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A79861	A description of the prophets, apostles, and ministers of Christ, and also of those called ministers of England, by men which say they are ministers of Christ, but are found to be blasphemers and lyars, and none of the ministers of Christ Iesus; and wherein the difference plainly appears, and they made manifest. With an exhortation to the people of England; to forsake them, their blind-guides, and to follow Christ Iesus, the shepard of their souls; the way, the truth, and life, who faith, come learn of me, for I am meek and lowly, ... / Given forth to undeceive the simple hearted; by him whose name in the flesh, is, Henry Clark.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing C4453; Thomason E861_8; ESTC R206653	22,790	31

Ministers and teachers having gotten a form of some sound words from the Scriptures and help of others they preach by the Letter and not from the life and power of those that gave the Scriptures forth so that in what they preach they erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God neither have they heard that which was from the beginning nor seen nor tasted of the word of life by the Spirit of life which they preach of but are as ignorant of the life and power as they that hear them whom their words profit not at all because they come not from the life of them that gave the Scriptures forth nor stand in the counsell of the Lord therefore they are no Ministers of Christ but are the many deceivers that are entred into the World which by their works deny Christ come in the flesh The Ministers and Apostles of Jesus Christ they are sent to turn people from darkness to the light Christ Jesus the saviour of their souls the light and life of men the way to the Father and the truth and from the power of Satan unto God who is Light and in him is no darkness at all and did and do turn many to righteousness and for so doing are counted deceivers by this Generation as they have been by former Generations but are true and the truth is in them they being of God and the whole world lying in wickedness Bur the Ministers so called in England which preach in the high places teach the people lyes and so lead the people into darkness from the light and now I appeal to that of God in all your consciences both Ministers so called and people for who hath taught the people to call the high places with the steeples and bells in them the Church have not you their Ministers and is this any other than a lye for the Church is in God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ and the body of Christ is the church which is the ground and pillar of truth made up of living stones Christ Jesus being the chief corner-stone which you builders called Ministers refuse and is become a stone of stumbling and a Rock of offence to you but you that stumble thereat great shal be your fall And who hath taught the people that God dwells in those places called the church in a more special manner than in any other place but you their teachers and is not that another lye for God dwells not in temples made with hands and who teaches the people to say God is worshipped in those places but you their Ministers so called and is not that a lye for God is a spirit and is worshipped in spirit and in truth and not in those high places And when a company of proud high minded people scoffers scorners covetous earthly minded lovers of Money the Root of all evill Whores and Whore-mongers Adulterers Fornicators Thieves Cursers swearers Lyars Drunkards Fighters Quarrellers Reprobates which know not that Christ is in them are all gathered together at your call and invitation to come customarily to that which you call a SACRAMENT and set together to eat the Bread that you break and when you give it to them that they must take and eat this in remembrance that Christ dyed for them and be thankfull and when you pour out the wine do not you tell them that the blood of Jesus Christ was shed for them and for the Remission of their Sins Do not you herein tell them lyes Are not the wicked reserved for the day of judgement And the wicked and all they that forget God shall be turned into hell their condemnation is ordained of old being none of the seed that the promise is to nor the Sheep that the good Shepheard laid down his life for And who hath taught the people to call that which you call a Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ the Supper of the Lord and the Table of the Lord have not you their Ministers so called taught them both by preaching and writing which are lyes for I tel both you and all such persons afore named that the Lord Jesus Christ neither Sups with you nor you with him for there is no fellowship betwixt Christ and Beliall nor no communication betwixt Light and Darkness and that which you call the table of the Lord you make it a table of devills for it is no other for he that committeth sin is of the devill and are not ye and all such aforementioned committers of sin and so of the Devill your Father whose works you all do and ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of devils And who hath taught the people and made them believe that when their children are sprinckled with a little water on their faces which you call baptism that then they become members of the church and christians do not you their teachers teach them so that they become members of Harlots and Members of the Synagogue of Satan setting together in the Idolls-temple being led captive by you ever learning but never able to come to the knowledg of the truth by your preaching so that ye are none of the Ministers of Christ but are the evill men and seducers that wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived Ah! wo unto you ye blind guides called Ministers of England which lead the blind out of their way ye are all under the Curse of God for cursed is he that leadeth the blind out of his way and the wrath of God is to be revealed against you all who hold the truth in unrighteousness tribulation and anguish be upon every soul that doth evil ye workers of iniquity And again who teacheth the people to make songs of the Saints conditions and to turn the Scriptures which is a Declaration of the things which are most certainly known and believed amongst us into lyes and blasphemies do not you the Ministers of this Nation so called teach them who are proud heady high minded people drunkards swearers lyars whores and whore-mongers covetous envious malicious scorners scoffers thieves and murderers when they are met together in the high places of the Nations Come say they let us sing to the Praise and Glory of God Psal 116.1 2 I love the Lord because my voice and prayer heard hath he whenas they that walk in Darkness hate the Light for God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all and the wicked through the pride of his heart wil not seek after God for God is not in all his thoughts The wicked say unto God depart from us we desire not the knowledg of thy wayes and what is the Almighty that we should serve him And what profit should we have if we pray unto him say the wicked that are friends of the world and enemies to God yet their teachers wil teach them to lye and say I love the Lord because he hath heard my prayers when the prayers of the wicked

