and also of diuers Reasons of the Familie beyng mere hereticall beyng set down in this end of the booke might hereafter when they shall here any of the Familie slide into any of these affirmations know whence such speaches haue bene learned and auoyde them gentle reader the Lord geue thée vnderstāding in all thinges and lighten all thy wayes by the candle of his word that the day star arising in thy hart thou maiest grow to a further knowledge of the Lord with a feruent desire to doe his will and to liue to learne and learne to lyue to tread the steppes of Gods sonne and to dye his seruaunt He this graunt vnto thée who hath geuen himselfe for thée to whome be eternall prayse power and glorye Amen Tim. 4. chap. 6. vers 87. YF thou put thy bretheren in remembraunce of these thinges thou shalt be a good Minister of Christ which hast bene nourished vp in the wordes of fayth and of good doctrine which thou hast continuallye followed But cast away profane and ould wiues Fables and exercise thy selfe vnto godlines So be it FINIS Cantic 2.15 Ezech. 13.4 Esay 5.1 Ionas 4.7 Math. 13.24.25 Act. 20.28 Heb. 13.17 Math. 24.24 Math. 13.25 Math. 7.15 1. Pet. 5.8 2. Cor. 11.14 The cause of heresie is want of preachyng Math. 22.29 Rom. 10.14 Esay 29.9 Ierem. 23.2 Zach. 11.17 Ierem. 50.6 Esay 56.10 Math. 15.14 HN. his heresie mingled of all heresies 2. Pet. 2.1.2 Iude. 12. Amos. 8.11.12 Math. 4.4 Prou. 29.18 First Edition pag. 606. A. Pag. 1605. * This Kempe is now liuing and is preacher in the Yle of wight and is by this popish priest slaūdered the sayd Kemp being a very Godly man read M. Fox his last booke pag. 1976. Where he rehearseth Kemps story at large M. Fox reporteth his most godly Christian doctrine Pag. 1976. a. Pag. 1530. H. Harte a peruerse heretique M. Fox pag. 1531. Predestination blasphemed by the Fam. Vitels doctrine in Queene Maries tyme at Colchester 1. Infantes not to be Baptised 2. Kyng Edwardes booke not Gods seruice 3. Christ not God. 4. The godly sinne not 5. The Pope no Antichrist Vitels denyed that Christ is God. Obiectiō of the Familie Aunswere Vitels some tymes an Arriā God graunt he now be sounde in that point Actes 8.24 Math. 26.75 Generaly HN. his Euangelye is to be mislyked for Odious comparison of the Fam. Fam. maketh Gods word hard to be vnderstode so doe the Papistes contrary to the scripture Prou. 8.8.9 Psalme 19.7.8 All without the Fam. fleshly and worldly minded Vntruth for the Prophet Esay and the rest are very eloquent All without the Fam. directed with dreames of mans fantasie No booke of any wrighter like HN. his Euangelye HN. his Euangelie in Exposition of darke figures in the Bible No learned mā in these dayes like HN. HN. a Papist Chap. 31. Chap. 31. sent 4 Christ what he is according to the Familie Antichrist nothing but sinne according to the Fam. Two kyndes of Gods worde after HN. his Familie Luke 16.28 A notable vntruth for HN. no where in his bookes doth wish mē to read the Scriptures Horrible blasphemie HN. his booke of Euangelie made equall with the word of God. Ephe. 5.21 1. Iohn 4.1 No man may iudge of doctrine but the Familye Louely Poetrie of the Familie Preface sent 2. Resurrection is appeared vnto HN. Law and Prophets all fulfilled in HN. his Loue day Preface sent 3. HN. taketh on him Iohn Baptistes office Sent. 4. HN. his writinges the Gospell Sent. 6. Cap. 1. sent 4. Libertie of Religion Chap. 2. sent 1. Fol. 4. Cap. 2. sent 1. Cap. 2. sent 11. Cap. 4. sent 1. Cap. 4. sent 4. HN. rayleth on the Ministers Preachers of Gods word Sent. 5. Onely HN. his Familie wise Sent. 15. Resurrectiō cōmeth to passe in HN. his new day Heresie sent 18. Cap. 5. sent 1. Cap. 8. sent 4.5.6.8 c. Cap. 9. sent 7. Cap. 13. sent 3. Cap. 13. sent 4. Cap. 19. sent 5. Sent. 11. Cap. 23. sent 2. Cap. 23. sent 2. Cap. 25. sent 6. Cap. 25. sent 6. Cap. 25. sent 6. Ibid. No dissembling is lawfull by HN. Sent. 10. All prophecies doe lead and end in HN. his Fam. Cap. 28. sent 4. HN. raileth vpon preachers Cap. 30. sen 5.6 HN. liketh of purgatorye Cap. 31. sent 1. HN. Fauoreth poperie Popish discipline good by HN. Cap. 31. sen 4. 7. Orders a Sacrament by HN. Sent. 5.7 The truth spred in all landes by the Pope sayth HN. Sent. 8. 10. 14. 17. 18. 19. Sent. 23. Cap. 32. sent 4. Cap. 33. sent 11. Cap. 34. sent 1. Blasphemye Cap. 35. sent 1. Cap. 35. sent 3. 4 5. 6. 7. Sent. 8. Resurrectiō passed already saith HN. Cap. 36. sent 13 Cap. 37. sent 1. and .14 and. cap. 38. sent 1.3 Cap. 4. sent 7. Scripture vildly abused by Allegories Nothyng commeth from HN. his perfect ones but perfection Perfection Christ after the flesh what Christ rooke no flesh the virgin but doctrine c. HN. his perfect ones not subiect to Gods worde alwayes Shrift Scripture vntruly Expounded 1. Cor. 15. cap. verses 50.53.54 Resurrectiō denied The Family wil haue all the whole man or nothyng at all Admission into the Familie Admissiō to the Familie with an othe Herodes oth in the Familie Why few Fambles returne frō HN. his doctrine Giltles of particular sinnes Antecedent HN. his argument that we may sinne Scriptures wrested Shrift HN. taketh to him that is proper to Christ Agge 2.7 Heb. 12.27 HN. 1. epist. cap. 1. sent 2. pub of the peac sent 14. Shrift worse then Popish Conference denyed HN. his holy bread dayly eaten at Tables Scripture wrested Sinnes forgiuen in the Familie onely Gay Rhetoricke of the Familie Docum sentences 1. Chap. sect 3.7 Bullenger agaynst the Anabaptistes 1. Cor. 16.14 Gal. 5.22 1. Cor. 13.4 1. Iohn 3.18 Math. 7.16 Luk. 6.44 Math. 12.34 Iohn 3.20 Fam. of Loue in the briefe rehearsall the title Bulling 1. boke chap. 8. leaf 18. a Cyp. de simpl August ad Crescon 2. boke 7. chapter Schismatiques who Num. 16.1 2. Cor. 1.12 Actes 20.28.29 30. verses Rom. 16.17.18 Fam. bred and brought vp among the Papistes Deut. 27.18 Math. 18.7 1. Cor. 11.19 Reuel 3.11 1. Tim. 3.15 Math. 24.5.24 1. Iohn 4.1 Ezech. 33.4 1. epist. cap. 2. sent 2.6 1. Exhor cap. 7. sent 38. leaf 16. Scripture abused Last day Euang. cap. 3. sent 3. Psal. 118.24 Ephes 4.4 Marc. 15.28 Iohn 20.30 Euang. praeface sent 2. Luke 24. c. Scriptures quoted in vaine Cyp. de simpl praelat August ad petrum dia. cap. 34 6 ▪ epist. 1. boke Cyp. ibid. throughout Iud. 6. vers 2. Pet. 2.4 1. Exhor cap. 12. sent 42. fol. 27. 1. Exhort cap. 20. sent 7. fol. 49 Dictata cap. 19. sent 3. Euang. praefac sent 6. cap. 23 sent 7. Euang. cap. 3. sent 3. fol. 4. HN. wresteth 3. Article of the Lordes Prayer Euang. cap. 24. sent 9. Iam. 4.3 Math.
of the man from the true fayth in Christ the light of lyfe to the addictyng of him selfe to the lye or darcknes or euer such tyme as they become conuerted to their God and are regenerated in the spirite of their mynde is the greatest Antichrist which also frō the very begynnyng as likewise in the very corporall appearaunce of Christ in the flesh like as S. Iohn also expresseth impugne it and persecute it in the truth of God and that in the inwardnesse of the man to the establishyng of all vnrighteousnesse in him and not onely a certaine disordred or abused Papistrie yea or euer the Papistrie was thought of which no Pope also or such outward fleshly creature could or can euer worke or bryng to passe And therefore deceiue not your selfe in the point to iudge the Author to be a maintainer of any fleshly or creature like Pope with his adherentes in their abusion of Ceremoniall seruices Ceremonies but he driueth his matter onely as in his worke beyng well noted you may sée to this point to wit that after the entraunce of the darknesse once chaunced the manly generations beyng falne away from the fayth towardes God which was established by Christ in his Apostles and Disciples the old Fathers grew out of a zealousnes of the mynde towardes God and his righteousnesse to institute certaine Ceremonies and seruices so neare as they could out of their insight and comprehendyng that they by their diligent study and searchyng of the Scriptures had attained vnto concerning Gods truth hit the same that resembled or were conformablest to the holy and diuine Scriptures to a commemoration of the thyngs wrought and brought to passe before with Christ and his holynes in the very true beyng to the susteinyng and staying vp of the ignoraunt people in the tyme of darknes from fallyng into any greater absurdities enormities and errours that might haue happened vnto thē and which also did happen vnto many such as maliciously and obstinately not rightly seyng but rather in meanyng to set vp some better degressed and winded of them selues there from and maliciously blasphemed and continewed the same tell that the light of Gods truth might spryng foorth agayne or be erected in the seruice of the loue accordyng to the promises and goeth not about to establish the same in and of their ceremoniall much lesse abused seruice and Ceremonies where about men presently so greatly striue and varie now in this present tyme of the light of loue whiche he affirmeth to be the day of the cleare righteous iudgemēt of God wherein god will restore all thynges to their right to wit bryng or set the lye in his lying beyng to be condemned in the hellish caue and the truth likewise in his right fourme or degrée to wit to preuayle florish and beare sway ouer the vnrighteousnes for euer more Whereby that the will of God might euē so be accomplished in earth as in heauen Wherefore me thinkes that should be very small discernyng in such as can not distinct the shadowes figures or image of a thyng from the body it selfe or the very true beyng either substaunce of the same And that he speaketh of mens ignoraunce in that place and touchyng their slender knowledge vnderstandyng in Gods worde that layeth he forth flatly to the effectuall word and not the imagelike or written word wherein the right Christians are not iniuried but the conceited Christians detected Rochester THe rest of the booke from the 34. Chapter vnto the end is of the callyng of the Gentiles and of the grace of God offred to the world in the last age of the world which seemeth to be the best part of that booke Familie of Loue. IT is well that ye like some part of the booke and if ye could therewithall note that there were a defectiō frō the truth and that there were also by that meanes no difference to bee had betwixt a ceremoniall either letter doctour Christian and an vncircumcised Heathen so had ye then somewhat for your part Rochester THus haue you a tast of this booke gathered as the tyme would serue whereby it appeareth to be no such precious price of worke as of some it is supposed to be Such fayre shewes and glorious titles may soone deceiue the simple to haue such bookes in more admiration then the holy Scriptures But we haue Moses and the Prophetes let vs heare them and iudge all others by them Family of Loue. I do not so collect by the authors wrighting that he would prefer his writing aboue the scriptures geuen by inspiration of God and brought forth and written by the holy Fathers in times past But if you had well marked or considered the same he witnesseth as by a concordable and vniforme testimonye either by record of the same their writynges what the Lord will now accomplish in these last dayes wishing euery one in the same booke to search the Scriptures whether that they also mētion and record not the very same affirmyng also therewith that God is not ne cannot be a God of contentatiō but of peace vnitie And that God moreouer hath stirred him vp to bee a seruiceable instrument or as his elect minister to bryng downe accordyng to his promises written in the Scriptures all controuersies growne among men about their misunderstanding of the scriptures to bryng the same to an end And doth also in the same booke vncouer sundry secret thinges which they that haue seing eyes may by ententiue reading of the same together with the Lordes assistaunce well perceiue and vnderstand that no selfewise or enuious scripture learned could or can euer attaine vnto it agayne What iniurie were it seing that it procedeth by the same spirite to valew it equall with those same sacred scriptures that were tofore written by the holy one of God. Also ye may remember that the fleshly Iewes had also for their aunswere to Christ enuying agaynst him being the truth it selfe the same testimonye that ye alledge to wéete that they had Moses and the Prophets c But who were in the meane time greater persecutours of him then they Rochester WE are sure that the holy Scriptures were wrighten by the spirite of Loue and truth the holy ghost And conteine all true and necessary and sufficient doctrine for our saluation let vs not hould vpon men proue all thinges hould that which is good beleue not euery spirite but proue the spirites Family of Loue. I Graunt that right discerning is good and commeth from the Lord and through him from them whome he and not themselues placeth and by them that are set in the right place of iudgement by the Lord himselfe and not by those that sitt on their owne stoole for it is to be doubted that so many as take vpon them that office of iudgemēt or medling with gods matters or euer Christ be come vnto them or haue a liuing shape in them that they all will
