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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57644	Apocalypsis, or, The revelation of certain notorious advancers of heresie wherein their visions and private revelations by dreams, are discovered to be most incredible blasphemies, and enthusiastical dotages : together with an account of their lives, actions and ends : whereunto are added the effigies of seventeen (who excelled the rest in rashness, impudence and lying) : done in copper plates / faithfully and impartially translated out of the Latine by J.D.	Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1945; ESTC R16929	56,554	106

He affirmed that he was Christ and the Messias the well-beloved Son of the Father in whom he was well pleased not born of blood nor of the flesh nor of the lust of man but of the holy Ghost and the spirit of Christ who vanishing hence long since according to the flesh and deposited hitherto in some place unknown to the Saints was now at length reinsused from heaven into David George 3. Hee held that hee onely was to bee worshipped as who should bring out the house of Israel and the true that is the professors of his doctrine tribe of Levi and the Tabernacle of the Lord not through miseries sufferings crosses as the Messias of the Jews did but with all meekness love and mercy in the spirit of Christ granted unto him from the Father which is in heaven 4. Hee approved himself to be invosted with the authority of Saving or condemning binding and loosing and that at the last day he should judge the twelve tribes of Israel 5. Hee further maintained that Jesus Christ was sent from the Father to take flesh upon him for this reason at least that by his doctrine and the use of his Sacraments men being as it were no better then children and uncapable of receiving the true doctrine might be kept within duty till the coming of David George who should advance a Doctrine that should bee most perfect and most effectuall should smooth out mankind and should consummate the knowledge of God and of his Son and what ever hath been said of him 6. But hee further affirmed That these things should not come to pass according to humane ceremonies but after a spirituall dispensation and after such a manner as had not 〈◊〉 ●eard of which yet none should be able to discern or comprehend but such as were worthy disciples of David George 7. To make good and prove all th●se things he wrested and mis-interpreted many places of the holy Scripture as if Christ and the Apostles whom he commends had intimated not themselves nor any other Ecclesiasticall times save only the coming of David George 8. And thence it was that hee argued thus If the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles bee most true and most effectuall for the obtaining of salvation the Church which they had by their doctrine built up and confirmed ●ould not possibly have been broken to pieces for as Christ himself testisieth against the true Church the gates of Hell shall not be able to prevaile But that building of Christ and his Apostles is overturned and pulled down to the very foundation by Antichrist as may be evidently seen in the Papacy according to the Testimony of the same Christ It therefore necessarily followes that the Doctrine of the Apostles is imperfect and interrupted whence he concluded his own doctrine and saith to be the onely solid and sufficient doctrine 9. Moreover he maintained himself to be greater than John Baptist yea then all the Saints that had gone before him for that the least in the Kingdome of God according to the suffrage of Truth it self is greater than John But he said David George was one whose kingdome was heavenly and most perfect whence he makes himself not only greater than John but also sets himself above Christ since that he was born of fl●sh and that himself was born of the spirit according to a heavenly manner 10. He further allowed with Christ that all sinnes committed against God the Father and against the Son may be forgiven but those that are committed against the Holy Ghost that is to say against David George shall be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come by which meanes it is apparant that he conceiv'd himself greater and higher than Christ admitting Christs own Testimony 11. He declared Polygamy to be free and lawfull for all even for those that are regenerated by the spirit of David George These hends without any brains did the Magistrate deliver to be carried to some that were in the prison to fish out what confession they would make who besides these being provoked and challenged by a number of Questions answered at last That this Davus I would say David George was the same who had embroyled the lower parts of Germany with so many tumults sedition but as that to that doctrine and the fore-recited Articles they unanimously affirmed that they had never heard nor read of any such things Neverthelesse they were to acknowledge the doctrine expressed in those Articles to be pestiferous execrable and derived not from heaven but from Hell and that it was heretical and to be banished with an eternal Anathe●a and withall as men miserably seduced yet desiring for the time to come to be reduced into the right way they were with good reason to implore forgiveness Among those that were in close prison there was one formerly of David's greatest confidents who confessed that indeed he had been infected with that Religion but that since by the illumination of the grace of God he discovered and detested the errors springing from it and avoided them as he would do a cockatrice But there were others who were civilly acquainted with this man who denied that they had known any such thing by him and cried out against the fore-mentioned Articles as impious and blasphemous These passages the Judges appointed by the Magistrate gave him an account of who perceiving that some that were in custody were not so extravagant but that they had some remainders of discretion left he sent to them some learned and able Preachers of the Word who having diligently weeded out the tares of their errors should sow into their hearts the saving seed of true faith Those who were sent ●i●ting them with all the humanity mildnesse meeknesse and charity possible could scrue nothing out of them more than what the Judges who had been emploied before had done In the mean time a report was spread about the City that it was not David George not any eminent person of any other name that had been buried but that a meer swine calf hee-goat haply an Asse had been carried out and buried and that the dead carkasse embalmed with the strongest spices was worshipped and adored with great devotion and religion But this was but a report and was not true Those that were in custody abhorring that doctrine as unheard of and such as deserved to be anathematized and desiring to renew their acquaintance with discretion and their sences are delivered out of those habitations of Iron which they had kept possession of for two months upon these conditions That none should make any purchases either within or near the City without the knowledge and consent of the Magistrate That they shall not entertain any coming out of the lower Provinces though of their kindred but at publick houses or Inns. That the printed books and writings that were translated into the Dutch language shall be brought into the Palace That there

