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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

to Bethel and cryed out against the altar in Bethel at the same time that the King stood by the altar and was offering sacrifice upon it Or will you follow the example of a Woman that was of great estimation in Shunem 2 King 6. chap. 1 King 18.4 13 verses that on a time when Elisha came to Shunem she constrained him to turn into her house to eat bread and she said unto her husband behold I know that this is an holy man of God that passeth by us continually let us make him a little Chamber I pray thee and let us set him there a bed and a table and a stoole and a candlestick that he may turn in thither when he cometh to us and it fell on a day that when he came thither he lay there Or will you follow the example of Iezebel who said of Elijah 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 Iezebel slew the prophets of the Lord Have you followed the example of Ioshua Or do you follow the example of the uncircumcised Philistines who put Sampson in prison and bound him with fetters of brass Have you followed the example of Gideon Or do you follow the example of Zedekiah who at the request of his princes Jeremiah the prophet of God was put in the dungeon Have you followed the example of David a man after Gods own heart who received the message of God by the prophet Nathan who said to the King Thou art the man Or do you not follow the example of Herod the Tetrarch who Iohn Baptist told it is not lawful for thee to have thy Brother Philips wife he sent him to prison Have you followed the example of Hezekiah who said to the Prophet Isajah Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken Or do you not follow the example of Herod the King who when he had killed James with the Sword and saw it pleased the Jews he put Peter the Apostle of Christ in prison and have not some of you put the quakers in prison because you saw it pleased the priests that take tithes and preach for hire and divine for money gifts and rewards Do you follow the example of Jehoshaphat Or have you not followed the example of the Roman Governours and Magistrates who caused Paul and Silas to be whipt and put in the Prison and to be kept safe with their feet made fast in the Stocks Is the same minde in you which was in Christ Jesus who went alwayes about doing good Or are you not in the same nature that the Babylonians and the Chaldeans were in who cast Shadrach Meshek and Abednigo into the fiery Fornace and Daniel into the Lyons Den And seeing that ye have done so much as you have Is there not the same minde in some of you as was in the bloudy Papists in Queen Maries dayes to do as they did if you had but a Law to put that in execution upon those people that are called quakers as they did by the Martyrs And seeing that the Philistines put out Sampsons eyes could not you and the Priests wish that the eyes of those people called quakers were put out that they might neither see to write more nor to go about the land from City to City and from one place to another to cry out against the Priests and false Prophets and the abominations of the Heathen for the which they rage against the Truth and them that do declare it AND now unto all you both Magistrates and people who have acted such things as is before written upon those people which are called quakers To that of God in every one of your Consciences that bears me witness do appeal Are you all Christians as you call your selves or have you acted like Christians The Disciples of Christ were called Christians and they were Christians indeed who did no such things as ye have done Acts 11.26 2 Cor. 5.17 Phil 2.5 2 Pet. 1.4 For I know that if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature and the same minde is in him as was in Christ Jesus and in his measure he is like Christ holy as he is holy meek and lowly dwelling in love and peace doing to all men as he would be done unto himself but I know the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews and are not and the blasphemy of those that say they are Christians and are not but are in the same nature that the Sodomites Egyptians Philistines Babylonians Idolaters and Heathens were in and are doing the same works and committing the same abominations that they committed and yet you would be accounted Christians and think with your selves that you are good Christians But ye are all made manifest and seen with the Light Eph. 5.13 Rom. 6.16 and by the Children of the Light what you are and what you all have done and whom you also serve for his Servants you are whom you obey Whoso committeth sin transgresseth also the Law i John 3.4.8 verses for sin is the transgression of the Law which is holy just and good and written in the heart and he that committeth sin is of the devill for the Devil sinneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the Works of the Devil Therefore while you have time prize it and repent of the evill of your doings and turn to the Lord God who is gracious merciful and longsuffering and patient in forbearing and hearken to the Word which is nigh you in your heart and in your mouth and obey his Commandments Loving the Lord God with all your hearts with all your souls and your neighbour as your self doing to all men as you would be done unto Christ Jesus is the Light of the World learn of him who is meek and lowly He is the way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the Father but by him and whoso followeth him shall not walk in darkness but shall have the Light of Life therefore if you wil be his Disciples and Christians deny your selves take up the Cross and follow him that you may have life for to as many as receive him and beleeve on his Name to them he gives power to become the Sons of God and the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God into all Truth and Righteousness Therefore let the Spirit of God guide you to run with cheerfulness the Race that Christ hath set before you despising the shame counting it greater Riches to suffer afflictions with the children of God rather then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season Therefore let every one that nameth the Name of JESUS depart from iniquity and take not the Name of God in vaine For the feare of the Lord is the beginning of VVisdome Psal 2. i0 ii i2 Exod. 22.21 22 chap.

