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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

popish Saxon Kings who governed England and were the first erecters of all the Abbies Monasteries Fryer-houses Chantry-houses Cathedrals c. as J have them out of the first and second volums of the Books of Martyrs BEnedict an Abbot of the Monastery of Peter and Paul at Wirr brought with him from Rome one John the Arch-chantler who first taugt in England how to sing in the Quire after the manner of Rome In the yeer 747. at the beginning of King Edgberts reign the Synod of Bishops disputed the profit of singing of the Psalms in the Church as they called it and made a decree that with a modest voice they should sing in the Church so by them called In the Yeer 747. at the beginning of King Edgberts Reign the Sinod of Bishops disputed the profit of singing the Psalms in the Church as they called it and made a decree that with a modest voice they should sing in the Church so by them called In the Yeer 924. King Ethelstone alias Atelstone made a Law that fifty Psalms should be daily sung in the Church as he called it for the King In the Yeer DCCXII King Inas alias Ina or Iue made a Law that Infants should be baptized within thirtie daies This King Ina or Iue gave up the Government of the Kingdome of England unto Ethelardus his Nephew and he himself took upon him the habit of a poor man and with great devotion travelled to Rome and was there made a Monk and the said King Ina made a Law that the first fruits of all that was sowne to be paid at the day of St Martine as he called it and about 720 he caused thorowout his Dominions that everie house that had a chimney should pay a pennie to the Pope in the name of Saint Peter this King was the first that brought up Peter-pence in England In the Year 933. King Atelstone made a Law that Tythes should be paid of all the proper Goods as well of living Cattle as of Corn and first fruits of the Ground In the Year 940. King Edmond made a Law that Tythes with the first Fruits of every mans crap should be duly paid In the Year 959. King Edgar ordained and decreed concerning Liberties and Freedomes of the Church as they called it that Tythes and first fruits of Corn and Peter-Pence be all paid Pope Innocent the third with all his Rabble of Monks and Fryers was the first that brought in private Tythes to be paid at Easter about the time of King Johns raign in England Now people here you may in part see who were the authors of Tythes to be paid out of the fruits of your labour So here follows what the Church was the tythes were paid to and in particular what the tythes were that was paid and received THeir Church was a company of strange Puissant counterfeit holy idle Vagabonds and ravening wolves so called by one Simond Fish which were Abbuts Priors Deacons Arch-Deacons Suffragans Priests Monks Canons Fryers Pardoners and Sumners these had the goodliest Lordships Mannors Lands and Territories in the Land in their possession and in particular the tythes they had was the tenth part of all the Corn Medow Pasture Grass Wood Coults Calves Lambs Pigs Geese and Chickens and the tenth part of every servants wages the tenth part of Wool Milk Honey Wax Cheese and Butter and they looked so narrowly to their profits that if they had not every tenth Egg the women could not have their due at Easter but were counted Hereticks Again they had four offering-dayes privy-tythes offerings to their Pilgrimages money for Diriges to be sung at the Buriall of every man and child or else they would accuse their friends of Heresie And besides this they had money for probates of Testaments Mortuaries and Confessions hallowing of Churches Alters super Alters chappells and Bells by cursing of men and absolving them again Finally the infinite number of the five Orders of Fryars who had of every house a penny a year the five Orders of Fryars had five pence a year of every house and in King Henry the eights dayes the sum being cast up to him what came in yearly to these five Orders of Fryers it did amount to 430333. 6. s. 8. d. a year as is set down in the Book of Martyrs by one Simond Fish and not above four hundred years before that time they had not one penny for the ancient Britains ever stood free from such burthens till that time that the pope and the Saxon Kings laid them on us who now bear the same in part as hereafter is made appear And now you shal see if those now in England called Ministers do not tread in the same steps and how far they come short of their forefathers First it is undenyable that they baptize Infants within thirty daies according to the law of the Monkish King Ina and not according to any law of God that they have to sprinckle little children on the face with water call it baptism but by the popes and their own imaginations consequences and conceivings of the Scriptures And according to the Bishops decree and the Kings law they sing and teach to be sung in the high places where the Steeples and Bels are the Psalms and Saints conditions that they two Poets Sternhold and Hopkins with others have turned into Meeter by their fallen wisdome and not by the spirit of God but they wil say they have a rule in the Scripture to sing Psalms by Is any merry let him sing Psalms but what have drunkards swearers proud and covetous persons to do to make songs of the Saints conditions that was never none of their own or to take the name of God in their mouthes seeing they hate to be reformed therefore ye singers stop your mouthes and be silent before the Lord God of heaven and earth for it were better for you to be in the house of mourning than in the high places of mirth for the day of the Lord is coming wherein your songs shall be turned into howling and your joie into bitter lamentation And as concerning Tithes do not the Ministers of England so called take tithes of the people even the tenth part of their Corn and Hey Wool Lambs Pigs Geese Eggs and have they not tithes of Coults Calves and dead sheep-skins and of Bees from whence the honey and wax comes and tithe apples pears hemp and flax and in some places of this land tithe milk and at Easter some part of the servants wages and Easter Reckonings they have two pence of the husband and two pence for the wife and two pence for the chimney and herein they outstrip the pope for he had but a penny a chimney and they have got beyond the five Orders of Fryers for they had but five pence a year of a house and they have six pence a year besides the two pence for a son and two pence for a daughter and two pence for a

