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A15388	A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue with the exposition of Theophilus, a supposed elder in the sayd Familye vpon the same articles. By William Wilkinson Maister of Artes and student of diuinitye. Hereunto are prefixed by the right reuerend Father in God I.Y. Byshop of Rochester, certaine notes collected out of their Gospell, and aunswered by the Fam. By the author, a description of the tyme, places, authors, and manner of spreading the same: of their liues, and wrestyng of Scriptures: with notes in the end how to know an heretique.	Wilkinson, William, d. 1613.; Young, John, 1534?-1605.; Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1579 (1579)	STC 25665; ESTC S101312	139,324	194

founde whatsoeuer doth disquiet the buildyng vppe of Sion that we may keepe the spirit of vnitie in the bonde of peace and be but one folde vnder the shepheard Iesus Christ our Lord who blesse your Lordshyp with the fulnes of all spirituall blessinges to the honour of his name and profite of his Churche Amen Cambridge September 30. Anno. 1579. Your Lordshyps most humbly bounden William Wilkinson ¶ To the godly and Christian Reader Peace from God the Father and our Lord Iesus Christ THat which aunciēt writers and learned men reporte to be the singular commendation and especiall prayse of a good Historiographer gētle Reader to cōceale nothyng of the truth for feare or to vtter any vntruth for for euill will neither yet to flatter or claw for fauour that same me thinkes is necessarily to be required of all those whiche take in hand to testifie of any matter whatsoeuer For els how should we possibly looke for truth of those men whose myndes are wedded to affections whose handes and pennes are let out for lucre and toungues let loose to testifie an vntruth who are wholy blinded with disdayne and beyng egged on with euill will haue set them selues to sale committyng whatsoeuer is vnhonest with vnsatiable greadines Cōcernyng my selfe in simplicitie of hart I testifie and solēnely protest before the whole world calling God to witnesse whom I know to be a sharpe reuenger and seuere iudge agaynst those which abuse his blessed name to any vntruth agaynst myne owne soule if in this treatise I haue vttered ought for enuie or malice of those people against whose opinions my whole stile and writyng is especially directed I haue truely quoted rightly alledged and faythfully as I am hable reported whatsoeuer I haue either heard by word or read by writyng concernyng the errour of those men who terme themselues to be of the Familie of loue Whiche I haue the rather done beyng thereto required by that dutie that I owe vnto the Churche of Christ whiche is the felowshyp of the faythfull and societie of the Saintes of God ▪ as also beyng by a Christian Magistrate thereunto cōmaunded I could not chuse I say but I needes must testifie the truth of that whiche both I haue heard and sene which also I am ready at any tyme to auouch before any person beyng called thereunto either priuately or openly Wherein also I haue not sayd so much as I might truely and could iustly hauyng refrayned for their sakes especially which are my very frendes beyng somewhat ouertaken with the lime of that secte and are bewitched with the blyndnesse of those vnsauery opinions Concernyng my further knowledge in that Heresie I referre thee good reader vnto that which ensueth most humbly beseeching thee to blesse and further me with thy most feruent prayers as I hartly desire the promotion and furtheraunce of Gods true Religion the encrease of a true fayth in the feare of God the quietnesse of our English Church and the vtter ruine and abolishyng of all Papistry Atheisme and Hereticall sectes and Schismes whatsoeuer Cambridge Septemb. 30. Readyng certaine bookes of H.N. and conferring with certaine of that Louely Fam. I was by them requested to set downe vnto them in writyng for my further instruction those doubtes whiche either by meanes of the vnusualnesse of their Methode in writing the noueltie of their farre fetched phrases there wrong and wrested Allegories there Diuinitie not heard of or their rough ●ottyng stile I did not vnderstand I deliuered vnto them in the moneth of August 1578. those Articles which follow hereafter in this booke and desiryng earnestly to be fully satisfied in that behalfe I receiued the aunswere deliuered to the common carrier in London whiche beyng intercepted by my worshypfull frend came not into my handes vntill the third of Aprill last past Anno. 1579. The aunswere whiche I shall set downe if first I shall geue you to vnderstand what I can testifie concernyng them and their Fathers of their monstruous Hereticall opinions ¶ A brief view of the heresies and errours of HN. conteined and confuted in this treatise by pag. as herein they are to be found 1. Article HN. sayth we haue no Church 2. 2. Article HN. sayth we haue no truth 5. 3. Article HN. sayth we haue no Baptisme 11. 4. Article HN. sayth we haue no forgeuenes of sins 12. 5. Article HN. sayth we haue no Ministrie 13. 6. Article Of beyng vnited and Godded with God. 15. 