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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

yea or nay Phil. 3.19 11. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that go in the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam for Honour and Rewards and follow their own pernicious wayes and through covetousness with feigned words make merchandise of souls yea or nay Iude 11. 2. Pet. 2. chap. Rev. 18. chap. 12 Whether those be Ministers that puts money to usury seeing that the Prophet Ieremiah said he neither lent on Usury nor men lent me on Usury yea or nay Read Ier. 15.10 Prov. 28.8 Psal 15.5 13. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that will sit and eat and drink with the Drunkards and smite his fellow-servants yea or nay Matt. 24.49 14. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that are called of men Master and desire to walk in long Robes and love the uppermost Rooms at feasts and greetings in the Market place and have the highest seats in those places which are called churches and there stand praying and for a pretence make long prayers and devour widows houses yea or nay Read Matt. 23. chap. Luke 20.46 18.10 11. 15. Whether those be Ministers of Christ which the Lord saith he is against who steal his Word from their Neighbour and use their tongues and say The Lord saith when he spake not to them and run when he sent them not and come when he called them not yea or nay Read Ier. 23. chap. 16. Whether those be Ministers of Christ that preach up outward Temples made with hands and in them uphold an outward bodily worship which profiteth little seeing that Paul witnessed against the same and Stephen was stoned to death for witnessing against them likewise and Jesus Christ said that God is a spirit and they true worshippers that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth yea or nay Iohn 4.21 22 23 24. Acts 7. chap. 1 Tim. 4.8 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. 17. That when a company are gathered together of Drunkards Swearers Lyars VVhores and VVhoremongers Adulterers Fornicators Thieves Murderers Scoffers Scorners Covetous Proud Heady High minded people Lovers of Pleasures more then lovers of God Prophane carnall earthly minded people dead in Trespasses and Sins having their understandings darkned such as are aliens and strangers from the life and Covenant of Grace and all these sit together in the High Place commonly called the church and sing ●● Psal 6. ver 2 And heale me Lord for why thou knowest my bones do quake for fear I say is any of those persons above mentioned in that condition that David was in when he said I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed or in that condition that Moses was in when he said I exceedingly fear and quake yea or nay Heb. 12.21 18. Whether such persons above mentioned that sing All the night long I wash my bed with tears of my complaints and yet never witnessed that condition that David was in when he said All the night I make my bed to swim I water my couch with tears I say do not such persons lye and turn the Scriptures into a lye and so blaspheme the Name of God yea or nay 19. Whether such persons above mentioned that makes Songs of the Saints conditions declared of in the Scripture which was never none of their own do not they lye and tu●n the Scripture into a lye and so blaspheme the Name of God yea or nay 20. Did Christ Jesus or his Apostles at any time teach such persons above mentioned to turn Davids Prayers the confession of his Sins his Sorrows his Afflictons his ●ad complaints he made thereof and the Enemies of the Church his Exhortations his Prophecies and other Scriptures into Rime and Meeter and to sing them as Songs yea or nay 2i Whether those men who are called Ministers that teach the people so to sing and those people that do so sing do not make David to become the Song of Drunkards now in these dayes as he was in those dayes that he was King yea or nay 22. Whether such singing by such persons as is here above expressed be a Teaching and Admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs yea or nay 23. Whether such persons above mentioned that so sing sing with the Spirit and sing with understanding and sing with grace in their hearts unto the Lord yea or nay 24. Whether the praises of the wicked be not as abominable to the Lord as their prayers yea or nay 25. Whether those that thus walk in darkness and lead the blinde thus out of their way be not blinde guides and lie under the curse of God for their so doing yea or nay Mat. 23.16 Deut. 28.18 26. Whether those persons that are called of men Ministers and Teachers and profess themselves to be Ministers of the Gospel and yet do such things as is before expressed be not scandalous to Christ and his Ministers and so fit to be cast out yea or nay Ezekiel 34.10 27. Whether the two Poets Sternhold and Hopkins with others who turned the Psalms and other Scriptures into Rhime and Meter did do it by the Spirit of God or by the wisdom of faln man seeing that no prophesie of the Scriptures are of any private interpretation yea or nay These queries are written and sent forth by me who am known by the name of Henry Clark The End This is entred according to Order

