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A89682	An apology for the service of love, and the people that own it, commonly called, the family of love. Being a plain, but groundly discourse, about the right and true Christian religion : set forth dialogue-wise between the citizen, the countreyman, and an exile : as the same was presented to the high court of Parliament, in the time of Queen Elizabeth; and penned by one of her Majesties menial servants, who was in no small esteem with her, for his wisdom and godliness. With another short confession of their faith, made by the same people. And finally some notes & collections, gathered by a private hand out of H.N. upon, or concerning the eight beatitudes.	Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1656 (1656)	Wing N1122; Thomason E1610_1; ESTC R210332	24,412	73

those her good enterprizes and should also live unto a good old age all discord should then cease and come to an end and so we in the Realm of England should live joyfully in all tranquillity godliness obedience and love and be safely protected of God and his holy Angels from the danger of any adversary worldly or ghostly But to say that we be Libertines that is not so and who so shall look rightly into the Service of Love he shall well perceive that therein is no liberty to sin given or taught We are indeed fraile and full of infirmities and have all need of Gods mercy therefore our desire is that we might obtain such grace and power with God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ whereby we might so repent us of our sins past that we might henceforth leave off from our wicked ways more and more take up our Crosse on us against the sin dy even so daily with Christ and so imitate him in death and life until such time as we become raised up again with Jesus Christ in a new true life for that we might by such means escape the horrible plagues and miseries which now in these last times are in coming over all licentious Libertines and unrepenting obstinate sinners For other rejoycing have we not then alone in the crosse death blood-shedding and resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ And as for the Libertines and who they be I have sufficiently expressed before in six notes He that hath ears to hear let him hear and who lists not may choose Countrey-man But yet this one thing I know for a surety that thou and thy company are not only suspected to be superstitious Papists but also it is thought that this ministration called the Service of Love is published forth to the end to maintain all superstition and abuse in the Roman Religion and wist we two so much then doubtless we would not once deal therewith nor yet talk with thee any farther wherefore I pray thee yet once again that thou wouldst for my further satisfying in this behalf shew us thy mind therein ere ever we do part hence Exile The truth is so far forth as I can perceive that the Author of those Books in his Ministration out of Love doth neither maintain or allow any manner of Superstition frequented in the Roman or Popish Church But he indeed seemeth to open and disclose the first ground of the same Religion and the signification of every thing so well Sacraments as Ceremonies frequented and allowed in the same Church willing every one that shall hap to dwell where he must live under the same Sacraments and Ceremonies and where the same are by the Laws of the Land allowed and commanded to obey the Rulers and their Laws and for obedience cause not to rebel in any case against their Rulers but rather to go to the Church where the same are administred and there to mark only upon the signification of the same and what a Christian life and obedience to God and Governours the same in their right signification do ask and require of them And yet he acknowledgeth them no otherwise but as Sacraments Ceremonies Signs Images Figures or shaddows of good and holy things c. But above all he exhorteth all to the humble obedience peaceable and Christian life which those do figure forth And as for us I put you out of doubt we do likewise utterly detest all superstitious Papistry but we most chiefliest do desire that the same true obedience and godly life which is Christ Jesus might increase it self more and more in us and in many Countrey-man That life indeed is the best but why doth he call his ministration the Service of Love and those that take warning thereat why are they termed the Family of Love shew me thy understanding herein because such a name seemeth to me as also to many as yet very straying Exile I will tell you according to my simple understanding and as I gather by such writings of his as I have read in the Service of Love Forasmuch as all the generations of men on earth so well Jew as Gentile Christian as Heathen Papist as Protestant yea of what Religion soever have now in these last horrible days not only most grieviously transgressed Gods holy Commandements but also every one in his is far away digressed from the first ground whereon they were set and are yet moreover even with the old world and with those of Sodom and Gomorah run into all licentiousness and carelesnesse of life provoking thereby Gods just wrath and heavy indignation So that of his justice he might therefore worthily have destroyed us like as in the days of Noah even all the children of men Yet notwithstanding he hath now as a gracious Father and according to his wonted mercy pittied the generations of men And therefore hath once again according to his promises warned all people upon the earth through this his ministration out of Love to repent and turn every one from his wicked ways believe the Gospel become baptized so be preserved ere ever the great wo misery plagues unlucky judgments fall suddainly unawares upon all unrepenting and unbelieving sinners and licentious Scripture-learned or Libertines to their condemnation in the fire of hell All these plagues saith he and many more are like to come shortly on us all if we take scorn to be warned by these latter lovely admonitions c. which he termeth A service of ministration out of the Spirit of Love or of God wherewith the man is served or ministred unto to his preservation therefore he calls it oftentimes The Service of Love Further why he calleth all those that repent and amend their waies upon the admonition thereof the Family of Love is this because he thinks them meet to bear such a high name the whilst that being so gratiously served and warned thereby they so desire as Gods children to love God as chief and their neighbour as themselves to obey their Prince and Governors to live obediently under their Laws as also to deal uprightly brotherly and faithfully with all men in all love testifying even so aright and according to the truth that they only are the true Christians which lead a Christian life and not the talkers thereof And thus much concerning my understanding therein Countrey-man But how cometh it to passe then tell me that you are now almost of all men as well great as small yea rich as poor but especially of the learned Preachers bruted forth and that most odiously for the most detestable Sectaries or Hereticks that ever reigned on the earth yea and as people not worthy to live in a Common-wealth Exile What be those brutes wherewith we are so bruted tell me and I will answer you so near as I can according to truth Countrey-man These they are Some say you deny Christ the Trinity and the Lords prayer others say that you are Libertines and

