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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

Epistles to the Churches as they saw them in their severall conditions and some to particular persons as to Timothy Titus and Philemon and to the twelve Tribes scattered abroad And Peter in his second Epistle speaks of the Scripture and said 2 Pet. 1.20 21. 1 Cor. 2.4.14 Heb. 3.5 8.5 Exod. 17.4 34.27 40.33 Isa 8.1 Jer. 30.1 2. 36.1 2 3 4. That no prophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation but the holy men of God spake them forth as they were moved by the holy Ghost so that the prophecies written came not of old by mans own will nor by the will of man but by the Holy Ghost in the holy men of God who were moved by the same to speak them forth so that all speaking and writing and all interpretations of the things of God that comes not from the movings and power of the Holy Ghost comes from mans own will and not from the will and power of God Moses who was faithfull in the house of God did all things according to the pattern shewed him and writ not in his own wil but in the wil of God And so Isaiah wrote at the Commands of the Lord And Jeremiah wrote not but at the Command of the Lord who said unto him VVrite all the words in a Roll of a Book that I have spoken unto thee against Israel and against Juda and against all the nations from the dayes of Josia even unto this day And Jeremiah called Baruch and Baruch wrote all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Jeremiah from the mouth of Jeremiah Baruch wrote them Here it is plainly seen that the Scriptures at the first was not given forth by mans will or by private interpretation but they were given forth by in the will of God by the holy men of God as they were moved to speak them forth by the Spirit of God but since the first giving of them forth they have been translated by private interpretors into the many Languages and the many Languages have severall Copies of their private interpretations with some words added to and some words left out But the same Spirit of God that gave them forth knows its own that it gave forth by the holy men of God 1 Cor. 2.10.12 2 Pet. 3.1 Mic. 3.11 and disowns the other words that are not of and from it self for no man knoweth the things of God save the Spirit of God so that it plainly appears that the Scriptures was never called the Word of God neither by Christ nor his Apostles but they were called by them Moses VVritings Moses Law The Book of the Prophets The Prophets and The Psalms A Declaration Testimony and Epistles But the blinde Guides the priests of England that preach for tithes hire gifts and rewards they do teach the people and say Hearken to the VVord of the Lord as it is written in a Chapter and a Verse The VVord of the Lord was before all time but the Bible which men call the Scriptures was not before all time for Moses after the Creation many generations did begin to write the first part of it who was the first Writer John 1.1 2.3 4. 10.14 John 4.24 John 10.28 2 Cor. 3.6 which was in time and the rest were written in order of time as the holy men of God were moved by the Spirit of God to write and give them forth to be written therefore the Bible which is called the Scriptures is not the VVord of God but is that which testifies of the VVord of God Christ Jesus God is a spirit is the Bible which is called the Scripture God a spirit Nay for the Word is God The letter kills is that Christ the spirit that giveth life Nay then the Letter is not the VVord of God for Christ is the Word and this Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us and he is the Light and Life of men and by him the world was made First Before the Bible which is called the Scripture was writ the Word was John 1. i. Heb. 13.8 Rev. 22.13 1 John 1.1 2. Isa 41.4 Rev. 19. i3 Isa 7.14 Matt. 1.23 Heb. 2.16 John 8 56.58 Gen. 15.1 2. Prov. 18.10 1 Sam. 3.21 Matt. 11.27 John ●0 30 14.6.9 10. Dute. 8.15 Gen. 49.10 Psal 119.160 162. verses Isa 42. Jer. 23. Ezek. 34. Dan. 2.45 Mic. 4 5 chap. for in the beginning was the VVord and the VVord was with God Christ Jesus the same yesterday to day and for ever said he I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last It is he that calleth the generations from the beginning who said I the Lord am the first and with the last I am the same and John said His Name is called the VVord of God And they shall call his Name Emanuel which is by interpretation God with us who took upon him the Seed of Abraham and was before Abraham was Abraham said Christ rejoyced to see my day he saw it and was glad The Word of the Lord came to Abraham in a Vision saying Fear not Abraham I am thy Sheild and thy exceeding great Reward The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the Righteous run unto it and are safe And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by his VVord Christ said No man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him and said Christ I am the VVay the Truth and the life No man cometh to the Father but by me he that hath seen me hath seen the Father I and my Father am one I am in the Father and the Father in me And Moses said The Lord thy God will raise up a Prophet in the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him shall you hearken And Jacob said The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be and David said Thy Word O Lord is true from the beginning I rejoyce said he at thy VVord as one that findeth great spoile and the same Word of the Lord did all the prophets see and hear and bear witness to and no other and the Scriptures were written to bear Testimony of this Word to after Generations that should come and likewise of the righteous judgments of God which came upon them that opposed the same which Examples were written for our learning upon whom the ends of the world is come unto whom the Scripture is given by inspiration of the Spirit that the Man of God may be perfect thorowly furnished unto every good work which is profitable for Doctrine for Reproofe for correction and for instruction in Righteousness Secondly As Christ is the VVord of God John 8. i2 John 1.5.9.12 John 3.19 20. Eph. 5. i3 John 16.9 10 11.12 2 Pet. i. 19 so he is the Light of the

