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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

the people that are ever learning of the Priests and others but are never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth 2 Tim. 3. chap. Tit. 1.10 11.16 by such Teachers who are discribed by Paul a Minister of the Word to be such as are lovers of their own selves covetous proud boasters blasphemers saying they are Ministers of Christ but are not teaching such things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake subverting whole houses disobedient to Parents unthankful unholy unruly vain-talkers deceivers truce-breakers false-accusers incontinent without natural affections fierce despisers of those that are good traiterous heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof All people from such turn away for they resist the Truth and are men of corrupt mindes Reprobate concerning the faith of which you have been long hearing and ever learning and yet you are not come to the knowledge of the truth Therefore while you have time prize it for those that are turned from such Teachers and are turned to the Lord Jesus Christ the Light of the World they are come to the Way Iohn 8.11 Iohn 14 6. John 17.3 Psal 73.4 Rom. 8 14. 1 John 2.20.27 Tit. 2.11 12. 1 Pet. 2.3 4.5 6 7 8 9 10. to know God and Jesus Christ which is life eternall For Christ is the VVay the Truth and the Life and no man comes to the Father but by him it is he that guides them continually and brings them to glory the children of the Lord are not taught of man but of the Lord as many as are the Sons of God are led by the spirit of God and the spirit of God leads them into all truth and the Vnction wherewith they are anointed teaches them all things so that they need not to be taught of men for the Grace of God teaches them to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and holy in all manner of conversation and these that are thus taught are Members of the true Church which is built up of living Stones Christ Jesus being the chief corner Stone and this is the house of God not made with hands but is a Spirituall House the House of God where God doth dwel and in it walk Eph. 2.21 22. Coll. 1.18.24 1 Cor. 6.19 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18 i9 1 Tim. 2.15 Heb. 12.22 23 24 25. This Church is not without but in God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and the Body of Christ is the Church and is the Ground and Pillar of Truth and the Members thereof are one Body and Christ he is the Head of the Body and they who are Members of this Church are come to Mount Sion and to the City of the living God the Heavenly Ierusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the generall Assembly and to the Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Iudge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and to Iesus the Mediator of the New-Covenant and to the blood of sprinckling which speaketh better things then that of Abel Therefore all people high and low rich and poor bond and free hearken unto Chr●st Jesus hear ye him that your souls may live he that hears the voice of the Son of God shall live 1. Thess 4.3 see that ye refuse not him that speaketh and hearken to the Word of the Lord that is nigh you in your hearts and in your mouths to it incline your ear Oh hear that your souls may live and to day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts for this is the wil of God even your sanctification Exod. 34.6 7. Mic. 7. chap. 1 Thess 5.24 Therefore why will ye die O people of England Return return unto the Lord God who is Light and in him is no darkness at all for who is a God like our God merciful gracious long-suffering and abundant in Goodness and Truth pardoning iniquity transgression and sin he wil subdue iniquity and will cast sin into the depth of the sea and he wil perform the Truth unto Iacob 2 Tim. 2 13. 2 Cor. 1.20 Rev. 22.11 and the Mercy to Abraham which he hath sworn unto our Fathers from the dayes of old He is a faithful God and all his Promises are Yea and Amen He that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the spirit saith and he that wil be filthy let him be filthy stil Here followeth some QUERIES to be answered by any of those who are called by men Ministers that preach in the High Places or any other that plead for and uphold them Quaery 1. WHether those be Ministers of Christ that makes Bargains with the People of a Parish to have 100 l. a Yeer more or less for their preaching and take Bond of the People for the payment of the same seeing that Christ said to his Ministers Freely ye have received freely give and Peter said The Flock of Christ is to be fed willingly and not for filthy lucre sake yea or nay Mat. 8.10 1 Pet. 5.2 2. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that Preach for Hire and Divine for Mony yea or nay Mic. 3.11 3. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that seek for gain from their quarter like greedy dogs which think they can never have enough yea or nay Isa 56.11 Ezek. 22.25 4. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that feed themselves with the Fat and clothe themselves with the Wool and care not for the Flock but let it become a prey Read Ezek. 34. chap. 5. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that take Tithes for their preaching seeing that the Apostle Paul witnessed the Priesthood changed and the Law disanulled by which Tithes was paid yea or nay Read Heb. 7. chap. 6 Whether those be ministers of Christ that sue men at Law for Tithes seeing that the Prophet of God cryed out against them that prepared war against those that put not into their mouths yea or nay Mic. 3.5 7 What that Hire is that Christ said the Labourer is worthy of Luke 10.7 8. and whether that be not an unrighteous thing of a man that demands wages of men and compels them to pay him wages who never set him to work nor he never wrought for them yea or nay Read Luke 10. chap. to the 15 verse 8 Whether it is the work of the Ministers of Christ to stay at home to bury the dead or to go into all nations and preach the Gospel according to Christs command yea or nay Matt. 28.19 Mark 16.15 Luke 9.59 60. 9. Whether the Prophets or Apostles of Christ used to observe the Statutes of Omri or to take delight in the works of Ahab or to walk in their Councels yea or nay Mic. 6.16 1 King 16. chap. 10. Whether those be ministers of Christ whose god is their belly whose glory is their shame who minde earthly things

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