocent and there thou art seen to be without the knowledg of God amongst the heathens that know not God who

rage and imagine vaine things against the Lord and his Annointed Psal 2. so here the Reader may see what thou hast written from thy studie and how thou hast been studying lyes and divinations of thy own brain and teaches for Doctrine thy own traditions and thy own Precepts and art one of them who seeks deep to hide their Counsell from the Lord who art in Cains way and afraid as Cain was who would not have had thy deceit brought to the light but art found in the works of Darkness and one who hates the Light and there thy prayers are abomination unto God who art wicked and in thy deceit and confusion and prayes for a blessing upon it which is cursed and thy sacrifice is but Cains who in his steps are found whose sacrifice God doth not accept and amongst them which Christ cryed wo against who stood praying in the Synagogues who were called of men Masters and with a pretence did make long prayers to be heard of men as now thou dost and the same wo is to thee now who art found in these steps therefore let the Reader see that I have not railed nor falsly accused thee nor back-bited thee but plainly unto thee I speak Scripture Language which the Prophets Christ and his Apostles did declare against such blind guides and dumb shepheards as thou art who hast here foamed out thy owne shame so to thee this is truth which respects no mans person nor hath any mans person in admiration because of advantage neither come I with any great swelling words unto thee but in plainness of speech so therefore take heed that thou call it not cursing nor reviling least thou blaspheme against the Truth and be found a slanderer of them that spoke forth the Scriptures who in plainness of speech did declare against and cry wo against such as went in Cains way to envy and in Balaams way to covetousness therefore put it not from thee for from the guilt of these things thou cannot clear thy self So thou Priest Clapham having said to the Reader that we would not print the later part of thy vindication lest thou sayes peradventure our simple cavills being removed we should have had nothing to have stumbled the weakest Reader and so thou sayest our folly should be made manifest to all I answer We having answered the chief of thy matter wherein so much confusion thou hast uttered and repeated over and over also in the later part of thy Book nany of the same things which were answered and had plainly laid open thy singing which is both without the Spirit and without understanding therefore to remove ehy vain excuse whereby thou would'st cloak thy deceit to the Reader I am moved to answer more of thy confusion which is laid down in the later part of thy book that the Reader may not at all stumble nor doubt but plainly see thy shame folly manifested so that if the Reader be never so weak if he be not altogether blinde he may see thee taken in thy own snare and out of thy own mouth judged and thy torment increased which are answered as followeth c. Io. Clapham Whereas thou sayest in thy third page that it is exceeding probable that the Psalms sung by Christ and the Apostles were Davids Psalms and that they did imitate the Jewish custome in singing To this I answer Here thou would make Christ and his appostles like thy selfe to live in imitations and customes which thou hast no Scripture for but sayes that those who were skilled in their customes wrote that the Jewes did so and there 's all thy worship without the knowledg of God and worships thou knows not what as the Jews did Iohn 4. who worshipped at the Temple where singing was once used which was to cease with its worship ver 21 Amos 8.3.10 and here thou would make Christ a lyar like thy self who commeth to declare against imitations and shadows thou who lived in them and said the true worshippers worship in Spirit and Truth and here thou hast shewed thy self and thy worship to be false without the Spirit and without understanding to worship thou knows not what as they did and thou sayest in Ephes 5. and Col. 3. where thou sayes he commands singing of Psalms doth clearly point us at Davids Psalms I answer there thou ads to Scripture and speaks that which thou canst not prove therefore for shame stop thy mouth for the Apostle never bad them go forth to sing other mens conditions as thou dost and here thou would make the Apostle like thy self who makes Rimes and customes of other mens conditions but he bids them let the word of Christ dwel in them richly and be filled with the Spirit and therein they worshipped and not in the oldness of the Letter as thou and thy generation do and this that Paul wrote unto the Ephesians and Collossians was not to thee nor thy generation generation as thou sayest you are commanded to sing Psalms here thou lyest for thou never had a command for it but acts it in thy own imaginations and imagines that Christ and his Apostles did imitate as thou dost and here thou hast no command from God nor from any of the Apostles nor the Saints which Paul wrote unto but teaches divinations of thy own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord as the false Prophets did who said thus saith the Lord when he never spoke to them and there thou art seen and tryed to be sensuall having not the Spirit and the word of Christ doth not dwel in thy heart as it did in the Saints who did not imagine imitation of others neither did ever the Apostle bid proud men and covetous men sing as thou art but doth declare against all such and saith no such hath any inheritance in the Kindom of Christ as thou may read Ephes 5.5 And therefore how canst thou sing with the Spirit who art ' without the Spirit who art found in their steps who had not the Spirit such as Iude speaks of who go in the way of Cain to envy and run greedily after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards as thou may read Iude 11.13.19 And whereas in thy arguments to prove the lawfulness of singing in a mixed congregation thou art going about to justifie the wicked and prophane persons singing and asks why it should not be lawfull for them to joyne with you in singing I answer with the wicked and prophane thou art joyned who art going about to justifie them in thy carnall imaginations and there amongst the wicked thou art found in whose mouth praises are not comely saith David therefore for the wickeds singing and praying thou art pleading whose prayers are abomination unto God and thou askest if God hath not enjoyned it by the very dictate of nature I answer here thou art going about to make God like thy selfe and his teachings naturall like thine who art found in their steps who knew