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A15388	A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue with the exposition of Theophilus, a supposed elder in the sayd Familye vpon the same articles. By William Wilkinson Maister of Artes and student of diuinitye. Hereunto are prefixed by the right reuerend Father in God I.Y. Byshop of Rochester, certaine notes collected out of their Gospell, and aunswered by the Fam. By the author, a description of the tyme, places, authors, and manner of spreading the same: of their liues, and wrestyng of Scriptures: with notes in the end how to know an heretique.	Wilkinson, William, d. 1613.; Young, John, 1534?-1605.; Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1579 (1579)	STC 25665; ESTC S101312	139,324	194

comme to short in their reconing c. I may not deny but that there is conteined in the scriptures geuen by inspiration of God being rightly vnderstanded followed and obeyed necessary and sufficient doctrine of saluation but for want of these thrée principall pointes many haue small profite truely I could also with all my hart wishe that man with man committed not filthines nor depended one vpon an other but to stay them onely on the Lordes truth and not on flesh and bloud so were then all controuersies at an end It were well also to proue all thinges but not as semeth me by the crooked rule of mans owne iudgement or fleshly minde and concerning nor by his imagination without the light of Gods truth or spirite of righteousnes and loue taken on in constructing and wresling of the right sence and minde of the scriptures which being seperated from the light of lyfe as he in the same worke alleadgeth is a closed booke or a darke word without light and the seruice administred thereout as a dead bodye without a soule or as a dead wife deceased from her husband which could bring fourth no children of lyfe For what can the naturall man iudge that is altogether ignoraunt of the thinges of God or yet open the holy thinges without the key of Dauid or behould the Paradice of God when as men can not frely enter the Seraphin with his fiery sword not being taken away or yet iudge of an other which hath ouercome and attained to haue a new name written in the white stone that lyeth himselfe yet in the meane time altogether be wrapped and buried vnder the bondage and subiectiō of the earthly being and vngodlynes c. Consider therefore euery thing in his right degrée if you be endewed with ghoastly vnderstanding and possessed with the right spirite of iudgemēt and then out of your spiritualnes iudge all thinges according to the ballance of equitye and trying squaire or measure line of righteousnes in the lyfe and truth Trie also the spirits by the same rule and be not vnbeleuing towardes the right spirit but follow and embrace that which is good For if you can shew vs any passinger God of Israel or any better lawe rites and ordinaunce then is his lawes rites and ordinaunces or anye perfecter life then the loue whereon Christe with his holy ones haue heretofore testified Whereto also the Author presently as a concordable witnes with the same doth only point and direct vs or that there be any better thing then the eternall lyfe and the loue it selfe So let not thē that same most best be withheld from vs whilest that we onely enforce vs thereunto that we might serue euē so the onely liuing God in vniformenes of hart and vnpartialitye of minde together with an vpright righteousnes and holynes Take this briefe freindly well meaning aunswere to your exceptions in good part and way it not as a matter done to defend the worke by the way of contending but rather as one out of goodwill doe but geue you occasion thereby to weigh more distinctly and reasonably of that which commeth so lyuely freindly to your hands out of grace to your profit and welfare Therefore saue labour for making any further reply hereunto least you doe but lose your trauaile herein for Christ with his holy ones will not now in this same day of the Loue lyke as doe the princes of the earth whose kingdome is of this world set vp and maintayne his kingdome with contention and discorde but with peaceablenes louing kindnes and long suffering But if one listed to sée wrestlers bestirre them in their play then for to graunt them leuill ground he might not well denay And yf one should trauers the right of his case then must the Iudge sit vnparciall in iudgement place so shall then all matters in equalitye out fall but otherwise be peruerted and oppresse right we shall Vale ꝙ F. L. ❧ Errours and absurde asseuerations out of HN. his Euangelie gathered by William Wilkinson HN Sayth the day of Loue by him preached is the appearyng of our Lord Iesus Christ in the Resurrection Esay 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. of