waxed so heate and such dayly dauÌ„ger honge ouer their heades that professed the sinceritie of the Gospel So scorchyng was the flame of those most bloudy tymes that those men whoÌ„ the world was not woorthy of some of them were tryed by bondes and Imprisomnentes some of them by most bitter tormentes of Fire and Fagot such imminent and present perill abode those who professed them selues to be fauorers of Christes truth Which great distresse and calamitie draue diuers of the Children of God to wander from place to place not hauyng where they durst at any tyme rest long together In the which tyme of their continuall tossing sometymes they had ease and comfort by their feruent Prayers and by the participation of the blessed word Sacramentes they got some space to breath them agaynst that fiery triall which hourely they looked for Neither had this affliction albeit it was mighty bene so greuous if Sathan there had stayd his rage but his priuate hatred long concealed brake forth into open enmitie who beyng an old Dragon and subtle Serpent dayly raysed vp some which priuily spake peruerse thynges entanglyng the simple sorte and drawyng such weakelynges after them as they dayly met withall to be their Disciples The auÌ„cient and famous Towne of Colchester was in the troublesome tyme of Queene Maries persecution a sweete and and comfortable mother of the bodyes and a tender nourse of the soules of Gods children which towne was the rather at that tyme frequented because it aforded many godly and zealous Martyrs whiche continually with their bloud watered those seedes whiche by the preachyng of the worde had bene sowne most plentifully in the hartes of Christians in the dayes of good Kyng Edward This towne for the earnest profession of the Gospell became like vnto a Citie vpon an hill and as a candle vpon a candlesticke gaue great light to all those who for the comfort of their conscience came to conferre there from diuers places of the Realme and repairyng to common Innes had by night their Christian exercises whiche in other places could not be gotten For proofe whereof I referre the Reader vnto that whiche is truely reported by M. Foxe in his booke of Actes and Monumentes that at the kynges head in Colchester and at other Innes in the sayd Towne the afflicted Christians had set places appointed for theÌ„ selues to meete at where least Sathan should bee thought to bee idle or his venemous or deadly hatred agaynst Christes poore afflicted members should seeme to bee lesse then his open professed enmitie hee styrred vp diuers Schismaticall spirites whiche euen in that great trouble of the Church sought to be teachers of that wherof they had no vnderstandyng and thereby turned the knowledge of Gods testimonies which in many of them though it was small yet somewhat to vayne and contentious â—anglyng whereby the deare Saintes of God were not a litle disquieted at such tyme especially as some of them beyng coÌ„demned to death looked to tast of the same cup whiche had bene in full measure powred out vnto their brethren For not onely in the priuate assemblies of the godly did these spider catchers swarme together to peruert the right wayes of the Lord but also in diuers prisons in London they kept a continuall haunt where they scattered their deuilish cocle of abhominable Heresie among such as were committed for the loue of the Gospell For the testimony of the truth hereof vouchsafe good reader to read the booke of M. Foxe before alledged where hee reporteth the letter of a wicked Promoter named Thom. Tye the Popish Priest of Muchebently and Steuen Norish a false Iudas and betrayer of Gods Saintes in the tyme of their trouble where he vseth these wordes There is sayth this popish priest one Iohn Kempe and Henry Harte who is the principall of all those that are called Frewil meÌ„ for so they are termed of the Predestinators the sayd Harte hath drawen out xiij Articles to be obserued among his company and as farre as I do beleue there comes none in their brotherhode except he be sworne The other Iohn Kempe is a great trauailer abroad in Kent what his doctrine is I am not hable to say Hetherto M. Foxe And that thou mayest know the better what this Henry Harte was consider I pray thee what is reported of him Where that zealous and faythfull seruaunt of God Iohn Careles in his examination by Doctor Martin verifieth that to bee true whiche in the former place those two were burdened withall by Steuen Norish Of this Henry Harte sayth Iohn Careles it had bene good for him if he had neuer bene borne for many a simple foule hath hee shamefully seduced beguiled and deceiued with his soule Pelagian opinion both in the dayes of kyng Edward and since his departure This Harte write a Confutation of certaine Articles of Christian Religion writte by Iohn Careles and sent vnto William Tyms prisoner in the Kynges Benche The companions also of the same Henry was one M. Gibson who sought to peruert turne froÌ„ the truth xij godly ChristiaÌ„s which were Martyred Of this vngracious coÌ„pany also was one Trewe of Kente who albeit before for the truthes sake he lost his cares for perswadyng the people from goyng to Masse yet afterward happenyng into the coÌ„pany of Pelagians he became deadly enemy to good Iohn Careles as appeareth by Careles his examination whiche he with his owne hand penned before he dyed in prison as in this booke of Martyrs is to be sene at large Now if any man will demaunde what is this to the Familie agaynst whom ye purposely mynde to deale I aunswere that from this preseÌ„t yeare in the which this happened the doctrine of HN. began to pepe out and although it haue a more louely name then the Heresies of the Libertines Anabaptistes and Pellagians had yet it is to him that is disposed to see very certaine by that coÌ„parison which in this booke followeth of all the sectes that the grouÌ„d of all these Heresies were brought into England by Christopher Vitels and his complices out of Delph in Dutchland where it had bene happy for our English Church if with the first Brokers thereof they had bene buryed and forgotten Theire doctrine was then 1. The godly haue in them selues free will to do good 2. They could not away with Predestination Neither caÌ„ this Louely Family abide the most blessed and comfortable doctrine of Predestination as is apparauntly to be sene in their first Epistle to M. Rogers where they vtter this deuilish blasphemous speach Your brethren in Christ for their good faythes cause they haue in your licentious doctrine of Predestination and free election fill all the prisons almost in England But to adde somewhat which is hable by the mouth of a liuyng witnes to be iustified who in Q. Maries tyme was present at the brochyng of this doctrine by Vitels the Ioygner his testimonie
comme to short in their reconing c. I may not deny but that there is conteined in the scriptures geuen by inspiration of God being rightly vnderstanded followed and obeyed necessary and sufficient doctrine of saluation but for want of these thrée principall pointes many haue small profite truely I could also with all my hart wishe that man with man committed not filthines nor depended one vpon an other but to stay them onely on the Lordes truth and not on flesh and bloud so were then all controuersies at an end It were well also to proue all thinges but not as semeth me by the crooked rule of mans owne iudgement or fleshly minde and concerning nor by his imagination without the light of Gods truth or spirite of righteousnes and loue taken on in constructing and wresling of the right sence and minde of the scriptures which being seperated from the light of lyfe as he in the same worke alleadgeth is a closed booke or a darke word without light and the seruice administred thereout as a dead bodye without a soule or as a dead wife deceased from her husband which could bring fourth no children of lyfe For what can the naturall man iudge that is altogether ignoraunt of the thinges of God or yet open the holy thinges without the key of Dauid or behould the Paradice of God when as men can not frely enter the Seraphin with his fiery sword not being taken away or yet iudge of an other which hath ouercome and attained to haue a new name written in the white stone that lyeth himselfe yet in the meane time altogether be wrapped and buried vnder the bondage and subiectioÌ„ of the earthly being and vngodlynes c. Consider therefore euery thing in his right degrée if you be endewed with ghoastly vnderstanding and possessed with the right spirite of iudgemeÌ„t and then out of your spiritualnes iudge all thinges according to the ballance of equitye and trying squaire or measure line of righteousnes in the lyfe and truth Trie also the spirits by the same rule and be not vnbeleuing towardes the right spirit but follow and embrace that which is good For if you can shew vs any passinger God of Israel or any better lawe rites and ordinaunce then is his lawes rites and ordinaunces or anye perfecter life then the loue whereon Christe with his holy ones haue heretofore testified Whereto also the Author presently as a concordable witnes with the same doth only point and direct vs or that there be any better thing then the eternall lyfe and the loue it selfe So let not theÌ„ that same most best be withheld from vs whilest that we onely enforce vs thereunto that we might serue eueÌ„ so the onely liuing God in vniformenes of hart and vnpartialitye of minde together with an vpright righteousnes and holynes Take this briefe freindly well meaning aunswere to your exceptions in good part and way it not as a matter done to defend the worke by the way of contending but rather as one out of goodwill doe but geue you occasion thereby to weigh more distinctly and reasonably of that which commeth so lyuely freindly to your hands out of grace to your profit and welfare Therefore saue labour for making any further reply hereunto least you doe but lose your trauaile herein for Christ with his holy ones will not now in this same day of the Loue lyke as doe the princes of the earth whose kingdome is of this world set vp and maintayne his kingdome with contention and discorde but with peaceablenes louing kindnes and long suffering But if one listed to sée wrestlers bestirre them in their play then for to graunt them leuill ground he might not well denay And yf one should trauers the right of his case then must the Iudge sit vnparciall in iudgement place so shall then all matters in equalitye out fall but otherwise be peruerted and oppresse right we shall Vale ê™ F. L. ⧠Errours and absurde asseuerations out of HN. his Euangelie gathered by William Wilkinson HN Sayth the day of Loue by him preached is the appearyng of our Lord Iesus Christ in the Resurrection Esay 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. of the dead wherein the law and the Prophetes and all that is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled Luke 24. e. HN. sayth he is the Aungell of the Lord or messenger before him for to prepare his way Math. 3. a. Math. 11. b. and to publish an euerlastyng Euangelie Math. 24. Apoc 14. a vnto all generations languages and peoples accordyng to the promises All the testimonies of HN. set foorth in the Glasse of righteousnesse are the Gospell HN. sayth the Familie is the rest of God prepared froÌ„ the begynnyng for the people of God and for all repentaunt persons and is appeared in the last tyme accordyng to the promises HN. permitteth to euery nation what Religion they will so they hold with his heresie of the Loue. HN. receiued this message of his Euangelie from the mouth of God him selfe HN. maketh the day of the publishyng his Euangelie to be the last commyng of Christ in iudgement with thousaÌ„ds of Saints For proofe he citeth Esay 3. b. Math. 24. d. and 25. d. Iude. 1. b. HN. buildeth vpon miracles without Scriptures HN. sayth he will declare the secret misteries of God and make relation of thynges hidden before the world HN. sayth the former kyngdome wherein man was set that is Adam before his fall is brought agayne in the lowlynes of the vpright beyng HN. sayth of the Preachers that they vaunt and geue foorth themselues for Christians and as illuminated men that are Maisters of the Scripture beyng craftie subtill peruerse of hart darcke in their vnderstandyng of a peruerse nature HN. sayth that no man how wise and vnderstandyng soeuer he be in the knowledge of the Scripture can by any meanes vnderstand or comprehend the wisedome of God but they onely that be of his Familie Therefore hope we sayth HN. with much ioy ouer the dead whiche dye in the Lord or are dead in him to wéete that they in their Resurrection from death shall liuyngly come vnto or méete with vs For all the dead of the Lord or the members of Christ shall now liue and arise with their bodyes and we shall assemble with them and they with vs. This day of the Loue is the last commyng of Christ Abell was slayne through the wicked nature of sinne through the handes of his brother Cain HN. depraueth the whole Historie of Abraham from Gene. 16. vnto the 27. Chapter by turnyng it into an Allegorie The greatest must serue the lesse that is sayth HN. the great righteousnesse of the law with the great knowledge or prudence of the fleshe or of the earthly beyng which is borne out of the letter shall serue the litle mynded simplicitie of Christ HN. peruerteth the fourth Commaundement HN. sayth
Lord or his word not that they should alwayes remaine as subiect thereunder but vntill the appoynted tyme vntill the manly old age in the godly vnderstanding of the holy word that is tell sinne in them be subdued sayth HN. cap. 3. sent 12. Let euery one confesse his sinnes wherein he falleth before his Elder in the holy vnderstanding and make manifest before him all his dealyng and conuersation cap. 4. sent 3. Verely the mortall wherof S. Paule witnesseth is not any creature of earthly flesh bloud but it is the liuing word or being of God which in the beginning was mortall in the manhoode and is in vs for our sinnes cause become mortall cap. 6. sent 3. The letter slayeth 2. Cor. 3.6 namely the administration of the law after the letter or ministration of Christ after the flesh that is nothing els but that the letter according to the requiring of Christ pointeth and leadeth vs to the death of sinne and withdraweth euen so our mindes and thoughtes from all that which is vngodly cap. 11. sent 6. A man which loueth the vpright righteousnes cannot apply hinselfe vprightly thereunto before he haue wholy geuen ouer himselfe to the gratious worde and seruice of Loue for to be obedient vnto the word and euen so to be admitted thereto by his elder in the holy vnderstanding and minister of the gracious word for to become taught therein cap. 13. sent 1. He that is admitted into the Famil promiseth before God and his holy ones that he will cleaue onely to the word and his requiring and shew faythfull obedience out of his whole hart and minde and not seperate himselfe therefrom for euer cap. 13. sent 4. But if they our ould sinnes which he calleth our Paramours which in tymes past we loued sen 7. take or lay hold on vs with force and violence and that then although we cry there commeth not any power or helpe vnto vs for to withstand their force and violence and that they euen so rauish vs agaynst our will so are we guiltles of the transgression for we haue cryed for to be released from the tyranny of the euill and there is no helpe come vnto vs Ergo if we sinne we are guiltles Of the which guiltles transgressing the law likewise witnesseth where it sayth Deut. 11.27 A woman which is violently taken in the field whereas there is not any help and so rauished and although she haue cryed aloud and gotten no helpe she shall be guiltles of the transgressing cap. 13. sent 8. If it chaunce that any man through weakenesse doe sinne yet let him not couer his sinnes but let him confesse them before his Elder in the holy vnderstandyng and repent him so shall then the Lord be gracious vnto him and forgiue his sinnes Cap. 13. senten 8. and Cap. 11. senten 6. This is the day which God Actes 17. e. hath appointed for to iudge in the same the cōpasse of the earth with righteousnesse through his word in whom he hath concluded his iudgement Cap. 15. sent 4. They of the Familie must manifest them selues and their whole hart dealyng and inclination to the Elders in the Familie of loue Cap. 16. sent 4. Haue not much prate or disputation with straungers nor with thē that fall away from the seruice of the Loue nor with the vnwillyng ones resisters Cap. 16. sent 18. O ye adioyned ones and incorporated ones to the word ye shall not hold you Math. 18. and. c. 1. Cor. 5. b. 2. Thessal 3. b. Common with straungers and decliners from the seruice of Loue for to eate dayly with them at your Table the holy bread Iohn 6. d. Actes 2. f. But breake and eate the same among ech other Cap. 18. sent 10. Beare in no wise any enmitie to any one but shew alwayes your brotherly loue which ye haue amongest ech other Cap. 16. sent 11. Come now all and turne you to this mercy seat of the Loue of the holy spirite of Iesus Christ and obtaine the forgiuenes of your sinnes Cap. 19. sent 2. 