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A79865	The wise taken in their craftiness, and their wisdom made manifest to be foolishness with God; and their actions discovered to be contrary to the pure law of righteousness given forth by the pure law-giver, Christ Jesus the light; by which light some one judge, or judges of this nation are made manifest, how he, or they have acted contrary to the law of God, and the law of this nation; and contrary to all the kings, rulers, and judges, spoken of in Scripture; by setting fines upon men, and sending them to prison till payment of the same, for not putting off their hats, and stand bare-headed before them in their court of assises, and goal-delivery. Also, here is shewed, that it is no sin for a man to stand with his hat on his head, before any emperor, king, ruler, judge, justice, or other magistrate, either alone, or in open court; neither is the putting the hat off, and standing, bare-headed before them, the honour that is due unto magistrates, which the Scripture speaks of. / VVritten by, me who am known by the name of Henry Clark.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4459; Thomason E882_3; ESTC R207280	20,416	20

submit to every O●d●nance of man for the Lords sake and to honour all men and to honour the K●ng ●ow to honour all men is not to rise up and bow down to them as the fashion of this world is and to stand bare-headed before men as it is the practise of the world so to do one to another upon every occasion that ●hey have to do with those that are greater in the worlds estimation in riches and have higher places and titles of honour in the world then themselves and so have their persons in admiration for their advantage sake Nay this is not honouring all men nor no man but meer flattery for all this a man may do and yet at the very same time hate the man in his heart and seek his Neighbours hurt therefore said Solomon Pro. 20.19 26.28 29.5 Meddle not with him that hath flattering lips for a man that flattereth his Neighbour spreadeth a Net for his feet and sayes he A flattering mouth worketh ruin therefore said Elihu Let me not I pray you accept any mans person Iob 22.21 Iob 17.5 neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I know said he to give flattering titles in so doing my Maker would soon take me away and Iob said He that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of his children shall fail and such flattery was used by Saul to David and likewise by Sauls servants to David to be the Kings Son in-law and to have his eldest Daughter to his wife to be a snate to him as you may read 1 Sam. chap. 18. toward the latter end And so Iudas came to Christ and said Hail Master and kissed him and for money the same time betrayed him to the Iews Mat. 26.47 48 49. And so a Thief a Robber or Murderer he will put off his hat and stand b●r● headed before a Magistrate Judge or Justice who could finde in his heart at the same time if he had but the Magistrate Judge or Justice upon Black-Heath or Salisbury-Plain to rob and take all he hath from him and his life too And is this honour nay To honour all men consists in doing good to all men as we would be done unto our selves by others and in loving all men even our neigbour as our selves and in doing good to all men and se●king every mans good for said Christ if ye love them that love ●ou Mat. 5.46 what reward have you do not even the publicanes the same Did the Publicanes honour all men nay but their friends only and what reward had they the world loves its own therefore they honour not all men but they that honour all men love continually pray for their enemies ●o good ●o them that hate them and overcom evil with good when they see their enemies hungry they give them meat when they see them thirsty they give them drink and naked they clothe them and they that honour all men are no backbiters nor slanderers nor false accusers nor ●peak evil of any man for love thinketh no evil but seeketh all mens good and not their own nor are they easily provoked nor b●have themselves unseemly but are gentle enduring all things and rejoyc●ng in the truth NEither doth the honour which is to be given unto the Magistrate ●hether it be to a King as supreme or to a Lord Protector as chief or to any Ruler Governor Judge or Justice or other Officer either alone or before them in open Court of Judicature consist in standing up and bowing down the body to them nor in putting the hat off and standing bareheaded before them but the honour which is to be given to the Magistrate consists in love obedience and fear for he that doth evil is to be afraid seeing that the Ruler is set up of God to be a terror to evil doers therefore he that ruleth must be just ruling in the fear of God and not to bear his sword in vain but to lay it upon the evil-doers who are to fear the Ruler because they have done the evil and he is set up of the Lord to be a terror to them but he that doth no evil needs not to fear For doing that wh●ch is good he is to have praise of the same for the Ruler is set up of God likewise for the praise of them that do well Therefore he that is in the well-doing needs not fear the Rulers sword for Perfect love casts out fear and The righteous is bold as a lyon So likewise the honour which is to be given to the Magistrate consists in love he that is in the well-doing loves the Magistrate because he is set up of God to be a terror to the evil doers and a protection to them that do well and love to the Magistrate consists in seeking his good always and in giving to him his due that God requires to give unto him and those that give to the Magistrate his due speak not evil of the Ruler of the People nor revile the Judges no nor curse the Magistrate or Ruler in their thoughts which is contrary to Gods Command But for the Lords sake he loves the Magistrate and dares not rise up in his own will against him for conscience sake and for that cause pays tribute and so likewise is subject to what is required by the Magistrate that comes from God and for conscience sake that which comes from God by the Magistrate is not gain-said but submitted to by them that honour the Magistrate for the Lords sake And herein the People of Israel shewed their willingness to obey that of God that came from God to them by Moses their Ruler For said they to Moses Go thou neer and heare all that the Lord our Go● shall say D●ut 5.27 28. and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee and we will hear it and do it and the Lord said This People have said well in all that they have spoken So likewise the chief of the Fathers and the Princes of the Tribes of Israel and the Captains over thousands and hundreds with the Rulers over David the kings work joyned with David and offered willingly to the Lord and gave for the service of the house of God gold silver iron and pretious stones 1 Chro. 29. and with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord and rejoyced and David the king rejoyced also with great joy because the thing was of the Lord which was so willingly done by them according to the Command of the Lord God who saith Hea● O Israel VVhat doth the Lord require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God and to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and to keep the Commandments of the Lord and his Statutes which saith the Lord I command thee this day for thy good Now whatsoever comes from any

