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A84134	A brief discovery of the blasphemous doctrine of familisme, first conceived and brought forth into the world by one Henry Nicolas of the Low Countries of Germany about an hundred years agoe; and now very boldly taught by one Mr. Randall, and sundry others in and about the citie of London. Whom multitudes of people follow, and which doctrine many embrace. The summe or briefe whereof is on the other side of the leafe set downe.	Etherington, John, fl. 1641-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing E3382; Thomason E277_11; ESTC R200007	13,969	16

with Christ in the heavenly goods of the riches of God illuminated in the Spirit with the heavenly truth the true light of the perfect being elected to a Minister of the gracious word which is now in the last time raised up by God according to his promises in the most holy services of God under the obedience of his love for to publish now in the last time out of the same grace and heartie mercifulnesse of God and through the same holy Spirit of the love of Iesu Christ good tidings or a joyfull message of the Kingdome of God unto all people c. And in Sentence 9. of the same chapter he hath these words Esay 3. Matth. 24.25 Iude 1. Esay 16. Acts 17. Zach. 8. FOr behold in this present day the glorious comming of the Lord Iesu Christ with the many thousands of his Saints be commeth manifested which hath set himselfe now upon the Seat of his majesty for to judge in this same day which the Lord hath ordained or appointed the whole world with equity and with faithfulnesse and truth according to his righteousnesse For that cause O all yee which dwell upon the earth feare now the Lord the most highest and give him alone all honour laud and praise for the day of his judgement is now come Apoc. 14. that it mought now in the same day of the true judgment of God and Christ Luke 22. become all fulfilled in Christ whatsoever is written of him Sentence 10. And in chap. 34. he having before from chap. 31. to this 34. spoken of the Catholick Church of Rome of the Pope Cardinals Bishops Priests Deacons Sextons Services Ceremonies c. and in great commendations of them for their time untill contentions arose about them saith here BVt the while now that the figurative Services and Ceremonies of the Christians flourished in their vigor and that the discordable minds out of the knowledge of the Scripture did daily increase to a more intangling with much contending and disputation of Christ and of his Services and Ceremonies And that many good willing hearts which had great hunger and thirst after the righteousnesse Matth. 5. searched the Scriptures for to understand the truth and will of God Exod. 3. Psal 9. and to live therein with great diligence and zeale and sighed and prayed unto God So bath God at last remembred the desolate hearts the sighings and prayers of the poore and for his chosen sake to the end that his truth and what his will is mought before all lovers of the truth Matth. 24. Abac. 3. Acts 13. Ioh. 6. Acts 17. Rom. 8. 1 Cor. 6. 2 Cor. 4. Ephes 2. Ezek. 37. Iohn 17. 2 Pet. 1. Iohn 14. 2 Cor. 6. Apoc 21. Psal 45. 89. Esay 16. Esay 2. Ioel 2. Acts 2. Gen. 2● Matth. 24. Apoc. 14. Psal 4. 68. Rom. 14. 2 Cor. 5. 2 Reg. 7. Psal 98. Esai 16. 32. 42. Ier. 23. 35. Acts 17. be made manifest or declared and the Scripture fulfilled shortned the dayes according to his promises and through the hearty mercifulnesse of his love wrought a great and wonderfull work upon earth out of his holy heaven and raised up me H. N. the least among the holy ones of God which lay altogether dead and without breath and life among the dead from the death and made me alive through Christ as also anointed me with his godly being manned himselfe with me and Godded me with him to a living Tabernacle or House for his dwelling and a seat of his Christ the seed of David to the end that his wonderfull works mought now in the last time be known the light of his glory with full clearnesse and instruction revealed and the comming of his Kingdome to an Evangelie of the same Kingdome and to the blessing of all generations of the earth published in all the world according to the Scriptures Behold and consider my beloved how wonderfully God worketh in his holy ones and how that in this day or light of the love the judgment seat of Christ is revealed and declared unto us out of heaven to a righteous judgement upon earth from the right hand of God And how that on the same judgment seat of Christ that the Scriptures mought be fulfilled there sitteth one now in truth in the habitation of David which judgeth uprightly thinketh upon equity and requireth righteousnesse Through him God will now in this day which he himselfe hath appointed or ordained thereunto judge the compasse of the earth with righteousnesse In which this same day or last time namely in the perfection of the works of God and in his righteous judgement the God of heaven hath now declared himselfe and his Christ together with all his Saints unto us his elect and also made