3. ARTICLES Which I exhibited vnto a frend of mine to be conuaied vnto the Familie of loue that I might be certified of the doubtes in them contayned Which for my further instruction one Theophilus sent me with a letter and an Exhortation annexed vnto the sayd Articles with his exposition in manner following THEOPHILVS TO the collector of these after expressed Articles that out of his malitious minde peruerted the sence and true minde of the Author and framed sundry of them into errors and to the rest of his Assistants in these and such vncharitable dealinges wheresoeuer they be greeting W. WILKINSONS TITLE ERrors out of the bookes of HN. faythfully and truely if sayth THEOPHILVS such preachers as be vncircumsided both in tongue and eares be to be beleued in these dayes gathered and quoted as in his booke by Chapter and Section they are to be found THEOPHILVS YE might rather in truth haue affirmed vnfaythfully lyingly slaunderously and malitiously or vncharitably W. WILKINSONS CONFVTATION MArke I pray thée gentle Reader what a cholorick and taunting spirite these Familers be of and yet they néedes will be called the Familye of loue as though all that commeth from them were nothing but loue and the very pefection of it selfe For so they affirme of themselues Now if these be their swéete and amiable wordes and louely phrases what cutting tearmes shall wée then looke for when they shall sée vs that wée withstand their enterprise and controule their doctrine especially seing that I did neither by worde nor writing euer geue thē any occasion But if this be their loue and perfection then truely I confesse that I meane not to walke with them I enuy not their happines neyther care I amōgest them to be reckoned vnperfect In deede these speaches be such as the Anabaptistes vsed agaynst the preachers of the Gospell which withstode their heresie they rayled on them calling them Lutherans Fol. 254. False and carnall Gospellers 255. erroneous and vnskilfull preachers 256. succeders of the Pharisies ibid. Hypocrites blinde guides fooles serpentes generations of vipers hirelinges 2576. fellowes of théeues whome Dauid maketh mention of Psal. 50. These were the flowers of Anabaptistes Rhetorique but S Paule teacheth vs another kinde of Eloquēce which becometh the children of God. Let all thinges sayth he be done in loue and the fruite of the spirite is loue ioy peace long suffering gentlenes goodnes fayth Loue suffereth long it is bountifull it enuieth not it doth not boast it is in déede and truth not in tongue and worde onely Now whether this family haue bene taught in the schole of the holy ghost or in the schole of the Anabaptistes I leaue it to the indifferent reader to be considered But if any man shall muse to sée such enuious speaches to flowe from so louely a familye I aunswere No
reade further Exod. 16.8.1 Sam. 8.7 Num. 16. chap. throughout I haue in this place gentle and indifferent reader to desire thée diligently to marke the sly and crafty dealing of this peuish Familye For in my Articles which I exhibited vnto them for my further satisfaction I added this clause of the outward calling of the minister which then I did suspect they denyed and since by their faythles demeanour of concealing that clause I am certainely perswaded to be true where also it shall not be amisse if besides their fond behauiour in ouerhipping that which they néedes must confesse to be truely reported of them by me to consider also how guilefully they protest that No man is able iustly to blame accuse detect or burthen them as transgressors of the lawe beīt agaynst any the Quéenes Maiesties proceadinges in causes Ecclesiasticall c. And yet in this place by me quoted out of the lamentable complaynt sent 34. They deny without their Familye their is no lawfull calling of Ministers Their wordes be these For to be a teacher or minister of the holy worde is not euery mans office but his only which is thereunto euen lyke as was Aaron called and elected of God whose rodde or staffe greeneth blossometh and beareth fruit as lykewise his which is a true disciple of the worde and louer of the truth hath receiued the learning and administration of his holy word with integritye of singlenes of hart of the Elders in the house of Loue obediently and euē so is growē vp vnder thobediēce of the loue in the holy vnderstādings till vnto the Elderdome of the man Christ and taught to the kingdome of God. And the same is by thē in playne wordes affirmed but more skoffingly and contemptuously in the same booke sent 34. But of that place more hereafter in the addition to the Article They with their cauill as it is common vnto them with their brethren the Papistes and Anabaptistes who alwayes not being able to criminate and blame the doctrine taught flye straight wayes to the persō of the preacher demaunded A Syr what auctoritye haue you to minister and who layd handes on your who called you c. as also their forefathers the old Pharisies which demaūded of S. Iehn the Baptist the same question with that learned man M. Musculus I aunswere Qui legitimé vocati non sunt quaestionem de vocatione mouent They which are not called lawfully first moue a controuersie about a lawfull calling which obiection M. Bullenger in his booke agaynst the Anabaptistes doth aunswere learnedly and at large Bullenger agaynst the Anabaptistes 3. booke 4. chap. 90. leafe An addition to the 5. Article of an outward calling SVch an one as in euen so with his vnderstanding and thoughtes become incorporate in all obediēce of the word to the truth of God and lyfe of Christ and euen so acknowledge the truth the same verily bideth rightly in the doctrine of Christ and is apt to minister the holy word of truth and to be a teacher of the people c. No man can teach the word of Christ and his doctrine but such as first haue bin obedient disciples of Loue. No man ought to busy himselfe about the word but the Elders in the Familye c. No man knoweth Christ nor the father nor yet also the seruices or Ceremonies of Christ but euen onely those which are euen so through Christ as we haue rehearsed renewed or regenerated in their spirite and mynde neither doth it also behoue or belong vnto any other to set forth any seruices of Ceremonies of Christ nor to preach or declare the Euangely but such are those whiche are sent of Christ himselfe for otherwise it is all false The Disciples of Christ could not vnderstand the clearenes of Christ before the fifty day taht the holy Ghost was poured vpon them much lesse then verely can now the Scripture learned which haue not kept the passeouer from death into lyfe and from flesh into spirite with Christ nor yet atteined through the power of the holy Ghost to the clearenes of Christ vnderstand out of the knowledge of the Scripture the clearenes of the word of Christ nor yet set forth or teach accordyng to the truth his ceremonies or seruices nor also preach or declare the Euangely of Christ ARTICLE 6. of HN. of vniting into God. ANd the Elders of the Familie sayth HN. are illuminated from God they are Godded with God they are incorporate into God with whō God also in one beyng is Hominified or become man. Theophilus WHat error is this if it were rightly sene vnto whilest the vine braunch is to be vined in the vine Iohn 15. he that is ioyned vnto the Lord is one spirite with him and are made partakers of the godly nature 2. Pet. 1.4 William Wilkinson TRue it is that a certaine godly and learned man affirmeth writyng vpon the fall of S. Peter When God leaueth vs to our selues their is not hope to stay from rūnyng headlong into sinne right so it fareth in Gods iudgement with this coale Prophet HN. and his dreamyng Disciple Theophilus For the maister on still fallyng from phantasie to phantasie and from one errour into an other and the scholer bringeth in stones and morter to build vp the confused heape of all impitie In the former clause was shewed that they vtterly cōdemne and mislike all Ordination and Election of Ministers with their Familie now if follweth to be handled what priuiledge and prerogatiue his Elders purchase vnto themselues by the admission they haue into that blynd societie HN. affirmeth very soberly as it séemeth that the Elders of his broode are illuminated and Godded with God or incorporated into god c. his scholer Theophilus laboureth to strengthen his Assertion with the testimony of Scripture to that ende by him wrested and wrongly alledged wherein seyng he cā not slippe the coller with me as erst he did in leauyng the former sentence now to outcountanaunce the truth with the impudencie of his forehead hee asketh What an errour is this if it were rightly seene vnto what errour do you aske truly an horrible palpable errour it is flat against the truth of the sacred scripture straungely saueryng of those dregges whiche you haue déeply dronke both at the hand of the Anabaptisticall Sinagogue and also of the Romish harlot sea of Antichrist But whereas you added a Caueat which is If it be rightly sene vnto I aunswere he that putteth on the Christall spectacles of Gods word and taketh in his hād the Lanthorne of holy write to looke diligently to your steppes shall straight trace out a théefe and a rebell agaynst the Lord. But first to procéede orderly let me aunswere your authorities and then in a word or two wil I set downe the horriblenes of that opinion You say The vine braunche is vined into the vine I finde no such wordes in the
or nation and religion as Christians in their Mahomet or Turkes in theirs Heathen in theirs c. To whom after HN. hath geuen particuler titles immediatly he in the same section addeth And yet furthermore euery head properly for himselfe hauing then so diuers and many maners of groundes beliefes religions ceremonyes offices and administratiōs as they will wherein they loue Gods truth and their righteousnes Then the which wordes what may be sayd more Sathan like or what euen belched out of the bottomles pit more blasphemous if all the fiendes of hell would conspire together to afford a graceles and godles speach whereby the hartes of them that stagger in the way of the truth if not wholy they might be drawne away to superstition for as for the worde Religion I feare me I haue attributed it to their scisme to often albeit the Familye of Loue in their Confession would faine be counted religious yet might they enioy the heresie of HN. with their opinions and fauour whatsoeuer liketh them best So that certayne it is whereas this his Euangelye and the other of his bokes were nayled vpon euery post in the common shops of stationers in dutch land commōly sould vntill by the restraint of the maiestrate they were bridled and called in they drew some Catholickes also to his faction for whose cause and with whome to créepe into fauour to haue a shealter ready for any storme so notable he commendeth the popish Hierarchie which order of popishe pollicye to let passe that famous infamous booke the Declaration of the Masse I meane after step by step he had extolled it aboue the cloudes from the hyest to the lowest he falleth downe after this sort Section 4. he commendeth the Pope and expoundeth Papa to signifie an olde Father in the holy vnderstanding to whome he coupeleth his Colledge of Cardinals sent 8. thirdly Primates sent 9. Bishops sent 10. Priestes sent 14. who say their seruice in the formest part of the Church that is in the chauncell Parsons Curates Proctours sent 16 Deacons sent 17. Sextons or keepers of holy thinges that the same muy be occupied in due season and times conuenient sent 18. Monkes which for the loue of righteousnes as HN. sayth are consecrated and sequestred from the world from whome well it were if the world were seperated also and from all that is worldly and fleshly set 19. and lastly the commen people sent 21. To the which for a conclusion he addeth Behold all this hath bin euen so in tymes past in his very true being when as yet the light of lyfe had the clearenes and the beliefe her seruice in the holynes of God the renewed or Goddead men vpon the earth all which shall now in the sam day lykewise of the Loue through the comming of Christ in the light of lyfe and his holy spirite be reduced or restored to his vpright fourme in the very true being according to the Christian lyke ordinaunces and florish in vigor or become forcible according to the promises The which as I quake to wright so to marke the ripenes of sinne that HN. is come vnto must it needes enforce the godly Christian and tender childe of God to melt at the horrible outrage therein conteined To the which if the goodwilling in England which are named the Familye of Loue shall reply and alledge for I hope they are not so far gone to defend this so great blasphmie agaynst the kingdome of the sonne of God and his gloryous gospell that they will not defend neither lyke in all thinges of his opinions to this I aunswere as M. Bullenger doth vnto the lyke obiection Sometyme they are of this iudgement sometymes of that neither doe they all agree among themselues in the certaintye of their errour for as truth onely is lyke it selfe error must nedes iar and disagre But herein it had ben somewhat more tollerable for our Fam. if they had not set downe this in wrighting that herein they might shew themselues to be perfect schollers of a peruerse maister But he that neuer kepeth touch with his seruauntes hath here betrayed them by their owne wordes to the world ere they were aware For in their first Epistle which they make as an aunswere to M. Rogers boke fol. 71. pag. v. lin 30. they vtter these wordes You forget say they to M. Rogers many protestantes in Rome Spayne Italy and many other places vnder the Byshop of Romes inquisition which hould it good pollicie to defend thēselues their cōsciences from such tyranny Will not you allow to others which you gladly chalenge to your selfe c. Whereby it is clearely proued and manifestly affirmed that HN. and his scholers termed the Fam. of Loue in England draw all in one line and hould the same opinions with Dauid George that he doth whom because they affirme by the testimonye of learned writers to be an Anabaptist néedes must it necessarye by the same consequence be vrged that they are Anabaptistes by their owne confession and labour to bring Anabaptistrie into the church from the which and other heresies sectes and scismes the Lord deliuer both vs and all his chosen dispersed wheresoeuer Amen It remaineth that with the lyke breuitye or greater if so large a matter may be conteined in a lesser roome as I before promised so I compare HN. with those euident noates manifest tokens of an heretique set downe by the spirite of God in holy Scriptures For by that iudge both he and I must be tryed to be true meaning men in this lyfe before the Militaunt Church and receiue our dome thereafter before the triumphāt Churche in the world to come Tokens of an heretique out of Scripture 1. Tokē THe holy ghost in the Scriptures doth liken those heretiques which disturbe the peace of the Church vnto Foxes which priuily and by night are wont to spoile and rauine And in lyke manner our Sauiour Christ doth describe not onely the father of heretiques but his children also by the name of a enuious mā which soweth teares whilest men sléepe S. Paule termeth then false teachers crafty creepers in S. Peter sayth false teachers shall priuilye bring in damnable heresies S. Iude sayth certaine men haue crept in which turne the grace of God into wantones vpon all the which places it may very easely be gathered that whosoeuer intendeth to broach any new and straunge doctrine as false coiners vse to doe he counterfaiteth in secret That this hath bin the practise of heretiques from tyme to tyme nedeth no long profe onely it is to be considered who it was that renued Arius heresie in Constantine the Emperours dayes was it not a priest which priuilye bare Constantia the Emperours sister in hād that the Counsell of Nice had done Arius wrong who thought not of Christes deuinitye as the Counsel supposed and the rumour was spread abroad of him c. And haue not the Familye of Loue
