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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

creator and the creatures between whose Being there is no comparison Which things if he would not learn of the H. scriptures because he scorneth scripture learning yet might he have learned of Philosophers and heathen men who have sayd that though by certayn demonstration it is manifest that a divine artizen hath procreated vs yet by no reason or wit can we perceave what his essence or being is That God is One alone separated from all who cannot be explayned nor perceived that he is the first simplicity incomprehensible incomparable vniform that he cannot be known or found out yea that it is neyther possible to find him out nor lawful to serch him out And many like speeches have the Pagans spokeÌ„ of God more divinely soundly and religiously a great deal then this Epicure H. N. the God of the Familists hath written in his blasphemous pamphlets After he hath thus described the vpright Christian Baptisme as he sayth or washing in the name of the Father he proceedeth with his Baptisme in the Name of the Son of whom he sayth that he is conceived of the holy Ghost and born of the holy Virgin Mary And that thissame Son of God beareth in vs our synnes c. and that he vnder the obedience of the Love of his Father is gone before vs therin for that we should in like manner follow after him vnder the obedience of his Love in his death of the crosse to the safemaking of vs from our synns become incorporated to him with his like death and baptised or washed vnder the obedience of the Beleef in his Name or safemaking and bury even so through the beleef the old man c. to the forgiving and releasing of our synns through his name or safemaking to the end that we might even so through Iesu Christ obteyn the renewing of our spirit and mind in an vpright life and resurrection from the dead with Christ in the appearing of his Majesty And that this is the vpright Christian Baptisme in the name of the Son and is the true forgivnes and purging of our synns through Iesu Christ. And all that thus folow not Christ are no Christians nor yet baptised in the name or salvation of the Son Here is an other puddle of heresie for men to be washed in in the name of H. Ns Christ. Of whom he first telleth vs that he is conceived and born whereas we beleeve in that Christ which was conceived and borne now many yeres ago But the Nicholaitans have a Christ in them to weet their Lovely Being as before is shewed Neither is their fayth setled on one Jesus borne heretofore in Israel but they themselves are born of the virgin Mary as their Father H. N. teacheth them in his Gospel saying the vpright children of the beleef which had their discent out of the seed of the faith of Abraham and the pure virgin Mary as also from the holy Ghost were known to be the true seed of Abraham because the same seed was the seed of the promise of God the Father was likewise in his mind according to the spirit the likenes of God his Father also spirit spiritual of the godly nature being according to the wil of God wholly minded w th God These vpright children of the beleef ar the Familists themselves if we wil beleev them they are born of the holy Ghost and of the pure virgin Mary and are not onely their own saviours but as a little before in the same place he writeth the seed out of the faith of Abraham out of the pure Virgin Mary is the true seed of promise to the blessing of all generations of the earth Thus do these caytiffs take to themselves the honour of Christ and though the Prophet telleth vs but of one child that is born vnto vs which should be prince of peace should order and stablish the kingdome of David forever yet these tel vs of many children of the pure virgin Mary as being that seed of promise in whom al generations of the earth should be blessed How they have this strange birth we may gather by H. N. his learned interpretation of the name Mary which he sayth signifieth a Doctresse for the doctrine of H. N. is that wherby his disciples are born anew as elswher he expouÌ„deth that to be born of the virgin Mary out of the seed of David after the flesh is of the pure doctrine out of the seed of Lov. Now Mary caled in Greek Mariam in Hebrew Mirjam I find in the scripture to signify their rebellion Nehem. 9. 