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A70985	The reign of the whore discovered and her ruine seen her merchants the priests examined, and with the Romish church (their elder sister) compared and found agreeable in many things ... : some queries also for those people that pay tythes, and priests that receive tythes, to consider and answer : and whereas their cry hath been loud against us the people of God called Quakers, that we are Jesuits, and Jesuitical, in tryal they are found false accusers, and of the same stock and generation themselves ... : also the sustance of a dispute which was the 15th day of the 2d month, called April 1659, at the Bridge-house in Southwark, between VVilliam Cooper, VVilliam VVhitaker, Thomas VVoodsworth, VVieles, Watkins, Cradicut, and others who profess themselves ministers of Christ, and some of the people call'd Quakers ... / written in that which gives to see over all the popish train ... W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Following letter containing the substance of the dispute.	1659 (1659)	Wing S204A; ESTC R33983	31,593	40

are not all ye Mass-house-singers in whole Christendome so called such But the Lord hath redeemed and is redeeming many thousands from among you Babylonish singers and hath brought and is bringing them to godly sorrow which leadeth to repentance never to be repented of and afterwards to the joy which shall never have an end and your rejoicing and singing which is carnal customary and formal before any godly sorrow for sin you know and before you are lead to that repentance which is never to be repented of I say this your rejoicing and singing which is before repentance must of necessity end in sorrow and anguish of heart The Lord grant you such sorrow which leadeth to repentance in time before Eternity seizeth upon you that weeping and howling and gnashing of teeth be not your portion for ever for if the prayers of the unregenerate ungodly or wicked are abomination to the Lord is their praises and singing any better Is praise comely in the mouth of a fool And are not they fools that lives in iniquity yet rejoiceth Consider this ye Priests ye Jesuits and Popish Christians and let the Witness for God in your conscience and in all consciences answer whether ye are not all alike Concerning your praying after you have done singing The Scripture saith I will that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting But what hands do you lift up Are your hands holy c Have not you Wrath Envy and Malice in your hearts and doubtings and waverings in your minds Is not your prayings like the Popish Priests and Papists prayings And like the Scribes and Pharisees prayings Did Christ ever teach you to pray any more then he taught them Are you his Disciples or Schollars or followers any more then they What do you learn of him And whither do you follow him Can you say that he hath taught you to pray as he taught his Disciple to pray Have you not learnt to pray of some other besides Christ And do not you instead of being led to pray by the Spirit of Christ pray customarily You know when you have sung out your Psalm you make and frame a prayer or else the people will wonder at you so instead of waiting and staying for the moving and leadings of the holy spirit to pray by you wait for the end of the Psalm and then you move and stir up your selves and makes a mock of the movings of the spirit of God and so instead of praying by the Spirit you turn up your Hour-glass and prayes by that so that you know how long to pray and how long to preach and how long to sing by your guide the Hour-glass and your eye is often towards it for direction and when 't is a pretty deal run you will tell the people you see the time is far spent therefore you must hasten and when your Glass is out you tell the people the time is spent and you see the time is past and therefore you shall conclude Oh what do ye mean ye Priests that ye are not yet ashamed of this divice and Popish Invention in this day of the light 's breaking forth in the hearts of people Ye search the Scriptures which you falsly call your Rule and you say you are Ministers of Christ and succeeders of the Apostles but in trial you are found lyars and your pretended Rule the holy Scriptures witnesseth against you as transgressors out of the life of the holy men that gave them forth wresting their words to serve your private ends to your own and others that are led by you destruction and out of the Apostles and Ministers of Christs steps life manners behaviour doctrine and practices Where is it written in the holy Scriptures and which of the Apostles and Ministers of Christ appointed and ordained that their succeeders should pray and preach and sing by an Hour-glass and to meet together by the sound of the Bells to worship Where is that written And which of the Ministers of Christ appointed Bells to call their Brethren together In which of the Christian Churches before the Apostacy was there Hour-glasses and Bells and Pulpits with embroydered Cloath about them and lined Stalls for the rich with a lock and key to keep the poor out and many such like devices which are found amongst you I say Where is your Rule● Where is your Example for any of these and such like things in the Scriptures of the holy men of God Come Priests look out the Chapter and Verse if you can and let us know where it is until then we shall conclude yea and it is concluded already That you walk not nor worship not as the Christians before the Apostacy did neither have you them for your example or pattern but that your example and pattern