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A75767 Davids enemies discovered. VVho of him make songs, but without the Spirit and without understanding, as the drunkard did which he declares of in Psal. 69.12. Or, a true discovery of that custome and forme which the priests of this generation would make an ordinance of, to blind the eyes of the simple, as this priest Clapham: in his 6 arguments, which is here answered, / by us who suffer for the truth, whose names according to the flesh are [brace] Christopher Atkinson. George Whitehead. Also a brief reply unto Frederick Woodall's three principles and resolves; and with replies to his answers, to several queries propounded to him, that to the simple the truth may be cleared, from one who for the captivated seeds sake suffers now in outward bonds in Norwitch Castle, whose name in the flesh is Richard Hubberthorne. Atkinson, Christopher.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662. 1655 (1655) Wing A4126; Thomason E830_10; ESTC R202144 16,205 23

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which wo is unto Luke 6. 25. and not brought to the time of mourning and therefore farre from the day of salvation and the saints joy and there your singing is carnal and for condemnation and out of the true worship It hath been a duty practised not onely in the times of the law but by the people of God under the Gospell under the law we have the songs of Moses Deborah and Barack of David the sweet singer of Israel of Solomon who composed to the number of 1005 songs of Asaph and Heman and Habakuk c. Under the Gospell we read of the songs of many Simon Zachary of Christ and his Apostles singing an Himne after the Lords supper Mat. 26. 30. according as was the custome among the Jews who used to sing some of Davids Psalms the night wherein the passover was eaten as those who are skilld in their Customes write we read of Paul and Silas Acts 16. singing in prison also of the practice of the church of Corinth 1 Cor. 14. singing Psalms and in primitive before Antichristian Appostacy which was commonly practised as Phil. Tert. Just Martin Chrysost. testifie yea the very Heathens took notice of this practice and did write of it Pliny in his letter to Trojan the Emperour writes of the Christian Himnes Antelucanos morning psalms songs early in the morning will I praise thee c. Neither Moses nor Habbakuk who was servants of God nor any of the people of God did ever call singing a custome or practice neither did they ever give a company of silly blind people other mens conditions in time and meeter to sing but though Moses sang yet he knew the work of the Lord in his deliverance out of Egypt for which he praysed God but the work of the Lord is not known to thee and thy generation who draw people from the Light of Christ within and calls it naturall which doth enlighten every one that comes into the world and this is that which brings to witness their conditions who spoke forth Scripture and this is it which brings to witness salvation and redemption wherein the saints rejoyce and thou that calls this naturall doest not know the work of the Lord nor his redemption and there thy singing is without understanding and thou knowes for not what thou sings nor they that spook the scriptures did never compell a company of poor people who are dead in trespasses and sins to observe duties or outward observations as thou doest but saith Christ my kingdome comes not by observations but my kingdome is within Luke 17. 21. neither did ever any of the holy men of God go and hire with a people at such a place and toke such a sum of money of them for preaching neither did they go to a company of blind people and give them Davids conditions to sing in meeter as thou and thy generation do who say Let us sing to the praise and glory of God O Lord I am not pufft in mind I have no scornfull eye when thy are pufft in mind and scorns them that are brought to witness Davids and Habbakuks condition as quaking and trembling Hab. 3. 16. Psal. 2. 11. Jer. 5. 22. and in scorn calls them Quakers and they that sang after the Lords suppers did not call a little bread and wine the Lords supper or a Sacrament as thou doest which thou hast no scripture for and the Lords supper thou art not come to who act such things nor the bread of life didst thou ever tast of but thy singing and prayers and prayses is in the death and them thou bids sing to the prayse and glory of God who are dead in trespasses and sins when the dead cannot prayse God but the living neither can they that go down into the pit prayse him for praises are not comely in the mouth of the wicked and there thou art and Egypt is thy figure a Land of darknesse where Pharaoh rules and Moses thou art not come to and how can thou sing Moses song who art yet in Egypt but death rules in thee which hath passed over all men from Adam untill Moses and to maintain thy singing thou brings dead men as Pliny and other heathens like thy self who knowes not God nor his worship but would rest and pervert the scriptures to maintain thee in thy Customs and outward observations which thou hast no scripture for and makes a custome and trade of other mens conditions which thou hast nothing to do with as to cause people to sing lyes as when David roared they sing and where he trembled they sing and where he saith he watered his couch with tears they sing and say they do so and there thou art a leader that causes people to erre If this suffice not know there is expresse scripture command as well as examples and prophesies for this duty of singing of Psalms and that not only in the old but also in the new Testament Ephes. 5. 18 19. where the Apostle alluding to the Custome that drunkards have when they are filled with wine they have their songs so when Christians are filled with the wine of the spirit they should have their Psalmes Himnes and spirituall songs the Hebrews had 3 words whereby they divided Davids Psalms shurim tehillim mismorem to which three words here used by the Apostle Psalmes himnes and spirituall songs as we see Col. 3. 16. admonishing one another in Psalms and so James 5. 13. If any be afflicted let him pray if any be merry let him sing Psalmes it s spoken generally if any or whosoever is merry let him sing not that it is unlawfull to sing at other times for then it might be inferred it s not lawfull to pray but when one is sad mirth is the most prayer season in other places we read of singing when sad as David often and Christ a little before his suffering when his heart was sorrowfull and and Silas in prison Paul Thus you have express command for this duty The Apostle nor any of the holy men of God did ever command the world as thou doest to sing Psalmes neither did he ever give the world an example to make rimes of other mens conditions and sing them in meeter and though the Apostle saith to the Ephesians speaking to your selves in Psalmes and Himnes and spirituall songs singing and making mellody in your hearts to the Lord and such like to the Colossians yet this was not to the world but to the saints and faithfull Brethren Coll. 1. 2. neither did the Apostle bid the saints sing other mens prayers and cryes and complaints and lamentations as thou and thy generation do who bid people sing to the prayse and glory of God where David said thine arrows stick fast in me neither is there any rest in my bones my wounds stink and are corrupt I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long Psal. 38.
