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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

haue done heretofore that seyng fayth commeth by hearing and hearing by the word of God alone and therfore all other helpes of learnyng are vnnecessary I aunswere that vnto the begettyng and obtainyng of fayth the ordinary meanes and conduit whereby this gift of God is conueyed vnto vs is the blessed written word of God sufficient and onely necessary but to encrease and conserue fayth the Lord hath left in his Churche many excellent helpe and meanes as prophecying that is interpretation and expoundyng of Scripture which must not be neglected or contemned furthermore the gift of tongues c. Whereby as by precious stones and costly pearles the pure gold of Gods word to the beholders and lookers on is bewtified and adorned so that albeit HN. himselfe were neuer instructed in the knowledge of any of the seuen liberall ScieÌ„ces as GraÌ„mar Rhetoricke Logique c neither trained vp in the knowledge of the tongues he must not contemne that in others whiche he him selfe doth want nor set downe his owne ignoraunce as an example and paterne for others to imitate Neither is it reasonable that because some men be blynd therfore other men which haue their eyes should violently depriue them selues of that benefite which God in his great mercye hath bestowed vpon them But it shall not nÃ©ede I hope to make any long proofe that there are necessary in Gods Churche diuers particular blessynges and giftes which serue to the buildyng vp of the same for that no man herein will wrangle if he haue any skill at all and knowledge is most hunted and hated by those who are least acquainted therewith yet in a worde or two to preuent the cauilles of the barbarous and vnskilfull aduersary it shall not be amisse if with a fewe testimonies we stope vp that gape at the which those beasts do enter in to treade vnder foote and vtterly lay wast all the sÃ©emely ornamentes of liberall Artes and good literature whereby both the Church of God is excellently garded agaynst Hereitques and their Schismaticall factions but the common wealth also very much maintayned and defended agaynst the inuasion of those mischieuous Machiauellistes which thinke that the obedience of subiectes doth especially consiste in the ignoraunce of all humaine Sciences and commendable learnyng The ConfusioÌ„ of tongues as first it was a punishmeÌ„t for sinne so afterwarde the singuler mercy of the Lord made it an vnspeakable benefit blessing the vse wherof serued to confirmation first of the faith of the Apostles Secondly to the encrease and enlarging of the flocke of Christ wherein albeit diuers of the Apostles and sundry of the auncient fathers did notably excell yet the sacred scriptures as a most plentifull storehouse is aboundantly fraughted with most cleare and euident examples it shall be sufficient to fetch profes from thence thereby to defend such heauenly blessinges agaynst such rude Barbarisme as the Familie of Loue and other their complices doe labor to bryng in The blessed Apostle S. Paule being chosen an especiall vessell to beare the Lordes name before Gentils vsed none instrument more effectuall to make them both one fould vnder one Shepheard then the gift of tongues And though he excelled in the working of Miracles and in many other giftes which he doth singulerly commend 1. Cor. 12. chap. 8.9.10 verses and 4. chap. 5. ver yet in the same place verse 18. he thanketh God very hartely that very plentifully was endewed with the gift of tongues Wherein how he excelled read Actes the 12. verse of the 14. Chapter He disputed at Athens with the Epicures and Stoick Philosophers defending agaynst them the doctrine of the resurrection He disputed in the Sinagogue with the Iewes and in the market place daylye with whome soeuer he met he stode in the middest of the Mars strete and reproued the superstitious worship of the AtheniaÌ„s which whole Action of his had not be so profitable to those amongest whome he spake vnlesse he had vsed the tongue of that countrye that is the GrÃ©eke tongue How excelleÌ„tly he vnderstode the Latin toÌ„gue it is manifest in that he mentioneth there were some which did salute the Philippians those who were of Cesars house shew that Paule conuerted some euen in the Emperours courtes which he could not so conueniently haue done vnlesse he could haue priuatly haue instructed them in their natiue speach But the Epistles of S. Paul to Seneca of Seneca to S. Paule do argue the mutuall conference they had at Rome vnder Nero in the Latin tongue Furthermore it is apparaunt that the Appollogie which he made