is the false Romish Church your elder Sister and the great Whore your Mother we know and the Beast she rides on we have seen which is of a Scarlet colour and the blood she hath drunk of the Prophets Saints and Martyrs the Lord is enquiring after and making inquisition for and a bed of Torment she shall be laid on Hearken and rejoice ye Saints ye Children of the Most High a Bed which betokeneth a place of Rest shall be the Whores place of Torment her resting place shall torment her Alas alas Weeping and wailing and mourning over her shall be the greatest comfort her Merchants that hath been made rich by her and her children she hath delicately brought up shall yeild her yea all ye Ship-Masters and all ye company in Ships and Saylors and Kings and Merchants shall stand afar off for fear of her torment and cast dust on their heads and cry weeping and wailing saying Alas alas that great City wherein were made rich all that had Ships in the sea by reason of her costliness for in one hour is she made desolate Rejoice over her thou Heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her you have seen the Angel take up the great stone and give the sign of her perpetual downfal and a great voice of much people in Heaven is heard saying Halelujah Salvation and Glory and Honor and Power unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgements for he hath judged the great Whore which did corrupt the Earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his Servants And again they said Halelujah c. And now you National Priests are not you the Ship-Masters or Parish-Masters Merchants or Traders by Sea here spoken of And the gathering together of the waters he called Sea And the Beast with seven heads and ten horns rose out of the Sea The wicked are like a troubled Sea And the waters thou sawest where the Whore sitteth are peoples kindreds tongues and nations So the sea is Waters and the Waters is Peoples Multitudes Tongues and Nations whereon the Whore your Mother hath long sate and in or among

you true Shepherds so much as come to save your sheep from being drawn or taken from or out of your Fold And have you not lost many of the best and soberest of your flock Have you cared naturally for your flock or naturally for the fleece Have you shewed your selves like true shepherds or like hirelings in this thing Do you think you are wronged to be called and counted careless dreaming false idle shepherds and such who want the spiritual Weapons and true Shepherds Crook Put aside Whips and Stocks and Prisons and compulsive Laws and what can you do Where 's your Spiritual Weapons Where 's your Shepherds Crook then If you lose these Weapons what can you do to defend your selves or flock And if you put away the Wisdom which man teacheth and which man hath taught you as natural tongues and arts what can you say Is your armour the whole armour of light and have you the Sword of the Spirit and do you speak as the Spirit gives you utterance as Christ's Ministers did Or do you not gain utterance as the popish priests and Jesuits gains it and have you not bought the art of uttetance and yet are not many of you so dull and sottish that if you should lose your Notes which I have seen some of you craftily hide betwixt the leaves of your Bibles that the people might not see them would you not lose your method matter and utterance and so have little to say Why do you endeavour to hide your notes And do not some of you carry a Bible on purpose up with you into your Pulpits to hide your Notes And are there not some of you that have * Note Books bound and painted in form of a Bible when there is no printed Letter in it Now could you not preach better without your Bible then without your Notes and Note-Book Why do you not leave your Bibles at home Do you bring it onely for a cloak custom fashion and is not this the reason why people cry against us for denyers of the Scriptures because we do not hold a Bible in our hands when we preach to people and because we follow not your fashion and have Notes to tell the people the Chapter and Verse Did Christs Ministers go forth after this manner with Notes in their pockets or in a Book to tell them what to preach and how to preach and did they ever sit down and continue in one place for term of life unless they could hear of a people that would give them more money and greater hire Whose example do you follow in this if not the Popish Priests Come Priests let the people hear your answer Fourthly In your Work called to you say 't is to preach the Gospel and the cry is among poor blind ignorant people you are Ministers of the Gospel But are you not Ministers of the Letter and do you not call Matthew Mark Luke and John's Writings the Gospel and do you not take the Letter for your ground-work which you call your Text and then by your art which you have learn'd at School raise that you call your Doctrines Points Reasons Uses Motives and Trials and such like Now is not your preaching or making an hours speech artificial and is not your Work herein like the Popish Priests and are you not very unlike the Ministers of Christ in this your Work Did any of the latter Prophets take the former Prophets Words to speak from Or did any of the latter Apostles and Ministers of Christ take the former Apostles and Ministers Words for their Ground-Work Did not they all minister according as they had received from God and was not their Work and Ministry for this end To turn people to Gods gift in them from the darkness to the light from the power of Satan to God But is your Work so Do not you turn people's minds to something