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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

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

persons so offending their aiders comforters counsellors consenters and abettors therein being thereof convinced in form under-written by the Authority abovesaid shall be deemed and adjudged Hereticks and every such offence shall be adjudged manifest Heresie and that every such offender and offenders shall therefore have and suffer judgement execution pain and pains of death by way of burning without any abjuration Sanctuary or benefit of Clergy to be therefore permitted had allowed admitted or suffered and likewise the forfeiture of all the Estate real or personal to the King c. And by the same Parliament it was likewise enacted That Parliament confirmed the Spanish Inquisition The Oath for the Commissioners of the bloody Inquisition That for the more effectual execution of the Premises full Authority of Inquision of all such Heresies c. should be committed and directed down into every Shire to certain persons provided that the Arch-Bishop or Bishop or his Chancellor or his Commissary to be one and that every person that should be named Commissioner in this Inquisition should first take a corporal Oath the tenor of which Oath here ensueth Ye shall swear that ye to your cunning wit and power shall truly and indifferently execute the Authority to you given by the Kings Commission made for correction of Hereticks and other offendors mentioned in the same Commission without any favor affection corruption dread or malice to be born to any person or persons as God you help and all Saints c. All you Rulers and Magistrates of England that swear and take Oaths what spirit is it that teaches you to frame Oaths leads you to swear Oaths and to give Oaths to men or women Heb. 6.16 Exod 22.10 11. 1 Kings 8.31 were they that forged the Oath above-written and sware and required people to take the said Oath guided by the spirit of God so to do yea or nay And again Was that Oath the Oath of the Lord that they had forged to be taken yea or any Did the Pope and his Adherents give or administer the Oath of the Lord to any yea or nay Was the Pope and his Adherents taught by the spirit of God to frame Oaths to be taken yea or nay Or did the spirit of God lead the Pope and his Adherents to swear and to take Oaths against the Saints and Servants of God whom they persecuted to death yea or nay I say Nay the spirit of God neither taught them to make or to forge Oaths neither did the spirit of God teach or guide them to swear by their own forged out of the bottomlesse pit Oaths Neither are Parliaments nor Councils in these our dayes taught by the spirit of God to make Oaths nor doth the spirit of God teach them to swear neither by the Bible or by their hand Iames 5.12 Matth. 5.34 35 36. 23.16 to 22. or by any other creature or part of any creature nor by any of their framed Oaths but the spirit of God did teach and does teach the contrary now as it did in the dayes of Christ and the Apostles which spirit I own and obey but that spirit that frames Oaths which are not the Oath of God and swears and requires people to swear by an Oath forged out of the bottomlesse pit FOX Act. Mon. Vol. 2. L. CROMWEL made Earl of Essex Great Chamberlaine of ENGLAND and Vice-go●●rnor to the King I deny that spirit and its practise for it is not the spirit of God but the power of the prince of the Aire that rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience I have read in the Book of Martyrs of one Thomas Lord Cromwel that in the dayes of King Henry the eigth did this Nation of England a deal of good service as the story of his life death doth relate how profitable an Instrument he was in destroying Abbies Monasteries Nunneries c. and routing out of the Land the works of the Monks Fryars Nuns and other such like brutish drones and pulled down the Rood called the Rood of Grace and all his Engines and shewed them openly at Pauls Crosse with the blood of a Duck which the papists made the people to believe it was the blood of Hailes and other such like pieces of Idolatry and Witchcraft he removed out of the way that the people was seduced by with the learned men of Oxford and Cambridge So likewise he was an Instrument to discover the treachery of the Bishops and the Clergy who had sworn to be true to the King and afterwards swore also to be so to the pope and for the proof of the same he produced a copy of their oath to the pope which was read in the Convocation-House before them and the matter was so plain that they could not deny it And likewise Thomas Lord Cromwell presented the Bible to the King and obtained License that the same might freely passe to be read amongst all his subjects This Bible was of the lesser volume but a Bible of a large Volume began to he printed at Paris with an