this long tyme borne their schollers in hand and others whome they séeke to seduce nay doe they not now at this instant perswade the simple that Henrye Nicolas and Christofer Vitels are no such men as they are bruted amōgest the people The lyke is reported by Iosias Simlerus in his Epistle prefixed before M. Bullengers booke agaynst the Anabaptistes Of the Anabaptistes themselues whom he sayth fly open conference and créeping from house and seduce the simple M. Huldrich Zuinglius in the same wordes doth vtter the same sence of the Catabaptistes of his tyme which sayth he priuily spread abroad their bookes in the handes of their owne sectaries Whereas when Christ taught any thing he came first into the Sinagogue priuilye sayth our Sauiour I haue sayd nothing The Apostles in semblable maner whē they preached any thing they came to the temple and when the hye priestes called them and commaunded them to silence committed them to prison the Aungell of the Lord sayd vnto them goe your way and stand in the temple and speake vnto the people c. Furthermore S. Paule comming vnto Antiochia on the Sabboth day he went into the Sinagogue and being at Athens when he saw the whole Citie geuen to Idolatrye openly in the market place he disputed with the Epicures and Stoick Philosophers and such as he met and Standing in the middest of the Mars streate he openly inueighed agaynst the superstitiō of that worthy Citye and Vniuersitye euen to the faces of the greatest Clerkes and wisest men or naturall light I meane in all the world besides Neither was S. Paule affraid of all their learning and countenaunce but boldly hee preached vnto them the vnknowen God and the resurrection from the dead vnto whome how vnlyke our Familyes are in zeale of profession I leaue to the whole world that knoweth them to iudge and their owne consciences to testifie For whether in the teaching of their doctrine and in the defending of the same they are lykest to the auncient Anabaptistes and to the ould heretiques and vnto S. Paule the Apostle this one coullor wherby we sée a schismatique discribed can sufficiently testifie For if the doctrine secretly taught by those who are termed the Famlye of Loue be such a truth and grounded vpon such inuincible profes as they in euery corner vse to bragge of why follow they not that course which the sonne of God by his example shaped forth vnto them that is euen in the presence of the ciuill and spirituall Magistrate in the chiefest Citye of the Realme and that in the concourse and greatest assēblies of the people why doe they not before them that openly blame them and in sermōs publiquely confute them protesting the truth of HN. his bookes openly at Paules crosse Nay being at Paules Crosse for their fantasticall opinions why doe they deny them and renounce them with detestation openly But herein did the Anabaptistes deale more orderly then our Fam. in England For they procured an open conference and disputation to be had in the presence of the Maiestrate thereby to testifie their schisme to be truth but our Fam. are so far from procuring an open that dare not abide a priuate conference if they be therevnto vrged by any man priuately without witnes whereby they indéede betray their sect to be but a scisme and shew how far vnlyke they are herein vnto the olde Prophets and Apostles of the Primatiue Church 2. Token of an heretique out of Scripture THe second note of an heretique saith S. Paule is this that those which sowe the corrupt séede of such erroneous doctrine as schismatiques most commōly doe they become vaine ianglers desirous to teach yet vnderstād not what they speake nor whereof they affirme Whereby it is geuē to vnderstād that they who in S. Paule his tyme began to sowe such séede were but simple men and in knowledge very base in that they toke in hand to dispute they wot not what and maintain that which they had no skill of Such in times past were heretiques and such as thought it a glorious and glittering thing in the sight of the world to set abroad straunge opinions that they onely might cary away the prick and prise not hauing so much as the emptye caske smalest smacke of learning And so alwayes hath it falne out that those partyes which first taught heresies were least able to defend them tel by little and little they gathered strength Sometyme vaine heades being not altogether vnlearned tooke part with them and vnhapely labored to perfect that which was vngratiously begone The chief of the Anabaptistes in Germanie were men silly for their wits rather to be pittied for their follie thē enuied for their knowledge Which being weary of their seuerall craftes and occupations sought by a more easie trade to get their liuyng And beyng of meane and illiberall sciences sought in the profession and interpretation of the word to shoulder and out face the Preachers therof with reprochfull tauntes and scoffes vntollerable such was Cnipper Dollyng and Iohn a Leid beyng a Boatcher HN. was a Mercer in Amsterdam and those who are yet alyue both in Emdene and London els where who haue kept him company and knew him very wel affirme that his knowledge was but small neither was he expert in any toung saue his owne Dutch toūg onely neither was he euer trayned vp in any liberall Art or had commendation for his learnyng Vitels was a Ioyner and if his learnyng was so singular as his frendes affirme it is lyke that he came by it rather by Reuelatiō thē by the ordinary meanes of study There is a T. in Cambridgeshyre who was Vitelles companion who was a flat Arrian as by his owne hand I am able to auouch and before men of worshyp Anno. 1574. March. 24. in Cābridge denyed Christ to be God equal with his father 2. He said that childrē are not by nature sinfull neither ought to be Baptised tell yeares of discretion 3. The Regenerate sinne not 4. S. Paule his Epistles be not to be more accompted of then the letters of priuate men This man beyng then a flat Arrian since once recanted his errour and secondly is falne into the same opinion His name is W. H. of B. perhaps vnto the Family he is not vnknowen for that Vitels had sometymes lodged in his house and hee vseth to conferre with them concernyng their opinions this man would séeme in the company of simple mē to be very learned and they that haue talked with him affirme that he hath many wordes but small wisedome beyng of a wealthy occupation but smal in wit and might be better occupyed to learne the first principles of Gods feare and him selfe bee instructed before he teach that which he hath no skill of And so is it with the chief Elders of our Louely Fraternitie some of them be Weauers some Basketmakers some Musitians some Botlemakers and
such other lyke which by trauailyng from place to place do get their lyuyng They whiche amongest them beare the greatest countenaunce are such as hauyng by their smoth behauiour and gloasing talke deceiued some Iustices of Peace and other worshypfull of coūtrey where they dwel haue gotten Licences to trade for Corne vp downe the countrey and vsing such a romyng kynde of Traffique kéepe not commonly any one certaine abidyng place but runnyng fiskyng frō place to place stay not for the most part any where long together saue where they hit vpon some simple husbandman whose wealth is greater then his wit and his wit greater then a care to kéepe him selfe vp right in God his truth and sincere Religion His house if it be farre from company and stand out of the common walke of the people with whom he dwelleth is a fit neast wherin all the byrdes of that fether vse to méete together Thus did the Anabaptistes in their tyme and I wishe hartely in the loue I beare to some of the Fam. that our Familiers of Loue were far vnlike them And thus much for the maner how and the persons by whom their doctrine is set abroad in the handes of the simple ¶ 3. Token to know an Heretique THirdly concernyng the doctrine which is by all heretiques generally taught in corners S. Iude sayth it maketh sectes S. Peter saith it speaketh euill of the way of truth S. Paul geueth them these titles Men that cause diuision and offences which serue not the Lordes Iesus but their owne bellyes who with fayre speach and flatteryng wordes deceiue the simple Now whether HN. haue made a sect and be author of admission or not the subscription of those letters whiche come from his Schollers with these wordes Your louyng Frendes the Fam. of Loue can sufficiently testifie That HN. speaketh euill of the way of truth is manifest for these be his woordes Whose false beyng vz. of the Preachers which through the false light haue taken on an imagination of knowledge is the Deuill the Antichrist the kingdome of the Maiestie of the Deuill him selfe c. and in the same place the 10. sent hee sayth they are but a neast of Deuils and of all wicked spirites The hearers of the Preachers hee calleth the Sinagogue of Sathan or Schoole of the Deuill What God HN. and his confederates serue I will not Iudge but what speach they vse towardes the simple people in their day communication with them whether they bee flatteryng and swéete wordes they can at large testifie who at any tyme haue vsed their company may easely affirme with what sugred woordes they féede the itchyng eares of those whō they labour to draw into their opinions Furthermore S. Peter he termeth the doctrine of heretiques Welles without water cloudes caried about with the tempest speakyng swellyng wordes of vanitie S. Iude sayth they are corrupt trees without fruite twise dead and pulled vp by the rootes ragyng waues fomyng out their owne shame wandryng starres c. The which excellent Metaphores here vsed by the holy Ghost liuely and to the full describe vnto vs the properties of Schismaticall teachers and their hereticall doctrine For the nature of the cloud is when the earth is parched with heate the fruite thereof for want of moysture begynneth to windell and wither away with gladsome weate and siluer dropes to cherish and relieue the tender plantes whiche by the hardnes of the earth doth hurt their sappy iuice for want of water euen so should the Preachers of Gods word and Ministers of the Gospell with wholesome doctrine and godly exhortations water the consciences and supple the hartes of their hearers which are wounded with the féelyng of their sinnes and inwardly in some measure touched with a conceaued grief because they haue displeased God whiche is their louyng Father and mercyfull redéemer And this is that which S. Paule calleth the Preachers of the word waterers and planters 1. Cor. 3. chap. 6. vers Now in so much as Schismaticall and phantasticall teachers make in worde great boast and to the worlde wardes will néedes cary a countenaunce of planters and waterers Yet when the afflicted soule and tormented hart shall come to such welles to draw thinkyng with their liquor to be relieued when they looke for most succour their comfort is the least and all the hope they haue of moysture is turned into emptines for the least storme that is will soone scatter such cloudes and the smallest heate will so resolue them that when our hope is the greatest our helpe is very small So that in false teachers it is assuredly true whiche the holy Prophet long sithence complained of the halting Israelites their goodnes is like a mornyng cloude and as the dew that goeth early away Now whether HN. his writyngs haue in them ought but swellyng woordes of mans vanitie and beyng fruitles trées and starres that wander without a certaine motion it is a litle further of vs to be considered For to examine the matter conteyned in HN. his bookes it is very small and silly for let the diligent Reader pare and set aside his wrested and violent Allegories his vnusuall and insignificant phrases of beyng Vnited into the perfect beyng of the loue in the spirite incorporatyng into God consubstantiatyng with christ c and such lyke wordes of course he shall finde small substaunce and litle stuffe in matter that may be gathered by the order of readyng by pen or memory and sometyme he shal be so plunged in the wordes and wander for matter that hee shall very hardly or not at all make sence of that hee readeth That this is true they know whiche are occupyed in the perusing of them As for his vayne and idle quotation they are innumerable whiche as Mutes vpon a stage called forth to fill vp a roome and make a shew depart not vtteryng any word at all His cityng of Scriptures sometymes for the phrase wherein his greatest vayne is and wherein oftentymes hee is vaynely occupyed sometymes for one word onely hee clappeth out many places without any further matter sometymes neither for word nor yet for matter Yea sometymes he alledgeth a place for a proofe which cleane ouerturneth the Assertion why he induceth it for As for example 1. Exhortation 6. chap. sent 41. leafe 17. line 16. to proue the resurrection he alledgeth Ezechiell 36. chap. b. there is no such place neither in that whole Chapter any word that maketh mention of the resurrection In the .37 chapter v. vers 4. c. the resurrection is clearely prophecied and by him rightly and to the purpose alledged But Esay 26. c. vers 14. The dead shall not lyue neither shall the dead arise c. Is alledged to the same purpose where the woordes séeme to be cleane contrary where note also what HN. thinketh of the Resurrection beyng meant that the Lord will so scourge the wicked that euen in