without them and do not your selves hate the light and so are you like to turn people from darkness and are you not under the power of Satan you selves and do you not teach the poor ignorant people that 't is impossible to be freed from under the power of Satan and that they must never expect to be freed from committing of sin while living in the Body and are not those under the power of the Devil that doth the Works of the Devil and obeys his Will are not those that commit sin the servants of sin and free from righteousness Is not he that commits sin of the Devil Then to what end and purpose is all your labour pains and study and preaching and praying c. if people must always be servants of sin and slaves to the Devil and never be redeemed from fin and iniquity What spiritual things do you sowe to poore people What Gospel do you preach What glad tydings do you bring Is this your glad tydings that people must live in sin and under the power of the Devil Are you not miserable Ministers Have you not brought another Gospel besides that which the Apostles preached Is not the Gospel glad tydings to such as are weary and heavy laden with sin and in bondage to the Devil And is not the Gospel the Power of God And is not Christ the Power of God and is not he appointed to save his people from their sin and not in their sins Have you not one thing still to learn of the Pope and that is to know where the time and place of Cleansing is How come you to miss preaching up a Purgatory or place of Cleansing after this life seeing your Doctrine and Principles admits of no such place and time in this World But are not the Papists and you both deceived in this thing Doth not the Tree lie as it falls And Judgement finde as death leaves And no unclean thing enter the Kingdome Come Priests let us and the people here your answer Fifthly As to your Maintenance in this your Work How can you quit your selves from being like the Papist Priest and Jesuits Are you any thing like the Ministers of Christ in this thing also Have not the Pope Cardinals and Bishops been the Foundation of your setled standing-maintenance by Tithes Gleab-lands Easter-reckonings Midsummer dues Mortnaries and Smoke penys and such like Are you not beholding to the Pope Popish Laws for this your way of maintenance And why do you deny the Pope Is it because he hath no authority in this Nation to give you any more means nor to take from you what you have Is it not a great sign that the root of all evil is in you to wit Covetousness that you have swallowed down so much blood liberty and goods of many of the poor innocent Lambs of Christ within these few years because for conscience sake they could not put into your mouths Have you not prepared war against the innocent people of the Lord who living in his pure fear did not dare to maintain you in

whom you her Merchants have built your Ships and set up your Trade by the Authority of the Beast which rose out of the same place the Whore sate on He that hath Wisdom let him understand I say By the Authority of this Beast who hath seven heads ten horns ten Crowns upon his horns upon his heads the name of Blasphemy unto whom the Dragon gave his power have you and all Parish-Masters and others of the Whores choice Merchants in whole Christendom sate and advanced your Trade above and beyond all the Crafts-mens Trade beside in the whole World And this may appear plain to the view of all people if these few particulars following are considered First You have got a Market-place where none must sell any Wares but your selves though it be never so much better then yours neither must any come into your Market-place to give freely to poor people whose souls are ready to starve for want of the Bread of life notwithstanding they buy of your deceitful Wares Secondly You have had and some of your Brethren still have a compulsive Law to compel and constrain all people within such a compass or quarter to come to your Market-place and buy of you and none other Thirdly Whether those people within such a compass or quarter or parish come to your Market or no or receive any of your Merchandize notwithstanding you will make them pay as much as if they did or else you will take or cause to be taken from them violently it may be three four or five times as much as the price was you first set upon your Commodities Fourthly Though your Merchandize be never so deceitful and insufficient yet none must refuse them neither will you bate of your price and if any come to see the deceitfulness and insufficiency of what you sell at a very deer rate and declare against it that people might not be deceived and defrauded always with deceitful words and devillish Doctrines you wil sue such at the Law for slanderers and get one of the Beasts Horns that hath a Crown upon it to grant you 100. l. damage or some other punishment as whip or prison or banishment or life if ye can get it for the Whore loves blood and so doth her Merchants and children Fifthly Another thing that makes your Trade exceed all the Crafts-mens Trade beside in the whole World is That when poor people have bought your Merchandize and paid you or at least are liable to pay you you take them home again in your Pockets or Bibles or Note-Books and lay them up in your Ware-house to wit your Liberary and as you see occasion and opportunity you carry them to Market again and they wil yeild you as much as they did at the first and yet after you have sold your Imagery Work over and over you can trim it and dress it a little and put the title Doctor of Divinity to it or Batchellor of Divinity or Mr. William