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A57667	Pansebeia, or, A view of all religions in the world with the severall church-governments from the creation, to these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.; Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1972_pt1; Wing R1944_pt2; ESTC R216906	502,923	690

from the Father and the Son not by way of Generation or Conception but of Eternal and Spiritual dilection he also taught that it was injustice to punish any man for opinions in Religion or Heresie The Whippers taught that whipping of themselves with rods full of knots and sharp pricks did more exp●●te and abolish sin then confession that this their voluntary whipping was before Martyrdom which was inflicted by outward force that now there was no use of the Gospel nor of the Baptisme of Water sith the Baptisme of Blood was better that holy water was ●●●ies●e that no man could be saved who did 〈…〉 himselfe They also held perjury lawful The 〈◊〉 whose author was one Hermannus Italus held community of Wives lawful which Doctrine they put in practise at their meetings to pray then putting out their l●ghts ●hey used promisc●ous copnlation and the children born of such commixtion they put to death They taught that all things amongst Christians should be in common that Magistracy did not consist with Christianity and that the Saints did not see God till the day of judgement Gerardus Sagarellus of Parma whose Disciples were named Pseud●-apostoli that is false Apostles because they bragged that they did imit●te the Apostles poverty therefore they would not take or keep money or reserve any thing for the next day he taught that to make vows or to swear at all was unlawful that marriages might be dissolved by such as would embrace their Religion and that they were the onely Christians they were enemies to Tythes and to Churches which for prayer they accounted no better then Hogs Styes Q. 7 What were the opinions in Religion the feurteenth Century A. The Beguardi who professed a Monastical life taught that we might attaine to as much perfection and beatitude in this life as in Heaven that all intellectual natures were blessed in themselves not in God that it was a sin to kisse a Woman but not to lie with her because nature inclined to this but not to that That perfect and spiritual men were freed from obedience to superiours from fasting praying and good works and that such men could not sin nor encrease in grace being perfect already They would have no reverence to be used in the Eucharist nor at all to receive it for that did argue imperfection The Beguinae professed the same Tenets and withal were against vows and voluntary poverty The Beguini taught that wealth consisted not with Evangelical perfection and therefore blamed Pope Iohn 22 for permitting the Franciscans to have corn in their barns and wine in their cellars They held that the state of Minorites was more perfect then that of Bishops that they were not bound to give an account of their faith when they were demanded by the Inquisitors and that the Pope had no power to dispense with Vows The Lolhards so called from Walter Lolhard their author held that Lucifer was injuriously thrust out of Heaven that Michael and the blessed Angels should be punished eternally that Lucifer should be saved that the blessed Virgin lost her Virginity after Christs birth and that God did neither see nor would punish sins committed under ground therefore they gave themselves to all uncleannesse in their vaults and caves Richardus Armacanus taught that voluntary poverty was unlawful and that priests could blesse and confer orders as well as Bishops One Ianovesi●s taught that in the year ●●60 on Whitsunday Antichrist would come who should pervert all Christians and should mark them in their Hands and Foreheads and then should be damned eternally and that all Iewes Saracens and Infidels who were seduced by Antichrist should after his destruction be converted to Christ but not the Christians that fell off from Christ. The Turelupini taught that we should not be ashamed of those members we have from nature and so like the Cynicks they gave themselves openly to all uncleannesse they held also that we were not to pray with our voice but with the heart onely Q. 8. What were the Tenets of the Wicklevits who lived in this Centurie A. They were so called from Iohn Wickliffe an Englishman and taught that the substance of bread and wine remained in the Sacrament that neither Priest nor Bishop remaining in any mortal sin could consecrate or ordain that the Mass had no ground in Scripture that outward confession was needlesse where there was true contrition that a wicked Pope had no power over the faithful that Clergy-men should have no possessions that none should be excommunicate by the Church but he who is first excommunicate by God that the Prelate who excommunicates a Clerk appealing to the King is a traitor● and so is he that being excommunicate refuseth to hear or to preach that Deacons and Priests may preach without authority of the Bishop that the King might invade the Churches Revenues that the people may punish their Kings that the Laity may detain or take away the Tyt●es that special prayers for any man were of no more force then general that religious orders were unlawful and that such should labour with their hands that it was a sin in Constantine and others to enrich the Church that the Church of Rome was Satans Syn●gogue they rejected also the Popes election by Cardinals Indulgences decretal Epistles the Popes excommunications and his supremacy they held also that Austin Benet and Bernard were damned for instituting religious orders that God ought to obey the Devil that he who gives almes to Monasteries should be excommunicate that they are Simoniacks who pray for their Parents or Benefactors that Bishops reserved to themselves the power of Ordination Confirmation and Consecration for lucres sake that Universities Degrees and Schools of Learning were hurtfull to the Church These and such like Tenets of Wickliff are let down in the Councel of Constance where they were condemned Other opinions are fathered upon him to wit that man had no free will that the sins of the Predestinate were venial but of the Reprobate all mortal that the Saints were not to be invocated nor their reliques kept nor the Crosse to be worshipped nor images to be placed in Churches they rejected also Vows Canonical hours Church-Musick Fasting Baptizing of Infants Benedictions Chrism and Episcopacy He held also that the Brother and sister might marry that every crea●ure may ●e called God because its perfection is in God Q. 9. What opinions were taught the fifteenth Century A. Iohn Hus of Bohemia publickly maintained the Doctrine of Waldus and Wickliffe and withal taught that Saint Peter was never head of the Church that the Church is onely of the predestinate that Saint Paul when he was a persecutor was not a member of Satan that the Divinity and the Humanity made up one Christ whereas the personal union consisted indeed not between the two Natures but between the Person of the Word and the Humane Nature That the Pope was subject to Cesar that the Pope

