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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

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

you know we are taught to this day Country-man We are so taught I grant and have not much presently to say there against But yet how many in these dayes amongst such as accompt themselves for wise and learned are likewise still deceived and do deceive others I keep silence thereof for thou knowest well enough that I have been shent heretofore therefore I mean not to contend or once seem to medle in such high matters as are above my capacity you know moreover that it is thought some were constrained to sing a song at Paul's Cross in which one among the rest overreached himself so high above his accustomed note that soone after in quavering he lost his voyce for ever Citizen I know of whom you mean Well it is a lamentable case that such things should be wrought among Christians yet nevertheless happily he had not otherwise than his desert Countrey-man And again happily he was set on or entred into so high a Note by others and by such means mought perhaps be constrained to over-reach himself as it were unawares yet will I not judge herein but leave it to him that knoweth all secrets and will reward every one according to his deeds Citizen But I pray thee Countrey-man who is he that standeth yonder to still all this while he seemeth to be neither Citizen nor Country-man but rather a wildman that were clothed in moss and coming late out of the wilderness or mountains his hair as seems to me hangs strangely over his shoulders and his garments seems to be torn with wild beasts or else rent with bushes Countrey-man Alack he is a poor Exile and is indeed our very near kinsman for he was born of my mother and was her second son begotten of my father but is not my brother He is now termed of the Family of Love or of God and because many seek after his blood he may not therefore well as yet shew his head notwithstanding happily if be were here forasmuch as he is an Exile and hath no certain dwelling place he durst with more boldnesse answer thee in all thy doubts and these deep and dangerous points whereof thou hast spoken before than I dare do For you know that it is meet for a Countrey-man to follow his calling and not for to meddle in divine causes that are above his capacity Citizen That is well said Countrey-man for indeed I would gladly talk with such a one as would answer me boldly plainly and fully to all whatsoever I should demand of him Ho thou poor fellow come hither I would speak with thee Exile Here I am what is your pleasure with me Citizen How sayest thou Exile wilt thou answer directly plainly and fully to all things that I shall ask of thee and that according to truth Exile Yea according to my simple understanding and as one unlearned wist I that you would credit me when as I have told you the truth Citizen Then first of all tell me Where is thy dwelling Exile My dwelling place as yet is uncertain on earth though often times in the wilderness and mountains among wild beasts Citizen And what are thy garments made of wherewith thou seemest to be so strangely clothed Exile Of the skins of wild beasts Citizen How happeneth that Exile Lest otherwise I might hap to be devoured of them Citizen And why art thou as an Exile fain to fly Exile Because that I being nevertheless a Christian a true hearted subject to the Queens Majesty and in all things obedient unto her Laws and Ordinances may not yet be suffered to live in rest and peace and that only by reason of some envious and blasphemous tongues Countrey-man I pray thee Citizen spend not the time about such trifling matters and questions but rather go to the former matters whereof you spake to me erewhile and know his understanding therein Citizen Very well content though this be no trifling matter that Christians and true hearted subjects to their Prince and living obediently under her Laws and Ordinances might it so be proved should be thus persecuted especially in the daies of our most gracious Queen Elizabeth and also in the daies of preaching the Gospel First of all then this is my question How sayest thou Exile Are not all our spots and deformities washed clean away and we so cleansed from our sins by the death and passion of Jesus Christ only Exile Yea all theirs are to whom such words are spoken or promise made in holy Scripture neither is there any other washing or cleansing of sinfull spots I confess but alone by the death and passion of Jesus Christ Citizen To whom are such words spoken and who are they then that shall be saved or whose spots are done away by Christ Exile Onely to such as through the preaching of the word of the Gospel are in true repentance converted under the obedience of the love or life of the same word to the faith doctrin and life of Jesus Christ and his apostles and even like as were the Congregations of the faithfull to whom such comfortable words of salvation and cleansing or freedom by Christ were written in times past To all such-like I say are such Comfortable promises made and do so stand fast established for ever and not to the obstinat unregenefate or unrepenting sinners Citizen But yet tell me how sayest thou Are not all free by Christ Exile So many as are thus cleansed as aforesaid or are delivered by Christ through the Regeneration of the true Baptisme of repentance and newnesse of life from the sin death Devill and Hell wherein they were captived and so restored into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God they are all no doubt free through Christ Citizen Wilt thou then deny the Sacrament of Baptisme Exile Though I speake of the true Baptisme or regeneration through repentance and newnesse of life yet do I not deny the holy Sacrament of Baptisme which signifieth regeneration in Christ and is ministred to Infants thought some have most unjustly so reported of us Citizen It seemeth unto me by thy words that thou shouldest partly stand in doubt concerning the manifold mercies and benefits of God extended towards us and all mankind in giving over his Son unto the death of the Crosse as though he had not sufficiently therein fulfilled and accomplished upon the Altar of that his Cross a fall satisfaction and sacrifice for the sins of the whole world the which thing who secret doth deny doubtless he erreth very much is against the holy Scriptures Exile I do nothing doubt or mistrust concerning the manifold graces of God the father extended towards us all Nor yet concerning the full and perfect satisfaction sacrifice or oblation offered up by Jesus Christ once for all upon the Altar of his Crosse when as he give his holy body to be Crucified and his most pretious bloud to be shed for the redemption of all mankind for to bring again through himself the

