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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

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

thy steps and may uncover thy nakedness to all men Answered by me who am a witness of the Truth against all blinde guides and deceivers who are in their own imitations and inventions Cain like and in Cains way Balaams way are now sound my name according to the flesh is George Whitehead CERTAIN QUERIES TO You Teachers of the world who profess the Scriptures to be your Rule to walk by Query 1 VVHat warrant or example have you from Scripture to be made Ministers by the wil of man at Oxford and Cambridge and there to learn so many years Arts and Sciences and rudiments of the world and so to have your Commission from man seeing the Ministers of Christ were not made Ministers by the will of man neither had they their Commission from man and the Apostle declares against the rudiments of the world Gal. 1.1.12 Col. 2.8 Query 2 What warrant have you from Scripture to go to a people and hire with them such a time and agree with them for so much wages and to take tythes and gifts and rewards seeing that Isajah declares against such as seek for their gain from their quarter and Ieremiah and the Lord declares against such as bear rule by their means and Paul declared his entrance unto the Thessalonians how he laboured night and day that he might not be chargeable and that he did use no cloak for covetousness and to them whom Christ sent out he said freely ye have received freely give the workman is worthy of his meat and they that did take oversight of the flock of God did not do it by constraint nor for filthy lucre but of a ready minde and Peter and Iude declared against such as go in Balaams way for gifts rewards and the Apostle denies such as takes tythes and saith that Priesthood and that law is changed Isa 56. Ier. 5.30 Mic. 3.11 1 Thess 2.5.9 Mat. 10.8 1 Pet. 5. 2 Pet. 2. Jude 11. Heb. 7.2.12 Query 3 And what warrant have you from Scripture to be called of men Masters and to stand praying in the Synagogues and to have the chiefest places in the Assemblies and the greetings in Markets and with a pretence to make long prayers as the Scribes and Pharises did seeing that Christ said to his Disciples be not ye called Masters and cryed wo to the Scribes and Pharises who did so Mat. 6.5.7 Mat. 23. Query 4 And whether the same wo is not to you now that are found in their steps Query 5 And what warrant have you from Scripture to make a Trade of other mens words and to take a Text and so to raise your Doctrines and reasons and Applications and Motives and Arguments and consequences seeing the Lord saith I am against the Prophets that steale my words every one from his neighbor and Paul was not a Minister of the Letter but of the Spirit and he came not with enticing words which mans wisdom teacheth but in the power and demonstration of the Spirit Ier. 23.30 2 Cor. 3.6 Chap. 10.16 1 Cor. 2.4 Query 6 And what warrant have you from Scripture to give your meanings and interpretations unto the Scriptures seeing that the Apostle saith that no Prophesie of old came by the will of man neither is it of any private interpretation 2 Pet. 1.20 Query 7 And what warrant have you from Scripture to read the Epistles to the world which Paul wrote not to the world but to the Saints called in Jesus Christ and to give your meanings and consequences and expositions upon them seeing that Paul said I charge you by the Lord that this Epistle be read unto all the holy Brethren Rom. 1.6 1 Cor. 1.2 1 Thes 5.27 Query 8 And what warrant have you from Scripture to sprinckle Infants and to tell people it is the Baptisme when you have no such example in Scripture but tells people that believers were baptized which wil not maintain sprinckling Infants and this baptisme Peter calls but a figure and Paul said he was not sent to baptize but to preach and calls baptisme dead works and saith that the baptisme is but one with one Spirit into one body 1 Pet. 3.21 1 Cor. 1.17 Heb. 6.1 2. Ephes ● 5 Query 9 And what warrant have you from Scripture to tell people of a Sacrament to tel people that a little bread and wine is the Communion and so upholds rudiments and Ordinances seeing there is no such word as Sacrament in Scripture and cursed is he that adds or deminishes and Paul saith the cup of the blessing which we blessed is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ and the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ and Christ said to his Disciples take eate this is my body and drink this is my blood and which of you dare say that a little bread and wine is the body and blood of Christ and the Apostle saith blotting out