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A10910	[The displaying of an horrible secte of grosse and wicked heretiques, naming themselues the family of loue with the liues of their authours and what doctrine they teach in corners. Newly set foorth by I.R. Whereunto is added certeine letters sent from the same family mainteyning their opinions, which letters are aunswered by the same J.R.]	Rogers, John, fl. 1560-1580.; Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.	1579 (1579)	STC 21182; ESTC S100037	92,004	238

in the loue which in playne tearmes is to growe to perfection and to be without sinne which they affirme in this life to be brought to passe If this be good doctrine then the holie Scripture is contrarie 1. Iohn first Chapter If we say we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues and there is no truth in vs. Likewise Paule Rom. 8. verse 20. The creature is subiect to vanity not of his owne will but by reason of him that subdued it vnder sinne To the Galathi Chapter 5. verse 17. The flesh Iusteth against the spirite and the spirite against the fleshe continually These are contraries the one to the other so that ye cannot doe the same thinges that ye would And Almightie God did pronounce vpō man at the beginning this saying God sawe that the wickednes of mans heart was great and all the imaginations and thoughtes of his heart were euill continually Gen. Chapter 6. verse 5. The whole scope of the holie Scripture doth proue that God hath shut vp all vnder sinne Now if H. N. or his Il luminate Elders will still auouch that they are without sinne then may I as truly aledge y they are without christ Let the terrible example of Sharpe and Allin moue you to cōsider how desperat a doctrine you imbrace whose souden deaths without any comfort in Christ may remaine as an example to all posteritie For the Author of this errour is Satan who in a desperate state leaueth his pupils For it was pride that caused almightie GOD to execute his iudgement vpon him his state béeing angelical so likewise he séeketh to bring man into the same destruction by the same meanes through pride and presumption that we are pure without sinne and so exalting our selues we might haue the swifter damnation For Almightie God hath cast our condition state so lowe that without his mercie set foorth by Christe we all perishe as is witnessed by Paule * God hath included vs vnder sinne * Also both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne as it is writtē There is none righteous no not one c. We are neuer so néere vnto our God as when we féele our sinne as a burthen or heauie loade lying vppon our conscience nor neuer further off then when we féele or testifie that we are without sinne which persuasion Sathan doth féede our humours withall contrarie to the holie Scripture Therfore I conclude that this principle to liue in this life without sinne is méerely the suggestion of Sathan and not of the spirite of god Christ Iesus came into the worlde to saue sinners And againe I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentaunce If Henrie Nicholas and his Illuminate Elders be now without sinn Christe came not for to saue them * For there is none other name vnder heauen giuen to men by which we shal be saued but Christ Iesus Therefore manifestly it appeareth that H. N. and his Illuminat Elders are clean excluded and haue no néede of Christe for his office and death doeth properly belong to sinners then consequently not to them Therefore ye nouices of the Family which sée not into what daunger Christopher Vittell H. N. doeth miserably bring your troubled mindes looke wel betimes espye their subtiltie leaue the doctrine which is without comfort and hath no warrant in the holie scripture forsake those péeuish and darke riddles of H. N. and cleaue vnto the holie scripture leaue the phantasies of H. N. and his scholler Vittell and by little and little ye shall espie their craft and subtiltie how they set vp them selues and not Christ Iesus how they teach false doctrine which dare not abide the light nor they are not able to defend and yet persuade you in corners that it is the spirite of God by whiche they speake How gréeuous ye are vnto the Church of GOD may appeare by the trauell which is taken for your sakes what offence ye giue what stumbling blockes ye are vnto the simple whome ye ought not to offend no not the least let your conscience beare witnesse * It is necessarie that offences come but woe bee vnto them by whome they come Know this for certeine without the Arke there is no saluation