generation of mankind which is altogether estranged from God and his righteousnesse by the disobedience of Adam in his Innocent and glorious estate wherein he was first created And therefore I have no doubt at all but do believe assuredly according to the Scriptures that Jesus Christ hath of his part accomplished it all Notwithstanding of this one thing I stand in doubt viz. Whether many at this day amongst us which boast our selves for Christians and for partakers of all the merits of Christs death and passion have any earnest lust or inclination with all Gods elect to accomplish that which on their part is lacking of the passions of Christ and is neverthelesse earnestly required of us in the holy Scriptures viz. to repent us earnestly of our sins past to forsake our selves taking up our Crosse and following Christ to dye unto sin to crucifie the flesh with her lusts to put on the new man of rigteousnesse to dwell in Christ and to have him to dwell in us or to put on Christ to have the same minde in us that was in Christ to become as little Children to believe in him to keep his word and to do all whatsoever he commandeth to love one another to obey our governors and to live under their Lawes and even so to eate the flesh of Christ and drink his blood that so we might have life in us doubtless whosoever doth not thus endeavour himself to walk as is aforesaid in this infallible Christian rule which is expressed more at at large unto us in the Service of Love in the after following of Christ he may not know the truth or Christ become made free of the truth nor inherit the Kingdom of heaven or be saved Citizen Thou hast put me in mind of a marvellous matter But tell me can any man live so pure whilst he is in this mortal life but that he shall sin Exile Understand there is no man living be he what he is but he shall sometimes sin or offend whiles he is this mortal life notwithstanding He that is born of God namely Christ Jesus the man of God from heaven that new Creature in whom the seed of God remaineth sinneth not And then know this also that there is a great difference between sin unto death and sin not unto death Citizen That is so indeed but yet then what thinkest thou herein have we not been deceived in times past by many false Prophets and false Teachers which have walked among us in sheeps clothing being inwardly ravening Wolves And were not those the superstitious Papists which brought in all abuses as worshipping of Images with much more idolatry into this Land although it be now banished quite Exile Yes we have been no doubt in times past much deceived and yet are to this day The superstitious Papists I grant were false Prophets and false Teachers which brought in many abuses with idolatry for covetousness is idolatry and the Prophet complaineth saying This people carrieth unclean or foul Idols in their hearts meaning still to go on in their wickedness c. Yea all what the man esteemeth more of in his heart than of God and his holy Law that same is to him an Idol he falleth down before it serveth and honoureth it prayeth likewise unto it Citizen Wilt thou say then that many of us in this Land are yet deceived and that we have now in these last days false Prophets and false Teachers among us Exile Yea for so it is prophecied or fore spoken in the holy Scriptures to come to pass in the last times notwithstanding yet must I needs think well of all such Preachers as hunger and thirst after the truth righteousness love obedience and peace expressing likewise the same in their good and godly conversation Citizen How shall men know then the false prophets and false Teachers Exile By their Fruits Citizens That is very true but shew me I pray thee by some certain notes or manifest tokens how I might henceforth know them with their fruits for that I and all men might-ever after beware of the false and give heed to the true Exile Then mark well these six Notes following 1. They are such as presume to teach others the way to eternal life before ever they have walked therein themselves or yet have once desired to become first the disciples of Christ or of his word to a reformation of their own lives c. 2. Such as will be taken for perfect Christians and godly teachers ere ever that Christ who is the truth the right spirit and the life have gotten a living shape in them whereby they might first preach Christ aright out of a good conversion in all love even so then go before the people having both oyl in their vessels and light in their Lamps c. 3. Such as will seem to have put on the new man of righteousness and yet never took in hand nor have known how to do off the old man of sin and wickedness first notwithstanding they take upon them to understand and to expound Gods secret mysteries out of the Scriptures c. 4. Such as will be free by Christ and teach men so ere ever they seen into their Captivity and thraldom of the sin death devil and hell whole bond-slaves and captives they themselves yet are and ere ever they have repented them rightly from their sin in such sort that it might ever after appear among all men in their holy walking 5. Such as will take on them to understand and publish forth the secret mysteries of Gods divine wisdom contained in the holy Scripture by the ingeniousness of the fleshly wisdom they themselves being as yet unregenerate given to lying blaspheming traytors oppression covetousnes persecuting with all kind of maliciousnesse wickedness and licentiousness of life 6. Such as boast of their deliverance in the last resurrection and teach men soere ever they have got any part in the first or are renewed in the Spirit and mind or yet stand up with Christ from the death c. All these and such like say I are false prophets though covered in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening woulfs men shall know them by their fruits with their mouth indeed they confess Christs but in their deeds deny him they are likewise blind guides such as have taken on them to lead the Ignorant out of darknesse into he light and yet themselves as those that love not the light will still remain in darknesse These are very Libertines inclined alwayes to hatred and iniquity stirring up strife setting variance amongst Princes breaking lawes despising autority and ordinances of men resisting Gods love and mercifullnesse Blaspheming the truth and persecuting the Innocent or simple which love God and his righteousnesse and walk in all obedience and peace Wherefore those be the children of Beliall and void of all wisdom such as unlesse they repent in time must be shut out amongst the foolish rejected for the workers of