the hand-writing Ordinances that was against us and why as though living in the world are ye subject to Ordinances touch not tast not handle not which are all to perish with the using after the COMMANDMENTS and DOCTRINES of men 1 Cor. 10.16 Mat. 26.26 Col. 2.14.20 21. Query 10 And what warrant hare you from Scripture to give people Davids Prayers Prayses Prophecies Cries Complaints Lamentations Roarings Wastings quakings and Tremblings to sing in Rime and Meeter and when you read them hats you keep on and when you sing them hats you keep off And whether is this singing with the Spirit and with understanding yea or nay Now all you professed Ministers that dare own your selvs to be Ministers of Christ and yet upholds these things before propounded to you answer these by plain Scripture without your meanings and consequences and see how you can excuse your selves in them or else be ashamed and never profess Scripture to be your rule and your selves to be Ministers of Christ CERTAIN QUERIES TO You that say the SCRIPTVRE is your RULE and the SAINTS RULE to try the SPIRITS by Query 1 WHether doth the Spirit of God bring man to know the Scriptures or the Scriptures bring man to know the Spirit and if the Scriptures bring man to know the Spirit then what is it that opens the Scriptures for to them that are without the Parables Mat. 13. Mark 11. Query 2 And if the Scriptures be the Saints Rule to try the Spirits and to know the voyces by then how did Moses know the voyce of God before the Scriptures was written Query 3 And if the Scriptures be the Saints Rule to try who are deceivers then how did Isajah know who was deceivers before he spoke those words forth Query 4 And if the Scriptures be the Saints Rule to know the voyces how did Ieremiah know the false Prophets who spoke Scripture Language who said thus saith the Lord and yet Ieremiah knew that God never spoke to them but said the Lord is against them Ier. 23.31 Deut. 18.20 Query 5 And what other mens words did Isajah and Ieremiah Ezekiel Hosea Micah and the rest of the Prophets declare when they declared against the dumb shepheards and hirelings and false Prophets and from whence had they that which they spoke and from what Scripture did they learn what to speak it the Scriptures was their Rule to try who was Deceivers by Query 6 And what Scripture had Peter and Iohn to follow Christ by and what Scripture did they know him by seeing they were unlearned men Acts 4.13 Query 7 And if the Scripture be the rule to know God and to try the Spirits by then why did not the Scribes and Pharises know Christ but persecuted him seeing they had the Scripture and the Prophets words which prophesied of him and where he should be born Query 8 And if the Scriptures be the Saints rule to know who are deceivers what Scripture did the Disciples of Christ know Antchrist by who should come in his name and should deceive many seeing Christ said unto them go not forth and if they might not go forth where might they know Antichrist and if you alledg that they might be known by their fruits because the Scripture declares against such as live in pride and covetousness then by what Scripture will you know their inside that come in Sheeps cloathing and the Ministers of Antichrist that transform themselves into the likeness of the Apostles of Christ and how then did the Saints know that pride was a sin and covetousness was a sin who spoke forth Scripture and spoke what they knew before they spoke it Query 9 And if the Scripture be the Saints rule to try the spirits by for what cause Christ send them a comforter which the world could not receive and he should tell them all things and all the Children of God are taught of God and hereby we know him because he hath given us of his Spirit Ioh. 16.13 Heb. 3.10 Query 10 And what Scripture might they try the Spirits by which Iohn wrote unto seeing he saith These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you but the anointing which you have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and wherefore did Iohn write unto them seeing he saith I have written unto you not because ye know not the truth but because ye know the truth and that no lyars of the truth 1 Ioh. 2.20.26 27. Now answer these by plain Scripture you that profess your selves to be Ministers of Christ and gifted men Pastors of Churches that do profess the Scriptures your rule and the Saints rule to try the spirits by or else be silent from your teaching and never profess your selves to be Ministers of Christ that you may appear in your own likeness to be naturall men and hypocrites who are forbidden to judge who cannot discern the things of the Spirit of God Mat. 7.1.6 1 Cor. 2.14 15. GEORGE VVHITEHEAD FINIS