the dead wherein the law and the Prophetes and all that is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled Luke 24. e. HN. sayth he is the Aungell of the Lord or messenger before him for to prepare his way Math. 3. a. Math. 11. b. and to publish an euerlastyng Euangelie Math. 24. Apoc 14. a vnto all generations languages and peoples accordyng to the promises All the testimonies of HN. set foorth in the Glasse of righteousnesse are the Gospell HN. sayth the Familie is the rest of God prepared frō the begynnyng for the people of God and for all repentaunt persons and is appeared in the last tyme accordyng to the promises HN. permitteth to euery nation what Religion they will so they hold with his heresie of the Loue. HN. receiued this message of his Euangelie from the mouth of God him selfe HN. maketh the day of the publishyng his Euangelie to be the last commyng of Christ in iudgement with thousāds of Saints For proofe he citeth Esay 3. b. Math. 24. d. and 25. d. Iude. 1. b. HN. buildeth vpon miracles without Scriptures HN. sayth he will declare the secret misteries of God and make relation of thynges hidden before the world HN. sayth the former kyngdome wherein man was set that is Adam before his fall is brought agayne in the lowlynes of the vpright beyng HN. sayth of the Preachers that they vaunt and geue foorth themselues for Christians and as illuminated men that are Maisters of the Scripture beyng craftie subtill peruerse of hart darcke in their vnderstandyng of a peruerse nature HN. sayth that no man how wise and vnderstandyng soeuer he be in the knowledge of the Scripture can by any meanes vnderstand or comprehend the wisedome of God but they onely that be of his Familie Therefore hope we sayth HN. with much ioy ouer the dead whiche dye in the Lord or are dead in him to wéete that they in their Resurrection from death shall liuyngly come vnto or méete with vs For all the dead of the Lord or the members of Christ shall now liue and arise with their bodyes and we shall assemble with them and they with vs. This day of the Loue is the last commyng of Christ Abell was slayne through the wicked nature of sinne through the handes of his brother Cain HN. depraueth the whole Historie of Abraham from Gene. 16. vnto the 27. Chapter by turnyng it into an Allegorie The greatest must serue the lesse that is sayth HN. the great righteousnesse of the law with the great knowledge or prudence of the fleshe or of the earthly beyng which is borne out of the letter shall serue the litle mynded simplicitie of Christ HN. peruerteth the fourth Commaundement HN. sayth

the Ceremoniall law is néedefull to be obserued HN. termeth our Baptisme an handfull of water Who soeuer is not Baptised accordyng to the forme or maner of Iohn that is with the water of repentaunce confessing their sinne he is no Christian No man sayth HN. can Minister the vpright seruice or Ceremonies of Christ truly but the regenerate HN. denyeth the outward admission of Ministers The Familie shal be in all perfection euerlastyngly vpō earth to the end that Gods will might be done in earth as it is in heauen HN. beasteth perfection in this lyfe and in many places HN. sayth that this testimony and publishyng of the ioyfull message videl his Gospell is the kyngdome of perfection and that all the seruices and prophecies which are gone out from God doe lead hereunto and rest and cease herein HN. his sayth Familie must not conceale or dissemble their Religiō but they must hold it out before euery one whō the Lord stirreth vp in their wayes In HN. his Familie is the true most holy of the euerlastyng beyng of God from whence the vpright seruice of the Familie is ministred whereunto all seruices and prophecies which are gone out from God and his truth do lead as to the right and very true perfection that God might euer be declared vpon earth HN. sayth of all preachers without his Fam. that they are vnilluminated vnregenerated vnrenewed vngodded vnsent good thinkyng which out of their literall knowledge come into the shéepefold of the beleuers besides the Church of Christ Which Christ calleth théeues wolues murtherers false hartes and Scripture learned HN. alloweth confession of sinnes in his Familie and forgeuenesse of the same and clensing whiche he calleth Purgatorie HN. sayth that the Romishe Church hath obediently grounded it selfe on the seruices and ceremonies which are the prefiguration of true Christianitie and her seruices and with diligence and feruēcie obserued the same to a good discipline or ordinaunce of the congregations HN. sayth that the annoyntyng with oyle which the Papistes vse is a Sacrament of the holy Churche of Christ and signifieth vnto vs the annoyntyng of Priests and Elders with the holy Ghost HN. alloweth of the Pope because