for him selfe before the chief captaine was in the Hebrue tongue which gift of tongues he doth worthely commend 1. Cor. 12.7 b. 28. d. where he sheweth lykewise the vse of them which he neuer would haue done if the knowledge of the tongues had bene a thing of so smale account But in the dispraysing of these and such like blessings the olde prouerbe which the Romanistes reproch those graces of God withall in the mouth of HN. is lykewise shewing what spirite he is of verefied to be true that is the knowledge of the Hebrue and GrÃ©eke maketh many an heretique But what doe I bring in many examples or sÃ©eke for any further profe doth not HN. his translating of Hebrue names out of that translation which the Papistes call S. Ieromes bible brought forth so oft in the Euangely of HN. proue that the knowledge of the tongues is an excellent meanes to vnderstand the scripture if it be so how then doth HN. so vnskilfullye counsaile those which be his schollers to renounce their knowledge c. But if the Familye shall obiect that I am not sufficiently acquainted with their meaning neither HN. his sence for that he will haue them that desire to be made pertakers of his doctrine to humble themselues and to abiect and captiuate their owne vnderstanding and that the vnderstanding of spirituall thinges is to be enquired of persons that be spirituall so that onely the taking on knowledge which is learned out of the scientialnes of the letter and the imagination which procÃ©edeth out of the selfemindednes of the outward man and vnrenewed creature is blamed by HN. and that he doth not conteÌ„ne nor dehort them from the knowledge of Gods word nor the study of tongues c. I aunswere albeit it were true that he sayth yet seing vnder the mist and darknes of wordes and termes he doth seke to rob and spoyle vs of the precious iuell of holy scripture and the knowledge of the will whereby our Sauiour Christ dying and departing from vs hath left bequeathed vnto vs the Legacie of eternall lyfe yet shall he not scape after that sort neither shall he so start away for the practise of his Familers shall clearely descry his meaning and what that is indÃ©ede which he in worde sÃ©emeth to insinuat vnto vs The behauiour I say of diuers of them that

also because the sonne of God in the Actes geueth him the same title he is sayth he vnto me a chosen vessell c. now when HN. can iustifie his callyng to haue bene such as S. Paules was then he shall proue some what in the meane tyme our skill is not so meane as whensoeuer he vseth to alledge Scripture for the phrase that by and by it must materially be vnderstode as he will haue vs take it or els all is marred In the same sort he abuseth a place taken out of S. Paul to the Corinthes Cap. 3. vers But these his vayne payntynges of his margent shall hereafter make his cause more odious vnto them whiche will diligently labour to take him haltyng in the alledgyng of the Scriptures for to what purpose is it for an Archer to doe as HN. doth to set vp his markes and neuer commyng at them to raunge vp and downe the fieldes at rouers But of this somewhat before beyng spoken shall herein stay my labour concernyng that matter Vnto the which also HN. addeth where he heard these his ReuelatioÌ„s videli From the mouth of God him selfe Wherein he doth open vnto the world his shameles and vayne boasting beleue him he that will. And if it be truth that the Israelites were so terrified with the voyce of God and that Christes voyce draue S. Paule to the grounde with the wonderfull maiestie therof and the brightnes of his countenaunce Which voyce also did smite the souldiours to grouÌ„d The force and the working wherof and how mighty the operation therof is holy Dauid declareth at large by many effectes in the 29. Psalme through out Now then if this be true that God in his law hath thus thundred thereby to kÃ©epe vs in obedieÌ„ce to be wholy subiect vnto him how can HN. auouch it to be true that he affirmeth hee hath heard these his Reuelations From the mouth of God him selfe We know very well as many I meane as are the beloued of the Lord that ReueilatioÌ„s haue bene of old but they are not nÃ©edefull God in tymes past in diuers maners spake in the old tyme by the Prophetes vnto our Fathers but in these last dayes he hath spoken vnto vs by his some Miracles serued the Church in her swadlyng clothes but now fayth is sealed by the death of Christ and to cry for further miracles were to crucifie the sonne of God a fresh and to make a mocke of the Sauiour of the world Hath the earthly father an inward care to leaue his sonne his will sealed with his owne seale and subscribed with his owne