this long tyme borne their schollers in hand and others whome they séeke to seduce nay doe they not now at this instant perswade the simple that Henrye Nicolas and Christofer Vitels are no such men as they are bruted amōgest the people The lyke is reported by Iosias Simlerus in his Epistle prefixed before M. Bullengers booke agaynst the Anabaptistes Of the Anabaptistes themselues whom he sayth fly open conference and créeping from house and seduce the simple M. Huldrich Zuinglius in the same wordes doth vtter the same sence of the Catabaptistes of his tyme which sayth he priuily spread abroad their bookes in the handes of their owne sectaries Whereas when Christ taught any thing he came first into the Sinagogue priuilye sayth our Sauiour I haue sayd nothing The Apostles in semblable maner whē they preached any thing they came to the temple and when the hye priestes called them and commaunded them to silence committed them to prison the Aungell of the Lord sayd vnto them goe your way and stand in the temple and speake vnto the people c. Furthermore S. Paule comming vnto Antiochia on the Sabboth day he went into the Sinagogue and being at Athens when he saw the whole Citie geuen to Idolatrye openly in the market place he disputed with the Epicures and Stoick Philosophers and such as he met and Standing in the middest of the Mars streate he openly inueighed agaynst the superstitiō of that worthy Citye and Vniuersitye euen to the faces of the greatest Clerkes and wisest men or naturall light I meane in all the world besides Neither was S. Paule affraid of all their learning and countenaunce but boldly hee preached vnto them the vnknowen God and the resurrection from the dead vnto whome how vnlyke our Familyes are in zeale of profession I leaue to the whole world that knoweth them to iudge and their owne consciences to testifie For whether in the teaching of their doctrine and in the defending of the same they are lykest to the auncient Anabaptistes and to the ould heretiques and vnto S. Paule the Apostle this one coullor wherby we sée a schismatique discribed can sufficiently testifie For if the doctrine secretly taught by those who are termed the Famlye of Loue be such a truth and grounded vpon such inuincible profes as they in euery corner vse to bragge of why follow they not that course which the sonne of God by his example shaped forth vnto them that is euen in the presence of the ciuill and spirituall Magistrate in the chiefest Citye of the Realme and that in the concourse and greatest assēblies of the people why doe they not before them that openly blame them and in sermōs publiquely confute them protesting the truth of HN. his bookes openly at Paules crosse Nay being at Paules Crosse for their fantasticall opinions why doe they deny them and renounce them with detestation openly But herein did the Anabaptistes deale more orderly then our Fam. in England For they procured an open conference and disputation to be had in the presence of the Maiestrate thereby to testifie their schisme to be truth but our Fam. are so far from procuring an open that dare not abide a priuate conference if they be therevnto vrged by any man priuately without witnes whereby they indéede betray their sect to be but a scisme and shew how far vnlyke they are herein vnto the olde Prophets and Apostles of the Primatiue Church 2. Token of an heretique out of Scripture THe second note of an heretique saith S. Paule is this that those which sowe the corrupt séede of such erroneous doctrine as schismatiques most commōly doe they become vaine ianglers desirous to teach yet vnderstād not what they speake nor whereof they affirme Whereby it is geuē to vnderstād that they who in S. Paule his tyme began to sowe such séede were but simple men and in knowledge very base in that they toke in hand to dispute they wot not what and maintain that which they had no skill of Such in times past were heretiques and such as thought it a glorious and glittering thing in the sight of the world to set abroad straunge opinions that they onely might cary away the prick and prise not hauing so much as the emptye caske smalest smacke of learning And so alwayes hath it falne out that those partyes which first taught heresies were least able to defend them tel by little and little they gathered strength Sometyme vaine heades being not altogether vnlearned tooke part with them and vnhapely labored to perfect that which was vngratiously begone The chief of the Anabaptistes in Germanie were men silly for their wits rather to be pittied for their follie thē enuied for their knowledge Which being weary of their seuerall craftes and occupations sought by a more easie trade to get their liuyng And beyng of meane and illiberall sciences sought in the profession and interpretation of the word to shoulder and out face the Preachers therof with reprochfull tauntes and scoffes vntollerable such was Cnipper Dollyng and Iohn a Leid beyng a Boatcher HN. was a Mercer in Amsterdam and those who are yet alyue both in Emdene and London els where who haue kept him company and knew him very wel affirme that his knowledge was but small neither was he expert in any toung saue his owne Dutch toūg onely neither was he euer trayned vp in any liberall Art or had commendation for his learnyng Vitels was a Ioyner and if his learnyng was so singular as his frendes affirme it is lyke that he came by it rather by Reuelatiō thē by the ordinary meanes of study There is a T. in Cambridgeshyre who was Vitelles companion who was a flat Arrian as by his owne hand I am able to auouch and before men of worshyp Anno. 1574. March. 24. in Cābridge denyed Christ to be God equal with his father 2. He said that childrē are not by nature sinfull neither ought to be Baptised tell yeares of discretion 3. The Regenerate sinne not 4. S. Paule his Epistles be not to be more accompted of then the letters of priuate men This man beyng then a flat Arrian since once recanted his errour and secondly is falne into the same opinion His name is W. H. of B. perhaps vnto the Family he is not vnknowen for that Vitels had sometymes lodged in his house and hee vseth to conferre with them concernyng their opinions this man would séeme in the company of simple mē to be very learned and they that haue talked with him affirme that he hath many wordes but small wisedome beyng of a wealthy occupation but smal in wit and might be better occupyed to learne the first principles of Gods feare and him selfe bee instructed before he teach that which he hath no skill of And so is it with the chief Elders of our Louely Fraternitie some of them be Weauers some Basketmakers some Musitians some Botlemakers and
of the man from the true fayth in Christ the light of lyfe to the addictyng of him selfe to the lye or darcknes or euer such tyme as they become conuerted to their God and are regenerated in the spirite of their mynde is the greatest Antichrist which also frō the very begynnyng as likewise in the very corporall appearaunce of Christ in the flesh like as S. Iohn also expresseth impugne it and persecute it in the truth of God and that in the inwardnesse of the man to the establishyng of all vnrighteousnesse in him and not onely a certaine disordred or abused Papistrie yea or euer the Papistrie was thought of which no Pope also or such outward fleshly creature could or can euer worke or bryng to passe And therefore deceiue not your selfe in the point to iudge the Author to be a maintainer of any fleshly or creature like Pope with his adherentes in their abusion of Ceremoniall seruices Ceremonies but he driueth his matter onely as in his worke beyng well noted you may sée to this point to wit that after the entraunce of the darknesse once chaunced the manly generations beyng falne away from the fayth towardes God which was established by Christ in his Apostles and Disciples the old Fathers grew out of a zealousnes of the mynde towardes God and his righteousnesse to institute certaine Ceremonies and seruices so neare as they could out of their insight and comprehendyng that they by their diligent study and searchyng of the Scriptures had attained vnto concerning Gods truth hit the same that resembled or were conformablest to the holy and diuine Scriptures to a commemoration of the thyngs wrought and brought to passe before with Christ and his holynes in the very true beyng to the susteinyng and staying vp of the ignoraunt people in the tyme of darknes from fallyng into any greater absurdities enormities and errours that might haue happened vnto thē and which also did happen vnto many such as maliciously and obstinately not rightly seyng but rather in meanyng to set vp some better degressed and winded of them selues there from and maliciously blasphemed and continewed the same tell that the light of Gods truth might spryng foorth agayne or be erected in the seruice of the loue accordyng to the promises and goeth not about to establish the same in and of their ceremoniall much lesse abused seruice and Ceremonies where about men presently so greatly striue and varie now in this present tyme of the light of loue whiche he affirmeth to be the day of the cleare righteous iudgemēt of God wherein god will restore all thynges to their right to wit bryng or set the lye in his lying beyng to be condemned in the hellish caue and the truth likewise in his right fourme or degrée to wit to preuayle florish and beare sway ouer the vnrighteousnes for euer more Whereby that the will of God might euē so be accomplished in earth as in heauen Wherefore me thinkes that should be very small discernyng in such as can not distinct the shadowes figures or image of a thyng from the body it selfe or the very true beyng either substaunce of the same And that he speaketh of mens ignoraunce in that place and touchyng their slender knowledge vnderstandyng in Gods worde that layeth he forth flatly to the effectuall word and not the imagelike or written word wherein the right Christians are not iniuried but the conceited Christians detected Rochester THe rest of the booke from the 34. Chapter vnto the end is of the callyng of the Gentiles and of the grace of God offred to the world in the last age of the world which seemeth to be the best part of that booke Familie of Loue. IT is well that ye like some part of the booke and if ye could therewithall note that there were a defectiō frō the truth and that there were also by that meanes no difference to bee had betwixt a ceremoniall either letter doctour Christian and an vncircumcised Heathen so had ye then somewhat for your part Rochester THus haue you a tast of this booke gathered as the tyme would serue whereby it appeareth to be no such precious price of worke as of some it is supposed to be Such fayre shewes and glorious titles may soone deceiue the simple to haue such bookes in more admiration then the holy Scriptures But we haue Moses and the Prophetes let vs heare them and iudge all others by them Family of Loue. I do not so collect by the authors wrighting that he would prefer his writing aboue the scriptures geuen by inspiration of God and brought forth and written by the holy Fathers in times past But if you had well marked or considered the same he witnesseth as by a concordable and vniforme testimonye either by record of the same their writynges what the Lord will now accomplish in these last dayes wishing euery one in the same booke to search the Scriptures whether