sayth he through his seruice of the holy word the true clearenes of Christ was spread abroad in all landes HN. of the Popish Hierarchie namely Cardinals Bishops Parish priestes signifiyng the Leuiticall Priestes Deacons or helpers of the Parish Priestes Sextons or kéepers of holy thynges Monkes whiche signifie such as dwell alone and are through the loue of righteousnes sanctified and therfore seperated from the world and all that is fleshly for to liue euen so as sanctified ones of God. All the aforesayd sayth HN. hath bene vsed in tymes past in his true beyng whē the light of lyfe had his clearenes but now is become darkned HN. condenmeth as many out of their knowledge whiche they take out of the Scriptures brought in certaine seruices and ceremonies in any other wise and order then the Churche of Rome appoynted as vnorderly reiectyng and blasphemyng the Catholique Church of Rome and rentyng the consent and nurturable sustentation of the same It is mere lyes and vntruth which the Scripture learned through the knowledge whiche they get out of the Scripture institute preach and teach HN. sayth God raysed him vp which lay altogether dead without breath and lyfe from the death annoynted him with his godly beyng named him selfe with him and Godded him with him selfe All the Scripture speakyng of Christ of his séede of his commyng in his glory is in this day of the Loue fulfilled HN. sayth that the prophecies 1. Edras 4. d. Esay 3. e. and 11. b. Ezech. 39. c. Soph. 3. b. Zach. 2. b. are in this day of Loue fulfilled Moreouer the raysing vp and Resurrection from the dead commeth to passe also in this same day through the appearyng of the commyng of Christ in his maiestie acaccordyng to his saying Iohn 6. e. I will rayse him vp agayne in the last day In this day are all prophecies fulfilled The seruice of Loue is the perfection it selfe All sayth HN. shall perishe without the Familie of Loue. ¶ Hereticall affirmations and vngodly expositions of Scriptures by HN. out of the documentall sentences EVen thus haue the seruices of the testimonyes of the holy spirite of Loue their ministrations among the perfect ones and do remoue the midle wall which is betwixt the perfect and vnperfect ones To make euen so of twayne that it be one namely God and the man in one true being of Iesus Christ cap. 1. sent 4. Nothing can come from the true perfection but all humble and méeke vertues and righteousnes which flow out of perfection cap. 1. sent 7. He alledgeth that there is a perfection in his lyfe to proue it he quoteth 1. Cor. 13. b. cap. 1. sent 9.10.2 Pet. 1. d. The perfect can bring forth nothing but all good and loue quoted as a profe Iohn 13 14.16 he leadeth thē into all truth Cap. 2. sent 1. ¶ Christ is taken on   1. With an imagination of knowledge Cap. 2. sent 1. Videl 2. Good thincking of the hart   3. Or out of the text of the letter No man can teach the word of doctrine of Christ but such as haue bene disciples obedient of the loue cap. 2. senten 1. Vnilluminated Scripture learned and vnsent preachers cap. 2. sent 2. The word that is ministred speakeable or in letters out of the Loue and out of the true lyfe is also Christ after the fleash cap. 2. sent 4. For euen so among the beleuers of the word the word became flesh and dwelt among them and Iesus was in such sort borne of the virgin Mary out of the séede of Dauid after the flesh that is of pure doctrine out of the séede of the Loue and whosoeuer feadeth of the ouerflowne word and his lyfe beleuingly in his soule he eateth truely the flesh of Christ and drinketh his bloud and is raysed vp by Christ in the last day to eternall lyfe and becommeth euen so in his new birth Consubstanciated with Christ after the spirit cap. 2. sent 5. As also for that the seruauntship of the Law should be noe Gal. 3. c. heire with the beleuer cap. 3. sent 10. That same was the complaint of Abraham which he or euer he had a sonne or an heire complayned before the Lord that he had obteined no. Gen. 15. a. séede out of the beliefe And supposed euen so that his seruaunt that is his seruauntship out of the law should be his heire but the sonne wich shall be borne out of the spirite that is out of the fayth of Abraham cap. 3. sent 11. As long as the young ones are childish and not yet growne vp vnto the Elderdome of the perfect being they are yet vnder the ordinance of the

