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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

of Obed Edom the Gittite and there it continued three Months and it was told David the King saying the Lord hath blessed the House of Obed Edom all that partain unto him because of the Ark of God So David went and brought up the Ark of God from the House of Obed Edom into the City of David which is Zion with gladness and David made him Houses in the City of David 1 Chron. 15.1 16.1 2 Chron. 5.2 5. which is Zion and he prepared a place for the Ark of God and pitched for it a Tent so they brought the Ark of God set it in the midst of the Tent or the Tabernacle that David had pitched for it Now it came to pass as David sate in his house that David said to Nathan the Prophet Lo I dwell in an House of Cedars but the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord remaineth under Curtains the Lord had given David rest round about from all his Enemies and Nathan said to the King Go and do all that is in thy heart for the Lord is with thee Read 1 Chron. 28 29. chap. now it was in the heart of David to build an House of Rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and David had made ready Stuff for the building of it But the word of the Lord came to Nathan the Prophet saying Go and tell David my servant thus saith the Lord Thou shalt not build me an House to dwell in for I have not dwelt in an House since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day but have gone from Tent to Tent and from one Tabernacle to another and the Lord said unto David When thy dayes be fulfilled 2 Sam. 7. chap and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels and I will establish his Kingdom and he shall build an house for my Name Now when Davids dayes and his work was both near finished David assembled all the Princes of Israel and the Princes of the Tribes and the Captains of thousands and the Captains of hundreds and the Stewards and Officers and the mighty men and all the valiant men unto Jerusalem then David the King stood up upon his feet and said Hear me my Brethren and my People As for me I had in my heart to build an house of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and for the Footstool of our God and I had made ready for the building but God said unto me Thou shalt not build an House for my Name Because thou hast been a man of War and hast shed much blood Now said David to all the people The Lord hath given me many sons and out of all my sons the Lord hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon this Throne of the Kingdom of the Lord over Israel and the Lord said David said unto me Solomon thy son he shall build me my House and my Courts for I have chosen him to be my son and I will be his Father and he shall be my son And David called for Solomon his son and David said to Solomon My son as for me it was in my mind to build an House unto the Name of the Lord my God but the Word of the Lord came to me saying Thou hast shed blood abundantly and hast made great wars thou shalt not build an House unto my Name because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight behold a son shall be born unto thee his Name shall be Solomon and he shall be a man of rest and I will give him rest from all his Enemies round about and I wil give peace and quietness all his dayes unto Israel and Solomon he shall build an House for my Name and he shall be my son and I will be his Father and I will establish the Throne of his Kingdom over Israel for ever And David said Thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy Father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an House for the Sanctuary be strong and do it and the Lord be with thee and prosper thou and build the House of the Lord thy God as he hath said of thee onely the Lord give thee wisdom and understanding and David gave unto Solomon his son the pattern of the Porch and of the Houses thereof and of the Treasures thereof and of the upper-Chambers thereof and of the inward Parlors and the place of the Mercy-Seat and the pattern of the Courts of the House of the Lord and of all the Chambers round about and of all the Treasuries of the House and of the Treasuries for the dedicate things and also 2 Chron 28. ch for the courses of the Priests and the Levites and for all the work of the service of the House of the Lord all that which David had given him by the Spirit shewed he unto Solomon for said David to Solomon the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon me even all the works of this Pattern And when David dyed Solomon his son reigned in his stead when Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his Kingdom and found that the Lord his God was with him and magnified him exceedingly