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A46456 A true relation of the commissions and warrants for the condemnation and burning of Bartholomew Legatt and Thomas Withman the one in West-Smithfield, London, the other at Lichfield, in the year, 1611. Signed with K. James his own hand. In which is laid open their most blasphemous heresies and false opinions, being part of them the very same which our ranters in these times profess to be their new lights. Whereunto are added, the pardons of Theophilus Higgons, and Sr Eustace Hart Knight. Published by authority. James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I). 1651 (1651) Wing J146; ESTC R216993 9,156 21

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awarding of a Writ under the Great Seal of England to the Sheriff of the City of London for the burning of Bartholomew Legatt who is convicted of divers horrible Heresies before the Bishop of London and by his Sentence left to the secular Power as is by the said Bishop certified to Your Majesty into Your Highness Court of Chancery And is done by force of Your Majesties commandment to me given under Your Highness Sign manual Henry Hibirte THe King to the Sheriffs of London greeting Whereas the Reverend Father in Christ John Bishop of London hath signified unto Us that when he in a certain business of Heretical pravity against one Bartholomew Legatt our Subject of the City of London of the said Bishop of Londons Diocess and Jurisdiction rightly and lawfully proceeding by Acts enacted drawn proposed and by the Confessions of the said Bartholomew Legatt before the said Bishop judicially made and acknowledged hath found in the said Bartholomew Legatt very many wicked Errours false Opinions Heresies and cursed Blasphemies and impious Doctrines expresly contrary and repugnant to the Catholick Faith and Religion and the holy Word of God knowingly and maliciously and with a pertinacious and obdurate plainly incorrigible minde to believe hold affirm and publish the same Reverend Father the Bishop of London with the Advice and Consent as well of the Reverend Bishops and other Divines as also of men Learned in the Law in Judgement sitting and assisting the same Bartholomew Legatt by his definitive Sentence hath pronounced decreed and declared to be an obdurate contumacious and incorrigible Heretick and upon that occasion as a stubborn Heretick and rotten contagious Member to be cut off from the Church of Christ and the Communion of the Faithful Whereas the Holy Mother Church hath not further to doe and prosecute in this part the same Reverend Father hath left the aforesaid Bartholomew Legatt as a blasphemous Heretick to our secular Power to be punished with condign Punishment as by the Letters Patents of the said Reverend Father in Christ the Bishop of London in this behalf above made hath certified unto Us in Our Chancery We therefore as a Zealot of Justice and a Defendor of the Catholick Faith and willing to maintain and defend the holy Church and Rights and Liberties of the same and the Catholick Faith And such Heresies and Errours every where what in Us lieth to root out and extirpate and to punish with condign Punishment such Hereticks so convicted and deeming that such an heretick in form aforesaid convicted and condemned according to the Laws and Customs of this Our Kingdome of England in this part accustomed ought to be burned with Fire We do command you that the said Bartholomew Legatt being in your Custody you do commit publickly to the Fire before the People in a publick and open place in West-Smithfield for the cause aforesaid and that you cause the said Bartholomew Legatt to be really burned in the same Fire in Detestation of the said Crime for the manifest example of other Christians lest they slide into the same fault and this that in no wise you omit under the peril that shall follow thereon Witnesse c. A NARRATION of the Burning of Edward Wightman James R. JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right Welbeloved Councellor Thomas Lord Ellesmere our Chancellour of England Greeting Where the Reverend Father in God Richard Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield having judicially proceeded in the Examination Hearing and Determining of a Cause of Heresie against Edward Wightman of the Parish of Burton upon Trent in the Diocess of Coventrey and Lichfield concerning the wicked Heresies of the Ebionites Cerinthians Valentinians Arrians Macedonians of Simon Magus of Manes Manichees of Photinus and Anabaptists and of other Heretical Execrable and unheard of Opinions by the instinct of Satan by him excogitated and holden viz. That there is not the Trinity of Persons the Father the Son and the holy Ghost in the Unity of the Deity 2. That Jesus Christ is not the true natural Son of God perfect God and of the same Substance Eternity and Majesty with the Father in respect of his Godhead 3. That Jesus Christ is only Man and a meer Creature and not both God and man in one Person 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 and the Athanasius Creed are the Heresies of the Nicolaitanes 7. That he the said Edward Wightman is that Prophet spoken of in the eighteenth of Deutronomy in these words I will raise them up a Prophet c. And that That place of Isaiah I alone have troden the wine-press And that That place Whose fan is in his hand are proper and personal to him the said Edward Wightman 8. And that he the said Wightman is that Person of the holy Ghost spoken of in the Scriptures and the Comforter spoken of in the sixteenth of St Johns Gospel 9. And that those words of our Saviour Christ of the sin of blaspemy against the holy Ghost are meant of his person 10. And that That place the fourth of Malachy of Elias to come is likewise meant of his person 11. That the Soul doth sleep in the sleep of the first death as well as the body and is mortall as touching the sleep of the first death as the body is And that the Soul of our Saviour Jesus Christ did sleep in that sleep of death as 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 ought not be in the Church the use of the Lords Supper to be celebrated in 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 is to be Administred in Water only to Converts of sufficient age of understanding converted from Infidelity to the Faith 15. That God hath ordained and sent him the said Edward 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 his death to deliver it from sin and to reconcile it to God 16. And that Christianity is not wholly professed and preached in the Church of England but only in part Wherein he the said Edward Wightman hath before the said Revered