the confounded languages renders it thus another he comes and saith this is the true meaning and he brings his Author for it an old Fathers writing that is dead long ago but none of them have the sense and true meaning of the Scriptures from the life which the spirit of God that gave the Scriptures forth which is the Key of David that opens and no man shuts and shuts and no man opens but the sense and meaning is by them in their many meanings given out contrary which is from their own imaginations the bottomless pit and being written or preached by them is the smoak that ascends thereout and thus they twist and twine here and there beguiling unstable souls and by good words and faire speeches deceive the simple hearted which are ever learning of them but never able to come to the knowledg of the truth because they are led by those blind guides which know not the way to the father of life nor to Christ Jesus the saviour of their souls so the blind leading the blind fall both into the ditch because they see not the way they go in and yet these leaders are called Ministers and Pastors but are not but are blasphemers and lyars turning here and turning there saying this is the way and that is the way O ye serpents ye generation of vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell as were your Fathers so are ye fill you up therefore the measure of their iniquities that all the righteous judgments of God may be poured out upon you all who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness for now is the Lord God gathering his army together and coming to Battle their weapons are not carnal but spirituall and mighty to the throwing down of strong holds and the Beast and the Whore and the false Prophet which deceive them that received the mark of the Beast and worship his Image shall be taken and together cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone your just reward ye serpents To the Ministers and Apostles of Christ is given the gift of the spirit to profit withall in the work of the Ministry for the perfecting of the Saints and for the edifying of the body of Christ till they all come into the unity of the faith and the knowledg of the son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ their Master and for their so doing their praise is not of man but of God the father of Light with whom their reward is and from whence every good and perfect gift cometh that they have received and the wisdom they have received is from above and is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie But the wisdom that the Ministers so called in England by men have is not from above because it is earthly and scornfull and devillish by which wisdom neither they nor the rest of the world know God neither can they know him that hath not the son for God hath no union with them neither doth he make himself manifest unto them who live in strife and bitter envying and confusion and every evill work as they do by stirring up the Magistrates and people to take counsell together against the Lord and against his anointed if the Magistrates will not do as they would have them they will rail against them openly in their Pulpits and wrest the Scriptures to their disgrace and their own destruction and those Magistrates that will cause the people to hale the Servants of the Lord out of their Synagogues to the Stocks and Prisons and Bride-wells to be whipt and beat and put into Dungeons as the Rulers Elders Scribes and high Priests did in the dayes of the Apostles such Magistrates and Rulers shall have their praise but saith Christ what ye do to the least of these my little ones I take as done unto my self and it were better for you that a Milstone were hanged about your necks and ye cast into the Sea then that you should offend the least of these little ones for you that touch them touch the Apple of his eye and plainly I tel you all that are of men called Ministers that all the stuff you labour for and by your works have got together it being not the gift of God doth not perfect the Saints nor edifie the body of Christ for you your selves being dead in trespasses and sins cannot by your dead Letter dead Works of Doctrines Reasons and uses raise the dead for it is the living that raises the dead to praise the Lord in the Land of the living as in the Scriptures you may read that it was Christ that raised up Lazarus out of the grave where he lay dead which is to you a mystery Wo unto you hypocrites that do all to be heard and seen of men And wo unto you that all men speak well of whose praise is of the men of the world and not of God that are respected of men and do respect the mens persons of the world and have the great mens persons of the world in admiration for advantage sake and love salutations by the way and greeting in the Market places and to be called of men Masters seeing ye thus to be out of the Doctrine of Christ and in the practise of the Heathen Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites therefore I deny you all to be any of the Ministers of Christ Jesus and your voice I disown it being the voice of a stranger which I am fled from And now all you that are by men called Ministers of England you are weighed in the ballance and found too light your Kingdome is divided and shall be taken from you for it is given to another even to him to whom all the ends of the Earth are given for his possession who will break you with a Rod of Iron and dash you in pieces like a Potters Vessell for the blood-thirstie and deceitfull men shall not live out half their dayes Weep and howle weep and howl all ye who are called of men Ministers of England who have sate at ease deckt like a Queen and faired deliciously and have felt no sorrow like other men for now is your misery coming upon you like an armed man prepare your selves put on your strength make ready your weopens and come and see if you can withstand the Lord in his fury or overcome him by all your strength God gave the Woman Iezebell that calls her self a Prophettess and takes upon her to teach and seduce my servants to commit fornication with her space to repent of her fornication and she has not repented therefore behold saith the Lord I wil cast her upon a bed of torments and them that have committed adultery with her and great shall be their tribulation except they repent therefore while you have a little time prize it and break of your