a dwelling with as and brought even so unto us out of his holy Being the most holy of his true Taberncle with the fulnesse of his garnishing and spirituall heavenly riches to an everlasting fast standing Ierusalem and house for Gods dwelling according to the Scriptures The which is the very true undisturbable Kingdome full of all godly power joy and of all heavenly beautifulnesse wherein the laud of the Lord with fulnesse of the eternall life and lovely sweetnesse is sung from everlasting to everlasting And wherein all mindes of pure hearts doe dwel live and walk with freedome and Christian triumph in all love This great day light of the most high God hath presently in his righteous judgement shined about us c. Sent. 1 2 3 4 c. And in chap. 35 Sentence 8. these words Esay 26. Dan. 12. 4 Esdr 7. 1 Thess 4. Matth. 24 25. Luke 17. Acts 1. Matth. 24. Apoc. 14. BEhold in this present day is this Scripture fulfilled and accrrding to the testimony of the Scripture the raising up and the resurrection of the Lord dead c mmeth also to passe presently in this same day through the appearing of the comming of Christ in his majesty which resurrection of the dead seeing that the same is come unto us from Gods grace we do likewise in this present day to an Evangelie or joyfull message of the kingdome of God and Christ publish in all the world under the obedience of the love 9. In which resurrection of the dead God showeth unto us that the time is now fulfilled Esay 26. 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thess 4. that his dead or the dead which are fallen asleep in the Lord rise up in this day of his judgement and appeare unto us in godly glory which shall also from henceforth live in us everlastingly with Christ and reigne upon the earth wherein the Scripture becommeth fulfilled in this present day like as there standeth written thereof Deut. 32. The Lord shall judge his people c. And in chapter 38. Sentence 2. VVHerefore awake now all lift up your heads heare and see the wonderfull acts of God Matth. 24. Luk. 21. Cor. 15.

A BRIEF DISCOVERY OF The Blasphemous Doctrine of Familisme First conceived and brought forth into the world by one HENRY NICOLAS of the Low Countries of Germany about an hundred years agoe And now very boldly taught by one Mr. Randall and sundry others in and about the Citie of London Whom multitudes of people follow and which Doctrine many embrace The summe or briefe whereof is on the other side of the leafe set downe MATTH 24.4.5 Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Imprimatur Iohn Downam LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons in Aldersgate-street 1645. The summe or maine points of the Doctrine of H. N. 1. THat Christ is already come in his glory from the right hand of God to judge the quick and the dead 2. That the great and last Trumpet now soundeth and they that sleep in Christ are raised from the dead the sting of death which is sin taken away and death swallowed up in victory 3. That holinesse or the anointing of the holy Ghost and the Sabbath is Christ and the sin which they call the contrary anointing and child of the Devill is the Antichrist 4. That all the promises of God and whatsoever is written and foretold in the Scriptures concerning the everlasting Kingdome of Christ and his Saints becometh now in this present day of H. N. and his Family fulfilled 5. That the Seat or Throne of judgement whereon Christ sitteth is the communialty of the Family of Love whereof H. N. is the oldest Father And that he and they are Godded with God and God manned with them 6. That the way and manner of judging is by the new Evangelie of H.N. The parabolicall sayings and mysticall sentences which he hath written and published and the Elders or perfect holy ones of the Family hold forth to the world You shall have the own sayings of H. N. word for word with his owne quotations of Scriptures to read and consider in the following Discovery whereupon you may the better discern and judge of things A briefe discovery of the blasphemous Doctrine of Familisme THat which occasioned me to write and publish this Discovery was some Doctrines delivered in a house within the Spittle-yard without Bishops-gate neere London by one Mr. Randoll whom I was requested by some friends to heare And observing the multitude of people that followed him and how they were affected with his doctrine which I did plainly perceive was the very grounds of Familisme contained in the writings of H. N. I hereupon thought good a little to inform the people therof whereat some were much offended and one mocked and said See what an old man here is and what a child here is And I asked one of them if he did believe that the bodies of men which were dead and buried in the earth should be raised to life againe and he answered me saying I cannot tel And I mentioning Christs resurrection from the dead one answered Christ was not then a true man but onely God and another affirmed that he had known Christ after the flesh And I asked him when and where but hee would give me no answer Whereupon