17. which name very fitly agreeth to the Familists Doctrine but how or in what tongue it signifieth a Doctresse themselves I suppose can hardly shew vnlesse vpon H. Ns authority who as he hath given them a new gospel so also a new language farr differing from the language of Canaan wherby they may make what meaning and gather what allegories they lyst from words and none must suspect any vnwisedome to be in them Secondly H. N. sayth that thissame Son of God beareth in them their synns wheras that Son of God in whom the scriptures teach vs to beleev hath washed vs from our synns in his own blood and put theÌ„ away by the sacrifice of himself for he was wounded for our transgressions his own self bare our syns in his body on the tree and died for vs. How erroneously then doth H. N. perswade that Christ beareth in vs our synns Thirdly he sayth that Christ is gone before vs for that we should in like maner follow after him vnder the obedience of his Love in his death of the crosse to the safemaking of vs from our synns so teaching vs to save our selves by imitation of Christ this being all the benefit we have by his death that it is an example vnto vs how to do likewise Wherin H. N. sheweth himself to be a greater enemy to Christianity then was Caiaphas who sayd it was expedient that One man should die for the people and that the whol nation perished not so prophesying that Christ should die for the nation wheras H. N. would have men die themselves for their own salvation that so they might all perish for ever But we have otherweise learned the true Christ who was delivered to death for our syns and is risen agayn for our justification That as by one man the first Adam syn entred into the world and death by syn and so death went over all men so by one man the second Adam Christ we might reign in life and as by one mans disobedience many were made synners so by the obedience of one many might he made righteous Fourthly H. N. teacheth that men are baptised vnder the obedience of the beleef in his name or safemaking and bury even so through the Beleef the old man

AN EPISTLE SENT VNTO TVVO daughters of VVarwick from H. N. THE OLDEST Father of the Familie of Love VVith a refutation of the errors that are therin by H. A. Rescue me Lord and deliver me from the hand of strangers whose mouth talketh vanity and their right-hand is a right-hand of falshood Psal. 144. 11. Imprinted at Amsterdam by Giles Thorp 1608. To the Christian reader wisdome grace AS ther are many enimies of the truth of the gospel and many that write to broach and spread their errors so is it needful that some write against them least troden truth be quite forsaken and silly sowles be wrapped in error vnto perdition It is not easy for al men to espie Satans subtilties nor the deceitful sophismes of his ministers both he they can traÌ„sforme themselves like Angels of light Such therfore as discern them through the grace of God should give warning vnto others that as the foolish womaÌ„ is troublesome babling lowd inviting her ghests to the depth of hel so the maidens of wisdom may lift vp also their voice and make their crie be heard on the highest places of the citie What wormwood and bitternes even deadly poison is sparsed abroad in Henry Nicholas his writings who caleth himself the Father of the Family of Love the children of wisdome that do read the same may by the light of Gods law soon perceive yet with faire and flattering speeches he hath beguiled many vnstable sowles such as have had no love to the truth have been giveÌ„ over vnto his lies And never had Satan a fitter time to work his malicious wil on the sons of Adam then in these last evil dayes when Atheisme and iniquity doe so much abound Never had he a fitter religion for Atheists and carnal hypocrites then that which H. N. out of his corrupt and fleshly hart hath set abroach It taketh away the crosse of Christ persecution for righteousnes sake and teacheth men to coÌ„municate with al religions services and ceremonies so as they cleave in hart to his feighned service of the Love It maketh them pure and without al syn in their own foolish imaginations yea more then which the Serpent himself did never teach it deifieth them with God In a word it bringeth a fretting leprosie vpon al religion overthroweth the grounds of faith layd in holy scriptures which H. N. by foolish allegories perverteth to the destruction of himself and his Family And for the principles of theologie he hath written more blasphemously and absurdly then ever did Mahomet in his Alcoran For this cause in answering this his letter as I was requested by some that heard how much it was boasted of among the Nicholaitans I have touched by the way some of the impious heresies that are in his other writings without knowledge wherof his frawd in this Epistle cannot easily be perceived For as a child of darknes he laboureth to be obscure in his words y t men may admire the deepnes of Satan by which he speaketh and himself when he is folowed can no other way escape may have this for his last refuge that men vnderstand him not But al things when they are reproved of the light are manifest for the light is that which maketh al things manifest Now the word of the Lord is a lantern his Law a light by it therfore have I assayed to discover the snares of this seducer not doubting but God who causeth the Morning to know his place that it may take