intent of Marginal Notes to it of which the said Lord Cromwel was a great helper of it forward At which the Clergy was offended and the cursed Bishops bringing their purpose to passe brought Thomas Lord Cromwell out of favor with the King and after to his death For after the six Articles with the penalty annexed to them and the full Authority of the bloody Inquisition was confirmed then the said Thomas Lord Cromwell being in the Council-chamber was suddenly apprehended and committed to the Tower of London and sundry crimes surmizes objections and accusations as they called them were brought against him c. The best of men in their generations have alwayes been counted Hereticks by they who are Hereticks indeed 1. The first and chiefest Article that they had against him to accuse him with was above all others Heresie alias an Heretick 2. That he was a supporter of them whom they counted for Hereticks as Barns Clark and many others who he by his Authority and Letters written to the Sheriffes and Iustices in divers Shires rescued and discharged out of Prison And I say he did well in so doing 3. That he did disperse among the Kings subjects great numbers of Books containing as they said manifest matter of much Heresie Diffidences and Misbeliefe was their manifest Heresie in the Bible that he disperst abroad let the Hereticks themselves answer 4. That he caused to be translated into our English Tongue books comprizing matter expresly against their Sacrament of the Altar and that after the translation thereof he commended and maintained the same for good and Christian Doctrine and good reason he should so do 5. They charged him with some hainous words spoken against the King in their falsly called Church of St. Peter the Poor in the month of March so called in the thirteenth year of the Kings reign which was about 18. years before but

then others are and will not put their hands to do violence and blood as others do but of this better sort there is the lesser number And so I say of those who are called the Parish-Ministers take notice that for all this I do not own them to be Ministers of Christ that some of them and but few are more wise in their generation sober and moderate men and have not yet put forth their hands to do wickedly as the other have done who professe themselves to be Ministers of Christ but are not his as appears by their pride covetousness envy malice wrath for they are fierce despisers of those that are good heady Epist of Paul to the Laodic v. 11. high-minded and are desirous after filthy lucre and seek the honor of men and not of God and the ruine and destruction of mens bodies and so are out of the faith patience gentleness quietness and the meek spirit which is of great price with the Lord and could they have the Magistrate in all things to do their will they would have had fire and Faggots put to the people called Quakers to have burned them or else to have had us banished out of the Land before this out of their way nay they would not have spared some of their own Brethren the Ministers so called for they would have done by them as Stephen Gardiner and Edmund Bonner did by Ridley Latimor and Philpot in Queen Maryes dayes or as the late Bishops did to Henry Burton for the same spirit as was in Gardiner Bonner and the late Bishops is ruling in the Parish-Ministers now but that they cannot get all the Rulers of the Land to joyne with them to accomplish their designe and these are such who are made Ministers and Teachers by a carnal commandment of men and the people who will not endure sound doctrine but turn away their ears from hearing the truth are turned unto fables and according to their own lusts having itching ears they heap up to themselves Teachers made of Cambridge and Oxford Schollars heaps of teachers made by a carnal commandment to be be Preachers Ministers of Parishes but not Ministers of Christ Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers Rectors Chaplains viz. His Highnesse Chaplain the Ladys Chaplain the Earls Chaplain and their Lords Chaplain and these Chaplains feed at their Earls and their Lords and Ladyes Tables like the prophets of the Groves that fed at Iezzabels Table And thus they creep into Houses and leadsilly women captive who are laden with sin and lead away with divers lusts ever of them learning but by their preaching are not yet come to the knowledge of the truth And again by the means of these parish-Ministers who are so made by a carnal commandment rule hath been born and is born to persecute the righteous under the Notion of Hereticks Sedition Schism Seducers Blasphemers c. whenas all discord debate strife erroneous Opinions and divisions in matters of Religion and what points of Religion they will believe and what they will not believe and blasphemy imitations deceiving and beguiling unstable souls is amongst the learned men themselves who are