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 Shephard of their Souls the Way the Truth and Life who saith come learn of me for I am meek and lowly My Sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me And the good Shepheard goeth before his Sheep and they follow him for they know his voice and a stranger they will not follow but will flye from him for they own not the voice of strangers Iohn the 10. chap. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 Thus saith the Lord what House will ye build me and where is the place of my rest but to this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word Isa 66.1 2. And dwell with him that is of an humble and contrite spirit Isa 57.15 Fear ye not me saith the Lord will ye not tremble at my presence but this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart they are revolted and gone neither say they in their hearts let us fear the Lord our God Ier. 5.22 23 24. Given forth to undeceive the simple hearted by him whose Name in the Flesh is HENRY CLARK LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1655. A Description of the Prophets Apostles and Ministers of Christ c. THE Prophets Apostles and Ministers of Christ are called and chosen and approved out of God sent out of their own countreyes their fathers house and kindred into all Countreys and Cities to declare the message of their Lord and Master Jesus Christ But those called Ministers and Teachers in England they are onely chosen and approved off by men and not called of God so that they are no Ministers of Christ but are mens Ministers sent forth by men into a particular Parish to preach but the sheep of Christ them they follow not nor their voice do they own because they are strangers and aliens from the life and covenant of Grace The Apostles and Ministers of Christ forsake Father and mother Brethren and sisters Wife and children House and lands Trades or occupations honors and pleasures and delights deny themselves of all and take up their cross daily and follow Christ Jesus whethersoever he goes and goes where he sends them as lambs amongst wolves Those called Ministers of England have not forsaken nor denied themselves of any thing but injoy all things as Father Mother Brethren and Sisters Wife and children house and land honors profits pleasures and delights tythes and money for which they preach in the Parish where they are setled by men and stay being not sent thither of God so that Christ they follow not but are such who minde earthly things whose God is their belly whose glory is in their shame and are enemies to the cross of Christ whose end is destruction and therefore are no Ministers of Christ The Apostles and Ministers of Christ have a dispensation of the Gospel committed to them and a command from the Lord Jesus Christ to go into all countries or nations to preach the Gospel in every creature and wo unto them if they preach not that Gospel which command they obey and go out into all countries and provide neither gold nor silver in their purse nor two coats neither shooes nor scrip for their journey neither staff in their hands neither are they to stay in a parish to take tythes gifts nor rewards but to go from city to city and from one town to another and as they have freely received so freely give without taking thought for the morrow what they shall eat or what they shall drink or wherewith they shall be cloathed but cast their care upon him who taketh care and provideth things convenient for them without taking tythes gifts or rewards Those called Ministers of England have no dispensation of the Gospel committed to them by the Lord Jesus Christ neither are they by the Lord of the Harvest sent to labour in his Vineyard neither in it do they labour but are sent by men to preach in a parishes high place where they being setled have for their preaching some 40 50 60 80 or 100. l. a year which they know of before they will be setled there which is in tythes gifts and rewards to cloath themselves in long Robes and rich Black Attire and their Wives in Silk Gold and Silver Lace Rings and costly Raiment with changeable suits of Apparell and yet with this they are not contented but seek for gain from their Quarters and if they can hear of a Parish whose Minister is dead or turned out of his place and if there be but 10 20 or 30. l. a year more than he had from the people of the parish where he is if all the means and friends he can make can and wil help him into it that for his preaching he may get more money which is the Root of all evill he will leave his Flock and like a Hireling flye away because he is an Hireling to the other where none pursues him or else will seek a Lecturers place as they call it in another parish where he may have 20. or 30. l. a year more and no further will they go to preach than for their own advantage as witness their Funerall Sermons so called that when a Rich man or woman is dead and to be buryed for 10. s. 13. s. 4 d. or 20. s. they will preach a Sermon but if a poor man or woman dye that hath not 10. s to give them they will not preach nor give them praise as they do the rich for their money when they are dead therefore it doth plainly appear they are none of the Ministers of Christ but such as go when they are not sent and come when they are not called of God and cloathe themselves with the fleece and feed themselves with the fat and take no care for their Flock but for their gain and such the true Prophets and Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ were and are sent to cry wo against The Ministers Prophets and Apostles of Christ they wandred about in sheep-skins and Goat-skins in Desarts and Mountains and lad in dens and caves of the earth and had no certain dwelling place on the earth being destitute affl cted tormented and suffered cruell mockings stripes and imprisonments having their Legs put in the Stocks yet were no Vagabonds Vagrants nor Wandring disorderly idle persons but Fellow-labourers in the Gospel whose habitation is with God and for his sake who loves them with an

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

