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A77265	A mustur roll of the evill angels embatteld against S, Michael. Being a collection, according to the order of time, (throughout all the centuries) of the chiefe of the ancient heretikes, with their tenets, such as were condemned by generall councels. Faithfully collected out of the most authentike authors. / By R.B. Gent.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1655 (1655)	Wing B4272; Thomason E1549_2; ESTC R209469	17,054	97

had their name of one Pickard who going out of Gallobelgia into Bohemia became an Adamite and renewed the former Heresie of the Adamites hee at his first comming into Bohemia did draw great multitudes of men and women after him whom hee commanded to goe naked and these hee called Adamites these hee perswaded that hee was the son of God and willed to call him Adam This Adam was content that his Adamites should have the company of what men and women they would so that first his consent was obtained If a man were in love with any woman he came with her hand in hand unto Adam and said I am in love with this woman then said Adam take her unto thee goe together increase and multiply And because Adam and Eve were naked before they sinned therfore they goe naked and for that Adam did not know Eve untill he had sinned therfore they account it asin to marry and are perswaded that Marriage had never been if Adam had never sinned They celebrate their Sacraments naked and man and Woman accompany together naked and they think as the old Adamites did that their Church is Paradise Aeneas Silvius in lib. 4. de origine Bohemorum cap. 41. Heretiks in the sixteenth Century XLVII ANABAPTISTS An. 1522. About this time saith Sleiden speaking of these Anabaptists there was a sect of certain men who said that they had talked with God and that hee had commanded them to kill all wicked men that only good and godly men might live and governe the world Of these Anabaptists there were many kinds and all of them professe such Doctrine as is neither to be endured in the Church or Common-wealth or in the government of the household First Anabaptisticall Articles not to bee suffered in the Church are 1. That Christ did not assume the flesh of the Virgin Mary but brought it with him from Heaven 2. That Christ is not true God but that hee is the best of all Saints because hee received more gift of the Holy Ghost then they 4. That infants unbaptised are no sinners in the sight of God but are just and innocent and by this their innocency they are saved without Baptisme 5. That infants are not to be baptised untill they have reason and discretion for the children of Christians are holy without Baptisme and the children of God 6. That that is no true Christian Church in which any sinners are to be found Lastly that no sermons are to bee heard in those Churches wherein Popish Masse hath beene Secondly Anabaptisticall Articles not to bee suffered in the Common wealth are 1. That the office of the Magistrate pleaseth not God neither can any Christian with a safe conscience be a Magistrate neither ought any subject to implore the aid of the Magistrate for his defence 2. That a Christian may not safely use any oath at all neither ought any subject to take any oath of alleageance unto his Prince nor sweare or promise any fealty or obedience 3. That the Magistrates living in the time of the New Testament may not with a safe conscience put to death or punish any Malefactors Lastly Anabaptisticall articles not to bee suffered in the Oeconomy or houshold government 1. That a Godly man may not with a safe Conscience have any goods of his owne but whatsoever goods he hath he must make them common 2. That a Christian man may not be a victualler nor a Merchant nor make any weapons 3. That it is lawfull to divorce the husband and the wife if they be not of the same Religion and to mary them unto any other Persons that doe not discent from them in Religion Lib concordiae Sleidan Schlusselburgius Tom. 2. XLVIII GASPER SUENCFELDIUS his disciples Anno. 1527 Hee came of a Noble family in Silesia and was a man of good parts before hee fell into these Heresies 1. That the outward Ministry of the word is not necessary neither doth outward Baptisme further regeneration neither in the Lords Supper are the body and bloud of Christ exhibited in the bread and wine 2. That the human nature of Christ is no creature but after his resurrection was every way equall unto his divine nature 3. That the Ministry of a vicious Priest or Minister is not effectuall unto the salvation of his Auditory allbeit hee preacheth never so well or administreth the Sacraments according to the institution of Christ Lib. Concordiae Bucolcerus and Schlusselourgus Tom. 10. XLIX The new SAMOSATENIANS An. 1532. The Author of this sect was Michael Servetus his followers were Georgius Blandrata Fransiscus David and many others in Transilvania their opinion is compounded of many ancient Haeresies as 1. In God there is no distinction of persons Servet lib. 5 Trin. pag. 189 ministri Transilvani lib. 2. cap. 4. and this was the Heresie of Sabellius Samosatenus and many others ut supra 2. Christ before his incarnation was nothing but an Idea in the mind of God Servet lib. 3 Trinit pag. 92 and this was likewise taught by Cerinthus and E●ion Irenaeus lib. 1 cap. 25. and 26 as also by Samosatenus Aug. Heres 44 and 45. 3. The Divinity that Christ hath was communicated unto him by God not by eternall generation but by the unction of Grace and by inhabitation and thus Christ may bee called God but he is a made God and hee is a temporall but no eternall God Blandrata disput 6. Alba ministri Hungarici lib. 2. cap. 7 and this was part of the Heresie of Nestorius as wee may see in Theodoret. lib. 4. here fabularum and in other Heretikes ut supra L. The new ARRIANS Ann. 1534. or thereabouts These came from Valentius Gentilis who was one of the schollars of Servetus they taught 1. That there are three eternall spirits the Father Son and Holy Ghost which differ in number and essence Val Gentilis Prothesi 20 and 23 and this is also recorded by Aretius in his history of the punishment of Val Gentilis This was the opinion of the Hereticks called Peratae in Theodoret. lib. 1 cap. 18 haereticarum fabularum and of Johanis Philoponus the Heretike Niceph lib. 18. cap. 48. 2. They taught that these three Persons were not equall but that the father was far above the other two so that he might be called Essentiator and the other two Essentiati i. e. he that had his essence of himselfe alone and the other their essence from him Gentilis lib. Antidoto 3. fol. 26. wher he saith that it is the property of the Father to be called the one only God And so the new Tritheites went from Philiponus to Arrius for Arrius was the first that Taught that the father was lesse then the sonne Epiph. haeres 69. 3. They say that the Son of God was not of nothing neither that he was begotten in time but from all eternitie of the substance of his father Gent Prothes 11 12. And this was the opinion of the New Arians in Austins time The later Arrians granted that the Son was eternall with the father albeit Arius was of another mind Aug. lib. 6. Trin. cap. 1. lib. 1. Trinit Maximus doth confesse as Aug there saith that the son was not of nothing but was begotten of the substance of his father And this was the judgement of the Councell held at Ariminum c. Post-Script AND now Sir I could wish that these Heretikes survived on ly in Paper but alas they are all lived over againe though they seeme not at this resussitation to have so bright ascendants as at their birth for then many approved Wits and persons of reverend name were given over to believe these lies now few besides narrrow indigested souls run after them a providence that promises they will the sooner find their graves for the vulgar are still as covetous of novelty as of your commands is Sir Your most humble Servant R. B. FINIS