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A34331
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The Connexion being choice collections of some principal matters in King James his reign, which may serve to supply the vacancy betwixt Mr. Townsend's and Mr. Rushworth's historical collections.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)
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1681
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Wing C5882; ESTC R2805
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4. That Christ our Saviour took not Humane Flesh of the Substance of the Virgin Mary his Mother and that that Promise the Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head was not fulfilled in Christ 5. That the Person of the Holy Ghost is not God Coequal Coeternal and Coessential with the Father and the Son 6. That the three Creeds viz. the Apostles Creed the Nicene Creed the Athanasian Creed are the Heresies of âe Nicolaitaines 7. That he the âid Edward Wightman is that Proâhet spoken of in the Eighteenth of âeuteronomy in these words I will âise them up a Prophet c. and that âat place of Isaiah I alone have troden âe Wine-press and that that place âhose Fan is in his hand are proper âd personal to him the said Edward âightman 8. And that he the said âightman is that Person of the Holy âhost spoken of in the Scriptures âd the Comforter spoken of in the âxteenth of St. John's Gospel 9. And at those words of our Saviour Christ the Sin of Blasphemy against the âoly Ghost are meant of his Person ââ And that that place the Fourth ââ Malachy of Elias to come is âewise meant of his Person 11. That âe Soul doth sleep in the Sleep of âe First Death as well as the Body âd is mortal as touching the Sleep âe first Death as the Body is And ât the Soul of our Saviour Jesus ârist did sleep in that Sleep of Death well as his Body 12. That the Souls of the Elect Saints Departed are not Members possessed of the Triumphant Church in Heaven 13. That the Baptizing of Infants is an abominable Custom 14. That there oughâ not in the Church the use of the Lords Supper to be celebrated iâ the Elements of Bread and Wine and the use of Baptism to be celebrated in the Element of Water as they are now practised in the Church of England but that the use of Baptism iâ to be administred in Water only to Converts of sufficient Age and Understanding converted from Infidelity to the Faith 15. That God hath ordained and sent him the said Edwarâ Wightman to perform his part in the Work of the Salvation of the World to deliver it by his Teaching or Admonition from the Heresie of the Nicolaitanes as Christ was ordained and sent to save the World and by hiâ Death to deliver it from Sin and to reconcile it to God 16. And thaâ Christianity is not wholly professed and preached in the Church of England but only in part wherein he âhe said Edward Wightman hath before the said Reverend Father as alâo before our Commissioners for Cauâes Ecclesiastical within our Realm of England maintained his said most âerilous and dangerous Opinions as âppeareth by many of his Confessions âs also by a Book Written and Subscriâed by him and given to us for the which his damnable and heretical Oâinions he is by Divine Sentence declared by the said Reverend Father âhe Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield with the Advice and Consent of Learned Divines and others Learned in âhe Law assisting him in Judgment âustly adjudged pronounced and declared to be an obstinate and incorrigible Heretick and is left by them under the Sentence of the great Excommunication and therefore as a Corrupt Member to be cut off from âhe rest of the Flock of Christ lest he should infect others professing the true Christian Faith and is to be by our Secular Power and Authority as an Heretick punished As by the Significavit of the said Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield bearing Date at Lichfield the Fourteenth day of December in the Ninth Year of our Reign and remaining in our Court of Chancery more at large appeareth And although the said Edward Wightman hath since the said Sentence pronounced against him been often very charitably moved and exhorted as well by the said Bishop as by many other Godly Grave and Learned Divines to dissuade revoke and remove him from the said Blasphemous Heretical and Anabaptistical Opinions yet he arrogantly and willfully resisteth and continueth in the same We therefore according to our Regal Function and Office minding the Execution of Justice in this behalf and to give Example to others lest they should attempt the like hereafter have Determined by the Assent of our Council to will and require and do hereby Authorize and Require You our said Chancellour immediately upon the Receit hereof to award and make out under Our Great Seal of England Our Writ of Execution âccording to the Tenor in these presents ensuing And these presents shall âe your sufficient Warrant and Discharge for the same Then was a Warrant granted by the King to the Lord Chancellour of England to award a Writ under the Great Seal to the Sherriff of Lichfield for Burning of Edward Wightman delivered over to the Secular Power by the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield The Warrant THE Kng to the Sheriff of Our City of Lichfield Greeting Whereas the Reverend Father in Christ Richard by Divine Providence of Coventry and Lichfield Bishop hath signified unto Us That he judicially proceeding according to the Exigence of the Ecclesiastical Canons and of the Laws and Customs of this our Kingdom of England against one Edward Wightman of the Parish of Burton upon Trent in the Diocess of Coventry and Lichfield of and upon the Wicked Heresies of Ebion Cerinthus Valentinian Arrius Macedonius Simon Magus of Manes Manichees Photinus and of the Anabaptists and other Arch Hereticks and moreover of other cursed Opinions belched by the Instinct of Satan excogitated and heretofore unheard of the aforesaid Edward Wightman appearing before the aforesaid Reverend Father and other Divines and Learned in the Law assisting him in Judgment the aforesaid Wicked Crimes Heresies and other detestable Blasphemies and Errors stubbornly and pertinaciously knowingly maliciously and with an hardened Heart published defended and dispersed by definitive Sentence of the said Reverend Father with the Consent of Divines Learned in the Law aforesaid justly lawfully and Canonically against the said Edward Wightman in that part brought stands adjudged and pronounced an Hereâick and therefore as a diseased Sheep âut of the Flock of the Lord lest our âubjects he do infect by his Contaâion he hath decreeed to be cast out ând cut off Whereas therefore the Holy Mother-Church hath not furâher in this part what it ought more âo do and prosecute the same Reveâend Father the same Edward Wightman as a Blasphemous and Condemâed Heretick hath left to our Secuâar Power to be punished with Conââign Punishment as by the Letters Patents of the aforesaid Reverend Father the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in this behalf thereupon made is certified unto us in our Chancery We therefore as a Zealot of Justice and a Defender of the Catholick Faith and willing that the Holy Church and the Rights and Liberties of the same and the Catholick Faith to maintain and defend and such like Heresies and Errors every