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A79865	The wise taken in their craftiness, and their wisdom made manifest to be foolishness with God; and their actions discovered to be contrary to the pure law of righteousness given forth by the pure law-giver, Christ Jesus the light; by which light some one judge, or judges of this nation are made manifest, how he, or they have acted contrary to the law of God, and the law of this nation; and contrary to all the kings, rulers, and judges, spoken of in Scripture; by setting fines upon men, and sending them to prison till payment of the same, for not putting off their hats, and stand bare-headed before them in their court of assises, and goal-delivery. Also, here is shewed, that it is no sin for a man to stand with his hat on his head, before any emperor, king, ruler, judge, justice, or other magistrate, either alone, or in open court; neither is the putting the hat off, and standing, bare-headed before them, the honour that is due unto magistrates, which the Scripture speaks of. / VVritten by, me who am known by the name of Henry Clark.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4459; Thomason E882_3; ESTC R207280	20,416	20

THE WISE TAKEN IN THEIR CRAFTINESS AND Their Wisdom made manifest to be Foolishness with God and their actions discovered to be contrary to the pure Law of Righteousne●s given forth by the pure Law-giver Christ Jesus the Light by which Light some one Judge or Judges of this Nation are made manifest how he or they have acted contrary to the Law of God and the Law of this Nation and contrary to all the Kings Rulers and Judges spoken of in Scripture by setting Fines upon men and sending them to Prison till payment of the same for not putting off their Hats and stand bare-headed before them in their Court of Assises and Goal-Delivery ALSO Here is shewed that it is no sin for a man to stand with his Hat on his head before any Emperor King Ruler Judge Justice or other Magistrate either alone or in open Court neither is the putting the hat off and standing bare-headed before them the honour that is due unto Magistrates which the Scripture speaks of And shall not Ged avenge his own Elect which cry day and night ●a●s him though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge th●m speedily he that shall come wil c●me and wil not tarry Luke 18.7.8 Heb. 10 37. He leadeth the Counsellors away spoyled and maketh the Iudges fool● He looseth the bonds of Kings and girdeth their loyn● with a g●●e He leadeth Princes away spoyled and overthroweth them mighty There is a sp ●●t in ●an and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding Great me● are not alwayes wise neither do the aged unde●stand judgement Job 12.17 18 19. Job 31.8.9 VVritten by me who am known by the Name of Henry Clark London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1656. Here is the wise taken in their craftiness and their wisdome made manifest to be foolishness with God and their actions discovered to be contrary to the pure Law of Righteousness given forth by the pure Law-giver Christ Jesus the Light by which light some one Judge or Judges of this Nation are made manifest how he or they have acted contrary to the Law of God and the Law of this Nation and contrary to all the Kings Rulers and Judges spoken of in Scripture by setting fines upon men and sending them to prison till payment of the same for not putting off their hats and stand bare-headed before them in their Court of Assizes and Goal-Delivery c. GOD in the beginning created man in his own image Gen. 1.26 27. and after his own likeness in holiness and righteousness which is after the image of God created he man holy and upright For said Solomon God created man upright Ecles 7.29 But they have sought out many inventions man turning from the light and going out from the presence of God who is light runs into the transgression and then sought out the invention how to hide themselvs from the presence of the living God who is Light and makes manifest all darkness and evill deeds whatsoever that are reproved Adam after his fall into the transgression he sought out in his invention how to hide and cover himself Eve being deceived by the Serpent was in the transgression she took of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God commanded the man saying Thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die and she did eat and she gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat also and their eyes being opened they knew that they were naked then they sought our an invenion Isa 30. i. and sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons to cover themselves therewith but the wo was and is unto them that be covered but not with the Spirit of the Lord. The fig-leaves being too short a covering for them they sought out another invention they went and hid themselves in the Garden among the trees from the presence of the Lord but the Lord God walking in the Garden in the cool of the day Read the second third ch of Gen. called unto Adam and said Where art thou and Adam said unto the Lord God I heard thy voice in the Garden and I was afraid because I was naked and hid my self Here you may see how the wise was taken in his craftiness and his invention stood him in no stead neither saved him from the presence of the Almighty nor hid him from the judgement of God for God said unto Adam Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy Wife and hast eaten of the Tree of which I commanded thee saying Thou shalt not eat of it Cursed said the Lord is the ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the dayes of thy life Thorns and Thistles shall it bring forth unto thee in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto thee ground for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return So likewise after the Flood the whole earth being of one Language and of one speech the people as they journeyed from the East they found a Plain in the Land of Shinar and they dwelt there and being there at ease they sought out an invention they said one to another Go to let us make Brick and burn them thorowly and they had Brick for Stone and they had Slime for Motter and said Go to and let us build us a City and a Tower whose top may reach up unto Heaven and let us make us a Name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth See here how men in the pride of their hearts and in their inventions how they sought for their honour Let us make us a Name said they and likewise for their safety least said they we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth Go to let us build a City and a Tower whose top may reach up to Heaven here was their pride But the only wise God whose eye seeth all things he came and took the Wise in their own Craftiness and he scattered the proud in the imagination of their own hearts all that they could do by their inventions could not save them from the Wrath of the Almighty who consounds the Wisdom of the Wise and brings to nought the understanding of the Prudent Read Gen. 11 ch For God he came down to see the City and the Tower which the children of men builded and the LORD said The People are one and they have all one LANGUAGE and this they beginne to doe and nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do then the Lord did there confound their LANGUAGE that they could not understand one ano●hers Speech and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the whole earth and so they left off building the City And as