which they are carried forth with boldness to declare the truth through much sufferings travels and labours in the Lords Vineyard they should not be thus persecuted as they are for as it was in the dayes of Christ and his Apostles then the chief Priests and Pharisees came to the Officers whom they had sent to take Christ John ● 45 c. Acts 28.22 and said why have you not brought him the Officers answered Never man speak like this man then said the Pharisees Are ye also deceived have any of the Rulers or the Pharisees beleeved on him but this people that are accursed who knoweth not the Law And likewise the chief of the Jews said to Paul VVe know that this Sect is every where spoken against so it is now here in England all Sects and sorts speak against this one poor low despised thing which is the Truth which is owned and received and obeyed by those People which are in scorn called quakers which is without controversie that great mystery of godliness that is hid from the wise and prudent of the World from all Generations and is now at the Fathers pleasure revealed unto Babes and Sucklings For both Aepiscopal the Presbyters the Independants the Baptists Seekers Ranters Papish Professor and prophane Priests and People and Rulers some Gog and Magog all joyne together hand in hand against the Lord and against his Anointed unto whom he hath committed the Word of Reconciliation and sent abroad into the Ministry who are by this generation imprisoned whipped stocked stoned beaten mocked scoffed scorned derided envied and hated by all Sorts and Sects here in England which sits a● ease and are in Peace eating and drinking and making themselves merry sporting themselves in the day time heaping up Riches clothing themselves in costly Apparel and soft Raiment living wantonly upon the earth forgetting the rock from whence they are hewn and so treasuring up unto themselves wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Judgement of God which is to be revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness These people that are called Quakers and that are thus used by this generation have not been found begging at mens doors neither have they been chargeable or eaten any mans bread for nought neither transgressed any Law of Equity which is holy righteous just and good therefore they are no Vagabonds Fugitives nor Disorderly Idle persons But they are the Vagabonds who are gone out from the presence of God who is Light and in him is no darkness at all and are fallen into the Transgression and are in envie and murder these are in Cains nature who are wrath and their countenances falne their Offering is not of God accepted but their sin lieth at their doore these are drove into the earth and have their habitation in the earth and hide themselves from the face of God whom they see not nor his voice hear for in the earth they live and have no habitation with God for out from his presence they are gone such are the Vagabonds and the Fugitives in the earth from which they are accursed and it shall not henceforth yeeld unto them its strength Esau was prophane and hunting abroad and was a Reprobate whose mind is turned from the Light Christ Jesus is reprobated from God and in him has no dwelling Esau was a cunning Hunter and lived in the fields and despised his birth-right and all those whose mindes are abroad seeking after honour and following after pleasures living idlely upon the earth are cunning Hunters whose mindes are reprobated from Christ Jesus dwelling in the fields despising their birth-right these are Goats and not Sheep clothed with rough garments the first born friends of the world enemies to God prophane fierce envious rash haters of good persecutors of the righteous seed fornicators as Esau was and hated of God and could finde no place for repentance these who are gone from the presence of God and turned from the Light which they hate because their deeds are evill and it reproves them and although they have great habitations in the earth and have compassed much of the earth into themselves and dwel therein and have no habitation with God yet they are the Vagabonds the Fugitives the Reprobates and the disorderly idle persons which th● sword is to be laid upon and the Law is for for they serve not the Lord but their own bellies these are seen and known by the children of Light which Light is the condemnation of all those who walk contrary to it and hate it So likewise you may see here as followeth who the unruly and disorderly persons be There came to the city of Sodome two Angels at the even and Lot sate in the Gate of Sodome and seeing them he rose up to meet them and he pressed upon them greatly and they entred into his house and he said Tarry all night and wash your feet and he did bake unleavened bread and made them a Feast and they did eat and he said Gen. 19. cha● Ye shall rise early and go on your wayes but before they lay down the men of the city even the men of Sodome compassed the house round both old and young all the people from every quarter and they called unto Lot and said unto him VVhere are the men which came in to thee this night bring them out unto us and they said unto Lot VVe will deale worse with thee then with them and they pressed sore upon the man even Lot and came near to break the Door Now unto you all Judges Mayors of Cities Justices Sheriffs and Constables I appeal to that of God in all your consciences which bears me witness who was the unruly and disorderly persons who was the cause of this rising and tumult making in the city of Sodome was just Lot and the two Angels or the Sodomites Isay the Sodomites But would not you have done unto the two Angels as many of you have done unto those people called quakers that when two of them have been come to a city and have been entertained into a friends house and there have peaceably set together in the worship of God and when the people of the city have known of it have just like the Sodomites both old and young have gathered together and beset the house round and pressed upon the doore and broke the Windows and made a great tumult and have abased the people that have been as peaceable as Lot and the two Angels but they have been charged with making the Tumult and counted Disorderly and sent to Prison and there kept and the Disorderly and the Unruly set free And again when Paul and Silas were come to Thessalonica and preached that Christ had suffered and risen again from the dead and that this Jesus said Paul whom I preach unto you is Christ and the devout Greeks a great multitude and of the chief Woman not a few