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A00545	A supplication of the Family of Loue (said to be presented into the Kings royall hands, knowen to be dispersed among his loyall subiectes) for grace and fauour Examined, and found to be derogatorie in an hie degree, vnto the glorie of God, the honour of our King, and the religion in this realme both soundly professed & firmly established.		1606 (1606)	STC 10683; ESTC S114625	37,251	68

haue framed diuers subtle Articles for vs being plaine and vnlearned men to aunswere vpon our oath whereby to vrge and gather some things from our selues so to approue their false and vnchristian accusations to be true or else will force vs to renounce recant and condemne that which wee doe not wilfullie maintaine nor iustifie much like as it was practiced in the Primitiue Church against the Christians yea they are not ashamed to laie their owne and all other mens disobedient and wicked actes of what profession soeuer they be vpon our backes to the ende cunningly to purchase fauour and credite to themselues and to make vs seeme monstrous detestable before the Magistrates and the common people euerie where for that wee and the doctrine of H. N. mought without any indifferent triall and lawfull or orderly proceeding as heretofore hath beene vsed in the Christian Church in such cases for confutinge and condemning of heresies be vtterly rooted out of the Land with diuers other most cruell practices proceeding out of thei bitter and enuious hartes toward vs tending to the same vnchristian and mercilesse purpose the which wee will here omit to speake of because wee haue alreadie beene ouer-tedious vnto your Highnesse most humblie crauing your most gratious pardon and patience therein in respect that wee speake to cleare our selues of such matter as may touch our liues and liberties which are two of the chiefest iewels that GOD hath giuen to mankinde in this world and also for that we haue fewe friendes or anie other meanes then this to acquaint your Highnesse with the truth and state of our cause whereof we thinke your Maiestie is altogether ignorant but haue verie many enimies whom we doe greatly suspect will not be slacke to prosecute their false and malitious purpose against vs vnto your Highnesse euen like as they haue accustomed to doe in times past vnto our late Soueraigne Queene through which preuailing in thier slanderous defacing of us our cause diuers of vs for want of friendes to make it rightly knowen vnto her Maiestie haue sundrie times been constrained to endure their iniurious dealinges toward vs to our great vexation and hinderance The Examination HEre haue wee an intricate and long perplexed period deuoide of charitie discretion and truth but full of gaule odious comparisons and vniust complainings and that not only of priuate persons their accusers whosoeuer but euen of publike Magistrates their proceedings first and last against this Familie and all for their fauouring and wel-wishing to H. N. and his doctrine which because it is fitter for the said Magistrates her odiously traduced to censure and aunswere whose doings against the Familists I am ignorāt of and yet am perswaded haue alwaies beene both mild towards them and iust I omitte and commend the further consideration of this their hainous complaint vnto the supreme authoritie and his Assistants and delegats The Familie of Loue. WHerefore most gratious Soueraigne this is nowe Their 1. Petition our humble suite vnto your Highnesse that when your Kingly affaires of importance which your Maiestie hath nowe in hand shall bee well ouer-past and finished for the prosperous performance wherof we will as dutie bindeth vs daiely pray vnto Almightie God that then your Highnesse will be pleased because we haue alwaies taken the same authors worke aforesaid to proceed out of the great grace and loue of God and Christes extended towards all Kings Princes Rulers and people vpon the vniuersall earth as hee himselfe in many of his workes doth witnesse no lesse to their saluation vnitie peace and concord in the same godly Loue to grant vs that fauour at your Maiesties fitte and conuenient time to peruse the bookes your self with an vnpartial eie conferring thē with the holy Scriptures wherein it seemeth by the bookes that are set-foorth vnder your Highnesse name that you haue had great trauaile and are therefore the better able to iudge betwixt trueth and falsehoode and wee will whensoeuer it shall please your Highnesse to appoint the time and to command and licence vs thereto doe our best indeuour to procure so many of the bookes as we can out of Germanie where they bee printed to bee deliuered vnto your Maiestie or such godly learned and indifferent