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A79864	A rod discovered, found, and set forth to whip the idolaters till they leave off their idolatry (which yet remains in the rulers of England, their ministers, and the people who follow thier wayes) which doth consist in the houses of high places, falsly called churches; the two universities, Cambridge and Oxford, (and their ministers, which are made by man, and not of God) and their ministers maintenance (not the ministers of Christs) which is portions of lands, tythes, offrings, oblations, obventions, and great houses for a certain dwelling place on the earth, and forms of oathes, all which is the fruit of idolaters, and the abomination of the heathen. So likewise here is described the true magistrate and his work; and the way (for he who is not) to become such a one; and likewise, the way for all people to come out of their idolatry, vo worship the true God in spirit and truth. Written by me Henry Clark. Unto which is prefixed the epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Laodiceans.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4457; Thomason E926_1; ESTC R207580	107,831	79

imprisoned or disse●sed of his Free-hold Liberty or free Custom neither shall he be out-lawed banished 9 Hen. 3. cap. 29. 5 Ed. 3. cap. 9. Read the petition of Right or by any means brought to destruction neither shall any passe or sit in judgement upon him but by the lawful judgement of his Peers that is his equals or by the law of the land and Magna Charta is acknowledged by the learned to be the Common-law of England both before and after the conquest And now I shall refer the Reader to a Book called The Cry of the Oppressed from under their Oppressions wherein the Reader may see a cloud of Witnesses that have born and still do bear their testimony for the Name of Jesus and against tythes who go under the Name of Quakers who have suffered and do suffer bonds and imprisonment and likewise the spoiling of their goods they take joyfully knowing in themselves that they in Heaven have a better and an enduring substance And again besides all this they undergo sore travels out of the North and other parts of this land to appear before the Judges at the Tearms at Westminster Tearm after Tearm do they continue still more or lesse bearing their testimony not as the parish-Ministers and the professors do who professe Christ in words but by their works deny him come in the flesh against tythes and that Christ Jesus is come in the flesh and thir testimony of him ●s born through suffering the losse of all for his Name sake which to them is an evident token of their salvation and that of God for they that suffer with Christ shall reign with him but unto their adversaries by which they do suffer it is to them an evident token of their perdition for those mine enemies that would not said Christ that I should rule and reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me I tell you that God doth hear the cry of the oppressed and he will avenge his own Elect which cry unto him day and night for vengeance is the Lords and he will repay it upon his adversaries ye wicked and ungodly ones because that judgement is not speedily executed upon you therefore the hearts of you sons of men are set on to do wickedly but know that for all this you shall come to judgement for the innocent have committed their cause unto God who judgeth righteously and you shall find that when you appear before the Lord who sees all your doings and knows the thoughts of your hearts that they are evil that with God there is no respect of persons nor taking of bribes Ye see here before written that I have shewed how the parish-Ministers that the Kings and the Rulers the Pope and his Adherents have ordained and consecrated and sent forth to their parishes to preach have been and are maintained first their maintenance is in part after the maintenance of the Levitical priesthood under the Law viz. first fruits tythes offerings oblations obventions c. Secondly like unto Pharoah the King of Aegypts Priests by portions of lands viz. Parsonages Vicarages Ex●d 47.24 1 King 18.19 Rectories and Glebe-lands Thirdly like unto the prophets of the Groves that fed at Jezzabels table viz. at Kings and Queens tables Earles Lords and Ladyes tables yea 1 King 13.33 34. Mic. 3.11 and at Oliver Protectors table too Fourthly like the false prophets and the priests of the high places that Ieroboam and others consecrated who preacht for hire and divined or studyed for money so they have some 30.40.50 100. or 200 l. a yeer and some more in the parish where they are setled for their yeerly maintenance and their Lecturers place together all which hath been and is provided for those heaps of Teachers which the world who having itching ears have heaped up to themselves by which they are seduced even by those unprofitable talkers viz. Cambridge and Oxford Schollars by the Kings and Rulers of the earth the Pope and his Adherents And now I come to shew you out of Scripture how the Prophets that God sent forth was maintained I shall