incredible how joyful he was at that newes out of an excessive thanksgiving to God putting off his shoes and casting his hat into the ay●e is and calling the living God to witnesse that he would live upon bread and water before he would discover and brand the authour of that opinion In the mean time some Prophets began to rise and keep a stirre hinting that he should be secured for that half year and that afterwards he should go abroad with one hundred forty and four thousand Prophets who should without any resistance reduce and bring the whole world under the subjection of their doctrine There was also● certain Prophetesse who should prophecy that this Hosman was Eli●● that Cornelius Polterman was Enoc● and that Strasburg was the new Ierusalem and she 〈◊〉 also dreamed that she had been in a great spacious Hal● wherein were many brethren and ●●sters fitting together whereinto a certain young man in shining appare● should enter having in his hand a golden Bow●e of rich Nect●● which he going about should taste to e●●●y one to whom having drunk it to the dregges there was none pretended to compare with him but onely Polterman Alas poor Melchior He having nothing yet made Master of a strong Tower did after the example of Esdras signify by letters that his Baptisme should be put off for two years longer untill Africk should b●ing forth another monster that should carry ha● in its horns There were many other dreams and some nocturnal pollutions which they attributed to heaven and thought such as should have been wri●●en in Cedar But it was Melchior's pleasure to think it a miserably happy kind of death to die voluntarily by pining and consuming away with hunger thirst and cold MELCHIOR RINCK Discipulos sic Rincke doo● Baptisma negare Sanguine carnifices et scelerare Manus THE CONTENTS MElchior Rinck an Anabaptist He is accounted a notable interpreter of dream●s and visions His disciple Thomas S●●cker in a waking dream cut off his brother Leonard's head pretending for his murther obedience to the decree of God MELCHIOR RINCK a most wonderfull 〈◊〉 was also a most extraordinary promoter of Anabaptisme and among his followers celebrated the festivals of it He made it 〈◊〉 businesse to extoll Anabaptisme above all others with those commendations which certainly i● wanted not Besides he was accounted no ordinary promoter and interpreter of dreames and visions which it was thought he could not performe without the special indulgence of God the Father nay he arrived to that esteem among the chiefest of his opinion and became so absolute●y possessed of their minds that his followers interpreted whatever was scattered abroad concerning dreames and visions to have proceeded from heavenly inspirations from God the Father Accordingly in Switzerland to omit other particulars at Sangall even at a full Concill his disciple Thomas Scucker being rapt into an Enthusiasme his Father and Mother then present and his Brother Leonard having by his command cast himself at his knees before him calls for a sword whereupon the parents and divers others running to know what was the cause and meaning of such an extravagant action he bid them not be troubled at all for that there should happen nothing but what should be according to th● will of God Of this waking dream did they all un●nimously expect the interpretation The for 〈◊〉 Thomas guilty alas of too much 〈◊〉 did in the presence of all those sleeping-waking ●pectators 〈◊〉 off his own Brothers head and having forgotten the use of water baptized him with his owne blood But what followed The Magistrate having sudden notice of it and th● offence b●ing fresh and horrid the Malefactor is dragg'd to prison by head and shoulders where he having long con●idered his action with himself professed he had therein obeyed the decrees of the Divine power These things did the unfortunate yeare one thousand five hundred twenty and seven see Here men may perceive in a most wicked and unjustifiable ●ction the eminent tracts of an implacable fury and madnesse which God of his infinite goodnesse and mercy avert from these times ADAM PASTOR Nomine qui Pastor tu Impostor moribus audis Qui â recto teneras Tramite ducis oues THE CONTENTS ADam Pastor a derider of Paedobaptisme He revived the Arrian heresie His foolish interpretation of that place Gen. 2. 17. so often confuted ADAM PASTOR a man born at a Village in Westphal●● was one of those who with the middle finger pointed at 〈…〉 that is to say looked upon it with indignation as a thing ridic●lous being of the same opinion in that businesse as Menno and Theodorus Philip but as to the incarnation of God he was of a quite contrary judgement For Menno held that Christ was something more worthy and more divine then the seed of a woman but our Adam stood upon it that he was lesse worthy then that of God so that he rowsed up the Arrian heresy which had lai● so long asleep as having been but too famous in the year three hundred twenty five For in a certain book of his whose title was OF GODS MERCIE he writ thus The most divine word which is the main considerable in our businesse is written in the second of Gen. v. 17. The day that ye shall eat of the fruit ye shall die the death This is that word which is made flesh John 1. Tea that God which is uncapable of suffering and impassible is made passible and he that was immortal is made mortal for he was crucified and died for our advantage To be brief he held that Christ was not to be accounted any thing but the hand the finger or the voice of God But although the opinion or Religion of this third but most unfaithful Pastor Adam wander out of the limits of divinity that it seem to be an ancient heresie containing nothing in it but what is childish trif●ing and meer foppery hath bin confuted brought ●o nothing by the most religious preachers of the word of God notwithstanding the barking of the viperous progeny of Arrius and Servetus yet he hath this in particular that he would have us look narrowly to his ●●●lication of the second of Genesis which he so commends where he foolishly and vainly endeavours to prove that the prohibition there is the word m●de flesh This monster did not only beget this sect but nursed it here are baites allu●ements and all the poisonable charmes imaginable that may cunningly seduce the best and most innocent of men But alas where is the free and indulgent promise of God of the seed of the woman which cuts the very throat of the Devill and tyes him in the strictest chaines where are his often promise● to Abraham to Isaac to Israel and to his old people confirmed by a League so solemnly made In thy seed all the earth shall be blessed And thou shalt be