that they also mētion and record not the very same affirmyng also therewith that God is not ne cannot be a God of contentatiō but of peace vnitie And that God moreouer hath stirred him vp to bee a seruiceable instrument or as his elect minister to bryng downe accordyng to his promises written in the Scriptures all controuersies growne among men about their misunderstanding of the scriptures to bryng the same to an end And doth also in the same booke vncouer sundry secret thinges which they that haue seing eyes may by ententiue reading of the same together with the Lordes assistaunce well perceiue and vnderstand that no selfewise or enuious scripture learned could or can euer attaine vnto it agayne What iniurie were it seing that it procedeth by the same spirite to valew it equall with those same sacred scriptures that were tofore written by the holy one of God. Also ye may remember that the fleshly Iewes had also for their aunswere to Christ enuying agaynst him being the truth it selfe the same testimonye that ye alledge to wéete that they had Moses and the Prophets c But who were in the meane time greater persecutours of him then they Rochester WE are sure that the holy Scriptures were wrighten by the spirite of Loue and truth the holy ghost And conteine all true and necessary and sufficient doctrine for our saluation let vs not hould vpon men proue all thinges hould that which is good beleue not euery spirite but proue the spirites Family of Loue. I Graunt that right discerning is good and commeth from the Lord and through him from them whome he and not themselues placeth and by them that are set in the right place of iudgement by the Lord himselfe and not by those that sitt on their owne stoole for it is to be doubted that so many as take vpon them that office of iudgemēt or medling with gods matters or euer Christ be come vnto them or haue a liuing shape in them that they all will
comme to short in their reconing c. I may not deny but that there is conteined in the scriptures geuen by inspiration of God being rightly vnderstanded followed and obeyed necessary and sufficient doctrine of saluation but for want of these thrée principall pointes many haue small profite truely I could also with all my hart wishe that man with man committed not filthines nor depended one vpon an other but to stay them onely on the Lordes truth and not on flesh and bloud so were then all controuersies at an end It were well also to proue all thinges but not as semeth me by the crooked rule of mans owne iudgement or fleshly minde and concerning nor by his imagination without the light of Gods truth or spirite of righteousnes and loue taken on in constructing and wresling of the right sence and minde of the scriptures which being seperated from the light of lyfe as he in the same worke alleadgeth is a closed booke or a darke word without light and the seruice administred thereout as a dead bodye without a soule or as a dead wife deceased from her husband which could bring fourth no children of lyfe For what can the naturall man iudge that is altogether ignoraunt of the thinges of God or yet open the holy thinges without the key of Dauid or behould the Paradice of God when as men can not frely enter the Seraphin with his fiery sword not being taken away or yet iudge of an other which hath ouercome and attained to haue a new name written in the white stone that lyeth himselfe yet in the meane time altogether be wrapped and buried vnder the bondage and subiectioÌ„ of the earthly being and vngodlynes c. Consider therefore euery thing in his right degrée if you be endewed with ghoastly vnderstanding and possessed with the right spirite of iudgemeÌ„t and then out of your spiritualnes iudge all thinges according to the ballance of equitye and trying squaire or measure line of righteousnes in the lyfe and truth Trie also the spirits by the same rule and be not vnbeleuing towardes the right spirit but follow and embrace that which is good For if you can shew vs any passinger God of Israel or any better lawe rites and ordinaunce then is his lawes rites and ordinaunces or anye perfecter life then the loue whereon Christe with his holy ones haue heretofore testified Whereto also the Author presently as a concordable witnes with the same doth only point and direct vs or that there be any better thing then the eternall lyfe and the loue it selfe So let not theÌ„ that same most best be withheld from vs whilest that we onely enforce vs thereunto that we might serue eueÌ„ so the onely liuing God in vniformenes of hart and vnpartialitye of minde together with an vpright righteousnes and holynes Take this briefe freindly well meaning aunswere to your exceptions in good part and way it not as a matter done to defend the worke by the way of contending but rather as one out of goodwill doe but geue you occasion thereby to weigh more distinctly and reasonably of that which commeth so lyuely freindly to your hands out of grace to your profit and welfare Therefore saue labour for making any further reply hereunto least you doe but lose your trauaile herein for Christ with his holy ones will not now in this same day of the Loue lyke as doe the princes of the earth whose kingdome is of this world set vp and maintayne his kingdome with contention and discorde but with peaceablenes louing kindnes and long suffering But if one listed to sée wrestlers bestirre them in their play then for to graunt them leuill ground he might not well denay And yf one should trauers the right of his case then must the Iudge sit vnparciall in iudgement place so shall then all matters in equalitye out fall but otherwise be peruerted and oppresse right we shall Vale ê™ F. L. ⧠Errours and absurde asseuerations out of HN. his Euangelie gathered by William Wilkinson HN Sayth the day of Loue by him preached is the appearyng of our Lord Iesus Christ in the Resurrection Esay 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. of the dead wherein the law and the Prophetes and all that is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled Luke 24. e. HN. sayth he is the Aungell of the Lord or messenger before him for to prepare his way Math. 3. a. Math. 11. b. and to publish an euerlastyng Euangelie Math. 24. Apoc 14. a vnto all generations languages and peoples accordyng to the promises All the testimonies of HN. set foorth in the Glasse of righteousnesse are the Gospell HN. sayth the Familie is the rest of God prepared froÌ„ the begynnyng for the people of God and for all repentaunt persons and is appeared in the last tyme accordyng to the promises HN. permitteth to euery nation what Religion they will so they hold with his heresie of the Loue. HN. receiued this message of his Euangelie from the mouth of God him selfe HN. maketh the day of the publishyng his Euangelie to be the last commyng of Christ in iudgement with thousaÌ„ds of Saints For proofe he citeth Esay 3. b. Math. 24. d. and 25. d. Iude. 1. b. HN. buildeth vpon miracles without Scriptures HN. sayth he will declare the secret misteries of God and make relation of thynges hidden before the world HN. sayth the former kyngdome wherein man was set that is Adam before his fall is brought agayne in the lowlynes of the vpright beyng HN. sayth of the Preachers that they vaunt and geue foorth themselues for Christians and as illuminated men that are Maisters of the Scripture beyng craftie subtill peruerse of hart darcke in their vnderstandyng of a peruerse nature HN. sayth that no man how wise and vnderstandyng soeuer he be in the knowledge of the Scripture can by any meanes vnderstand or comprehend the wisedome of God but they onely that be of his Familie Therefore hope we sayth HN. with much ioy ouer the dead whiche dye in the Lord or are dead in him to wéete that they in their Resurrection from death shall liuyngly come vnto or méete with vs For all the dead of the Lord or the members of Christ shall now liue and arise with their bodyes and we shall assemble with them and they with vs. This day of the Loue is the last commyng of Christ Abell was slayne through the wicked nature of sinne through the handes of his brother Cain HN. depraueth the whole Historie of Abraham from Gene. 16. vnto the 27. Chapter by turnyng it into an Allegorie The greatest must serue the lesse that is sayth HN. the great righteousnesse of the law with the great knowledge or prudence of the fleshe or of the earthly beyng which is borne out of the letter shall serue the litle mynded simplicitie of Christ HN. peruerteth the fourth Commaundement HN. sayth
merueile at all for such a fountayne such water men gather not grapes of thornes nor figges of thistles And true it is that our Sauiour sayth out of the aboundance of the hart the mouth speaketh ARTICLE 1. No Church THe house of Loue sayth HN is the Church of God. 1. Exhor cap. 7. s 37. Theophilus his exposition FIrst note that it is all one to say the house of Loue and the house of God the familye of Loue and the family of God and then proceede William Wilkinson DArke wordes double speaches haue bin alwayes the starting holes of heretiques playne meaning men walke openly at noone lewd and euill disposed persons vage and wander abroad at midnight For he that euill doth hateth the light neyther commeth to the light least his déedes should be reproued Yée speake in a riddle neither doth your reason follow Because it is framed A petitione principij You take that to be graunted which is in controuersie or rather cleane false For what proprietye of speach is this or how doth this reason follow The house of God is the Church of God therefore the good willing ones in England which are named the Familye of Loue are the Church of god But if you will in playne wordes affirme that you onely which are of that familye and no man els which is not of that societye is of the Church First I aunswere that the Anabaptistes did lykewise of their conuenticles affirme that they were the true Church Next I say that when I shall vnderstād your meaning better I will tell you more In the meane time I would you knew that you are not of the Church but yée haue made a Schisme from the Church Christes coate without seame ye haue rent in péeces Truely sayth a learned father whosoeuer doth cut a sunder the vnitye and disturbe the peace of the Church whereby the fellowship of the faythfull is torne into diuers partes he is a Schismatique Such were Chorah Dathan and Abiram agaynst Moyses such were they which disquieted the church of Corinth by holding some of Paule some of Peter some of Appollos some of Christ Such are they whome S. Paule bad the Elders of Ephesus take héede of for they should be greuous wolues not sparing the flock who speaking perverse thinges should drawe disciples after them Of such S. Paule sayth I beseech you brethren marke those which cause dissention amongest you contrary to the doctrine which you haue receiued and auoid them c. As for you of that Familie neither were ye of vs nor went from vs So ye haue choked the word in many weake brethren laying stumbling blocks in the wayes of the simple Ye haue led the blinde out of their way therefore are ye by Gods mouth accursed And albeit that offences must néedes come yet woe be to him by whome they come it were better a millestone were hanged about his neck then to offend one of the litle ones There must be heresies in the Church to try the faythfull and happy is he that holdeth fast least another take his crowne When