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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

Therefore he doth so delude with that deceit 2. Whosoever shall teach and perswade that such as are baptized with the baptisme of the holy Ghost have from thenceforth nothing to doe with the Law nor with the baptisme of repentance which John preached but away with the Law and away with John Baptist from such a one doth herein pervert the straight way of the Lord not onely in denying the baptized with the baptisme of the holy Ghost the use of the Law of God to delight therein and serve the same in his minde as Paul saith Rom. 7. but also in rejecting the estate of a repentant broken contrite heart whereof the Prophet Esay speaketh saying Cast ye up cast ye up prepare the way take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity whose name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble Spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the hearts of the contrite ones Esay 57.14.15 The repentant contrite heart being it which the holy Ghost purgeth and cleanseth comforteth and reviveth daily and the baptisme of repentance and the baptisme of the holy Ghost being the parts of the new birth from above wherein he that is born anew walketh and goeth on daily weeping and yet rejoycing dying and yet living sowing in teares his pretious seed in an assured hope one day to reap in joy and come to a Citie and Kingdome promised But Mr. Randall doth so teach and perswade as is aforesaid Therefore he therein perverteth the straight way of the Lord as doth H. N. the Arch-Familist 3. Whosoever shall teach and perswade that the things spoken of by Paul 1 Cor. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57. are to be attained and fulfilled now in this present time in those that are baptized with the ho-Ghost doe thereby make Christ to be already come the second time to such without sin unto salvation according to Heb. 9.28 Death to be swallowed up in victory as 1 Cor. 15.54 according to Hosea 13.14 The sting of death which is sin to be quite taken away And all the great and eternall promises to bee already fulfilled in them and so destroy the hope of the Saints as touching the personall comming of Christ in his glory to judge the quick and the dead and of the resurrection of the bodies of the Saints and of the kingdome glory and life everlasting of body and loule hereafter to come which the Scriptures so much speak of and all the Saints assuredly look for But Mr. Randall as well as H. N. the oldest Familist doth so teach and perswade Therefore he as well as H. N. doth hereby destroy as much as in him lieth the hope of the Saints And so the whole charge is fully proved 4. Whosoever shall teach and affirme that every creature in the first estate of creation was God because they were made by the word of God doth therein teach and affirme a very erroneous and blasphemous thing But Mr. Randall doth so teach and affirme Therefore c. And although as I confesse he said mistake me not I doe not say the creature is the Creator neither doe I say Man is God that were blasphemy for man is vanity yea a lie yet did not Mr. Randall hereby contradict his first doctrine for if I should ask him and say Did God by his word make vanity or a lie No doubt he would answer and say No. What is that man then which hee calls a lie and vanity Doubtlesse he means man in his fall and so the creature though he denieth it to be the Creator yet he denieth it not to be God no more then he denieth the Word or Sonne of God to be God because he is not nor can be the Father This Mr. Randall counts not blasphemy but I affirme it is Neither because the Father the Word and the holy Ghost is one God are the Saints which are baptized with the holy Ghost therefore God also Neither because they have the holy Ghost dwelling in them doe they therefore know all things as God knoweth all things as Mr. Randall taught and affirmed according as H. N. hath done 5. Whosoever shall presume to turn the holy Writings and saying of Moses and the Prophets of Christ and his Apostles and the proper names persons and things mentioned and contained therein into allegories and give them out to be the mystery and spirituall meaning of the same The holy Ghost in the writings or sayings of Moses and the Prophets of Christ and his Apostles having not so done nor left any rule or direction for it doth therein presume above that which is written and so addeth to and taketh from the sayings writings and prophesies of the holy Scriptures and deceiveth the people themselves also being deceived But Mr. Randall as well as H. N. hath so done as by the Sermons of the one and the printed books of the other compared together may appear Therefore And so Sir not to mention every thing delivered by you against which just exception may be taken wee desire you to consider of these things and to give us your answer in writing And beleeve us we have not the least thought of raising persecution against you as you perhaps or some other may think nor of wronging you any kind of way onely our desire and end is that the truth may bee known unto us all and that we should not delude nor be deluded And so I rest your Christian friend John Etherington These were given to Mr. Randoll by the said Mr. Cullumbeam but hee returneth no answer nor will as some that are of his hearers and inward with him say as from himselfe And now to the end all men may see that Mr. Randall is not wronged in the forementioned charge I will here set down the own words of H.N. with his quotations as they stand printed in his book intituled The joyfull Message of the Kingdome As first in his Preface where he hath these words COnsider on the time O all yee people which love the truth of Jesu Christ Presently in this day of the love and of the appearing of the comming of our Lord Iesu Christ in the resurrection of the dead wherein the Law Esay 65. 1 Cor. 15. the Prophets and all what is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled And in Chap. 1. he hath these words H.N. Through the grace and mercy of God and through the holy Spirit of the love of Iesu Christ raised up by the highest God from the death Iohn 6. Act. 17. Eph. 2. Rom. 8. Ephes 4. Ioh. 14. Apoc. 21. Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 1. Ier. 33. 1 Cor. 13. Apoc. 14. Esay according to the providence of God and his promises anointed with the holy Ghost in the old age of the holy understanding of Iesu Christ Godded with God in the Spirit of his love made heire