Lord or his word not that they should alwayes remaine as subiect thereunder but vntill the appoynted tyme vntill the manly old age in the godly vnderstanding of the holy word that is tell sinne in them be subdued sayth HN. cap. 3. sent 12. Let euery one confesse his sinnes wherein he falleth before his Elder in the holy vnderstanding and make manifest before him all his dealyng and conuersation cap. 4. sent 3. Verely the mortall wherof S. Paule witnesseth is not any creature of earthly flesh bloud but it is the liuing word or being of God which in the beginning was mortall in the manhoode and is in vs for our sinnes cause become mortall cap. 6. sent 3. The letter slayeth 2. Cor. 3.6 namely the administration of the law after the letter or ministration of Christ after the flesh that is nothing els but that the letter according to the requiring of Christ pointeth and leadeth vs to the death of sinne and withdraweth euen so our mindes and thoughtes from all that which is vngodly cap. 11. sent 6. A man which loueth the vpright righteousnes cannot apply hinselfe vprightly thereunto before he haue wholy geuen ouer himselfe to the gratious worde and seruice of Loue for to be obedient vnto the word and euen so to be admitted thereto by his elder in the holy vnderstanding and minister of the gracious word for to become taught therein cap. 13. sent 1. He that is admitted into the Famil promiseth before God and his holy ones that he will cleaue onely to the word and his requiring and shew faythfull obedience out of his whole hart and minde and not seperate himselfe therefrom for euer cap. 13. sent 4. But if they our ould sinnes which he calleth our Paramours which in tymes past we loued sen 7. take or lay hold on vs with force and violence and that then although we cry there commeth not any power or helpe vnto vs for to withstand their force and violence and that they euen so rauish vs agaynst our will so are we guiltles of the transgression for we haue cryed for to be released from the tyranny of the euill and there is no helpe come vnto vs Ergo if we sinne we are guiltles Of the which guiltles transgressing the law likewise witnesseth where it sayth Deut. 11.27 A woman which is violently taken in the field whereas there is not any help and so rauished and although she haue cryed aloud and gotten no helpe she shall be guiltles of the transgressing cap. 13. sent 8. If it chaunce that any man through weakenesse doe sinne yet let him not couer his sinnes but let him confesse them before his Elder in the holy vnderstandyng and repent him so shall then the Lord be gracious vnto him and forgiue his sinnes Cap. 13. senten 8. and Cap. 11. senten 6. This is the day which God Actes 17. e. hath appointed for to iudge in the same the cōpasse of the earth with righteousnesse through his word in whom he hath concluded his iudgement Cap. 15. sent 4. They of the Familie must manifest them selues and their whole hart dealyng and inclination to the Elders in the Familie of loue Cap. 16. sent 4. Haue not much prate or disputation with straungers nor with thē that fall away from the seruice of the Loue nor with the vnwillyng ones resisters Cap. 16. sent 18. O ye adioyned ones and incorporated ones to the word ye shall not hold you Math. 18. and. c. 1. Cor. 5. b. 2. Thessal 3. b. Common with straungers and decliners from the seruice of Loue for to eate dayly with them at your Table the holy bread Iohn 6. d. Actes 2. f. But breake and eate the same among ech other Cap. 18. sent 10. Beare in no wise any enmitie to any one but shew alwayes your brotherly loue which ye haue amongest ech other Cap. 16. sent 11. Come now all and turne you to this mercy seat of the Loue of the holy spirite of Iesus Christ and obtaine the forgiuenes of your sinnes Cap. 19. sent 2. 3. ARTICLES Which I exhibited vnto a frend of mine to be conuaied vnto the Familie of loue that I might be certified of the doubtes in them contayned Which for my further instruction one Theophilus sent me with a letter and an Exhortation annexed vnto the sayd Articles with his exposition in manner following THEOPHILVS TO the collector of these after expressed Articles that out of his malitious minde peruerted the sence and true minde of the Author and framed sundry of them into errors and to the rest of his Assistants in these and such vncharitable dealinges wheresoeuer they be greeting W. WILKINSONS TITLE ERrors out of the bookes of HN. faythfully and truely if sayth THEOPHILVS such preachers as be vncircumsided both in tongue and eares be to be beleued in these dayes gathered and quoted as in his booke by Chapter and Section they are to be found THEOPHILVS YE might rather in truth haue affirmed vnfaythfully lyingly slaunderously and malitiously or vncharitably W. WILKINSONS CONFVTATION MArke I pray thée gentle Reader what a cholorick and taunting spirite these Familers be of and yet they néedes will be called the Familye of loue as though all that commeth from them were nothing but loue and the very pefection of it selfe For so they affirme of themselues Now if these be their swéete and amiable wordes and louely phrases what cutting tearmes shall wée then looke for when they shall sée vs that wée withstand their enterprise