ye can shew me by the scripture that your Familie is the house of God the piller of the truth I shall confesse my selfe to be in an error Christ hath geuen vs warning to take héede that no man deceiue vs for many shall come in his name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many and there shall arise false Christes and false Prophets c. but he hath told vs before that we should not beleue them nor goe after thē Beleue not euery spirite sayth S. Iohn many false Prophets are gone out into the world Thus are wee warned in the mouth of the sonne of God if the sword come and take vs away our bloud shall be vpon our owne head HN. His assertion IT is the hill of the Lorde whereon his house is builded to the which he that subiecteth not himselfe is a false hart and standeth minded agaynst God and his Church Theophilus exposition THat is spoken of the loue it selfe and not of the Family For how is an house to be builded on an house which thing also may not be denyed for so much as God is loue and the other must consequently or necessarily follow William Wilkinson FIrst to the text of HN. and to Theophilus his exposition The familye sayth HN. is the hill of the Lorde whereon his house is builded for proofe hee quoteth Esa. 2.2 a. Mich. 4.1 a. It shall come to passe in the last day the mountaine of the Lordes house shall be prepared in the toppe of the moūtaines c. The sence of the which places of the prophets is that in the last day vz. in the first comming of the sonne of God the Church shall by him be restored to her glorious beauty the which places in HN. his new gospell 3. chap. 3. sent are applyed to HN. himselfe and to the time of his appearaunce in these wordes Now shall the law be taught out of Sion and in the 4. sent for this is the day of promise Psal. and ver 24. c. which the Lord hath made which first place is directly vnderstode of Christ and the building agayne of the Church by him The other place of the psal declared that Dauid being appointed by God to be king ouer Israell should deliuer the Arke out of the handes of the Philistines wherein he foreshewed that by a figure which was true in Christ Ephe. 4. verses 4.8.11.12.13 the which HN. presumptuously taking vnto himselfe grossly erreth in applying the scripture gracelesly blasphemeth the sonne of god First making Christ lesse carefull of his Church than he is in déede Secondly he is openly impious in this that whereas Christ sayth All is finished meaning all types and figures HN. maketh all vnperfect affirming that in him and his appearaunce all becommeth fulfilled His wordes be these The day of Loue Psal. 118. ver 24. c. is the appearing and comming Mat. 24. c. Luk. 17. c. Actes 24. of our Lorde Iesus Christ in the resurrection of the dead Esa. 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. Wherein the law of the Prophets and all that is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled All which places by him quoted are very playnely ment of the resurrection that is the second resurrection from death the secōd comming of Christ to iudgemēt whereby HN seemeth to emply the resurrection of the body and the second comming of Christ to iudgement to be past already which is heresie or els quoting those places for his first comming he alledgeth them amisse which is ignoraunce HN. TO the which he that subiecteth not himselfe is a false hart William Wilkinson IT is very true he that submitteth not himselfe to the Church of God is a false hart c. For he shall neuer haue God for his Father which hath not the
b. Ephes 4. b. communialitie of the holy ones in the loue or by such as walke and liue 1. Pet. 1. b. 1. Iohn 3. b. 4. b. obediently vnder the gracious word and his seruice of loue W. Wilkinson HN. sayth he can not perceiue or finde the true belief c. to this I aunswere that it is Gods iust though secret iudgement that when men aske amisse they do not obtaine when they knocke at the wrong doore they are not let in and beyng on sléepe when the bridgrome commeth and wāt light in their lampes they enter not in with him into the Mariage That HN. hath not founde nor perceiued the truth the reason is he wil not learne Pro. 8.8.9 he stoppeth his eares charme the charmer neuer so wisely Psal. 58.4.5 The Lord will guide thē that be méeke in his way Psal. 25.9 but knowledge entereth not into a froward soule and a foole that séeketh wisedome findeth her not for the Lord withstandeth the proud geueth grace vnto the humble 1. Pet. 5.5 The Israelites sought God as a people desirous to know his wayes but because the feare of him was learned by mēs preceptes Esay 29.13 they were selfe conceited wise Esay 5.21 Therfore did they heare and not vnderstād sée and not perceiue their hart was fat their eares were heauy and their eyes were shut Esay 6.9.10 Where note curteous Reader that this holy Prophet for so wil the Ioigner néedes haue vs for to take him HN. and our Papistes vse the selfe same weapō and by the same knife séeke to cut the throate of gods Church which they hādle after this sort Your Church ye Protestates was not alwayes visible neither did it alwayes appeare vnto the world Therefore it is not the true Church What a faint Consequent and weake reason this is especially with our Papistes which can not abide an Argument drawen from the Negatiue by this which followeth beyng the like may easely be proued I sée no sunne sayth the blind man neither heare I any swéetnes of song or pleasaūt Musicke sayth the deafe man Therfore there is no sunne sayth the one nor song quoth the other HN. the sonne of perdition and the Romish broode of old Hipocrites can not see the truth or will not therefore there is no truth at all The communialitie of the holy ones in the loue for so vnlesse ye terme them they will bee angry out of measure créepe in corners as owles doe at noone euen as did the Anabaptistes in the first spryng tyme of their heresie therefore there is now no Familie of Loue neither were there any Anabaptistes any where in tymes past this Argument as it is euidēt in the one so will it not be denied by the other Albeit in déede it be a féeble kinde of disputyng farre swaruyng from all rule of reason For the seyng or not seyng of mortall man doth not approue or disproue the truth of the immortall god Pharao kyng of Egypt saw Moses and Aaron and confessed the miracles by thē wrought to be true miracles yet saw he not a reason to perswade him to let Israell goe Iohn Baptist did as it were point out Christ with his finger saying Behold the lambe of God. The Iewes cōfessed that Christ had done all thinges well The Pharisies saw their thoughtes disclosed yet reasoned they thus The Scribes and Pharisies and rulers beleue not on him but onely the rude and accursed multitude Therfore is he not the Messias And if I should vse the like forme of Argumēt as this is trow ye the Familie would thinke the consequent necessary Before the dayes of Queene Mary or An. 1555. at the furthest this Louely Familie was neuer sene nor heard of onely the hatchers of this Familie the Libertines the Arriās the Anabaptistes the Free will men and Catharistes were than extant but as yet this broode of Locustes had not broken out of the bottomlesse pitte neither had it the name of Loue which it now hath Therfore the Familie of Loue neither is the Church of God neither is the holy truth of God in that their conuenticle but vnto them and their Patriarch HN. I leaue such kind of reasonyng most hūbly beséechyng God to giue them eyes to sée tongues to confesse the truth to Gods glory and the safegarde of their soules in the appearaunce of his Christ After HN. had told his Disciples where he could not finde the truth now he telleth them where he foūd it vz. HN. THe same is appeared and manifested vnto the holy ones of God in the Communialtie of Loue. W. Wilkinson SO that then belike vnlesse it be graunted him that he founde it there all his labour is lost Secondly it was not founde out there before he founde it and to that purpose it is whiche in his new Euangely he sayth He will declare the secrete misteries of God and make relation of thynges hidden from the world vntill his new day c. And he is annointed with the holy Ghost Godded with God in the spirite of his loue made heyre with Christ in the heauenly goodes of the riches of God elected to be a minister of the gracious worde which is now in the last tyme raysed vp by God accordyng to the promise Ierem. 33. Which is ment of Christ wherein HN. blasphemeth What if for all these his great boastyng crakes his swellyng wordes of vanitie turne to smoke out of the fornace and dust before the winde what then if for all his outfacyng of the simplicitie of the Gospell and shouldring out the sonne of God the Lord lay opē his folly to the world and his shame vnto the sonnes of men And if he founde no truth or if it be truth yet not of his findyng Was there no truth before he told it Was there no Gospell before his heape of confusion and huge lompe of shapeles and vnshamefast heresies If there was as most vndoubtedly there was a light before darkenes and an Arke of God before Dagon the Philistian Idoll why boasted he then thus presumptuously that the truth was of his findyng onely Neither is it yet agréed among his new peruertes concerning the age of this new founde heresie For some of his Sectaries beyng demaunded where his Church was from the Apostles tyme vntill the appearaunce of HN. this new found Prophet of theirs he aunswered not onely obscurely to the question but also fondely to the purpose and vnfittely to satisfie a waueryng conscience It was in the land of the liuyng among the holy ones But thus doth the Lord suffer their eyes to dazell who are quicke sighted to séeke out Phantasies to féede the it itchyng eares of them whō no doctrine can content HN. alledgeth 1. Iohn 1. a for proofe The wordes be these That whiche we haue sene and heard declare we vnto you that ye may also haue fellowshyp with vs and that our fellowship
