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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84134	A brief discovery of the blasphemous doctrine of familisme, first conceived and brought forth into the world by one Henry Nicolas of the Low Countries of Germany about an hundred years agoe; and now very boldly taught by one Mr. Randall, and sundry others in and about the citie of London. Whom multitudes of people follow, and which doctrine many embrace. The summe or briefe whereof is on the other side of the leafe set downe.	Etherington, John, fl. 1641-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing E3382; Thomason E277_11; ESTC R200007	13,969	16

Mahomet and his doctrine as there is for me or any Christian else to believe this Dutchman Henry Nicolas and his doctrine Although I confesse as touching my self I being in my youth zealously affected was very inquisitive into those severall sorts of Religions which I heard of then professed was as apt naturally as another to be seduced some way or other from the truth and had been but that the Lord of his goodnes he having of his free grace shewed mercy unto me in giving me repentance and forgiveness of my sins by the same grace kept me And as touching this of H. N. especially praised be the Lord I never had any the least inclination in my mind toward it but have always since the time that I first saw into it oppos'd the same as a very blasphemous deceit though I have bin by some very falsely charged with it And now because some may object and say the Scriptures speake plainly in some places of a perfection and resurrection and of an entrance into the rest of God and everlasting kingdom of Jesus Christ here in this present time as Mat. 19.21 Phil. 3.15 Joh. 5.25 Heb. 4 3. Rev. 20.5.6 Col. 2.12 3.1 2 Pet. 1.11 To this I answer and confesse it is true that in the Spirit the faithfull have through faith an entrance into the eternall rest of God kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ and so are risen from the dead and live and shall not come into condemnation soul nor body and this is called perfection the first resurrection renovation spirituall the first fruits of the Spirit c. but this is not the perfection nor the resurrection spoken of Joh. 5.28 Joh. 6.39.40 44. so Luk. 20.35 1 Cor. 15.32 1 Thes 4.16 Phil. 3.11 Heb. 6.1 Neither is this entrance into the rest of God and kingdome of the Lord Jesus Christ the full possession promised the Saints and which they look for But they presse hard toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus looking unto that which is before them and not casting off any of the principles or beginings of Christ as to say as Mr. Randall did away with this or away with that nay but only not to look upon them as if that were all but to leave and forget them in that respect as things behind and yet neverthelesse as Paul also saith whereunto we have already attained let us walk by one rule c. Phil. 3.16 The prize of the high calling being the full perfection and possession of all things promised even the Crown of righteousnesse concerning which Paul saith I have fought a good fight I have finished my course henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me in that day and not to me only but unto them also that love his appearing 2 Tim. 4.7 And although the very perfection of the Law of God be now required of the Snints and that they are to set the same before them as a perfect mark as well in respect of the Spiritual intent thereof as the literal to love and delight therein with their whole soule and to keep it in the very perfection not in part or for an hour or day but fully and continually yet do they not attain thereunto here nor can though D. G. one of the Doctors of Familisme before mentioned hath very much laboured to prove they may and can but they sigh and mourn and weep because of their sins and daily failings and would fain keep it perfectly this is the law of their mind through the spirit but they have another law in their members which leadeth them captive to the law of sin and of death and yet neverthelesse they crying out against themselves bewailing the same do assuredly believe that they shall be delivered from their body of sin and death as Paul saith Rom. 7. the sting of death which is sin shall be taken away and death swallowed up in victory when the Lord cometh as he also saith 1 Cor. 15. And as touching the coming of the Lord at the last day it is not to be understood in a mystical manner in the Spirit onely as H. N. would have it as if Christ had left or quite put off his humane person neither because Christ hath been is and will be with his Church and chosen people to the end of the world in respect of his Spirit according to his promise to instruct to guide and comfort them is the presence of his Spirit to be taken for this coming nor the instruction guidance comfort of the Spirit which the Apostle himself at that present time injoyed the resurrection he speaks of 1 Cor. 15. as H.N. and the teachers of Familisme would have it Nay but the Lords coming shall be in a most open manifest and glorious manner so as that every eye shall see him and all shall know him to be the very same man Jesus the Chiist that was crucified and pierced at Jerusalem he shall in person really and truly come as the cleer Words of the Scripture speak Matth. 24.30 Rev. 1.7 and sundry other places and this resurrection shall be also in a most plain and evident manner all that are in the graves shall hear his voyce and shall come forth and that truly and really as the Word saith Joh. 5.28 29. Then Abraham Isaac Jacob and all the holy Fathers before them and the holy children after them which sleep in the dust of the earth shall come forth out of their caves tombs graves and places where they have slept each bone of every one shall come to his bone and sinnes shall knit them together skin shall cover them breath shall enter into them and they shall live and stand upon their feet according as Ezekiel prophesied 37. and as Paul testifieth 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thes 4. and also Christ himself Rev. 20.12.13 14. And when the Lord Jesus Christ the Sonne of Man for so hee stileth himselfe shall indeed so come in his glory and all his holy Angels with him as he hath said Matth. 25. Then shall he sit in the Throne of his glory even in that Throne whereof he spoke unto David concerning him saying I will raise up thy seed after thee which shall bee of thy sonnes and I will establish his Kingdome and he shall build me an house and I will estabbish his throne for ever I will be his father and he shall be my son And I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it away from him that was before thee But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdome for ever and his throne shall bee established for evermore 1 Chron. 17.11 12 13 14. And again Once have I have I sworn by my Holinesse that I will not lie unto David his seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the Sunne before me it shall endure for ever as the