hold of the corners of the earth that the wicked may be shaken out of it wil notwithstanding al the dark delphick speeches and glozing allegories of these falsers declare their works and manifest their impieties and wil turn the night in the darknes wherof they think to be shrowded and they shal be destroyed Let therfore the prudent reader make trial of that which on both sides is said by the word of truth least as the serpent beguiled Evah through his subtilty so their harts be withdrawn from the sincerity of Christ. And the Lord give them vnderstanding in al things and preserve them from this generation for ever for the wicked walk on every side whiles vilenes is extolled among the sons of Adam Henry Ainsworth The preface made by some of H. N. his disciples THis Epistle was written by the author vnto two maydens that were before purposed out of zele to have suffred death for the confession sake of the ChristiaÌ„ ceremonies which as he saith in divers places of his works are no more but outward meanes set forth by God his ministers to direct people to the inward righteous life of Christ in the spirit supposing therin that they should rightly have obeyed fulfilled the coÌ„mandemeÌ„t of Christ who willeth vs to forsake our own lives for his sake But vpon better consideration therof through the grace of God and these distinct godly testimonies and reasons both touching that point and divers others herein conteyned their mindes as it hath bene reported by some of that followship wer altered herin to an other vnderstanding of the matter and they did willingly indevour themselves afterwards to follow his good counsel Answer THe drift of this Epistle being at the best to disswade from the pacient and coÌ„stant witnessing of the truth of Christ especially in the outward ordinances of the gospel and open profession of the same Under a colour of inward and spiritual confession and service of God in the holy Ghost it shal not be amisse to look a little into the sleights of Satan wherby as it seemeth he hath deceived and would stil deceive the simple and to shew the weaknes and insufficiencie of the reasons alleged in this Letter as also to manifest how the outward obedience of the body must be conjoyned with the inward of the mind and spirit and the external ordinances of Christs testament professed and practised if we would have the spirit and life which is of God And howsoever H. N. accounteth the ordinances of the gospel but ceremonies yet in that he confesseth them to be outward meanes set forth by God to direct people to the inward righteous life of Christ in the spirit he manifesteth himself to be but a seducer in perswading the two maydens not to suffer death for the confession sake of them seing the outward meanes of mans salvation and of the righteous Christian life is to be stood for vnto the death as in handling the particulars shal by Gods grace appear And if by the authors counsel those daughters were drawn as here is insinuated from their outward confession suffring affliction for the ordinances of Christ against the Romish Antichristian doctrines ceremonies their faith was but weak they forsook the inward righteous life of Christ in the spirit and their mindes were perverted to a very evil vnderstanding If also they assented to other points of H. Ns. heresies

the Paradise of your Lord and God c. Come in now all hither to the Paradise of the Love and pluck in her garden the tender Olives Become drunken with the wine of her soon-ripe grapes and embrace her to al concordable friendlynes Thus like an harlot he allureth men to his religion and imitateth the whore of Babylon which made the inhabitants of the earth drunken with the wine of her fornications For his vaine conceyted Lovely Being with the toyes and pleasures that men imagine in that estate is a fooles paradise wher men become drunken and besotted in syn and drowned in perdition This is H. Ns. heaven and they that are not here he thinks they are in hel yea playnly sayth in his new gospel that the second death is come and beareth dominion over the world and all vnbeleevers By this the discreet reader may see what a Christ and salvation H. N. doth teach and what a Death Divil and Hel the Nicholaitans or Familists doe subdue This wretched man seemeth to have written his books in scorn of al true religioÌ„ that Atheisme and Epicurisme vnder shew of religioÌ„ mought reign in the earth H. N. 13. Herevpon mought some men say ye would have the man perfect No my beloved no I speak not of the perfection of the man but I speak of the perfectnes which Christ ought to have with the man before he can be confessed or acknowledged The man in his vnregenerated spirit is vnperfect I speak not thereof but what he is that is he out of grace without cause of boasting 14. Therfore let every one look wel vnto it that he be not self-minded in his