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A77265	A mustur roll of the evill angels embatteld against S, Michael. Being a collection, according to the order of time, (throughout all the centuries) of the chiefe of the ancient heretikes, with their tenets, such as were condemned by generall councels. Faithfully collected out of the most authentike authors. / By R.B. Gent.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1655 (1655)	Wing B4272; Thomason E1549_2; ESTC R209469	17,054	97

true body nor soule of a man and thus he fulfilled the mystery of our Redemption Philaster Brixiensis VII BASILIDES Ann. 124. He taught 1. That Christ did not suffer or was crucified but Simon of Cyrene Euseb Caesariensis lib. 4. Hist Eccl. Cap. 8. and Aug. lib. de haeresibus 2. He turnd away men from suffering Martyrdom affirming that it was no sin to deny Christ in the time of persecution 3. That the Angells made 365 Heavens and that these Heavens made the world Aug. and Philast de Haeresibus Niceph. lib. 4. cap. 2. VIII GNOSTICI circ Ann. 129. These were the most vile Hereticks in filthinesse of all others Epiph. l. 2. Tom. 2. haeres 26. their tenets were 1. That the soule was made of the substance of God and that bruit beasts had reason as man hath 2. That there were two Gods a good God and an evill God and that this evill God was the Creator of all things Philast lib. de haeresibus Niceph. lib. 4. cap. 2. lib. 2. cap. 24. IX CARPOCRATES Hee lived at the same time with the Ghosticks and is said to bee the Author of their Heresies Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 24. He taught 1. That Christ was a meere man born of the seed of Joseph and not of the B. Virgin Mary That hee was a good man and that therfore after he was crucified his soule went up into Heaven but his body is still in the Grave Euseb Lib. 4. cap. 7. 2. He taught that the world was made by Angells 3. That there was no Resurrection Glossa in cap. 15. Leviti 4. He rejected the Old Testament as not Canonicall Scripture Aug. de heres Niceph. lib. 4. cap. 2. Philastrius and Tertul. X. CEDRON circ An. 144 taught 1. That there were two beginnings of al things a good God from whom came all good and an evill God from whom came all evill Hilarius li. 6 de Trinitate 2. That Christ was neither born of a woman nor had flesh neither did hee truely die and suffer but hee did seeme to die and suffer Aug. lib. de heres cap. 21 3. That the Law of Moses was evill and came from an evill beginning and this opinion was imbraced by his scholar Marcion as also by Manichaeus Tertul. ut supra Irenaeus lib. ● cap 28. XI VALENTINIUS circ An. 150. Affirmed 1. That Christ brought his flesh with him from Heaven and took no flesh of the B. Virgin but passed through her as water doth through a Conduit pipe Tertul. lib. contra Valentinianos 2 That ther are two beginnings of all things Profundum i. e. the deep and Silentium i. e. Silence these being married together had issue Understanding and Truth which brought forth three hundred Aeonas viz. thirty Ages or Angells and of the 130 Aeon were the Devill and others born who made the world Philast lib. de Haeresi bus XII MARCION Ann. Dom. 155. or thereabouts Was first a Stoick then a Christian he followed Basilides Cedron and Valentinius in their errors Policarpus called him Primo genitam Satanae i. e. The Devills eldest son 1. Hee Baptised them who died without Baptisme saying that S. Paul did will him so to doe 1 Cor. cap. 5 V. 29. Theophylact in com super locum 2. He taught that marriage was unlawfull and that it was a great sin to marry Hier. lib. 1 contra Jovinianum 1. That Cain the Sodomites and all wicked men were saved because they did meet Christ when hee descended into Hell but the Patriarches and Prophers are still in Hell for not meeting of Christ for they thought saith hee that Christ came to tempt them Iren. lib. 3 cap. 4. Ter. and alii XIII TATIANUS circ Ann. 173. Hee was of Syria and the Schollar of Justin Martyr and continued a good Christian as long as his master lived but after his death hee ran into many Heresies His Scholars were called Encratiae because of their continency 1. Hee held that Adam was damned 2. That it was not lawfull to eat the flesh of any creature for it came from the divell 3. He forbad marriage and drinking of Wine and said that the Divell was the Author of these also Irenaeus lib. 1 cap. 31. Clemens lib. 3. Strom. Epipha lib. 2. at the end of the third Tome XIV APPELLES about the yeare 178. 1. That Christ tooke not his flesh of his mother but of the elements the which hee restored to them again after his Resurrection and so hee went into Heaven without any body or flesh at all Euseb lib. 5. cap. 1● Aug. and Philast 2. He taught with other Heretikes that there were two Gods a good and a bad God But he did not teach that these two Gods were two beginnings but one beginning for the good God made the bad God and hee being bad made the world bad like himselfe Aug. de Haeresibus cap. 23. 