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A15388	A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue with the exposition of Theophilus, a supposed elder in the sayd Familye vpon the same articles. By William Wilkinson Maister of Artes and student of diuinitye. Hereunto are prefixed by the right reuerend Father in God I.Y. Byshop of Rochester, certaine notes collected out of their Gospell, and aunswered by the Fam. By the author, a description of the tyme, places, authors, and manner of spreading the same: of their liues, and wrestyng of Scriptures: with notes in the end how to know an heretique.	Wilkinson, William, d. 1613.; Young, John, 1534?-1605.; Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1579 (1579)	STC 25665; ESTC S101312	139,324	194

A Confutation OF CERTAINE ARTICLES deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue with the exposition of Theophilus a supposed Elder in the sayd Familye vpon the same Articles By William Wilkinson Maister of Artes and student of Diuinitye Hereunto are prefixed By the right reuerend Father in God I. Y. Byshop of Rochester certaine notes collected out of their Gospell and aunswered by the Fam. By the Author a description of the tyme places Authors and manner of spreading the same of their liues and wrestyng of Scriptures with Notes in the end how to know an Heretique Prou. 30.12 There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceit and yet are not washed from their filthines AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate An. 1579. Cum Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis PErusing ouer this little treatise of M. Wilkinsons I could not but alowe his diligence and painefull trauell in this hereticall and schismaticall world and I would hartely wishe of God that our Church of England might be well weeded from to to grosse errors for it is high tyme. Richard Ely. ¶ To the right Reuerend Father in Christ and his very good Lord Richard by the prouidence of God Byshop of Ely W.W. wisheth all ioye and peace both in body and soule with happynes in the Lord euerlastyng WIse Salomon the sonne of holy Dauid a prudent kyng and a peaceable Prince Reuerēd father in Christ very fittely in his sweet songes resembled the Churche of God vnto a Vine and the enemies thereof vnto rauenous and greedy Foxes For that the Vine beyng a spreadyng plante diligētly trimmed and paynfully attended vnto stretcheth abroad his sappy braūches and broad leaues for a succour and harbour in a storme and is a comfortable gladsome fruite to him that eateth it or tasteth the liquor of the same Whiche Vine the Foxes sometymes spoyle and endamage by robbyng the fruite sometyme by bruysing the young and tender braunches therof before they be able by their grouth to succour themselues frō so many sortes of assaultes most daūgerous And not lesse aptely our Sauiour Christ the Sonne of God in his holy and diuine Sermons likeneth it vnto a field wherein good seede is sowne by the paynefull husbandman corrupt seede scattered by the hād of the enemyes Of both which similitudes albeit many excellent notes may be gathered yet the whole scope of them both in my iudgemēt is this to shew that shootyngs vp and encrease of Gods Church beyng but frō a feeble and weake begynnyng is continually by Sathan and his mischieuous ministers not a little disquieted that thereby the gladsome fruite and looked for encrease therof is much let and hindered What the remedy and redresse therof is I leaue to your Lordshyp to cōsider whom with the rest of your godly and learned brethren and Reuerend Fathers Gods diuine prouidence hath placed ouer vs as in a high watchtower to foresee and discry the subtle assaultes of so slye and cruell enemyes And I hartly wish that it might not iustly be affirmed or beyng iustly affirmed I would that the losse of the soules of many poore Christians did not auouch the truth of the assertion that euen frō the tyme wherein the first scourge wherewith the Lord afflicted his Churche in the bloudy dayes of Queene Mary began neither in and from that tyme alone but euen long sithēce also to the great hurt of Christes church hinderaunce of his chosen many false Christes arose and while the watchmen slept many lying seers and seducyng Prophets vnder Lambes skinnes craftely crept into the sheepfold priuily whisperyng peruerse thynges to seduce and beguile the simple And though the word of God his name be praysed haue a cleare free passage amongest vs and the bloudy bandoges of the Romish Sinagogue be tyed vp that by thē the sheepe of Christ are in lesse daunger to be worryed yet is not the encrease of that heauēly seede so great with grief be