that is tell sinne in thē be subdued 12. The Pelagians and Coelestinians denyed the doctrine of Predestination wholy the Papistes deny it in part the Familie in the first Epistle to M. Rogers blaspheme the doctrine callyng it a licentious doctrine which filleth all the prisons almost in England Contrary to the whole body of the Scriptures particularly Rom. 9.11 Ephes 1.1 Tim. 3.16 13. Nouatians Donatistes say that the Church ought to be spotles the Papistes say that the Church can not do amisse or erre so do the Fam. affirme that the Commaundemētes are able to be kept and that there is a perfection in the godly and regenerate in this lyfe Docum sent cap. 1. sent 7.1 epist. Praefac sent 2.6 1. Exhort cap. 7. sent 19. cap. 12. sent 18. cap. 15. sent 26. cap. 17. sent 18. Euang. cap. 4. sent 1. cap. 21. sent 2. cap. 25. sent 2.5 cap. 27. sent 1. cap. 28. sent 13. cap. 37. sent 14. And Vitels in his reply to M. Rogers display And the .2 Epistle of the Family to M. Rogers pag. 1. fol. 86. per E.R. 14. The Origianistes and Hierarchitae denyed that Paradise was a certaine materiall place HN. depraueth the History by wrestiyng it into an Allegorie 1. Epist. cap. 3. sent 17.18.19.22 And the Fam. by the picture of a hart of a man vtterly deface the written word affirmyng also Adam did not eate a materiall fruite 15. The Family of Loue affirme that men that lyue wickedly cā not teach the truth 1. Epist to M. Rogers fol. 73. a. so affirme the Anabaptistes 16. The Nouatians c. Arrians Donatistes affirmed that those which were Baptised by others then their fellow heretiques were not truly Baptised and therefore they ought to be rebaptized HN. sayth that without the Familie of Loue by him founde there is no true Christian Baptisme .3 Artic. pag. 33. of this booke 17. The Pellagiās affirmed that infants ought not to be Baptised so did the Anabaptistes affirme tell they come to yeares of discretiō So sayth HN. Euāg cap. 19. sent 11. And thus much in few woordes by the way of Comparison first to declare that Henry Nicholas is a Blasphemer Secondly A false Prophet foretold of by Christ the Prophetes and Apostles Thirdly that in 17. pointes he agreeth with all the old Heretiques in their particular heresies shal be sufficient ARTICLE 8. HN. Videl What is to bee required in his Disciples THe Disciples of the Family must giue ouer them selues to be obedient Iam. 1. b. Disciples of the gracious worde and the seruice of the Eldest of the Loue and renounce all their selfe wisedome 1. Cor. 30. owne knowledge and bee perswaded that before their new Ioh. 3. c. byrth that they know nothyng c. Theophilus VIdel of the godly causes or haue no experimented but a literall knowledge therof William Wilkinson THis whole 8. Article beyng framed of diuers seuerall propositions with sundry interpretations of Theophilus vnto many partes of it may for orders sake be reduced into these thrée especiall pointes The first is what HN. requireth at the handes of all them that desire to be incorporate into his Fam. what it is which he would haue them thinke cōcernyng them selues videl They which desire to be Disciples c. must giue ouer them selues and renounce their owne knowledge and be perswaded they know nothyng but they must stand single mindedly to heare right sentences of their Elder c. Secondly what opinion they must haue of their Elder in their Fam. that is They must not mistrust the Eldest in the Familie nor suspect any maner of euill or vnwisedome by him nor perswade them selues that the instructions taught by the Father of the Fam. of Loue or Oldest Elder are to 1. Cor. 1. b. slight or childish or to vnwise for them to follow after or to obey Thirdly what deuotiō they must haue to the doctrine beyng heard of the Elder and how they must be affectioned thereunto that is Yet must not their Disciples cary the resolution and instruction of their Elders as in maner of acknowledge in their memory and vnderstandyng The other clause conteinyng reuelations confession of sinnes to the Eldest in the Familie beyng thynges of great importaunce I shall hādle them seuerall in particular Articles hereafter ¶ The first part of the 8. Article videl No learnyng or knowledge THe Disciples of the Familie must giue ouer c. and be perswaded that they know nothyng c neither cā they iudge rightly c. First Theoph. expoundeth thus It is very true for so shall they escape the deceipt of the enemy and not remayne in errour nor yet be deceiued Euen as a certaine prophane Rhetoritian which beyng desired to instruct on that was well mynded toward his Arte of pleadyng when hee asked to great a stipende was aunswered by him that desired to bee his Scholler that he was somewhat already entred into the principles of that facultie whereby his Maisters paynes should be the lesse The Oratour replyed that therfore he ought to haue a double sallarie because first he must teach hym to forget and vnlearne that which he had already bene practised in and then afterwardes he must enforme hym a freshe after an other Methode right so dealeth HN. in this article with them which by him desire to be instructed into his Louely Familie vz. he affirmeth that none in his Schoole can profite sufficiently vnlesse before he enter therein he vtterly goe backewardes and vnlearne that whiche he hath learned before he come of him to be instructed Wherein the Deuill that old Serpent and subtill Scholemaister very wily doth séeke to insinuate vnto vs that vnto the knowledge of that errour the which at his hand he would haue vs to receiue there is no further vnderstandyng expedient then wholy to submit our selues to embrace the doctrine which he séeketh to set forth vnto vs so that whatsoeuer knowledge any man hath in any point of learnyng vnto HN. his further instruction in his sect it is nothyng worth at all but vtterly it must be reiected and concerning any skill it doth not greatly matter whether the nouice which commeth to be further instructe be expert in any kynde of knowledge vtterly or ignoraunt It is very true that he which measureth the mercyes of God carnally and accordyng to his sensuall vnderstandyng doth erre with the Capernaites and he whiche examineth the hygh and heauenly secretes of the most wise God accordyng to the crooked rule of mans reason and in the ballaunce of flesh and bloud the incomprehensible wayte of so great misteries can neuer aright vnderstand the thynges which are good For euery man hath no fayth without the whiche seyng God can not be pleased how is it to be hoped that without the brightnesse of that candle any man can sée to do ought that God shall loue and like of Now if hereupon the Familie will gather as perhaps they will and some Anabaptistes
straight way take for gould whatsoeuer glistereth But to stand vnto HN. his iudgemeÌ„t shall we thinke that if HN. were in the open Marte of EmdeÌ„ or Amsterdame that he would be such a want witte as to take all kynde of coine that were brought him neuer examine it would he neuer bring his siluer to the touch nor his gold to the ballaunce so fareth it with Gods children in buying the precious pearles of Gods truth and heauenlye doctrine they must touch all with the proportioÌ„ of fayth and as in the meate wherewith our body is nourished the daunger of poyson is carefully to be auoyded and taken héede of neither can we be to warye that the health of our bodyes be indamaged so is the infection of doctrine by the contagiousnes whereof our soule is in hazard it is most diligently to be considered of for that as the one doth endaunger but the body the other doth pitch down hedlong both body and soule into euerlasting torments The principle which HN. doth publish in this place is mere Papisticall as witnesseth M. Stapleton in his booke of Controuersies the wares he offereth to sale he hath bought at Rome of the purpule strumpet as ye by marke may sone discerne which will bring it to light and offer it to the triall if they demaund vnto what light or triall I aunswere vnto that candle which S. Peter sayth shineth in a darke place and we shall doe well if we will looke vnto Let vs then in a word or two consider of HN. his doctrine by the Analogie of fayth and light of holy scripture and straight way espy the difference betwixt HN. his wordes and the worde of God. HN. sayth He must not be suspected or mistrusted whatsoeuer he teach Our Sauiour Christ geueth vs warning to take heede of false Prophets HN. sayth if the Eldest say it it must be beleued Herod demaunding of the Scribes where Christe should be borne was aunswered at Bethlem in the land of Iuda for thus it is written Miche 5.2 so there vnto the truth of their aunswere they ioyned a profe out of the scripture yet will HN. haue vs beleue his resolution and that without profe wherein he dealeth more vnequally with vs then Herod was delt withall by the Scribes and Pharisie Furthermore HN. sayth that right sentences must be heard of the Eldest in the Familye Christ sayth it must be learnd out of the Scripture HN. draweth his disciples from the examination of his doctrine for sayth he they must not suspect it to be to sleight childish or vnwise for theÌ„ to follow The noble Berrheans when they heard S. Paule preach searched the scriptures dayly whether those thinges were so S. Paule biddeth vs iudge what he sayth and proue all thinges and S. Iohn sayth Try the spirites whether they are of God adding also a reason for many false prophets are gone out into the world and yet sayth HN. his doctrine must not be examined The spirite of the Prophets sayth S. Paule are subiect to the Prophets and in another place speaking to the whole Church and euery particuler member thereof he sayth that the Discerning of spirites is the gift of God. The kingly Prophet Dauid sayth that he was made wiser then his enemies by the law of God and that he had more vnderstanding then his teachers because he meditated in Gods lawe he vnderstode more then the aged because he kept Gods preceptes For by his worde he gat vnderstanding which worde alone it is whereby the simple on s are lightned instructed yet would HN. haue vs leaue the broad and beaten highway refusing all such meanes as holy Dauid was a bettered by and digge vnto vs cisterns out of his inuentions where he first accused Gods reuealed worde and ordinarie meanes and fly to his strong methode whereby he sayth his schollers may attaine perfect wisedome But the same perswasion wherewith HN. séeketh to blinde his sectaries yf they would profite vnder the instruction of the Eldest not to suspect his doctrine which he termeth right sentences but they should stand single mindedly to receiue the doctrine of the Ouldest Father in the Familye is that wherewith Eue was beguiled in Paradice But as many as are Christes sheepe heare his voyce and they follow him onely neither know they the voyce of straungers Lastly whereas HN. would not haue the truth of his doctrine come in contruersie or be doubted of he secretly would steale away with this Papisticall assertion that he can not erre And so lykewise Vitels affirmeth of HN. saying I know not how he or any other should erre which are ruled by the spirite of God. Which is all one with the iudgement of the Papistes concerning the Pope in determining of matters of religion So that they will not onely driue vs to poysoned pastures but in eating whatsoeuer they shall set before vs we shall by them be compelled to be accessarye vnto our owne destruction And thus desiring the Reader to marke how iust the Papistes and HN. doe iumpe in this point I end the second part of this 8. Article ¶ The third part of the 8. Article THe third and last clause of this Article as it is a palbable grosse and an absurde Paradox so is the fondnesse therof more euident in that it setteth it selfe not onely flatly contrary to the written word of God but also it is manifestly repugnaÌ„t to HN. his own doctrine deliuered in his bookes and lastly to the very practise of humane Artes and the light of nature it selfe in the iudgement of all the which witnesses it is most fonde and foolish The wordes them selues are manifest and not able to be denyed vz. And not for to cary the resolution and instruction â—s in maner of a knowledge in their memory or vnderstandyng in the helpyng and saluyng wherof the Expositor Theophilus is farre ouer the shoes that beyng not able to shift the errour or to get out of so manifest a slyp he returneth the fault vpon me by a Rhetoricall Anticipation and thinketh wholly to stoppe my mouth byddyng me looke on the text and leaue my peruertyng whereas if I should looke vpon it neuer so often I should not neither if I should vse his eyes finde any wordes then already I haue set downe For that which he him selfe addeth for an Exposition how I pray you doth it expounde vz. Yea verely but not to cary the resolution as in manner of a knowledge in their memory looke the text and leaue your peruertyng But thus falleth it out with those whose heades labour with a Schismaticall phantasie euen as a woman is payned in her trauaile tell she be deliuered But to come to HN. his wordes The Disciples must not cary the instruction c. Thinkes that these thrée seuerall and distinct phrases haue this meanyng To cary in maner of a knowledge in Latin cognitione coÌ„plecti
