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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79861	A description of the prophets, apostles, and ministers of Christ, and also of those called ministers of England, by men which say they are ministers of Christ, but are found to be blasphemers and lyars, and none of the ministers of Christ Iesus; and wherein the difference plainly appears, and they made manifest. With an exhortation to the people of England; to forsake them, their blind-guides, and to follow Christ Iesus, the shepard of their souls; the way, the truth, and life, who faith, come learn of me, for I am meek and lowly, ... / Given forth to undeceive the simple hearted; by him whose name in the flesh, is, Henry Clark.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing C4453; Thomason E861_8; ESTC R206653	22,790	31

sins by repentance cease from the evill of your doings and learn of God to do wel and if you will return return to the Lord God who is gracious and mercifull and in patience hath born long with ye all the time that ye were learning to preach who then saw what you were going about to do and all your actings in that time and all the time you have been preaching which hath brought forth nothing but vanity and lyes for all the profession of Religion that you have taught the people all this while stands in a lye and their fear of the Lord is taught them by your precepts who are men for what do you or they all possess of what you profess nothing at all therefore it is lightness and vanity and is unto the Lord as loath some as if you cut off a Dogs head or offered to him Swines Flesh in abominable broath nay he will not accept of the hire of a whore that you bring before him it all stincks in his Nostrills and is cast out from before him as a filthy Dung-hill Your sacrifice is abomination and all your works are as filthy Rags and as the cloath of a monstrious woman ye are defiled and with your defilements you defile Oh stop your mouthes and be silent ye men who are called Ministers of the Gospell but are not the Ministers of Christ and let shame cover your faces in the presence of the Lord God of life and power who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquitie Therefore all people High and Low Rich and Poor Bond and Free who have been hearing and learning for many years together of those you call Ministers and are not the Ministers of Christ by whose Ministry ye are not yet come to the knowledg of the truth by their long preaching Cease from man whose breath is in his Nostrills and spend not your money for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which satisfies not but return to the Lord Jesus Christ the Light the Saviour and Bishop of your souls who saith come learn of me hearken diligently hear and your souls shal live who filleth the hungry with good things and the rich he sends empty away A Prophet hath the Lord God raised up amongst you hear ye him saith the Lord in all things who teaches the way of truth and holyness without which no man shal see the Lord and this is my beloved Son saith God he that refuseth to hear him shal be cut off from the land of the living for God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son into the world and this is the condemnation the light which is into the world come Christ Jesus the Son of God the light of the world that makes manifest in you sin and evill deeds and shews you all things that ever you have done in your life time and this is Christ the Prophet that meets with you whithersoever you go and shews you that sin which you have committed in secret which none can reprove you for but he that seeth in secret and in the dark places and this is Christ the light of the world that enlightneth every one that comes into the world and is made manifest in the conscience and to as many as receive him and believe on his name he gives them power to become the Sons of God whom he teacheth in his wayes so that they need not another to teach them being the children of the Lord are taught of the Lord and Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God into all truth and can read the Law writ in their hearts Now people every one of you mind that which makes manifest your sin unto you and checks you for the sin you commit by bringing upon you tribulation and anguish upon every one that doth evill Those that walk in darkness hate Christ Iesus the light that is come into the world and is the condemnation of those that love darkness and not the light because their deeds be evil and the light reproves them because their works are of the Devil but he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be tryed whether they be of God who is light and in him is no darkness at all Now people ye have a Light in your consciences which makes manifest your sin unto you unto which ye do wel if ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the Day-star arise in your hearts which is the sure word of prophesie and the Son of righteousness that rises with healing in his wings therefore come to him that ye may have life wait upon him who is worthy of waiting on who wil anoint you with an unction by which you shal know al things so that you need not to be taught of man and gives to every one freely without money and without price bread to the hungrie water to the thirsty soul clothing to the naked eye-salve to the blinde the poor he fils with good things and those that fear him shall not want but the whole need no Physician and the rich he sends empty away Therefore while you have time people prize it draw nigh unto God and he will draw nigh unto you clense your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded cease from evil and put not from you the evil day afarr off but put away from you the evil of your doings and learne the fear of the Lord which is to depart from sinne and the beginning of pure wisdome which teaches how to do righteouslie justlie and to walk humblie with the Lord and this is the grace of God that appears to all men that brings salvation and teaches men to denie all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberlie righteouslie and godlike holie as he is holie in this present world in all manner of conversation here is life and death set before you people choose which you will for if you neglect so great salvation how do you think to escape the damnation of hel Therefore people in the fear of the Lord search and try all things forsake the evil and hold fast that which is good of God who is faithful and deceives none for the Kingdome of heaven is within you and the many deceivers are in the world look not out at them neither go after them but keep your heart with all diligence for out of them are the issues of life for in Israel abides in his tents and do not say but in your life-time you have been warned of the manie deceivers by him who is a lover of your souls who is knowne by the name of Henry Clark Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter Can the Fig-tree my brethren bare olive-berries either a Vine Figs so can no Fountain both yeeld salt water and fresh Jam. 3.12 Here followeth a Declaration of some Lawes made by the pope and the