of God and faithfull ●…ard of the Lords house that Prince and Captain Generall of the people of Israel one so much in favour with God that he was admitted to speak to him face to face was to be accounted no other than an Imposter He accounted the Patriarch Abraham and his seed too much given to Revenge and that he was most unjust and most malicious to his enemy The most glorious Church of Israel 't is the swine that loves the mire he esteemed no better than a Hogge-Sty and declared himself a sworn Prince of the Anabaptistical generation But keep o●● and approach not O all ye other Heresies and Hydra's of opinions of this one man furies not capable of expiation Being arrived at Geneva and being forbidden to spue out and spatter his pestiferous blasphemies he continued in hostility against all sharp but wholesome admonitions which Calvin that famous Minister of the Church perceiving being desirous to discharge the duty of a soul saving Pastor went friendly to Servetus in hopes to deliver him out of his most impious errors and horrible Heresie and so to redeem him out of the jawes of Hell and faithfully reproved him But he being dazzled with the brightnesse of Truth and overcome returned nothing to Calvin so well deserving of him but an intolerable obstinacie and inconvincible recapitulation of his blasphemies whence it came to passe that by the just and prudent Decree of the Senates of Bernen Zuring Basil and Scasfuse and by the righteous condemnation of the eternal God in the moneth of December in the year one thousand five hundred fifty and three or as Sleidan hath it in October he was how great is the obstinacy of blasphemy being at that time ecstarically hardened and intoxicated consecrated to the avenging flames ARRIUS Divisit Trini qui form●●●uminis ecce Dividitur membris Visceribusque suis THE CONTENTS Arrianisme its increase An●● 323. THe General Council at Nice Anno 325. called as a remedy against it but without successe The Arrians mis-interpret that place John 10. 30. concerning the Father and the Son They acknowledged one onely God in a Jud●icall sense They deny the Trinity Arrius his wretched death Anno 336. ABout the year of the Incarnation of the Son of God three hundred twenty and three Hell was deliver'd of a certain Priest at Alexandria named Arrius a man subtle beyond expression the trumpet of eloquence one that seemed to have been cut out for all honesty and elegance who yet with the poison of his Herefie and the 〈◊〉 cups of his distructive doctrine did in the time of Silvester Bishop of Rome and the Emperour Constantine draw in a manner all Christendome to his opinion and so corrupted some even great nations in the East that except a few Bishops who stood to the true doctrine none appeared against him To remedy this disease at Nice in Bithynia in the year three hundred twenty and five a generall Councill was called but to no purpose for the contagious stocks of Arrianisme were deeply rooted so that they were become such ravening wolves among the flock of Christ that all that would not embrace their beliefe were to expect banishment or death These imagined that the Sonne was not of an equall nature and coeternall with the Father but that he was onely agreeing and concurring with his Father to confirm which they alledged that place of John 10. 30. which sayes I and the Father are one and though they called the Sonne a great God yet they denied that he was a living and true God and co-essential with the Father They boasted that they were ready to answer all objections and acknowledged one onely God in a Judaical sense To that I and the Father are one they were used to retort thus Doth the unity in this place denote co-essencie It most therefore follow that it is as much where the Apostle sayes 1 Cor. 3. 8. He that planteth and he that watereth are one They accounted the word Trinity a laughing-stock and a Fiction that the Sonne of God was a Creature and that the Holy Ghost was both born of Christ and conceived and begotten of the Virgin Mary All that were baptized in the name of the blessed Trinity they baptized again They denied that Christ was the Sonne of God according to the Spirit and the Godhead they denied God his own Son While Arrius was disburthening himself of the necessities of Nature his bowels came forth and with them his life And so he who was the successor of those Arch-Hereticks Artemon who lived about the year of our Lord two hundred and Paulus Samosatenus who lived about two hundred forty one came to a miserable death in the year three hundred thirty six See Athanasius Epiphanius Hilarius Hierom Augustine Ambrose Basill Theoderet Eusebius Socrates Nicephorus Sozomen and other Ecclesiasticall writers who have treated of these things more at large MAMOMET Adsum Ingens Mahometes ●go lachrymabile mundi Prodigium omnigeni dux et origo mali THE CONTENTS MAMOMET characterized He made a laughing-stock of the Trinity He agreed with Carpocrates and other Hereticks He renewed Circumcision and to indulge his disciples he allowed them Polygamy c. His Iron Tombe at Mecca IN the year six hundred twenty two Honorius the fift being Bishop of Rome and Heraclius Caesar Emperour of the East a transcendent Arch-heretick called Mahomet exchanged Hell for earth a Prephet by Nation an Arabian but most deprav'd and corrupt He had sometimes been a Merchant extremely rich and withall very subtle to be short he was a serious professor of diabolical Arts a most ungodly instrument of Satan the Viceroy of Antichrist or his sworne fore-runner This man endeavoured to exoll his brother Arrius with such praises as are correspondent to his Heaven He also with Sabellio renewed the laughing-stock of the Trinity He with Arrius and Eunomius most fervently and contumeliously held that Christ was onely a Man and that he was onely called God secundum dici that is to say according to a certain manner of speaking He agrees with Carpocrates who denied that Christ was a God and a Prophet This is also he that shakes hands with Cerdonus who utterly abjur'd the Godhead of the Sonne or that he was co-substantial with Father He imagined with the Manichees that it was not Christ but some other that was sastened to the Crosse With the Donatists he contemned the purest Sacraments of the Church With the most impure Origen he affirmes that the devils shall be eternally saved according to an humane yet an invisible manner He with Cerinthus placed eternal Felicity in the lust of the flesh Circumcision that was long since abolished and antiquated he renewed Upon his dicisiples he bestowed the priviledges of Polygamy Concu●ines and Divorce as Moses had done and with such dreames and an imaginary Phrenly was the miserable wretch ever troubled This man