by writing preaching or other wayes inform openly or in secret contrary to the Catholike Faith and determination of holy Church as they called it and the Pope should be counted Hereticks and openly be burned to the view of all people and so eager saith the History of those passages were the Bishops and the Clergy the Suffragans Abbots Priors Deans Arch-Deacons Priests Canons Parsons Vicars Chaplains and Clerks to have those called Hereticks to be burned that after they had passed definitive Sentence upon Tho. Saultre and delivered him over to the secular powers for them to burn him according to their invented Law that for fear it should not be done speedily enough they called upon the King who was ready enough to satisfie their blood-thirsty humors who made made a strict Decree and sent it to the then Mayo● and Sher ffs of London requiring them to take the said Tho. Saul●r● whom they had in their custody and to put him in the fire and burn him openly and really to the great horror of his offence which was accordingly done and many more after him as the History relates And this cruel bloody invention lasted till Queen Maries dayes and a little after for see if there were not some of those called Anabaptists burned in queen Elizabeths dayes And so you may see here how man whom God created upright Eccles 7.26 sought out many wicked inventions and plotted against the just and set themselves and took counsel together against the Lord and against his annoynted and imagined mi●chief both by a Law and without a Law saying Let us break their bonds asunder cast away their cords from off us Psa 2.3 and as the heathen did rage then so they do now and as the people imagined vain things then so they do now in these dayes imagine vain things and seek out new inventions whereby to afflict the servants of the living God So here followeth a new Invention sought out by mans imagination and in mans will is acted as he sits in Judgement so called for which he hath neither Law from God or man to bear him out in passing his Sentence as some of those who are counted grave wise Judges of this Land have done upon some of those people called quakers and setting a Fine of twenty Marks a piece upon them and sent them to prison to lye there till payment of the same and for their so doing I say they have neither Law from God nor no Law of this Nation to bear them out but what is done in this case is done without any law upon the innocent who have transgressed no law by standing with their hats on their heads in open Court before the Justices of Assises for the which they are fined twenty Marks a piece and sent to prison till payment of the same for where there is no law there is no tran●gression therefore the parties are innocent in this thing by keeping their hats on their heads and not putting them off to stand bare-headed before them in the Court and where there is no law to transgress there ought no sentence to pass upon any man for punishment to be inflicted either by death or loss of limb bani●hment or imprisonment nor no Fine set to to the confiscation of Goods unless there were a law given with a penalty thereunto to be inflicted upon the transgressors thereof And therefore I say Whatsoever Judge or Justice that passeth Judgement upon any man or men for which he hath no law acts in his own will and by his own invention contrary to the rule of the law which is holy just pure and good given forth by the pure law giver Christ Jesus and is written in their heart according to the Covenant of God who saith he hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord doth require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God who standeth in the Congregation of the mighty and judgeth among the Iudges saying How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked saith the Lord defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy Psa 82. You Judges the Lord God saith You must deliver the POORE and NEEDY and rid them out of the hands of the wicked and see that ye respect no mans person in judgement for with the Lord there is no respect of persons nor taking of gifts Therefore you are not to judge for man but for the Lord and upon the Transgressors of the Law are you to inflict punishment and not upon the just as some of you have done here in England upon some of those people called quakers for not putting off their hats and not standing bareheaded before you in your Court and for no other thing whom ye ought to have set at liberty and so have rid them out of the hands of the wicked for I tell that if they had put off their hats and stood bare-headed before you respecting your persons then they had transgressed the law as saith the Scripture for James a witness of Christ James 2.9 and a Minister of the Word said but if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are convinced of the Law as Transgressors for whosoever shall offend in one point he is guilty of all and he that respecteth mens persons hath not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ for Christ Jesus said How can ye beleeve that receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from God only Christ Jesus leaving us an example Joh. 5.44 1 Pet. 2.21 Mat. 22.16 Mark 12.14 Luke 20.21 1 Joh. 3.4 6 8 9 10. that we should follow his steps who respected no mans person And God saith Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement thou shalt not respect the person of the poore nor honour the person of the mighty he that respecteth mens persons committeth sin by transgressing the Law for every sin is the transgression of the Law and he that committeth sin is not of God but of the devil as ●aith the Scripture but every knee shall bow to the Name of Iesus and every tongue shall confess him to be Lord and King and the Lord God alone is to be worshipped and the people of his Pasture and the sheep of his hand they worship him in spirit and in truth and come and bow and kneel down before the Lord their Maker and not to man Mordecai would not bow to Haman nor do him reverence according to the Kings command which was contrary to Gods command Shadrach M sh●ch and Abednigo would not bow down to the golden Image that the King had set up nor worship his Gods according to the Kings command which was contrary to Gods command ANd yet I say that the great God of heaven and earth commands every soul to be subject to the higher powers for conscience sake which are ordained of God and likewise to

