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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79860	A cloud of vvitnesses: with whom I also appear to bear testimony, that Christ Jesus is the word of God, and not the Bible which is called the Scriptures. For which the word the prophets, apostles, and servants of the Lord, obeying, and bearing their testimony thereunto, have suffered by all generations of men, cruel mockings, stripes, bonds, and imprisonments, by the Egyptians, Philistians, Babylonians, Caldeans, idolaters, back-sliders, Roman Papists, and in generall, the heathen that know not Christ Jesus to be the word of the Lord. ... / Written by him, who is known by the name of Henry Clark.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4452; Thomason E872_2; ESTC R206562	39,859	39

silent before the Lord God and utter no more of your own words before him and repent of your lying and blasphemy for Christ who is the Word of God is but one and is not divided into chapters and verses which are many therefore do not deceive the people any longer by the divination of your own brains for the Lord God will make the diviners mad and confound the wisdome of the wise and bring to nought the understanding of the prudent Fourthly The Scriptures which is visible is a visible writing but the Word of the Lord is invisibly written in the heart Jer. 23.29 Heb. 13.29 and is like a Fire yea Our God is a consuming Fire and who amongst us shall dwell with the devouring Fire Who amongst us shall dwell with everlasting Burnings Who may abide the day of his coming For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be as the stuble and the day that cometh shall burn them up Isa 33.14 Mal. 3 4. chap. Nahum 1.5.6 so that it shal leave them neither root nor branch The mountains quake at him the hills melt the earth is burnt at his presence yea the world all that dwell therein who can stand before his indignation and who can abide the fierceness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire saith the Lord of Hosts who shall stand when he appeareth for he is like a Refiners fire and like Fullers Sope and he shall sit as a Refiner and a Purifier of silver and he shall purifie the Sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an Offering in righteousness but do not think that I take the priests of England to be the Sons of Levi for the Lord God who is coming to judgement will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against the false swearers and against those that defraud the servant of his wages and oppress the widow and the fatherless and those that turn aside the stranger from his right and fear not me saith the Lord of hosts Christ is come to set fire on the earth Luke 12.49 Mic. 1.3 4. v●● and it s already kindled and the Mountains shall be moulton under him and the Valleys shall be cleft as wax before the fire and as the waters that are poured down a steep place and what will become of you enemies of God that walk in darkness and hate the Light and will not hearken to and obey the Word of the Lord Our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thess 1.7 8 9 Rom. 2.16 in flames of fire to render vengeance upon them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the secrets of all mens hearts by Christ Jesus according to the Gospel for we are sure that the judgments of God are according to Truth Christ is Truth Prov. 23.21 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Heb 13.4 Wo unto the bloudy City that is full of Lies and Robbery from which the prey departeth not Wo unto you Drunkards of England awake weep and howle for the Drunkard shall come to poverty and never inherit the Kingdom of God Wo unto you Whoremongers and Adulterers for the Lord God will you judge Wo unto you that swear and steal for the Curse of God is entered into the house of the thief Zach. 5.3 4. Isa 33.14 Matt. 24.51 Mat. 19.23 24. Prov. 16.18 and into the house of the swearer and every one that sweareth shall be cut off and every one that Stealeth shall be cut off and never inherit the Kingdom of God Wo unto you hypocrites for fearfulness hath surprised you and hell is your portion where is weeping and gnashing Wo unto you rich men weep and howle for the misery that is coming upon you It is hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of heaven Wo unto you proud and wicked ones God resisteth the proud and beholdeth them afar off Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall you wicked ones shall be as stuble before the fire Wo unto you murderers Habb 1.13 1 John 3.12 that have murdered the innocent and slain the just because their works are good and acceptable with God and yours evill the voice of the blood of the righteous cryeth and the cry thereof is heard from under the earth unto the Lord against you and all the blood that hath been shed from the day of righteous Abel unto this day shal be required of this generation O ye Priests of England who are called Ministers but are the Idol-shepherds thereof for as Israel brake off their Ear-rings from their wives their Sons and their daughters and made them a Calfe Read the 17 18. chapter of Judges and worshipped it so have the people of England with their Gold Silver Tithes Gifts and Rewards made you who they call Ministers their Idols and have set you up in the highest seats in their high places which they call their Church which is like Micah the man of Mount Ephraims house of gods which was made by the Founders and the Gravers so in the Steeplehouses in England are set up by the Gravers the Founders and the Painters Pictures and Images of men women and children and severall sorts of other creatures and upon them the people look sometimes and up to the Priests other times and to the priests they hearken and not to God for he is not in all their thoughts and they say of the priests these are our Teachers these are our leaders which will lead us to heaven just as the children of Israel said of their golden Calf These are thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Aegypt So Micah the Idolater when he had got a Levite to be his priest which he hired for ten shekles of silver by the yeer and a sute of Apparel and his Victuals for which the Levite became his priest then said Micah Now know I that the Lord will do me good So the people of England think while they have priests that preaches for hire they think it will go wel with them but the time came that Micah's Gods and his priests was carried away from him Ah sottish people why have you forsaken Christ the true shepherd and Bishop of your souls who is the way to the Father and no man cometh to the Father but by him wherefore do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfies not Isa 55.2 to follow those blinde guides who lead the blinde and both will fall into the ditch for of them you are ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Wo unto the Idol-shepherds that leaveth the Flock the sword shall be upon his Arm and upon