treasures of God and Christ and only to such is that high office of preaching or prophecying committed and to none other for such will not resist the godly life in the Love whereunto we are all out of grace undeservedly and lovingly called and warned in the service of Love now in these last days of our preservation Citizen I think no less but that thou hast expressed unto me thy mind aright herein but yet tell me Wilt thou then say the Pope is not Antichrist Exile I know not the man notwithstanding to say what I conjecture of him I do not otherwise imagine of him but that he is or may be possessed with the spirit of Antichrist which is the will of the flesh or of the devil the contrary anointed one and enemy to Christ rhrough which spirit many ignorant ones in these perilous days as well among the high learned as among the ignorant have taken to themselves a freedom to work all manner of blasphemies oppressions persecutions with all other uncomely abuses both against God and men But yet such a freedom and liberty understand doth not the Gospel of Christ bring in or teach but rather the Devil and that spirit of Antichrist Citizen Thou hast doubtless made me afraid and also astonied at these thy wonderful answers so that I dare scarce demand any more matter of thee lest haply any one should ly in waite in some secret place and over-hear us and so carry this our communication to some of our learned that now be in authority for then we all haply if they might find us should sing a Counter note unless we did recant all the same and yet hast thou spoken an unconfutable truth Exile The case is lamentable the whilst the truth may not be spoken freely notwithstanding if you have ought else to demand of me either touching naturall or Heavenly things ask of it freely and I under permission and according to my understanding will answer as the Lord shall give me in minde for as much as all things needfull both naturall and spirituall are expressed at large unto us in the Service of Love Citizen Of fellowship then shew me a little of thy understanding touching the naturall creatures that are earthly and elementish how and in what manner they live move and have their course of being for that my dull capacity might the better conceive of the Lords workes in the Spirituall creatures Exile I find out and perceave according to my simple understanding that the Lord the maker of Heaven and earth hath ordained and set all things naturall that they should remain in the upright form and order and that likewise the whole masse of the earth as man beast fish foule hearb tree with all else that is earthly and elementish which is under the Sun is to be beheld and considered of him in five parts of the which four be elements viz. Ayr Earth Fire and Water of whose substances every particular living creature is partaker The fifth part is a naturall living Being wrought through the almighty power of the heavenly word whereby every creature is sustained and liveth in his naturall kind or being and bringeth forth likewise thereout his fruit or increase And there is no visible substance or creature being earthly and elementish that is not or hath not been partaker thereof And allbeit now that this whole masse hath from in the beginning of Creations increased it self mightily in many creatures on the earth yet do we see in as much as every element so soon as the life is taken away from the creature or the creature from it claymeth or taketh him his own viz. the fiery element his the ayry his the watery his and so leaveth to the earthly onely his own yet the earth is not therefore any whit the bigger the water not any whitt the more increased the ayre never the fuller or larger ne yet the fire any thing at all augmented thereby And why Like as the same increase out of Gods workmanship hath proceeded from them in the life even so doth every element at the departure of the life claim again to himself no more but his own like as is said c. Citizen I perceive more by these thy words then ever I could consider of before For I see now that God hath ordained or set the natural creatures and every one in his course for to remain in a comely order to an everlasting praise of his holy name But yet I pray thee like as thou hast spoken some what of thy understanding things natural so let me also hear a little of thee concerning the spiritual and heavenly workmanship of God in man for his preservation in Christ Jesus Exile The great mercifulnesse of God the Father concerning his gracious workmanship in the man and how he hath in the beginning formed him according to his own Image and similitude is to be beholden or considered in an heavenly or spiritual manner viz. in the very like being of his God-head in perfect righteousness and holiness Notwithstanding now the man being fallen away through Adams transgression from this his former glorious estate wherein he was set so is there no way or mean for him to come again to be brought therunto but through faith in Jesus Christ and that only by his death and passion blood-shedding and resurrection when we as Christians become turned clean about viz. When we out of Gods grace upon the founding forth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ do repent us unfainedly of our sins past amend our lives take up our cross daily on us against the sin and even so crucifie the flesh with the lusts and desires thereof c. according to the Scriptures and also like as we are raught and counselled thereunto at large in the Service of Love To this end and to the mans preservation will the Almighty God now in the end of the world prepare him his Angels or Ministers And all what is gone out from God enranged would gladly return to him again the same shall they now through the sounding forth of his Gospel or last trump gather together as good wheat All those shall be brought again through Christ unto God And contrarywise all middle walls ignorant knowledges false wisdoms wicked imaginations which are not proceeded of God but are risen up out of the bottomless pit of darknesses together with all whatsoever hath handfast it self or holden fellowship therewith and will not have any better shall be in like manner gathered together as unprofitable weeds yea all those shall be found as incorporated members to the iniquity and thrown soul and body into the bottomless pit of the everlasting condemnation as likewise into the hellish fire which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels from the beginning Lo thus shall every one claim his own The bottomless pit of the condemnation from whence all evil doth proceed shall through the sounding forth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ claim