then Solomon spake unto all Israel to the Captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the Judges and to every Governor in all Israel and the chief of the Fathers so Solomon and all the Congregation with him went up to the High Place that is at Gibeon for there was the Tabernacle of the Congregation of God which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the Wilderness 2 Chron 1. but the Ark of God had David brought up from Kiriathiearim to the place which David had prepared for it for he had pitched a Tent for it at Jerusalem now in the night did God appear to Solomon in Gibeon and the Lord said Ask what I shall give thee and Solomon said And now O Lord my God thou hast made thy servant King instead of David my Father and I am but a child and I know not how to go out or come in and thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen a great people that cannot be numbred nor counted for multitude give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discover between good and bad And this speech of Solomons pleased the Lord and tho Lord said unto him Because thou hast asked this thing 1 Kings 3. cha 5. chap. and hast not asked for thy self neither long life nor riches nor the life of thy Enemies but hast asked for thy self understanding to discern judgement Behold I have done acording to thy word lo I have given unto thee a wise and an understanding heart Then Solomon came from before the Tabernacle of the

and such were never made priests by the command of the Lord but by man onely for Ieroboam he returned not from the evil of his wayes but made again of the lowest of the people priests for the high places and whosoever would he consecrated him and he became one of the Priests of the high places after the manner of other Nations viz. the Heathen 1 Kings 13.33 34. 2 Chron. 13.9 and this thing became a sin unto the House of Ieroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth And the Kings of Judah they set themselves against the Lord and agaist his Anointed as the Kings of the Heathen did do so did they for they ordained priests to burn Incense in the high places in the Cities of Judah 2 Kings 23.5 Acts 14.13 and in the places round about Jerusalem unto Baal the Sun the Moon and the Planets viz. Mars Venus Mercury Iupiter and Saturn and to all the host of Heaven after the abomination of the heathen and the Kings of the earth made Iupiter a priest and Pharoah King of Aegypt he had made him priests gave them portions to eat the Land the priests of Pharoah had Gen. 47.22 26 2 Kings 17.13 was not sold with the rest of the Aegyptians and Baal had priests made for him Now in the dayes of these Kings of Israel and Judah God raised up his own prophets and sent them to declare against these priests false prophets which the Kings of Judah and Israel had made for the Houses of high places like unto other Nations and likewise against both the Kings 2 Chron. 36 1● Ier. 25.3 4. the people and the high places too for all had transgressed very much after all the abominations of the Heathen go read and see the testimony that the man of God bare against Ieroboam 1 King 13.1 2 3 4. and of Elijah against Ahab and the prophets of Baal 1 King 18. chap. and the Vision that Isaiah saw in the dayes of Vzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of Judah Isa 1.1 2 3. concerning Judah and Jerusalem Thy princes said he are rebellious and companions for thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards And of such priests as they had made he said His Watchmen are blind they are all ignorant they are all dumb Dogs they cannot bark yea they are greedy dogs which can never have enough they are Shepherds that cannot understand they all look to their own way every one for his gain from his Quarters Isa 56.10 11 12. Ier. 1.1 2 3. 2.13 7.31 8.1 2. 19. chap. And Ieremiah to whom the Word of the Lord came in the dayes of King Iosiah and in the dayes of Iehoiakim King of Judah unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah and unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive saying My people have committed two great evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living Waters and hewed them out Cisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water they had forsook the Lord and his Commandments and his House at Ierusalem wherein he had placed his Name They have forsaken me said the Lord and have estranged this place both the Kings of Judah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem They have built also the high places of Baal and have burnt incense unto other gods and they have built the high places of Tophet which is in the Valley of the son of Hinnom which I commanded them not and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit And