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B10049 To the musicioners, the harpers, the minstrels, the singers, the dancers, the persecutors; from one who loved dancing and musick as his life, which being parted with, and the light being come, which was before these things, in which they are all seen, and from it is declared, the ground, foundation, beginning, and father, and children, and compass, and end, and the effects of all the harpers, mucisioners [sic], singers and dancers: who may reade what I have learned, who have tryed their wayes, and also searched into the things of God, and declare this according to Scripture, and have found the joy which man cannot take away, in which I rejoyce for ever, because the marriage of the Lamb is come. Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663. 1658 (1658) Wing S4082; ESTC R234931 7,451 10

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TO THE MUSICIONERS THE Harpers the Minstrels the Singers the Dancers the Persecutors From one who loved Dancing and Musick as his life which being parted with and the LIGHT being come which was before these things in which they are all seen and from it is declared The Ground Foundation Beginning and Father and Children and Compass and End and the Effects of all the Harpers Mucisioners Singers and Dancers Who may reade what I have learned who have tryed their wayes and also searched into the things of God and declare this according to Scripture and have found the joy which man cannot take away in which I rejoyce for ever because the Marriage of the Lamb is come London Printed in the 11th moneth 1658. IUBAL was the father of all such as handle the Harp and Organ and so the father of all such Musicioners being himself of the seed of Lamech who slew a man and so the son of a man-slayer was the father of all such as handle the Harp and Organ and the man Christ the Light is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world and Jubal was of the generation of Cain who first slew a man and then built a City he slew his brother one that was near unto him and the light of the Lamb slain is near unto every one even that which comes from the man of sorrows is in the heart Cains seed slays the man of sorrows the Musicioners were of Cains seed and that which slays the man of sorrows invents set up and delights in the instruments of musick and the father of all such was Jubal the seed of Cain who built a City and so was a rich man and his seed delighted in musick and so his seed who are begotten from the Lord are building Cities strong holds high and large houses with painted Parlours and then set up the instruments of Musick in the cieled houses without and within themselves full of rottenness or as a Cage of unclean spirits whereby the just is murthered and the house lie waste and desolate as to the life of God which should be the Temple of the holy Ghost and the father of all these was Jubal the seed of Lamech a man-slayer who also had another son Tubal-Cain the seed of Cain an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron and he that hath attained to never so much if not come to that which fulfils the perfect Law is as a sounding brass 1 Cor. 13. and there is many also of the seed of this instructer whose instructions brings people to be but as sounding brass and this first instructer and Jubal were the off-spring of Cain the vagabond driven from God against whom the blood of the righteous doth cry yet so rich in the earth that he built a City being separated from God who confounds mans wisdome then comes that which makes merry over the Witness Gen. 4. And they who danced in the wilderness and sung and made a great noise and were in the mirth and vain delights were a stiff-necked people and such as sate down to eat and drink and rose up to play like the same generation now who are stiff necked and bow not to him who is the Light low in the heart to whom every knee shall bow but eat and drink and rise up to vain delights having musick at their feasts feeding themselves without fear Jude 12. like Jezabel at whose table the false Prophets feed who made a feast when she intended to murther the righteous to gain his possession reade within and that which murthers the just and such who forgets God delights in these things for they that sung and danced in the wilderness forgot the mighty power of the Lord which brought them out of bondage therefore they got into the carnal liberty like many others at this day before they come to the true rest and these were in the false worship who worship that which the carnal eye might perceive and these had lost the true guide and when they were in their singing and dancing they knew not what was become of him who was the Minsster of th● Law that discovers sin but though they who danced saw him not for a time and began to despise him yet in a time unexpected he came upon them in the fierceness of his anger who executed the judgments of the Lord upon those vain dancers with whom he was grieved who was in the Church in the wilderness and is the holy One in the midst who with a sudden slaughter destroyed these dancers whose voice of singing was not because of mastery neither was their voise the voice of the cry of the oppressed and these were Idolaters whose hearts were uncircumcised and knew not the wayes of God who therefore condemned them with an utter overthrow that they perished in the wilderness where they thus sinned after they had seen the deliverances of the Lord as many of the Rulers and people of England have done who have forgotten their Leader to whom these are left for an ensample of whom there were about thirty thousand slain for their singing dancing and false worship Exod. 32. 1 Cor. 9. And Herod had dancing before him and she that danced and he that was pleased with the dancing caused his head to be taken off that directed to him that is the Light and preached the Lamb that takes away the sin and their carnal nature and so this murthers that which is to prepare the way of the Lord and they took off his head and murthered him who was a burning and a shining Light and slew him that preached Repentance and so the dancers and the Rulers of the earth who were pleased with dancing and musick murthers that in them which calls to repentance and are ready to murther such as preach repentance to them and whilst there is a delighting in dancing and musick that which calleth to repentance is in bondage for John vvas in prison when Herod vvas pleased vvith the dancing and there is not a greater Prophet than he that preacheth repentance and he that proclaims the way of the Lord vvas in prison and she that danced desired his death and he that caused him to be beheaded vvas a King a great one in the earth vvho vvas pleased vvith dancing and vvas a svvearer out of Christs doctrine for he promised vvith an oath vvhatsoever she vvould ask vvho danced before him then nothing vvould satisfie the dancer but the death of him vvho preached repentance and he vvas an observer of dayes and kept the day of his birth vvith dancing it vvas his birth day the day of his birte in vvhich he vvas brought forth vvho vvas a svvearer the svvearers delight in dancing that caused his head to be taken off vvho vvarned them that had the Oracles of God to fly from the vvrath to come and said they vvere a generation of Vipers vvho had the Scriptures and came also to his baptism and brought not forth fruits meet for