3 He said that the Prophets did contradict one another in their Prophesies because some of them had the spirit of the good God and some of the bad Euseb lib. 5. hist Eccl. cap 12. 4 He put out these words i e Iohn cap. 4. ver 2 and 3. Quicunque spiritus profitetur Jesum Christum in carne venisse ex deo est c. i. e. Every spirit that Confesseth Iesus Christ to have come in flesh is of God c. For these words doe prove the incarnation of Christ and confute his first Heresie Niceph hist Eccl lib 4 cap 28. XV MONTANUS about the year 181. Affirmed 1 That he had the Holy Ghost and that the Apostles had not 2. He did baptise the dead 3. He did allow the first marriages but not the second and permitted them who were married to be seperated when they themselves would 4. He did take away Repentance affirming that sinners could never have their sins pardoned by Repentance 5. That the Apostles and Prophets understood not any thing that they had written but were Areptitii Euseb lib. 5. cap. 15. 18. Epipha Theodoretus Socrates Heretikes in the third Century XVI ELCHESITAE Anno Dom. 239 or ther abouts They had their name from Elohesae an Arabian they defended the same heresies with the Ebionites and said that it was no sin to deny Christ in the time of Persecution if then they did resolve in their Hearts that they would be constant in the faith of Christ for God say they doth regard more the Heart then the tongue Euseb Hist Eccl. lib. 6. cap. 18. XVII MELCHISEDECHIANI Ann. 240. They thought that Melchisedech was not a meer man but a Power of God greater then Christ because that Christ was of the order of Melchisedech Psa 110 ver 4 Aug lib de haeresibus et Epiph Haeres 55. XVIII NOVATUS and Novatiani circ Ann 250 They were also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e Puritanes for they thought themselves purer then others 1. They would not receive any into the Church after they had denyed Christ albeit they did repent Cyprian

A MUSTUR ROLL of the evill Angels embatteld against S Michael Being a Collection according to the order of Time throughout all the Centuries of the chiefe of the Ancient Heretikes with their Tenets such as were condemned by Generall Councels Faithfully collected out of the most Authentike Authors By R. B. Gent. Sil. Ital. Heu primaec scelerum causa Mortalitus aegris Naturam nescire Deum London Printed for WILLIAM SHEERS and are to be sold at his shop in S. Pauls Churchyard at the sign of the Bible 1655. The Errata PAg. 15. lin 21. read admired 50.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 52.2 Ecbert 55.16 this name Eliel after c. 60.10 Venus 113.7 tristitiam 121.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 145.9 it is 171.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 178.10 Timaeus 194.2 it self 197.6 Womens names in the Title of the 2d Book 203. ult which the Aegyptians worship as a God in the Sun 227.4 a measure or rule To Sir I. P. Baronet SIR I Send you heere an Assize Booke or rather a Treatise of Poysons to peruse which I had not given you the trouble had not your own commands obliged mee to it for what my memory faild me of in our last discourse upon this subject of Heretikes I have to comply with your desires turn'd over those few Treasuries of Common places wherewith my reading hath furnished mee And now you may behold the Locusts creeping out of the bottomlesse Pit in their orders and heare all their severall tones for I have according to the order of time given you the names of all the chiefe Heretikes with their positions throughout all the Centuries Here are none but such as were condemned by Generall or Oeconomicall Councels Nor is there any Author quoted that is not of a venerable name I might have inserted more of this deluded gang but when one followed another allready condemned and lick't but up his vomit I have omitted him for there is a kind of transmigration of Heresie which needs no proofe to such as live in this Age wherein her womb is more fruitfull of monsters then Affrick This Bedroll I submit to your judgement which is abundantly able to supply any defect you may finde therin Capitall Heretikes in the severall Centuries Heretikes in the first Century I. SIMON MAGUS An. Dom. 55. or thereabouts HE was a Samaritan borne Of him and his Sorcery and the great opinion the Samaritans had of him we read Act. cap. 8. verse 9. c. He was the Head and beginner of Heresie Euseb lib. 2. cap. 13. He affirmed 1. That he himselfe was the Father Son and Holy Ghost and that he was worshipped of all people by divers names 2. That Christ did suffer no hurt of the Jewes for hee was Christ S. Jeronym contra Lucifer 3. That any man might lie with any woman for this was no sin 4. That the world was made by Angels and that an Angel redeemed Mankind 5. Hee denied the Resurrection 6. He thought that the gifts of the Holy Ghost might bee bought with money Act. ch 8. vers 18. And therefore that sinne of him is called Simony II. CHRINTHUS about the yeere 69. He is said to be a Jew by birth he lived at the same time with Saint John the Evangelist Irenaeus lib. 3. cap. 3. He taught 1. That Jesus our Saviour had for his Parents Joseph and Mary and that at his Baptisme Christ descended on him who saith he is called the holy Ghost by whom hee did all his Miracles when Josus was to bee crucified of the Jewes then Christ left him and went up againe into Heaven Epiphanius Heresi 28. Hist Magdeburgens Cent. 1 lib. 2. cap. 5. 