that is to know to cary an instructiō in memory in memoria habere to Romēber or haue in remembraunce And to cary in vnderstanding intelligentia compraehendere to vnderstand from the which proprieties of speach if either HN. or Theophilus shall séeke to slip they shall straight declare how well they are ouersene in the tounges and common speach So that if vpon all these we shall gather this sentence The Familie must not know remember nor vnderstand the doctrine or instruction whiche the Eldest in the Familie deliuereth forth vnto them which Eldest sayth Theophilus is Christ him selfe and his holy worde How blasphemously and Papistically HN. and Theophilus do play the heretiques is manifest For what man is so blynd that he will not sée or so gracelesse that he will not confesse that The word of God must be knowne remembred and vnderstode of the simple if this be not Popery what is Popery And that First the simple ought to know Secondly vnderstand Thirdly remember these places quoted for proofe out of the Scripture shal be sufficient Furthermore HN. is contrary to his owne doctrine which he him selfe teacheth in his owne bookes whereas for his vsual Embleme he taketh 1. Exhort cap. 12. sent 10. b. this sentence or posie for his cōmon badge whereby his bookes are knowne frō others of his fellow Elders Take it to hart Which is according to the best translations Let thine hart hold fast my wordes Where it is ment that his wordes ought wholly and throughly to be knowne vnderstode and remembred contrary to his former doctrine in the place first alledged But to let passe these two former partes of contrarietie betwixt HN. and the written word of God secondly betwixt him selfe and his owne writynges if we diligently way and consider we shall assuredly finde that this thyrd clause concerning naturall reason and common experience it is as wholly agaynst HN. and impugneth his doctrine as truth is agaynst falsehode and light darknes And herein to vse the same example which the Scripture doth in like matter The wiseman doth very excellently commend the diligence of diuers men in their sundry occupations and seuerall handlabours As the Grauer in his Imagery the Smith at his anuill the Potter at his clay all these sayth the wiseman vse wisedome in their worke whiche they could not do vnlesse their common practise had taught them experience and vse makyng thē perfect they should by remembraunce renew the same from tyme to tyme which they before had learned And to vse yet more familiar example think you that it is lyke that when Vitels Maister instructed him in his Arte of Ioignerie was it not conuenient for him to instruct his Prentice Vitels often in those thynges whereby he might get his liuyng in time to come and was it not Vitels part to cary his maisters Arte and his instructions in his memory and vnderstandyng els if he had not remembred his maisters preceptes how should he hau◠compacted that great knowledge neither haue got the singular cōmendation for to be so skilfull a Ioyner as his Familie doth report of him that he is albeit for greater matters sake he hath lefte that his trade now professeth him selfe a teacher in that his Louely Familie What Schoolemaster vnto his Scholers would so oftē take paynes to inculcate and repeate the selfe same principles with great labour vnto the one and vnpleasauntnes vnto the other if he thought it not expedient that it should be of him remembred And blessed Esay saith Precept must be vpon precept and line vpon line here a litle and there a litle to the end that by often iteratyng the same thyng it might the better be remēbred But séekyng to conuince HN. by the ineuitable and most certaine rule of reason why doe I alledge Scripture seyng that the excellent Philosophers Themistocles Simonides Carneades Sceptius Metrodorus are singularly praysed in prophane writers for the worthy remembraunce which they had in Philosophy and other Sciences and shal we thinke that seyng by the kéepyng of Gods commaundements there is great reward ought we not to remember those thynges for the remēbraunce wherof we shal receaue a reward or how shal we kéepe them if we do not remember them True it is that is wisely remembred by a Heathē Oratour Memoria non modo Philosophiam sed omnē vitae vsum omnesque Artes vna maxime continet Remembraūce doth not onely conteine Philosophy but also the whole practise of mans lyfe yea she alone comprehendeth all other Artes and Sciences whatsoeuer But what should I oppose the iudgement of the wise agaynst him that is witles and the Scriptures diuine testimonies agaynst a prophane and godles Atheiste Whose scope iustly iūpeth with the Romanistes in this to forbyd a particular knowledge in matters of saluation and to teach that if men beleue as the Church beleueth they can not do amisse In the confutation wherof seing that by these thréefold testimonies I haue throughly conuinced HN. his Assertion for this 8. Article and all the partes therof let this be sufficient ARTICLE 9. HN. Of Reuelations FOr vnto the Elders and Fathers God hath reueled his word in this day of loue Publishyng of the peace cap. 1. sent 12. 6. The Lord hath reueled the true beyng vnto me out of Sion and Ierusalem Esay 2. a. Mich. 4. a. 2. Pet. 1. b. HN. sayth the mistery of the kingdome of god Math. 25. d. Actes 16.17 d. Iude. 1. b. his righteous iudgementes and the commyng of Christ now in the last time in the resurrection of the dead Ezech. 37. b. Iohn 5. e. Rom. 8. b. Phil. 3. b. is declared vnto him as vnto an elect vessell house or dwellyng of God from the mouth of God himselfe HN. sayth hee will declare the secret mysteries of God and make relation of thynges that are hidden from the beginnyng of the world William Wilkinson VNto many it may séeme straunge and scarse credible vnto some that there should lyue a people vpon the earth whiche not holdyng them selues content with the written word of God would adde vnto it some tricke of their own deuising which although they agréed as euill as a new péece of clothe vnto an old garment yet fayne would they their toyes were pewefellowes with the sacred truth of God not onely to match but some tymes to geue a checkemate vnto the same Yet vnto him that equally considereth all things with an vnpartiall eye it is easely to be sene that it was not onely the practise of the Popishe Prelacie so to outface the simplicity of the Scripture partly with the bringyng their blynd and vnsauery traditions partly with the burthenyng of the church with the intollerable yoke of their vnwritten verities but the dealyng of the Anabaptistes and Libertines and all other like Heretiques hath agréed in this accord that when the touchstone would not serue and a naked truth would not so much hide
handled more at large And though that those which know not Theophilus bringing vp may by vnséemely and vnciuile speach thinke it to haue ben very rude in that at the first stoppe he breatheth out into this homely phrase that is vntrue and ye vtterly shame your selfe yet being somewhat acquainted and hauing as his phrase is an experimentall knowledge of his modestie I toke him better then he meaneth not measuring him by his owne elwand For I wot well it alwayes will be truth that the ould Oratour sayth to his frend Qui semel vericundiae fines transiliuerit c. He that once hath raunged without the listes of honestye he without all hoe must néedes be impudent To proue that I haue vnderstode amisse and falsified HN. his meaning in my places which I haue set downe Theophilus referreth me to the Lamentable complaint to the same sect which I quoted before thinking belike the if I looked againe I should finde it otherwise in the section 6.7 The words that I misliked in that place are these Euen as partely that same is well knowen and become manifest vnto vs of certaine namely of those which are the auncientest in the scripturlearnednes or principallest in the Ceremonye seruice which haue made vp themselues agaynst the truth of Gods testimonies and his promises agaynst the holy spirite of Christ and agaynst the Loue c. This place whome HN. in playne wordes auoucheth that the Auncientest that is the Bishops and reuerend Fathers and preachers of the word in the Scripture learnednes the principallest in the Ceremonye seruice c. is that wherewith I charged him The same is more euidently also to be sene 1. Exhor cap. 15. sentence 8. and 10. c. which is a slaunderous and a blasphemous section which because it is tedious I refraine to set downe verbatim after HN. his copie And Chapt. 16. sent 3. For certaine take in hand vse out of the imagination of the knowledge whereon they set their hartes at peace false God seruices which they notwithstandyng institute or bryng in for true God seruices Religions Lawes and Commaundementes of God and plant the same knowledge into the people as though they ought of right to be obedient thereunto And sent 14. Dare any man teach or set forth any thyng through the imagination of the knowledge whether he then haue taken on the same out of the learnednesse of the Scriptures or out of his good thinking wisedome as a word or Commaundement of the Lord or yet to institute any seruices out of the letter of the Scripture accordyng to his good thinking and so to plucke or make subiect the hartes of men to dissention thereunder c. sent 15. 16. By all the which places it is manifest what opinion he hath of the preachyng of Gods word that it is but an institute knowledge inuented by mans wit to the bredyng of discord dissētion then the which I say not what Papist what Atheist or Macheuile in the world could write or inuent any thyng more vngodly Besides this I am able to auouch by myne own experiēce that some with whō I haue conferred which haue affirmed that the Scripture is to hard for a simple mā and therfore the bookes of HN. do make a more easie passage and geue a readyer way to the vnderstandyng therof In somuch as when that the Elders haue perswaded any man to become their sectarie they haue for a tyme taken all the bookes of holy Scriptures from him and all other bookes altogether and geue him the bookes of HN. to meditate and be exercised in and this is that which HN. him selfe exhorteth them after this sort Glasse your beyng and minde in the glasse of righteousnes Iam. 1. c. and behold therein how many spottes and wrinkles there are yet in you Wherein he sheweth that he preferreth his booke which he termeth the Glasse of righteousnesse before the word of God in referryng them thereunto for to espy the spottes of sinne cleane contrary to the word of God which teacheth vs that the knowledge of sinne commeth by the law And this he doth not in this place alone but also almost at the end of euery Chapter in his Euang. This horrible treason agaynst God and his word as it would make any Christian hart to melt so is it not for the manifest impietie therof by many argumentes or places so much to be confuted as by the losse of the lyues of such gracelesse Atheistes to be chastised which the sooner shall stay if those to whom the Lord hath committed the care of his Church and gouernaunce of this commō wealth shal by some waight of seuere and sharpe lawes kéepe vnder so horrible impietie and blasphemy agaynst the sonne of god For herein is the infection more pestilent that the bookes of HN. beyng made of equall countenaunce with the word of God the writynges of HN. are receiued as a playne and easie truth the word of God either wholy abandoned and set aside or els read by the ouersight and allowance of their Elders who often tyme dust the beames of the truth by their vayne Allegories and idle Expositions But this is the iudgement of God which is iustly in great measure come vpon vs that whilest diuers of the ministers of the word haue not preached the word as the word of God and the people haue heard it as the word of man it is come to passe I say that our eyes are blynded least we should sée and our eares waxed deafe least we should heare our hartes are waxed dull least we should beleue and so the secret though iust punishment of hardnes of hart is come vpon vs so that thereby euery day we are nearer hell then other For what wickednes can be compared with this or what blasphemie hath the world euer bene witnes of the like that the fonde nature of our flesh as a swift streame hath caryed vs to the depth of such impietie that we should loade and burthen the blessed word of the eternall God with such intemperate and graceles tauntes as to doubt whether the truth be the truth or no. Well I say no more but he that is filthy let him be filthy still And that Argument which S. Paule thinketh to be of such weight to proue his preachyng to haue bene the vndoubted truth of God the same would I vse to perswade all such as wauer in the truth therof Proue your selues whether ye are in the fayth examine your selues knowe ye not your owne selues how that Iesus Christ is in you except ye be cast awayes c. Wherein S. Paule appealeth vnto their owne consciēce to approue the certaintie of his doctrine truth of his Apostleshyp Right so say I vnto the Familie of Loue that whereas they affirme we teach nothyng but our owne good thinkyng I demaunde of them when they heare the word of God preached and their consciences shaken with the terrour thereof
lyes seducyng and deceitfull what soeuer c. The reason is framed out of HN. his owne wordes the which is both mere Anabaptisticall and also flat Donatisticall by Fulgentius obiected vnto S. Augustine My Church is spotles therfore the true Church sayth the Donatist to the which S. Augustin auÌ„swered Who can bring any cleane thyng out of filthynes Because that as long as the Church is visible in doctrine and lyfe euery part therof is attainted with the dregges of imperfection But the Donatist vrgeth Agge 2. cap. b. 13. for proofe S. August aunswereth Shew me where Agge departed from the middest of that people least he should be defiled amoÌ„gest them And a litle after in the same place followeth We must depart from the company of the wicked with our myndes not our fleshe with our workes not with our bodyes Communicate not sayth S. Paule with the vnfruiteful workes of darknes he forbiddeth them their workes not their exercises in Religion not their Sacramentes And in an other place most playnly to the point we haue in hand he sayth No maruaile it is if good wordes which are vttered for the people by the Byshop in prayers are heard for it is not because of waywardnes of the Prelate but for the deuotion of the people And as learnedly so truly sayth Nazienzen euen as the printed forme that is engrauen in any mettall be it lead or yron brasse or gold the thyng imprinted is still the same and is not empayred by the basenes of the mettall but alwayes it retaineth one fourme and as a sealed letter is not preiudiced by him that doth deliuer it if it be deliuered in such order as he receiueth it so the message and proclamatioÌ„ of Gods truth is alwayes the same to them that heare it what soeuer he be that vtter it neither is the excellency of the thyng adnihilated by the wickednes of the person For it were an incredible thyng that the abuse of any thyng should make the thyng it selfe to cease to be and the holy diuine Ministry of the Lordes word Sacramentes as first it was by him instituted so therfore is it the more glorious both for his sake that first founded it as also for our sakes and the safety of soules whom the Lord in that behalfe hath most graciously prouided for So that wee must beware that we defile not the Lordes Testament by our wantonnes nor carelesly contemne the ordinaunce of the Lord by our misdemeanour for he that thought in his secret counsaile these to be the sittest way for our welfare if we shall make accompt of it as worldlynges do as of some common trifle or meane benefite or with HN. rend them that deliuer the Lordes pearles vnto vs albeit they come but in earthen and tree vessels yet shall he inuent in his iustice such a plague to scourge vs with that both as many as heare it their eares shall tingle at it neither shall the starre therof be forgotten of all posteritie As for many that stumble at Christ for because they know