except ye abide in the vine Christe ye bring foorth no fruite ye cannot serue two maisters béeing so contrarie If ye cleaue to H. N. and his doctrine ye haue no parte nor fellowshippe with Christe Iesus for H. N. destroyeth the office of Christe our Lorde and taketh away the comfort of his Gospel in stéede whereof he placeth his vpright fréedome with a perfection in this life suche as the holie Scripture alloweth not For our battell is continuall and shall neuer haue end vntill our flesh be dissolued and we at rest in Christe If we must atteine to suche perfection in this life as H. N. sheweth then our Sauiour Christe did in vaine teache vs to pray continually Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue c. Also Leade vs not into temptation Which petitions are without effect if his doctrine be true Therefore as ye loue your own soules beware of his doctrine examine it better acknowledge Christ Iesus and his Gospell and leaue the drowsie dreames of a doting Dutchman and the erronious spirite of Christopher Vittell arude and vnlearned Ioyner And although they boast neuer so much of the spirite yet vse the counsell of the holie Ghost Beleeue not euerie spirite but trie y spirit whether he be of God. Think not within your selues that they cannot erre it is a priuiledge not giuen to mortal man but only to our immortall God. God is true and all men are liers Beléeue not that his Bookes are written by the spirite of God for God is not contrarie to himselfe the doctrine of H. N. is manifest contrarie to God the doctrine published by Christ in his gospel If ye continue in the Family of H. N. ye denie Christ. We may not hold of Paule or Apollo for they were not crucified for vs we are counted Christs friendes if we doe those things that he commaundth What haue we to d●e with H. N. or his commaundementes ▪ Deceiue not ●our selues with your pretenced the we of a holie life but confesse with the Prophet Dauid Psalme 130. If thou Lorde shouldest looke straightly vpon sinnes Lorde who should abide it ▪ Euen the hol●est y euer were being ●arthly men haue néede to call vppon God in this manner with the beloued Prophet Dauid If you imagine that your workes do helpe or profite you to saluation ye are with the Pelagians and Papistes demers of the grace of God in Christe our Lord in which doctrine of merite there is no comfort nor consolation If ye continue still in the Family of H. N. there is neither hope nor helpe for you Christes sacraments you conte●ine which are to vs the seales and cognisances of our redemption and tokens of his couenant and promise Ye haue forsaken the

what man soeuer God thus dwelleth it may be well verified God dwelleth in him if God dwell in him then the contrarie can not remaine in the same bodie God is pure and will not dwell in a corrupt vessell Two contraries can not be in one place Christ and Beliall can not dwell in one temple Light and darknes can not be together That man y hath God thus dwelling in him may be called Godded or god dwelling in him so y by this reason man is God ded with God and God Hominified in man This their Rabbynes or Illuminat Elders do teach and whatsoeuer this Godded man doth speake thinke or do it cannot be euill neither may be so iudged by any What vain doctrine this is may wel appeare euen in it self yet I was long acquainted much trauelled in y matter before I could get this great mysterie opened vnto me which y yong ones in the Familie can not explicat except he come vnto the state of an illuminate Elder And as I haue before proceeded so you shal sée the authour H. N. vtter his owne words whereby no suspicion shall arise that I haue spoken that I can not proue H. N. in the dialogue Chapter 16. diuision 16. It becommeth not that any should take in hand to teach but onely the illuminat Elders in the Familie of Loue whiche haue receiued the worde of life from the liuing GOD and are euen so through the same Godded with God or incorporated to God with whome also God in one being and power of his spirite is hominified or become man Therfore it is assuredly al false and lyes seducing and deceitfull what the vngodded or vnilluminat men out of the imagination of their knowledge and out of their learnednesse of the scriptures bring forth institute preach or teache They preache in deede the letter but no● the word of the liuing god Let them esteem them selues as holy as they will they are a false Christianitie and diuelishe Synagogue or schole ▪ Now maist thou perceiue how this H. N. estéemeth all preachers and teachers that are not thus Godded or thus