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A79865	The wise taken in their craftiness, and their wisdom made manifest to be foolishness with God; and their actions discovered to be contrary to the pure law of righteousness given forth by the pure law-giver, Christ Jesus the light; by which light some one judge, or judges of this nation are made manifest, how he, or they have acted contrary to the law of God, and the law of this nation; and contrary to all the kings, rulers, and judges, spoken of in Scripture; by setting fines upon men, and sending them to prison till payment of the same, for not putting off their hats, and stand bare-headed before them in their court of assises, and goal-delivery. Also, here is shewed, that it is no sin for a man to stand with his hat on his head, before any emperor, king, ruler, judge, justice, or other magistrate, either alone, or in open court; neither is the putting the hat off, and standing, bare-headed before them, the honour that is due unto magistrates, which the Scripture speaks of. / VVritten by, me who am known by the name of Henry Clark.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4459; Thomason E882_3; ESTC R207280	20,416	20

Cubits high and six cubit broad and he set it up in the plain of Dura in the Province of Babylon then the King sent and gathered together the Princes the Governors and the Captains the Iudges the Counsellers the Treasurers the Sheriffs and all the Rulers of the Provinces to the dedication of the Image which the King had set up and there they sate and took counsel together and made their invented decree to burn men in the invented fiery furnace and caused it to be proclaimed aloud by the Harold that whatsoever People Nations or Languages did not fall down and worship the Golden Image when they heard the sound of the Cornet Flute Harp Sackbut Psaltery Dulcemer and all kinds of Musick should be the same hour cast into the midst of the fiery burning furnace then certain of the Caldeans accused the Iewes for not falling down according to the Kings decree to worship the Golden Image which the King had set up then the King in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach M●shech and Abedigo before him and when they were brought before him they told the King they were not careful to answer him in that matter For said they Be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy Gods Read the 3d. chap. of Daniel nor worship the golden Image which thou hast set up behold our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the hot fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thy hand O King then was the King full of fury and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach Meshech and Obednigo and he commanded the fiery furnace to be heated seventimes hotter then it was wont to be heat and he commanded the most mighty men of his Army to binde Shadrach Meshech and Abednigo and cast them into the fiery furnace therefore because the Kings commandment was urgent and the furnace exceeding hot those men Shadrach M sh●ch and Abednigo were bound in their coats their hosen their hats their other garments and were cast into the midst of the Fery burning Fornace Here you may see how mischief was invented and wickedness acted by a Law of the King the Princes the Judges the Counsellors ond the Sheriffs and all the Rulers of the Provinces yea and put in execution in the Kings rage and fury when the form of his visage was changed but the most high and mighty God who confounds the wisdom of the wise and makes the Judges fools suffered not the fire to have power over the bodies of his servants that feared and trusted in his Name for he sent his Angel and delivered them sa● the hair of their heads was not singed neither was their coats changed nor th● sm●ll ●f the fi●e pass●d on ●hem M●● 26 3 4 14 ●5 1● Ma●k ●4 1.10 11. Lu● 22.2 3 4 5 6. And again the ch●●● Priests and the Scribes with Iudas sought out ●n their invert on how to kill Christ the Son of the living God for they ●ea●●d the pe●ple Then Iudas went out from Christ the Light and Satan entred into him and he fell into the transgression And Iudas he went unto the ch●ef Priests and he communed with them and the Captains how he migh● betray Christ unto them and they were glad and covenanted with him for thirty p●eces of silver Here you may likewise see the chief Priests the Scribes the Captains and Iudas how they sate in c●unsel together and plotted against the just yea and invented mischief against the Lord and against his anoynted Jesus Christ From that time Iudas in his invention sought opportunity how to betray Chris● unto them conveniently in the absence of the multitude Joh. 18.1 2 3 12 13. Mat. 26.5 6. Then Judas having received a band of men and officers from the chief Priests and Pharisees cometh with Lanthornes and Torches and Weapons into the Garden where Jesus and his Disciples were which was over the Brook Ch●dron and there the Captain the Officers and the Band took Christ Iesus the Son of God and bound him and led him away to the High Priest Mar. 14 53 Mar. 14.55 