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A47594	The general London epistle of Quirinus Kuhlman a Christian, to the Wiclef-Waldenses, Hussites, Zuinglians, Lutherans, and Calvinists being an explication of a vision and prophecy of John Kregel : wherein the reformation from popery is fundamentally asserted, and the union of Protestants convincingly urged : together with a postscript relating to the present popish plot : translated from the Latine copy printed at Rotterdam in May 1679.; Epistolarum Londinensium Catholica. English	Kuhlmann, Quirin, 1651-1689.	1679 (1679)	Wing K754; ESTC R17471	39,278	80

Pope and his Creatures with the greatest Insolence and the greater part of the German Empire siding with the Protestants did strike a terror into the Emperor and those other Kings which still adher'd to the Pope And they blasphemed the Name of God who had power over these plagues by ascribing this Reformation to Men and not to God from whom they were sent And they repented not to give the Glory to him but persisted to establish the Popes Antichristian Inventions 35. Zuinglius had scarce poured forth the Third Vial but Luther comes and pours forth the Fourth and the difference between them was the same which is between a Youth and a Young Man so that no wonder if they drew all Mens Eyes upon them for Zuinglius with great force evinc'd that the Pope was Antichrist but Luther with greater The former was indued with an extraordinary Vigour and Liveliness the later with a most undaunted Courage and they carried on successfully the work of Reformation as long as they turned the edge of their endeavour only against Papal Traditions 36. But when they began to write concerning the Mysteries of the Christian Faith without the inward and outward Light of the Holy Spirit according to the comprehension of their own Reason from the dead Letter of Scripture there presently arose amongst them those lamentable Controversies and Contentions about the Holy Mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ received in the Lords Supper by means of which this one Tree became first divided into two contrary Branches as it happened in the Old Testament 37. For the first and second Spirit mostly joyning it self with the fourth and the third with the fifth have produced two Capital Sects and together with those two innumerable others which at length by means of the sixth Spirit shall be either brought to one Sheep-fold in the seventh Spirit or else be utterly rooted out But which are those seven Spirits of which you here speak for I perceive you 'll ask this Question They are the seven Spirits which are before the Throne of God proceeding from God by an Eternal Emanation whose properties are most clearly to be seen in these seven last Plagues insomuch as they do abundantly reveal the Signature of the whole Reformation past present and to come to the inlightened Sons of God concerning which ye have already read something revealed in the fore-going Application of the seven Ages of Mans Life and will read more in that which follows 38. The Switzers and many dwelling about the Rhine followed Zuinglius whereas Luther's Doctrine took most in Saxony with his own Countreymen and Zuinglius conferring with Luther at Marpurg but not agreeing because Luther took those words This is my Body to be understood Corporally and Really but Zuinglius Significatively at parting they promised to bear with one another in mutual Charity without coming to any thorow Union and Agreement 39. This was the Spring of the tears of the Godly from hence arose those Sacramentary Wars as they are pleased to name them and in that Name retain the mark of Romanism 666. O Zuinglians O Lutherans my Brethren hear these true words Zuinglius was fickle and Luther rash in his Contention about the Supper the matter not deserving such Disputes much less those bloody Wars by which you now distinguish your Sects from each other You have made your Love-feast in imitation of the bloody Roman Feasts and know that as long as ye continue thus ye have are and will be seduced by the Devil the Father of Lies and Hatred 40. The words of Christ This is my Body This is my Blood are to be understood concerning his Coelestial Body and Blood not concerning his Earthly Body and Blood which hung upon the Cross under his Earthly Visible Body his Invisible Heavenly Body hung upon the Wood of the Cross and under the appearance of his outward Blood his Invisible Heavenly Blood was shed neither do our Souls stand in need of the mortal Body or Blood but of the immortal and new Body which springs from Christs immortal Body that therein it may become partaker of Christ and member of his true every where present eternal and divine Body 41. The Mouth receives Bread and Wine which it sends into the Belly as other common meat but the word This is my Body This is my Blood proceeding from the Eternal Body and Blood of Christ and containing the said Heavenly Body and Blood is put on by the Soul as its new Body which it lost by the fall yet lying hid in the lapsed Body that so when this Adamical Body is broken it may arise in Christs new eternal Body 42. For Jesus Christ with his Heavenly Body which was hid under his outward hath doth and shall at once altogether and always fill the Angelical World notwithstanding his comprehensible ●●●ane form which appears now in the same proportion in Heaven in which he walked here upon the Earth I speak this by experience for I my self though a poor miserable and afflicted Man have seen Christ appearing in our Earthly Form and yet at the same time filling all and with these very Eyes I saw all the Saints appearing in his Body who yet were every one of them distinct and divers from his Humane Body 43. See here I pray you my dearest Brethren what hitherto ye have not seen it is the Letter that kills you the Spirit of which alone doth quicken The Devil doth extreamly envy Men the Body and Blood of Christ because Christ could not have left us a more precious Treasure than that of his Body and Blood which is the reason why the Enemy whilst Zuinglius and Luther were contending together did sow such tares in the matter of the Lords Supper insomuch as the mischief done thereby can never be sufficienly expressed 44. O ye Zuingliaens and Lutherans Learn hence who your Zuinglius and Lutherans were and with all how rashly you have carried it toward your Brethren abusing the Divine Call of Zuinglius and Luther O Lutherans Lutherans How are ye degenerated Ye have no reason to be so puft up with Luthers Call because nothing that is perfect appears during the seven Plagues much less under the fourth which is yet subject to great Frailties Ye have framed Articles according to your own good pleasure and have established your own Opinions to the prejudice of Truth and in so doing have brought the Pope and Lateinus 666 again upon the Stage though in another dress and alas have only increased the number of Wolves and Bears for to devour the Flesh of the Pope 45. O ye Lutherans my Brethren I observe that the modern Prophets in an hidden parabolical way do attribute far worse things to you than they do to your Brethren whom ye have condemned O consider that Youth is like Wax most easie to yield to Vice but as hard as Stone to relent and turn from it Consider it I say and now shew your selves as easie