7. Article What HN. sayth of him selfe and his extraordinary callyng Wherein is declared agaynst the Familie that first he was D. George his Scholer secondly he is one of the heretiques whereof Christ and his Apostles did foretell thirdly HN. agréeth with the old heretiques in sundry their heresies and opinions 20. 8. Article What is necessarily required in HN. his Disciple 34. 9. Article Of HN. his Reuelations 44. 10. Artic. Of shrift vsed in HN. his Familie 49. 11. Artic. HN. misliketh the Preachyng of the word and what he termeth it 51. 12. Artic. HN. his Iudgement of Preachers not admitted by his Familie 56. 13. Artic. HN. sayth it is lawfull for one of his Familie to dissemble 61. 14. Artic. HN. maketh God the Author of sinne and the sinner guiltes 63. 22. Articles of the Libertines 66. Theophilus Proofes confuted whereby he proueth HN. his doctrine is the truth 67. ¶ With a brief token how to know an Anabaptist gathered out of Zuinglius Bullinger and Caluin whiche declare the opinions and behauiour of Heretickes from tyme to tyme. ❧ A very brief and true description of the first springing vp of the Heresie termed The Familie of Loue which conteineth the places where and the parties by whom the sayd Heresie was broached WHo● as long tyme the singular mercy and leuitie of the Lorde in the happy dayes of good kyng Edward the vj. a Prince of blessed remembraunce was by the carnall profession of many and loo●e lyfe of the greatest part abused in the end by Gods ●●st scourge ouer England it came to passe which alwayes ensueth the contempt of so precious pearles that Amos long before Prophesied of the Epicures of Israell there followed a greuous famine not onely of bread for the comfortyng and susteinyng of the outward man but also the foode of the soule whereby our lyfe to Godward is prolonged was taken away And it was a very daungerous thyng to confesse Christ openly not onely for feare of Excommunication but for daunger of the losse of lyfe also And so farre had the Prince of darkenesse confirmed his kyngdome of ignoraunce in this worthy Iseland that the worshyppers which worshypped in spirite and truth durst not openly assemble themselues for feare of the Tyrānous hatred of the Scribes and Pharisies the rest of the oiled broode of the Popishe Sinagogue They were compelled secretly to meete in priuate houses so fearefull a thyng was it for fleshe bloud to abyde the extreme fury of the Romish Baalamites which

beginning the Libertines bouldly reiected the scriptures they tauntingly scoffing at either of the Apostles sought to weaken their credite that thereby they might the more magnifie their owne authoritye they termed S. Paule a broken vessell S. Peter a forswearer of his Maister S. Iohn a sely young man S. Mathew an vsurer neither were they ashamed to blaspheme them openly But afterwardes when the Libertines perceiued that all men abhorred them for those their vncomely speaches they deuised more slyly and iustly to behaue themselues and saying then that they reiected no scripture they did writh it into allegories and wrested it into wonderfull straunge interpretations In the ordering of their discples they folow altogether the Manichies neither come they commonly abroad that they may the better be knowen nor tell any man what they thinke but kéepe them lōg in doubt by farre fetched circūstaunces they winde in them whome they desire to make their disciples neither doe they tell the watchworde of their mighty assemblies to any man before they perceiue they haue so bewitched him that they may easely perswade them whatsoeuer they list Their secrets they open onely vnto those which first are sworne vnto them the chiefe Rabbies doe alwayes kéepe backe some especial pointes of their doctrine wherby they may the better maintaine the opinion that their hangbyes haue of them Quintinus the Archlibertine and other of his fellowes of botchers were made doctors and so chaunged their calling the reason was they faine would liue daintely and idlely neither thought they that they were fit to labour The Libertines bookes were written in such a lofty stile that hardly they could be vnderstode One of the chefest pointes of their doctrine was that they ought to vse a certaine crafty kinde of dissembling coūterfeiting that they may easely deceiue the simple They think they may lawfully runne to Idol seruice They are not content with the simple sence of the Scripture but they writh it vnto Allegories neither will they kéepe them to the letter for they say the letler killeth They affirmed that euery one of the children of God are Christes and Quintinus the chiefe heretique being asked how he did aunswered how can Christ doe amisse They say that regeneration is the restoring of the estate wherein Adam was placed before his fall They make an Allego of the history of Adam Gen. 3. Adams innocencie say they is nothing els but this not to be able to iudge betwene black and white ▪ Yf they sée any mā stroock with a feare of Gods iudgement oh hast thou yet say they a tast of the Apple They surely hold these 3. principles the first there is no Arte in the world which they do not allow of although God haue condemned it in his word as for example They thinke that the Popish priesthode is good Quintinus being at the Masse of a certaine Cardinall affirmed that he saw the glory