sins by repentance cease from the evill of your doings and learn of God to do wel and if you will return return to the Lord God who is gracious and mercifull and in patience hath born long with ye all the time that ye were learning to preach who then saw what you were going about to do and all your actings in that time and all the time you have been preaching which hath brought forth nothing but vanity and lyes for all the profession of Religion that you have taught the people all this while stands in a lye and their fear of the Lord is taught them by your precepts who are men for what do you or they all possess of what you profess nothing at all therefore it is lightness and vanity and is unto the Lord as loath some as if you cut off a Dogs head or offered to him Swines Flesh in abominable broath nay he will not accept of the hire of a whore that you bring before him it all stincks in his Nostrills and is cast out from before him as a filthy Dung-hill Your sacrifice is abomination and all your works are as filthy Rags and as the cloath of a monstrious woman ye are defiled and with your defilements you defile Oh stop your mouthes and be silent ye men who are called Ministers of the Gospell but are not the Ministers of Christ and let shame cover your faces in the presence of the Lord God of life and power who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquitie Therefore all people High and Low Rich and Poor Bond and Free who have been hearing and learning for many years together of those you call Ministers and are not the Ministers of Christ by whose Ministry ye are not yet come to the knowledg of the truth by their long preaching Cease from man whose breath is in his Nostrills and spend not your money for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which satisfies not but return to the Lord Jesus Christ the Light the Saviour and Bishop of your souls who saith come learn of me hearken diligently hear and your souls shal live who filleth the hungry with good things and the rich he sends empty away A Prophet hath the Lord God raised up amongst you hear ye him saith the Lord in all things who teaches the way of truth and holyness without which no man shal see the Lord and this is my beloved Son saith God he that refuseth to hear him shal be cut off from the land of the living for God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son into the world and this is the condemnation the light which is into the world come Christ Jesus the Son of God the light of the world that makes manifest in you sin and evill deeds and shews you all things that ever you have done in your life time and this is Christ the Prophet that meets with you whithersoever you go and shews you that sin which you have committed in secret which none can reprove you for but he that seeth in secret and in the dark places and this is Christ the light of the world that enlightneth every one that comes into the world and is made manifest in the conscience and to as many as receive him and believe on his name he gives them power to become the Sons of God whom he teacheth in his wayes so that they need not another to teach them being the children of the Lord are taught of the Lord and Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God into all truth and can read the Law writ in their hearts Now people every one of you mind that which makes manifest your sin unto you and checks you for the sin you commit by bringing upon you tribulation and anguish upon every one that doth evill Those that walk in darkness hate Christ Iesus the light that is come into the world and is the condemnation of those that love darkness and not the light because their deeds be evil and the light reproves them because their works are of the Devil but he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be tryed whether they be of God who is light and in him is no darkness at all Now people ye have a Light in your consciences which makes manifest your sin unto you unto which ye do wel if ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the Day-star arise in your hearts which is the sure word of prophesie and the Son of righteousness that rises with healing in his wings therefore come to him that ye may have life wait upon him who is worthy of waiting on who wil anoint you with an unction by which you shal know al things so that you need not to be taught of man and gives to every one freely without money and without price bread to the hungrie water to the thirsty soul clothing to the naked eye-salve to the blinde the poor he fils with good things and those that fear him shall not want but the whole need no Physician and the rich he sends empty away Therefore while you have time people prize it draw nigh unto God and he will draw nigh unto you clense your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded cease from evil and put not from you the evil day afarr off but put away from you the evil of your doings and learne the fear of the Lord which is to depart from sinne and the beginning of pure wisdome which teaches how to do righteouslie justlie and to walk humblie with the Lord and this is the grace of God that appears to all men that brings salvation and teaches men to denie all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberlie righteouslie and godlike holie as he is holie in this present world in all manner of conversation here is life and death set before you people choose which you will for if you neglect so great salvation how do you think to escape the damnation of hel Therefore people in the fear of the Lord search and try all things forsake the evil and hold fast that which is good of God who is faithful and deceives none for the Kingdome of heaven is within you and the many deceivers are in the world look not out at them neither go after them but keep your heart with all diligence for out of them are the issues of life for in Israel abides in his tents and do not say but in your life-time you have been warned of the manie deceivers by him who is a lover of your souls who is knowne by the name of Henry Clark Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter Can the Fig-tree my brethren bare olive-berries either a Vine Figs so can no Fountain both yeeld salt water and fresh Jam. 3.12 Here followeth a Declaration of some Lawes made by the pope and the