love the Lord your God Did Gideon Jeptha Deborah Sampson Eli Samuel or any other of the Judges that judged Israel command the people to put off their hats and to stand bare-headed before them or fine and send any to prison to lie there till payment of the said fine for not putting their hats off and standing not bare-headed before them Or did any of the Kings of Israel and Judah that feared the Lord as David Solomon Jehosaphat Josiah or Hezekiah or others that feared the Lord command any man to put off his hat and to stand bare-headed before them Or if they did not did any one of them fine any man and send him to prison to lie there till payment of the said fine as some of the Judges of this Nation have done to some of those people called quakers Or did any of those Kings give any charge to the Judges so to do to the people that did not put off their hats and stand bare-headed before them yea or nay For I finde that Jehosaphat set Judges in the Land throughout all the fenced Cities of Judah City by City and he said to the Judges Take heed what ye do 2 Chro. 19.5 6 7. for ye judg not for man but for the Lord who is with you in judgment Wherefore said he now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts and in this charge to all the Judges by Jehosaphat here was no mention made of hats or did any of the idolatrous Kings ot Israel and Judah as Rehoboam Jeroboam Zimri Ahab Zedekiah or others of those Kings command the people to put off their hats and to stand bare-headed before them or did they set fines upon any of the people that did not put off their hats and stand bare headed before them or send them to prison till payment of the same yea or nay Or did any of the heathen Kings which the Scripture speaks of as Pharoah King of Egypt or Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon or Caesar Herod or others fine any man and lend him to prison to lie there till payment of the said fine for not putting off their hats and standing not bare-headed before them yea or nay You Judges of England who have done thus see if you have any precedent for what you have done or any example in all the Scriptures and if you have not then to that of God in every one of your consciences that bears me witness that you have exceeded all the Kings Rulers and Judges that ever have gone before you in this invention that ye have sought out now of late And what do you make a profession of God and of Christ and seek out inventions And are not you ashamed that you are discovered by the light to be in the inventions and to exceed therein beyond the very Heathen that have gone before you which are spoken of in the Scripture I am sure you have no example from Oliver Protector for this for he never set any fine upon any man no nor sent any man to prison for standing with his hat on his head before him neither did I ever hear that he was offended with any man or men for their so doing and I am sure that he and his Council have not made any Law for you to act so by if they had it would have been published as well as others have been And seeing you have no example from Oliver Protector nor any Law from him and his Council for your so doing then I appeal to all understanding men whether you do not disgrace his Government and dishonor him the chief Ruler of the Common-wealth by doing such things in the Corners of the Land in his name for which you have neither Law nor Example from him for your so doing whom ye ought to honor as well as others And now to you the Judges who have set fines upon men and sent them to prison to lie there till payment of the same for nothing but because they could not for conscience sake towards God and in respect to your persons put off their hats and stand bare-headed before you I say Stand still a little while and commune with your own hearts and see whether you have kept the Law of God and judged for the Lord in this thing or whether you have not gone beyond the rule that God hath shewed you that is He hath shewed thee O Man what is good and what the Lord doth requ●re of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Have you done thus yea or nay Or Judges Oath 18 Ed. 3. Stat. 3. see if ye have done according to your own Law and Oath that is That ye shall do even Law and execution of right to all Subjects rich and poor without having ●egard to any person and in case any Letters come to you contrary to the Law that yee do nothing by such Letters and go forth and do the Law and by the Law no man of what estate or condition that he be Anno 28 Ed. 3. ch 3. shall be put from his Land or Tenement or taken and imprisoned or dis-inherited or put death without being brought into answer by due process of Law now see if yee have gone according to your own rule and kept within your own bounds and if yee have not kept within your own rule which is but mans Law neither have you any Law from God to act so by then consider How do you think to execuse your selves when the Lord God shall call you to an account and say VVho hath required this at your hands What answer will you make him What have you to shew whereby to justifie your selves How do you think to stand before the Lord in judgement that have done such things against his servants who saith Touch not mine annoynted and do my Prophets no harm and you that have touched them have touched the apple of his eye for they are his Jewels and Christ sayes What ye have done unto them he takes as done unto himselfe Therefore I tell you it were better for you that you had never been born or that a milstone were hanged about your necks and you cast into the Sea then to offend the least of these little ones except you speedily repent Be wise therefore now O yee Kings be instructed ye Iudges of the earth serve the Lord with fear serve him in love and in singleness of heart Kiss the Sun lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled while you have time prize it and humble your selves before the Lord and submit your selves under the mighty power of God For now is the day of your visitation and to day if ye will hear his voyce harden not your hearts but fear the Lord God which is the beginning of wisdom which will guide you to do true judgement and the fear of the Lord is to depart from iniquity This is written to be printed that every Ruler Judge and Justice or other Officer in this Nation may each have one and that those friends into whose hands this book shall come may send them to those Rulers Judges or Justices that they know that all they who have not yet acted such things as is herein contained may if they fear the Lord and rule and judge for him be prevented and that the other may be left without excuse that are without his fear acting in their own wills by their own inventions against the Lord and against his annoynted Henry Clark The End