of God there Secondly they affirme that the abuses and corruptiōs wherewith the world is infected is no harme Thirdly they affirmed that all mans inclinatiō whēcsoeuer it come be it from corrupt nature or euil custome is it is euery mans calling The bookes which M. Caluin sawe of the Libertines 1. AN instruction and wholesome admonition how we should liue in this world and be patient in aduersitye 2. The Glasse of Christians ¶ Out of M. Zuinglius agaynst the Catabaptistes THe Catabaptistes cry God the truth the word the light the spirit holynes c. not onely mighty but if hypocrisie were not worthy and excellent were their speaches In what vice soeuer they are takē be it adulterie māslaughter theft c. they aunswere I haue not sinned for I am not any more in the flesh but in the spirite I am dead vnto the flesh and the flesh vnto me Those that take part with the Gospell they rayle worse on them then on the Papistes They spread abroad their bookes in the hāds of their disciples boasting euery where that they could so cōfute Zuinglius that they would make him haue neuer a word to say Their Captaines beyng franticke and brainesick men complained to the Ministers that they could not lyue among the wicked and therfore would they separate thēselues frō the Church because that in their cōmon assēbly and Church there were many that were openly wicked They rayled vpō the Baptisme of infants sayd that it is a great abhominatiō come frō the deuill the Pope They say they will proue their doctrine by sheddyng their bloud whē as they cā not proue it by the scriptures They rayled on the Ministers and sayd that the Ministers hated them because they founde fault with their euill lyfe They sayd no man was Gods child but they which fulfilled the law and wrought righteousnes They boasted much of the spirite when they had no Scripture and vnder the pretence of the spirite they wrought much filthynes They prophecied domes day should be on the Ascention day two yeares after They held fréewill They reiect the authoritie of the old Testament They bragge of the certainety of knowledge in doctrine without the word and say We are thus certified from God. They say there is no Sacrament of the Lordes Supper without their congregation Those which are not of their sect are abhominable before God neither can they doe any thyng that is not abbomination They must in this lyfe depart from all euill and those that be vngodly for proofe they quote Apo. ¶ They make three sectes videl Romanistes Papistes Protestauntes halfe Papistes Anabaptistes perfect Christians When they haue drawne any mā vnto their sect they straitly charge him not to come at the table with him that is not of their faction neither at the Sermons of any man that is an enemy to their sect They boast perfection They haue aunsweres reueiled vnto them All that are not of their owne sect they say that they are infidels They say that the dead sléepe both in soule and body till the day of Iudgement They affirme that both the deuil and the wicked shal be saued They deny that Christ is Gods sonne by nature ¶ Out of Zuinglius THe reason wherefore gentle Reader I haue out of these thrée excellent learned men gathered the particular opinions of these heretiques was not that I thinke the Familie of Loue to be culpable in all those pointes which I haue set down although I dare auouch the most of these errours out of HN. his writynges and other the letters writynges of the Familie but this especially moued me that when any either of the ministry which know not neither haue read and also the simple which are acquainted by conference with the opinions of the Familie may hereby hereafter haue some light and skil both of the short propositiōs by me gathered

waxed so heate and such dayly daūger honge ouer their heades that professed the sinceritie of the Gospel So scorchyng was the flame of those most bloudy tymes that those men whō the world was not woorthy of some of them were tryed by bondes and Imprisomnentes some of them by most bitter tormentes of Fire and Fagot such imminent and present perill abode those who professed them selues to be fauorers of Christes truth Which great distresse and calamitie draue diuers of the Children of God to wander from place to place not hauyng where they durst at any tyme rest long together In the which tyme of their continuall tossing sometymes they had ease and comfort by their feruent Prayers and by the participation of the blessed word Sacramentes they got some space to breath them agaynst that fiery triall which hourely they looked for Neither had this affliction albeit it was mighty bene so greuous if Sathan there had stayd his rage but his priuate hatred long concealed brake forth into open enmitie who beyng an old Dragon and subtle Serpent dayly raysed vp some which priuily spake peruerse thynges entanglyng the simple sorte and drawyng such weakelynges after them as they dayly met withall to be their Disciples The aūcient and famous Towne of Colchester was in the troublesome tyme of Queene Maries persecution a sweete and and comfortable mother of the bodyes and a tender nourse of the soules of Gods children which towne was the rather at that tyme frequented because it aforded many godly and zealous