said the Lord the prophets prophesie lyes in my Name I sent them not so the Lord by his true prophet Jeremiah Ier. 14.14 Read Ier. 23. chap. whom hee sent himself disown'd those that the kings of the earth had made and sent forth neither have I said the Lord commanded them neither spake unto them they prophesie unto you said the Lord a false vision and a divination and a thing of naught and the deceit of their heart Ye may see that the prophets the priests and the high places that the kings of the earth 2 Kings 17 1●● 15. Ier. 7.31 19.5 who sate and took counsel together and built high places and made priests for them that was such a work and is such a work now as God never required at their hands to do for the Lord disowns all and said Who hath required this at your hands I commanded them not nor spake it neither came it into my minde and those priests they preacht for hire and studyed or divined for mony but such the Lord never sent for see Ezekiels testimony against them Ezek. 13. chap. of Israel And in chap. 22. against both the princes prophets priests and people of Ierusalem And likewise in chap. 34. against the shepherds of Israel And Hosea he bate testimony against them Hos 4.6 7 8 9. 5.1 8.3 4 5. 10.8 And Amos he bare testimony against them Amos. 7.9.10.11.12.13 ver And Miaah he bare his testimony against them also Mic. 1.5 3.1.2.3.5.9.10.11.12 ver and Zachariah 11.17 And thus you may here all see how the Lord God by his prophets disowned and abhorr'd the works of the Kings and Rulers of the Earth and peo●le for making Images and worshipping of them and for building up of Houses of high places such as are now called Churches and likewise for their consecrating and ordaining of priests for those high places Well then was it a sin in those days And do not the Kings and Rulers of the earth that do the same things either in whole or in part now commit sin as well as they did And do ye think that the Lord God does not abhor their works now as he did then And do ye think ye Rulers of England priests and people to escape the judgements of the Lord for your doing of such things more then they Or do you think that they were greater sinners then you are I tell you nay for except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish You see that many generations passed before King Iosiah came and what do you think that the Lord cannot raise up the like in England to do the like work here as Iosiah did do and pro●per in it likewise till it is finished I tell you all That your time is drawing on and a reward for your works you shall be sure of for such as you have sown such you shall reap for in a●l that ye have done ye have but sown to the flesh and of the flesh ye shall reape death and destruction from the Lord God Dist 23 ●ist 3. Can. ADRIANUS ● P. FOXES Acts 1 oMnumentt Vol. 1. Constitutions Canons 32 39. And now I shall shew you that read this Treatise what I have read and gathered out of Histories how that the Rulers of the Earth have with the Pope made Cardinals Bishops Deacons Suffragans Priests

c. but such a work God hath not required any one of them to do but they have in their own wills and by their own imaginations done it for I have read That it was thought good that the Election of the Bishop of Rome should be of no strength without the consent of the Emperor of Rome the Emperor did choose the Bishop of Rome But saith my Author This is now void for now the Cardinal they choose the Pope and the Pope he makes Cardinals and Bishops and the Bishops they ordain the rest with their Assistants viz. their Ordinaries Suffragans Arch-Deacons and by a carnal commandment did they ordain and consecrate them Pope Iohn the thirteenth writ to King Edger in England and willed him to see in his Cathedral Churches that none be promoted to be Bishops but such as were of the Monastical Religion Anno 747. And likewise willed the said King Edger To seclude all the Secular Prebendaries at Winchester to place in Monks And that no Secular Clark should be chosen a Bishop And so in King Edgberts reign Dunston Bishop of Canterbury Oswald Bishop of York and Ethelwaldus Bi●hop of Winchester they discharged the Priests and Cannons out of their Houses to place Monks in their Cells and Cathedral Churches as they called them but in former times the black Monks who went all in black clothes as the priests of England now do that followed the order of pope St. Bennit were called Regulars and Votaries and had nothing to do with any Ecclesiastical Ministry Anno 606. till the time that Bonifacius the fourth made a Decree that Monks might use the Office of Preaching Christening and of hearing Confessions and assoyling them from their sins And in King Edwins dayes the black Monks of Bennits Order began to swarm in England out of