56 37. Joh. 19.7 and with him were assembled all the chief Priests the Elders and Scribes and the chief Priests and all the counsel in their inventions sought for witnesses against Iesus that they might put him to death for said the Iews We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye because said they he made himself the Son of God they began to accuse him before Pilate saying we have found this fellow perverting the Nation Luk. 23.1 2. Mat. 26.59 60 61. Mat. 27.22.25 Luk. 23.18 23 24. and forbidding to give Tribute to Cesar saying that he himself is Christ a King and many bore false witness against him but their witness agreed not together and so found none And at last came two false witnesses and said This fellow said I am able to destroy the Temple of God and to build it in three days and the Iews said unto Pilate Away with this man let him be crucified and let his blood be upon us and upon our children and Pilate gave Sentence as they required and they crucified him and parted his Garments and cast lots for them And thus you may see that they were the wise men so called and the learned Rabbies the high Priests the chief Priests the Judges Counsellors and Captains that gathered themselves together and sate in counsel and upon judgement as they called it against the Lords Christ his annoynted 1 Cor. 3.19 but their wisdom is made manifest to be foolishness with God to after Generations Judas hanged himself and the Jews were scattered abroad in all Nations And as it was then so it was in after generations that wicked men imagined and invented mischief against the servants of God how to afflict and destroy them some were slain with the Sword some had their heads cut off some sawn asunder some tortured and stretched upon Racks some cast into Lyons Dens and amongst other wilde beasts to be devoured Some put into boyling Caldrons some stoned some whipt and others hanged and some burned with fire and if you wil read the History of the ten Persecutions in the first volume of the Book of Martyrs ye may read of more filthy cruel wicked inventions that they had and did destroy the people of God with then I write of And now to come to King Henry the fourth's dayes you may see by a Statute called the Statute Ex officio what a Law the learned and wise men so called the Bishop and the Clergy his brethren the Suffragans and Assistants had in their inventions got the King and the House of Lords to make to burn openly all those people that would not in those dayes worship the cross the crucifix with other images and pictures which in their inventions and imaginations they had set up to be worshipped or that should declare

men sought out many inventions for their own safety and honour and to make themselves rich and great in the world and to hide themselves from the presence and wrath of God so likewise the said wicked men sought out many inventions how to destroy and to affl●ct the righteous therefore said David The wicked plotteth against the just Psa 36.4 37.12 Psa 2.1 2. Psa 21.11 and gnasheth upon him with his teeth he deviseth mischief upon his b●d he setteth himself in a way that is not good for the Kings of the earth s●t themselves and the rulers take counsel together and the people imagine a va●n thing against the Lord and against his annointed For said Dav●d they intended evill against thee O Lord they imagine a mischievous device Habbak 1.4 P●o●o 23. Read Psa the 9● which they are not able to perform And Habbakkuk said the wicked doth compass about the righteous the wicked are filled with mischief they take please ●e in unrighteousness and said Solomon it is a sport to a fool to do mischi●ef and David said O Lord how long shall the wicked triumph and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves said he they break in pieces thy people O Lord they afflict thine heritage they slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless they frame mischief by a Law they gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood Cain who was the first born he sought a wicked invention because his own works was evil and his brothers were righteous Cain was wrath and his countenance fell and he talked with his brother Abel the righteous and when they were in the field Cain rose up against his brother Abel the righteous and slew him this wickedness was plotted and the murder acted without any Law but God who heareth the cry of the innocent and pleadeth the cause himself of the just repayed the wicked for his wickedness God he said to Cain what hast thou done Read Gen. 4. ch Isa 3.11 the voice of thy brothers blood cryeth unto me from the ground now see what followed wo unto the wicked for it shall go ill with him for the Lord said unto Cain Now art thou cursed from the earth when thou titlest the ground it shall not henceforth yeeld unto thee her strength a Fugitive and a Vagabond shall thou be in the earth And God set a Mark upon Cain lest any finding him should kill him for said the Lord Whosoever slayeth Cain vengeance shall be taken on him seven fold and Cain said My punishment is greater then I can bear