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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54528	Heresiography, or, A discription of the hereticks and sectaries of these latter times by E. Pagitt.	Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1645 (1645)	Wing P175; ESTC R2783	113,990	184

Eph. 1. 19. That we believe according to the working of his mighty power And 2 Thes. 1. 11. That God fulfilleth all the pleasure of his goodnesse and the worke of faith with power And 2 Pet. 1. 3. That Gods power hath given to us all things that pertaine to life and godlinesse 9. They teach that grace and free-will are co-partening causes joyntly concurring to the beginning of conversion and that grace doth not in the order of casuality goe before the action of the will That is that God doth effectually helpe mans will to conversion before the will of man moveth and determineth or setleth it selfe thereunto This doctrine was long since condemned by the ancient Church among the Pelagian Errors out of the Apostles Authority Romans 9. 16. It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy And 1 Cor. 4. 7. Who maketh thee to differ from another and what hast thou that thou didst not receive Item Phil. 2. 13. It is God which worketh in you both ●o will and to doe of his good pleasure 5. Error concerning the perseverance of the Saints 1. THey teach that the perseverance of the faithfull is not an effect of election nor any gift of God purchased by the death of Christ but that it is a condition of the new Covenant which is to be performed by mans part by his owne free will before his as they themselves speak peremptorily election and justification whereas the holy Scriptures testifie that it followeth election and is given to the Elect by vertue of Christ death resurrection and intercession Rom. 8. 32. He that spared not his owne Sonne but delivered him up for us how shall not he with him give us freely all things Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed yea or rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us who shall separate us from the love of Christ 2. They teach that God indeed furnisheth the faithfull man with sufficient strength to persevere and is ready to maint●i●e that strength in him if he himselfe be not wanting to his du●y yet not withstanding when as all abilities necessary unto perseverance and all things which God is pleased to use for the preservation of Faith once granted and set in readinesse that it still remaineth in the choyce and pleasure of mans will to performe or not This opinion is easily discovered to be an impe of Pelagi●nisme which whilst it strives to make man free maketh him sacrilegious contrary to the uniforme and pe●petuall consent of Evangelicall doctrine which quite strippeth a man of matter of boasting and ascribeth the glory of his benefit to Gods grace onely and contrary to the Apostle witnessing that it is God that shall confirme us unto the end that we may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 3. They teach that the regenerate and true beleevers not only may totally and finally fall from justifying saith as also from grace and salvation but that frequently also they indeed do fall from all these and perish everlastingly This opinion maketh the grace of justification and regeneration and Christs continuall custody voyd and of none effect contrary to the expresse words of St. Paul Rom. 5. 8. While we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us much more then being justified by his bloud we shall be saved from wrath through him And contrary to the Apostle St. Iohn 1 Joh. 3. 9. Whosoever is borne of God sinneth not for his seed remaineth in him neither can be sin because he is borne of God And also contrary to the word of our Saviour Iohn 10. 28 29. I give eternall life to my sheep and they shall never perish neither shall any plucke them out of my hand my Father which gave them me is greater then all and none is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand 4. They teach that the regenera●e and truely faithfull may sin the sin unto death or against the holy Ghost St. Iohn in his first Epistle Chapter 5. Verse 16. Having made mention of such as sinned unto death and forbidden to pray for them presently verse 16. addeth We know that whosoever is borne of God sinneth not to wit that kinde of sin but he that is begotten of God keepeth himselfe and that wicked one coucheth him not 5. They teach that no certainty of future perseverance ca● he had in this life without speciall revelation By this Doctrine the solid comfort of true beleevers in this life is quite taken away and the doctrine of doub●fulnesse ●●●ouched by the Papists is brought againe into the Church whereas the holy Scripture every whe●e draweth this assurance not from special and extraordinary revelation but from the proper markes and signes of Gods children and from the infallible promises made by God himselfe especially the Apostle Rom. 8. 39. No creature is able to separate us from the love of God which is in Iesus Christ. 1 Joh 3. 24. He that keepeth his Commadement dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that hee abideth in us even by the spirit which hee hath given us 6. They teach that the doctrine maintai●ing assurance and pers●verance and of salvation is of its own nature gift a soft pillow for the flesh and hurtfull to good manners godlinesse praying and other holy exercises and contrariwise that it is a true commendable thing to be doubtfull of such perseverance The opposers of this assurance do evidētly shew that they know not the powerfulnesse of Gods grace nor the operation of the holy Ghost dwelling in the heart and spare not to outface the Apostle Iohn affi●ming the contrary in expresse terms 1 Ioh 3. 2 3. Beloved now are we the sonnes of God and it doth not yet appeare what we shal be but we know that when he shal appeare we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is And every man that this hope in him purifieth himselfe even as he is pure They are also refuted by the examples of holy men both in the old and new Testament who though well assured of their own perseverance and salvation yet gave not over prayers and othe● exercises of godlinesse 7. They teach that the faith of those that beleeve but for a season differeth no from justifying and saving faith but onely in respect of continuance Christ himselfe manifestly puts Mat. 13. 20. Luke 8. 13. a three-fold disparison between temporisors and true beleevers saying that those receive the seed in a stony ground these in a good ground that is an honest and good heart these want root these have a fast root these are fruitlesse these bring forth their fruit with diversity of yeeld that with patience that is with constancy and perseverance 8. They teach that it is absurd that a man