him not or happlesly contemne him because the day starre as yet is not risen in them or thinke but basely of his bride because she is but browne of coullor yet they must know if allready they haue not learned it that the corne must not be contemned because it lyeth hidden in the chaffe that net must not be neglected for the fish that is vnprofitable the great house must not be slaundered because there are in it vessels of dishonour the ayre not to be refused nor the sunne thought lightly of because the wicked and the godly doe equally enioy them Diuers Churches haue bene the Lordes swéete shéepfoldes and yet haue had their wantes and he that will leaue the company of the godly because of the wicked would goe out of the world for the wickednes therof must tary yet a while that hee may haue his way streightned agaynst the tyme that the Lord shall come to call hym Euen as HN. in the former 3. Sections with great disdayne and despite hath slaundered the Preachers in affirmyng that they could not preach the truth because they are not regenerate wherein first he vttered an egregious vntruth agaynst their lyfe secondly agaynst their doctrine so in the 4. Sentence or Section he preuenteth an obiectioÌ„ that may be made by vs concernyng the thing that is preached which he in playne wordes affirmeth to be but the outward letter and therfore otherwhere he calleth vs Doctours of the letter The witnes whereby he thinketh to conuince vs and to proue the allegation to be true is taken out of Ieremy and it is the slaunder wherwith the Prophet was reproched by that people for they termed his doctrine which he did deliuer vnto them from the Lord a doctrine of wynde c. the which their slaunder the Lord threatneth in that place shall be mightly recompenced by the Babylonians As then Ieremy was slaundered by theÌ„ whom he calleth an adulterous people vers 7.8 so doth HN. slaunder the Gospell preached in these dayes without his Familie termyng it a letter so that herein he notably sheweth him selfe to be a shameles railer vsing euen the same accusation agaynst vs now that was vsed agaynst the Prophet then And if the people were scourged with the whippe of bondage then for vtteryng this graceles speach doth HN. and his Familie thinke for renuyng the same slaunder that he shall escape punishment As for the other places which follow Ieremy 6. and 8. there is no such thing in them to be found as HN. doth dreame of Ezech. 13. chap. vers 7.8.9 declareth nothyng but the shamefull abuse of the word by the false Prophets of Iudaea he calleth their prophecies vayne and lying visions The which if HN. do alledge generally to all Preachers it is a shameles accusatioÌ„ and he alledgeth his Scripture without discretion For whereas he often stumbleth vpon this terme the vnregenerate Scripture learned he that marketh HN. well shall finde that he quoteth most of his places for the phrase and maner of speach onely and not for any matter or note to be founde in the place by him quoted so that he whiche blameth other men vnworthely may herein most worthely be termed A Doctour of the letter Neither is HN. the first that reuileth the Gospell with this his most opprobrious reproch For he doth but renew the old slaunders whiche haue by heretiques bene hatâ—hed long heretofore Hosius an Archpapist vseth the like vnreuerent speach termyng the Scripture a bare and dead letter Lewes a Canon of Lateran in Rome calleth it dead ynck so doth Piggius wretchedly blaspheme saying it is a nose of wax a dumbe iudge Eckius very gracelesly sayth it is but a blacke Gospell and incken diuinitie Staphilus sayth it is a new Idoll set vp in the hart of man Zwinckfeild sayd it is but a bare and dead
did not bow to heare him nor vouchsafe him pardō will Theophilus say that he is giltles for beyng condemned for that transgression So may it be sayd of Caine before he committed that horrible murther the Lord did not onely frowne vppon him but gaue him likewise a watchword that if he stayd not his furie there was a punishment prepared for him and the continuall torment of conscience should not departe from him Dare Theophilus affirme that now seyng the Lord stayd not his hand from heauen in the staying of his brother is God therefore guiltie of that murther as well as Caine because the tongues of them that teach false doctrine are not rent out of the mouthes of heretiques and those that defile the Lordes Priesthode are not plagued is God not iust yes Theophilus God will recōpence the slownes of his punishment with the waight therof our God shall come and not stay for euer looke you therfore before hand to your standyng that ye be not cast out of the holy Citie and haue your part with those that wepe eternally And thus much to your Articles and aunsweres The summe of the opinions of cercertaine Libertines 1 FIrst they affirme that the preaching of the word is not the ordinarye meanes to come to the knowledge of the worde but by reason 2 Secōdly that no man which is faulty himselfe can preach the truth to others 3 Those preachers which doe take in hand to preach the word of God before man be regenerate doe take the office of the holy Ghost out of his hand 4 Those that be doctors and learned can not preach the word truely their reason is because Christ sayth it is hidden from the wise and prudēt and is reueiled to sucklinges and babes 5 There is no deuill but suche as the painters make 6 They which haue the spirite of God know all thinges 7 That we ought not to geue our almes to beggers for that they liue in the consumablenes and that there was no begger in Israell 8 Mariage is a sacrament and wonderfull speculation 9 That there were misteries and great speculations in the Masse if they could be attained vnto and that it was a God seruice 10 Also the seruice that we haue taken for a gods seruice is not so and in so taking it both they and we are deceiued 11 That Adam did not sinne at all their reason is Adam did not sinne but the woman 12 There is no man Gods childe but he that can shew his Pedigrue 13 The martyrs in Q. Maryes dayes ought not so to haue died for in so dying they distroyed the temples of God. 14 That whosoeuer hath Gods Spirite can not sinne and that the Prophet Dauid did not sinne after that tyme he had receiued the holy Ghost 15 That a man ought not to wearie his bodye in trauaile and labour For say they the holy ghost will not tarye in a body that is wearie and yrksame 16 Where there is any contention there is not the spirite of God for say they the spirite is not deuided 17 That the witch which raysed vp the deuill in the lykenes of Samuell was no witch but the wisedome of God and the spirit that she raysed vp was Samuell himselfe 18 That Adam was the sonne of God otherwise then by creation 19 That there be many bookes besides the Bible which Esdras speaketh of should be reuealed and come abroad before the end 20 That the Bible is not the word of God but a signification thereof and that the Bible is but ynk and paper but the word of God is spirite and lyfe 21 That they may not speake the truth bouldly and openly because the truth will not be heard 22 That there are Some which now are liuing which doe fulfill the Law in all pointes William Wilkinson ALbeit there be diuers of these Articles which I haue not read expressiuely in their bookes yet haue they ben confessed by them in conference as it may be proued by the testimonye of thē which haue talked with them vnto the which Articles exhibited at the same time with the former of HN. Theophilus aunswereth in maner as followeth Theophilus NOw forth for your conclusion that you make vpō the 22. forged articles which you terme the opiniōs of the Libertines and you would faine father thē on the Family of Loue vpon the testimony of some priuate conference had by some of that company as you say with such as are as ready as your selfe for to maintayne their lye and yet shame not therein Therfore it is briefly sayd whatsoeuer accordeth not with the scriptures of God therein that same may well be the opinion of the Libertines Whose God is their bellie whose glory is their shame and rest worldy minded Which also with vncircumcised and vnrenewed spightfull minded hartes and all euill dedednes as in contempt of his word persecuting of his chosen following of the fleshly lustes forsaking of his crosse seeking all ease in the flesh by lying and slaundering of his worde and his chosen flock doe seeke to honour the God of lyfe in maintayning of the contrary nature the kingdome of Gods aduersary the deuill to serue and worship the Christ of the same God by maintayning of the lyfe of Antichrist To reuerence his holy spirite by the vpholding of the Belialish spirite of Antechrist but surely none of the right professours of the Loue can in any wise maintayne any such errors as some of them be Therefore in some point Theophilus is a Libertine and so is the Fam. also And by the way it is much to be maruailed at that any such which take vpon them to professe the Christianitye can with such vehemencie contemne the loue of God and her louely ministration whilest that all the Scripture enfouldeth all good and the some of all what God and Christ requireth in his word therein Vnles it were to be graunted that the enviers thereof are vtterly ignoraunt in that which they professe Therfore let this professed Loue vowed by the Familye of Loue be proued a false and counterfaite Loue by some euil fruites or deedes that are in testimonye of truth and meekenes and not by lye and arrogancye And eke by the rule of Scripture to breake forth and be gathered thereout or els if better may be found to be proued by lyke effect let it in peace be allowed to dwell by and with you Least ye procure by such a continuall inueying agaynst God his righteousnes God his seuere wrath and indignation to fall without remedie ouer you For it is all in vaine to kick agaynst the pricke or striue agaynst the Lord for if it be out of the flesh and bloud it will surely goe vnder or faile and spare you much labour but being done by the finger of God small will be your preuailing and much lesse your reward c. W. Wilkinson THis whole speach of Theophilus may for orders sake
yea bodies and liues also that by some meanes or other their wicked and schismaticall fantasies might be ouerthrowne All the which they would not haue done vnlesse by the worde of God it had ben assuredly lawfull or if the counsaile of Gamaliell had bene as a generall lawe to all estates tymes and persons that followed The which examples of Christian Emperours and godly kinges and gouernours both in the law and the kinges of Iudah in and since the state of the Primatiue Church I besech God to whome the care of his Church doth belong to put into the hartes of all Christian Magistrates to practise that they may in déede shew themselues nurses of the Church to the maintenaunce of Religion and the assuraunce of their owne thrones and estates and to the quietnesse of their subiectes that heresie may be suppressed sinne punished and that God in all may be gloryfied in and through his Christ our onely mediatour and redéemer Amen ⧠Certaine profitable notes to know an Heretique especially an Anabaptist With the Opinions and behauiour of them out of 〈◊〉 Authors ¶ Out of M. Bullingers booke agaynst the Anabaptistes ANabaptistes fly open conference and créepe from house to house craftely and priuily seducyng the simple and ignoraunt 2. Nicholas Storcke in Saxonie the chiefe ringleader of the Anabaptistes boasted of Reueilations 3. He boasted of a new world wherin iustice dwelleth Anabaptisme commeth alwayes by contentious and troublesome persons where the Gospell had bene preached before Thomas Muncer taught in word and writyng First that the Preachers of his tyme were not sent of God neither that they taught the word of God but the dead letter of the Scripture further that the scripture and outward word was not the true word of God but a testimonie of the true word and that the word is inward and heauenly and coÌ„meth immediatly from the mouth of God and that it ought to be taught inwardly by the spirite and not by Scriptures or Sermons He denyed Baptisme of Infantes He sayd that Christ did not fully satisfie for vs. He sayd God reueiled his will by dreames which he highly commended as inspirations from the holy Ghost His owne sect be termed the elect of God all that were not of his sect he sayd they were wicked woorthy to be slayne He sayd that goodes ought to be common Yea he sayd that Gedeons sword was geuen hym to abolish all Lordshyps agaynst all tyrauntes to restore the former libertie erect the new kyngdome of Christ vpon the earth Muncer was put to death for his heresie and repented before his death At Tygurie some contentious men though not vnlearned tooke part with the Anabaptistes The Anabaptistes would not communicate with the wicked They sayd that the Baptisme of infantes was inuented by Pope Nicholas and therfore it was naught Anabaptistes were hartned by those which desired the ouerthrow of the Gospell and the restoryng of Popery Anabaptistes were sage men they sighed often they laughed not they were vehement in reprehensions The simple were deceiued much by this Argument Let meÌ„ say of the Anabaptistes what they will I sée their sobriety I heare theÌ„ say nothing but this that we must not sweare at all but we must lyue holy and iust c. The Anabaptistes complained that all thynges were done agaynst them by force that the truth was oppressed that simple and godly men which sought nothing but that which was conteined in the word of God neither could they be hard or haue frée libertie to vtter out their myndes The Anabaptistes outwardly did lead a godly lyfe they spake earnestly agaynst couetousnes pride othes filthy talke vncomely behauiour chearyng and dronkennes they spake much of killyng the old man c. Briefly great and manifold was their hypocrisie They sayd they onely were the true Church wherein Christians delighted that their Sectaries might kéepe company with no Christian Churches of the Gospellers for that their Churche were no more the Churches of Christ then the Papistes Churches They sayd that the Ministers were not lawfully called to the Ministry nor ordinarily because they had not those qualities that S. Paule requireth 1. Tim. 3. e. They allow of Reuelations They say that the Sermons of Preachâ—â—â— are of smal accompt because in them is taught that Christ onely satisfied for our sinnes and that men were iustified before God by fayth and not by workes They affirmed the law might be kept and therefore they blamed the Preachers for saying the contrary They held Communitie of all thynges They affirmed that the old TestameÌ„t ought not to be mingled with the new because the old was abrogated They sayd that the soules slept vntill the day of Iudgement No Christian might be a Magistrat Magistrates must not medle with Religion The last punishmeÌ„t of Christians is ExcoÌ„municatioÌ„ No maÌ„ ought to be compelled to fayth or put to death for his Religion Warre say they is vnlawfull for Christians Their speaches must be yea and no without any oth None say they ought to be put froÌ„ the Lordes supper Cap. 9. Of diuers sectes and sortes of Anabaptistes ¶ Of Anabaptistes termed Apostoliques whose errours were 1. They approued onely the bare letter of the Scripture 2. They vsed no weapoÌ„ staffe wallet shoes money c. 3. They preached on house toppes 4. They washed one an others féete 5. They forsooke wiues and children 6. They held communitie Cap. 10. ¶ Of Anabaptistes Spirituall 1. They had nothyng like the world to proue it they abused Rom. 11. 2. They had rules both for the matter and fourme of apparell And affirmed it was vnlawfull to weare silke 3. They had rules of eatyng drinkyng and sléepyng 4. They might neuer laugh 5. They sighed often might not come in opeÌ„ asseÌ„blies 6. They condemne bargainyng and the vse of weapons Cap. 11. ¶ Of Sinles Anabaptistes These Anahaptistes sayd they could sinne For proofe they cited He that is of God sinneth not He that sinneth is of the Deuill Christes Church is without spot or wrinckle And therfore did they intermit the 5. petition Forgiue vs our trespasses They sayd there was no originall sinne neither were infantes by nature sinfull The hatchers of this heresie were Nouatus Catharis Auxentius Pelagius it is learnedly and at large confuted by S. Augustin Tom. 7. Agaynst Coelestius of mans perfect righteousnes in the last end of the booke Cap. 12. ¶ Of Anabaptistes that vsed to hold their peaces and pray 1. They sayd there ought to be no more any preachyng because the doore was shut Apoc. 1. 2. The world was not worthy to heare the Gospell 3. Beyng asked ought of their Religion they held their peace 2. Booke 1. Chap. Of Anabaptistes Enthusiastae They were often in a trayne and boasted much of the spirite and Reuelations Their common by word was The father sayd it They saw by Reuelation that the