which Habite of black clothes the priests of England cannot yet get out of to this day And now seeing that I have mentioned these black Monks of pope Bennits Order I will put forth three Queries for the parish-Ministers so called of ENGLAND to answer with moderation First Seeing that you now in these dayes so many of you go in black Apparel and in long black clokes especially Whether the Chemarims which were certain idolatrous priests who wear black apparel as you may read in the Marginal Note upon the tenth chapter of Hosea and the fifth verse be your example so to do yea or nay Secondly Or whether do ye in love follow the fashion of the black Monks of Pope St. Bennits Order in your so doing year or nay Thirdly Seeing that Anselm Arch-Bishop of Canterbury with the Prelates and Clargy of England in their Synodal Council decreed Hen. 1. and about the sixth yeer of his reign at Westminst That the Garments of the priests should be of one colour and that their Shooes should be decent then I say Whether a black colour was thought to be most decent for the priests ga●ments and if it was then Whether you the priests of England who are now called Ministers do out of conscience at this day observe that Decree and so wear your garments all of a black colour as m●st decent yea or nay The Kings and Rulers of the earth with the pope made for themselves Bishops Danes Danes and Chapters Parsons Vicars Priests Ministers and by their own carnal commandments were they made and not otherwaies as you may see hereafter In the dayes of king Henry the fourth it was agreed upon by the king Statu●o ex Offi●i● Reg. Hen. 4. and the bishops and other lords That no man within this Realm er other of the Kings Majestyes Dominions presume to take upon him to preach privily or apertly without special License firct obtained of the Ordinary of the same place And in the dayes of the said king Henry the fourth Constitutions was made by Thomas Arundal Arch-bishop of Canterbury and others and he directed his Mandate and sent to all and singular as he said our Reverend ●rethren Fellow-bishops and our Suffragans and to Abbots Priors Danes of Cathedral Churches Arch-Danes P●ovests and Cannons also to all Parsons Vicars Chaplins and Clarks of parish-churches as he called them and to all Lay dwelling in his province of Canterbury Greeting That no manner of person secular or regular being authorised to preach now by the Laws prescribed or licensed by special priviledge shall take upon him the Office of preaching the Word of God or by any means preach unto the Clargy or Laytie either within church or without in English except he first present himself and be examined of the Ordinary of the place w●ere he preacheth and so being found a fit person as well in manners knowledge he shall be sent by that said Ordinary to some one chur●h or more as shal be thought expedient by the Ordinary according to the quality of the person Now take notice that all Laws Decrees Ordinances and Constitutions were made and established by the Authority that the kings and bishops had from the pope and by the pope and his authority was all the bishops danes arch-deacons suffragans priors priests vicars chaplains made and ordained here in England An. 25. Hen. 8. chap. 20. For first the king he was to nominate who should be appointed to be bishop to any See or Diocesse within this Realm and that then every person so presented to the pope and by him approved of was to be consecrated here in England by the Arch-bishop in whose province the said bishoprick shall be Read the Act at large An. 26. Hen. 8. cap. 14. but when king Henry the eighth had cast off the pope then it was enacted by the King and the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons assembled in parliament That no person or persons that the King should nominate to be a bishop or arch-bishop in this Realm hereafter should be commended to the pope or to the See of Rome to have the dignity or office of arch-bishop or bishop within this Realm And it was likewise enacted That King Henry the eighth should nominate the person to be bishop or arch-bishop to the bishopprick that shall hereafter be void and that he was to send his Letters Missive to the Prior and Covent or the Dane and Chapter of the cathedral Churches where the See of such Arch-bishopprick or bishopprick shall happen to be void and they was to choose and elect that person whose name was contained in the Letter Missive to the Office and Dignity of the arch-bishopprick and then the party so chosen was to be presented to the King the other bishops was to consecrate him and then he was to be invested into his place And so king Henry the 8th was set in the popes place to be Head of the church An. 26. Hen. 8. cap. 1. and the Defender of the Faith and the same thing that the pope did for the most part he did with his bi●hops and others to help