I said See how this people are taught And a woman answered and said unto me I think if you did speak with the Minister you should not find him of their mind And I told her she was deceived he thought the same things So I left them for that time And after this I having a desire to heare him yet more and that the people should be better informed I came again and brought with me five or six papers wherein I had written these words following This Gentleman Mr. Randall doth delude the people with the deceitfull doctrine of Familisme which I will undertake to prove by the things he hath delivered and that he therein doth pervert the straight way of the Lord and destroy the hope of the Saints as much as in him lieth And when his Sermon was ended and that upon consideration of a point of doctrine he delivered that a man baptized with the holy Ghost knew all things even as God knew all things which himselfe greatly admired as a deep mystery and likened it to the great Ocean where there is no casting Anchor nor sounding the bottome I said unto the people This man hath many great words and a great deale of deceit And some of them being much displeased and moved with anger at my saying I went down out of the house into the yard and gave one of the forementioned papers unto a man that was of Mr. Randals acquaintance and requested him to give it him and a friend of mine whom the man knew told him that we desired to speak with Mr. Randal And about three or four dayes after my friend spake with the man whose name as I now understand was Mr Cullumbeame and asked him concerning the motion of speaking with him and he told him that Mr. Randall was very willing and so they appointed the day and hour and place of meeting to that purpose which was on Tuesday the week following being the 25. of February at two of the clock in the afternoon and at the house of the said Mr. Cullumbeame a Grocer in Thames street London So at the day and houre appointed I with five or six of my acquaintance came to the house and staid about the space of two houres waiting for Mr. Randall but he came not Then I having a paper wherein I had written a few Arguments for proofe of the forementioned charge I gave it to Mr. Cullumbeame and wished him to give it Mr. Randall and request him to give us his answer to the same in writing and so we departed The Arguments were these following 1. Whosoever shall teach and perswade the people that the perfection and resurrection spoken of by Paul 1 Corinth 15.51 52 53 54 55 56 57. Philip. 3.11 12 13 14. Ephes 4.12.13 Heb. 6.1 which in verse 18. the Apostle calleth The hope set before us and describeth through the rest of the Epistle following by the names of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man Heb. 8.2 Good things to come c. chap. 9.11 An eternall inheritance vers 15. An enduring substance chap. 10.34 Great recompence of reward vers 35. A Citie having foundations whose builder and maker is God chap. 11.10 An heavenly countrey and a Citie prepared of God vers vers 16. A better resurrection v. 35. A kingdome which cannot be moved chap. 12.28 A Citie to come chap. 13.14 are to bee attained in the fulnesse and perfection of them according to these testimonies Now in this present time before the common death of the body doth herein teach and perswade to the deceitfull Doctrine of Familisme taught by Henry Nicholas the principall Author thereof and so deludeth the people therewith But Mr. Randall doth so teach and perswade as sundry persons that heard him can witnesse

Thess 4. and have regard unto the sound of the last Trumpet and consider the forefrunt of the true Tabernacle of God wherein the beginning of the true God service and of the upright Christian life becometh erected c. So farre are H. N. his own words with his quotations in the Margine And that he makes the anointing or sanctification of the holy Ghost which he calleth the perfection holinesse and the Sabbath to be the Christ and the contrary anointing the nature of sinne and child of the Devill as he calls it to be the Antichrist which the Scripture speaketh of it is manifest by his owne words Chap. 18. and sundry other places of the book of his Evangely wherein also many other matters of the like nature all grounded on the forementioned principles are spoken by him too many for me here to relate Compare now the Sermons of Mr. Randall and those Doctrines of H. N. together and you shall see how Mr. Randall like a right disciple of H. N. followeth him therein And here you may see by the writings of H. N. before rehearsed in what an allegoricall and mysticall sense he expoundeth all those Scriptures which he coats in the margent making the coming of Christ in his glory and his sitting in the Throne of his glory spoken of Matth. 