2 That Christs Kingdom after the Resurrection should be an earthly Kingdome and that men then should live in all fleshly lusts and pleasures together for a thousand yeares Euseb hist Eccles lib. 3 Eccl. Hist cap. 14. 3 He denyed the divine nature of Christ and said that he had onely a humane Nature and that he was not yet risen from the dead but he should rise hereafter Jrenaeus ut Supra 4 He affirmed that the old Law and all the old commandements and precepts belonging unto it were to be kept together with the new Law or Gospell and that therfore Circumcision was necessary for every one that would be saved Philastrius lib. de haeresibus III. EBION An. 80. or thereabouts He taught with Cerinthus 1. That Christ was but a meere Man Hilarius lib. 1. de Trinitate And therfore the Gospell of Saint John was written to confute him Hieronymus lib. de Eccles Scriptoribus 2. That when Iesus was thirtie yeares old there descended on him and dwelt in him another Person who was called Christ and thus Jesus and Christ dwelt and were united together Ireneus lib. 1. Cap. 25. and 26. Epiph. heres 30. Niceph. hist Eccl. lib. 3. cap. 13. 3 He agreed with Cerinthus in the rest of the Heresies touching Circumcision and keeping all the Law of Moses Epiph. Ireneus Niceph. ut supra IV. MENANDER Anno 81. or therabouts He was the schollar of Simon Magus and lived about the same time with Ebion and Cerinthus He held 1 That the world was made of Angells and that these Angells could be overcom by no meanes but by Art magick 2. He denyed Christ to be a true Man and 3 Affirmed himselfe to be the saviour of the world and that he came from Heaven to save mankind and that all who would be saved must be baptized in his Name Euseb lib. 3. cap 26. August lib. de haeresibus Niceph. lib. 3. cap 12. V NICHOLAS of Antiochia He was one of the seaven first Deacons Act. cap. 6. Ver. 5. He having a fair wife and being accused of being jealous of her gave leave to any that would lie with her Clemens Alexandr lib. 3. Strom. Others taking occasion of this fact of his thought it Lawfull for any man to have the company of any woman whom they themselves would like Against these men Saint John doth write in the Apocalips cap. 2 ver 6 Epiphanius saith that they taught Venery to be so necessary that those men who used it not every week on Fridaye could not bee saved Epiph. lib. 2 Tom. 2. heres 25. Of these Nicholaites S. August and Philastrius doe speake lib. de Haeresibus S. Jerom in epist de Fabiano lapso Niceph. lib. 3. Eccles. hist cap. 15. The English notes upon the prementioned 2. cap. of the Apoc. in the Remish Testament saith that this Nicholas was not onely thought to have taught community of wives but also that it was lawfull to eat of meates offered to Idols Idolothita Heretikes in the second Century VI. SATURNINU circ An. Dom. 1●8 He was borne at Antioch He held many opinions of Menander and Simon Magus 1. That the World was made of seven Angells without the knowledge of God the father Tertul. de Heresibus 2. That Christ was but the shaddow of a man for he had neither the

yet say they the Son of God was united unto the Son of man not substantially by communicating unto him his hypostasis or substance but accidentally by Habitation Vnion Operation and Participation By Habitation for the Eternall word or Son of God dwelt in the man Christ as in his Temple we find himselfe saying Dissolve this Temple and in three dayes I will rayse it Ioh. 2 19 wee have it prophesied of him Esa 7 14 They shall call his name Emmanuel i. e. God with us or God dwelling in us And his best beloved Historiographer records of him The word was made flesh and dwelt in us Ioh. 1.14 By Vnion not onely of his will but of his love also for the Son of Man was united both in his will and in his love unto the Son of God they did will and love alwayes the same things even as man and wife doe who do love one another By Operation for the Man Christ was alwayes the instrument which the Word or Son of God did use in the doing of all his great Miracles By Participation because the Son of God did give unto the Son of Man both his name and dignity for he would have him to be called both God and the Son of God and to bee adored of all his creatures not for his owne sake as he was the Son of Man but for his sake who was the Son of God and who did communicate unto him both his name and dignity Socrates lib. 7 cap. 32. Evagrius lib. 1 cap. 2 c. Theodoretus lib. 4 de haereticis fabulis XXIV EUTICHES and the Eutychiani An. 443. He was Abbot of Constantinople he with his associates maintained