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

for the People say on Then Paul stood up and beckned with his hand and spoke And the next Sabbath day the whole City almost came together to hear the word of God but the Jewes were filled with envy and speak against those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said It was necessary that the Word of God should have been first spoken to you but seeing ye put it from you and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life loe we turn to the Gentiles and the Word of the Lord was published thorowout all the Region But the Jews stirred up the honourable and devout women and the chief men of the city and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts but they shooke off the dust off their feet against them and came to Iconium and by reason of the persecution that rose against them after their long staying there and speaking boldly in the Lord and testifying unto the Word of his Grace they fled unto Listra and Derbe Cities of Lycaonia and unto the Region that lyeth round about and went down to Attalia and thence to Antioch and passed through Phenice and Samaria to Ierusalem and then were sent back again to Antioch where Paul and Barnabas continued teaching and preaching the Word of the Lord and after Paul and Barnabas parted and Paul took Silas and departed and went thorow Syria and Cylicia confirming the Churches and afterward they went thorow Phrygia and the Region of Galatia and after to Mysia and passing from Mysta came down to Troas and loosing from Troas they went a straight course to Samothracia and the next day to Neapolis and from thence to Philippi which is the chief City of that part of Macedonia where they abode certain dayes and there they were whipt and put in prison and their feet made fast in the stocks and the Keeper of the Prison was convinced and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and when they were let out of Prison they went into the house of Lydea and when they had seen the Brethren they comforted them and departed and when they had passed thorow Amphipelis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica and Paul as his manner was went into the Synagogue of the Jews three Sabbath-dayes and reasoned with them out of the Scriptures c. And from thence by night they went to Beria where Silas and Timotheus stayed but Paul went to Athens and departed from Athens and came to Corinth where he found a certain Iew named Aquila with his wife Priscilla who were Tent-makers and Paul abode with them and wrought he being of the same Craft and he reasoned with the Iews in the Synagogues every Sabbath-day perswading the Iews and the Greeks and when Silas and Timothy were come to him from Macedonia Paul was pressed in spirit and testified to the Iews that Iesus was Christ but they opposed and blasphemed and then Paul shook his raiment and said unto them Your bloud be upon your own heads I am clean from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles and from Corinth he sayled thence with Aquilla and Priscilla into Syria and he came to Ephesus and he sayled from Ephesus and landed at Cesaria and so went down to Antioch and after he had spent some time there he went over all the countrey of Galatia and Phrygia and so thorow the countrey to visit the Churches and strengthen the Brethren till he came to Ierusalem where of the Brethren he was received gladly and having purified himself he entred into the Temple to signifie the accomplishment of the dayes of purification and when the Iews of Asia saw him there they stirred up all the people and laid hands on him and set all Ierusalem in an uproar and so he was sent to prison into the Castle and brought before the chief captain and after brought before a councel of the High Priest Annanias with Pharisees and Sadduces and after he was brought before Festus after that before King Agrippa and then was shipped away and sent to Rome to appear before Cesar and at Rome he dwelt two yeers in his own hired house Acts 28.30 31. and received all that came to him preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence no man forbidding of him he was injournying often in perills of waters in perils of robbers in perils by his own countrey-men in perils by the heathen in perils in the City in perils in the Wilderness 2 Cor. 11.24 25 26 27. in perils in the Sea in perils amongst false brethren in weariness and painfulness in watching often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness and all these who had forsaken all and travelled thus from city to city and from countrey to countrey labouring in the Vineyard and Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ were brethren and fellow-labourers and city-sons of the new Jerusalem and were no Vagabonds nor Idle Disorderly persons but bad the same persons of the Prophets and Apostles or any of them been here on earth at this day and should have wandered about here in England from city to city through towns and villages they would have been counted vagabonds and idle disorderly persons by this generation that is now living who would have laid hold on them and hailed them before magistrates which would have sent them to prisons stocks Bridewel and whipt them as some of the magistrates in England have done unto those people which are in scorn called quakers by the sons of Hagar the Aegyptian but those people that are called quakers and travel about from city to city and thus persecuted Matt. 10.5 c. Matth. 28.19 Mark 6.7.10 12. Luke 10.3 c. Luke 24.19 are such as have denied themselves and forsaken all as the Apostles and Disciples of Christ did and have taken up the same Cross and have received of the same power and are called and sent forth by the same Jesus Christ to Declare the message of God that he is Light and in him is no Darkness at all and Declare the same Gospel and bear testimony of the same Jesus Christ that the Prophets and Apostles did and labour in the same Vineyard and gather in of the same Wheat into the Garners and by the same power do they cry out against the Priests and false Prophets and false Worshippers and the Abominations that are committed now as ever was and for this and for no other have they suffered and do suffer all things by unreasonable men for following the Captain of their salvation and running the Race that he hath set before them looking at Christ Jesus the Author and Finisher of their faith and do rejoice that they are counted worthy to suffer for his Names sake and were not that the Truth and Power of the Holy Ghost which they have received by