Heb. 1.2.3 Coll. 16.17 Jer. 10.12 Psal 33.6 made not the world but by the Word of God the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein were made For said Iohn In the beginning was the VVord and the VVord was with God all things were made by him and nothing was made without him that was made for it was the Spirit of God that moved upon the face of the waters and Jeremiah said That God hath made the earth by his power he established the world by his wisdome Christ is the Power of God and the Wisdome of God And David said By the VVord of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his Mouth And Paul said Heb. 11.3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the VVord of God so that the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principallities or powers all things were created by him and for him Eightly And as all things were made by the Word of God which Word was before any Letter of the Scripture was written so by the same Word of his Power are all things upheld For in him we live and move and have our being Acts 17.24 26 28. Heb. 1.3 2 Pet. 3.5 6 7. said Peter For of this thing they are willingly ignorant of that by the VVord of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water whe●eby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished but the heavens and the earth which are now by the same VVord are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men under which ungodly men the Prophets and Apostles and Servants of the Lord ever in all generations suffered cruel mockings bonds and imprisonments and death for obeying the Commands of the Lord and bearing their Testimony of Christ Jesus the Son of God and the Word of God and likewise for crying out against the sins and abominations which was committed in those dayes both by Kings Rule●s Judges Priests Prophets and people and as the sins and abominations was then so it is now in these dayes acted by the like generation of Heathens that rage Psal 2.2 Iohn 16.2 Rev. 2.10 and people that imagine vain things the Kings and the Rulers fit and take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed and in so doing they think they do God good service and for their so doing are accounted good Christians by their own generation both of Priests and people but they are no christians that do such things for if any man be in Christ he is a new creature and the old man with his deeds is put off and the New man put on Christ Iesus and of him they learn who is meek and lowly and to be holy in all manner of conversation and to love the brethren and to entertain strangers and those Rulers that so learn are a terrour to the evil doers and a protection to them that do wel for he that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God for those that were ordained of God and ruled in the fear of God did not imprison the Servants of God and his prophets but received them and protected them But those Rulers and people who without the fear of God were and ruled in their own wills they whipt and stockt Luke 23.10 11. and put in prisons and dungeons and chains and murdered despised and mocked the messengers of the Lord untill the wrath of God arose against them and there was no remedy as you may see hereafter appear Abraham he put none of the Servants of the Lord in Prison for as he said in his Tent doore in the heate of the daye in the plains of Mamro where the Lord appeared unto him and he lift up his eyes and looked and do t●●e men stood by him and when he saw them he ran from the Tent-doore and met them and said My Lord if I have found favour in thy sight pass not I pray thee from thy servant and Abraham said Let a little water I pray you be fetched and wash your feet and rest your selves under the Tree and I will fetch a morsel of bread and comfort your hearts Read Gen. 18. chap. and after that you shall pass on for therefore are you come to your Servant and Abraham hastened into the Tent and said Make ready quickly three measures of fine meale kneed it and make Cakes upon the hearth and Abraham ran unto the herd and fetch a Calfe tender and good and gave it to a young man and be hasted to dress it and Abraham took butter and milk and the Calfe which was dressed and set it before them and he stood by them under the Tree and they did eat and the men rose up from thence and looked towards Sodome and Abraham went with them to bring them in their way And just Lot he put none in prison Gen. 19. chap. For there came to Sodome at even two Angels and Lot sate in the Gate of Sodome and Lot seeing them rose up and met them and he said Behold now my Lords turn in I pray you into your Servants house and tarry all night and wash your feet ye shal rise up early go on your wayes he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did break unleavened bread and they did eat Moses put none of the Servants nor prophets of the Lord in prison Numb ii 24 to the 30. for when the young man ran and told him that Eldad and Medad do prophesie in the camp and would have had Moses to forbid them and Moses said unto him Enviest thou for my sake would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them and Moses and the Elders of Israel went into the Camp but did not forbid them David he put none of the Lords prophets in prison 2 Sam. 12. chap. for Nathan the prophet came and declared unto him the parable of the Ewe-lamb he straightway confessed his sin and owned his condemnation upon himself by his own words out of his own mouth neither do I finde that Solomon put any in prison Ioshua he put none of the Lords servants in prison nor Gideon Iosh 5.13 i4 i5 Judg. 6.8 i1 12 13.25 c. he neither put the Angel nor the prophet of the Lord in prison but he threw down the Altar of Baal and cut down the Grove that was by it Neither did Hezekiah nor Iehosaphat 2 Kings 19. 2 Chron. 19. nor Iosiah put any of the prophets of the Lord in prison neither did any of