and controule their doctrine especially seing that I did neither by worde nor writing euer geue thē any occasion But if this be their loue and perfection then truely I confesse that I meane not to walke with them I enuy not their happines neyther care I amōgest them to be reckoned vnperfect In deede these speaches be such as the Anabaptistes vsed agaynst the preachers of the Gospell which withstode their heresie they rayled on them calling them Lutherans Fol. 254. False and carnall Gospellers 255. erroneous and vnskilfull preachers 256. succeders of the Pharisies ibid. Hypocrites blinde guides fooles serpentes generations of vipers hirelinges 2576. fellowes of théeues whome Dauid maketh mention of Psal. 50. These were the flowers of Anabaptistes Rhetorique but S Paule teacheth vs another kinde of Eloquēce which becometh the children of God. Let all thinges sayth he be done in loue and the fruite of the spirite is loue ioy peace long suffering gentlenes goodnes fayth Loue suffereth long it is bountifull it enuieth not it doth not boast it is in déede and truth not in tongue and worde onely Now whether this family haue bene taught in the schole of the holy ghost or in the schole of the Anabaptistes I leaue it to the indifferent reader to be considered But if any man shall muse to sée such enuious speaches to flowe from so louely a familye I aunswere No

merueile at all for such a fountayne such water men gather not grapes of thornes nor figges of thistles And true it is that our Sauiour sayth out of the aboundance of the hart the mouth speaketh ARTICLE 1. No Church THe house of Loue sayth HN is the Church of God. 1. Exhor cap. 7. s 37. Theophilus his exposition FIrst note that it is all one to say the house of Loue and the house of God the familye of Loue and the family of God and then proceede William Wilkinson DArke wordes double speaches haue bin alwayes the starting holes of heretiques playne meaning men walke openly at noone lewd and euill disposed persons vage and wander abroad at midnight For he that euill doth hateth the light neyther commeth to the light least his déedes should be reproued Yée speake in a riddle neither doth your reason follow Because it is framed A petitione principij You take that to be graunted which is in controuersie or rather cleane false For what proprietye of speach is this or how doth this reason follow The house of God is the Church of God therefore the good willing ones in England which are named the Familye of Loue are the Church of god But if you will in playne wordes affirme that you onely which are of that familye and no man els which is not of that societye is of the Church First I aunswere that the Anabaptistes did lykewise of their conuenticles affirme that they were the true Church Next I say that when I shall vnderstād your meaning better I will tell you more In the meane time I would you knew that you are not of the Church but yée haue made a Schisme from the Church Christes coate without seame ye haue rent in péeces Truely sayth a learned father whosoeuer doth cut a sunder the vnitye and disturbe the peace of the Church whereby the fellowship of the faythfull is torne into diuers partes he is a Schismatique Such were Chorah Dathan and Abiram agaynst Moyses such were they which disquieted the church of Corinth by holding some of Paule some of Peter some of Appollos some of Christ Such are they whome S. Paule bad the Elders of Ephesus take héede of for they should be greuous wolues not sparing the flock who speaking perverse thinges should drawe disciples after them Of such S. Paule sayth I beseech you brethren marke those which cause dissention amongest you contrary to the doctrine which you haue receiued and auoid them c. As for you of that Familie neither were ye of vs nor went from vs So ye haue choked the word in many weake brethren laying stumbling blocks in the wayes of the simple Ye haue led the blinde out of their way therefore are ye by Gods mouth accursed And albeit that offences must néedes come yet woe be to him by whome they come it were better a millestone were hanged about his neck then to offend one of the litle ones There must be heresies in the Church to try the faythfull and happy is he that holdeth fast least another take his crowne When ye can shew me by the scripture that your Familie is the house of God the piller of the truth I shall confesse my selfe to be in an error Christ hath geuen vs warning to take héede that no man deceiue vs for many shall come in his name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many and there shall arise false Christes and false Prophets c. but he hath told vs before that we should not beleue them nor goe after thē Beleue not euery spirite sayth S. Iohn many false Prophets are gone out into the world Thus