instance how some of them were maintained and so by them do ye judge how the rest were maintained For Elijah the prophet of God he was a hairy man and he was girded about his loins with a leathern Girdle and God commanded Elijah to go and hide himself by the Brook Cherith 2 King 1.8 Read 1 King 17. chap. that is before Iordan and God told him that he should drink of the Brook and that the Ravens should feed him there So Elijah went according to the word of the Lord and dwelt there and the Ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening And it came to passe after a while that the Brook was dryed up because there had bin no rain in the land And then the word of the Lord came to Elijah saying Arise get thee to Zarephath and dwell there behold I have said the Lord commanded a widow woman there to sustaine thee So he arose and went to Zarephath and when he came to the Gate of the City he found the widow woman gathering sticks and he called unto her said Fetch me a little water in a vessel that I may drink and bring me a morsel of bread in thy hand And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah and she and he and her Houshold did eat many dayes and the Barrel of Meal wasted not neither did the Cruse of Oyle fail according to the word of the Lord which he spake by Elijah And it came to passe after many dayes that the word of the Lord came unto Elijah in the third year saying Go and shew thy self unto Ahab and I will send Rain upon the earth And Elijah went and shewed himself unto Ahab and after that he had done the work of the Lord as you may read in 1 King 18. ch Iezzabel sent a messenger to him saying So let the gods do to me and more also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time And when he saw that he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba which belongeth to Iudah 1 King 19. and he left his servant there and he himself went a dayes journey into the Wildernesse and sate him down under a Juniper Tree and as he lay and slept under a Juniper Tree behold then an Angel touched him and said unto him Arise and eat And he looked and behold there was a Cake baken on the coles and a Cruse of water at his head and he did eat and drink and laid him down again And the Angel came again the second time and touched him and said Arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat fourty dayes and fourty nights unto Horeb

according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel And Iosiah he turned himself and spyed the Sepulchres that were at Bethel in the Mount and sent and took the bones ●ut of the Sepulchres and burnt them upon the Altar a●d polluted it according to the Word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed by the Altar before the face of Ieroboam as he stood by the Altar at Bethel to burn Incense and he slew all the priests of the high places t●at were there upon the Altars and burnt mens bones upon them And then he returned to ●erusalem and that he might perform the words of the Law which was written in the Book that Helkiah the Priest found in the House of the Lord Iosiah he put away all the abominations that were spyed in the Land viz. the Images and the Idols and the Wizards and the workers with familiar spirits and the times that Manasseh observed too And thus Iosiah he went on and prospered in his work Lev. 26.30 31. Deut. 18.9 to the 14. and made a thorow reformation both in Israel and in Judah for he turned to the Lord with all his might and with all his soul and with all his heart according to all the Law of Moses neither after him arose any like him Here ye may see that King Iosiah did not do as other Kings did before him that is reform Idolatry in Judah and let it remain in Israel and take away Baal the Altar and the Grove and the House of Baal at Samaria and leave the two golden Calves the high place and the Altar standing still at Dan and Bethel which Ieroboam set up Nay he reformed Iudah and Ierusalem Israel Samaria Dan and Bethel Lev. 20.27 and all of the abominations that were spyed in the Land according to the Law of Moses And now ye shall see what reformation hath been made in England since that the Saxon Kings the Danes and other Idolaters built up the high places falsly called Churches Monaste●ies Nunneries Fryer-Houses Chant●y-Houses and Colledges Now the first beginning of any reformation that I find of the Idolatry that they had set up was in the dayes of Henry the eighth wherein a Parliament was called it was enacted and decreed That in causes and matters happening in contention no person should appeal provoke or sue out of the Kings Dominions to the Court of Rome Secondly It was designed and concluded That all exportation of Anuities first Fruits out of this Realm to the See of Rome for any Bulls Breefes or Palles or expedition of any such thing should utterly cease Thirdly It was enacted That the Pope all his Colledge of Cardinals with his Pardons and Indulgences which had so long clogged this Realm of England to the miserable slaughter of so many good men and which never could be removed before was now