to receive the day of Truth as ye have been to admit the darkness of your most Antichristian Prejudices 46. The Manly Age of the Calvinists who are so hateful to you will shew you that you are the Youthful Age of the Reformed Church and will unteach you your hatred caused by the envy of the Devil Luther the Angel of the fourth Vial was the Plague of the Pope of Rome throughout all the German Empire and the several Kingdoms belonging to it whilst he lived and dying will be the death of that Son of Perdition in the three following Angels 47. For the fifth Angel poured forth by JOHN CALVIN his Vial not only rejecting the Pope but likewise all Papal Ceremonies Images Rites and Institutions upon the Throne of the Beast France being the inheritance of the most Christian King and Eldest Son of the Pope and where for 74 years together the Pope kept his residence And his Kingdom was darkened because of the Parisian Massacre and the Kings terrible end and they gnawed their Tongues because of the unhappy success of the accursed League for pain for the fruitless pains they had taken because the Blood of the Martyrs did make the Church to grow and thrive the better And they blasphemed the God of Heaven when they saw the Progress the Reformation made in the Low Countreys upon their revolting from the King of Spain because of their pains taken in the Spanish Inquisition and Tyranical Government and their sores of so many overthrows received from the persecuted French and Dutch And they repented not because they did not attribute these signal instances of the Divine Vengeance unto God of their Works their Persecutions Massacres and Cruelties committed under pretence of defending the Christian Faith 48. Sure enough the Church of the fifth Vial was arrived to Mans estate which grew up under the pressure of such horrid Persecutions and was never purer than when it counted most Martyrs It was this Church held forth most lively instances of Patience and Humility and is therefore to be praised before others for her Strength and Fortitude though at the same time to be blamed also before others because of her immoderation in the point of the Divine Predestination and Call to Salvation For this only Error so big with many gross Errors was that dangerous Rock which whilst the Luh●eran Church endeavours to avoid she was driven upon that most Antichristian hatred against Calvin and the Reformed Church for his sake forgetting Christian Charity and Brotherly kindness wherein this later Church far excelled her 49. The greatest Error of all the Reformed Churches hath is and will be the vain perswasion whereby they think themselves happy in the knowing and owning of this or that Article and that all who do not know oppose or condemn the same are damned 50. Know O Man It is not Knowledge can make thee Blessed nor Ignorance that can damn thee but a Righteous or Unrighteous Life the former of which consists in loving of God and your Neighbour the other in hating them What if it pleased God to try thee O Lutheran Church with this Error whether thou wouldst prefer the Life and Love of Christ before subtle Disputing about Opinions How wilt thou blush at the last Judgment when thou shalt see many condemned whom thou hast blessed and many blessed whom thou hast condemned These are no slight words but well worth your serious consideration 51. But as for you O Calvinists or if you would rather Reformed quicken your Attentions open your Understandings that you may see your Error in its very root St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans saith We know that all things work together for good to them that love God even to those who are called according to his purpose For whom he did fore know he also did praeterminate to be conformed to the Image of his Son that he might be the first-born amongst many Brethren Now whom he did praeterminate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified 52. The Apostle saith well Whom he did fore-know them he also did praeterminate placing Gods Fore-knowledge before his Praetermination not whom he did praeterminate them he also fore-knew putting Praetermination before Fore-knowledge as ye Calvinists do when you expound this place not understanding the infinite difference there is between the one and the other Again These words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are thus to be rendered Whom he did fore-know them he also did praeterminate and the Compilers of Dictionaries seduce us when they render the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 praedecrevit antedecrevit he hath or did fore-decree And when they render the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which properly signifies praeterminavit he did preterminate improperly praedecrevit praefinivit praedestinavit he did or hath praedecreed praedeterminate praedestinate and have in so doing made way for this gross popular Error 53. For this Fore-knowledge and Praetermination of the most high God is the most just Ballance wherein your common Error is weighed for hence it appears that God did fore-know us from Eternity and from this fore-knowledge did praeterminate all of us but not praeterminate us that he might fore-know us It is certain that in God Fore-knowledge and Praetermination are beyond all Humane Comprehension together and at once but not so in us in whom Fore-knowledge and Praetermination are two different things as all Humane Actions are God fore-knew the fall of Adam and from this Fore-knowledge he did praeterminate the whole Work of Redemption but God did not praeterminate the Fall of Adam that from this praetermination he might fore-know the whole work of Redemption which is contrary both to Scripture and Nature 54. These few words if you have rightly understood me my most dear Brethren do unanswerably determine all your Controversies about this Matter neither do they ascribe or prescribe any thing to Man because all stands most freely in the will of God and yet do not destroy Mans free-will neither Hence will appear how unprofitable and idle a thing your reason is by which you have endeavoured to deduce Gods Eternal Decree from the Scriptures especially from the Writings of St. Paul and will be a burning light to dispel your own and your Brethrens darkness with which ye have plagued your selves and others and thereby cast your selves into the greatest dangers 55 Ye have shewed your selves to be of Manly Age O Calvinists by your adding weight to the Youthful Age of Reformation and by being Authors of the last General Sect but at the same time you have also had Manly Vices whereby you have out vied those who were before you 56. You have had the Synod of Dort where the Churches of Britain the Palatinate Brandenburgh Hassia Zuitzerland Wetteravia Geneva Bremen and Embden beheld the Unity of the Belgick Churches but such a Unity as was not yet pure but stained with many Antichristian Proceedings