or Mr. John such a one Ministers of God's Word at such a Church in such a place and find a Chapman some Bookseller or Printer or other to give you money for it Much like this might be mentioned but this is sufficient to let all people which are not quite blind see wherein this whores Merchants trade exceeds all other Arts Crafts and Trades in the whole world And also the reason may here be seen wherefore these Parish-Masters and others of Mystery Babylons Merchants strives and petition that their trade may be upheld even in this Nation under this notion Propagate or hold up the Gospel when if they would speak as they mean it is thus Propagate hold up or maintain our Mothers Authority by which Authority we have had a good trade a great while and our profits hath been great and our incombs sure and let the Romish Churches our elder Sisters her Institutions Ordinations Customs Manners Practices and Places stand else we shal have no certain Trade for if we lose our Elder Sisters Law which gives us Tythes and that compels people to buy our Gospel we shal be undone peoples hearts are so hard they wil give us little freely though they have been and stil are our Auditors and we have taught them some ten some twenty thirty or forty years yet we are afraid if we lose our elder Sisters Law that those that have been our constant customers would hate us much of our price and those that do not like our Doctrine and Church-discipline and our chargeable Gospel will give us nothing at all is not this the very language of your hearts whose cry is Propagate the Gospel let that which searcheth your hearts and discerns the secret intents thereof the light of Christ in your Consciences answer for the Gospel is Christ the power of God which propagates or holds up all things and 't is ignorance and blasphemy to cry and petition to an arm of flesh to propagate this Gospel but 't is another Gospel that they who have brought it are accursed that wants propagating and this shall all your Merchants of Babylon know in the dreadfull day of the Lord our God when all the blood you have drunk and Tortures and Racks Whips and Prisons Stocks and Inquisitions and other carnal weapons you have used to propagate your Gospel shall rise up in Judgement against you then will ye cry to the Rocks and the Mountains to fall upon you to hide you from the Wrath of the Lamb And now is the wondrfull day at hand wherein the Wolves Bears and Lions shall be afraid and seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Lamb Consider this all ye hirelings that rend and tear and make a prey upon the innocent lambs of Christ for to serve your own bellies and covetous unchristian greedy desires how greatly do you dishonour the name of Christ in calling your selves his Ministers have not you and all your Brethren the Popish Christians in whole Christendome sent an ill savour throughout the Nations and Regions round about you yea and many of those you count heathens shal rise up in judgment against you even against you who have the sheeps cloathing the Prophets words Christs vvords the Apostles words but inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God in your selves and so have appeared devouring wolves and destroyers of the sheeps life scatterers of the flock of God hear the Word of the Lord by the mouth of his Prophet Ezekiel against such as you Wo be to the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves should not the shepherds feed the flocks ye eat the fat and ye cloth you with the wool ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the flock the diseased haue ye not strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which was broken neither have ye brought again that which was driven away neither have ye sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have ye

that it hath been a great crime among poor ignorant people to hear them called otherwise is stil especially in some places of this Nation Were they not the Popes Mass-Houses and places of their Idolatrous Worship And what Rule have you in the holy Scriptures for any to worship the true God in these Idolatrous Dens and Popish Houses and to call them such and such a Saints Church especially without alteration in form in name and esteem Did the children of Israel do so Did the primitive Christians do so VVhere is your example And who made George a Saint and Katherine and Olives Mary Overies and Giles and Gregory c. that your Churches are called by their Names are they not of the Popes making are you not ashamed that people should call those places Churches And then concerning your Manners and Worship in these places Is it not your manner before your Worship begins to ring Bells to call your Hearers your Brethren together and whom do you imitate and who learnt you this but the papists and why do you deny them in words and imitate them in practice And is it not your manner to get an hour-glass to preach and pray by and to sing by and have you not the chief seats in the Assemblies the popish Train hath so and are you not like them Do not they worship and preach and pray and sing by the hour then do you not agree with them Did ever the true Christians and Christian Ministers do so And why must you have a soft Cushion with silken Jobs at the corners to lean on to read your studied devised framed artificial Sermon or speech to the people And by what order was your Pulpit or high place hung with imbroydered Cloath and some other of your stalls lined with cloath when others want it to wear even of your own heap and sect and fold Who are you like in this Have you any such president