trained up and have been traind up at the Vniversities in Logick Rhetorick Philosophy and vain deceit for are not some of those who are called Ministers for the Pope and his Religion in general and others for the Episcopal Religion and others for the Scottish Presbyters Religion and are not some of them of the Independents Religion and others of the Anabaptists Antinomians Arminians and Fifth Monarchy-Men so called and from whence arise all these Nick-names and ill-favoured tearms but from these Cambridge and Oxford Schollars those unprofitable talkers Epist of Paul to the Laod. v. 4 who are made Ministers by a carnal commandment of man and not of God for the Ministers of Christ were not made Ministers by a carnal commandment but by the Spirit for said Paul Our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3.5 6. who also hath made us able Ministers of the New-Testament not of the letter but of the spirit It was and it is the work of the onely wise God Heb. 11.5 Iude 14. Exod. 3.2 3 4 5 6.10 11 12 13 14. Ier. 35.15 Isa 6.8 9 Ier. 1.5 Mat. 9.37 38. 10.1 5 6 7. 28.18 19 20. Mark 16.15 Luk. 24.47 48 49. Act. 1.4 2.2 3 4. 1 Cor. 12.28 Eph. 4.8 9 10 11 12 13. Gal. 1.11 12 15 16 17. 2 Tim. 4.2 Epist Paul to the Laod. ver 1. and our Lord Jesus Christ to ordain to call to elect to sanctifie to give power gifts and commissions and to send forth all true and faithful Messengers Prophets Apostles and Ministers of the Gospel for to declare his Messages in particular and likewise to preach the Gospel in all Nations in Cities Towns and Villages unto the utmost parts of the earth and to bear witness of his Name before the Gentiles Kings and Rulers and the children of Israel in season and out of season to divide the word aright And with this work God never did trust nor put into the hands of Pharoah King of Aegypt to do nor Jeroboam nor the Turk nor the Emperors nor the Kings nor Dukes nor any other sort of Magistrates to do for God neither did God put this work into the hands of the Pope nor his Cardinals Ier. 7.31 19.5 Isa 1.12 John Goodwin in his book of Tryers p. 5. Matth. 28.18 19. Mark 16.15 Rev. 1.17 18. 21.6 22.13 nor his Bishops nor the Priests nor the Vniversities nor the Commissioners of Tryars to do for him therefore I say Who hath required this at any of their hands to do and by what Authority did any of the aforesaid make Ministers seeing that God never required it at their hands to do for said John Goodwin in his book The two Commissions we implead the one for Tryers the other of Ejecters being neither of them given in charge by Jesus Christ For Christ Jesus spake unto his disciples saying All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth go ye therefore into all the world and preach the Gospel and teach all Nations Christ Jesus the Son of God the same yesterday and to day and for ever the first and the last it is he that liveth and was dead but behold he is alive for evermore he was before his works of old he was set up for an everlasting salvation unto the ends of the earth Prov. 8.23 Isa 49.6 from the beginning before ever the earth was made when there was no depths when there was no fountains abounding with water and before the Mountains and the Hills was setled was Christ the Light brought forth and was by his Father while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the world Prov. 8.22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. for when God prepared the heavens when he set a compasse upon

the Mount of God And when Iezzabel cut off the prophets of the Lord 1 King 18.4 Obadiah hid a hundred of them by fifty in a cave and fed them with bread and water c. And now see after what manner Elisha the prophet of God was maintained It fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem where was a great woman and she constrained him to eat bread and it was so 2 King 4.8 9 01. that as oft as he passed by he turned in thither to eat bread And the woman of Shunem said unto her Husband Behold now I perceive that this is an holy man of God which passeth by us continually let us said she make a little Chamber I pray thee on the Wall and let us set for him there a bed and a Table and a Stool and a Candlestick and it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall turn in thither And it fell on a day that he came thither and he turned into the Chamber and lay there c. By these ye may see now that the Kings of the earth would not provide first fruits tythes offerings oblations obventions nor set out portions of land and great Houses for the prophets of God which he sent to live in 2 Chron. 