that hard which is spoken with sorrow as many as do weene most men do wish for For the roaryng Lion dayly rūneth about his ministers are not idle zeale in hearyng and charitie in practising waxeth cold but specially the continuall labour of Gods husbandmen beginneth to fainte thornes bryers grow vp in the Lordes field the deuill transformyng him selfe into an Angel of light deceiueth many The reason is as I take it that those which ought to be breakers of Gods bread to satisfie relieue the hungry soules of his Saintes cānot breake that which they haue not neither are able many of them being vnarmed to withstād the enemy or those which are able either can and will not bycause they are sleepy or beyng both able willing hauing a watchful eye vpō the Lordes inheritaūce they dare not aduenture beyng diuers wayes discouraged with the sundry manifold fetches of Heretiques especially not beyng acquainted with the daunger of that poyson which dayly floweth frō our Louely Familie to be sure of their owne safetie keepe them selues out of gunshote Of the Heresie it selfe in one worde to vtter the truth of that which almost by the experience and practise of three whole yeares I haue proued to be true it is the most pestiferous deadly Heresie of all others because there is not almost any one particular erroneous Schismaticall phantasie whereof the Familie of Loue hath not borrowed one braunche or other thereof to peece vnto thēselues this their brokē Religion The encrease of this Familie is great that dayly because the withstanders are not many the defenders are wily as Serpentes would fayne in lyfe seeme innocent and vnblameable In profession of the one they boast very much of the other they walkyng very closely do iustifie them selues because fewe haue to finde fault with them yet haue they their lothsome spottes and ougly deformities as in this booke to the diligent reader playnely may appeare Their bookes are many disorderly and confusedly written both for matter and manner of thynges deliuered in them their phrases are such as the Scripture speaketh of cloudes with out water and lightenyng without rayne their blossomes are as dust and their fruite as rottennesse The proofe hereof I referre to the sequele of the Treatise which ensueth the which I desire your Lordshyp the rather to accept because that within this Isle of Ely and other where within your Lordshyps Dioces diuers doe suspect that to be true whiche common fame reporteth that dayly those swarmes increase which in the end I feare me will wonderfully disquiet as it hath already begonne in diuers places and molest the Church of god The Lord vouchsafe when his pleasure is somewhat to cut them shorter and graunt to those vnto whom the care of his Church and ouersight of his flocke belongeth vigilant and watchfull eyes carefull harts willyng myndes and strōg and hable bodyes to finde out and to roote out beyng

they are of my chosing out of HN. is truth but that they are my Articles that is vntrue for they are as I made the title in the inscriptiō of my Articles which I deliuered to the Familie Errours out of the bookes of HN. Agayne if they be true Articles and onely my additions vnto them be false how cōmeth it to passe that Theophilus in his notes vpon my title afore the Articles where I say that they are faythfully and truly gathered there he aūswereth they are vnfaythfully lyingly slaunderously maliciously or vncharitably gathered But let it be that HN. sayth truth as for my additions whiche he mentioneth I deny that I haue added any one word to the text of HN. whereby it might either be empared or his meaning and sence peruerted and herein I referre the whole determination therof to him which shall peruse this my labour with an vnparciall eye The place whereon I gathered the Articles is this But if they videl our old sinnes and paramoures which we loued sent 17. take or lay hold on vs with force and violence that thē although we cry there cōmeth not any power nor help vnto vs for to withstand them in their force and violence and euen so rauish vs agaynst our will so are we giltles of the transgressing for we haue cryed to be released from the Tyrāny of the euill and there is no helpe come vnto vs Of which guitltles transgressing the law likewise witnesseth where it sayth a womā which is violently taken in the field whereas there is not any helpe and so rauished and although she cry aloude yet gottē no helpe she shal be giltles of the trāsgressing Now the proposition which Theophilus gathered vpō these wordes of HN. is this When we cry c. and haue no helpe we shall be free from that transgression for beyng condēned for it The which interpretatiō of his