hand to auoyde contention and to cease strife and shal not Iesus Christ the sonne of the most wise God which sonne to testifie his loue towardes vs often calleth him selfe the sonne of man shall not the loue of his manhode and the vnspeakeable wisedome of his Godhead prouide for the safe and quyet gouernement of his owne house which so dearely with his hart bloud hee hath purged and made cleane Thus then we sÃ©e that HN. his bragges be but bables and triffles that he boasteth he will declare the secret Misteries of God and make relation of thynges hidden from the beginnyng of the world Sathan albeit he hath taken vpon him the shape of an Aungell of light yet if he in the likenesse of the most glorious Aungell in heauen will teach vs or shall preach vnto vs any other Gospell then we haue receaued be he ten thousand tymes accursed But this doctrine as it alwayes hath bene peculiar vnto the Papistes Libertines and especially the Anabaptistes for that they are mighty in such kynde of proofes as for the true Church it neither vseth nor alloweth any such doctrine of Reuelations as HN. in this place dreameth of onely it is sufficiently instructed in the truth of Gods word without any further search after fonde and curious visions which are expresly forbidden by the written word of God and holy Scripture which onely is the power of God vnto saluatioÌ„ to saue the soules of Gods people But of Reuelations and extraordinary declarations of Gods word hetherto for the 9. Article ARTICLE 10. of HN. Of Shrift ANd vnto their Elders priuately must they confesse all their sinnes and make their lyfe naked and bare before them Theophilus FOr how should they otherwise receiue counsell to auoyde the same and thereto it is spoken as reade forth the text and leaue your priuate addition as priuately William Wilkinson THe most conuenient method to deale with this as with all the rest of HN. his erroneous and absurd Paradoxes in my iudgement is first because the Famblers vse to cauil that they are falsly and vniustly burthened neither can that be proued by them wherewith they are charged by their owne wrightinges to conuince them to be guiltye of that which is layd agaynst them SecoÌ„dly to examine their groundes proofes whereby they labour to auouch their heresie to be the truth Thirdly to shew what parteners and fellowes they haue of other heretiques which haue either held the same heresie or hauyng held it haue maintained it by the same profes that they doe Lastly to shew wherein they in their opinions doe disagrÃ©e from the holy scriptures the iudgement of some wrighters coÌ„cerning the same which order he that well considereth the former Articles shall sÃ©e hath by me ben obserued heretofore For the first pointe that HN. and the Familie hould an erroneous confession of sinnes and a kinde of shrift more then Popish shall not nÃ©ede any long probation out of their wrightinges For that the Elder Theophilus confesseth the same boulstering vp his asseueration with this interrogatorye For how should they otherwise receiue counsell to auoyd the Fami c. Yet will I adde a place or twaine out of HN. to make the matter more cleare that hereafter it be not doubted of Let all your counsayles enterprises purposes will deeds whether they be then secret or manifest appeare at all tymes naked and bare before your Elders Eccle. 4. c. But if ye chaunce to offend in committing any misdeeds yet binde not in any case your hart thereon Eccle. 5. a. neither yet feare you to be ashamed Eccl. 4. c. to confesse the same before god Pro. 28. b. Esay 29. b. Ierem. 23. c. Esdras 16. g. and the priestes your Elders but let it appeare apparauntly before them c. sent 21. 22. 23. 30. Fourthly it is expedient that they should Prou. 28. b. Eccle 4. c. 17. b. Iam. 5. b. make manifest their whole harte with all their counsels mindes willes and thoughtes together with all their doinges dealinges and exercises naked and bare before the Eldest in the Familye of Loue are not couer Esay 29. b. 4. Esdr 16. g. or hide any thing be it what it is before him Also whereunto their inclination kinde and nature draweth them and

