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lord_n	bishop_n	john_n	king_n	11,073	5	3.7166	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95572	Ranters of both sexes, male and female: being thirteen or more, taken and imprisoned in the gate-house at Westminster, and in the new-prison at Clerken Well. Wherein John Robins doth declare himself to be the great God of Heaven, and the great deliverer, and that his wife is with childe with Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. With divers other blasphemous opinions, here truely set forth. Maintained before the Right VVorshipful Justice Whittacre, & Justice Hubbert. / Written by John Taylor. There is a pamphlet in this kinde, written with too much haste, I know not by whom, with but few truths, which in this are more largely expressed.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1651 (1651)	Wing T499; Thomason E629_15; ESTC R206443	4,205	8

ashamed to speake with his mouth the blasphemous Atheisme which he said in his heart But now in these times we have amongst us the hardned hearts and shamelesse impudence of Pharaoh and cursed Rabshecka too many there are that say in their hearts and speake with their tongues Who is the Lord It is no new work of Satan to sow Heresies and breede Heretickes but they never came up so thick as in these latter times They were wont to peep up by one and one but now they sprout out by huddles and clusters like locusts out of the bottomelesse pit They now come thronging upon us in swarmes as the Caterpillers of Aegypt They have turned our Bethell to Babell the house of God out of all Order into all disorderly confusion The Church of Christ hath more then one Enemy to cope withall she hath many new adversaries that it is hard to finde names for them We have more then a good many of such as are called Adamites Novatians Annabaptists Brownists Nicholaitans and counterfiet Catholiques Arminians Antinomians Newtralists Familists Lutherans Independents Round-heads Dippers Seekers Shakers Ranters with many others not worth the naming these are all professors to be Protestants every one pretending to be in the right and not any of them but are contrary one to another So that it were a hard task to make search for the Protestant Religion or to find a Congregation of Religious Protestants There is not any one of these fore-recited Sects that do agree in opinion with other Sectaries or with themselves As I have read in a Germaine History that when Luther had first opposed the Pope and the Lutheran doctrine was newly revived or newly hatched then presently several strange Opinions and Religions began to increase and multiply Some hot-brain'd preachers said that the Catholique or Romish Religion was too loose and full of liberty and that Luthers was too strict and harsh therefore they would have a middle way between two Religions to extract one or none and because these people were so giddy pated that nothing could please them they were called Caput Rotundi or Round-heads which shews that the name of Round-head is near of a 150 years antiquity These mad people molested Germany much they had one amongst them whom they called Joseph and his Wife they said was the Virgine Mary and she being with child they said that the child in her womb was the Messiah and Saviour of the World Germany could not suppresse them insomuch that after many Battells and bloody Bickerings with the losse of 50000 mens lives the womans time of delivery came and she was fairely brought to bed with a Girle whereupon all the seduced Rabble fled and dispersed themselves severall ways and the counterfeit Joseph and Mary were both burnt for a warning The like stir was kept in Westphalia by one John a Cobler of Leyden he had three Prophets as good men as himselfe named Knipper Dolling John Matthew and one Rottman They preach'd mad delicate Doctrine and they crowned the Cobler John of Leyden King of Munster at last the Bishop who was lawful Lord of the Province and City of Munster made war upon the Cobling King and after he had begirt the Town with a streight siege some few weeks provision so much failed that the Streets were full bestrewed with famished karcasses the City was taken by assault and the King was surprised and pulled in peeces with hot Iron Pincers his Prophets and Associates had also their rewards according to their Merits And it is not yet 50 years past since one William Hacket of Owndell in Northamptonshire a Wheele-wright did affirm himselfe to be Jesus Christ he had seduced two Gentlemen so far that they did beleeve him to be their Saviour and they proclaimed him to be so they ran crying out in the streets of London that Iesus Christ was come with his Fan in his hand to purge his floore and that he was at Iohn Walkers house at Broken Wharfe This noise and outcry raised a great hurly burly in the City till in the end Hacket was taken drawn and hanged in Cheapside for his odious blasphemies against God and high Treason against Queen Elizabeth Copinger and Arthington his two prophets were imprisoned one in the Compter in Woodstreet the other in Bridewel where they dyed miserably Also in the year of our Lord 1611. the 9th of King Iames one Bartholmew Legate an Arian Hereticke did deny Christ to be God for the which he was burned in Smithfield on the 18th of March in the year aforesaid And on the 11 of Aprill following was burned one Edward Wightman for the same blasphemous opinions Wightman suffered at Litchfield The King did offer them both mercy if they would recant but they refused mercy and dyed obstinate Concerning these 13 Wretches whom I have taken occasion to write this short Relation of All that I can say for them is to desire God to grant his blessed spirit to cast out the accursed spirit out of them and that all Heresies Sects and Divisions may be expelled from the true Church that through in and for Jesus Christ all that do professe to be Christians may be the faithfull sheep of the true shepheard and eternally happily of his one and onely blessed sheepfold FINIS