with Christ in the heavenly goods of the riches of God illuminated in the Spirit with the heavenly truth the true light of the perfect being elected to a Minister of the gracious word which is now in the last time raised up by God according to his promises in the most holy services of God under the obedience of his love for to publish now in the last time out of the same grace and heartie mercifulnesse of God and through the same holy Spirit of the love of Iesu Christ good tidings or a joyfull message of the Kingdome of God unto all people c. And in Sentence 9. of the same chapter he hath these words Esay 3. Matth. 24.25 Iude 1. Esay 16. Acts 17. Zach. 8. FOr behold in this present day the glorious comming of the Lord Iesu Christ with the many thousands of his Saints be commeth manifested which hath set himselfe now upon the Seat of his majesty for to judge in this same day which the Lord hath ordained or appointed the whole world with equity and with faithfulnesse and truth according to his righteousnesse For that cause O all yee which dwell upon the earth feare now the Lord the most highest and give him alone all honour laud and praise for the day of his judgement is now come Apoc. 14. that it mought now in the same day of the true judgment of God and Christ Luke 22. become all fulfilled in Christ whatsoever is written of him Sentence 10. And in chap. 34. he having before from chap. 31. to this 34. spoken of the Catholick Church of Rome of the Pope Cardinals Bishops Priests Deacons Sextons Services Ceremonies c. and in great commendations of them for their time untill contentions arose about them saith here BVt the while now that the figurative Services and Ceremonies of the Christians flourished in their vigor and that the discordable minds out of the knowledge of the Scripture did daily increase to a more intangling with much contending and disputation of Christ and of his Services and Ceremonies And that many good willing hearts which had great hunger and thirst after the righteousnesse Matth. 5. searched the Scriptures for to understand the truth and will of God Exod. 3. Psal 9. and to live therein with great diligence and zeale and sighed and prayed unto God So bath God at last remembred the desolate hearts the sighings and prayers of the poore and for his chosen sake to the end that his truth and what his will is mought before all lovers of the truth Matth. 24. Abac. 3. Acts 13. Ioh. 6. Acts 17. Rom. 8. 1 Cor. 6. 2 Cor. 4. Ephes 2. Ezek. 37. Iohn 17. 2 Pet. 1. Iohn 14. 2 Cor. 6. Apoc 21. Psal 45. 89. Esay 16. Esay 2. Ioel 2. Acts 2. Gen. 2● Matth. 24. Apoc. 14. Psal 4. 68. Rom. 14. 2 Cor. 5. 2 Reg. 7. Psal 98. Esai 16. 32. 42. Ier. 23. 35. Acts 17. be made manifest or declared and the Scripture fulfilled shortned the dayes according to his promises and through the hearty mercifulnesse of his love wrought a great and wonderfull work upon earth out of his holy heaven and raised up me H. N. the least among the holy ones of God which lay altogether dead and without breath and life among the dead from the death and made me alive through Christ as also anointed me with his godly being manned himselfe with me and Godded me with him to a living Tabernacle or House for his dwelling and a seat of his Christ the seed of David to the end that his wonderfull works mought now in the last time be known the light of his glory with full clearnesse and instruction revealed and the comming of his Kingdome to an Evangelie of the same Kingdome and to the blessing of all generations of the earth published in all the world according to the Scriptures Behold and consider my beloved how wonderfully God worketh in his holy ones and how that in this day or light of the love the judgment seat of Christ is revealed and declared unto us out of heaven to a righteous judgement upon earth from the right hand of God And how that on the same judgment seat of Christ that the Scriptures mought be fulfilled there sitteth one now in truth in the habitation of David which judgeth uprightly thinketh upon equity and requireth righteousnesse Through him God will now in this day which he himselfe hath appointed or ordained thereunto judge the compasse of the earth with righteousnesse In which this same day or last time namely in the perfection of the works of God and in his righteous judgement the God of heaven hath now declared himselfe and his Christ together with all his Saints unto us his elect and also made a dwelling with as and brought even so unto us out of his holy Being the most holy of his true Taberncle with the fulnesse of his garnishing and spirituall heavenly riches to an everlasting fast standing Ierusalem and house for Gods dwelling according to the Scriptures The which is the very true undisturbable Kingdome full of all godly power joy and of all heavenly beautifulnesse wherein the laud of the Lord with fulnesse of the eternall life and lovely sweetnesse is sung from everlasting to everlasting And wherein all mindes of pure hearts doe dwel live and walk with freedome and Christian triumph in all love This great day light of the most high God hath presently in his righteous judgement shined about us c. Sent. 1 2 3 4 c. And in chap. 35 Sentence 8. these words Esay 26. Dan. 12. 4 Esdr 7. 1 Thess 4. Matth. 24 25. Luke 17. Acts 1. Matth. 24. Apoc. 14. BEhold in this present day is this Scripture fulfilled and accrrding to the testimony of the Scripture the raising up and the resurrection of the Lord dead c mmeth also to passe presently in this same day through the appearing of the comming of Christ in his majesty which resurrection of the dead seeing that the same is come unto us from Gods grace we do likewise in this present day to an Evangelie or joyfull message of the kingdome of God and Christ publish in all the world under the obedience of the love 9. In which resurrection of the dead God showeth unto us that the time is now fulfilled Esay 26. 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thess 4. that his dead or the dead which are fallen asleep in the Lord rise up in this day of his judgement and appeare unto us in godly glory which shall also from henceforth live in us everlastingly with Christ and reigne upon the earth wherein the Scripture becommeth fulfilled in this present day like as there standeth written thereof Deut. 32. The Lord shall judge his people c. And in chapter 38. Sentence 2. VVHerefore awake now all lift up your heads heare and see the wonderfull acts of God Matth. 24. Luk. 21. Cor. 15.

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