men as it shall please your Maiestie to appoint And wee will also vnder your Highnesse lawfull licence and commaundement in that behalfe doe our like indeuour to procure some of the learned men of that Countrie if there bee any yet remaininge aliue that were well acquainted with the author and his workes in his life time and which likewise haue exercised his workes euer since to come ouer and attend vpon your Maiestie at your appointed time conuenient who can much more sufficiently instruct and resolue your Highnesse in anie vnusuall wordes phraze or matter that may happilie seeme darke and doubtfull vnto your Maiestie than any of vs in this your land are able to do The Examination NOwe are wee come at the length vnto their Petition The grounde whereof is a deepe and heauenly conceipt which they haue of their H. N. and the worke by him vndertaken for the saluation of mankind Many are H.N. his prophecies of his good successe and future preuailing through out the world This same kingdome of peace and of Loue saith the said H. N. speaking of this Familie shall through the administration of the gratious word of the Lord spread abroad and bid all people to their preseruation therunto to the intent that all Kingdomes of the world should assemble them to this one Kingdome of peace and of Loue and that c. to the ioy and saluation of all the children of men (a) H. N. 1. exhort c. 12. §. 40. Againe This same God seruice this loue and louely being and the sound or fame of the same shall breake in among all nations of people and let it selfe to be heard ouer all lands (b) Ibid. c. 14. § 9. Of all Prouinces the first that receiued the Christian faith by publike allowance was Britany (c) Sabel Aeneiad 7. lib. 5. The first king christened that we read of was Lucius K. of Britanie And among Kings christened if not the first yet with the first hee that expelled the Pope and his courtes was Henry the viij and that rooted out all his detestable enormities out of his dominions was Edward the vi Kings of England Oh what a cordiall ioy and comfort would it be vnto this Family that of all Prouinces which shall fauour their Loue Seruice Britanie would be the first and to the glorie of his noble auncestors that it might be added how our most illustrious King IAMES was the first that supplanted the Scripture learning brought in by King Lucius and reestablished by great Henry and Edward last mentioned for the implanting of the Seruice of Loue and H. N. his illusions I should say illuminations which that all Kings one day will implant they haue no

Our Heart is the Mind of God most high Our Beeing amiable as the sweete Lillie Our faith fullnes Loue and Trueth upright Is Gods Light life and Cleernes bright A SVPPLICATION OF THE FAmily of Loue said to be presented into the Kings royall hands knowen to be dispersed among his Loyall Subiectes for grace and fauour Examined and found to be derogatorie in an hie degree vnto the glorie of God the honour of our King and the Religion in this Realme both soundly professed firmly established Reuel 2. Ver. 14.15 I haue a fewe things against thee because thou hast them that mainetaine the doctrine of BALAAM c. Euen so hast thou them that mainetaine the doctrine of the NICOLAITANES which thing I hate Printed for Iohn Legate Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1606. TO THE KINGS most excellent Maiestie IAMES the first by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Fayth c. MOST gracious Soueraigne Lord The exordium where there is published in a booke written by your Highnesse as an instruction to your most noble Sonne whome Almightie God blesse with much honour happinesse and long life of a people that are of a vile secte among the Anabaptists called the Family of Loue who doe hold and mainetaine many proud vncharitable vnchristian and most absurd opinions vnto whome your Highnesse doth also giue the name of Puritanes affirming in the say de booke that diuers of them as Browne Penrie and others doe accord with them in their foule erroneous heady and fantasticall opinions which are there set downe at large by your Maiestie aduising your Royall Sonne as is most meet to punish them if they refuse to obey the Lawe and will not cease to stirre vp rebellion The Examination THis is the Families Exordium and containeth an heauie and pitious complaint vnto and of the Kings Maiestie himselfe for that in his booke and Instruction vnto his most noble Sonne hee tearmeth the Familie of Loue a vile Sect amongst the Anabaptists and also giueth them the title of Puritans This goeth to their verie hearts The Exordium quare some that they should be so ranked and stiled and that by his Maiestie and that in a printed booke