in the holy Scriptures What and where is your Rule and Example If you must have a Cushion cut off the Jobs and if you must have a Pulpit take off your imbroydered cloaths and cloathe your brethren which are within your own Parish and of your own flesh and do not let them go up and down begging for clothes and food while your Pulpits and Stalls or other chief Seats are clothed imbroydered and laced What manner of Christianity and brotherly love is there among you towards one another And how come you by this manners among you that he that hath a Gold Ring and costly Apparel and is called a rich man must have a sumptuous seat in the principal place and others in vile rayment can scarce have a place to sit on but must stand afar off Where I say did you learn this manners Did you learn it of the Church of Christ or the Pope and his Church And is it not your manner and custom to respect persons places times dayes things Doth not the Heathen so and the Papists so Then who may we compare you with if not with those Did ever any of the primitive Christians do so Was it their manner to respect the person of him or her that had a Gold Ring or costly Apparel Or was it their manner to respect or cry up the Jewish Synagogues or Heathen Idolatrous Temple or any particular place or house whatsoever as the onely place of Worship and call it a Church Or did the Church of God in the dayes of Moses and the Prophets when the Lord had given them victory over the Heathen their Enemies did they I say preserve the Heathenish Idolatrous places of Worship as Altars Groves and Temples and teach the people to call them Churches Was it not as lawful for those places to be called a Church as 't is for these popish Dens builded with observation East and West with a picture of a Cock and a Cross upon it as the Papists devised and appointed to be called a Church Did not the Ministers of Christ gather people out of them and bear their testimony against them and all Temples made with hands Did not the Lord by his Hammer and battel-Ax of War break down burn and utterly destroy those places and Images and Groves set up and consecrated by the Idolaters Did not the Lord begin such a work in this Nation some years since And hath some Instruments proved like Jehu begun in zeal and ended in covetousness which is Idolatry and hath not regarded the Law of God withall their heart And shall that frustrate the work and purpose of the Lord Is he not raising others to accomplish his Work and fulfil his Decree against the Adulterous generation of what name or sect soever and down in esteem if not in form must the Popish Mass-Houses come and which is now the Priests Market place and called a Church and down must your Bells and Pulpit-embroydered cloathes and such like trumpery come which hath been set up in the time of Popery and since the cry was Who is able to make war with the Beast And then is it not your manner to respect times dayes and things Are you not like the Papists in this also And have you not learnt of the Pope Bishops Cardinals Jesuits Priests Fryers and Monks and Heathens how and what to call your times dayes months and quarters c. Have they not all Heathenish and Popish Names The holy Scriptures you are not ashamed to say is your Rule but in what one thing do you walk according to your pretended Rule unless you mean the Popish Heathenish Scriptures or Writings call them your holy Rule if you mean those you shall be believed because you are found walking thereafter but if you mean the Writings which holy men wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit we know you are lyars and cannot believe you for they never learnt you to follow the manners and customs of the Heathen nor Papists as you do in respecting and naming or calling your Times Dayes Months and things the Scripture of Truth teacheth to call Days and Months after this manner First day second day third day fourth day fifth day sixth day seventh day First month second month third month and so to the twelfth month The Heathen and Papists and their Writings teacheth to call the first day of the Week Sunday or dies Solis the day of the Sun the second day Monday or dies Lun● the day of the Moon or the Moons day the third day Tuesday the fourth Wednesday the fifth Thursday sixth Fryday the seventh Saturday according to the Names of the 7. Planets wch the Heathen and Papists talk so much of And the first Month they call March the second April and so on to the eighth Month which is called October which signifieth the eighth Month November the ninth Month December the tenth Month from the Lattin words Octo Novem Decem eight nine and ten and the eleventh Month you call

January and the twelfth Month February Now do you not prefer the Heathenish and Popish Traditions Rules Customs Manners and Writings before and above what is delivered prescribed and taught in the Writings of the holy men of God so that it is come to pass by your so doing that if people are brought to call daies and months and times and places and persons according as those did who had the spirit of God which the Scriptures teacheth and witnesseth unto I say When people are brought to this they become a hissing and a wonder among you and are counted nice and frivolous and unmannerly and when we speak and write of hours dayes and months as they are recorded in the Scripture people cannot tell what we mean nor how to understand us nor when such a time hour day or month is but will rather mock and jeer at first hour first day first month c. and will have no such reckoning of times in their temporal civil or spiritual Accompts