his right Eye his Arm shall be clean dried up Zach. ●● 17 and his right Eye shall be utterly darkned Read your portion you Idol-shepherds of England who say the Scripture is the Word of the Lord John 1 1.1● which testifieth contrary to your saying that Christ Jesus is the Word and the Word is God which is as a fire Fifthly The Word of the Lord is like a Hammer that breaketh the Rocks in pieces and the Rocks are thrown down by it Jer. 23.29 Nah. 1.6 Jer. 10 10.1● Hearken all you who have made your faces harder then a Rock and refuse to return to the Lord that made you and have made your hearts as an Adamant-stone lest ye should hear the Law from the pure Law-giver Christ Jesus by him shall ye be broken to pieces as with a Rod of Iron and dashed in pieces like a potters vessel The Lord the true God the living God and an everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not abide his indignation he hath made the earth by his power he established the world by his wisdome and stretched out the heaven by his understanding he saith of the portion of Iacob thou art my battel Ax and the weapons of war Lament 3.24 Psal 16.5 119.57 Matt. 22.43 44 45. Jer. 51.15 19 20 21 22 23. And David said The Lord is my portion and the lot of mine inheritance and again he said Thou art my portion O Lord. Christ is Lord and David called him so The Lord said unto my Lord and this Lord is Iacobs portion whom the Lord said By thee will I break in pieces the Nations and with thee will I destroy Kingdomes and with thee wil I break in pieces the Horse and his Rider and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his Rider with thee also will I break in pieces man and woman and with thee wil I break in pieces young man and old and with thee wil I break in pieces the young man and the maid Hearken you priests of England who are called Ministers and say the Scripture is the Word of God but the Word of the Lord is invisible and cannot be seen with your carnall eyes and by it wil the Lord break in pieces the Shepherd and his Flock Ezek. 34.8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. and he will gather his Flock from your mouthes and it shall become no longer a prey unto you and he will feed his sheep upon the mountains of Israel and lead them to the stil waters and he will likewise break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of Oxen and with thee will I break in pieces saith the Lord the Captains and Rulers Matt. 10 34. Luke 12.51 52 53. and said Christ Think not that I am come to send peace on the earth I am not come to send peace but a sword to make division for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided three against two and two against three the Father shall be divided against the Son and the Son against the Father the Daughter against the Mother and the Mother against the Daughter the Mother-in-Law against the Daughter-in-Law and where the Word of the Lord comes Heb. 4.13 Psal 139.1 2 3 4. it seperates and divides asunder Paul said that the Word of God is quick and powerfull and sharper then any two-edged-sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and this David witnessed and said O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou understandest my thoughts afar off and art acquainted with all my wayes Sixthly The VVord of the Lord is very pure said David therefore thy servant loveth it Psal 119.140 Isa 40.8 c. 1 Pet. 1.23 John 15.3 17 17. 1 Thess 5.23 Isa 9.6 1 John 1.7 Eph. 5.25 26 27. 1 Pet. 1.2 Christ Jesus is the same yesterday to day and for ever And Isaiah said The VVord of our God shall stand for ever And Peter said Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever the word of the Lord which is pure makes clean said Christ Ye are clean through the word And Paul said the very God of peace sanctifice you wholly Christ Jesus is the mighty God the prince of peace who said Father sanctifie them through thy VVord thy VVord is Truth Christ is Truth the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin He loved the Church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the VVord that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish holy as he is holy in all manner of conversation and so the Saints of Christ are by the sprinckling of the blood of Iesus Christ made clean from al filthiness and from all Idols saith the Lord wil I cleanse you by the which Will we are sanctified Ezek. 36.25 Heb. 10.14 Heb. 2.11 1 Cor. 6.11 through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified for he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren which brethren do beleeve that they need not go into Purgatory to be cleansed from their sins after death for they know that they are already translated from death to life Rom. 6.18 and have the witness in themselves that although they were filthy John 15.3 yet now they know that they are washed sanctified and justified in the Name of the Lord Iesus Christ and by the spirit of our God and being made free from sin by the Law of the spirit of Life in Christ Jesus are become the servants of Righteousness Seeing said Peter ye have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the Brethren 1 Pet. 1.22 Mat 5.8 see that ye love one another fervently with a pure heart the pure in heart they are blessed and shall see God but no unclean thing shall inherit the kingdom of God for without are Dogs and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie and out of the kingdome you are 1 Cor. 6.9 i0 Rev. 22.15 and such are you who say you shall never be free from sin in this life For as the tree falls so it shall lye whether it fall to the North or to the South Therefore cleanse your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts you double minded and come to Christ that you may be made clean through the Word and have life Seventhly The Scripture which is visible John 1.2 3. Exod. 20.11

