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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	eternal_a	holy_a	son_n	7,025	5	5.5036	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29224	Capitall hereticks, or, The evill angels embattel'd against St. Michael being a collection according to the order of time ... of the chief of the antient hereticks, with their tenets, such as were condemned by general councels / by R.B.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4257; ESTC R30240	17,382	96

Adamite and renewed the form●r Heresie of the Adamites hee at his first comming into Bohemia did draw great multitudes of men and women after him whom hee commanded to goe naked and these hee called Adamites th●se hee perswaded that hee was the son of God and willed to call him Adam This Adam was content that his Adamites should have the company of what men and women they would so that first his consent was obtained If a man were in love with any woman he came with her hand in hand unto Adam and said I am in love with this woman then said Adam take her unto thee goe together increase and multiply And because Adam and Eve were naked before they sinned therfore they goe naked and for that Adam did not know Eve untill he had sinned th●rfore they account it a sin to marry and are perswaded that Marriage had never been if Adam had never sinned They celebrate their Sacraments naked and man and Woman accompany together naked and they think as the old Adamites did that their Church is Paradise Aeneas Silvius in lib. 4. de ori●gine Bohemorum cap. 41. Heretiks in the sixteenth Century XLVII ANABAPTISTS An. 1522. About this time saith Sleiden speaking of these Anabaptists there was a sect of certain men who said that they had talked with God and that hee had commanded them to kill all wicked men that only good and godly men might live and governe the world Of these Anabaptists there were many kinds and all of th●m pr●f●sse such D●ctrine as is neither to be endur●d in the Church or Common-wealth or in the government of the household First Anabaptisticall Articles not to bee suffer●d in the Church are ● That Christ did not assume the flesh of the Virgin Mary but brought it with him from Heaven ● That Christ is not true God but that hee is the b●st of all Saints because hee received more gift of the Holy Ghost then they 4. That 〈◊〉 unbaptis●d are no sinners in the sight of God but are just and innocent and by this their innocency th●y are saved without Baptisme 5. That infants are not to be ●aptis●d untill they have reason and di●creti●n for the childr●n of Chr●stians are holy wit●out B●ptisme and the children of God 6. That that is no true Chr●stian C●urch in which any sinners are to be found Lastly that no s●rmons are to b●e heard in those Churches wherein Pop●sh Masse hath beene Secondly Anabaptisticall Articles ●ot to bee 〈◊〉 in the Commo● w●alth are 1. That the Office of the Magistrate pleaseth not God neither can any Christian with a safe conscience be a Mag●strate neither ought any subj●ct to implore the aid of the Magistrate for his defence 2. That a Christian may not safely use any oath at all neither ought any subject to ta●e any oath of all●ag●a●ce unto his Prince nor sweare or promise any ●ealty or obedience 3. That the Magistrates living in the time of the New Testament may not with a safe conscience put to death or punish any Malefactors Lastly Anabaptisticall articles not to bee suffered in the Oeconomy o● houshold government 1. That a God●y man may not with a saf● Conscience have any goods of his owne but whatsoev●r goods he hath he must make them common 2. That a Chr●stian man may not be a victualler nor a M●rchant n●r make any w●apons 3. That it is lawfull to divorce the hus●and and the wi●e if they be not of the same Religion and to mary them unto any other Persons that doe not discent from them in Religion Lib concordiae Sleidan Schluss●lburgius To● 2. XLVIII GASPER 〈◊〉 his disciples Anno. 1527 Hee came of a Noble family in 〈◊〉 and was a man of good 〈◊〉 before hee fe●l i●t● these H●resies 1. That the outward Ministry of the word is not nec●ssary neither doth outward Baptisme further regeneration neither in the Lords Supp●r are the body and bloud of Christ exhibited in the bread and wine 2. That the human nature of Chr●st is no cr●ature but after his resurrection was every way 〈◊〉 unto his divine nature 3 That the Ministry of a vicious Pri●st or Minist●r is not ●ff●ctuall unto the salvation of his Auditory all●●it h●e preacheth n●ver so w●ll ●r administreth the Sacraments according to the institution of Christ Lib. Concordiae Bucolcerus a●d Schluss●l●urgus Tom. 10. XLIX The new SAMOSATENIANS An. 1532. The Author of this sect was Michael 〈◊〉 his followers were Georgius Bla●drata Fransiscus David and many others in Transilvania their opinion is compounded of many ancient 〈…〉 1. In God there is no distinction of persons Serve● lib. 5 Trin. p●g 189 ministri Transilvani lib. 2. cap. 4. and this was the 〈…〉 Sabellius Samosatenus a●d many others ut supra 2. Christ before his incarnation was nothing but an idea in the mind of God Serve● lib. 3 〈◊〉 pag. 92 and this was likewise taught by Cerinthus and E●ion Irenaeus lib. 1 cap. 2● and 26 as also by Samosa●enus 〈◊〉 Heres. 44 and 45. 3. The Divinity that Christ hath was communicated unto him by God not by eternall generation but by the u●ction of Grace and by inhabitation and thus Christ may bee called God but he is a made God and hee is a temporall but no eternall God Blandrata disput. 6. Alba ministri Hungarici lib. 2. cap. 7 and this was part of the Heresie of Nestorius as wee may see in Theodoret. lib. 4 here fabula●um and in other Heretikes ut supra L. The new ARRIANS Ann. 1534. or thereabouts These came from Valentius Gentilis who was one of the schollars of Servetus they taught 1. That there are three eternall spirits the Father Son and Holy Ghost which differ in number and essence Val G●ntilis P●othesi 20 and 23 and this is also recorded by Aretius in his history of the punishment of Val. Gentilis This was the opinion of the Hereticks called Peratae in Theodoret. lib. 1 cap. 18. haereticarum fabularum and of Iohan●s Philoponus the Heretike Niceph lib. 18. cap. 48. 2. They taught that these three Persons were not equall but that the father was far above the other two so that he might be called Essentiator and the other two Essentiati i. e. he that had his essence of hims●lfe alone and the other their ●ssence from him Gen●ilis lib. Antido●o 3. f●l 26. wher he saith that it is the property of the Father to be called the one only God And so the new Triheites went from 〈…〉 A●rius for Arrius was the first that Taught that the fath●r was l●sse then the sonne Epip● haeres 69. 3. They say that the Son of God was not of nothing neither that he was begotten in time but from all eternitie of the substance of his father Gent. Prothes 11 12. And this was the opinion of the New Arians in Austins time The later Arrians granted that the Son was eternall with the father albeit Arius was of another mind Aug● lib. 6. Trin. cap. 1. lib. 1. T●init Maximus doth conf●sse as Aug there saith that the son was not of nothing but was begotten of the substance of his fath●r And this was the judgement of the Councell held at Ariminum● c. Post-Script AND now Sir I could wish that these Heretikes survived only in Paper but alas they are all lived over againe though they seeme not at this res●ssitation to have so bright ●scendants as ●t their birth for then many approved Wits and persons of r●verend name ●ere given over to believe these lies now few besides narr●ow indigested souls ●un after them a providence that promises they will the sooner find their graves for the vulgar are still as covetous of novelty as of your com●●ands is Sir Your most humble Servant R. B. FINIS