then others are and will not put their hands to do violence and blood as others do but of this better sort there is the lesser number And so I say of those who are called the Parish-Ministers take notice that for all this I do not own them to be Ministers of Christ that some of them and but few are more wise in their generation sober and moderate men and have not yet put forth their hands to do wickedly as the other have done who professe themselves to be Ministers of Christ but are not his as appears by their pride covetousness envy malice wrath for they are fierce despisers of those that are good heady Epist of Paul to the Laodic v. 11. high-minded and are desirous after filthy lucre and seek the honor of men and not of God and the ruine and destruction of mens bodies and so are out of the faith patience gentleness quietness and the meek spirit which is of great price with the Lord and could they have the Magistrate in all things to do their will they would have had fire and Faggots put to the people called Quakers to have burned them or else to have had us banished out of the Land before this out of their way nay they would not have spared some of their own Brethren the Ministers so called for they would have done by them as Stephen Gardiner and Edmund Bonner did by Ridley Latimor and Philpot in Queen Maryes dayes or as the late Bishops did to Henry Burton for the same spirit as was in Gardiner Bonner and the late Bishops is ruling in the Parish-Ministers now but that they cannot get all the Rulers of the Land to joyne with them to accomplish their designe and these are such who are made Ministers and Teachers by a carnal commandment of men and the people who will not endure sound doctrine but turn away their ears from hearing the truth are turned unto fables and according to their own lusts having itching ears they heap up to themselves Teachers made of Cambridge and Oxford Schollars heaps of teachers made by a carnal commandment to be be Preachers Ministers of Parishes but not Ministers of Christ Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers Rectors Chaplains viz. His Highnesse Chaplain the Ladys Chaplain the Earls Chaplain and their Lords Chaplain and these Chaplains feed at their Earls and their Lords and Ladyes Tables like the prophets of the Groves that fed at Iezzabels Table And thus they creep into Houses and leadsilly women captive who are laden with sin and lead away with divers lusts ever of them learning but by their preaching are not yet come to the knowledge of the truth And again by the means of these parish-Ministers who are so made by a carnal commandment rule hath been born and is born to persecute the righteous under the Notion of Hereticks Sedition Schism Seducers Blasphemers c. whenas all discord debate strife erroneous Opinions and divisions in matters of Religion and what points of Religion they will believe and what they will not believe and blasphemy imitations deceiving and beguiling unstable souls is amongst the learned men themselves who are trained up and have been traind up at the Vniversities in Logick Rhetorick Philosophy and vain deceit for are not some of those who are called Ministers for the Pope and his Religion in general and others for the Episcopal Religion and others for the Scottish Presbyters Religion and are not some of them of the Independents Religion and others of the Anabaptists Antinomians Arminians and Fifth Monarchy-Men so called and from whence arise all these Nick-names and ill-favoured tearms but from these Cambridge and Oxford Schollars those unprofitable talkers Epist of Paul to the Laod. v. 4 who are made Ministers by a carnal commandment of man and not of God for the Ministers of Christ were not made Ministers by a carnal commandment but by the Spirit for said Paul Our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3.5 6. who also hath made us able Ministers of the New-Testament not of the letter but of the spirit It was and it is the work of the onely wise God Heb. 11.5 Iude 14. Exod. 3.2 3 4 5 6.10 11 12 13 14. Ier. 35.15 Isa 6.8 9 Ier. 1.5 Mat. 9.37 38. 10.1 5 6 7. 28.18 19 20. Mark 16.15 Luk. 24.47 48 49. Act. 1.4 2.2 3 4. 1 Cor. 12.28 Eph. 4.8 9 10 11 12 13. Gal. 1.11 12 15 16 17. 2 Tim. 4.2 Epist Paul to the Laod. ver 1. and our Lord Jesus Christ to ordain to call to elect to sanctifie to give power gifts and commissions and to send forth all true and faithful Messengers Prophets Apostles and Ministers of the Gospel for to declare his Messages in particular and likewise to preach the Gospel in all Nations in Cities Towns and Villages unto the utmost parts of the earth and to bear witness of his Name before the Gentiles Kings and Rulers and the children of Israel in season and out of season to divide the word aright And with this work God never did trust nor put into the hands of Pharoah King of Aegypt to do nor Jeroboam nor the Turk nor the Emperors nor the Kings nor Dukes nor any other sort of Magistrates to do for God neither did God put this work into the hands of the Pope nor his Cardinals Ier. 7.31 19.5 Isa 1.12 John Goodwin in his book of Tryers p. 5. Matth. 