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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08219	An epistle sent vnto tuuo daughters of VVarwick from H.N., the oldest father of the Familie of Love ; with a refutation of the errors that are therein, by H.A.	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?; Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580? Epistle sent unto two daughters of Warwick.	1608 (1608)	STC 18553; ESTC S1318	62,756	66

is revealed and declared vnto vs out of heaven to a righteous judgement vpon earth from the right hand of God and how that on the same judgement seat of Christ that the scripture mought be fulfilled ther sitteth one now in truth in the habitation of David which judgeth vprightly thinketh vpon equity and requireth righteousnes By this the reader may see what this man aymeth at in al his writings even to draw al men vnto himself as judge of the world sitting on the throne of Christ and spareth not to apply the promises of Christs coming to this day of his preaching being a more shamelesse and presumptuous blasphemer then ever was Mahomet or any arch-heretik that Satan sent to bewitch the world As he hath abused this 16. of Iohn so doth he afterwards the 10. of John They are al theeves and murtherers which are come before me that is sayth H. N. whosoever letteth himself think that he is a Christian before the spirit of Christ be born in him that same is a theef and a murtherer Wher againe he intimateth Christ and a Christian to be al one and if the Spirit of Christ be borne in a man then though he make himself Christ the door the shepheard c. he is no theef no murderer Thus H. N. sheweth himself to be sold vnto syn and given over to an heretical and reprobate mind perverting al scripture vnto his destruction It is very true H. N. 4. See my beloved in the love of Christ even thus standeth the foūdatiō of y e Christianity in such maner of wise hav●th Apostles taught the salvation in Christ even like as Paul sayth to the Corinthes 13. although I givc al my goods to the poor and that I suffer my body to be burned and although I had faith saith he that I could remove mountayns if I had not love it were not any thing vnto me that is whosoever hath not Christ he is without God and without righteousnes in this world I mean the being like Christ which is received through the power of the holy Ghost and not any ceremonial Christ which one man speaketh of or promiseth to an other through the ceremonial service which he out of his prudencie according to his fleshly mind hath set vp O no The work and begetting or procreating of the children of God cometh not so slenderly to passe as men now at this time teach each other out of their vnregenerate spirit which never proceedeth from God H. A. UUHat a sandy foundation of Christianity H. N. hath layd we hav seē before by his doctrine of God and of Christ and of mans righteousnes Here to build hay on his rotten ground he perverteth an another scripture and would father his error on the Apostle Paul who most of al other did set against it For the teaching the salvation in Christ to be by Fayth as before is shewed H. N. wil have him say it is by Love the Love that is in vs which Love he expoundeth as his manner is to be Christ himself so wresting the word as did the old serpent vnto mens destruction The Love treated of by the Apostle 1 Cor. 13. is a qualitie in the Saincts wrought in them by the spirit of God as it is written The fruit of the spirit is Love c. Now this Love which is in vs whither it be towards God or our brethren is not the foundatiō or cause of our happines but an effect thereof as we may learn by the Apostle that sayth Herein is Love not that we loved God but that he loved vs sent his son to be a reconciliation for our synnes Which Love when we perceiv by faith then we agayn doe love the Lord as it after followeth We love him because he loved vs first Then from the Love of God floweth also the Love of our brethren as is further added And this commandement have we of him that he which loveth God should love his brother also And that these graces come not of our selves and consequently ar not meritorious in vs nor causes of our salvation Moses taught his people when he sayd The Lord thy God will circumcise thy hart the hart of thy seed that thou mayst Love the Lord thy God with al thy hart with al thy fowl that thou mayst live As for the cause of our salvation that it is onely Gods Love and grace towards vs the Apostle Paul sheweth saying God which is rich in mercy through his great Love wherwith he loved vs even when we were dead by syns hath quickned vs togither in Christ so by grace ye are saved This Grace we apprehend by fayth which fayth if it be alive stirreth it self and worketh by love And thus the Saincts doe shew their fayth by their Love and good works but in case of justification before God and mans salvation al works are excluded as the same Apostle proveth saying David declareth the blessednes of the man vnto whom God imputeth justice without works This being so what labour they for but our curse and wretchednes which would have vs rely vpon our Love or any good works for the saving of our sowles His next inference is more mischeevous when he expoundeth those words if I have not Love thus That is sayth H. N. whosoever hath not Christ is without God Thus maketh he Love in vs to be Christ and so the playn doctrines of the Gospel concerning our Saviour shal be but a fable And that this is his meaning he sheweth elswhere more playnly when he sayth If ye wil not that the wrath of God should come or fal vpon you so deal faithfully before God his holy ones walk with your Spirit in the Lovely and verteous Being fasten your mind therto build your righteousnes theron for that is an eternal fast standing foundation wheron al Gods prophets holy ones have builded and is Christ himself Here men may see what a miserable foundation he hath layd for to build our righteousnes on evē our own walking in the lovely verteous being and this with him is Christ. Wherby he proclameth himself to be Antichrist for the Apostle John sayth Every spirit which confesseth not Iesus Christ comen in the flesh is not of God but this is the spirit of Antichrist Now to say that Love which is an affection of the mynd is Christ is to deny him comen in the flesh out of the loynes of David and Abraham of the virgin Mary in the dayes of Herod the King as the scriptures playnly teach And by as good reason may H. N. deny that ever ther was any such man as Adam any such beast as the Serpent any such creation of the world as Moses describeth Gen. 1. or any God and so by his allegories overturne al religion and bring Atheisme in the place which in deed he hath done with most high abomination in deifying himself and blaspheming

