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A00545 A supplication of the Family of Loue (said to be presented into the Kings royall hands, knowen to be dispersed among his loyall subiectes) for grace and fauour Examined, and found to be derogatorie in an hie degree, vnto the glorie of God, the honour of our King, and the religion in this realme both soundly professed & firmly established. 1606 (1606) STC 10683; ESTC S114625 37,251 68

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by the hard dealing of our aduersaries For we are a people but fewe in number and yet most of vs very poore in worldly wealth The Examination HIs Maiestie by good aduise and counsell hath ratified the Religion of his immediat Predecessor cōprised in 39. Articles agreed vpon by the whole Clergie of this Realme in a lawful assembly or Conuocation holden Anno. 1562. Hee hath also published his directions (a) Eccles constitut can an 1604. how all and euery his Subiects of England publikely shall carry themselues according to their religion in all places If these Familistes therefore will professe the same religion with him and his truly good Subiectes if they also will frequent orderly the sacred Assemblies and Sacraments if they will demeane themselues as it becommeth sober Christians and laye aside all H. N. his erroneous and detestable writinges if they will approoue the Seruice of the Church of England and finally forsake their conuenticling chaire preachinges and Seruices administred among them by their illuminated and codeified Elders they neede feare no persecution or trouble otherwise why should they not feare the sword when they will not be ordered by the word of God They say they are in number but fewe But herein they abuse his Maiesties royall eares and eyes It is well knowen howe twentie fiue yeares agoe the number of them was great and they dispersed in diuers partes as Surrey Sussex Middlesex Bark-shire Hamshire Essex I le of Eley Cambridge-shire Suffolke Norfolk in the North parts and finally in most shires of this Realme In those daies they did abound were growen to such a number as the displayer of the Secte deliuered howe his heart did rue to speake that which one of the same societie did auouch to him for truth (b) Display pref Not a fewe Ministers of the simple sort were with H. N. his fancies entangled nor the chiefest place of the Realme free from these men (c) Ibid. E. 4. a. Since that they are diminished I heare not but them to bee hugely encreased through rufull conniuence I haue arguments to thinke but that their encrease may be hindered I hope authoritie will take order They say they are also poore or the most of them but if the booke of their names called of them The booke of Life could be seene it would then appeare I doubt not that both the number of them is great and most of them very rich It is further obserued that those poore ones which suffer imprisonment any where for H. N. and his Seruice are well maintained while they are in durance which argueth that good contributions among them are made for the supportation of their Secte which cannot be performed without good store of wealth The Family of Loue. OSacred Prince we humbly pray Their Conclusion that the Almightie will mooue your Princely heart with true iudgement to discerne betwixt the right wrong of our cause according to that most certaine and Christian rule set downe by our Sauiour Christ vnto his disciples Math. 7.12 Yee shall know the tree by his fruites and in our obedience peaceable and honest liues and conuersation to protect vs and in our disobedience and misdemeanor to punish vs as resisters of Gods ordinance or the kingly authority most high office of iustice committed vnto your Maiestie to that purpose towards your subiects Rom. 13. The Examination THey woulde insinuate into his Maiesties heart how they are The good trees In their Courtly deuice they say that the onely difference betwixt them and the learned Preachers whom they take of all others to be their most capitall enemies is That what the said Preachers do say The Familists desire to doe as if they onely and none besides had a desire to doe the will of God But what speake I of desiring to do Gods will They do it indeed and really perform it For they cannot bring-foorth any thing else but all good and Loue (a) Docum sent c. 2. §. 1. nothing is able to plucke them from the Word nor to make them consent to any euill or vanitie (b) Ibid. c. 13. §. 5. That which they know not in the death is now appeared vnto them in euerlasting Life The death is nowe among them swallowed vp in the death the euerlasting Life is come vnto them in the Renewing of their Life The Hell is iudged or condemned to the pit of Hell The Heauen is shewed vnto them in the heauenly Being or forme (c) Spir. Land c. 44. §. 10.12 They are come to the Rest of all the Holy ones and children of God and euen so they eate of the wood of life which standeth in the middest of the pleasant garden and liue eternally (d) Ibid. c. 55. §. 9. They are subiect to no Gods nor lawes or Ceremonies but onely to the Lord their God and to his most-holy Seruice of Loue. They are not likewise subiect in bondage vnto the Creatures neither yet to any created thing but only to the Creator c. All their Life Minde and delight only is in God and God himselfe likewise with his mind Life or Spirit is in them and they are euen so of one Conformitie or substance with each other namely God and his people of peace (e) Ibid. c. 40. §. 1.2.18 There is no wickednesse nor malicious Imaginations among them neither yet vision of euill (f) Ibid. c. 33. §. 9. Holie good are pure are all their workes and thoughts (g) Ibid. c. 34. §. 11. They are Gods habitation (h) 1. Exhort c. 12. §. 38. c. 20. §. 7. the seale of Gods Maiestie (i) Proph. of the Spir. c. 7. §. 15. God his Saints (k) Ibid. c. 19. §. 14. his acceptable people (l) Fidel. decl c. 4. §. 11. the children of the kingdome (m) Spir. land pres §. 7. the holy Cittie of peace the new Ierusalem descended from Heauen (n) Ibid. §. 17. the rest of all the Saints or children of GOD (o) Cri. voice cap. 1. §. 1.3 the bodie of Christ (p) Ibid. c. 3. §. 2. one with GOD and GOD one with them (q) Spir land c. 36. §. 1. they are risen from the death with the Resurrection of the Righteous in the euerlasting Life and liue eternally (r) Ibid. c. 37. §. 2. Infinite such words and places from themselues and their H. N. might be alledged or shewe the heauenly condition of these aboue all other men iustifying his Maiesties words altogether that they are a vile Sect thinking themselues onely pure and in a manner yea altogether many of them without sinne the onely true Church and only worthy to be participant of the Sacraments and all the rest of the world to be but abhomination in the sight of God and so rightly properly and principally the most odious Puritans vnder the coape of Heauen The Almightie and all-prouident God which hath inspired his Maiestie with the