Factions and true it is that almost everie one of them hath some peculiar toy or figment in their heads upon which they are divided and oft excommunicate one another 6. Of their manner of Re-baptizing and other Rites THey flock in great multitudes to their Jordans and both Sexes enter into the River and are dipt after their manner with a kinde of spell containing the heads of their erroneous tene●s and their ingaging themselves in their schismaticall covenants and combination of separation In the Thames and Rivers the Baptizer and the party baptized go both into the Rivers and the parties to be baptized are dipped or plunged under water They receive the holy Communion most unreverently sitting with their hats upon their heads For their Marriages they mary not in their Congregations but in private after this manner Barbara saith the Bridegroome wilt thou have me the brother of the Lord a man newly regenerate of water and of the holy Ghost are you of that Church whereof I am a member She answereth I am re-baptized God be praised and w●ll co-habite with no man but with a brother of the same faith to whom the Bridegroome replieth give me thy hand and give me a kisse and I take thee to wife both for ou● faith approved in Baptisme and because my spirit is exceeding enamoured of thee the Bride saying the same words the marriage is consummated For their spirituall marriage which is their promiscuous uncleaninesse They affirm those women sin grievously that ly● with their husbands that are not re-baptized because they are Gentiles but it to be no sin at all for them to lye with any man that hath bin re-baptized because the heavenly Father hath so cōmanded Gastius reporteth that a certain Mayd of modest behaviour who had dwelt with her Master honestly many years being seduced by the Anabaptists lived among them and after a moneth returned to see her old master who saluted her merrily after this manner why dost thou suffer thy selfe to be seduced by those impure knaves a woman having once lost her honesty what hath she left her The wench answered they told me that the heavenly Father commanded it and therefore I was most obed●en● in all things to all m●n and denied no man the duty of spirituall marriage that did require it Her Master answered fie upon thee bol● whore that doest not onely glory in thy great sinne but also accountest thy abominable wickednesse to be pleasing unto God! Thus they deceive the poor people they perswade simple women under pretence of Gods commandement that they cannot be saved except they prostiture their bodies to their brethren and play the ha●lots For this Community of women they had divers reasons worthy of Registring That Christians must renounce for Christs sake those things that they love best and are most deare unto them and therefore women must renounce their beloved honesty That so Christs sake wee must undergoe all manner of infamy That Publicans and Harlots shall enter Heaven before the Pharis●es and therefore common women before honest Matrons Again as we are all one spirit so we must be all one body again one faith one charitie For their manner of Ordination of their Ministers The Anabaptists are all Preachers every man at his pleasure taketh upon him to be the Lords Embassadour as Iohn Becold the Tayler of Leyden I ohn Matthias the Baker of Hartem and hence have our Coblers Shoomakers Ostlers c learnt to take upon them this divine calling of which the holy Ghost speaketh No man taketh this calling upon him except hee be sent of God For their learning they have none at all all Bookes they burnt in Munster but the Bible many of them can scarcely read yea Gastius affirmeth that many of their Preachers never saw a Bible For their places of assembling they doe not meet in Churches their going thither say they is like the going of the Heathen to their Idoll Temples but rather in woods and secret places and this rather in the night then in the day darknesse being fittest for their devotions In Munster they burnt the Church of St. Maurice and made Store-houses of others For their manner of preaching they please the common people well in preaching community of goods every man to bee alike exemption from paying of Rent Tribute and Tythes putting down of Magistrates and commonly they raile as if they were mad against the Reformed Preachers that go about to detect their Errors and teach them obedience They affirm Luther to be worse then the Pope and hate the Protestant Preachers more then the Popish Priests For miracles they can doe none except it be a miracle saith Gastius to make halfe-witted men starke mad or to make full Ambries soone emptie One of their Prophets pretended to do a great miracle viz. in the night time he caused to be put a great number of fishes into a soule puddle where the people used to wash horses and in the morning he called the people together and prophesied Thus saith the Lord cast nets into this puddle and you shall get good ●ish a thing incredible for never fish was seene there but at his command his Disciples cast a net and inclosed multitudes of fi●hes so that the net brake Thus the prophane Rascall saith my Authour would imitate the miracle of Christ and God in his anger gave efficacie of errour to that false miracle by which he deceived many 7. How Christian Princes have suppressed these Sectaries and especially how they have been punished in England AS you have heard of their detestable and blasphemous Errors so I purpose to speak a word or two of the severe punishments inflicted upon those wicked Sectaries Anabaptisme continued in Germany in its vigour not much above ten years they were destro●ed and suppressed by the Christian Princes and Magistrates at Frankhus there were slain about 5000 of them and 300 executed with Munter at Norinberg also a great number were slaine at Zuricke they drowned the● that were re-baptized at Vienna they did the like at Passom many were burnt and drowned in the Low Countries at Amsterd●m Leyden Hartsem and in all other places else they were everly punished Pontanus writeth of the destruction of ●50000 persons The Christian P●●ces and Magistrates never left burning drowning and destroying them till their remainder was contemptible a remnant of them came into England in two ships where they have lyen lurking They came hither about the year 1535. In the yeare 1538. ●e read of them in our Chronicles viz. upon the second day of November in the said year foure Anabaptists●are ●are fagots at Pauls Crosse and againe of the burning of two Dutch Anabaptists in Smithfield the 27th day of November Againe of two Dutch Anabaptists burnt in the high way beyond Southwarke leading to Newington Auno 1539. Againe upon Easter day 1575 of a Congregation of Dutch