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A02912	An advertisement or admonition, unto the congregations, vvhich men call the new fryelers in the lowe Countries, wrirten [sic] in Dutche. And publiched in Englis. VVherein is handled 4. principall pointes of religion. 1. That Christ tooke his flesh of Marie, haveing a true earthly, naturall bodie, 2. That a Sabbath or day of rest, is to be kept holy everie first day of the weeke. 3. That ther is no succession, nor privilege to persons in the holie thinges. 4. That magistracie, being an holy ordinance of God, debarreth not anie from being of the Church of Christ. After these followes certen demandes concerning Gods decree of salvation and condemnation.	Helwys, Thomas, 1550?-1616?	1611 (1611)	STC 13053; ESTC S116912	57,734	190

AN ADvertisement or admonition unto the Congregations vvhich men call the New Fryelers in the lowe Countries written in Dutche And Publiched in Englis VVherein is handled 4. Principall pointes of Religion 1. That Christ tooke his Flesh of Marie haveing a true earthly naturall bodie 2. That a Sabbath or day of rest is to be kept holy everie First day of the weeke 3. That ther is no Succession nor privilege to persons in the holie thinges 4. That Magistracie being an holy ordinance of God debarreth not anie from being of the Church of Christ After these followes certen demandes concerning Gods decree of salvation and condemnation Pro. 9.8 Rebuke the wyse and they will love thee Pro. 29.1 They that harden their neck vvhen they are rebuked shall suddenly be destroyed and cannot be cured Printed 1611. To Hans de Ries Reynier VVy-Brantson and the Congregations where of they are HAveing long desired to publish our Faith vnto this nation and in perticuler vnto those congregations wherof you are as wee have formerly done to our owne Nation and also to make knowne the thinges wherein you and wee differ and are opposite VVee have now through the mercie of God thus farr brought our desires to passe being onely vnsatisfied for our owne insufficiency that wee are no better able to manifest your errors unto you wee have divers causes from good grounds to do this wee have done First because we are bound to discover the misterie of iniquitie by all good meanes that wee can and in the cupp that she hath filled to vs to fill hir the duble Secondly that wee might through the grace of God if your willing minds be thereunto be instrumentes of good vnto you herein the rather because you haue bene instrumēts of good in discovering divers of our erors unto us which wee acknowledg to the praise of God with thāk full harts to you Now in that wee do this by way of opposition and reproofe publiquely wch you did by instruction privately for our defence herein wee answere you came publiquely amongst us and advanced your error of Succession and order From the proportion of the scriptures and have destroyed the faith of manie therbye who for sinister respect were willinge to followe you wee have d●ltt divers times with divers of yoe privately but you have lightly regarded our loveing admonitions esteeming all as nothinge wee have faced some of you goeing on in your sinne seeking to make this people one with you who are iustly cutt of From God and his people for their falling avvay from Grace VVe have writtē privately to the vvhole congregation you are of to prevent you in that evill vvee have vvritten particulerly unto you H. de R. but all is in vaine in that you esteeme the truth vvee professe and us herein as vaine Thus are wee constrained for the defence of the truth of God wee professe and that vvee may not seeme to justifie you in your evills and to make it knovvne unto all that vvee have good cause to differ From you to publish these thinges in this manner as vvee do and that it may appeare vnto all and to your consciences that vvee have stronge grounds for ch●● thinges vvherein vvee differ From you though vvee be vveake to the mainteynance of them If anie shal oppose part or all of that is Heere vvritten vvee d●●e this equal kindnes that it may be set over into ●lish For all our understandings as vvee have caused 〈◊〉 to be set over into dutch for all yours and if there because of Replye vvee vvill by the assistance of God 〈◊〉 were vvithall the abilyty vvherevvith God shall make us able Fare you vvell Peace and love vvith Faith From God and From our Lord Iesus Christ be with all ●m that are in Christ Iesus Amen Thomas Helvvys THe Holie vvriter Iohn in the second of the Revelation vvritinge to the Church of Pargamus one of the Seaven Churches in Asia vvriteth thus vers 14. I have a fevv thinges