24.30 and 25.31 the day of judgement and sounding of the last trumpet spoken of also by Paul 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thes 4. the resurrection from the dead and every thing else in the same places mentioned the perfection the incorruption the salvation and all whatsoever the Scriptures have spoken concerning the everlasting kingdome and glory of Christ and his Saints now in this present day of H.N. and his family of love and in them and by them to become all fulfilled And now This being their very doctrine as their own words do plainly and often in their doubling kind of speaking declare it necessarily followeth that they who are fully possest with the belief thereof neither have nor can have the least hope or expectation of any other coming of Christ hereafter of a perfection of a resurrection of the body of an eternall life salvation glory rest peace paradise city kingdome to come And the case being so that their hope and happinesse is only here in this their new last day as they speak then it is best for them to rejoyce and be glad while their day lasteth and deck themselves here with Rose buds before they be withered to take their fill of pleasure as in youth to eat and drink for to morrow they shall die and all will be past And then what are all their pretended spirituall joyes but meere fancies A man that imbraceth all the pleasures that this world can afford and his carnall appetite shall desire is in as happy a case as they for if the body being dead shall rise and live no more nor the spirit after that have any sense of his being or felicity more then it had before the body was or can now remember or think of that it ever had which is also a point or consequence of their doctrine then Augustus Cesar that Pagan Emperor who lived and raigned so long in wealth and glory in pompe and pleasure was a happier man far then any of them And so all the great and glorious boastings of H.N. the high stile and manifold rare tiles he ascribeth to himself will prove to be no better then blasphemies against God and against Christ and against the Holy Ghost and all his sweet intising words of his Evangely and his pleasing Allegories though carrying never so fair a shew of godlinesse to be nothing else but meere inchantments to delude the minds and feed the fancies of people And what are all his threatnings and sentences of judegment and condemnation he pronounceth against those that reject his doctrine but a devillish device to feare the people himself being filled with the spirit of pride and high presumption Besides if there be no other resurrection nor salvation then what is now presently as H. N. saith then what condemnation is there other then what is also now presently and so when the body dieth condemnation endeth Therefore let all true faithfull Christians whose hope is not here in this life only but hereafter chiefly conclude against this H. N. otherwise Henry Nicolas that he was and is a lyer an Antichrist a blasphemer and so let him go And let Mr. Randall and all his hearers and followers take heed and before-warn'd in time and not begin to frame arguments in their minds and say It is not M. Randall and we only that teach and entertain this doctrine of H. N. there have been and are great Doctors of Divinity so called yea and some great Peers and Persons of quality and estate in this land as elsewhere that have taught and entertained the same with great affection and high applause I say let them not reason thus for although this be true as I my self do partly know having had speech with some of them forty yeeres ago and sundry times since and with one great person severall times who plainly professed the doctrine of H. N. and stood to maintain by argument that every creature is God and that there was not a resurrection of the body after the common death therof to be expected whereupon I hearing him and speaking with him said My Lord out of all doubt the whole doctrine of H.N. is a very blasphemous deceit and requested him to beware of it and did what I could to inform him in the truth which I knew and said H. N. doth admit and will have it that men may and shall have wives and children in his resurrection in a successive manner continually but Christ saith that they which shall be counted worthy of that world to come and of the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage to which hee suddenly replyed saying no they shall not marry nor be given in marriage they shall take them wives and I presently answered but Christ saith they shall be as the Angels in heaven whereunto he replyed not Now what of all this and that there have been Doctors aed others that have taught the doctrine of H. N. as one D. Everet one Shaw and at this present one D. Gill publikely in the midst of this city of London and one that went from hence to Redding D. Pordage who was in expectation of if he he hath not obtained the chief publike place there all whom I have both heard and spoken with and know that they have usually taught the same doctrine although this be so I say and that some of my own speciall acquaintance neer forty yeeres agoe fell unto the same yet is not all this a sufficient argument to perswade mee or any Christian else to entertain or believe the doctrine Nay there is as great reason in that kinde for the Turks and for Christians also to believe their