23.6 7 8. Dulc. 24.17 2 Sam. 23.3 Mic. 6.8 2 Chron. 19.6 7. Therefore you Judges Justices and Rulers all be ye warned of doing any injustice and take heed of vexing oppressing or perverting the Judgement of the Stranger or Widow or Fatherless or perverting the words of the Righteous For he that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God And ye that judge take heed what you do for ye are not to judge for man but for the Lord who is with you in judgement therefore take heed and do it for he hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord doth require of thee even to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with God Wherefore 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 2 Tim. 1. ● 1●● the Law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless the unruly and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for the unholy and prophane for murderers whoremongers adulterers drunkards cursers swearers lyars perjured persons or any other thing that is contrary to the Law Rom. 12. ● 11 which is h●ly just pure and good Therefore let him that ruleth rule with diligence and be not slothfull in business but fervent in spirit serving the Lord for Rulers ought to be a terrour to the evil doers and a protection to them that do wel Rom. 13.3 4 5. and in so doing he is the Minister of God to them that do good and to them that do evill shall him fear and in so doing he that ruleth beareth not the Sword in vain but he that doth contrary hereunto beareth the Sword in vain and to an account will the Lord God call him for his so ruling and doing unjustly and for bearing the Sword in vain who is coming to judge the secrets of all mens hearts who shall give an account in that day before the Judgement seat of Christ where all men must appear that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evill For the same measure that ye have mete to others will the Lord mete to you again with justice for not one sin shall go unpunished Knowing therefore the terrors of the Lord I perswade you and he that hath an eye to see let him see and an ear to hear let him hear and an heart to understand let him consider here is set before you the good works and the evil doers that Rulers ought to be a terror to and a protection to them that do wel But it maybe you will object and say That those men and women that are called quakers which goes about preaching are evill doers viz. sowers of sedition and preachers of new Doctrine and such as creep into houses and lead silly women captive and that they are a people of uncivill behaviour towards their superiors and bette●s and therefore they are not to be protected but punished as evill doers Answ That those who have been alwayes persecutors of the righteous and enemies to the Truth have in all ages in their rage counted the Servants of God to be evil doers sowers of Sedition and preachers of new Doctrine for so Haman he was wrath and full of indignation with Mordecai because Mordecai did not reverence him and Haman said likewise Esth ●●● 5 chap All this meaning his honour availeth me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the Kings gate who would not rise up and bow to him although it was the Kings Command so to do And Haman said of the rest of the Iews that their laws were divers from all people neither said he do they keep the Kings Laws therefore said Haman to the King It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them but if it please the King said Haman let it be written that they may be destroyed and I wil pay ten thousand talents into the hands of those that shall have the charge of the business to bring it into the Kings Treasuries And so likewise the unbelieving Iews which were of Asia said of Paul in his time Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live Acts 22.22 And the Iews of Thessalonica who were moved with envie said unto the Rulers of the City of Paul and Si●as The●e have turned the world upside-down and said of Iason and the Brethren and Paul and Silas that these all do contrary to the Decrees of Cesar saying that there is another King one JESUS And when Paul was at Athens disputing in the Synagogue with the Iews and in the Market place dayly with them that met with him he was counted by the Philosohers the Epicuranes and Soicks that encountred him a Babler a speaker of new Doctrines and one that seemed to be a setter up of strange Gods because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection Read Acts 17. chap. Acts 24.1 2 3 4. and likewise Annanias the High Priest with the Elders and Turtulus the Orater said of Paul to Foelex we have found this man a pestilent Fellow and a mover of Sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a Ring-leader of the Sect of the Nazarenes And Mordicai Paul Silas and Jason with the Brethren were no evill doers although they were counted so ANd as for those people which are called Quakers that travel throughout England Ireland and in Scotland and other places and go through Towns and Villages from City to City they are faithful painful labourers in the Lords Vineyard and are not of that sort which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sin and led aside with divers lusts but it is the Priests of the nations that preach for Tithes Hire Gifts and Rewards and others that have got not only a form but many forms of godliness but the Power of Godliness they have not for those that have the true Power of Godliness they deny and persecute I say that the Steeplehouses which are builded up with Stone Lime Brick Wood Iron Lead and Glass which are commonly called Churches and into other houses the Priests and others creep into and it is they that lead those people captive who are silly men and women that there meet together who are laden with sin viz. Cursing Swearing Lying Envie Wrath Malice Fighting quarrelling Mocking Scoffing Covetousness which is Idolatry Oppressed Cheating Cozening Drunkenness Gluttony Chambering and Wantonness Whoredome Adultery Pride and Fornication and they are led away with divers Lusts viz. The Lusts of the Flesh the Lusts of the Eye and the Pride of Life 1 Iohn 2.16 17. mes 1.15 and all the Fashions and Customes in the World which Lusts when it conceiveth bringeth forth Sin and Sin when it is finished bringeth forth Death And these are