aganist thee because thou ●aist them there that mainteyne the doctrine of Baalam and Vers 15. Even soo haist thou also them that maintayne the doctrine of the Nicholaitanes vvhich thinge I hate And vvriting to the Church of Thyatira ver 20. he saith I have a fevv thinges against thee that thou sufferest the wooman Iesabell In all vvch the holy man of God teacheth this that it is great impietie for anie Church of Christ to suffer anie false Teachers or anie False doctrine to be mainteyned by anie that are amongst them and if they do and repent not the lord that hats wickednes asmuch now as ever vvill certenly come against them vvith the same iudgments there threatned in his vvord And there fore wee in love fore-warne you that professe your selves to be the Church of Christ and yet have heare us with patience so manie doctrines of devills professed and mainteyned amongst you that you repent least the Lord rise up in wrath against you vvee speake not by reports but of our ovvne knovvledg haveing heard vvith our owne eares and seene vvith our owne ●e●es the thinges vvhereof vvee shall by Gods assistance speake Of Christs Flesh The First matter wee will speake to you is wherein your iniquitie doth greatly abound that you have amongst you that deny Christ to have taken Flesh of Mary some holding that he brought it from heaven and some not knowing from whence hee brought it both w●ich destroy the Faith of Christ who are such as Thapostle 2. Pet. 2 1. Speaketh of which privily bring in damnable herisies even denying the Lord that hath bought them To say somethinge to the First that hold that he brought it from heaven that the grossnes of their black error may appeare The ground of scriptures testifie that that which is from heaven is heavenly therefore if Christ brought his Flesh from heaven thē he must have had a heavenly body in that there can come nothinge from heaven but that which is heavēly and Thapostle 1. Cor. 15. saith of heavenly bodyes They are glorious they are not weake but of power they are spirituall they are ●mortall Now in that Christs bodie was mortall and died it was not a heavenly glorious spi●ituall powerfull bodie but was an earthly naturall weake body and had the same infirmities that our bodies have sinne excepted as is shewed Heb. 4.15 For wee have not an high Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmeties but was in all thinges tempted in like sort yet without sinne as also Chap. 5.2 which is able sufficiently to have compassion on them that are ignorant a●d that are out of the way because that he also is compassed with infirmitie And his infirmities appeare in that he was hungrie Mat. 4 2. He was weary Ioh. 4.6 He was trobled and his soule was in great heavin● Mat. 14.33.34 And he confesteth his Flesh is weake Mat. 26.41 All these infirmieties nor anie infirmitie could not come from

and allowe of some that hold and mainteyne no faith concerning where Christ had his Flesh and so do you approve and mainteyne them in their sinne for whatsoever anie holds or mainteynes not of saith is sinne and to be ignorant of anie part of that the scriptures hath manifested is sinne and to determyne to remaine ignorant and so to continewe unto the end is death for without repentance anie one sinne is death as Thappostle Iames sheweth Iam. 2.10 VVho soever shall kepe the whole law and yet faileth in one point he is giltie of all Deceyve not simple soules then by noriushing them in their sinne which you do in saying it is not needfull to salvation to knowe whence Christ had his Flesh as though there were anie part of the law or gospell not needfull to salvation And if there be anie part of the law not needfull then Christ need not to have come to fulfill the whole law which he did as he saith Mat. 5.17 And if there be anie part of the gospel of salvation which Christ hath purchased with his blood Ephe. 1.13.14 not needfull to salvation then Christ hath purchased more then is needfull In the feare of God walke not thus by your owne inventions leading and suffering simple soules to walke in the waies of death and condemnation Of the day of rest The second is that manie among you and how farr you are all poluted wee knowe not but have great cause to feare do professe practice not to kepe the seaventh day a day of rest holy vnto the lord abolishing herein the law which was given in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assemblie and which was written in the Tables with the finger of God as is shewed Exod. 20.8.9.10.11 and Deut. ● 10 Of all wch whole law our saviour Christ saith Ma● 5 17.18 I am not come to distroy but