these Heresies 1. That in Christ after his incarnation there was and is but one Nature and this one Nature was made of his Divinity and his flesh by the turning of the Divinity into the flesh and this Divinity of Christ was borne suffered and was dead and buried 2. That the flesh of Christ is not of the same nature with our flesh neither was the Word or Son of God turned into true flesh but into flesh in shew and appearance only so that the word did rather faigne himselfe a Man who was borne and died then that he was borne and died indeed For say they it stood not with the Majesty and excellency of God to become true flesh or to bee borne to suffer and to die indeed and truth Flavianus in Epist ad Leo. Leo Papa in Epist ad Leo Imper. Theod. lib. 4 de Haereticis fabulis Evagrius lib. 1 cap. 9. lib. 2 cap. 4 16. alibi XXXV THEOPASCHITE An. 476. Petrus Gnaphaeus Bishop of Antiach was the author of this heresy Hee and his sect taught that God was crucified and by God they understood the whole Trinity Evangrius lib. 3 cap. 8 and 16. Theodoret in Collectaneis XX. MONOPHISITAE There were another sect of the Theopaschites called Monophisitae because they affirmed that there was but one Nature of the Word and his flesh after the ineffable Vnion therof which made them also say with the first sort that God suffered and was crucified Niceph. lib. 18. cap. 52. and 53. Heretikes in the sixt Century XXXVII APTHORDOCITAE Ann Do. 536 or thereabouts They were of opinion that the flesh of Christ tooke of the Blessed Virgin was incorruptible before his passion Wee say they carry about us by necessity of nature the affection of nature as Hunger Thirst Wearinesse Anguish and the like but Christ who suffered of his owne acord was not subject to the same Lawes of Nature with us Niceph. lib. 17. cap. 29. Greg. lib. 10 Epist 55. Heretikes in the seventh Century XXXVIII SERGIUS the Author of the Monothelites Anno 604. vel circ The author of the Monothelites he was Patriarch of Constantinople and taught that there were two wills in Christ a divine and an humane will before the Vnion of his natures but after the Vnion hee had but one will and one nature whence it came to passe that the Divinity suffered those things which did belong unto the humanity and the humanity did appropriate unto it those things which did belong unto the Divinity Niceph. Lib. 18 cap. 54. XXXIX SERGIUS the Master of Mahomet An. 630. vel circ Some contend that hee was the same with the former but whether hee were or not hee was author of two Heresies the Minothelites and the Mahumetans wherefore let him at least his name shall stand in the front of them both He was a monk he embraced the Heresie of Arius and Nestorius for which he was banished Hee comming into Arabia fell acquainted with Mahomet the false Prophet him hee taught to misinterpret many places both in the old and new Testament out of which false interpretations of theirs they did coine a new Religion which was neither wholly Christian nor wholly Jewish but was compounded of them both rejecting in both Religions those things which they disliked and this newest Religion is called Mahumetisme Pomponius Laetus Johan Baptista Egnatius Hee in Arabia among the Hagarenes and Saracens was both a King and a Prophet Hee denied the Trinity with Sabellinus he said it was ridiculous to thinke that Christ was God and therefore with Arrius and Eunomius hee taught him to be a creature and with Carpocrates to bee an holy Prophet Hee maintained with Cedron that it was impossible that God should have a son becaus he had no wife Hee denyed with the Manichies that Christ was crucified but saith he one was crucified in his place who was very like him With the Originists he wil have the Divels to be saved at the end of the world with the Anthropomorphites hee will have God to have the form and members of a man with Cerinthus hee places the chiefest felicity of man in bodily pleasures and with Ebion hee doth admit of Circumcision and with the Encratitae hee forbids the use of wine First hee saith that the Alcoran was made of the Holy Ghost and their sins shall never be forgiven who believe it not as also that Christians and Jewes who contradict it cannot be saved 2 In his Alcoran he maketh Friday his Sabboth day permitteth a man to have 2.3 or 4. wives forbiddeth the eating of swines flesh teacheth that beasts shall rise againe at the last day as well as men and that Baptisme is not necessary Circumciseth none before they be seven or eight yeers old 3. He denieth that the Eucharist is to be kept in remembrance of the death of Christ for Christ saith He was not put to Death but he affirmeth that this Eucharist is of God and that it hath great force to confirme those who receive it reverently in faith and good workes as also that they are damned who commit any great sin after the receiving of it Hee hath his religious men who preach and expound the Alcoran who are called Muphtii Cadii and Telemeani Mahomets Heaven The blessed Mahumetanes he saith