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A catalogue of the several sects and opinions in England and other nations With a briefe rehearsall of their false and dangerous tenents.
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1647
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Wing C1411; Thomason 669.f.10[111]; ESTC R210684
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A Catalogue of the severall Sects and Opinions in England and other Nations With a briefe Rehearsall of their false and dangerous Tenents Iesuit One Evins a Welch man was lately com̄ited to Newgate for saying hee was Christ Arminian Arian Adamite Libertin Ante Scripturian Heer 's one blasphemously That hee was Christ did say Such spirits were foretold To riseith latter daye Soule Sleeper Anabaptist Familist Seeker Diuorcer Jesuite By hellish wiles the States to ruine bring My Tenents are to murder Prince or King If I obtaine my projects or seduce Then from my Treasons I will let them loose And since the Roman Papall State doth totter I 'le frame my sly-conceits to worke the better Socinian By cunning art my way 's more nearly spun Although destructive to profession Obscuring truths although substantiall To puzle Christians or to make them fall That precious time may not be well improv'd I le multiply strange notions for the lewd Arminian Would any comfortlesse both live and die Let him learne free wills great uncertaintie Salvation that doth unmov'd remaine Arminian Logick would most maintaine And faith that 's founded on a firme decree Is plac't by them to cause uncertaintie Arrian What they dare to deny Christians know Christ God and Man from whom their comforts flow 'T is sad that Christians dive by speculation Whereby they loose more sweeter contemplation Where Christian practice acts the life of grace There 's sweet content to run in such a race Adamite Hath Adams sin procur'd his naked shame With leaves at first that thought to hide his staine Then let not Adamites in secret dare Aparent sinfull acts to spread but feare Since Adams sin hath so defil'd poore dust Cast from this Paradise by wicked lust Libertine A pish at sin and open violation By wilfull lust deserves just condemnation Repentance though a Riddle this I le say Thou must unfold the same or perish aye Then least this holy Law thou yet dost sleight Shall presse thee one day with a dreadfull weight Antiscripturian By cursed words and actions to gainsay All scripture-Scripture-truth that ought to guide thy way Without all question were it in thy power Thou would it all sacred Rules at once devoure Poor man forbear thou striv'st but all in vaine Since all mans might shall but confirme the same Soule-sleeper That soules are mortall some have dar'd to say And by their lives this folly some bewray Whilst like the beast they only live to eat In sinfull pleasures wast their time and state Meantime forgetting immortality To woe or joy for all eternity Anabaptist Poore men contrive strange fancies in the braine To cleanse that guilt which is a Leopard staine 'T is but a fain'd conceit contended for Since water can but act its outward matter Regenerate new-born these babes indeed of watry Elements have little need Familists Were all things Gospell that H.N. bath said A strange confused worke were newly laid A perfect state like Adams is pretended Whilst out wardly each day God is offended No Sabboth but alike all daies shall be If Familists may have their Liberty Seeker All Ordinances Church and Ministry The Seeker that hath lost his beaten way Denies for miracles he now doth waite Thus glorious truths reveal'd are out of date Is it not just such men should alwaies doubt Of clearest truths in Holy Writ held out Divorcer To warrant this great Law of Separation And make one two requires high aggravation Adultry onely cuts the Marriage-knot Without the which Gods Law allowes it not Then learn to seperate from sin that 's common And man shall have more Comfort from a woman Pelagian What Adams state had been with out a fall Is but presumption to contend withall But Adams state of deprivation Profits by serious meditation Men it keep backe Christ's all in all to all Then live by faith obedientiall Separatist or Independent The Saints Communion Christians do professe Most necessary to the life of grace But whilst some shrowd them by this bare notion Condemning all the rest for Antichristian Preferring much confused sad destraction They thus disturb a settlement i' th' Nation Antinomians Under this name shrowds many desperate Destroying Doctrines unregenerate Expresse opposing grace in its true power And glories lustre some do much abhor Repentance and obedience are condemn'd And rarest Christian duties much contemned Anti-Sabbatarian This curst opinion long hath been on foot A Christian Sabboth from our Isle to root When for base pleasures or curst recreation On Lords daies duties lost by prophanation Divine example hints sufficiently A first daies Sabboths full Authority Anti-Trinitarians That dare to search into the Trinity And in divine distinctions much to pry Christs humane nature they would dare to staine As ours by Adams guilt but all in vaine Then let 's beware least diving thus too far We leese our love and much increase sad jar Apostolicks That now expect a new revealed way Unknowne in Scripture they have dar'd to say Beyond the way of usuall dispensation Guifts infallible with Revelation And miracles againe with Ministry Thus men are lost when they too far do pry Thraskites The Jewish Sabboth these would have remaine As warrantable by command most plaine But since the Priest and sacrifice are ceast That Sabboth Judaicall is decreast The Lords daies ravishment divinely is Confirm'd by Practice which unerring is Hetheringtonians That Englands Church is false do firmely hold What truths are therein taught deny thus bold Without true ground there 's many yet that say As much as these that erre and go astray Oh could we keep within a Christian bound That should such sad division not be found The Tatians In what time that Eusebius lived have All Pauls Epistles dar'd reject and have The Acts of the Apostles ser at nought Thus strange opinions have confusion brought Not far from those are some now in our daies That leave the Word and act contrary waies The Marchionites All Matthew Marke and Iohns divine Most sacred Writ these Gospels trine Tertullian doth report rejected were By this strange Sect thus heretofore As now we see division greatly spread And from the bounds of practice get a head VVE read how that in the last daies many false Prophets shall arise and many shall say Loe here is Christ loe there is Christ and shall deceive many 2 Pet. 2.1 there were false Prophets also among the people as there shall bee false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction therefore we had need to be established in the truth as in 1 Cor. 16.13 stand fast in the faith 1 Pet. 5.9 whom resist stedfast in the faith 1 Joh. 2.23 Let that therefore abide in you which yee have heard from the beginning and yee shall continue in the Sonne and in the Father Vers 25. These things I have written unto you concerning them that seduce you Many strange Sects and Opinions are held amongst us so that it is to be feared that what rule soever our wise and honourable Parliament shall establish it will not content the unquiet spirits of a lawlesse generation which would have no rule for set any Rule in the Church they will call it persecution and they say they dislike some things commanded because they are Imposed Some there are that looke for a Temporall Kingdome of Christ that shall last a thousand years this opinion is most dangerous for all States for they teach that all the ungodly must be killed and that the wicked have no propriety in their estates Others out of confidence that they are ruled by the spirit despite all ordinary calling to the Ministry all written prayers all helps of study Some make no conscience to heare and sing Psalms but rather follow their own inventions as he that would not believe the sun because it went not with his watch Likewise this ordinary saying of theirs Be in Christ and sin if thou canst meaning that regenerate men cannot sinne this is the Doctrine of the Anabaptists also that to receive the Communion with a prophane person is to partake of his sinne that the Lords Prayer was never taught to be said that the Gospell was never purely taught since the Apostles times that a liberty of Prophecying must be allowed that all humane Lawes must be abolished that Ministers of Gods Word should rule both the Spirituall and the Temporall that distinction of Parishes is Antichristian Should these absurd and grosse opinions take place what division and confusion would they work amongst us but such is the wisdome and care of our worthy and pious Parliament to provide an Ordinance for preventing of the growing and spreading of heresie Printed by R.A. 1647.