is abominable to the Lord. And again Psal 119. ver 97 where they are taught to sing What great desire and fervent love do I bear to thy Law whenas the wicked turn away their ears from hearing the law of God cast it behind their backs and will have none of his counsel but despise reproof crying it is a hard saying who can bear it they wil have none of his wayes because they hate knowledg and chose not the fear of the Lord and yet say in their songs they delight in his Law of which they are not ashamed And again Psal 139 ver 21 22. say they let us sing to the praise and glory of God Hate J not them that hate the Lord I hate them with unfeigned hate but the world love their own and hate those that are not of the world the wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth his mouth is full of cursing deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and vanity he setteth in lurking places in secret places doth he mu der the innocent and in his pride doth persecute the upright in heart And yet they will sing Psal 16. ver 2 3. That they give their Goods to the Saints the Faithfull Flock that in vertue excell But saith Christ when saw ye me an hungry and gave me meat thirsty and gave me drink naked and cloathed me or the least of these my little ones Did not the wicked give the just and pure in heart Gall for his meat and in his thirst Vinegar to drink Do they not cause the naked to lodge without cloathing so that they have no covering in the cold and here the mercies of the wicked are cruelty and yet their Ministers so called teaches and leads the wicked to sing that they give their goods to the Saints on earth And in the 119. Psal 139. they sing With zeal and wrath I am consumed and even pined away when at the very same time the eyes of some stick out with fatness and in their own fat they are encloased and have more than heart can wish his breasts are full of Milk and his bones are full of Marrow and he encreases in riches and is not in sorrow like other men Again they say let us sing to the praise and glory of God Psal 96 verse 12. If I for griefe and paine of heart in Sackcloath use to walk and at the very same time their filthy Flesh is adorned with Silk and Gold and Silver Lace Rings and Rich Attire costly Arraiment and not with modest Apparell but are haughty and walk with stretched out Necks with wanton Eyes and tinckling with their Feet as they go along spending their dayes in Pleasures and Vanity upon the VIALL TIMBRELL and HARP and rejoyce at the sound of the ORGAN living in Chambring and Wantonness Rioteousness Gluttony and Drunkenness and never weare Sackcloath in all their lives nor you their teachers neither Now all you that are called Ministers do but see and behold what you do do you not teach the people to Sing and say that which they do not nor your selves neither so that you teach the people to Lye and Blaspheme which is the work of the Devill your Father who was a Lyar from the beginning whose Children ye are and for him are compassing Sea and Land to make one profit and when he is made you make him two fold more the Childe of Hell then he was before by leading them from Light into Darkness and from the TRUTH into LYES as is here made manifest Depart ye Workers of Iniquity into utter Darkness and receive your Portion among the Hypocrites and all the Damned in Hell for I deny you all to be any Ministers of Christ The MINISTERS of CHRIST are all of one heart and one minde and agree together in the Unity of the SPIRIT and live in the Bond of Love and Peace being guided by the spirit of GOD which is one and leads up to one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Cnrist one Faith one Baptisme one Truth and Saviour of their souls Christ Jesus the Light one in all the Light of the World that enlightens every one that comes into the World and is the Condemnation of all the World that walk in Darknesse and Hate the Light God is Light and in him is no darkness at all and this is their message which they declare in which they all agree Those in England called Ministers they agree not in one for they cry lo here saith one lo here saith another and saith the Episcopall Government is the true way to worship God in Another he saith the Presbyterian Government is the true way and in it is God worshipped in spirit and in truth Others are for the Independant Government and they separate themselves a little from the other too and say that is the way to worship God and this say they is the true way But being all in the many forms of bodyly exercise which profiteth little and out of the true worshiping of God in spirit and truth which is profitable unto all things One saith that sprinckling of Infants with the words spoken by him is Baptism and an Ordinance of God and so he is for having all men and womens children baptized as he calls it Another he saith that none ought to be baptized but the children of believing parents and will baptize no other as he calls them Another saith that believers that can give a good account of their faith are to be baptized by dipping or plunging all the body in water and no other and so here they are all in the many baptisms not baptizing nor being baptized with that one Baptism of Christ which is by Fire and the Spirit into his death by one Spirit into the one Body wherein there is Unity which they are all out of Neither do they agree in the one Faith for they tell people of miraculous Faith and of Historicall Faith and of a dead Faith and a justifying Faith which they know not nor are in but are in the many Faiths and out of that one Faith the just lives by that purifies their hearts and is their Victory by which they overcome the world Some of them will receive all that come to their Sacrament as they call it others wil receive none to partake with them of their Sacrament but those who are of their own judgment and practise in worship with them but at their Sacrament none of them sit at the Lords Table nor discern the Lords Body nor eat nor drink of the bread and water of life but feed upon that which is carnall and not spirituall Again one preaches one Doctrine another he preaches contrary to it and one saith this is the meaning of this Scripture and another saith it must be taken in another sense another saith that the Hebrew or the Greek Translation which they call the Originall but is