abolished eradicate and exploded out of this Land and sent home to their own country from whence they came and what reformation was this none at all for all this which they took away from the Pope in a manner was setled upon King Henry the 8th For first they made him Head of the Church as they called it instead of the Pope Their words of the Act are as followeth Be it enacted by this present Parliament That the King our Soveraign Lord his Heirs and Successors Kings of this Realm shall be taken accepted and reputed the onely supreme Head in Earth of the Church of ENGLAND so called Anglicanâ Ecclesia Secondly And shall have and enjoy annexed and united to the Imperial Crown of this Realm as well the Title and Stile thereof all Honours Dignities Preheminences Iurisdictions Priviledges See Foxes Acts Monuments Vol. 2. Authorities Immuniti●s Profits and Commodities to the said Dignity of Supream Head of the same Church belonging and appertaining Thirdly And that our said Soveraign Lord his Heirs and Successors Kings of this Realm shall have full Power and Authority from time to time to visite repress redress reform order correct restrain and amend all such errors abuses offences contempts and enormities whatsoever they be which by any manner of spiritual Authority or Iurisdiction ought or may lawfully be reformed repressed ordered redressed corrected restrained or amended any usage custome forraign Laws forraign Authority Prescription or any thing or things to the contrary hereof notwithstanding Now for my part I see that none of the poor common people were ever the more eased of their burdens onely the King and the Bishops with the rest of the Clergy except their paying of Peter-Pence to the Pope and that was none at all because now the Priests have a Penny for the smoke of every Chimney as the Pope had Now see where the reformation was first That a Bible of the largest Volume and in English be provided and set up in some convenient place of every Church as they called it Secondly The Pater-Noster was to be in English Thirdly Sermons was to be made quarterly Fourthly Such feigned Images but not all which were abused by Pilgrimage and Offerings were to be taken down without delay Fifthly Tho. Bockets day was forbidden to be observed but no other And sixthly The knoling of Aves was forbidden lest the people should hereafter trust to have pardon from the Pope for the saying of Aves between the said knoling as they have done in times past Seventhly The Abbies Monasteries Fryar-Houses were many of them pulled down destroyed And eighthly The Abbots the Monks the Fryars were suppressed but the Popish Bishops viz. Arch-Bishops Bishops and Priests were upheld stil maintained by their goodly Lordships Glebe-Lands Rectories and Tythes as well as when the Pope was the Head of the Church and men and women were burned for Hereticks as they called them then as they were when the Pope was Head of the Church so called And Transubstantiation and the Communion in both kinds and Vows of Chastity and the forbidding of Priests marriage and private Masse and Auricular Confession and all Images which served for no other use but as Books for unlearned men that can no Letters to be admonished by them as they said All such stuffe was left with the High Places falsly called Churches standing without any scruple at all And again in the dayes of King Edward the sixt many or very near all the aforesaid stuffe was laid aside onely the Houses of High Places the Bishops Arch-bishops Parsons Vicars Curates their great Lordships Rectories Parsonages Glebe-lands Tythes first fruits and all these remained still unpull'd down But when Queen Mary came to the Crown and ruled then all that her Father and Brother had reformed she set up again except Abbies Monasteries c. and fell to burning of men and women for declaring against her and her Bishops and the Clargies and the peoples abominations according to the measure of light by them received faster then all the Kings that were before her And Queen Elizabeth she and

man in an evil cause because he is poor neither is he to countenance a rich man in an evil cause because of his riches and high titles of honour neither is he to pervert the words of the righteous whether he be rich or poor Neither is he to judge for reward nor to take bribes or gifts because they blind the eye and so they cannot see to do just judgement nor to judge righteously for the Lord betwixt man and man rich and poor great and small c. 4. The Magistrate that ruleth over man must not accept the person of the wicked Psal 82.2 3 4. Deut. 16.18 19 20. but he is to defend the poor and fatherlesse and to do justice for the afflicted and needy and to deliver the poor and needy and to rid them out of the wicked speedily Therefore he is not to be afraid of the fear of man but to fear the Lord God and him alone to serve in doing of true justice and in judging righteously and he is to follow altogether that which is just that so he may leve and inherit the land which the Lord God giveth him Hear O ye Kings Rulers and Iudges of the earth