is vtterly vntrue for God is not bound by duety to geue ought to any man his giftes are of his mercy not of our merite So that albeit being prayd vnto he yeld not vnto our requestes at the first yet is not his withholdyng of his grace a sufficient warrant to geue vs libertie to offend For who shall wryng from the Lord that whiche he will not geue or if presently he doe not enable vs to resist and preuayle agaynst sinne who I say shall accuse God to be accessary vnto our sinnes as HN. and his Scholler Theophilus in this place flatly affirme And be it true as it is most true that Christ sayd vnto his Apostles Aske and it shal be giuen you seeke and ye shall finde knocke and it shal be opened vnto you c. and S. Iames sayth The prayer of a righteous man auayleth much if it be feruent yet because our prayers are not so perfect no not in the iust man as they ought to be therfore cōmeth it to passe that we obtaine not at Gods hand because we aske amisse neither did Christ obtaine at his fathers hād that the cup of his death might passe from him for that it was not so agreable with Gods will nor expedient for the accomplishyng of our saluation So that when we accomplish not the cōdition in our prayers that God hath prescribed in his word we are not to bynde or charge God with his promise for that he knoweth better what to geue vs thē we know what or how to aske of him So that now we sée that it is but a vayne kyndnes which Theophilus in this place threapeth on God when as either hee will haue God to bow vnto him at euery becke or els by and by he will make him the authour of sinne For what is this that Theophilus doth els burthen him withall that if we pray not helpe come thē are we guiltles of the transgression But to accuse God to be accessory to our misbehauiour which thyng be far frō him Now if Theophilus cā not comprehēd this what is it not truth because he can not conceiue it Gods iudgementes are alwayes true and iust though often secret and those thynges whiche we vnderstand not at the first let vs rather reuerence and worshyp them then wonder at them God when he leaueth vs to our selues and punisheth one sinne with an other doth that most righteously in him selfe that sinfull flesh doth sée no reason in Shall the pot reason with the potter because he made him not a vessell vnto honor shall the axe extoll it selfe agaynst him that heweth therewith may God make his creatures as séemeth best to his singular wisedome and shall he not dispose them as he will when he hath created them God geueth his children pardon in his mercy yet he that flyeth to his mercy not first fully hauing satisfied his iustice deceaueth his owne soule ere he be aware So that when any man shall presume vpon repentaunce fall in hope to rise true it is he that hath promised pardon vpō repētaunce hath not promised that we shall liue till to morrow that we may haue leysure to repēt he that is not fit to day the Lord knoweth how fit he wil be to morrow Now it is also most assuredly true that albeit God in respect of him selfe for Christes sake doth fréely forgeue both the fault and the punishment yet because he will not haue men dally with his iustice vpon the opē sinnes of the godly committed before men hee taketh open punishment least the enemy should haue a cause to rayle This is manifest by kyng Dauids example he sinned openly in the sight of God and before Israell God freely forgaue him both the punishment and the fault yet before men because the enemyes of God had openly a cause to blaspheme therfore the Lord tooke away the child that was borne in adultery Furthermore when he numbred the people and had continued in the same sinne without any notable repentaunce 9. monethes and 20. dayes after albeit he prayed hartly yet was his sinne punished by a great and seuere scourge as is manifestly to be sene in the place of that History By which places it is to be vnderstode that we ought not to offend in hope of pardon neither that God is faultie who will not boulster vs in our faultes nor so easly be satisfied in his iustice as we imagine of But if Theophilus déeme that herein he is not fully satisfied for that this question is of him that prayeth before sinne committed and both these examples are not sufficiently playne I further aunswere him that before Iudas honge him selfe he was sory and made a shewe of outward repentaunce as by his restitution may easly be perceiued yet God stayed him not here but because hee should be a notable spectacle of Gods vengeaūce to them that were then vnborne that no man be so hardy to sinne agaynst his conscience he ranne so farre that he caste himselfe willingly and wittyngly away and yet albeit God