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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

everlasting love and for the peoples sakes wom they are contented to spend and be spent for the gaining of their souls to life do they suffer all things But the Ministers of England and Preachers so called they set themselves down in a Parish in one of the best livings and fairest houses therein or it will not serve their turn but til they can get a better or more money and never go abroad into all Nations but live at their homes at ease with their wives and children and friends eating and drinking of the best of the land and of the finest of the Wheat and are merry taking their pleasures receiving their profits Gifts and Rewards Tythes Eeaster Reckonings which comes unto them by the sweate of other mens Browes themselves feeling no Sorrow nor being in Trouble as other men being invited to Feasts set uppermost in the room and are called of men Master stand praying in Satans Synagogue and for a pretence make long prayer to be seen of men and think to be heard for their much babbling but the prayers of the wicked are abomination to the Lord and he wil not hear their prayers because their hands are ful of blood who murder by consent for those that put into their mouths they cry peace to let them be what they will but those that do not bring unto them and put in their mouths they prepare war against by suing men at Law for tythes and making distress upon their goods for treble damages or imprisoning their bodies to the 〈◊〉 undoing of them their wives and families which the Apostles and Ministers of Christ never did nor had any command so to do and where the life and power of Godliness appears in any to their faces they so hate them that live in it that they stirre up both Magistrates and people to hail them out of their high places where their Steeple and Bells are to be sent to prison stocks and Bridewel to be whipt and are mock't and scofft and beaten and stoned by those they teach so to do Oh! what a horrible thing is here committed in England the Ministers thereof so called by men but not of God preach for hire gifts and rewards and the Rulers and people bear rule by their meanes Oh woe unto you what wil your end be now the Lord God is coming to visit you for all these things The Gospel that the Ministers of Christ preach came not to them by man neither were they taught it of man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ and by Christ alone without man are they made able Ministers not of the Letter but of the Spirit and have power given them from above of the Father to go labour in his vineyard and to feed the Lambs and sheep of Christ and to bare their testimony of Christ the everlasting Gospel whose name is the Word of God who is the light of the world and is the true light that enlightens every one that cometh into the word and that God is light and in him is no darkness at all which is their message worke and the gift of God to turn people from darkness to the light Christ Jesus and from the power of Satan unto God who is light and in him is no darkness at all The Ministers and Teachers of England so called by men are set to School when they are children to learn to read English Latine Greek and Hebrew and to construe their Latine Greek and Hebrew they learn into English and when they are by their Schoolmaster thought fit then they are sent to Oxford and Cambridge to learn of men how to preach and not of Christ and when they have learned of their tutors how to compact up together out of the ancient Fathers writings which was beyond Sea and the antient Fathers writings here in England as they call them the Histories and Scriptures of all together a form of words in writing which they get over and over as a Schollar doth his lesson before he cometh to his master to hear if he can say it perfectly so likewise do they before their tutors and others with their notes writ and laid before them in their Bibles and if they can say their studied form of prayer which they have got into their memory and that which they have compacted together in writing perfectly in a pulpit an hour by a glass vvithout stuttering or stammering and can come downe again out of their Pulpits with their brazen faces undaunted then they are approved of by men to be expert young men and good Schollars and will make able Preachers of the Gospel as they judge so they receive their degrees of Arts and are set at Liberty from Oxford and Cambridge to go have a further approving off by men and of men do receive their commission to Preach and not of God so that how to preach is taught them by man and not of God and what they do Preach they have it not by Revelation from Jesus Christ but from the Letter and by works of other mens their own study and maginations which comes out of the bottomless Pit and ascends up like a smoke take away from them the dead letter and the dead Fathers writings which they have had from beyond the Sea and the dead Fathers writings histories and records which are in England vvhich are the instruments and means by vvhich they preach and not by the Spirit as their studies full of books will witness and then it will appear in one quarter of a year you shall scarce have a Sermon preached by any of them that have the weakest memories and very few by them that have the strongest memories so that it doth plainly appear that they are but Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit therefore I deny them all to be any of the Ministers of Christ Jesus and I deny their teachers and approvers and commission-givers all from the greatest to the least to have any thing to do in this work for it is the proper work of Jesus Christ who is the Lord of the Harvest and saith the Harvest is great and the Labourers are few pray ye therefore saith he that the Lord of the Harvest would send forth more Labourers into his Vineyard Therefore ye Commissions givers and Approvers and senders forth of Ministers as you call them who take this work upon your selves cease from your actings herein and consider with your selves what account you will give unto the Lord of the Harvest who is coming and will say unto you who hath required this at your hands that ye have done The Ministers of Christ Jesus do declare by the Spirit that which was from the beginning which they have heard and seen with their eyes and looked upon and their hands have handled of the word of life and that life which is manifested unto them and live in whose fellowship is with the Father and the Son they declare But those in England called