28.18 19. Mark 16.15 Rev. 1.17 18. 21.6 22.13 nor his Bishops nor the Priests nor the Vniversities nor the Commissioners of Tryars to do for him therefore I say Who hath required this at any of their hands to do and by what Authority did any of the aforesaid make Ministers seeing that God never required it at their hands to do for said John Goodwin in his book The two Commissions we implead the one for Tryers the other of Ejecters being neither of them given in charge by Jesus Christ For Christ Jesus spake unto his disciples saying All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth go ye therefore into all the world and preach the Gospel and teach all Nations Christ Jesus the Son of God the same yesterday and to day and for ever the first and the last it is he that liveth and was dead but behold he is alive for evermore he was before his works of old he was set up for an everlasting salvation unto the ends of the earth Prov. 8.23 Isa 49.6 from the beginning before ever the earth was made when there was no depths when there was no fountains abounding with water and before the Mountains and the Hills was setled was Christ the Light brought forth and was by his Father while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the world Prov. 8.22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. for when God prepared the heavens when he set a compasse upon

the Mount of God And when Iezzabel cut off the prophets of the Lord 1 King 18.4 Obadiah hid a hundred of them by fifty in a cave and fed them with bread and water c. And now see after what manner Elisha the prophet of God was maintained It fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem where was a great woman and she constrained him to eat bread and it was so 2 King 4.8 9 01. that as oft as he passed by he turned in thither to eat bread And the woman of Shunem said unto her Husband Behold now I perceive that this is an holy man of God which passeth by us continually let us said she make a little Chamber I pray thee on the Wall and let us set for him there a bed and a Table and a Stool and a Candlestick and it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall turn in thither And it fell on a day that he came thither and he turned into the Chamber and lay there c. By these ye may see now that the Kings of the earth would not provide first fruits tythes offerings oblations obventions nor set out portions of land and great Houses for the prophets of God which he sent to live in 2 Chron. 18 25 26 as they did for their own that they themselves sent worth 100. l. a yeer more or lesse nay said Ahab by Micaiah the prophet of God Go take Micaiah and carry him back unto Amon the Governor of the City and to Ioash the Kings son and say Thus saith the King Put this fellow in prison and feed him with bread of Affliction and with water of Affliction until I return again in peace And this is that which the Kings and Rulers of the earth the Pope and his Adherents provide for the prophets that come and go in the Name of the Lord but the prophets of the Groves that come and go in their own Name they shall feed at Iezzabels table And Iohn the Baptist the Messenger of the Lord Matth. 3. chap. Luk. 1.15 Luk. 3.1 2 3 4 Matth. 1. chap who was filled with the holy spirit of God from his Mothers Womb went preaching in the Wildernesse of Iudea and in all the countrey about Iordan preaching the baptism of Repentance for the remission of sins and he was great in the sight of the Lord but his Rayment was of Camels Hair and a Leathern Girdle about his loins and his meat was Locusts and Wilde-Honey Here was nothing provided for him by the Kings of the earth to maintain him the messenger of the Lord no but instead of a great House Glebe-Land Tythes and Offerings Oblations and Obventions and 100. l. Matth. 