vncertayn forecasts or preconceiving but that he take heed or be wel advised whither he be worthy to receive the same grace of God H. A. THat which David sayth of the wicked man that his mouth is ful of deceit and frawd vnder his tongue is mischief and iniquitie is verifyed of H. N. in his deceitful writings He seemeth here at first as if he would not have the man perfect no my beloved crieth he at it no but presently from vnder his tongue floweth out mischief and iniquitie when he speaks of the perfectnes which Christ ought to have with the man before he can be confessed This is a depth of Satan to bring men into misery vnder colour of perfection and to abolish them from Christ whiles they may imagine he is perfectly with them Though Christ I mean the true Christ whom we professe not the idol which H. N. feighneth of the Lovely Being be in himself perfect yea perfectiou it self and though the work that he hath done for vs be also perfect because with one offring he hath consecrated for ever them that are sanctified and his blood hath clensed vs from all syn yet his work in vs is yet vnperfect even in the best men that ever confessed Christ whiles they lived on earth who therfore were taught every day to pray that their syns might be forgiven them and the Apostle Paul after he had long confessed and preached Christ truly sayth of himself Not as though I were already perfect and agayn I do not the good thing which I would but the evil which I would not that do I and agayn we know in part and we prophesie in part but when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shal be abolished now wee see through a glasse darkly but then shal we see face to face c. But H. N. by an other spirit which perswadeth him that he is like God yea Godded with God writeth of his citie or communialtie and those that are come vnto it that as then there is no more evil nor evil suspition nor yet sight of evil in them for within the same one doth neyther see nor think any thing els but all good joy rest and peace in the everlasting life Such a societie hath yet never been heard of on earth since Adams fall neyther doth the historie of the bible shew vs any such church onely it telleth vs ther is a generatioÌ„ y t at pure in their own eyes which yet ar not washed from their filthines Pro. 30 12. If the Familists be this generation they may rejoyce in the sparks of the fyre that they hav kindled til they shal lie down in sorow As for vs we have learned of a better teacher that there is no man iust in the earth that doeth good and synneth not but in many things we syn all for syn yet dwelleth in vs and if we should say we have no syn we should but deceive our selves and the truth were not in vs. Yet know we that our confession of Christ is acceptable vnto him because he pardoneth all our iniquities and healeth al our infirmities hath washed vs from our syns in his blood and wil not impute them vnto vs. Wheras H. N. to help the matter sayth The man in his vnregenerated spirit is vnperfect he followeth but his wonted course to deceive the readers for none are so grosse as to think the vnregenerated man is perfect neyther is this the question between him and vs but whither the regenerated be perfect or no which H. N. erroneously holdeth but cannot prove we contraryweise have proved that the Apostles and other Christians were regenerated but not perfect whiles they lived here on earth among men Phil. 3. Rom. 7. 1 Cor. 13. Iam. 3. H. N. 15. Now mought ye say we encline or endevour our selves therafter so much as we may for we have given our selves to the Christian-like baptismey and supper of the Lord. 16. Oh my beloved that were very wel if it were even so in the truth for ther ar many that boast themselves of the baptismey of Christ and they have not known him in any world For were they baptised in Christ then should they have put on Christ even like as Paul sayth to the Galathians 3. so many of you as are baptised have put on Christ. 17. I would gladly now ask of al those which say they have received the Christianlike baptismey how or after what maner Christ hath a shape or fashion in them I am verie sure that they all for the most part should be deceived and should find themselves vnmighty or weak in that Being of Christ wherin many should make manifest themselves that they have not received the baptismey of Christ but their own baptismey 18 Everie one therfore that is vpright of hart and seeketh the truth in Christ vnpartially let him prove himself how he hath put on Christ according to the spirit And if he then finde not the stirring of the holy spirit of Christ in him then let him advisedly look sharply yea sharply herevnto that he boast not himself of the Christianity but let him humble himself before the might of the Lord and trust vpon his grace H. A. THe

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