prentice if a man have them and they come to their Sacrament And have they not money for buriall of the dead and as it was the Monks office to mourn so will they put on a black mourning suit of the parties gift that is dead and imitate the Monk in his dissembling-mourning heathen-like who made cuttings in their flesh and bauldness between their eyes for the dead which the children of Israel were not to do because God had chosen them to be a holy and peculiar people to himself And again if the people did not pay the Abbuts Priors Priests c. their tithes and money they accused them for hereticks and so for heresie they proceeded against them and you may see in the Book of Martyrs what became of Hereticks they were tyed to a stake and fire and faggots put to them and burnt by that bloody generation of men And do not these in England called Ministers if men who own Christ and for conscience sake cannot pay them tithes they will sue them at Law and proceed to make distress upon their goods for trebble damages or get an Order from a Court to send their bodies to prison there to lye at great charges to the undoing of them and their families and the same spirit that c●rcies them on to do this wil carry them on to do more if they had but a Popish King and a law and popish Magistrates that would put it in execution And again have they not the best livings and fairest houses that are in most Countrey Villages in England yea and in some Towns to and now people you may see how far your Preachers called Ministers go in the steps of their forefathers as their forefathers were so are they but they wil say they denie the pope and the Bishops and their orders I answer I know they do in words but in their works they own them so in their words they profess Christ but in their works they denie him for they that pay tithes and they that receive tithes both by their works deny Christ come in the flesh for Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth the priesthood and the Levites tithes and first fruit-offerings and sacrifices ordained by the Law of Moses the Alter and Tabernacle and the Temple were all but figures and shadows of good things to come now Christ Jesus the sum and substance of all these being come the priesthood is changed into one who is made after the power of an endless life there is of necessitie made a change of the law also by which law they had a command to take tithes of the people but Christ being come put down the priests and the Levites that were maintained by the first fruits and tithes and he himself being in their place he did not take tithes for he had no store-house to put them in for saith he the Foxes have holes and the Birds of the aire have nests but the Son of Man hath no where to lay his head ye may read in the Scriptures and so he had no certain dwelling place on the earth for he was sometimes on the sea-side sometimes upon the sea and in the WILDERNESSE and in desert places sometimes at Jerusalem and went round about the villages teaching and upon the mountains and went into the land of Genazereth into the villages cities and countries to Tyre and Sidon and from thence to the sea of Gallilee through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis he being come to do the will of his father he had no long time to stay in a place to take tithes neither did he give any command to his Apostles and Disciples to receive any tithes for he commanded them to go into all Nations Mat. 28. and he sent them by two and two Mark 6. ver 7 and he sent them to preach the Kingdome of heaven and to heal the sick and they departed and went through the towns preaching the Gospel and healing every where Luke 9. ver 2.6 and saith Christ to them freely have ye received freely give Mat. 10. ver 8. and into whatsoever city ye enter into and they receive you eat such things as are set before you and into whatsoever House ye enter first say peace be to this house and if the Son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon it and in the same House abide til ye depart eating and drinking such things as they give for the labourer is worthy of his Hire Luke 10 ver 7 8. Mark 6. ver 10 so that their meat and their drink that was set before them by these that received them was their wages and not tithes Here it plainly appears that those that owned Christ and received his Apostles they paid no tithes neither did the Apostles receive any tithes nor Christ neither To whom were tithes paid and who were they that paid tithes those that did not own Christ Jesus but denyed him to be the Son of God saying is not this the carpenter the Son of Mary the brothers of Iames and Ioseph c. but the chiefe priests scribes and pharisees rulers and elders these received not Christ not owned him to be the Son of God these paid tithes of mint and comin annis rue and all manner of herbs and crucified the Lord of glory so that it is plainly seen that those that pleaded for tithes and paid and received tithes after Christ came were those that denied Christ come in the flesh both by their words and works and as it was then so it is now for those now in these dayes that profess Christ in word to be the Son of God and pay tithes and receive tithes as the people and Ministers of England so called do by their works deny him and those that deny him to be Priest and Prophet deny him to be King and Law-giver as the Pope and popish Kings and Priests who contrary to his Law Swear not at all in their own wills made severall forms of oathes and laws to compell people to swear by one form of an Oath to swear by to the Pope another form of Oath called the Oath of Supremisie another form of an Oath called the Oath of Allegience another form of Oath called the Oath of Abjuration one form of an Oath for Judges and other Magistrates and Officers to swear by and so likewise for witnesses and all were to swear upon the four Evangelists or their hand upon the Bible or else they must hold their hands up and swear all which way of swearing is contrary to the Law which is holy just and good which is given out by the pure Law-giver Christ Jesus Emanuel God with us who saith swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is Gods throne nor by the earth for it is his foot-stool nor by Ierusalem for it is the City of the living God nor by thy head for thou canst not make one haire white nor black he that sweareth by the