these are your Auditors your Disciples or Schollars as you have learnt you teach as you the Priests are so are the people imitators of the Papists and Heathen in this as well as other things and the Christians life words manners and behaviour you are out of and strangers to and may we not justly with the Heathen and Papists compare you whose example you follow And then concerning the manner of your publike Divine Worship as you call it have you not this manner and custom as the first part of your Worship to sing David's Psalms in rime and meeter divised or turned thereinto by Poets or Musicianers as Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins and others with apt Notes to sing them withall before your prayer and after your Prayer before your Sermon and after your Sermon of all the people together Is not this your own invention Was there any such manner of singing in the Church of Christ You say Let us sing to the praise and glory of God and you keep an Officer to read the Psalm to people which are some drunkards some covetous some proud some defrauders of their Brethren dissemblers double dealers some Adulterers and unclean persons some jesters and idle talkers some light and vain wild and wanton some scornful high-minded and mockers some disobedient to Parents unthankful and unholy and of rude unchristian behaviour Of such consisteth your Church and are not the Steeplehouse-singers such And can such persons sing to the praise and glory of God Or are they in a state and condition fit to sing at all Doth not weeping and howling mourning sorrow and lamentation and wo from the dreadful Lord God of Heaven and of Earth belong to such singers Singing with Grace in the heart unto the Lord we own but singing with wickedness with pride and covetousness in the heart we utterly deny Singing with the Spirit and with understanding we own but your singing by Letter with Musical Notes and Tunes customarily ignorantly without understanding we wholly disown and bear our testimony against it as abomination in the sight of the Lord and it was never ordained nor appointed in nor by the true Church but it hath been ordained and appointed by the false Church the Whore and her Merchants in the dark night of Apostacy since the dayes of the Apostles and since the true Church fled in to the Wilderness And is not this singing of David's Prayers Mournings Sighings Complainings and Cryes unto the Lord and his Praises Rejoicings and magnifying the Lord and such like conditions as David was in I say Is not your singing of these things like the Papists singing have you any more rule in the Scripture for your singing then the Papists have for their singing And hath it not been one of the Whores later invention and addition to your Worship even about the time of Queen Elizabeths reign in this Nation but the same pure eternal light which appeared in the hearts of some about the beginning of our English Wars and manifested much of the Popish Trumpery which was then in being of which quiristers and singing-boys in white Surplices was one I say the same pure eternal light hath manifested your singing and noise to be as abominable in the ears of the Lord as theirs and to be denyed and witnessed against for you have no more rule in the Scripture for your singing David's Prayers then the quiresters and singers then had to sing the Prayer which Christ taught his Disciples which they called Pater Noster Which of all you Mass-house Singers are or ever were what you sing as when you sing O Lord I am no● puft in mind and that your eys are not scornful Are you not of such a proud and hard heart and puft up mind and scornful eyes many of you that you will scarce look upon nor walk with nor relieve those that are poor though they be of your own Church Then do you not sing a lye in this And is that to the praise and glory of God Surely you dare not say that God is glorified with a noise of lyes not that David's Psalms are lyes but you being not in the same state condition and life that David was in they are lyes in your mouths David said Mine eys gush out with Rivers of water because they keep not thy law I am afflicted ready to dye from my youth up while I suffer thy terrors I am d●stracted I am like a Bottle in the smoak I am like an Owle in the desert I am like a Pellican in the Wilderness I am like a Sparrow alone upon the house top all my friends and acquaintance hath forsaken me This David said and you sing these words ignorantly customarily never witnessing the same state condition so they are lyes in your mouths and God is not glorified but dishonored by you in this part of your Worship and your singing and the Papists and quiristers and Surplice-boys singing is abomination alike in the sight of the Lord and in the sight of his servants who are redeemed from amongst you and from under the great Whore which sits upon the Waters but the Lord our God is taking her seat from under her and into the pit she with her golden Cup full of Sorceries Witchcrafts and Fornications shall fall and none shall be able to deliver her neither can she save her self nor those that hath been and still are made drunk with her Sorceries and deceiveable ways of unrighteousness of which this trick craft and art of singing is one James said Is any merry let him sing Psalms He wrote these words to Saints but hear what he wrote to such as you Cleanse your hands ye sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy into heaviness Such as these hath no cause to be merry who are sinners whose hands are uncleansed and whose hearts are unpurified and whose minds are double And