beginning the Libertines bouldly reiected the scriptures they tauntingly scoffing at either of the Apostles sought to weaken their credite that thereby they might the more magnifie their owne authoritye they termed S. Paule a broken vessell S. Peter a forswearer of his Maister S. Iohn a sely young man S. Mathew an vsurer neither were they ashamed to blaspheme them openly But afterwardes when the Libertines perceiued that all men abhorred them for those their vncomely speaches they deuised more slyly and iustly to behaue themselues and saying then that they reiected no scripture they did writh it into allegories and wrested it into wonderfull straunge interpretations In the ordering of their discples they folow altogether the Manichies neither come they commonly abroad that they may the better be knowen nor tell any man what they thinke but kéepe them lōg in doubt by farre fetched circūstaunces they winde in them whome they desire to make their disciples neither doe they tell the watchworde of their mighty assemblies to any man before they perceiue they haue so bewitched him that they may easely perswade them whatsoeuer they list Their secrets they open onely vnto those which first are sworne vnto them the chiefe Rabbies doe alwayes kéepe backe some especial pointes of their doctrine wherby they may the better maintaine the opinion that their hangbyes haue of them Quintinus the Archlibertine and other of his fellowes of botchers were made doctors and so chaunged their calling the reason was they faine would liue daintely and idlely neither thought they that they were fit to labour The Libertines bookes were written in such a lofty stile that hardly they could be vnderstode One of the chefest pointes of their doctrine was that they ought to vse a certaine crafty kinde of dissembling coūterfeiting that they may easely deceiue the simple They think they may lawfully runne to Idol seruice They are not content with the simple sence of the Scripture but they writh it vnto Allegories neither will they kéepe them to the letter for they say the letler killeth They affirmed that euery one of the children of God are Christes and Quintinus the chiefe heretique being asked how he did aunswered how can Christ doe amisse They say that regeneration is the restoring of the estate wherein Adam was placed before his fall They make an Allego of the history of Adam Gen. 3. Adams innocencie say they is nothing els but this not to be able to iudge betwene black and white ▪ Yf they sée any mā stroock with a feare of Gods iudgement oh hast thou yet say they a tast of the Apple They surely hold these 3. principles the first there is no Arte in the world which they do not allow of although God haue condemned it in his word as for example They thinke that the Popish priesthode is good Quintinus being at the Masse of a certaine Cardinall affirmed that he saw the glory of God there Secondly they affirme that the abuses and corruptiōs wherewith the world is infected is no harme Thirdly they affirmed that all mans inclinatiō whēcsoeuer it come be it from corrupt nature or euil custome is it is euery mans calling The bookes which M. Caluin sawe of the Libertines 1. AN instruction and wholesome admonition how we should liue in this world and be patient in aduersitye 2. The Glasse of Christians ¶ Out of M. Zuinglius agaynst the Catabaptistes THe Catabaptistes cry God the truth the word the light the spirit holynes c. not onely mighty but if hypocrisie were not worthy and excellent were their speaches In what vice soeuer they are takē be it adulterie māslaughter theft c. they aunswere I haue not sinned for I am not any more in the flesh but in the spirite I am dead vnto the flesh and the flesh vnto me Those that take part with the Gospell they rayle worse on them then on the Papistes They spread abroad their bookes in the hāds of their disciples boasting euery where that they could so cōfute Zuinglius that they would make him haue neuer a word to say Their Captaines beyng franticke and brainesick men complained to the Ministers that they could not lyue among the wicked and therfore would they separate thēselues frō the Church because that in their cōmon assēbly and Church there were many that were openly wicked They rayled vpō the Baptisme of infants sayd that it is a great abhominatiō come frō the deuill the Pope They say they will proue their doctrine by sheddyng their bloud whē as they cā not proue it by the scriptures They rayled on the Ministers and sayd that the Ministers hated them because they founde fault with their euill lyfe They sayd no man was Gods child but they which fulfilled the law and wrought righteousnes They boasted much of the spirite when they had no Scripture and vnder the pretence of the spirite they wrought much filthynes They prophecied domes day should be on the Ascention day two yeares after They held fréewill They reiect the authoritie of the old Testament They bragge of the certainety of knowledge in doctrine without the word and say We are thus certified from God. They say there is no Sacrament of the Lordes Supper without their congregation Those which are not of their sect are abhominable before God neither can they doe any thyng that is not abbomination They must in this lyfe depart from all euill and those that be vngodly for proofe they quote Apo. ¶ They make three sectes videl Romanistes Papistes Protestauntes halfe Papistes Anabaptistes perfect Christians When they haue drawne any mā vnto their sect they straitly charge him not to come at the table with him that is not of their faction neither at the Sermons of any man that is an enemy to their sect They boast perfection They haue aunsweres reueiled vnto them All that are not of their owne sect they say that they are infidels They say that the dead sléepe both in soule and body till the day of Iudgement They affirme that both the deuil and the wicked shal be saued They deny that Christ is Gods sonne by nature ¶ Out of Zuinglius THe reason wherefore gentle Reader I haue out of these thrée excellent learned men gathered the particular opinions of these heretiques was not that I thinke the Familie of Loue to be culpable in all those pointes which I haue set down although I dare auouch the most of these errours out of HN. his writynges and other the letters writynges of the Familie but this especially moued me that when any either of the ministry which know not neither haue read and also the simple which are acquainted by conference with the opinions of the Familie may hereby hereafter haue some light and skil both of the short propositiōs by me gathered
25.11.12 Prou. 8.8.9 Psal. 58.4.5 Popish chaleng 9. Artic 8. demaun D. Fulkes boke Stapletō Controuer 1 lib. 4. cap. 9. pag. 121. Simlers epist. fol. 1. Exodus Iohn 1.36 Marc. 7.37 Math. 9.4 Iohn 7.48 Fathers of the Fam. of Loue Apoc. 9.3 Cap. 2. sent 11 leaf 7. Cap. 1. sent 1. fol. 3. Truth from Christ and the Apostles tyme vntill HN. where the Fam. affirme it was 1. Iohn 1. a. Communion of Saintes expounded Apoc. 2.6 How HN. foūd the truth Math. 22.23 2. Tim. 2. v. 17.18 Where HN. foūd the trueth Vnitie not alwayes proueth the truth 11. epist. cap. 5. sent 4. and .1 epist. cap. 1. sent 5. HN. geueth libertie of Religion Bullinger agaynst the Anabap 2. booke 4. Chap. Bullinger 1. booke 4. chap. leaf 9. b. line 17. HN. 11. epist. cap. 5. sent 4. 1. Exhort cap. 16. sent 9. leafe 42. Theophilus vttereth an vntruth wittingly 1. chap. 7. senten HN. and his schollers traytors of Christes Church Ephes 4.4 Euang. cap. 4. sent 5. Sent. 7. 1. Exhort chap. 16. sent 16. Euang. chap. 23. sent 6. Euang. cap. 33. sent 11.12.13 1. Exhort cap. 16.17.18 Cap. 16. sent 5. 1. Exhort cap. 7. sent 10.11.32 fol. 12. and. cap. 12. sent 44. fol. 27. cap. 16. sent 20. fol. 43. Euang. cap. 23. sent 7. cap. 4. sent 57. Confes leafe 7. a. Ibid. 6. leafe v. HN. Euang. cap. 19. sent 5.6 Sent. 11. 1. Exhor cap. 7. sent 40. cap. 12. sent 44. Euang. chap. 41.7 Ephes 5.25.26.27 Esay 45.14 2. Cor. 6. b. Math. 16.19 18.18 Iohn 20.23 1. Exhort cap. 12. sent 40.41.42.43.44 cap. 16. sent 16. Lam. cōp sent 31. Euang. cap. 52.7 Math. 4.14 Ezech. 33.7 1. Pet 5.8 Luk. 22.31 Malach. 2.7 Bulleng 1. boke 8. chap. leafe 12. verse Bullen 2. boke 7. chap. leafe 97. Esay 58. Luke 18.11 Bullen 2. boke 8. chap. leafe 18. Euang. cap. 13. sent 4. The dignitie of the Ministrie Math. 10.40 Fam. conceale that maketh agaynst them Confes pag. 4. confuted by Theoph. Lam. Compl. sent 34. of HN. Zuinglius agaynst the Catabap fol. 188. Iohn 1.22.25 Musculus Common places title of Ministers pag. 182. Lam. Compl. sent 33.34 Docum sent 3. cap. sent 1. 1 Exhort cap. 16 sent 16. Euang. cap. 23. sent 2. 1. Exhor 13. chap. 18. Cap. 16. sent 16. 1. Cor. 6.17 2. Pet. 1.4 Caluin vpon Math. 26. Scriptures falsified Luke 16. Luke 15.8 Math. 8.32 Fam. of Loues Exposition Iohn 1.6 1. Pet. 13. Ephes 5.32 Luk. 24.49 Cap. 6. sent 3. To be vnited in spirit what it is Ephes 4.24 Mart. 1. Corin. 6 17. Rom. 6.6.7.8 Rom. 6.6.7.8 Rom. 7.6 8.5 c. Leuit. 11.44.45 1. Pet. 1.15.16 See Byshoppe Iewels replye where hee expoundeth this place of S. Peter pag. 434. lin 24. Chap. 11. sect 10 Chap. 25. sect 10. Actes 17.27.28 1. Cor. 15.28 Goddyng into God what error and whose Cal. Institut 3. booke 11. chap. sect 5.6.7.8 c. 1. Exhort cap. 14. sent 1. 1. Rom. 20. c. 1. Exhor ca. 15. sent 4. Act. 23.4.5.6 2. Corin. 4.2 2. Pet. 1. v. 1. Ioh. 1.2 Euang. cap. 1. sent 1. 11. epist. cap. 2. senr 1. 5. cap. sent 10. Euang. cap. 1. sent 1. 11. epist. 2. cap. sent 1. HN. blasphemy Euang. 1. chap. 1. sent 1. Raysed from the dead 2. Annointed 3. Godded with God. 4. Heyre with Christ 5. Lightned with the true beyng of God in the spirite 6. Stirred vp in the last time c M. Knewstub Conf. pag. 1. HN. 1. epist. 3. chap. 6. sent 11. epist. cap. 5. sent 4. Scripture profanely abused 11. epist. cap. 2. sent 1. 1. epist. cap. 3. sent 6. 11. epist. cap. 5. sent 9. HN. Challengeth that is proper to Christ HN. Dauid George his scholler HN. foretould by the prophets c. to be an Heretique 11. Epi. 5. chap. 4. sent 1. epist. 1. chap. 1. sent 1. epist. 1. chap. 2. sent Docum sent cap. 15. sent 4. HN. publish of peace 1. cap. 16. sent 11. epist. 2. cap. sent 6. 2. Euang. cap. 1. pag. Euang. cap. 1. sent 1. Praeface ad Euang sent 4. Praeface ad Euang sent 3. Euang. cap. 2. sent 1. Euang. cap. 2. sent 4. Quoted in vayne Euang. cap. 2. sent 11. Praefa ad Euāg sent 2. Scripture abused False Quoted Euang. cap. 1. sent 9. Euang. cap. 25. sent 5. Euang. cap. 35. sent 1. Euang. cap. 35. sent 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. After the end of the chapter Aunswere to the exceptions taken at the Euang pag. HN. seldome alleageth Scripture aright D. George and Fami compared Pag. 3. Pag. 72. Anabaptistes the Fam. very neare of kinne 1. Comparison of D. George and the Fami 2. booke 14. chap fol. 68. D. George and HN. their heresies all one Confes pag. 4. Pag. 13. Conf. pag. 12. Actes 4.9 5.28 Fam. not of our Church by their owne confessiō Pag. 94. 1. epist. to M. Rog. fol. 73. pag. 2. 2. Comparison of D. George and his Fam. 3. Comp. of D. Georg and his Fam. Letter of the Fam. to M. Rogers pag. 82. lyn 24. Euang. cap. 3. sent 21. 2. King. 7. 1. Cron. 18. Esa. 2. Iere. 30.31 Mich. 4. Luc. 17. Iohn 4. Scripture vildly quoted by HN. 1. epist. cap. 1. sent 1.4 cap. 2. sent 2.6 4. Compa of D. George and the Fami Lib. 2. pag. 32. Pag. 11. Euang. cap. 31. sent 1.2 c. Sent. 23. HN. prophecieth of the restoring of Poperye Popish Hieracye shall flourishe sayth HN. Bulleng in his preface Note how mānerly they speake of the Pope Cantic 2.5 Math. 13.25 Gal. 2.4 2. Pet. 2.1 Iude vers 4. Ruffinus Hist Ecclesia cap. 11. Fol. 1. Fol. 11. 93. Luke 4.16 Math. 26.55 Iohn 18.20 Actes 3.11.5.20 Act. 13.14 Actes 27.17 17 22 1. At. Tiguri Bulling lib. 1. cap. 5.2 at Bern. cap. 7. fol. 17. An heretike out of Scripture Zuing. contra Catabap fol. 39. Vers 19. 2. Pet. 2.2 Rom. 16.17 2. Exhort cap. 15. sent 17. fol. 38. d. 1. Exhort cap. 16. sent 19. 2. Pet. 2.7 Verse 12.13 c. Hosea 6.4 HN. his scripture quoting 2. Pet. 2. HN. his stile is hereticall Caluin agaynst the Libertines leaf 131. 129. Bulleng 2. boke 4. chap. Docum sentences cap. 3. sent 12. Fol. 71. b. Heb. 11.6 To beget fayth onely Gods word is necessarye 1. Thes 5.20 Gen. 11.7.8 Actes 2.11 Actes 9.15 Rom. 1.1.5 Actes 17.18 Vers 22. Phil. 4.22 Act. 21.40 1. Sam. 19.18 2. King. 2.4.5 6.1.2 Actes 6.9 Actes 19.9 The Fam. what they thinke of the doctrine taught in England Gen. 3.5 2. Pet. 1.19 Ephe. 4.14 Iude. 12. Iam. 1. 1. Tim. 1.19 Ephe. 4.22 Colos 3.8 1. Exhor cap. 13. sent 6. leafe 29. b 1. Exhor cap. 15. sent 4. sent 36. a. 1. Sam. 2.3 a. Dan. 1.17 c. Iohn 11.22 c. 1. Cor. 5.1 a. 1. Iohn 3.2 a. and. 5.19 a. 1. Cor. 14.20 d. Hebr. 5.14 d. and 8.11 d. 1. Cor. 2.8 and 10.1 a. Math. 22.29 Math. 16.26