illuminate In déede I confesse that without the spirite of GOD which his children be partakers of we can not sée nor perceiue the mysteries conteined in his worde muche lesse declare the same to others But that we must be Godded with God because the scriptures vse no such phrases neither hath any writer before vs in Gods church vsed any such proud spéeches I thinke with the Author they are to be reiected in that sence that he meaneth For béeing thus Godded or illuminate he standeth vpon his tiptoes and saith H. N. out of the prophesie Chap. 3. Although ye dissemble with me and how craftily so euer ye couer you before me yet are neuerthelesse all the counsels and falshoods of your hearts manifest before mee and so much the more naked and bare before the eyes of my heart and spitite If these words do not proue H. N. to be a wicked deceiuer let the indifferent Reader iudge He affirmeth that the secretes of our hearts are knowen vnto him which knowledge perteineth only vnto the Lord our God For he is witnessed by the holy scripture to be the searcher of the hearte and reignes of man. Thus how H. N. teacheth his family that he is Godded with God I haue described the rather because it is one of y chéef mysteries secrets of their schoole which verie fewe do vnderstand except the illuminate Elders who also are Deified or Godded till they doe growe vnto the manly oldenesse in the loue as they vse to speake These blasphemies doe require a longer discourse then my simplicitie is able to atteine vnto but I hope Almightie GOD will rayse vppe vnto his Churche some good man who will take some paines learnedly to confute this horrible doctrine In the mean season these briefes I haue set downe mindinge to let some of the Family sée the vanitie of their Authourand his doctrine howe contrarie to the Scriptures of God they be In the Booke of H. N. intituled Euangēlium Regni The Gospell of the kingdome which is a title that none of Gods children durst euer giue vnto any of their Bookes and in déede it is another Gospell then that which is conteined in the Newe Testament of our Sauiour Christe How ▪ H. N. aduaimceth the Pope and his Cardinals doeth man●●estly appeare in the 13. Chapter of the same Booke ▪ The Apostle Paule did arme Gods children a forehand to beware of suche as should bring vnto vs another gospel yea although he were an Angell it is also ●●●●ifled that our aduersarie doeth transforme himselfe into an Angell of light to deceiue Gods childrē if it were possible ▪ Euen so H. N. in all his writinges how doth he transforme himself to be deified with God God in him to be Hominified Which in plain 〈◊〉 are y he is made euen as God God in him is become man ▪ which is horti●●e blasphemie For we haue the spirite of God by participation and not Deified For that belonged to Christ our Lorde who as S. Paule witnesseth thought it no robberie to be equal with god No man would suppose that in this great light where Christ Iesus and his glorious Gospell doth shine that such dotinges and dreames of men possessed with a fantasticall spirite could take any déepe roote in the heartes of men but alas we sée y there is no errour bee it neuer so absurd senselesse y hath not many fauourers this hath the more for that the Authour H. N. teacheth that an outwarde shewe of a holie life doth chéefely please God when as without faith our life and works are impietie and wickednesse and you shal neuer in all the writings of H. N. that I haue read heare him aduance or once speake of our faith in Christ Iesus but he doth raunge from matter to matter in his writings so obscurely and darkly that he thinketh neuer to be espied what his scope of doctrine is which in déed is not so plainly set forth in his smal treatises as they are in a booke intituled Speculū iustitiae The glasse of righteousnesse vnto which booke the authour doth still referre his reader to be fully certified of which booke they make suche bragges that all the world is not able to control the doctrine contained in the same and still their Elders do beare their pupils in hande that the booke shall be published From day to day great collections haue bene made and sent into Flanders there aboute but hitherto all in vaine Yet I haue talked with some of the Familie that hath read certain fragments of the same booke and they say no man can resist the spirite which the authour doth shewe foorth in that booke They thinke it is long lacking but I suppose it will neuer be missing Howe vainely they boast of such bookes is well verified in one of the Familie who speaking vnto a man of