the houshold of Fayth permitting them what religion they will. But hereby ye thought to stretch your Familye from sea to sea and from one end of the world to another So that here you shewe what kindred acquaintaūce your Heresie hath with the Anabaptistes who affirme that for their quietnesse sake they may confirme them selues to any Religion of the people amongest whō they dwell How neare you and these mē iumpe I leaue to the discrete Reader to discerne M. Bullinger his censure on them is this Of this iudgement was that beast Dauid George sayth he and this sect is the most pestilent of all others Thus much sayth M. Bullinger who was acquainted with thē as hee him selfe testifieth I did put truth for true belief thinkyng them to be all one neither as yet haue ye shewed any difference betwixt them I haue looked on HN. his text sufficiently God geue you grace to looke better on the Testament and to come backe to the truth whence ye haue slydden and kéepe me in that which I doe and haue professed HN. THe true light hath not bene declared by any of them all that haue taken on set forth and taught before the same and without the same Familie of loue Heb. 9. b. 10. Theophilus YOu shuld do wel to alledge the text as it is and not your owne imagination which is that there is hath bene or can be any more thā one true light vz. Christ or the loue whiche presently is appeared to his chosen in the house of loue or of god For before and without the Church and his seruice there cā be no truth taught W. Wilkinson THat our blynde southsayer told vs there is not any truth to be foūd without his fond Familie although it hath by me bene handled in that part of this Article which immediately goeth before yet this learned Elder of this Louely Familie barketh and brauleth stil against vs and will not suffer playne and manifest truth to stop his mouth And although the place by me alledged out of HN. be verbatim and word for word as I alledged it yet will he not be satisfied but as it were facyng me out with a carde of x. he séeketh to ouerrunne me with his eloquēce sayth to blanke me withall that I haue mistaken and falsified the author But because he taketh me vp for an Imaginer of the text vouchsafe gentle and curteous Reader to way myne Imagination as he pleaseth to terme it The place by me rised out of the 1. Exhort of HN. Cap. 16. sent 9. fol. 42. is in the very first line thus Therefore the holy nor the most holy the true nor the most true light which the most highest hath presently in his most holy seruice vnder the obedience of the loue geuen vnto vs for to be declared forth hath not Heb. 9. b. 10. a. bene declared by any of thē all that haue taken on set forth and taught any thyng before this same or without this same our seruice of the loue Are not these my very wordes sauyng that for breuities sake I pretermitted your long and vnnecessary Parenthesis Haue I not delt truly with your houshold-father in that I truly and faythfully as from his owne mouth did report his wordes Am I not vniustly charged and falsely blamed for my Imagination in the text of so worthy an Author But seyng it is not expedient that I be myne owne iudge of myne innocencie I refer me to the sentence of the indifferēt Reader whom also I desire to be aduertised that he hath heard me take an Elder halting in his word whē as the fayth of their Familie HN. I meane in the booke by him intituled Dictata per HN. or documentable sentences sayth nothing can come from the true perfection but all humilitie and meeke vertues and righteousnes floweth from all perfection Now if to slaunder and misreport be a worke of righteousnesse and worthy of their perfection let them glory therein I had rather in that sort be vnperfect As for me and those that desire not hand ouer head to receiue all that comes from euery mā it is sufficient and shal be that if they lauish out any vntruth that I be pardoned for not sealyng vnto it before I way it in Gods ballance least it proue light and try it at the touchstone least it be counterfeite The places of Scripture by HN. quoted are very impertinent and absurdely alledged hauyng not any thrée wordes that sounde toward such a sense as he would father on them Theophilus THere hath not bene is ne can be any more thā one light which is presently appeared vnto his chosen in the house of loue or as HN. sayth our house of loue W. Wilkinson WHy then haue ye left the Churche into the which ye were Baptised why did ye promise ye would manfully fight vnder Christes banner and continue his faythfull souldiour and seruaunt to your liues end and now lyke a runnagate Apostata a cowardly souldiour or rather a traiterous Iudas ye betray his Saints to Sathā breake truce with the son of God into whose obedience ye were sworne Why do ye like children past grace insolently taunt and checke your mother and impudently tread vnder your féete the Lordes pearles as most filthy swine why come you not to the light that your workes may be sene how they are wrought in God what meane you to frame and imagine to your selfe a new Churche For whereas so oftē you affirme that you haue no church but ours no assemblies but ours why doth HN. terme it our Familie or seruice doth not this word our Familie note a particular secte or faction in the possession of a few Ye say very truely there can not bee any truth without the Churche If this be true then your doctrine is false for there is but one Lord one fayth one redeemer one spirite of sanctification one Abrahā the father of the faithful one Isaac one Iacob one body wherof we all are mēbers The Churche hath but one head and one body As for deridyng and scoffing Ismaell he shall be cast out with the bondmayd his mother prophane Esau shall haue no part in the Lordes inheritaunce neither your Schismaticall Familie vnles ye repent hartely for that which is past They Iewes cryed the Temple of the Lord yet were they a stiffenecked peopel you cry the schoole of grace the mercy seate the Familie of the Lord and yet all is but hypocrisie For the Iewes had an externall tabernacle instituted of god Therfore they might boast better thā you You haue coined and inuented a Schisme yet very cōfidently you affirme your conuēticle is the Church without the which is no truth to be looked for An Addition of HN. vnto the 2. Article NO mā sayth HN. how wise soeuer he be in the knowledge of the Scriptures can by any meane vnderstand or comprehend the wisedome of God but onely they
our first creation wherein first we were created vnto holynes of lyfe c. to be heauenly affected to sauour spirituall and goastly thinges that belong vnto the soule Briefely I say M. Peter Mart. whos 's great iudgement I know how much the learned esteame we are one spirite with god when we are ioyned vnto him by the operation of his spirite and the inward working of the holy Ghost Yet doth not this vniting of vs with God availe vs so far that we thereby should be equall with him onely Iesus Christ the sonne of God according to the deuine nature is so vnited with God that he is one in spirite with his father and wholely equall with him wherein we of right and worthely are far vnequal inferior vnto him And thus much out of him concerning the meaning of this place of S. Paule whome ye wrest to approue your errour and yet in the iudgement of the best interpretours your blinde exposition and forced minde of that place is cleane ouerthrowne and confuted for we are sayth he farre inferiour vnto God and our vniting vnto him is that in the preaching of the word and ministration of sacramentes he stoupeth and lispeth with vs that we may vnderstand him Now concerning that last place by you alledged out of S. Peter which is this we are made partakers of the heauenly nature therefore say you your Elders are illuminated from God Godded with god c. Truely yf ye had read any learned wrighter vpon this place or if ye had but waighed with your selfe the purpose of S. Peter in that place comparing the place you cited with that which goeth before and that which euen in the next wordes follow after I trust ye would haue bin better aduised before ye had wrested the place so violently to the purpose that ye haue applied it For in the very wordes following doth he expound his owne meaning in this sort To be made partaker of the deuine nature is nothing els but to flee the corruption which is in the world through lust which S. Paule calleth oftentimes in his Epistles to be dead to sinne and not to be in the flesh and agayne let not sinne raigne in your mortall bodyes that ye should obey the lust of it but euen as the Lord is holye so must we be holy for we are the temples of the holy Ghost and the Lord God through Christ doth dwell within vs. But let me demaund this one question of you to the which if ye will directly aunswere ye shall sée all this controuersie betwixt vs about this place of S. Peter sone discussed tell me but this What is the nature of God which we are partakers of is it not his euerlasting trueth his righteousnes his wisedome c. Is it not peace of soule ioy of conscience and all goodnes which cannot be imagined is not he thē which is made partaker of these good graces of God both in body and soule rightly sayd to be made partaker of the heauenly nature yes verely Then may ye very playnely sée and easely discerne that by these wordes the nature of God We are not sayd to be partakers of his substance or essence but of the deuine and heauenly qualityes which are in god Of this place read Caluins institutions 3. boke I know in déede the heathen Poet Aratus out of whome S. Paule doth alledge a verse in the Actes of the Apostles fayneth that we spring out of the generation of god But what haue we to stand to his fond fantasie and idle dreame True it is the Manicheis held the same errour that we were sprong of the same ofspring and séede of God and after we haue run the race of our lyfe we shall returne to our fist original And I know that in the former times of our fore fathers there were some frantick men which imagined that Gods nature is so powred into vs that it wholy causeth our nature being to lose the force thereof Right so dreameth your Fam. and as they quoted for profe God must be all in all Therfore are we wholy resolued and turned into the nature of god To the selfe same purpose haue ye as fondly as they alledged in this place this text out of Saint Peter but right so may it be affirmed of you which is sayd of them such a dotage as this neuer once entred into the minds of the Apostles Foolish therefore and vngodly are they whosoeuer they be which out of this place imagine that the essentiall nature or being of God is poured into vs our owne being there vtterly vanishing away And thus much for the meaning of these wordes of S. Peter We are made partakers of the heauenly nature And for a further exposition hereof reade the Byshop of Salisburyes reply agaynst harding pag. 331. 5. Article 7. diuision Now to satisfy your questions which ye aske of me What errour is this yf it were rightly sene vnto I aunswere Looke you rightly vnto it and ye shall see it is the errour of Manes of Seruetus a Spanish Arrian burnt at Geneua the errour of Osiander concerning the essentiall and substantiall iustice more largely expounded by HN. in his Euangelie 1. chapter and first sentence From the which heresie good Lord deliuer vs The which opiniōs because I feare they will more hurt the simple people by repeating then doe you good in confuting of purpose I let them passe reseruing you for a more fuller and perfect instruction to M. Caluins institutions by whom the heresies aforesayd so are clearely cōfuted that no godly Christian can or will desire a more absolute resolution Not meaning any further to busie my selfe with the confuting of the opinions of our Romish Catholiques who in this point agree with you affirming that our coniunction with Christ is carnally and bodely HN. CHrist himselfe is their light sayth HN. which becommeth administred vnto them Theophilus IT is true vnlesse ye will deny the scripture William Wilkinson YOw should first haue proued it by the Scriptures afterwardes haue affirmed it to be true bare affirmations beare no weight HN. his profe he quoteth Iohn 1.9 a. The light is the true light which lighteth euery man that commeth into the world is a rouing profe The meaning of the which place is this that all men are equally indued with the light of naturall reason to see God in his Creatures and thereby to acknowledge him to be their creator Which because they haue light other wheres and Christ hath light of and frō himselfe therefore Christ is God. But this place proueth not that onely the Children of God are lightned with the light of Gods spirit which assertion albeit it be true yet is this place by HN. quoted without discretion for it speaketh of a light generall to all that are borne not proper to the regenerate of this light Read. Esay 9.1.2 Mat. 4.15.16 Ioh. 9. a. 5.