Thess 4. and have regard unto the sound of the last Trumpet and consider the forefrunt of the true Tabernacle of God wherein the beginning of the true God service and of the upright Christian life becometh erected c. So farre are H. N. his own words with his quotations in the Margine And that he makes the anointing or sanctification of the holy Ghost which he calleth the perfection holinesse and the Sabbath to be the Christ and the contrary anointing the nature of sinne and child of the Devill as he calls it to be the Antichrist which the Scripture speaketh of it is manifest by his owne words Chap. 18. and sundry other places of the book of his Evangely wherein also many other matters of the like nature all grounded on the forementioned principles are spoken by him too many for me here to relate Compare now the Sermons of Mr. Randall and those Doctrines of H. N. together and you shall see how Mr. Randall like a right disciple of H. N. followeth him therein And here you may see by the writings of H. N. before rehearsed in what an allegoricall and mysticall sense he expoundeth all those Scriptures which he coats in the margent making the coming of Christ in his glory and his sitting in the Throne of his glory spoken of Matth. 24.30 and 25.31 the day of judgement and sounding of the last trumpet spoken of also by Paul 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thes 4. the resurrection from the dead and every thing else in the same places mentioned the perfection the incorruption the salvation and all whatsoever the Scriptures have spoken concerning the everlasting kingdome and glory of Christ and his Saints now in this present day of H.N. and his family of love and in them and by them to become all fulfilled And now This being their very doctrine as their own words do plainly and often in their doubling kind of speaking declare it necessarily followeth that they who are fully possest with the belief thereof neither have nor can have the least hope or expectation of any other coming of Christ hereafter of a perfection of a resurrection of the body of an eternall life salvation glory rest peace paradise city kingdome to come And the case being so that their hope and happinesse is only here in this their new last day as they speak then it is best for them to rejoyce and be glad while their day lasteth and deck themselves here with Rose buds before they be withered to take their fill of pleasure as in youth to eat and drink for to morrow they shall die and all will be past And then what are all their pretended spirituall joyes but meere fancies A man that imbraceth all the pleasures that this world can afford and his carnall appetite shall desire is in as happy a case as they for if the body being dead shall rise and live no more nor the spirit after that have any sense of his being or felicity more then it had before the body was or can now remember or think of that it ever had which is also a point or consequence of their doctrine then Augustus Cesar that Pagan Emperor who lived and raigned so long in wealth and glory in pompe and pleasure was a happier man far then any of them And so all the great and glorious boastings of H.N. the high stile and manifold rare tiles he ascribeth to himself will prove to be no better then blasphemies against God and against Christ and against the Holy Ghost and all his sweet intising words of his Evangely and his pleasing Allegories though carrying never so fair a shew of godlinesse to be nothing else but meere inchantments to delude the minds and feed the fancies of people And what are all his threatnings and sentences of judegment and condemnation he pronounceth against those that reject his doctrine but a devillish device to feare the people himself being filled with the spirit of pride and high presumption Besides if there be no other resurrection nor salvation then what is now presently as H. N. saith then what condemnation is there other then what is also now presently and so when the body dieth condemnation endeth Therefore let all true faithfull Christians whose hope is not here in this life only but hereafter chiefly conclude against this H. N. otherwise Henry Nicolas that he was and is a lyer an Antichrist a blasphemer and so let him go And let Mr. Randall and all his hearers and followers take heed and before-warn'd in time and not begin to frame arguments in their minds and say It is not M. Randall and we only that teach and entertain this doctrine of H. N. there have been and are great Doctors of Divinity so called yea and some great Peers and Persons of quality and estate in this land as elsewhere that have taught and entertained the same with great affection and high applause I say let them not reason thus for although this be true as I my self do partly know having had speech with some of them forty yeeres ago and sundry times since and with one great person severall times who plainly professed the doctrine of H. N. and stood to maintain by argument that every creature is God and that there was not a resurrection of the body after the common death therof to be expected whereupon I hearing him and speaking with him said My Lord out of all doubt the whole doctrine of H.N. is a very blasphemous deceit and requested him to beware of it and did what I could to inform him in the truth which I knew and said H. N. doth admit and will have it that men may and shall have wives and children in his resurrection in a successive manner continually but Christ saith that they which shall be counted worthy of that world to come and of the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage to which hee suddenly replyed saying no they shall not marry nor be given in marriage they shall take them wives and I presently answered but Christ saith they shall be as the Angels in heaven whereunto he replyed not Now what of all this and that there have been Doctors aed others that have taught the doctrine of H. N. as one D. Everet one Shaw and at this present one D. Gill publikely in the midst of this city of London and one that went from hence to Redding D. Pordage who was in expectation of if he he hath not obtained the chief publike place there all whom I have both heard and spoken with and know that they have usually taught the same doctrine although this be so I say and that some of my own speciall acquaintance neer forty yeeres agoe fell unto the same yet is not all this a sufficient argument to perswade mee or any Christian else to entertain or believe the doctrine Nay there is as great reason in that kinde for the Turks and for Christians also to believe their