Martyrs whiche continually with their bloud watered those seedes whiche by the preachyng of the worde had bene sowne most plentifully in the hartes of Christians in the dayes of good Kyng Edward This towne for the earnest profession of the Gospell became like vnto a Citie vpon an hill and as a candle vpon a candlesticke gaue great light to all those who for the comfort of their conscience came to conferre there from diuers places of the Realme and repairyng to common Innes had by night their Christian exercises whiche in other places could not be gotten For proofe whereof I referre the Reader vnto that whiche is truely reported by M. Foxe in his booke of Actes and Monumentes that at the kynges head in Colchester and at other Innes in the sayd Towne the afflicted Christians had set places appointed for thē selues to meete at where least Sathan should bee thought to bee idle or his venemous or deadly hatred agaynst Christes poore afflicted members should seeme to bee lesse then his open professed enmitie hee styrred vp diuers Schismaticall spirites whiche euen in that great trouble of the Church sought to be teachers of that wherof they had no vnderstandyng and thereby turned the knowledge of Gods testimonies which in many of them though it was small yet somewhat to vayne and contentious ●anglyng whereby the deare Saintes of God were not a litle disquieted at such tyme especially as some of them beyng cōdemned to death looked to tast of the same cup whiche had bene in full measure powred out vnto their brethren For not onely in the priuate assemblies of the godly did these spider catchers swarme together to peruert the right wayes of the Lord but also in diuers prisons in London they kept a continuall haunt where they scattered their deuilish cocle of abhominable Heresie among such as were committed for the loue of the Gospell For the testimony of the truth hereof vouchsafe good reader to read the booke of M. Foxe before alledged where hee reporteth the letter of a wicked Promoter named Thom. Tye the Popish Priest of Muchebently and Steuen Norish a false Iudas and betrayer of Gods Saintes in the tyme of their trouble where he vseth these wordes There is sayth this popish priest one Iohn Kempe and Henry Harte who is the principall of all those that are called Frewil mē for so they are termed of the Predestinators the sayd Harte hath drawen out xiij Articles to be obserued among his company and as farre as I do beleue there comes none in their brotherhode except he be sworne The other Iohn Kempe is a great trauailer abroad in Kent what his doctrine is I am not hable to say Hetherto M. Foxe And that thou mayest know the better what this Henry Harte was consider I pray thee what is reported of him Where that zealous and faythfull seruaunt of God Iohn Careles in his examination by Doctor Martin verifieth that to bee true whiche in the former place those two were burdened withall by Steuen Norish Of this Henry Harte sayth Iohn Careles it had bene good for him if he had neuer bene borne for many a simple foule hath hee shamefully seduced beguiled and deceiued with his soule Pelagian opinion both in the dayes of kyng Edward and since his departure This Harte write a Confutation of certaine Articles of Christian Religion writte by Iohn Careles and sent vnto William Tyms prisoner in the Kynges Benche The companions also of the same Henry was one M. Gibson who sought to peruert turne frō the truth xij godly Christiās which were Martyred Of this vngracious cōpany also was one Trewe of Kente who albeit before for the truthes sake he lost his cares for perswadyng the people from goyng to Masse yet afterward happenyng into the cōpany of Pelagians he became deadly enemy to good Iohn Careles as appeareth by Careles his examination whiche he with his owne hand penned before he dyed in prison as in this booke of Martyrs is to be sene at large Now if any man will demaunde what is this to the Familie agaynst whom ye purposely mynde to deale I aunswere that from this presēt yeare in the which this happened the doctrine of HN. began to pepe out and although it haue a more louely name then the Heresies of the Libertines Anabaptistes and Pellagians had yet it is to him that is disposed to see very certaine by that cōparison which in this booke followeth of all the sectes that the groūd of all these Heresies were brought into England by Christopher Vitels and his complices out of Delph in Dutchland where it had bene happy for our English Church if with the first Brokers thereof they had bene buryed and forgotten Theire doctrine was then 1. The godly haue in them selues free will to do good 2. They could not away with Predestination Neither cā this Louely Family abide the most blessed and comfortable doctrine of Predestination as is apparauntly to be sene in their first Epistle to M. Rogers where they vtter this deuilish blasphemous speach Your brethren in Christ for their good faythes cause they haue in your licentious doctrine of Predestination and free election fill all the prisons almost in England But to adde somewhat which is hable by the mouth of a liuyng witnes to be iustified who in Q. Maries tyme was present at the brochyng of this doctrine by Vitels the Ioygner his testimonie