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

his And the mighty God from whom all good doth proceed shall through his Christ claim unto him all godlinesses or vertues which are proceeded from him together with all whatsoever separateth it self from the iniquity hath handfast it self or held fellowship with the godlinesses all those as incorporated members to the godlinesses and godded or spirited with God in one spirit shall go to God again and shall reign with God and Christ soul and body in the kingdom of heaven and live in joy everlastingly It is very true Citizen But is there not some Predestinate unto preservation and again some predestinate unto condemnation as also elected thereto from the beginning Exile Yes verily there are two with their members that are predestinated or preordained thereunto from the beginning The one is Christ the man of God predestinate unto preservation and with him all his incorporated members The other is the man of sin Antichrist predestinate unto condemnation and in him all his incorporated members As for any other predestination then this come it out of Turkey or else where I know not of it Citizen Thou hast told me the truth and also fully answered me to all things natural and spiritual which I have demanded of thee What shall I ask more God be merciful unto us and unto all such as err of ignorance and give them eys of understanding and ears of pure hearts that they seeing in what estate they yet do stand and hearing also which is the right way to come out might repent them turn from their wickedness believe rightly and so come to the knowledge of truth and be saved Amen Now Countrey-man thou hast heard this fellow and his wonderful answers what sayest thou to it for I am almost at my wits end and marvellously astonied Countrey-man Doubtlesse Citizen he is in great Heresies and misbelief or else I may tell to thee in counsel in any of the learned in these days are far out of the way that leadeth to life and also ignorant of the ground of the heavenly truth wherefore I think it not amiss that thou examine him concerning his belief in God the Father in Jesus Christ the Son and in the Holy Ghost the Comforter and whereupon he hath grounded his Religion how he came by this understanding what he thinks of our learned Preachers in these days as also of other matters as thou shalt think meet lest haply we might be seduced through some subtil heretick infidel or disobedient person which perchance might be against the Queens Religion or else pretended to bring confusion over the Land Citizen Thy counsel is very good but then I pray thee rather talk with him thy self for I am brought into such a trembling perplexity and sorrow of heart since I have heard him and that as well for mine own cause as also for others which I yet see going astray that I dare ask no more questions Countrey-man Very well then I will talk with him my self Come hither Exile shew us I pray thee whereon thy belief and thy religion standeth grounded Exile I protect before God and man That my belief is in God the Father in Jesus Christ the Son and in the Holy Ghost the Comforter and is grounded on the Faith of the Holy Fathers Prophets and Apostles mentioned in the holy Scriptures also according to the common Apostolick Creed the Creed of Athanasius and the Nicene Creed to even so far forth as I may obtaine grace and power thereto of the Lord. Secondly I acknowledge there is no other way or mean either of remission of sins or of salvation for us to be had or yet mercy to be obtained at Gods hand but alone in by and through the death passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour And that he hath offered once for all upon the Altar of His Cross a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice and oblation for the sins of all the whole world Thirdly I do acknowledge that none shall be partakers thereof but only such as upon the publishing forth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ do shew forth an unfained repentance for their sins past and walk in new obedience or in a new life according to the requiring of the Gospel also such as believe aright in God and Christ and are even so baptized into the death of Christ Such as are regenerate of the water and of the spirit and forsaking themselves and their own lives do take up their cross on them and follow after Christ in death and sinful lusts and desires and so stand as those that are waking and waiting for the coming of their bridgroom ready prepared having both oyl in their vessels and light in their Lamps Such as love God and his Christ and as his very disciples keep his Commandements and walk in all love towards God and their neighbour and in all dutiful submission and allegiance towards their Governors and also live obediently under all their manly Ordinances And finally such as in whom Christ liveth and dwelleth or those that incline themselves under the obedience of the love of Jesus Christ and of his holy word with all diligence thereunto Now as touching my Religion this I say so often as I call to mind and consider the great love and kindness of God the Father shewed on me unworthy one in that he hath created me like unto his own Image and given me also his Law for that I might live therein And which is much more hath out of his meer love and mercy and of our part undeserved sent his sonne Christ to be a Saviour of the world c. So stand I Religatus or bound again that is to say Religious to love my Lord and God which loveth me so intirely with all my soul heart and might and for His loves sake to love my neighbour as my self To love my Prince and all that bear authority under her to live as a subject under her Laws and humane Ordinances And finally to walk uprightly peaceably and brotherly among all people in all love And this is only to be obtained at Gods hand by prayer and humble submission under the obedience of Gods holy word through the comforting of the Holy Ghost or Spirit of Love of which spirit God hath promised to shed forth upon his sons and daughters plentifully now in these last days like as is manifest in the Service of Love And therefore I acknowledge that whosoever now shall refuse to incline or indeavour himself for to walk in the same small or narrow way being called or warned thereto out of love by the Gospel of Jesus Christ to live in such a groundly faith of Jesus Christ in such a true Religion and upright obedience to God and Governors and in all subjection under Gods holy Laws and manly Ordinances and likewise in such a brotherly love towards his neighbour and peaceable life towards all men as I have here rehersed and likewise as is more at large expressed