to Bethel and cryed out against the altar in Bethel at the same time that the King stood by the altar and was offering sacrifice upon it Or will you follow the example of a Woman that was of great estimation in Shunem 2 King 6. chap. 1 King 18.4 13 verses that on a time when Elisha came to Shunem she constrained him to turn into her house to eat bread and she said unto her husband behold I know that this is an holy man of God that passeth by us continually let us make him a little Chamber I pray thee and let us set him there a bed and a table and a stoole and a candlestick that he may turn in thither when he cometh to us and it fell on a day that when he came thither he lay there Or will you follow the example of Iezebel who said of Elijah So let the gods do to me and more also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time and Iezebel slew the prophets of the Lord Have you followed the example of Ioshua Or do you follow the example of the uncircumcised Philistines who put Sampson in prison and bound him with fetters of brass Have you followed the example of Gideon Or do you follow the example of Zedekiah who at the request of his princes Jeremiah the prophet of God was put in the dungeon Have you followed the example of David a man after Gods own heart who received the message of God by the prophet Nathan who said to the King Thou art the man Or do you not follow the example of Herod the Tetrarch who Iohn Baptist told it is not lawful for thee to have thy Brother Philips wife he sent him to prison Have you followed the example of Hezekiah who said to the Prophet Isajah Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken Or do you not follow the example of Herod the King who when he had killed James with the Sword and saw it pleased the Jews he put Peter the Apostle of Christ in prison and have not some of you put the quakers in prison because you saw it pleased the priests that take tithes and preach for hire and divine for money gifts and rewards Do you follow the example of Jehoshaphat Or have you not followed the example of the Roman Governours and Magistrates who caused Paul and Silas to be whipt and put in the Prison and to be kept safe with their feet made fast in the Stocks Is the same minde in you which was in Christ Jesus who went alwayes about doing good Or are you not in the same nature that the Babylonians and the Chaldeans were in who cast Shadrach Meshek and Abednigo into the fiery Fornace and Daniel into the Lyons Den And seeing that ye have done so much as you have Is there not the same minde in some of you as was in the bloudy Papists in Queen Maries dayes to do as they did if you had but a Law to put that in execution upon those people that are called quakers as they did by the Martyrs And seeing that the Philistines put out Sampsons eyes could not you and the Priests wish that the eyes of those people called quakers were put out that they might neither see to write more nor to go about the land from City to City and from one place to another to cry out against the Priests and false Prophets and the abominations of the Heathen for the which they rage against the Truth and them that do declare it AND now unto all you both Magistrates and people who have acted such things as is before written upon those people which are called quakers To that of God in every one of your Consciences that bears me witness do appeal Are you all Christians as you call your selves or have you acted like Christians The Disciples of Christ were called Christians and they were Christians indeed who did no such things as ye have done Acts 11.26 2 Cor. 5.17 Phil 2.5 2 Pet. 1.4 For I know that if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature and the same minde is in him as was in Christ Jesus and in his measure he is like Christ holy as he is holy meek and lowly dwelling in love and peace doing to all men as he would be done unto himself but I know the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews and are not and the blasphemy of those that say they are Christians and are not but are in the same nature that the Sodomites Egyptians Philistines Babylonians Idolaters and Heathens were in and are doing the same works and committing the same abominations that they committed and yet you would be accounted Christians and think with your selves that you are good Christians But ye are all made manifest and seen with the Light Eph. 5.13 Rom. 6.16 and by the Children of the Light what you are and what you all have done and whom you also serve for his Servants you are whom you obey Whoso committeth sin transgresseth also the Law i John 3.4.8 verses for sin is the transgression of the Law which is holy just and good and written in the heart and he that committeth sin is of the devill for the Devil sinneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the Works of the Devil Therefore while you have time prize it and repent of the evill of your doings and turn to the Lord God who is gracious merciful and longsuffering and patient in forbearing and hearken to the Word which is nigh you in your heart and in your mouth and obey his Commandments Loving the Lord God with all your hearts with all your souls and your neighbour as your self doing to all men as you would be done unto Christ Jesus is the Light of the World learn of him who is meek and lowly He is the way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the Father but by him and whoso followeth him shall not walk in darkness but shall have the Light of Life therefore if you wil be his Disciples and Christians deny your selves take up the Cross and follow him that you may have life for to as many as receive him and beleeve on his Name to them he gives power to become the Sons of God and the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God into all Truth and Righteousness Therefore let the Spirit of God guide you to run with cheerfulness the Race that Christ hath set before you despising the shame counting it greater Riches to suffer afflictions with the children of God rather then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season Therefore let every one that nameth the Name of JESUS depart from iniquity and take not the Name of God in vaine For the feare of the Lord is the beginning of VVisdome Psal 2. i0 ii i2 Exod. 22.21 22 chap.

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