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A79864	A rod discovered, found, and set forth to whip the idolaters till they leave off their idolatry (which yet remains in the rulers of England, their ministers, and the people who follow thier wayes) which doth consist in the houses of high places, falsly called churches; the two universities, Cambridge and Oxford, (and their ministers, which are made by man, and not of God) and their ministers maintenance (not the ministers of Christs) which is portions of lands, tythes, offrings, oblations, obventions, and great houses for a certain dwelling place on the earth, and forms of oathes, all which is the fruit of idolaters, and the abomination of the heathen. So likewise here is described the true magistrate and his work; and the way (for he who is not) to become such a one; and likewise, the way for all people to come out of their idolatry, vo worship the true God in spirit and truth. Written by me Henry Clark. Unto which is prefixed the epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Laodiceans.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4457; Thomason E926_1; ESTC R207580	107,831	79

and Diocess and of all other Suffragans to worship our Lady MARY the Mother of God our Patroness and Protectoress evermore in all adversity with such like kind of Prayer and accustomed manner of ringing as the Devotion of Christs faithful people is wont to worship her at the ringing of Coure Lesson when before day in the morning ye shal cause them to ring that with like manner of Prayer and ringing she may be every where honored devoutly by the aforesaid Our and Your Suffragans and other subjects as well religious as Secular in your and their Monasteries and Collegiate Churches And they had likewise the Image of St. Petronel and the Image of St. Christopher and the Image of the Crucifix all which and more were worshipped with Profession bowing of the Knees Oblations offering of Frankincense going on Pilgrimage kissings and setting up of Tapers or Images of Wax lighted and burning before them according to a Decree made by Pope Gregory the third at a Council at Rome held in the year 732. Fifthly In the Houses of high places that the Heathen and the Idolatrous Kings of Judah and Israel built they made Altars and reared up in them Ahab he reared up an Altar in the House of Baal 1 King 16.32 Chron. 33.3 and Manasseh he reared up Altars for Baal and a Grove as Ahab King of Israel did whereon they burnt Incense And Jeroboam stood by the Altar and he offered upon the Altar and burnt Incense And so likewise there was in those Houses of high places falsly called Churches here in England Altars and Super-Altars Rails Transubstantiation Reservation of the Lords Body as they called it and Mass Mattens and Evening-song holy Bread and holy Water Auricular Confession Absolution and Blessing and Cursing with Bell Book and Candle and singing of Dirges and playing on the Organs and burning of Lamps Now Now all this stuff and more was fetcht out of the bottomless Pit and turned into Decres to be observed and done by both Priest and people according to the Decrees made by the Popes viz Sebevianus Vitalianus Pelagius Martin and Benidicto the third And the ground and the end of all which doing was but to maintain the filthy lusts of the learned men who were trained up at Oxford and Cambridge to do all these things Sixthly The Houses of high places were consecrated for Pope Felix the third made a Decree That the Churches so called should be made hallowed by none but by a Bishop And Pelagius a Pope he devised a Memento to be used at the consecrating of them And Anselm Arch-bishop of Canterbury by the permission of King Henry the first and about the sixth year of his reign assembled a great Council of the Prelates and Clergy of England together at Westminster in which Synod and other Councils by them it was decreed That no Churches as they called them should be hallowed before the necessary provision be made for the priests and for the Church to be maintained And again the high places that the Heathens and the idolatrous Kings built up M●cca 10.83 84. Amos 6.13 were called by these Names following viz. Dagons House Dagons Temple Baals House and the House of High places that Jeroboam built up was called the Kings Chappel these Houses of high places are falsly called churches chappels Kings chappels Queens chappels Cathedal Churches and according to a device of Pope Felix the third they dedicated their Churches so called one to Christ and that is falsly called Christs Church and one to Peter and that is falsly called St. Peters Church and one to Paul and that is falsly called St. Pauls Church and others are falsly called by Name St. Georges Church St. James Church St. Maryes Church St. Katherns Church St. Bennits Church They might as well a called it Pope St. Benidicts Church and St. Martins Church or alias Pope Martins Church and Pope St. Nicholas Church Quest But some it is very like will say That their Churches are reformed of all such things as is before written To this I shall answer First The Names that was given them at their dedication by the Popes and popish bishops stands still as Christs Church St. Pauls Church St. Peters Church And again they are not yet reformed of all those PICTVRES and Images for still there remains the PICTVRES of men women and children in many of them and especially in and about London of Kings and Queens Earls Lords Ladyes and their children and others and in many places there is made by the Painters and others the likenesses of Angels Eagles Doves Lyons Wolves Hinds Asses Snakes the likeness of Boughs or Trees and the likeness of Water and the likness of the Sun Moon Stars and Firmament And their Churches so called are places of vanity and lightness and pleasures still and likewise they are places of false Worship Deut. 4.16 17 18 19. like the House of Rimmon still and they are Houses of Pictures and the likenesses of creatures is still in them which is contrary to what God did forbid the doing of saying Take ye therefore g●od heed unto your selves lest ye corrupt and make you a graven Image t●e similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female the likeness of any Beast that is on the earth the likeness of any winged Fowle that flyeth in the Air the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground the likeness of Fish that is in the waters beneath the earth for ye saw no similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb And so yet the Houses of high places here in England were never reformed but in part like those of Israel and Judah that Jeroboam Rehoboam Ahab Manesseh and of other of those Kings caused to be set up were but in part reformed until such time that King Josiah came 1 King 13.1 2 3. according to the Word of the Lord spoken by the prophet when Jeroboam stood by the Altar at Bethel to burn Incense of which reformation I have set down some particulars as followeth For although much of the Idolatry that Jeroboam Ahab and others had set up were pulled down destroyed at several times by other Kings that succeeded them yet the complaint was That the high places was left standing still and not pulled down And so say I that some Kings and Rulers that succeeded the Saxons here in England have reformed many things that the Saxon Kings and others did do but to this day the houses of high places falsly called Churches the Tythes and the Priests remain standing up still like the stump of Dagon For Asa King of Judah did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God for he took away the Altars of the strange gods 1 King 15.14 2 Chron. 14 15. chap. and the high places and he brake down the Images and cut down the Groves that his Fathers had made and Asa removed his Mother