to repeate I made out of them this Collection HN. sayth he is indued with the good nature of God and that he is raysed vp from the dead to iudge the earth with righteousnes also the day of Loue by him preached is the last day and there shall be no day of grace hereafter Neither was there any trueth before him or besides him or shal be after him To the fourme of wordes he hath framed a wrangle the matter he graunteth belike to be true Thirdly I affirme that HN. sayth he was prophecied of by Moses and all the Prophets and Apostles and the Euangelistes to proue this he alledgeth Deut. 18.6 Esay 60. a. Iohn 5. c. To the which Theophilus replieth thus Theophilus REade the place againe you shall finde he sayth that the light or lyfe is it which is prophecied of and not himselfe and leaue your lying for very shame William Wilkinson TO the which his reprochfull reply and childish cauill I thinke I shall aunswere fully and satisfy sufficiently Yf first I be able to iustifie which gods assistance I hope I shall that HN. presumptiously taketh on him that which is prophecied on and proper vnto Christ Secondly I will cōparing him with Dauie George and their heresies mutually with other proue that it is very like to be true which they deny and Maist Rogers doth charge him with HN. to be Dauie Georges scholler and that in impietye he goeth far beyond him Thirdly by comparing him and his opinions with Gods worde I will shew that he is not the perfect Prophet but the most pestilent Archheretique that euer was and that he was so prophecied of by the Prophets Apostles and Euangelistes In the which place to display all his wrestinges of the scriptures I neither am able they being infinit nor willing because I desire to be briefe onely I will by a few geue a tast what the rest are which I haue not touched HN. HN. Alledgeth ▪ Esay 60. a. to proue the light shewed by him was fore spoken of by Esay W. Wilkinson IT is manifestly ment of Christ his first comming HN. HN. Sayth that all the scriptures heauenly testimonyes and spirituall voyces of the eternall trueth which are gone forth from the holy spirite of Loue that is of God are brought to light through him William Wilkinson THis is blasphemous agaynst the Prophecy of Christ and agaynst the Scriptures Math. 17.5 Marc. 9.28 Iohn 1.18 Col. 23. HN. HN. Sayth yet once more he hath appointed a day in the which he will iudge the earth with righteousnes Act. 17. g. and this in the next sentence 3. he doth apply to his appearaunce in these wordes this day and now is the day fulfilled in the Loue and this once more sayth he is meant of himselfe for profe he quoteth Act. 17. g. 31. verse W. Wilkinson THis is particularly ment of Christes first comming in the flesh prophecied euen in the selfe same wordes Agge 2. cap. 7. verse and in Christ fulfilled Heb. 12. cap. 27. verse HN. HN. Quoteth Esay 2. a. 2. Miche 4. a 1. to be meant of the restoring of the decayed state of Gods Church which is redyfied by him William Wilkinson THis is manifestly meant of Christ HN. HN. Citeth Math. 24. verse 14. Esay 67.22 g. Psal. 95.7.8 Heb. 3.7 and the 4.7.8 Apoc. 14.6 to be spoken of his Euangelye by him published William Wilkinson WHich is vnderstode of the preaching of the gospell by Christ and his Apostles HN. HN. Sayth hee is an elected Minister of the gratious worde stirred vp in the last time according to the promises Ierem. 33. read the whole chap. W. Wilkinson IT is meant of Christ HN. HN. Sayth the testimonye of his Euangelie is not alone the Euang. of the kingdome promised to be published in all the world to all people but also all the testimonies which HN. hath set forth in the glasse of righteousnes William Wilkinson BLasphemous agaynst the gospell and a thing accursed Galla. 1. chap. 8. ver He taketh that vnto him which belongeth vnto Iohn Baptist Mallachi Math. 11.10 HN. HN. Sayth the misterye of the kingdome of God his righteous iudgements Math. 25. d. Actes 16.17 d. Iude. 1. and the comming of Christ now in the last tyme in the resurrection Ezech. 37 6. Iohn 5. c. Rom. 8.6 Phil. 3. b. 11. ver of the dead is declared vnto him as an elected vessel from the mouth of God himselfe God hath be gone a new miraculous worke now in this day of Loue whereof we witnes with vs his elected ones wherin the scripture is fulfilled Esay 43 6. c.a. Esay 57 b. HN. Sayth he will declare the secret misteries of God and make relation of thinges hidden before the beginning of the world Math. 13.11 b. Iohn 6. The day of Loue. Psal. 118. c. is the appearaunce and comming Math. 24. c. 30. ver Luk. 17.20 ver Actes 2. a. of Christ Iesu our Lord in the resurrection Esay 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. of the dead wherein the law the Prophetes and all that is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled Luk. 24. e. The day of Loue preached by HN. is the day of the last comming of Christ in iudgement with many thousandes of Saintes Esay 3. b. Math. 4.24 d. 37. 25. d. 31. Iude. 1. b. Whiche places manifestly proue beyng meant of the second comming of Christ that the resurrection of his comming is perfected past already HN. Sayth that this testimonie that is his Euang and publishing of the ioyfull message is the same comming and all seruices and prophecies which are gone out from God doe leade herevnto and cease herein HN. Sayth Behold ye dearely beloued presently euen from the selfe same day becommeth the scripture in all fulfilled of that which it mentioneth of Christ of his seede and of his glory and Lordlynes Therefore all scriptures was vntill now vnperfect and not fulfilled contrary to that which Iohn sayth 19.28 HN. Sayth that all the prophecies Esdr 4. d. Esay 3. c. 11. b. 12. Ezechi 39. d. 21. Zopha 3. b. 9. ver Zach. 2. b. 10. 11 Numb 24. a. 5. 6. are in this day of Loue presently fulfilled all the which places are particularly meant of Christ and applied blasphemously by HN. to him for to proue the day of his comming The Familye compare and make equall HN. his wrightinges with the holy scriptures because say they they are written with the same spirite William Wilkinson THus with as great breuitye as I could I haue set downe a few of his blasphemies for that his vayne and blinde idle and impertinēt alleadging of Scriptures is infinite and without number for almost he neuer citeth any scripture aright for the children of God it shall not be vnprofitable to consider that to leaue the Lordes hye way and the cleare sunne shine of his truth is to entangle our selues with
HN. dare not expresly and definitiuely so affirme least all mē should hold him for a false Prophet yet as it were a sloape and couertly affirmeth it in takyng vnto him the prophecie of Christ c. as is declared before pag. 52. 53. so that yet in the second degrée D.G. and HN. agrée very filthy in their heresies ech with other Dauid George his third heresie was this that he would restore the house of Israell and the tribe of Leuy he will rayse the tabernacle of God by the spirite of Christ That HN. is the minister by whom the Church is restored through the spirite of the Loue or of God in many and sundry places cited already is more thē manifest if though they beyng incident to the matter I should repeat them they of the Fam. would charge me that I alledged thē often to make the volume arise the greater Let it therefore besides the places quoted already in the pag be sufficient for me by one testimony out of his Euang. to proue this in him to be true wherewith I charge him Now in the same day shall the Citie of the Lord be builded vpon her brief place or auncient roome of the tēple of the Lord or tabernacle of his dwellyng shall stand euen as the same ought to stand Namely inwardly in vs in the beyng of the holy Ghost and therefore when HN. is disposed to boast of the restoring of the hill of the Lord and of the repayring of the Church then straight he vseth to quote Esay 2. chap. 2. vers d. and Micheas 4. chap. 1. vers d. and thē immediatly before or after straight hee putteth this shall come to passe in this day of the Loue or now or in this same most newest day of the loue c. vpon the which places as those most often wherein the redyfiyng of the Church by Christ is prophecied and foretold of by the Prophetes he that marketh this obseruation well shall see him stumble very often What may be gathered thereby is not hard to coniecture vz. that he dreamed and so would néedes perswade his Disciples the instauration of the Churche should be perfected by him Euang. 