And so the Lords of the Philistins they sought out an invention how to afflict Sampson and see here how they take counsel together to accomplish their invention The Lords of the Philistines came to Delilah a woman in the valley of Sorock whom Sampson loved and they said unto her Entice him and see wherein his great strength lyeth and by what means we may prevail against him that we may binde him to afflict him and we will give thee every one of us eleven pieces of Silver Now Delilah she took their counsel and accepted of the mon y and sought in her invention whore Sampsons strength lay and she inticed Sampson and got out from him where his strength lay and she made him sleep upon her knees and she called for a man and she caused him to shave off the seven ●ocks off his head where Sampson said his strength lay then she called for the Philistins saying Come up this once for he hath shewed me all his heart and she began to afflict him and his strength went from him and then the Philistines took him and bound him with fetters of Brass Read Judges 16 chap. and put out his eyes and he did grind in the prison-house then the Lords of the Philistines gathered themselves together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their God and to rejoyce and when their hearts were merry they called for Sampson out of the prison-house to make them sport but God who gave Sampson strength at first renewed his strenth again and took the wise in their own craftiness and made their wisdome manifest to be but foolishness and rewarded the uncircumcised Philistines with judgement and in their mirth cut them off when they thought not on it And so Haman when he saw that Mordecai bowed not to him nor did him reverence according to the Kings comand then was Haman full of wrath and Haman was so proud and so envious against the people of God that he thought scorn to lay hands upon Mordecai alone therefore Haman he sought how to destroy all the Jewes that were throughout the whole Kingdome there was Hamans invention to destroy all the people for then he had no Law to do it by for if he had had a Law he being set up above all the Princes when he was so full of wrath would have put it in execution without going to the King Therefore Haman said to the King Abasuerus There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the Provinces of thy Kingdome and their Laws are divers from all people neither do they said Haman keep the Kings Laws therefore said Haman to the King It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them to live if it please the King said Haman let it be written that they may be destroyed and said Haman I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that shall have the charge of the business Read the 3 4 5 6. 7 chap. of the book of Esther to bring it into the Kings treasuries Here you may see how the Rulers and the King set themselves against the people of God and frame mischief by a Law the King took off his ring from off his hand and gave it to Haman and said Do with the people as it seemeth good unto thee then was the Kings Scribes called and all was written according to Hamans command and the decree was made and sealed with the Kings seal and according to the writing thereof it was sent into every Province in the kings name by the Posts to the Rulers of every Province to destroy to kill and to cause to perish all the Iews both young and old little children and women in one day but he that sits in the Heavens laugh't Haman to scorn and had him in derision daily for Haman was taken in his own craftiness and his invention was discovered which he had sought out even the Gallowes which he had prepared to hang Mordecai on and his intention to destroy all the Iews according to the decree was made manifest and Haman taken and hanged upon the Gallows himself the same measure that he would have meeted to others was meeted to himself up heaped And so likewise Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon sought out an invention and made an image of Gold threescore

said Iacob if the Lord will give me bread to eat and rayment to put on And Moses said The Lord loveth the Stranger in giving him rayment now the hat is one part of the rayment which God hath given to man to cover his nakedness for which it is to be put and kept on the body which is for the Lord so likewise the rayment is to keep the body from the cold and the wet and also from the parching heat of the Sun Now seeing that God hath given unto all man-kind rayment for these causes to put on to cover the body with then why should one man command another to take it off and to uncover himself or any part of his body for which his rayment is given to him to be a covering thereof Now all you who take mens hats from off their heads and make them to stand bare-headed at your pleasure you act contrary to God and his command who saith Do violence to no man God he clothes man and will you unclothe him or any part of him God he loves the Stranger in giving of him rayment and will you make a profession of God and Christ and when a Stranger comes before you will