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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

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

Altar sweareth by all things thereon and he that sweareth by the Temple sweareth hy him that dwelleth therein and he that sweareth by Heaven sweareth by the throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon and he that sweareth by the Bible sweareth not only by it but sweareth at once by all things therein declared of and he that holdeth up his hand and sweareth by it sweareth by him that made it and he that sweareth committeth sin and is a Transgressor of the righteous Law of God and he that committeth sin is of the Devill And now thou Pope that was the inventer of the forms of Oathes and ye Popish Kings and Rulers which make Laws to compell men to swear and you who are called Ministers who teach people and say that they might swear when they are called before Magistrates Oh ye enemies of God! by whom do your children cast out devills Doth not he that committeth sin by swearing punish or cause to be punished him that transgresseth your Law or else without an oath he that is a transgressor is not punished Do not you herein go about to cast out devills by the power of Belzebub Or do you think ever to clense the Land of evil doers by swearing I tel you nay the Land is not clensed of evill doers because justice is not speedily executed therefore the hearts of the sons of men are set on to do evill and where are the hands of wicked men more strengthned and evill doers more encouraged to do evil than by lying so long together in Goals Let the transgressors be speedily brought to justice the innocent quit least he be defiled by him that is guilty So long as the murderer lives after the murder is committed the land lies polluted in blood Let the thiefe that is taken stealing restore fourfold if he have not wherewith to restore let him be sold for his theft that he steal no more but labour with his hands the thing that is good in the sweat of his brows to eat his own bread A word is enough to the wise but a fool wil not hear nor learn wisdom The Ministers of Christ Iesus taught the people saying above all things my brethren swear not at all neither by heaven neither by earth neither by any other oath least ye fal into condemnation but let your yea be yea and your nay nay for saith Christ whatsoever is more than these cometh of evill Iam. 5.12 Mat. 5. Swear not at all But you will say this of Christ is meant by ordinary swearing but whoever thou art by thy earthly carnal wisdom knowest not what Christ means it being hid from thy eyes And the natural man perceives not the things of God neither can he do because they are spiritually discerned And againe Is there not in this Land swearing before Magistrates every day in one place or other City or Town before one Magistrate or other or else the Goals would not be fill'd so full as they bee and so manie bound over to appear at Assizes and Sessions besides other convictions for swearing and drunkenness and yet there is never the less and I am sure it is common enough swearing at Terms Sizes Quarter-Sessions Court-Leets and other Courts and would you have it commonner then every day Oh pitiful the Land mourns because of Oaths and you who are called Ministers stop your mouths for shame and preach no more contrary to Christs command whose Law which is pure ye make of none effect by upholding mens traditions And now all ye who are swearing by any oath whatsoever be ye warned for the day of the Lord God is coming wherein ye shal give an account for every idle word and for every oath you swear and for all things done in the body whatsoever the flying Role is gone forth and the curse is entring into the house of the thief and into the house of the swearer and the Lord God wil be a swift witness against him that sweareth and against him that sweareth falsly But some will say an Oath bindes men to speake the truth therefore it is necessary that witnesses should swear that they may speak truth Answer It is in a mans minde before he come to a court or magistrate what he knows of the thing he is to speak of and so likewise there is a resolution in the party what hee will speak whether it be truth or a lye although he swear or not swear but Christ saith Swear not at all men must not do evill that good may come of it nor sin that grace may abound And again If the witness be resolved to speak falsly and the Magistrate or Iudge put upon him an Oath hee is the meanes to cause him to add sin unto sin Now to prevent both swearing and lying by Witnesses observe what here follows one witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sinne in any sinne that he sinneth at the mouth of two Witnesses or at the mouth of three Witnesses shall the matter be established if a false Witness rise up against any man to testifie against him that which is wrong then both the men between whom the controversie is shall stand before the Lord before the Priest and the Iudges which shall bee in those dayes and the Judges shall make diligent inquisition and behold if the Witness be a false Witness and hath testified falsly against his brother then shall he do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother so shalt thou put away evill from among you and those which remain shall hear and fear and shall from henceforth commit no more such evill among you and thine eye shall not pitty but life shall go for life eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot Deut. 19.15 16. You may see here was no command for witnesses to swear therefore the Rulers Iudges and Iustices here is righteousness and equity for you ro act by according to that of God in your consciences and so shal you bring the lyar and the false Witness to justice and prevent men for transgressing the Law of God which is pure and good by swearing and so put away swearing out of the land and do not compel men to swear nor fine them that obey the commandment of the Lord Iesus Christ by refusing to sweare but lay your Sword of Iustice upon the evill doers for whom it is appointed and follow no longer the tradition of the Heathen and do thereby making the commandments of GOD of none effect it is not good to respect mens persons in judgement And he set Judges in all the Land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah city by citie and he said to the Judges Take heed what you do for you judg not for man but for the Lord who is with you in judgment wherefore now let the feare of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts 2 Chron. 19 5 6 7. Babels Prophets are four hundred and fifty men and the Prophets of the Groves that fed at Jesabels table four hundred and but one even one Prophet of Elijah that had bread and flesh brought to him by Ravens and he drank water of the brook and cherisht and walked in the strength of the meat and cruse of water 40 days and 40 nights which was brought him in the wilderness as he lay a sleep under the juniper tree and 400. of the Lords Prophets hid by fifty in a cave and fed with bread and water 1 Kings 18.19 If the Lord be God follow him if Baal be God follow him still PAge 1. line 2 read out on p. 3. l. 17. r. lay p. 6. l 26. dele of those l. 32 dele of them p 8. l 18. r. communion p. 11. l. 10 r. profit proselyte p 14. l. 12 r. scornful sensual Page l. 18. 5 li. dee in p 19. l. 7 r. Wirr Wire p. 28. l. 8 r. Babels Pauls l. 20. r. one Prophet of the Lord Elijah l. 12. r. brook Cherith FJNJS