14 ch a yeer Herod the Tetrach laid hold on him and bound him and put him in prison and afterward cut off his Head And such is the provision that the Kings and Rulers of the earth the Pope and his Adherents make for the Messengers of the Lord But the priest and preachers and teachers and Ministers that are of their own ordaining consecrating or by their appointment and law so made are well provided for so that they eat of the fat of the land and the finest of Wheat and drink Wine and strong Drink and take Tobacco and go clothed in black soft Raiment Cuffs and Rings on their fingers Ribans and Boot-hose-tops and sit at ease like a Queen and feel no want in the outward like other men Aaron and the sons of Levi who received the office of the priesthood they were maintained by first fruits offerings tythes c. according to the law which was a shadow of good things then to come until the time of reformation But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law who in the fulnesse of time came having compassion on the ignorant of them that were out of the way and being made perfect he became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him but Christ Jesus he glorified not himself to be made an High-Priest but he that said unnto him Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee the same said unto him thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec Now Christ Jesus he was called of God an High-priest and made an High-priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec of God not by a carnal commandment but by the power of an endlesse life and he offered up his body a sacrifice once for all and by that one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified and after he had offered that one sacrifice for sins for ever he sate down at the right hand of God and now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin So that Christ Jesus who is the Mediator of a better covenant then that of the old is the sum and substance of all figures and shadows held out by the Law which he put an end to for he changed the priesthood and disannulled the Law which was a shadow of good things to come by which the tythes was paid So that it is evident that Christ Jesus was not maintained by first fruits offerings nor tythes neither did the Kings and Rulers of the earth provide any House or Lands for him whom God sent For God so loved the world that he sent his onely begotten Son into the world but they would not bestow hundreds of pounds a yeere to maintain him with nor settle him in a Vicarage Parsonage nor in a Rectory of two or three hundred a yeer for said Christ Jesus The Foxes have Holes and the Birds of the Air have Nests Luk. 9.58 Luk. 8 1 2 3. Ioh. 13.29 but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head For he went throughout every City and Village preaching and shewing the glad tydings of the Kingdom of God and those that received his Doctrine and believed on him such ministred unto him of their substance and Iudas carryed the bag and he betrayed him into the hands of the chief priests the Elders the Rulers Herod and his men of War who delivered him up to Pilate to be condemned and to be crucified and platted a Crown of thorns and put it on his head and provided a Crosse and crucified him upon it and mocked him and thrust a spear in his side and cast lots for his Garment and gave him Vinegar to drink and this was all that they provided for the Son of God but they did not serve their own so for the world loves their own and calls them Master Master and sets them at the uppermost room at their feasts and in the highest seat in their Assemblies c. Neither was the twelve Apostles nor the seventy Disciples that Christ called and gave power to and sent forth to preach the Gospel maintained neither with first fruits offerings tythes oblations obventions c. for Christ

said unto them Freely ye have received freely give Go ye preach saying Matt. 10 5. to 14. Mark 6.7 to 12. Luk. 9.1 to 6. Luk. 10.1 to 12 The kingdom of Heaven is at hand provide neither Gold nor Silver nor Brasse in your purses nor Scrip for your journey neither two Coats neither Shooes nor yet Staves for the workman is worthy of his meat And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter enquire who in it is worthy and there abide till ye go thence And he called the twelve and sent them forth by two and by two and they went out and preached that men should repent Christ said to his Apostles that the workman is worthy of his meat Now do but take notice how they were maintained that Christ sent forth said he Into whatsoever City ye enter and they receive you 1 Cor. 9.4 eat such things as they set before you for the workman is worthy of his meat And said Paul Have not we power to eat and to drink Yea Christ gave them power to eat and to drink such things as was set before them by them that did receive them they were to eat and to drink And again said Christ Into whatsoever house ye enter say Peace be unto this House if the Son of Peace be there your peace shall rest upon it and in the same House remain eating and drinking such things as they give for the labourer is worthy of his hire the workman is worthy of his meat And Iesus said unto the twelve When I sent you without Purse and Scrip and Shooes c. lacked ye any thing Luk. 23.35 and they said Nothing And again Christ said unto them Into whatsoever City ye enter and they receive you not go your wayes out into the streets of the same and say Even the very dust of your City which cleaveth on us we do wipe off against you notwithstandithstanding be ye sure of this That the Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you 1 Cor. 4.11 12 13. Acts 20.33 34 35. 