18 25 26 as they did for their own that they themselves sent worth 100. l. a yeer more or lesse nay said Ahab by Micaiah the prophet of God Go take Micaiah and carry him back unto Amon the Governor of the City and to Ioash the Kings son and say Thus saith the King Put this fellow in prison and feed him with bread of Affliction and with water of Affliction until I return again in peace And this is that which the Kings and Rulers of the earth the Pope and his Adherents provide for the prophets that come and go in the Name of the Lord but the prophets of the Groves that come and go in their own Name they shall feed at Iezzabels table And Iohn the Baptist the Messenger of the Lord Matth. 3. chap. Luk. 1.15 Luk. 3.1 2 3 4 Matth. 1. chap who was filled with the holy spirit of God from his Mothers Womb went preaching in the Wildernesse of Iudea and in all the countrey about Iordan preaching the baptism of Repentance for the remission of sins and he was great in the sight of the Lord but his Rayment was of Camels Hair and a Leathern Girdle about his loins and his meat was Locusts and Wilde-Honey Here was nothing provided for him by the Kings of the earth to maintain him the messenger of the Lord no but instead of a great House Glebe-Land Tythes and Offerings Oblations and Obventions and 100. l. Matth. 14 ch a yeer Herod the Tetrach laid hold on him and bound him and put him in prison and afterward cut off his Head And such is the provision that the Kings and Rulers of the earth the Pope and his Adherents make for the Messengers of the Lord But the priest and preachers and teachers and Ministers that are of their own ordaining consecrating or by their appointment and law so made are well provided for so that they eat of the fat of the land and the finest of Wheat and drink Wine and strong Drink and take Tobacco and go clothed in black soft Raiment Cuffs and Rings on their fingers Ribans and Boot-hose-tops and sit at ease like a Queen and feel no want in the outward like other men Aaron and the sons of Levi who received the office of the priesthood they were maintained by first fruits offerings tythes c. according to the law which was a shadow of good things then to come until the time of reformation But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law who in the fulnesse of time came having compassion on the ignorant of them that were out of the way and being made perfect he became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him but Christ Jesus he glorified not himself to be made an High-Priest but he that said unnto him Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee the same said unto him thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec Now Christ Jesus he was called of God an High-priest and made an High-priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec of God not by a carnal commandment but by the power of an endlesse life and he offered up his body a sacrifice once for all and by that one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified and after he had offered that one sacrifice for sins for ever he sate down at the right hand of God and now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin So that Christ Jesus who is the Mediator of a better covenant then that of the old is the sum and substance of all figures and shadows held out by the Law which he put an end to for he changed the priesthood and disannulled the Law which was a shadow of good things to come by which the tythes was paid So that it is evident that Christ Jesus was not maintained by first fruits offerings nor tythes neither did the Kings and Rulers of the earth provide any House or Lands for him whom God sent For God so loved the world that he sent his onely begotten Son into the world but they would not bestow hundreds of pounds a yeere to maintain him with nor settle him in a Vicarage Parsonage nor in a Rectory of two or three hundred a yeer for said Christ Jesus The Foxes have Holes and the Birds of the Air have Nests Luk. 9.58 Luk. 8 1 2 3. Ioh. 13.29 but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head For he went throughout every City and Village preaching and shewing the glad tydings of the Kingdom of God and those that received his Doctrine and believed on him such ministred unto him of their substance and Iudas carryed the bag and he betrayed him into the hands of the chief priests the Elders the Rulers Herod and his men of War who delivered him up to Pilate to be condemned and to be crucified and platted a Crown of thorns and put it on his head and provided a Crosse and crucified him upon it and mocked him and thrust a spear in his side and cast lots for his Garment and gave him Vinegar to drink and this was all that they provided for the Son of God but they did not serve their own so for the world loves their own and calls them Master Master and sets them at the uppermost room at their feasts and in the highest seat in their Assemblies c. Neither was the twelve Apostles nor the seventy Disciples that Christ called and gave power to and sent forth to preach the Gospel maintained neither with first fruits offerings tythes oblations obventions c. for Christ