Ruler or Magistrate contrary to the Lord God and his Commandments the servants of the Lord obey not but rather choose to suffer afflictions by submitting to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake then to obey the Magistrates Command which is contrary to Gods Command For if the Magistrate make an Ordinance to take a man that fears the Lord God and to bring him before him the man that fears the Lord for the Lords sake who commands him submits unto the Ordinance of man he patiently and willingly goes whither the Officer will have him and if the Magistrate make an Ordinance to send him to prison he goes willingly not resisting against it for the Lords sake if it be to suffer stripes by vertue of that Ordinance they bear it patiently not striving nor crying out if it be to suffer death by vertue of the Magistrates Ordinance They that love the Lord are not only willing to suffer but ready also to dye for the sake of Jesus and for obeying the Commandments of the Lord God And herein did Shadrach Meshach and Ab●dnego refuse to obey the kings command which was to worship his gods and to bow to the Image which he had sett up which to do was contrary to Gods Command so for the Lords sake they submitted patiently to the kings Ordinance which was to be cast into the fiery burning furnace for disobeying the Kings Command And so did Daniel refuse to obey the Kings Command which was that no man should ask any Petition of any god or man for thirty days save only of the King which was contrary to the Command of God Pray continually for which Command of obeying God and refusing to obey the Kings Daniel submitted to the Kings Ordinance which was to be cast into the lyons den And so Peter and Iohn said that they could not forbear to speak the things which they had seen and heard concerning Jesus which was according to Christs Command notwithstanding that the High-priest the Rulers the Elders and the Scribes commanded them to preach no more in the name of Jesus And if the Magistrate make an Ordinance to take away the goods of those that fear God and obey his Commandments they for the Lords sake submit to the Ordinance of man and suffer the spoyling of their goods willingly and patiently rather then to transgress the Law which is holy pure and good given forth by the pure Lawgiver Christ Jesus And they revile not again being cursed they bless and although they suffer wrongfully yet they threaten not but commit themselves and their cause to God which judgeth righteously And herein do they that fear the Lord follow Christ who suffered for us leaving us an Example that we should follow his steps who commands to fear God and to honour all men and to honour the King and to submitt to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto other Governors as unto those that are sent for the punishment of Evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well And herein is Submission and Subjection declared which is accordingly done by the Servants of the most high God not for wrath but for conscience sake towards God And again I say it is no sin to stand with my hat on before the higher Powers because VVhere there is no Law there is no transgression For every day I goe about my Occasions at home and abroad and stand or sit with my hat on my head before the great God of I heaven and earth my Maker in his sight and presence out of which I cannot goe who is the highest of all Powers and for so doing my conscience doth not accuse me for sin For I know that if it were a sin that of God in my conscience would condemn me for so doing and if my conscience did condemn me God is greater who would condemn me also And seeing it is no sin for me to walk sit or stand with my hat on my head before the great God of heaven and earth who is the highest of Powers by whom Kings raign then it is no sin for me to stand with my hat on my head before the lesser Powers And if it be no sin for me to stand with my hat on my head before the great God of heaven and earth that lives for ever then it is no sin for me to stand with my hat on my head before them that are called Gods who shall dye like men And again if it be no sin for me to stand with my hat on my head before the King of Kings and Lord of Lords which sitteth amongst them and the Judges and hath power to pull down one and set up another then it is no sin for me to stand with my hat on my head before a King Lord Judge Justice or any other Magistrate who have no Law from him by whom they rule to command me to take my hat off and stand bare-headed before them in respect to their persons And again the putting off the hat and the standing bare-headed before the Ruler Judge or Justice or other Magistrate singly and alone or before them in the Courts of Judicature as the multitude of the world doth is but eye-service done to please the Magistrate while his eye is on them and they in his sight But those that fear the Lord they deny all eye-service For whatsoever they do they do it in singleness of heart as unto the Lord and not unto man or to please man in respect to their persons contrary to the Command of God For I tell you both Judges and Justices that those People that put their hats off and stand bare-headed before you while they are in your sight in respect to your persons which you call honour even they will and do when they are out of your sight transgress all laws without any fear at all of you And what honour is this by swearing lying cursing drunkenness adultery fornication robbing stealing fighting quarrelling murder and bloodshed plotting how to sett the wh●le Nation together by the cars that thereby they might rule themselves over all as daily Experience makes manifest and ye your selves be witnesses against them who are brought before you for such transgressions whom ye ought to punish for their evil deeds and mind to do justice and judgement in the fear of the Lord and take no notice of their hats but of their evil deeds for their hats do no evil nor transgress no law but do good by keeping of the head warm and covering of it from the heat cold and wet and for this end let them keep on their hats as they do their other garments and see that they honor God by leaving off their sins and then there will be honour to the Magistrate indeed given for conscience-sake and the Land will be cleansed of evil doers Now the rayment is for the body and given of God to Man to put on For