and this you have gotten into a rime and meeter and bids people sing and there you make a sport of Davids conditions and makes people say they are so in which conditions David never sang but as he found deliverance from under the wrath of God and when ever did thou or any of thy generation witness these conditions which David passed through before the seed was brought forth here thou Priest Clapham hast shut thy self both out of the Scriptures and them that spoke them forth And whereas thou saist that the Apostle alluding to the custome of drunkards here again we charge thee Priest Clapham to be a lyar ond a wrester of Scriptures for the Apostle never spoke such a wo●d as alluding to the Custome of drunkards here this thy Comparison is unequall to compare the saints singing to the Custome of Drunkards neither did ever the Saints cal● singing a Custome or make a custome of it as thou art going about to maintain and whereas thou art going about to devide the Psalmes as thou calls them by these three Hebrew words into Psalmes Himnes and spirituall songs Here thou art ignorant both of Psalmes Himnes and spirituall Songs who art going about to divide Psalmes by thy confusion oftongues and here thou art in Babell which God confounded into many languages and there is thy ministry in thy confusion and Languages which a natural man may learn and there thy singing is in the Custome without the spirit But they that knew how to sing with understanding did sing with that which was before Babell was and before thy confusion was and before Sternhold and Hopkins rimes which they made of David which thou practises and they that would sing a new song was redeemed out of kindreds tongues and people Rev. 5. 9. and this redemnption thou that livest in thy tongues and naturall languages art not come to and the new Song and Himnes thou art ignorant of and whereas thou sayest that which James spoke was generally there thou art a lyar and a wrester of scripture for the Scriptu●e saith is any among you affl●cted let him pray is any among you merry let him sing but this was to the 12 Tribes James 1. which he calls his Brethren and that was among them and not among thy generation who live in Formes and Customes who are strangers to the life of God and again thou art going to make the Apostle James a Lyar like thy self who sayest that mirth is the most prayer season when as that Scripture saith is any among you merry let him sing is any afflicted let him pray which is quite contrary to thy words As for Paul and Silas singing in prison their sufferings and imprisonments thou never yet was made partaker of nor their joy thou never knew wherein it was who art going about to maintain thy customes in the world which thou hast no scripture for but with it art disapproved and with the the light thou art seen to be a stranger both to the Saints joy and that wherein they rejoyced There are severall rules given in the New Testament directing how to sing aright as 1 Cor. 14. with the spirit and with understanding with grace in our hearts Col. 3. which directions were needless if it were no Gospell duty They that are brought to sing with the Spirit and understanding they witness that life which spoke forth Scripture and need not go and get other mens conditions made like ballades or songs and sing them or cause any in a custome to sing them as thou dost in a steeple-house and these do not call the letter the rule and the 4 books Mathew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospell as thou and thy generation do for Paul said he was a minister of the Gospel and of the New Testament and not of the letter which thou calls the Gospell and New Testament 2 Cor. 3. 6. and there both out of the Gospell and new Testament thou art shut and thy Ministery is in the Letter which killeth and thy Inventions and reasons and consequencies adds to it and that thou makes a trade upon and for it thou takes peoples money and there with the light we read thee in the Scriptures to be among them the true prophets Christ and his Apostles cryed wo against such as seek for their gain from their quarter Isa. 56. and such as are hirelings Micah 3. and such as are called of men Masters stands praying in the synagogues having the chiefest places in the assemblies and the uppermost rooms at feasts and the greetings in Markets which Christ cryed wo against Mat. 23. and such as go in the way of Cain to envy and after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards which Peter and Jude cryed wo against 2 Pet. 2. Jude 11. and there thou art and thee thy Ministry and thy singing we utterly deny who art both shut out of the Scripture among the greedy doggs and that life which spoke them forth and thou seen to be among them the Scripture witnesses against And whereas in thy 6th Argument thou sayest that Christians may reap much profit or benefit by the right using of this ordinance there 's an efficacy in it to lift up the heart more and elevate it in Gods praises and holy delight it brings to the soul therein and art telling of mutuall edification and provocation to rejoyce in God as drunkards by their songs stirre up carnall and sinfull mirth so these help spirituall joy They that are Christians do see thy blindness and ignorance both of scriptures and that which spoke it forth and Christians have not their joy to fetch out of other mens conditions neither do they go to without and yet Davids prayers prayses prophesies cryings tears wastings afflictions in meeter to sing to bring delight unto their soul as thou art going about to maintain there thou blind guide thou dost not know what it is that rejoyces in God nor what it is that prayses him for to thee it is hid who makes a trade and Custome of a dead Forme and causes the dead to sing which cannot prayse God and there in the mutuall and changeable state thou art in thy carnall inventions with Tubal-Cain the Inventor and outward observations and edification thou art not come to who to uphold thy carnall singing and rejoycing doest bring a Comparison of the songs of drunkards which the saints never did here thee thy singing thy Joy and thy Ministry are shut out among the drunkards and seed of evill doers and there is the fruits of thy Ministry and of that sort are they that uphold thee and speaks well of thee as they did thy fathers the false prophets and among the false prophets and deceivers thou art with the Light seen and Judged and the same wo which was to them is to thee now who art found in their stepps Here Priest Clapham thy Arguments are answered and the rest of thy rotten stuff