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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.

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

sent Horses and Chariots and a mighty Host and compassed the City but the Lord smote them with blindness and Elisha led them to Samaria where they were taken And Elisha that travelled thus continually in the work of the Lord was no Vagabond nor Idle Disorderly person And Isaiah that walked three yeers naked and barefoot for a sign of what should come upon Aegypt and Ethiopia Isa 20. chap. was no Vagabond nor Idle Disorderly person And Ieremiah who was stayed in the Gate of Benjamin as he was going from Ierusalem into the Land of Benjamin yet he was no Vagabond nor Fugitive Jer. 37. chap. nor idle disorderly person Nor Ionah the Hebrew who at the Command of the Lord went out of his own countrey to Nineveh to preach yet forty dayes and Nineveh shall be overthrown Neither was Ezekiel nor any other of the Prophets who obeyed the command of the Lord in declaring his Messages and crying out against the filthy Abominations that was committed both by Kings Princes Rulers Iudges Priests and People any vagabonds or idle disorderly persons Neither was John the Baptist Mat. 3.1 Luke 3.2 who went into the wilderness of Judea into all the countrey about Jordan Preaching the Baptism of Repentance for the Remission of Sins he was no vagabond nor idle disorderly person And Christ Jesus the Son of God who went from Galilee to Jordan to be baptized of John and was afterward led by the Spirit into the wilderness and leaving Nazareth he came to Capernaum which is upon the Sea coasts to dwel there that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet Isajah From that time Iesus began to preach and he walked by the Sea of Galilee and he went all about Galilee teaching in their Synagogues and great multitudes of people followed him from Galilee and from Decapolis and from Ierusalem and from Judea and from beyond Jordan and he went up into a Mountain and taught them and when he was come down from the Mount he entered into Capernaum and went into Peters house and afterwards he went into a ship and over the sea into the Countrey of the Gadarenes and when the whole city that went out to meet him Matt. 8.34 and when they saw him they besought him to depart out of their coasts and he entred into a ship and passed over into his own countrey and he went about all the cities and villages teaching in their Synagogues and preaching and healing every sickness and every disease and he called the twelve disciples and sent them forth with power against unclean spirits and they went forth by two and two and when he had made an end of commanding the twelve he departed thence to teach and preach in their Cities and he went to Samaria and when there was a Feast of the Iews he went up to Jerusalem and he went unto the Mount of Olives and into the desart and into many other places not a few and when he had finished his travells at last he went with his disciples over the Brook Chedron where was a garden into which he and his disciples entred Iohn 18 chap where he and his disciples had often resorted and there it was that Iudas betrayed him And the Son of God that travelled thus from city to city and from countrey to countrey and from one village to another and had no where to lay his head for he had left his natural parents with whom he might have had an outward habitation and a certain Dwelling place but said Christ Lo it is written in the volume of thy Book I come to do thy will O God therefore he left his naturall Parents to do the will of his heavenly Father who had anointed him to preach good tydings to the meek Isa 61 chap. to binde up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captive and the opening the prison doores to them that are bound to proclaim the acceptable yeer of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God and to comfort all that mourn and to open the eyes of the blinde to unstop the deaf ears to make the lame walk and to raise the dead and cast out Devils and to destroy the works of the Devill And the Son of God that went thus about continually doing good at the will of his father and had no certain dwelling-place nor no where to lay his head he was no Vagabond nor Idol-disorderly person And Christ Jesus sent forth Labourers into his Fathers Vineyard to gather in the harvest and his Disciples and Apostles which he sent forth they denyed themselves took up the Cross and forsook Father Mother Wife and Children Brothers Sisters Houses and Lands and all that they had for their certain outward beings for their bodies to follow Christ Jesus who had no where to lay his head and to go whethersoever he sent them to preach the Kingdome of heaven and they went out by two and two from City to City preaching the Kingdome of heaven and healing the sick and after his ascension he gave them power to bear witness of him in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the utmost part of the earth Acts 1.8 and they went abroad see their travels therein and the witness that they bore at Jerusalem and other places and Paul after his conversion went into Arabia and returned again into Damascus and after three years he went to Ierusalem where he stayed fifteen days and afterwards went into the Regions of Assyria and Cylicia then had the Churches peace throughout all Judea Galilee and Samaria and were edefied and walked in the fear of God and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied and Peter passed thorowout all quarters and went to Lydda and Joppa by the Sea-side and from thence to Cesaria and at the stoning of Stephen there arose persecution so that they that were scattered abroad travelled as far as Phenice and Antioch and Cyprus preaching to none but the Jews and Barnabas was sent from Jerusalem to Antioch and he went to Tarsus to seek Saul and he found him and brought him to Antioch where the Disciples were first called Christians none are Christians but Christs Disciples where they were separated for the work whereunto the Holy Ghost had called them so they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost departed unto Selencia and from thence they sayled to Cyprus and when they were at Salamis they preached the VVord of God to the Jews in the Synagogues and they went thorow the I le unto Paphos and from thence they came to Perga in Pamphilia and Iohn departed from them to Ierusalem but when they departed from Perga they came to Antioch in Pisidia Acts 13. i5 and entered into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-Day and sate down and after the reading of the Law and the Prophets the Rulers of the Synagogue sent to them saying Ye men and Brethren if ye have any Word of Exhortation