you cause his hat which is pair of his rayment to be pulled off from his head and to stand bare-headed to take cold or to be over-heat with the heat of the Sun or to be wet with the rain or snow and will you have him to suffer these things or any of them by standing bare-headed in respect to your persons if ye wil leave off making a profession of God for God is not mocked But some of you it is like will say that he may put on a cap or two caps on his head Is not that all one For is not the cap or caps made to cover the head and to keep it warm as well as the hats And why are you more offended with a man that stands before you with a hat on his head then you are with another that stands before you with a cap or two caps upon his head seeing that there is no law for one to transgress more then the other Do not you shew your selves to be partial herein And again every man it is like is not provided with a cap ready to put on his head and some are poor and have not money to buy a cap or two with and why should the poor man be compelled to stand bare-headed to get cold more then the rich Or again Why should one that fears God and cannot for conscience towards God put off his hat and stand bare-headed before you in respect to your persons be compelled to stand bare-headed when it is taken off from him as the Swearer Drunkard Thief Robber and Murderer can do who transgress the Law onely to please you and do it not out of any fear or Obedience to God And again some have said That to put off the hat and to stand bare-headed before the Magistrate is the custome of this Nation and therefore it is to be kept and observed before the Magistrate But God he commands the contrary as the Scripture with me doth witness For saith the Lord Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment neither shalt thou do after the works of the Canaanites the Hivites the Perizites the Hittites and the Iebusites And Solomon said The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord And If sinners entice thee consent thou not to them Therefore those that are the Servants of the Lord God are not to to do after the manner of the Heathen nor to follow a multitude to do evil nor to fashion thmselves according to the World and as they did in the time of their ignorance according to their former Lusts when they walked in a vain conversation received by tradition from their Fathers By following of which Traditions they transgressed the Commandments of God Mat. 15.3 but being called to holiness of conversation in obedience to God they are to observe no such Traditions But some have said that the Custome of the Nation is law and likewise that the Law maintains the Nations Customes If the putting off the hat and standing bare-headed before the Magistrate either alone or in open Court be a Custome and that the Law of the Land maintains it for a Custome then let any of the Judges or Counsellors of the Land make known that Law that maintain it for a Custome or let them shew one President for it or whose Case it was in law that was so fined and sent to prison till payment of the said Fine of twenty Marks or whatever parties goods were ever distrained of for not paying the said Fine or whether ever any Fine was brought into the Exchequer for such a thing and in what King or Queens Reigns it was in since VVilliam the Conquerors time that any man or men were fined twenty Marks a piece and sent to prison till payment of the same by any Judge of justice of the English Nation or let them shew me any Example from any one Judge Ruler or King that judged or ruled over Israel or from any of the Heathen Kings that the Scripture speaks of For Moses he was a Ruler and a Judg over Israel and the Scripture doth not anywhere testify that he set a Fine upon any man for not putting off his hat and standing bare-headed before him nor sent any ●an to prison for any such thing neither did he give any charge or Command to the Judges that judged the People at all seasons so to do For said Moses I charged your Iudges at that time saying Exod. 18.25 26. Hear the Causes between your Brethrens and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him ye shall not r●spect persons in judgment but you shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of man Deut. 1.16 17. for the judgment is Gods And the Cause that is too hard for you bring it before me and I will hear it and in this charge there is no mention made of hats to be put off by the people nor standing bare-headed before them neither do I find that Ioshua who was a Ruler over Israel after Moses that he fined any man and sent him to prison for not putting off his Hat and not standing bare headed before him neither did he give any charge to the heads of the people the Rulers Judges and Officers so to do for Ioshua called them together and said to them I am old and stricken in age be ye therefore very couragious to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the Law of Moses Josh 23.2.6 11 ver that ye turn not aside there-from to the right hand or to the left take good heed therefore unto your selves that you