2. chapter 1. sect 2. leafe And in the third Chap. section the first and 9. are notable places to verifie the truth of this verdict which for breuitie I pretermit onely notyng them not further meanyng to encomber the Reader with them and thus much to proue that HN. agréeth with D. George in his iij. heresie Dauid George his fourth heresie That who soeuer speaketh agaynst his doctrine shall neuer be forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come In this doth HN. fitly with Dauid George agrée accord in one as in my Additions may appeare at large to the 3. and 4. Articles and Theophilus him selfe will not deny it For hee expoundeth HN. his meanyng thus in the 13. Article in these wordes To the enemyes or enuious of the loue of Christ and to the obstinate which turne them away there from there is no mercy promised Yf this be not all one both in wordes and sence with Dauid George I cā not tell what it should bee to agrée with him at euery turne both in wordes and sence And because by the way of comparison I haue in the former Articles declared that HN. and Dauid George do fully consent and agrée in the principall matters wherewith we charge them let it be lawfull for me good Reader to set one foote further in this comparison that I may shew more euidently how in as weighty a point as hethereto I haue layd agaynst them that in the accord of their heresie they so conspire either with other that it clearely and to HN. his perpetuall shame it may be affirmed which M. Rogers reporteth that Dauid George layd the egge of this heresie and HN. hatched the chickens As for HN. though it séemeth his wit is pestilent enough to peruert the truth yet by Dauid George his Maisters whettyng him forward hauyng of him selfe a cankred mynde agaynst the truth and a swellyng hart he became x. fold more the sonne of perdition in beyng wholy bent to seduce the simple that thereby he might not so much be holy as he pretended as increase his priuate wealth which by his fiskyng to and fro was not a litle empayred For to affirme that in word which the deed it selfe auoucheth to be true sufficiently apparaunt it is that Dauid George first put downe the principles of this secte which when he had so done and with writhyng and wrestyng had brought his heresie into tune HN. was now by him further to be instructed how with a malitious mynde and perilous wit he might runne descāt at will and quauer at pleasure vpon this straunge doctrine and new tuned opinions The first straine wheron this further heretical accord was to be stretched was this that after D. George perceiued that openly in the face of the world to professe his opinions was not without spot godly Magistrates had diligently prouided that the Church of God should no lōger receiue any detrimēt straight way then did he forge this new found fond principle as a soueraigne salue to cure that mischeuous maladie and imminent perill which abode those that were defiled with that horrible infection And seing the daunger was not smale to be outragious in so great a matter he thought it sufficient that his sectary bare a good hart stode single in myndedly vnto his doctrine to kéepe their consciences to themselues and for their further quietnes sake to cōforme themselues to any people whatsoeuer amongest whome they liued with whome they had to deale This as it was a principall point so was it also a pestiferous poyson wherewith the diuel hath deceiued many a simple soule and thrown many a stumbling block in the way of the wauering and weake harted Christian That this was Dauid George his opinion and that hereafter I be not sayd to slaunder him let M. Bullenger be heard who testifieth thus of him Of this opinion was this beast D. George whiche sect also is the most pestilent of all others To the which I further adde Of this opinion is that wretched man HN. and by this bayte hath he choaked more Christians then by any other whatsoeuer For hereby in the tyme of Papistry he had his faultors also whom by the Suthwarke Ioyner he licensed to be present at Idolaters seruice and to kéepe their consciences secret vnto themselues hauing taught them before it was an indifferent thing to hould any thing so they kept the doctrine of the Loue by him taught vnto them And this is manifest in his Euangelye especially in that O yes which he maketh before his blasphemous proclamation to the whole world in these words following To the louers of the truth here and there wheresoeuer or in what part of the world they dwell or haue their abode of what sort
that is to know to cary an instructiō in memory in memoria habere to Romēber or haue in remembraunce And to cary in vnderstanding intelligentia compraehendere to vnderstand from the which proprieties of speach if either HN. or Theophilus shall séeke to slip they shall straight declare how well they are ouersene in the tounges and common speach So that if vpon all these we shall gather this sentence The Familie must not know remember nor vnderstand the doctrine or instruction whiche the Eldest in the Familie deliuereth forth vnto them which Eldest sayth Theophilus is Christ him selfe and his holy worde How blasphemously and Papistically HN. and Theophilus do play the heretiques is manifest For what man is so blynd that he will not sée or so gracelesse that he will not confesse that The word of God must be knowne remembred and vnderstode of the simple if this be not Popery what is Popery And that First the simple ought to know Secondly vnderstand Thirdly remember these places quoted for proofe out of the Scripture shal be sufficient Furthermore HN. is contrary to his owne doctrine which he him selfe teacheth in his owne bookes whereas for his vsual Embleme he taketh 1. Exhort cap. 12. sent 10. b. this sentence or posie for his cōmon badge whereby his bookes are knowne frō others of his fellow Elders Take it to hart Which is according to the best translations Let thine hart hold fast my wordes Where it is ment that his wordes ought wholly and throughly to be knowne vnderstode and remembred contrary to his former doctrine in the place first alledged But to let passe these two former partes of contrarietie betwixt HN. and the written word of God secondly betwixt him selfe and his owne writynges if we diligently way and consider we shall assuredly finde that this thyrd clause concerning naturall reason and common experience it is as wholly agaynst HN. and impugneth his doctrine as truth is agaynst falsehode and light darknes And herein to vse the same example which the Scripture doth in like matter The wiseman doth very excellently commend the diligence of diuers men in their sundry occupations and seuerall handlabours As the Grauer in his Imagery the Smith at his anuill the Potter at his clay all these sayth the wiseman vse wisedome in their worke whiche they could not do vnlesse their common practise had taught them experience and vse makyng thē perfect they should by remembraunce renew the same from tyme to tyme which they before had learned And to vse yet more familiar example think you that it is lyke that when Vitels Maister instructed him in his Arte of Ioignerie was it not conuenient for him to instruct his Prentice Vitels often in those thynges whereby he might get his liuyng in time to come and was it not Vitels part to cary his maisters Arte and his instructions in his memory and vnderstandyng els if he had not remembred his maisters preceptes how should he hau◠compacted that great knowledge neither haue got the singular cōmendation for to be so skilfull a Ioyner as his Familie doth report of him that he is albeit for greater matters sake he hath lefte that his trade now professeth him selfe a teacher in that his Louely Familie What Schoolemaster vnto his Scholers would so oftē take paynes to inculcate and repeate the selfe same principles with great labour vnto the one and vnpleasauntnes vnto the other if he thought it not expedient that it should be of him remembred And blessed Esay saith Precept must be vpon precept and line vpon line here a litle and there a litle to the end that by often iteratyng the same thyng it might the better be remēbred But séekyng to conuince HN. by the ineuitable and most certaine rule of reason why doe I alledge Scripture seyng that the excellent Philosophers Themistocles Simonides Carneades Sceptius Metrodorus are singularly praysed in prophane writers for the worthy remembraunce which they had in Philosophy and other Sciences and shal we thinke that seyng by the kéepyng of Gods commaundements there is great reward ought we not to remember those thynges for the remēbraunce wherof we shal receaue a reward or how shal we kéepe them if we do not remember them True it is that is wisely remembred by a Heathē Oratour Memoria non modo Philosophiam sed omnē vitae vsum omnesque Artes vna maxime continet Remembraūce doth not onely conteine Philosophy but also the whole practise of mans lyfe yea she alone comprehendeth all other Artes and Sciences whatsoeuer But what should I oppose the iudgement of the wise agaynst him that is witles and the Scriptures diuine testimonies agaynst a prophane and godles Atheiste Whose scope iustly iūpeth with the Romanistes in this to forbyd a particular knowledge in matters of saluation and to teach that if men beleue as the Church beleueth they can not do amisse In the confutation wherof seing that by these thréefold testimonies I haue throughly conuinced HN. his Assertion for this 8. Article and all the partes therof let this be sufficient ARTICLE 9. HN. Of Reuelations FOr vnto the Elders and Fathers God hath reueled his word in this day of loue Publishyng of the peace cap. 1. sent 12. 6. The Lord hath reueled the true beyng vnto me out of Sion and Ierusalem Esay 2. a. Mich. 4. a. 2. Pet. 1. b. HN. sayth the mistery of the kingdome of god Math. 25. d. Actes 16.17 d. Iude. 1. b. his righteous iudgementes and the commyng of Christ now in the last time in the resurrection of the dead Ezech. 37. b. Iohn 5. e. Rom. 8. b. Phil. 3. b. is declared vnto him as vnto an elect vessell house or dwellyng of God from the mouth of God himselfe HN. sayth hee will declare the secret mysteries of God and make relation of thynges that are hidden from the beginnyng of the world William Wilkinson VNto many it may séeme straunge and scarse credible vnto some that there should lyue a people vpon the earth whiche not holdyng them selues content with the written word of God would adde vnto it some tricke of their own deuising which although they agréed as euill as a new péece of clothe vnto an old garment yet fayne would they their toyes were pewefellowes with the sacred truth of God not onely to match but some tymes to geue a checkemate vnto the same Yet vnto him that equally considereth all things with an vnpartiall eye it is easely to be sene that it was not onely the practise of the Popishe Prelacie so to outface the simplicity of the Scripture partly with the bringyng their blynd and vnsauery traditions partly with the burthenyng of the church with the intollerable yoke of their vnwritten verities but the dealyng of the Anabaptistes and Libertines and all other like Heretiques hath agréed in this accord that when the touchstone would not serue and a naked truth would not so much hide
