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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

popish Saxon Kings who governed England and were the first erecters of all the Abbies Monasteries Fryer-houses Chantry-houses Cathedrals c. as J have them out of the first and second volums of the Books of Martyrs BEnedict an Abbot of the Monastery of Peter and Paul at Wirr brought with him from Rome one John the Arch-chantler who first taugt in England how to sing in the Quire after the manner of Rome In the yeer 747. at the beginning of King Edgberts reign the Synod of Bishops disputed the profit of singing of the Psalms in the Church as they called it and made a decree that with a modest voice they should sing in the Church so by them called In the Yeer 747. at the beginning of King Edgberts Reign the Sinod of Bishops disputed the profit of singing the Psalms in the Church as they called it and made a decree that with a modest voice they should sing in the Church so by them called In the Yeer 924. King Ethelstone alias Atelstone made a Law that fifty Psalms should be daily sung in the Church as he called it for the King In the Yeer DCCXII King Inas alias Ina or Iue made a Law that Infants should be baptized within thirtie daies This King Ina or Iue gave up the Government of the Kingdome of England unto Ethelardus his Nephew and he himself took upon him the habit of a poor man and with great devotion travelled to Rome and was there made a Monk and the said King Ina made a Law that the first fruits of all that was sowne to be paid at the day of St Martine as he called it and about 720 he caused thorowout his Dominions that everie house that had a chimney should pay a pennie to the Pope in the name of Saint Peter this King was the first that brought up Peter-pence in England In the Year 933. King Atelstone made a Law that Tythes should be paid of all the proper Goods as well of living Cattle as of Corn and first fruits of the Ground In the Year 940. King Edmond made a Law that Tythes with the first Fruits of every mans crap should be duly paid In the Year 959. King Edgar ordained and decreed concerning Liberties and Freedomes of the Church as they called it that Tythes and first fruits of Corn and Peter-Pence be all paid Pope Innocent the third with all his Rabble of Monks and Fryers was the first that brought in private Tythes to be paid at Easter about the time of King Johns raign in England Now people here you may in part see who were the authors of Tythes to be paid out of the fruits of your labour So here follows what the Church was the tythes were paid to and in particular what the tythes were that was paid and received THeir Church was a company of strange Puissant counterfeit holy idle Vagabonds and ravening wolves so called by one Simond Fish which were Abbuts Priors Deacons Arch-Deacons Suffragans Priests Monks Canons Fryers Pardoners and Sumners these had the goodliest Lordships Mannors Lands and Territories in the Land in their possession and in particular the tythes they had was the tenth part of all the Corn Medow Pasture Grass Wood Coults Calves Lambs Pigs Geese and Chickens and the tenth part of every servants wages the tenth part of Wool Milk Honey Wax Cheese and Butter and they looked so narrowly to their profits that if they had not every tenth Egg the women could not have their due at Easter but were counted Hereticks Again they had four offering-dayes privy-tythes offerings to their Pilgrimages money for Diriges to be sung at the Buriall of every man and child or else they would accuse their friends of Heresie And besides this they had money for probates of Testaments Mortuaries and Confessions hallowing of Churches Alters super Alters chappells and Bells by cursing of men and absolving them again Finally the infinite number of the five Orders of Fryars who had of every house a penny a year the five Orders of Fryars had five pence a year of every house and in King Henry the eights dayes the sum being cast up to him what came in yearly to these five Orders of Fryers it did amount to 430333. 6. s. 8. d. a year as is set down in the Book of Martyrs by one Simond Fish and not above four hundred years before that time they had not one penny for the ancient Britains ever stood free from such burthens till that time that the pope and the Saxon Kings laid them on us who now bear the same in part as hereafter is made appear And now you shal see if those now in England called Ministers do not tread in the same steps and how far they come short of their forefathers First it is undenyable that they baptize Infants within thirty daies according to the law of the Monkish King Ina and not according to any law of God that they have to sprinckle little children on the face with water call it baptism but by the popes and their own imaginations consequences and conceivings of the Scriptures And according to the Bishops decree and the Kings law they sing and teach to be sung in the high places where the Steeples and Bels are the Psalms and Saints conditions that they two Poets Sternhold and Hopkins with others have turned into Meeter by their fallen wisdome and not by the spirit of God but they wil say they have a rule in the Scripture to sing Psalms by Is any merry let him sing Psalms but what have drunkards swearers proud and covetous persons to do to make songs of the Saints conditions that was never none of their own or to take the name of God in their mouthes seeing they hate to be reformed therefore ye singers stop your mouthes and be silent before the Lord God of heaven and earth for it were better for you to be in the house of mourning than in the high places of mirth for the day of the Lord is coming wherein your songs shall be turned into howling and your joie into bitter lamentation And as concerning Tithes do not the Ministers of England so called take tithes of the people even the tenth part of their Corn and Hey Wool Lambs Pigs Geese Eggs and have they not tithes of Coults Calves and dead sheep-skins and of Bees from whence the honey and wax comes and tithe apples pears hemp and flax and in some places of this land tithe milk and at Easter some part of the servants wages and Easter Reckonings they have two pence of the husband and two pence for the wife and two pence for the chimney and herein they outstrip the pope for he had but a penny a chimney and they have got beyond the five Orders of Fryers for they had but five pence a year of a house and they have six pence a year besides the two pence for a son and two pence for a daughter and two pence for a