are wee warned in the mouth of the sonne of God if the sword come and take vs away our bloud shall be vpon our owne head HN. His assertion IT is the hill of the Lorde whereon his house is builded to the which he that subiecteth not himselfe is a false hart and standeth minded agaynst God and his Church Theophilus exposition THat is spoken of the loue it selfe and not of the Family For how is an house to be builded on an house which thing also may not be denyed for so much as God is loue and the other must consequently or necessarily follow William Wilkinson FIrst to the text of HN. and to Theophilus his exposition The familye sayth HN. is the hill of the Lorde whereon his house is builded for proofe hee quoteth Esa. 2.2 a. Mich. 4.1 a. It shall come to passe in the last day the mountaine of the Lordes house shall be prepared in the toppe of the moūtaines c. The sence of the which places of the prophets is that in the last day vz. in the first comming of the sonne of God the Church shall by him be restored to her glorious beauty the which places in HN. his new gospell 3. chap. 3. sent are applyed to HN. himselfe and to the time of his appearaunce in these wordes Now shall the law be taught out of Sion and in the 4. sent for this is the day of promise Psal. and ver 24. c. which the Lord hath made which first place is directly vnderstode of Christ and the building agayne of the Church by him The other place of the psal declared that Dauid being appointed by God to be king ouer Israell should deliuer the Arke out of the handes of the Philistines wherein he foreshewed that by a figure which was true in Christ Ephe. 4. verses 4.8.11.12.13 the which HN. presumptuously taking vnto himselfe grossly erreth in applying the scripture gracelesly blasphemeth the sonne of god First making Christ lesse carefull of his Church than he is in déede Secondly he is openly impious in this that whereas Christ sayth All is finished meaning all types and figures HN. maketh all vnperfect affirming that in him and his appearaunce all becommeth fulfilled His wordes be these The day of Loue Psal. 118. ver 24. c. is the appearing and comming Mat. 24. c. Luk. 17. c. Actes 24. of our Lorde Iesus Christ in the resurrection of the dead Esa. 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. Wherein the law of the Prophets and all that is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled All which places by him quoted are very playnely ment of the resurrection that is the second resurrection from death the secōd comming of Christ to iudgemēt whereby HN seemeth to emply the resurrection of the body and the second comming of Christ to iudgement to be past already which is heresie or els quoting those places for his first comming he alledgeth them amisse which is ignoraunce HN. TO the which he that subiecteth not himselfe is a false hart William Wilkinson IT is very true he that submitteth not himselfe to the Church of God is a false hart c. For he shall neuer haue God for his Father which hath not the

definition sith already euery part is confuted it shal in this place spare me a further labour In the definition as he termeth it there are cōtained diuers out-roades extrauagant varying of phrases altogether repugnyng vnto Arte which willeth that euery deffinition be as brief and playne as possible may be yet is HN. his definition so compacted together as if the one part of it stode at Collen and the other at Amsterdam but herein rather pitie we his folly then enuy his learning and dexteritie in formyng a fit definition But seyng we haue founde fault with HN. his definition of the vpright fredome let vs sée if there may a more playne and pithy definition be drawne then erst he hath set downe Christian libertie is the forgiuenesse of sinnes Psal. 32.1 a Rom. 4.8 Purchased by the death of Christ Rom. 4.25 d. Ephes 1.7 b. Preached vnto vs by the Gospell Ioh. 8.32.2 Tim. 1.10 c. sealed by the vse of the word Actes 13.26 d. Rom. 1.16 b. and Sacramentes Rom. 4.11 1. Cor. 11.26 The which definition I reale to amplifie or to prosecute the partes therof because the testimonies of the holy Scriptures shal be my sufficient warrant in that behalf The second crime that HN. burtheneth our Ministry withall is that those that preach are vnregenerate vnrenewed which that it hindreth not the truth of doctrine in that it is taught by a wicked person is apparaunt by the testimonie of our Sauiour who biddeth the Disciples and the people obey the doctrine of the Scribes and pharisies which sit in Moses chaire but do not after their lyfe which he would not haue done if the Pharisies euill lyfe had made voyde the truth of their doctrine But this is touched more in the 5. Article where it is impugned by HN. that a man lewde in lyfe can not speake the truth in doctrine