his owne soule in the day of the lord And thus much of the 11. Article hetherto The 12. Article what HN. thinketh of all preachers that be without his Familye of loue 1. Sent. OF the preachers themselues HN. sayth they are false hartes of Scripture learned vnilluminated and vnsent preachers vaine praters through an imagination of knowledge false hartes and vnregenerate scripture learned bould presumptuous selfewise and good thinking wise doctors of the letter Lament complaint in the title which are yet fleshly minded and sowe nothing els but noysome and corrupt seede among the people Theophilus HE onely speaketh of all such false hartes of the Scripture learned and vnsent preachers which turne away from the true doctrine that serueth to the vnitye of the hart in Loue which being fleshly minded geuing forth themselues through the false light to be teachers and ministers of the word c. loke better to the text before recited HN. 2. Sentence WHose minde vz. of the preachers or being is the deuill the Antechrist the wicked spirit the kingdome of hell and the maiestie of the deuill himselfe Theophilus MEaning such preachers as are before expressed HN. 3. Sentence THerefore it is all assuredly false lyes and seducing and deceauing whatsoeuer the vngodded or vnilluminated man Ier. 23. c. 10. 29. a. 8. out of the imagination or riches of their owne knowledge and out of their learnednes 1. Cor. 1. b. 11. of the scriptures bring fourth institute preach and teach Ierem. 8. a. 27.9 verse Theophilus BEcause they are not taught to the kingdome of heauen in humblenes and lowlines of spirite but in all arrogancie of hart neither haue they receiued the word of lyfe from the liuing god c. reade 1. Exhort cap. 6. sent 16. W. Wilkinson WHen as there is no such sent in the Chapter as Theophilus eyes will beare me witnes HN. 4. Sentence THey preach indeede the letter and the imagination of their knowledge Ier. 5. b. 4. and chap. 6.8 Ezech. 13. b. ver 6.7.8.9 and chapter 34. but not the word of the liuing God. Theophilus CAn any man preach more then he hath by him William Wilkinson IF it be true as no doubt it is very true that in the gospel our Sauiour Christ sayth by the fruite the tree is knowne and S. Iames also testifieth that the same fountaine can not send out swete and bitter water yea and if HN. himselfe be to be beleued when he sayth The perfect man can not geue forth any thing els from him but all humble and meeke vertues and righteousnes which flow out of perfection surely if these be the fruites that HN. his Louely being doth afford what roote is it from whence such a streame of frentique and furious eloquēce doth abound truely if these poysoned speaches and tarrye Rhetorick wherewith he brādeth Gods ministers be as he sayth his humble and meeke vertues flowing from all perfection When HN. shall ebbe in his perfection and his high tyde of his vpright fredome become to a falling water what ougly deformityes shall we sée when he is left naked or being extremely euill how monstrous shal his impietye surmount it selfe when being at his hiest pitch of perfection ye take him thus tardye But euen such perfect wightes were the Anabaptists which boasted that they kept the lawe and liued sinles and yet rayling on the preachers of their age they called them Lutherans fol. 254. False and carnal gospellours 255 erroneous and vnskilfull preachers 256. a generation of vipers and hirelinges 257. b. And such vpright Christians are our Romish Catholickes which boast so much of their good workes which it were to be wished in many of thē were much better and yet when they come by penne to proclayme what hartes they beare in their bosomes and how wholy they are mortified their written treatises bewray the malice of their mindes and wholy discouer their cancred stomackes when as speaking of the state of the Church of God in the countrye whererein they were brought vp they terme it the Synagogue of Antechrist and Lucifer Harding confut 212. b. The tower of Babilon confut 42. a. and the preachers of the same they call the limmes of Antechrist confut 202. a. Lecherous lourdaines confut 75. b. Chaines broode confut 114. b. Pulpet buzzers R. pref Vnto the which termes both of the Anabaptistes and Papistes whether HN. in the same vaine be behinde thē both or no I leaue to be considered of them that shall equally way all their speaches and the maner of their deliuerie in the same ballaunce Vnto all the which their immodest and vnséemely snuffes and tauntes truely be it aunswered that was said vnto S. Paule whē he was prest to persecute the hed in the members and to persue the father in the childrē it shall be hard for them to kick agaynst the prick The children of darcknes may scatter cockle heretiques whē men sléepe may sowe tares yet can not any schisme be perpetuall for great is the truth and preuaileth heauen and earth shall passe but the word of God endureth for euer The méeke manner of HN. his reprehending the preachers of Gods word and whome he imitateth therein hath already ben declared now resteth it yet further to be discussed what accusatiō that should be wherwith he chargeth them which is they are vngodded men vnilluminated vnregenerate c. The which his slaunderous accusation if it be by him vnderstode of all preachers then is it manifestly vntrue so néedeth it not any aunswere at all but yf it be as Theophilus HN. his disciple sayth who explayning his maisters meaning that it is onely to be vnderstode of those Which will not receiue his louely doctrine Then haue I further to aunswere that albeit the persons were euill men as he misimagineth they are yet to report that their being is the maiesty of the deuill himselfe the Antechrist the wicked spirite c. This is not so louely a phrase neither doth it so well become the father of the Familye of Loue as he weneth that it doth But HN. his reason in this place as it is very waighty for so he taketh it so he that shal consideratly weigh the 2. seuerall propositions gathered vpon the 2. first sentences by me in the forefronte of this Article set downe and throughly loke vppon the Therefore which he in stead of a conclusion laboureth to inferre shall sée his argument briefly knitte together after this sorte Those which preache this or that doctrine are vngodded and vnregenerate Therefore the doctrine it selfe is vntrue The reason framed Schoolewise is this What soeuer the vngodded and vnregenerated man doth bryng forth institute preach and teach is vntrue But the Godded or vnregenerate mā teacheth there is a Resurrection of the body imperfection in the best workes of the godly and that heretiques must be put to death c. Therfore it is assuredly all false and
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
beginning the Libertines bouldly reiected the scriptures they tauntingly scoffing at either of the Apostles sought to weaken their credite that thereby they might the more magnifie their owne authoritye they termed S. Paule a broken vessell S. Peter a forswearer of his Maister S. Iohn a sely young man S. Mathew an vsurer neither were they ashamed to blaspheme them openly But afterwardes when the Libertines perceiued that all men abhorred them for those their vncomely speaches they deuised more slyly and iustly to behaue themselues and saying then that they reiected no scripture they did writh it into allegories and wrested it into wonderfull straunge interpretations In the ordering of their discples they folow altogether the Manichies neither come they commonly abroad that they may the better be knowen nor tell any man what they thinke but kéepe them lōg in doubt by farre fetched circūstaunces they winde in them whome they desire to make their disciples neither doe they tell the watchworde of their mighty assemblies to any man before they perceiue they haue so bewitched him that they may easely perswade them whatsoeuer they list Their secrets they open onely vnto those which first are sworne vnto them the chiefe Rabbies doe alwayes kéepe backe some especial pointes of their doctrine wherby they may the better maintaine the opinion that their hangbyes haue of them Quintinus the Archlibertine and other of his fellowes of botchers were made doctors and so chaunged their calling the reason was they faine would liue daintely and idlely neither thought they that they were fit to labour The Libertines bookes were written in such a lofty stile that hardly they could be vnderstode One of the chefest pointes of their doctrine was that they ought to vse a certaine crafty kinde of dissembling coūterfeiting that they may easely deceiue the simple They think they may lawfully runne to Idol seruice They are not content with the simple sence of the Scripture but they writh it vnto Allegories neither will they kéepe them to the letter for they say the letler killeth They affirmed that euery one of the children of God are Christes and Quintinus the chiefe heretique being asked how he did aunswered how can Christ doe amisse They say that regeneration is the restoring of the estate wherein Adam was placed before his fall They make an Allego of the history of Adam Gen. 3. Adams innocencie say they is nothing els but this not to be able to iudge betwene black and white ▪ Yf they sée any mā stroock with a feare of Gods iudgement oh hast thou yet say they a tast of the Apple They surely hold these 3. principles the first there is no Arte in the world which they do not allow of although God haue condemned it in his word as for example They thinke that the Popish priesthode is good Quintinus being at the Masse of a certaine Cardinall affirmed that he saw the glory of God there Secondly they affirme that the abuses and corruptiōs wherewith the world is infected is no harme Thirdly they affirmed that all mans inclinatiō whēcsoeuer it come be it from corrupt nature or euil custome is it is euery mans calling The bookes which M. Caluin sawe of the Libertines 1. AN