him And so likewise I finde among the Injunctions and Ecclesiastical Orders drawn out by the King and his Council FOX Act. and Mon. Vol. 2. Constitut and Can. made by K. JAMES and the Bish. 50 51 it was agreed upon and directed to the Parsons Curates c. That they should not ●dmit any man to preach within their Cures but such as were lawfully licensed thereunto by the king or the bishop of the Diocesse Now it is to be observed That none was to preach but such as was licensed thereto by the king and his bishops And so likewise in the dayes of Queen Mary none was to preach but such as should be licenced or allowed by her authority An. 1. MARY 1. parl cap. 1. or by any arch-bishop or bishop of the Realm or by a lawful Ordinary or by the Vniversities of Cambridge or Oxford So that all the preachers was made either by a woman or by men that preached and they whom God ordained and sent was not suffered to preach but must be burnt And in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth it was enacted That every person under the degree of a bishop which doth or shall pretend to be a priest or minister of Gods holy Word and Sacraments shall in the presence of the bishop or guardian of the Spiritualities subscribe all the Articles of Religion which was agreed upon by the arch-bishops and bishops of both provinces Ann. 13. ELIZ. cap. 12 and the whole clargy but if the party did affirm or maintain any Doctrine directly contrary to those articles except he did revoke his error he was to be deprived And again Constitut and Can. 34. made in K. JAMES dayes None was to be made a Minister or admitted to preach or administer the Sacraments being under the age of 24. yeers unless he bring to that Diocesse from men known to the Bishop to be of sound Religion and a testimonial of his honest life and of his professing the Doctrine expressed in the said Articles So that all the preachers and ministers and priests was made ordained and allowed on by a Woman and her Bishops and all that they did was contrary to what God had done as you shall see hereafter And thus the Kings Queens Lords and Commons set themselves in councils and took counsel together but not of the Lord how to make to themselves Bishops Arch-bishops Danes Priests Preachers Ministers c. and if they did not like their preaching then they did turn them out when they had so don but who required any of all this at their hands did God requre it at their hands I say Nay for although God did long bear with them yet you may remember what end they came to by the Parliament in those yeers they sate in from 1641. to 1653. But in the yeer 1644. the Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament The parish Ministers of Engl. are made by a carnal commandment they made an Ordinance to give power to the Presbiter Assembly of Divines so called by them and the Presbyters for the Ordination of Ministers according to the Directory for Ordination and they gave the Assembly of Divines Rules for examination of them they ordained to be Ministers as hereafter is expressed 1. He that was to be ordained was to address himself to the Ministers appointed to ordain and he was to bring with him a testimonial that he had taken the Covenant of the three Kingdoms Can. 33 34 36. and how long he had been in the Vniversity and of his diligence in his studyes and what Degrees he had taken up there and of his age which was to be twenty four years at least but especially of his life and conversation 2. They was to proceed to inquire touching the Grace of God in him and of his learning and sufficiency and they were to make tryal what skill he had in the original tongues by reading the Hebrew and Greek Testaments and of his other learning and skill in Logick and Philosophy and what Authors in Divinity he had read and they were to make tryal of his knowledge in the chief grounds of Religion and of his ability to defend the Orthodox Doctrine against that which they called unsound and erroneous Opinions and of his skill in the sense and meaning of such places of Scripture as shall be propounded to him in case of conscience and likewise what skill he had in the Chronologie of Scripture and of the Ecclesiastical History and he was to expound a place of Scripture before the ordainers of him and frame a discourse in Latine and he was to preach before the people and the Ministers that were appointed to ordain him and then after he was approved of he was to be sent to the Church where he was to serve and a Writing was to be read afore all the people and after it was to be fixed upon the Church door so called and if no just exceptions was found against the party that was to be ordained So it was done in the dayes of the Bish s●●● Constit Con. 31. then they that were appointed to ordain him were to proceed to ordination by fasting and prayer to God for a blessing upon him that was to be set apart to the office of the Ministry and seven of them that was appointed to ordain was to be at the place and one of them was to preach to the people of the office and duty of a Minister of Christ and how the people ought to esteem of him for his work sake And after Sermon was ended he that preached was to demand of him that was ordained concerning his faith in Christ Jesus and his perswasion of the truth of the then reformed Presbyter Religion of his resolution to be diligent in prayer reading meditation preaching and his zeal against Error and Schism and his care that himself and his family walk unblamably And when he had declared his willingness and promised his endeavours by the help of God so to do then they that were appointed to ordain was solemnly to set him apart to the office and work of the Ministry by laying their hands upon him with a short prayer to this effect Thankefully acknowledging the mercy of God in sending Iesus Christ for the redemption of his people and for his ascention to the right hand of God the Father and the pouring out his spirit and giving gifts to men Apostles Evangelists Prophets Pastors and Teachers for the gathering and building up of his Church and for fitting and inclining this man to this great work to beseech him to fill him with his holy sptrit whom in his Name we * Here let them impose their hands upon his head set apart to this holy service to fulfil the work of his Ministry in all things that he may both save himself and the people committed to his charge And then after they was to commend by prayer him and his Flock to the grace of God And