God By Christ or righteousnes H. N. sayth he meaneth the being like Christ not any ceremonial Christ so he seemeth to esteem the playn doctrines of the gospel to be but ceremonial that wheras we read there of one Jesus to be crucified for our syns c. this he coūteth but a ceremonie shadow or figure such it may be as was the ram that Abraham offred or the beasts that Aaron killed or perhaps the parable that Jotham told for the true Christ that saveth men is the Lovely being that is in the Familists themselves this idol hath their god H. N. out of his prudency according to his fleshly mind set vp And this is a great secret or mysterie of iniquity H. N. 5. Herevpon my beloved mought ye or som other say we learn not or ther is not any thing taught vnto vs then out of the clear scripture which may not lie Yea my beloved the scripture lyeth not but al those which ar not instructed through the spirit of Christ they lie are beguiled signify or expoūd the scripture which is spokē through the holy Ghost shewed out in the spirit of life Iohn 6. vpon an earthy or elementish foundation wherthrough the man can not obteyn or get any renewing of the hart Even like as in the witnessing of the scripture ther is witnessed sufficiently to those that can vnderstand the same Who is ther without the word of the Lord which is spirit life Iohn 6. that hath atteyned vnto the salvation or who hath I beseech you in any world brought forth any true witnes vnlesse that he through the Spirit of the Lord which is his word become altogether born anew● H. A. UUE are sure the sacred scripture l●●th not but H. N. which abus●th and falsifieth the scripture and denieth Jesus to be the Christ making Love and the Lovely Being in himself and his familie to be Christ as we have heard is by the Apostle condemned for a Liar and an Antichrist 1 Ioh. 2. 22. and he not being instructed through the Spirit of Christ hath taught an earthly and rotten foundation to the ruine of true religion The scripture cannot rightly be vnderstood or opened but by the Holy Ghost that is the gifts of the holy Ghost But some have the gifts of the Spirit which yet are not themselves altogither born anew as had Balaam the Scribes and Pharises Caiaphas Judas the traitor and others many which as the Apostle sayth Heb. 6. 4. were once lightned have tasted of the heavenly gift were made partakers of the holy Ghost Therfore it is false which H. H. writeth that none in any world brought forth any true witnes vnlesse that he became altogither born anew Againe he here brocheth another error in expounding the Spirit of the Lord to be his word which H. N. in his grosse vnderstanding perversly gathereth from Christs words Iohn 6. 63. the words that I speak vnto you are spirit wherby our Lord meaneth that his words were spiritual not that they were the Holy Spirit it self For he vseth the like phrase of a spiritual and regenerated man saying Except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of God and that which is born of the spirit is spirit Iohn 3. 5. 6 Now seing H. N. describing his Communialty of the Love sayth Whosoever cometh into this good city he becometh altogither born anew in the spirit he may by like reason conclude that himself and his Nicholaitans are also the holy Spirit and so be a blasphemer against the Holy Ghost as he is against the Father and the Son The Scriptures teach vs playnly to distinguish between the word and the Spirit of the Lord this latter being cause and author of the former as it is written 2 Sam. 23. 2. The Spirit of the Lord spake in me his word was in my tongue and of al the prophets it is witnessed that they spake as they were moved by the holy Spirit 2 Pet. 1 21. The Apostle sayth this is the word which is preached among you and how they preached it an other sheweth when he sayth that by the spirit of God they knew the things given them of God and spake those things not in words which mans wisdom teacheth but which the holy Spirit teacheth that al men may see how ignorantly if not worse H. N. hath confounded the word and the Spirit of the Lord as if they were one thing H. N. 6. Note wel or consider of fellowship the estate or manner of the Apostles how that they although they went about so long tyme with Christ wer alwayes with him whiles the power of God was wrought through him vnderstood not what the mind of the Lord was concerning the godly causes before that the day of Pentecost or Whitsontide when that they received the holy Ghost was come vnto them Even like as there standeth written how that they sayd at the tyme when Christ was crucified among them we had hoped or supposed that he should have delivered Israel and it is now the third day and ther cometh nothing of it we wil goe a fishing For they supposed that Christ should have set vp a fleshly kingdom H. A. HEre H. N. to magnify himself as a spiritual and godded man spareth not to wrong the holy Apostles as if they before Pentecost Acts. 2. vnderstood not the scriptures nor preached the word truly wheras it is evident that they were sent and had preached the word long before Luk. 9. 1. 2. which word Christ had given them and they received Iohn 17. 8. 14. and were made clean by it Iohn 15. 3. and he had opened their vnderstanding to vnderstand the scriptures Luk. 24. 45. though afterward at Pentecost they received more plentifull graces of the spirit when Christ was gone from them Act. 2. 1. 2. 4. c. Again H. N. as if he delited to falsify the scripture sayth there standeth written how that they sayd when Christ was crucified we hoped that he should hav delivered Israel c. wheras these words were spoken by Cleopas and an other disciple which were none of the Apostles as appeareth Luk. 24. vers 18. 21 33. and to make vp his patcherie he addeth that they sayd it is now the third day there cometh nothing of it we wil go a fishing Wheras those two spake not at al of going a fishing but other men at an other time Ioh. 21. 3. By this the reader may mind what credit is to be given to H. N. his allegations of scripture who careth not to profane the holy word for maintenance of his lies and setteth things down as they come in his idle head But why say I so of this godded man seeing men ought not to distrust him nor suspect any manner of evil or vnwisdom by this Oldest Father whose eysight as himself sayth was clearer then Chrystal his vnderstanding brighter