instruction and wholesome admonition how we should liue in this world and be patient in aduersitye 2. The Glasse of Christians ¶ Out of M. Zuinglius agaynst the Catabaptistes THe Catabaptistes cry God the truth the word the light the spirit holynes c. not onely mighty but if hypocrisie were not worthy and excellent were their speaches In what vice soeuer they are takē be it adulterie māslaughter theft c. they aunswere I haue not sinned for I am not any more in the flesh but in the spirite I am dead vnto the flesh and the flesh vnto me Those that take part with the Gospell they rayle worse on them then on the Papistes They spread abroad their bookes in the hāds of their disciples boasting euery where that they could so cōfute Zuinglius that they would make him haue neuer a word to say Their Captaines beyng franticke and brainesick men complained to the Ministers that they could not lyue among the wicked and therfore would they separate thēselues frō the Church because that in their cōmon assēbly and Church there were many that were openly wicked They rayled vpō the Baptisme of infants sayd that it is a great abhominatiō come frō the deuill the Pope They say they will proue their doctrine by sheddyng their bloud whē as they cā not proue it by the scriptures They rayled on the Ministers and sayd that the Ministers hated them because they founde fault with their euill lyfe They sayd no man was Gods child but they which fulfilled the law and wrought righteousnes They boasted much of the spirite when they had no Scripture and vnder the pretence of the spirite they wrought much filthynes They prophecied domes day should be on the Ascention day two yeares after They held fréewill They reiect the authoritie of the old Testament They bragge of the certainety of knowledge in doctrine without the word and say We are thus certified from God. They say there is no Sacrament of the Lordes Supper without their congregation Those which are not of their sect are abhominable before God neither can they doe any thyng that is not abbomination They must in this lyfe depart from all euill and those that be vngodly for proofe they quote Apo. ¶ They make three sectes videl Romanistes Papistes Protestauntes halfe Papistes Anabaptistes perfect Christians When they haue drawne any mā vnto their sect they straitly charge him not to come at the table with him that is not of their faction neither at the Sermons of any man that is an enemy to their sect They boast perfection They haue aunsweres reueiled vnto them All that are not of their owne sect they say that they are infidels They say that the dead sléepe both in soule and body till the day of Iudgement They affirme that both the deuil and the wicked shal be saued They deny that Christ is Gods sonne by nature ¶ Out of Zuinglius THe reason wherefore gentle Reader I haue out of these thrée excellent learned men gathered the particular opinions of these heretiques was not that I thinke the Familie of Loue to be culpable in all those pointes which I haue set down although I dare auouch the most of these errours out of HN. his writynges and other the letters writynges of the Familie but this especially moued me that when any either of the ministry which know not neither haue read and also the simple which are acquainted by conference with the opinions of the Familie may hereby hereafter haue some light and skil both of the short propositiōs by me gathered
and also of diuers Reasons of the Familie beyng mere hereticall beyng set down in this end of the booke might hereafter when they shall here any of the Familie slide into any of these affirmations know whence such speaches haue bene learned and auoyde them gentle reader the Lord geue thée vnderstāding in all thinges and lighten all thy wayes by the candle of his word that the day star arising in thy hart thou maiest grow to a further knowledge of the Lord with a feruent desire to doe his will and to liue to learne and learne to lyue to tread the steppes of Gods sonne and to dye his seruaunt He this graunt vnto thée who hath geuen himselfe for thée to whome be eternall prayse power and glorye Amen Tim. 4. chap. 6. vers 87. YF thou put thy bretheren in remembraunce of these thinges thou shalt be a good Minister of Christ which hast bene nourished vp in the wordes of fayth and of good doctrine which thou hast continuallye followed But cast away profane and ould wiues Fables and exercise thy selfe vnto godlines So be it FINIS Cantic 2.15 Ezech. 13.4 Esay 5.1 Ionas 4.7 Math. 13.24.25 Act. 20.28 Heb. 13.17 Math. 24.24 Math. 13.25 Math. 7.15 1. Pet. 5.8 2. Cor. 11.14 The cause of heresie is want of preachyng Math. 22.29 Rom. 10.14 Esay 29.9 Ierem. 23.2 Zach. 11.17 Ierem. 50.6 Esay 56.10 Math. 15.14 HN. his heresie mingled of all heresies 2. Pet. 2.1.2 Iude. 12. Amos. 8.11.12 Math. 4.4 Prou. 29.18 First Edition pag. 606. A. Pag. 1605. * This Kempe is now liuing and is preacher in the Yle of wight and is by this popish priest slaūdered the sayd Kemp being a very Godly man read M. Fox his last booke pag. 1976. Where he rehearseth Kemps story at large M. Fox reporteth his most godly Christian doctrine Pag. 1976. a. Pag. 1530. H. Harte a peruerse heretique M. Fox pag. 1531. Predestination blasphemed by the Fam. Vitels doctrine in Queene Maries tyme at Colchester 1. Infantes not to be Baptised 2. Kyng Edwardes booke not Gods seruice 3. Christ not God. 4. The godly sinne not 5. The Pope no Antichrist Vitels denyed that Christ is God. Obiectiō of the Familie Aunswere Vitels some tymes an Arriā God graunt he now be sounde in that point Actes 8.24 Math. 26.75 Generaly HN. his Euangelye is to be mislyked for Odious comparison of the Fam. Fam. maketh Gods word hard to be vnderstode so doe the Papistes contrary to the scripture Prou. 8.8.9 Psalme 19.7.8 All without the Fam. fleshly and worldly minded Vntruth for the Prophet Esay and the rest are very eloquent All without the Fam. directed with dreames of mans fantasie No booke of any wrighter like HN. his Euangelye HN. his Euangelie in Exposition of darke figures in the Bible No learned mā in these dayes like HN. HN. a Papist Chap. 31. Chap. 31. sent 4 Christ what he is according to the Familie Antichrist nothing but sinne according to the Fam. Two kyndes of Gods worde after HN. his Familie Luke 16.28 A notable vntruth for HN. no where in his bookes doth wish mē to read the Scriptures Horrible blasphemie HN. his booke of Euangelie made equall with the word of God. Ephe. 5.21 1. Iohn 4.1 No man may iudge of doctrine but the Familye Louely Poetrie of the Familie Preface sent 2. Resurrection is appeared vnto HN. Law and Prophets all fulfilled in HN. his Loue day Preface sent 3. HN. taketh on him Iohn Baptistes office Sent. 4. HN. his writinges the Gospell Sent. 6. Cap. 1. sent 4. Libertie of Religion Chap. 2. sent 1. Fol. 4. Cap. 2. sent 1. Cap. 2. sent 11. Cap. 4. sent 1. Cap. 4. sent 4. HN. rayleth on the Ministers Preachers of Gods word Sent. 5. Onely HN. his Familie wise Sent. 15. Resurrectiō cōmeth to passe in HN. his new day Heresie sent 18. Cap. 5. sent 1. Cap. 8. sent 4.5.6.8 c. Cap. 9. sent 7. Cap. 13. sent 3. Cap. 13. sent 4. Cap. 19. sent 5. Sent. 11. Cap. 23. sent 2. Cap. 23. sent 2. Cap. 25. sent 6. Cap. 25. sent 6. Cap. 25. sent 6. Ibid. No dissembling is lawfull by HN. Sent. 10. All prophecies doe lead and end in HN. his Fam. Cap. 28. sent 4. HN. raileth vpon preachers Cap. 30. sen 5.6 HN. liketh of purgatorye Cap. 31. sent 1. HN. Fauoreth poperie Popish discipline good by HN. Cap. 31. sen 4. 7. Orders a Sacrament by HN. Sent. 5.7 The truth spred in all landes by the Pope sayth HN. Sent. 8. 10. 14. 17. 18. 19. Sent. 23. Cap. 32. sent 4. Cap. 33. sent 11. Cap. 34. sent 1. Blasphemye Cap. 35. sent 1. Cap. 35. sent 3. 4 5. 6. 7. Sent. 8. Resurrectiō passed already saith HN. Cap. 36. sent 13 Cap. 37. sent 1. and .14 and. cap. 38. sent 1.3 Cap. 4. sent 7. Scripture vildly abused by Allegories Nothyng commeth from HN. his perfect ones but perfection Perfection Christ after the flesh what Christ rooke no flesh the virgin but doctrine c. HN. his perfect ones not subiect to Gods worde alwayes Shrift Scripture vntruly Expounded 1. Cor. 15. cap. verses 50.53.54 Resurrectiō denied The Family wil haue all the whole man or nothyng at all Admission into the Familie Admissiō to the Familie with an othe Herodes oth in the Familie Why few Fambles returne frō HN. his doctrine Giltles of particular sinnes Antecedent HN. his argument that we may sinne Scriptures wrested Shrift HN. taketh to him that is proper to Christ Agge 2.7 Heb. 12.27 HN. 1. epist. cap. 1. sent 2. pub of the peac sent 14. Shrift worse then Popish Conference denyed HN. his holy bread dayly eaten at Tables Scripture wrested Sinnes forgiuen in the Familie onely Gay Rhetoricke of the Familie Docum sentences 1. Chap. sect 3.7 Bullenger agaynst the Anabaptistes 1. Cor. 16.14 Gal. 5.22 1. Cor. 13.4 1. Iohn 3.18 Math. 7.16 Luk. 6.44 Math. 12.34 Iohn 3.20 Fam. of Loue in the briefe rehearsall the title Bulling 1. boke chap. 8. leaf 18. a Cyp. de simpl August ad Crescon 2. boke 7. chapter Schismatiques who Num. 16.1 2. Cor. 1.12 Actes 20.28.29 30. verses Rom. 16.17.18 Fam. bred and brought vp among the Papistes Deut. 27.18 Math. 18.7 1. Cor. 11.19 Reuel 3.11 1. Tim. 3.15 Math. 24.5.24 1. Iohn 4.1 Ezech. 33.4 1. epist. cap. 2. sent 2.6 1. Exhor cap. 7. sent 38. leaf 16. Scripture abused Last day Euang. cap. 3. sent 3. Psal. 118.24 Ephes 4.4 Marc. 15.28 Iohn 20.30 Euang. praeface sent 2. Luke 24. c. Scriptures quoted in vaine Cyp. de simpl praelat August ad petrum dia. cap. 34 6 ▪ epist. 1. boke Cyp. ibid. throughout Iud. 6. vers 2. Pet. 2.4 1. Exhor cap. 12. sent 42. fol. 27. 1. Exhort cap. 20. sent 7. fol. 49 Dictata cap. 19. sent 3. Euang. praefac sent 6. cap. 23 sent 7. Euang. cap. 3. sent 3. fol. 4. HN. wresteth 3. Article of the Lordes Prayer Euang. cap. 24. sent 9. Iam. 4.3 Math.