the double-minded man is unstable in all his wayes he wavereth like a wave of the Sea that is driven with the winde and tossed to and fro Therefore let your eye be single that your whole body may be full of light that ye may behold the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ and so ye may see to do true justice and judgement for the Lord betwixt man and man but if your eye be evil your whole body is full of darknesse confusion and every evil thing and so no justice nor true judgement is then done by you for the Lord. Be wise therefore O ye Rulers and Iudges of the earth serve the Lord with fear the fear of the Lord is to depart from iniquity and the beginning of wisdom Therefore kisse the Son least he be angry with you and when his wrath is kindled ye perish from the right way of truth and judgement And ye that rule while ye have time prise it and rule with diligence and be not sloathful in your businesse but be fervent in spirit serving the Lord and meddle not with things that be too high for you nor with those things which ye ought not to have to do with Read 1 King 12.31 13.33 34. 16.30 31 32 33. In the time of ignorance God winked at many things but light is now come into the world and God calls upon all men every where to repent and would have them come to the knowledge of the truth that they may be saved Therefore come out of Babylon my people come out of Babylon saith the Lord and return O Israel if thou wilt return return unto the Lord the onely true God who is light and in him is no darknesse at all Christ Iesus is the light of the world he and his Father is one whoso followeth him shall not walk in darknesse but shall have the light of life He it the light and life of men and to as many as receive him and believe in his Name to them he gives power to become the sons of God and the sons of God are led by the spirit of God and the spirit of God it leads into all truth righteousnesse and peace But they who walk in darknesse they hate the light they hate God who is light they hate Christ who is the light of the world and the Law is light the reproofs of instruction are the way of life Christ Iesus is the way the truth and the life and light of men he that believeth not is condemned al●eady because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God and this is the condemnation Yhat light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds be evil Every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh he to the light lest his deeds should be reproved Whatsoever is reproved the light makes it manifest What know ye not that Christ Iesus the light is in you except ye be reprobates the reprobates know not ●hat Christ is in them for light shines in darknesse and the darknesse comprehends it not and if the Gospel be hid it is hid to them that perish neither is there any communion betwixt light and darknesse nor no fellowship hath Christ with Belial for he that believeth not is condemned already because he believeth not in the onely begotten Son of God the light and the light is the condemnation of all that hate it The light shines in the heart Christ he opened their understandings For God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ whatsoever is reproved the light makes it manifest that which is reproved is sin and sin is the transgression of the law that is holy just pure and good Now the light makes every transgression of the law manifest the evil thoughts are made manifest by the light the evil deeds are made manifest by the light the evil words the light makes manifest yea the light makes manifest and brings to remembrance all things that a man hath done in his life time and sets his sins in order before him although they have been done in secret So that one man cannot reprove another for the thing done in secret yet there is that in him that makes it manifest to him and reproves him for it which is the light God is light Christ is the light of the world and doth enlighten eve-very man that cometh into the world The Law it is light and I had not known sin but by the Law and the Law is written in the heart by the spirit of the living God Now the same that makes sin manifest the same reproves for sin and this that reproves of sin is the spirit of truth who reproves the world of sin of righteousnesse and of judgement God he is a spirit and he is light Christ is the light of the world the last man was made a quickning spirit the second man is the Lord from Heaven who was made a quickning spirit it is the spirit that reproves the world or every man in the world of sin and the same that reproves of sin the same condemns for sin this is the condemnation that light is come into the world God sent his son to condemn sin in the flesh the condemnation of God is to them that walk after the flesh for this purpose was the son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil but there is no condemnation to them that walk after the spirit Therefore take heed to the light that makes sin manifest believe in the light believe in God for he is light believe in Christ the light of the