1 Thess 2.9 2 Thess 3.8 9 10. And so likewise they was to do by a House where they would not receive them nor hear their words for of such they were not to take any thing of nor to abide with them to eat nor to drink for the world was not worthy of them for the world hated them because they were not of the world but of Christ therefore the Kings of the earth nor the Rulers nor the people would not provide for them neither parsonages vicarages rectories nor glebe-lands nor tythes nor first fruits nor offerings nor oblations nor obventions nor hundreds of pounds by the yeer to maintain them with but instead thereof they provided Swords to slay them with 2 Cor. 11.25 26 27. Acts 12.2 3 4. 16.23 24. and prisons to put them in and whips and stocks and stones to stone them to death Now had they been of the worlds Ministers the world would have provided for them for the world loves its own and provides well for them as you may see in these our dayes how the Kings and Rulers of the earth the Pope and his Adherents have provided for theirs here in England but as for those that are now come in the Name of the Lord there is prisons dungeons stocks whips passes stones threatnings and fines provided for them beside beatings and mockings and reproaches and spoyling of their goods But is this the work of the Magistrate to do and to suffer to be done I say nay For he that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God they must be able men men of truth fearing God hating covetousnesse for said David Exod. 28.21 The Spirit of the Lord spake by me the Rock of Israel spake to me his word was in my Tongue The God of Israel said He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23.2 3 4. ver And thus the Magistrates ought to be from the highest to the lowest that ruleth over men and then shall he be as the light of the morning when the Sun riseth even as a morning without Clouds and as the tender grasse springing out of the earth by the clear shining of the Sun after rain c. Now the work of the Magistrate is 1. He is to be a protection to them that do wel that is 1 Pet. 2.14 Rom. 13.3 4. Tit. 2.11 12. Rom. 8.14 Gal. 5.22 23. to such who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit of God now they who walk after the spirit of God are taught by the grace of God to deny all ungodlinesse worldly lusts and likewise to live soberly peaceably honestly righteously and a god-like life and conversation in this present world and they who are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God and by them is the fruit of the spirit seen which is love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance and such are the well doers that the Magistrate is to be a protection too for against such there is no law c. 2 Sam. 23.6 7. But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away because they cannot be touched with hands for the man that shall touch them must be senced with Iron and the staffe of a Spear and they shall be utterly burnt in the same place c. Therefore 2. The Magistrate is likewise to be a terror to the evil doers that is to such as are lawlesse 1 Tim. 1.8 9 10. Levit. 20.15 16 27. Gal. 5.19 20 21. disobedient unruly ungodly unholy and prophane murtherers man-slayers fighters quarrellers whores whoremongers adulterers fornicators Buggery Thieves Robbers men-steeaers swearers cursers drunkards lyars cheaters false-witnesses and perjured persons Idolaters witches amongst whom is hatred variance emulation wrath strife seditions heresies and these and whatsoever things else that is contrary to the law that is holy just pure and good are the evil doers that the Magistrate is to be a terror too and for such the Law is made and not for a righteous man and that Ruler that doth contrary hereunto bears the sword in vain c 2 Chron. 19.6 Exod. 18.22 Deut. 1.16 17 e. 16.18 19 20. Exod. 23.3 6 7 8 9. 2 Chron. 19.5 6 7. Mic. 3.9 10 11 12. 3. The Magistrate that ruleth over men are not to judge for man but for the Lord and they are to judge the people at all seasons with just judgement He is not to wrest the law for if he wrest the Law he wrests Judgement which he ought not to do but to judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him he is to hear the cause of the poor as well as the cause of the rich the small as well as the great he is not to respect persons in judgement he is not to countenance a poor