and that divulged in a knowen tongue ouer his dominions and the same directed vnto his royall and deatest Sonne euermore to continue Hence their quarrell and contention euen with their King hidden yet vnder the faire wordes of an humble petition A memorable Exordium or preface The Familie of Loue. NOw gratious Soueraigne A Propestatiō because it is meete that your Highnesse should vnderstand by their supplication and declaration of the truth herein by themselues of whom your Maiestie hath beene thus informed prostrate at your Princely seete as true faithfull loyall and obedient subiects to all your lawes ordinances ciuil and politique spirituall and temporall they with humble hearts do beseech your Princely Maiestie to vnderstand that the people of the Familie of Loue or of God doe vtterly disclaime and detest all the said absurd and selfe-conceited opinions and disobedient and erroneous Sects of the Anabaptistes Browne Penrie Puritanes and all other proude-minded Sectes and heresies whatsoeuer protesting vpon paine of our liues that we are not of consent nor agreeing with any such brain-sicke Preachers nor their rebellious and disobediet Sectes whatsoeuer but haue been euer wil be truely obediēt to your Highnesse and your lawes to the effusion of our blood and expenses of our goods and lands in your Maiesties seruice highly lauding Almightie God who hath so gratiously peaceablie appointed vnto vs such a vertuous wise religious and noble King and so carefull and vnpartiall a Iusticer to gouerne ouer vs beseeching him daiely to blesse your Highnesse with his godly wisedome and holy vnderstanding to the furtherance of his truth and godlinesse and with all honor happinesse peace long life to iudge rightly betwixt false hood and truth The Examination IN this Section they protest that they are not as the King saith they are a vile Sect but The Familie of Loue Against their Protestation or of God or Gods Familie neither that they doe hold maintain as his Maiestie hath published any much lesse many proud vncharitable vnchristian and most absurd opiniōs yea they doe vtterly disclaime detest al the said absurd and self-conceited opinions as also the disobediēt and erroneous Sectes of the Anabaptistes Browne Penrie Puritanes all other proud-minded Sects heresies whatsoeuer c. And therfore that his Highnes both misconceiueth and misreporteth of them good men In which their Protestation hee that seeth not his most excellent and sacred Maiestie most odiously to be traduced as a publike defamer of Gods people is verie blinde and againe obseruing so much is not grieued thereat sheweth that hee neither carrieth sound affection vnto his Souereigue nor tendereth the honour of his Prince Now forsomuch as both his Maiesties book is extant and this their supplication but more truly infamous Libell in many mens hands especially of the young ones in this Family of Loue for few else can haue so much as a viewe thereof vnlesse they be of the vulgar sorte and withall inclineable to receiue their doctrine of all others the vnfittest to read or heare such dangerous discourses whereby both the Familistes are confirmed in their familiar instructions and his Maiestie by such Libels ignominiously dispersed is not a little wounded it is verie behoouefull somewhat to examine the truth of this their protestation And because they say how the premisses are published in the sayd booke of the Kings it shall not be amisse heere to set downe his Maiesties verie words and the occasion of them expressed by his royall hand to the end that it may appeare who is more abused either the Family who are charged as there is set down by his Highnesse or his Maiestie thus traduced and that to his face by the Family In the second booke therefore of his most Fatherly Kingly and diuine directions vnto the royall Impe of rare hope Prince Henry his best beloued sonne his Maiesty hauing at large set down the diseases of the church and from his owne experience declared how the Puritanes all his raigne and some yeares afore had troubled the quiet of the Scottish kingdome Church opposed themselues against the throne of Maiestie laboured by the peoples fauour and assistance the erection of a gouerment Democraticall by the ruine of the royall State and sought to bring in a parity equalitie of all degrees aswell into the Common-weale as Church in the ende he giueth his aduise and sayth Take heede therefore my Sonne to such Puritanes Puritanes to beauoided very Pestes in the Church and Common-weale whome no desertes can oblige neither oathes or promises binde breathing nothing but sedition and calumnies aspiring without measure railing without reason making their owne imaginations without any warrant of