The thyrd crime of preachyng out of the learnednes of the letter we shall haue a fitter place to touch it afterward in the next Article The fourth crime which HN obiecteth is coalewortes more then tenne times sodden and yet being refused by vs eftsone is in the next seruice set downe For how often doth he in his wofull exhortation still heate vpon this a ceremonie seruice that maintayneth dissention and agayne which stretcheth no further but to the breding of schisme partialitye and sedition among the people quoting Math. 24. a. 5. ve and b. 24. v. Where Christ sayth Many false Christes shall arise and deceiue many HN. expoundeth it of those which professe religion without his loathsom and schismaticall Familye and in the same place he quoteth 1. Cor. 3. a. 3. Iam. 3. b. which conteineth a discription of the intemperancie of the tongue being abused he vilanously doth aply it to those preachers which reuerētly handle the pure word of God without his hereticall secresie and frentique conuenticle and in the same 15. Chap. of HN The simple and vnlighted people Ierem. 23. c. d. Ezech. 13. b. ver 8.9.10 c. become therewith seduced and beguiled Math. 24. c. 2. Tim. 3.4 2. Pet. 2. a. Iude. 1. b. still HN. applieth those places to the preachers of Gods worde which are ment of him and such lyke bedlem heretiques as he is as also captiued with many diuises and sectes the which knowledge of the worde that the same preachers haue HN. termeth in the same blasphemous and schismaticall chap. Variaunce renting or diuision bringing forth discordable disputations about vnprofitable argumentes Rom. 1. d. Galla. 5. c. 1. Tim. 6. a. Titus 3. a. Iam. 3. b. then the which what can be vttered with more malice or set abroach with more cancred hatred and yet will HN. néedes be counted the Father of the Familye that in it hath nothing but loue and méeke mindednes The which accusation of his as it is most pestilent and full fraught with an hart wholy resolued to raile and backbite vnder the cloake of calmenes so is it a thing that continually hath ben obiected agaynst the Church to infring the trueth thereof after this sort There are in such and such particuler Churches disagreementes in some pointes of doctrine varietye of iudgemētes ergo there is no truth in those Churches This I say is an ould Argument framed first by heretiques vsed by the Papistes as an Iron flayle and now againe furbushed and being new fethered is shotte againe cleane besides the white and the butt also For the auncient Fathers hauing it often obiected to them frier Hosias and the graceles runnagate Staphilus and M. Harding himselfe hath often turned this stone which so is fastened by the Father of blessed remembraunce the Byshop of Salisburye that if all the Famblers of Loue and heretiques in the world shall set their shoulders vnto it therewith to ouerwhelme the truth they neuer shall be able so much as once to stir it and yet if they should they must take héede that in the rembling therof they crush not all their bones in sunder to their vtter confusion But that this gappe may finally be stopped that hereafter HN. neuer with his fellow hereticks breake in to disturbe the peace of Sion let it be remembred that is written Gen. 13.7 b. 27.11 Luke 22.24 c. Actes 15.39 f. 1. Cor. 1.11 b. Gal. 2.11 c. that alwayes in the Church of God there hath ben iarres aswell in maners as also in religion And thus much brieflye for this second part of HN. his doctrine of the dignitye of the word and the opinion of the truth thereof As for Theophilus who frendly geueth me counsell to blaze my selfe in the former definition of a Libertine I doe him to know that such libertye as is to be claymed by mercye and imputation of the death of Christ that libertie from sinne I loke for and none other and this is that which in my poore iudgment all the children of God doe loke for Rom. 8.20.21 both in this lyfe as also in the lyfe to come As for his Rhetoricall terme of blazing and Blazonrie I wish him to spare it tell he come in place where he may haue occasion to vse it for vnto me if he be that party whome some that wishe well to the Familye report to me that he is he should not haue needed to haue shadowed him selfe by a terme of heraultrie but if I were disposed to blase his coate perhaps if I should say that he were like to be that E. R. which ouershot himselfe in his Epistle to I. R. I might so dissipher his personage that the vizard of Theophilus should not be sufficient to saue him that he be not knowne by blushing but it is good for him to kéepe him to that which he is called and rather to learne the principles of the Catechisme and the first groundes of Gods feare then to busie bimselfe in that which he hath no skill of to the hurt of the Church the offence of the weake and endamaging of