to fulfill for truely I say vnto you till heaven and earth perish one jot● or one title of the law shall not scape till all thinge● be fulfilled not with standing all the spoken by God the father Iesus Christ his sonne manie of you with an high hand 〈◊〉 out and distroy one of these Ten Commandements written by the finger of God Exod. 34.28 and you will have but Nyne ren●g a sunder the law of God and casting away what is not pleasing vnto you Not holding the examples of the disciples of Christ a sufficient rule of direction for you who as is shewed Act. 20.7 and 1. Cor. 16.1 2. The first day of the weake came together to breake bread Vpon euery vvhich first day of the weeke when they were come together Paul ordeyned in the Churches that every one should lay aside for the necessitie of the Saincts that there might be no gathering when he came How will you be able to stand before the lord herein● H● hath established a law the which it is more easie that heaven and earth should passe away then that one title of the law should fall Iuc 16.17 And if you now be able to shewe which God forbid that anie should be so wicked as to enterp●ise that all these words spoken and written by God himself Remember the Sabath day to keepe it holy be no part jot nor tittle of this law then you have some cullor for the evill you practice and professe herein but dare anie moueth of blasphemy speake it or anie hand of blasphemy write it wee hope no why then give glory to God repent of this your sinne and pray the lord that if it be possible the thoughts of your harts the blasphemy of your mouethes and the wickednes of your hands may be forgiven you And sinne not as you do against God in turning away your feet from the Sabath of the lord and doeing your owne wills on his holy day wherein also you do wronge to man and beast to whome the lord hath in mercie given a speciall day of rest But yet further to shewe you that wich you shall never be able to annswere Our Sauiour Christ Mat. 24.20 speakeing of the distruction of Ierusalem which was to come to passe did long after his death saith Pray that your flight be not in the winter nor on the Sabath day sheweing vndenyably that ther should still remaine a speciall day of rest for the people of God to worship him on vpon which day Christs bidds them pray that their flight be not that they might not be forced to flie whē they should rest and worshipp God And if our Saviour Christ had ment that his disciples should have bene of your iudgment it had bene all one vpon what day their flight had bene God give you grace to see your great error herein that you may not still be hate full to God and men and Beasts And thus much of this except further occation be offered Omitting to shewe you all the confusion you bring into the Church when there shal be no day certen whereon the disciples ought to come together to edifie one an other to breake bread to pray and to gather for the Saincts if your rule be true which is as false as God is true they chuse whether they will come at all except you have authoritie to make a law to bind them which sure you have not from God even so do you confound hereby all due proceeding in the rule of admonition by the Church if there be no certen day when the Church are bound to meet But wee wi●l passe by this hopeing you will fall vnder the former ground and then you will easily see through the grace of God all these thinges and manie mo●e which accompanie that your error that do vtterly destroy all godlines Religion and the holy communion of Saincts Therefore repēt and forsake this your error for if you do thus distroy the lawe of God there can be no Religion of God in you Of Succession T● 〈…〉 your Leaders are 〈…〉 them that mainteyne a Succession and that 〈…〉 and you will have all 〈…〉 and tongues to come to you and 〈…〉 Ordinances of Christ and 〈…〉 administer in the holy 〈…〉 to you and 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 power and all the holy 〈…〉 with the man of sinne 〈…〉 called o● God and 〈…〉 vnder the 〈…〉 vnder the 〈…〉 Rom. 3.1.2 〈…〉 because 〈…〉 of God 〈…〉 your 〈…〉 manner of way 〈…〉 of credit to 〈…〉 but 〈…〉 confess● 〈…〉 and the 〈…〉 vnto 〈…〉 proceed from 〈…〉 Ierusalem 〈…〉 call your 〈…〉 you and 〈…〉 do to your 〈…〉 them to it and to them everlasting distruction in so d●ing and suffering them selves to be to dra●n Thus then 〈…〉 speake of the heavenly 〈…〉 And 〈◊〉 people shall 〈…〉 vp to the mountaine of the 〈◊〉 to the 〈…〉 of the God of 〈…〉 will 〈…〉 S●on and 〈…〉 manner speaketh 〈…〉 ●rd shall send the 〈…〉 these Prophecies 〈…〉 〈…〉 become 〈…〉 you this 〈…〉 〈◊〉 taught the 〈…〉 when he said 〈…〉 word of