Ministers and teachers having gotten a form of some sound words from the Scriptures and help of others they preach by the Letter and not from the life and power of those that gave the Scriptures forth so that in what they preach they erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God neither have they heard that which was from the beginning nor seen nor tasted of the word of life by the Spirit of life which they preach of but are as ignorant of the life and power as they that hear them whom their words profit not at all because they come not from the life of them that gave the Scriptures forth nor stand in the counsell of the Lord therefore they are no Ministers of Christ but are the many deceivers that are entred into the World which by their works deny Christ come in the flesh The Ministers and Apostles of Jesus Christ they are sent to turn people from darkness to the light Christ Jesus the saviour of their souls the light and life of men the way to the Father and the truth and from the power of Satan unto God who is Light and in him is no darkness at all and did and do turn many to righteousness and for so doing are counted deceivers by this Generation as they have been by former Generations but are true and the truth is in them they being of God and the whole world lying in wickedness Bur the Ministers so called in England which preach in the high places teach the people lyes and so lead the people into darkness from the light and now I appeal to that of God in all your consciences both Ministers so called and people for who hath taught the people to call the high places with the steeples and bells in them the Church have not you their Ministers and is this any other than a lye for the Church is in God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ and the body of Christ is the church which is the ground and pillar of truth made up of living stones Christ Jesus being the chief corner-stone which you builders called Ministers refuse and is become a stone of stumbling and a Rock of offence to you but you that stumble thereat great shal be your fall And who hath taught the people that God dwells in those places called the church in a more special manner than in any other place but you their teachers and is not that another lye for God dwells not in temples made with hands and who teaches the people to say God is worshipped in those places but you their Ministers so called and is not that a lye for God is a spirit and is worshipped in spirit and in truth and not in those high places And when a company of proud high minded people scoffers scorners covetous earthly minded lovers of Money the Root of all evill Whores and Whore-mongers Adulterers Fornicators Thieves Cursers swearers Lyars Drunkards Fighters Quarrellers Reprobates which know not that Christ is in them are all gathered together at your call and invitation to come customarily to that which you call a SACRAMENT and set together to eat the Bread that you break and when you give it to them that they must take and eat this in remembrance that Christ dyed for them and be thankfull and when you pour out the wine do not you tell them that the blood of Jesus Christ was shed for them and for the Remission of their Sins Do not you herein tell them lyes Are not the wicked reserved for the day of judgement And the wicked and all they that forget God shall be turned into hell their condemnation is ordained of old being none of the seed that the promise is to nor the Sheep that the good Shepheard laid down his life for And who hath taught the people to call that which you call a Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ the Supper of the Lord and the Table of the Lord have not you their Ministers so called taught them both by preaching and writing which are lyes for I tel both you and all such persons afore named that the Lord Jesus Christ neither Sups with you nor you with him for there is no fellowship betwixt Christ and Beliall nor no communication betwixt Light and Darkness and that which you call the table of the Lord you make it a table of devills for it is no other for he that committeth sin is of the devill and are not ye and all such aforementioned committers of sin and so of the Devill your Father whose works you all do and ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of devils And who hath taught the people and made them believe that when their children are sprinckled with a little water on their faces which you call baptism that then they become members of the church and christians do not you their teachers teach them so that they become members of Harlots and Members of the Synagogue of Satan setting together in the Idolls-temple being led captive by you ever learning but never able to come to the knowledg of the truth by your preaching so that ye are none of the Ministers of Christ but are the evill men and seducers that wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived Ah! wo unto you ye blind guides called Ministers of England which lead the blind out of their way ye are all under the Curse of God for cursed is he that leadeth the blind out of his way and the wrath of God is to be revealed against you all who hold the truth in unrighteousness tribulation and anguish be upon every soul that doth evil ye workers of iniquity And again who teacheth the people to make songs of the Saints conditions and to turn the Scriptures which is a Declaration of the things which are most certainly known and believed amongst us into lyes and blasphemies do not you the Ministers of this Nation so called teach them who are proud heady high minded people drunkards swearers lyars whores and whore-mongers covetous envious malicious scorners scoffers thieves and murderers when they are met together in the high places of the Nations Come say they let us sing to the Praise and Glory of God Psal 116.1 2 I love the Lord because my voice and prayer heard hath he whenas they that walk in Darkness hate the Light for God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all and the wicked through the pride of his heart wil not seek after God for God is not in all his thoughts The wicked say unto God depart from us we desire not the knowledg of thy wayes and what is the Almighty that we should serve him And what profit should we have if we pray unto him say the wicked that are friends of the world and enemies to God yet their teachers wil teach them to lye and say I love the Lord because he hath heard my prayers when the prayers of the wicked