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nature_n	father_n	person_n	trinity_n	5,759	5	10.0629	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57644	Apocalypsis, or, The revelation of certain notorious advancers of heresie wherein their visions and private revelations by dreams, are discovered to be most incredible blasphemies, and enthusiastical dotages : together with an account of their lives, actions and ends : whereunto are added the effigies of seventeen (who excelled the rest in rashness, impudence and lying) : done in copper plates / faithfully and impartially translated out of the Latine by J.D.	Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1945; ESTC R16929	56,554	106

should be nothing published that were disconsonant to Christian Doctrine That children should be educated according to incorrupt manners That they should not make such promiscuous marriages among themselvs as they did That they should take no Dutch into their families That they should submit to amercements and pecuniary mulcts if any were inflicted on them as Citizens ought to do That upon a day assigned they should in the Parish Church in the presence of the whole congregation make a publick abjuration of the said Religion and condemn and anathematize the whole sect of it That they should hold no friendship or correspondence with any that shall persist in that Religion To these conditions did they promise to subscribe with all the reverence and gratitude they could possibly expresse These things being thus managed the most renowned Senate returning afresh to the business of the Arch Heretick passed these votes viz. That the doctrine of David George upon mature examination thereof was found impious and derogatory to the divine Majestie That the printed books and whatsoever may have seen the light should have the second light of the fire That he as the most infamous promoter of that execrable Sect and a most horrid blasphemer against God and Christ should not be accounted worthy Christian burial That he should be taken up out of his grave by the common Hangman and together with his books and all his writings and his manuscripts should according to the Ecclefiastical Canons be burnt in a solemn place According to the said judgment the carkasse being digged up was with all his writings whereof the greatest part was that truly miraculous book together with his effigies brought by the Hangman to the place of execution where having opened the dire●ul Coffin he being found not much disfigured nay so little that hee was known by diverse hee being covered with a watered garment having about him a most white sheet a very clean pillow under his he●d his yellowish Beard rendring him yet graceful to be short having a silk Cap on under which was a piece of red cloth and adorned with a garland of Rosemary was set up publickly to be seen and in the third year after his death was with his writings consecrated to Vulcan that is to say burned MICHAEL SERVETUS Omnia quum portenta voces hominemque Deumque Infandi SERVES nominis opprobium THE CONTENTS SERVETUS his converse with Mahumetans and Jewes He disguiseth his monstrous opinions with the Name of Christian Reformation The place of his birth At the 24 year of his age he boasted himself the onely Teacher and Seer of the world He in●eighed against the Deity of Christ Oecolampadius confutes his blasphemies and causeth him to be thrust out of the Church of Basil Servetus held but one person in the Godhead to be worshipped c. He held the Holy Ghost to be Nature His horrid blasphemy He would reconcile the Turkish Alcoran to Christian Religion He declares himself Prince of the Anabaptists At Geneva Calvin faithfully reproves Servetus but he continues obstinate Anno 1553 by the decrees of several Senates he was burned MICHAEL SERVETUS like another Simon Magus having conversed long among the Mahumetans and the Jewes and being excellently well furnished with their imaginous opinions begat both out of Divinity and the general treasury of Christian Religion a monstrous issue of opinions with the coition of what he had received from the extravagant Mahumelans and Thalmudists upon which b●at this instrument of Satan must needs bestow the disguised name of Christian Reformation From this Cocks egge were bred these Cockatrices Gonesus Gribaldus Blandratta Gentilis Alciatus Simanus Casanovius Menno and diverse other Anabaptistical Vipers who extreamly increased the restless waves of Sects and opinions We recommending the rest to their proper place Hell will take a more particular survey of one Religion and by the horridnesse of that guesse at the others This Servetus was a Spaniard born in the Kingdom of Arragon most unworthy both of his Name and Nation Being wrapt into a most incredible Enthusiasme he boldly lays his unwash'd hands upon holy divinity and at the four and twentieth year of his age boasted himself to be the onely Teacher and Seer of the world making it his main design and that by his impious and worthlesse writings to inveigh against the Deity of the Son of God with which writings being sufficiently furnished and withall enflamed with hopes of raising no ordinary tumults hee bestirrs himself winde and tide for Basil but Occolampadius an Ecclesiastical Doctor learnedly before a full Senate confuted the blasphemies of this man and by the publick Authority he had caused him as a poisonous blasphemer to be thrust out of the Church of Basil From thence he went to Venice where in regard the Venetians had been timely forewarned of him by the wise and learned Melancthon he made no harvest of his incredible blasphemies nor indeed was he permitted seed-time for them Religion is no where safe But having consulted with the Arch-hereticks his Predecessors and being bird-lim'd he held that there was but one person in the God-head to be worshipped and acknowledged which was revealed to mankind sometimes under one notion sometimes under another and that it was thus that those notions of Father Son and Holy Ghost were to be understood in the Scriptures Nay with the same line of his blasphemous mouth he affirmed that our Saviour Jesus Christ according to his humane nature was not the Sonne of God nor coeternall with the Father The Holy Ghost he granted to be nothing but that influence by which all things are moved which is called nature He most impiously Ironicall affirmed that to understand the word Person we must referre our selves to Comedies But the most horrid blasphemy of all was when by the suggestion of Satan he imagined that the most glorious and ever to be worshipped and adored Trinity who doth not tremble at it was most fitly compared to Cerberus the Porter of Hell-gate But he stayed not here no he thought it should be accounted nothing but a diabolicall phantasme the laughing-stock of Satan and the monsterous ●eryon whom the Poets by some strange mystery of Philosophy feigned to have three bodies O incredible and unheard of subtilty of blasphemy The most glorious name of the most blessed Trinity is grown so odious to this man that he would personate being the greatest that ever was all the Atheists that have quarrelled with that name Moreover he maintained that taking but away the onely Article of the Trinity the Turkish Alcoran might be easily reconciled to the Christian Religion and that by the joyning together of these two a great impediment would be removed yea that the pertinacious asserting of that Article had enraged to madnesse whole Countries and Provinces This abomination of God and men held that the Prophet Moses that great servant