reason or knowledge For then should they right wel vnderstand it for the world can vnderstand her owne whose wisedome maketh all men in their manly wisedome meere fooles compassing the wise in their wisedome and prouyng their thoughtes to be but vayne will therfore as S. Paule and likewise the Prophet affirmeth destroy the wisedome of the wise and reiect the vnderstandyng of the prudent For it hath ben euermore an order with the holy on s of God in the bringyng forth of the holy thynges to expresse it more out of the authoritie of the spirite and with power I meane out of the efficacie of the Lord had by their essential operation in their inwardnes theÌ„ with the entising wordes of manly wisedome that our fayth might not stand or rest grounded in the wisedome of man but in the power of God by which meanes the naturall man perceiueth not any thyng of the spirite of god Yea the thynges of God and his wisedome are mere foolishnesse vnto him And therefore he shal be founde happyer that becommeth deceiued with such a godly deceit then shall those which are borne in hand to be in a right way and a good case beyng yet in the meane tyme directed with the dreames of mans fantasie in steade of cleare truth c. Rochester THe greatest part of this boke is nothyng but a brief discourse either a rehearsall of the story of the Bible as appeareth froÌ„ the .5 chapter to the .27 .28 chapters And his collectioÌ„ is none other but such as any meanly learned may gather by diligeÌ„t readyng of the Scriptures The Familie of Loue. HOw well soeuer the greatest part of the booke bee iudged by you to be nothyng but a bare brief discours or rehearsall of the histories of the Bible whiche any meanly learned as you say might do the like yet sÃ©emeth it to me to be of greater force neither haue I euer in my tyme heard or by readyng perceiued that the greatest learned among the prudent wisenesse which rest grounded more on the litterall knowledge of the ChristiaÌ„ verifie then on the beyng of the same haue atchiued the like or brought the match therof to light all thyngs considered For it is not onely an euident declaration of the singular good will and operations of God towardes his creatures in respectyng and tenderyng their saluation darckly figured foorth in the Bible but also and expresse manifestation of the approchyng of tyme wherein the purpose of the Lord drawen a long and begon as the tyme state and age of the worlde would permit the same touchyng the disposing of the wicked world with her ministers and adherentes the erectyng of the righteous world to florish there ouer in vigour for euermore becoÌ„meth as he there testifieth Full accomplished through the same seruice of God or ministrations of his loue expressed or mencioned in the same booke accordyng to the promises To the which ministration God hath chosen the Authour as he there alledgeth to be a right minister and prepared him thereto in the fourme and sorte mencioned in the head of his booke vnto which like function and holy annoyntyng no conceited Scripture learned or Doctour of the letter that I can any way marke or perceiue hath in these dayes attained or reached And whether that be a pretendyng of the Ghost or no that will well appeare and be sÃ©ene in his tyme by the sequele thereof to wÃ©ete in the perseueraunce and foorth goyng of the same among and with all such as shall endure to sÃ©e the triall therof c. Rochester THe Authour doth much pretend the holy Ghost and entituleth his booke An Epistle written from the holy Ghost which is to be suspect of hygh Reuelations daungerous to deceiue the simple Familie of Loue. THis is aunswered in the Section before Rochester INtreatyng of Antichrist in the 28. chapter he teacheth no certaine doctrine who he is or where to be founde that we may know him beware of his doctrine but it seemeth altogether doubtfull in so much that the Note in the margeÌ„t sayth O that this Antechrist were knowen Whereas if the Authour would haue dealt plainly and according to the scriptures he might easly haue shewed that Rome is the seate of Antechrist And that the succession of Popes and that body and kingdome is the very Antichrist mencioned and described in the .2 Thessal 2. Apocal. 13.17 c. Â¶ In the Chapter 31. 32. the Authour HN. bewrayeth him selfe to be a Papist 1. FIrst he calleth the Church of Rome the communion of all ChristiaÌ„s whereas it is but a particular Church fallen away from the vniuersall Church of Christ 2. Although he seemeth to coÌ„fesse that the Church of Rome hath not that perfection of Religion whiche it had in tymes past which the Papistes do and must graunt yet he seemeth to allow and speake reuerently of all Popishe orders as they be now The Pope hee calleth the chief annoynted the chief Byshop or high Priest who hath his heyng in the most holy sanctuarie of true and perfect holynes most holy Father Next vnto him he placeth the Cardinals whom he calleth most holy and famous and hee sayth that they are next the most auncientest and holy Father the Pope in most holy Religion and vnderstandyng Next vnto Cardinals he reconeth Byshops whom he calleth chief Priestes After Byshops he nameth Curates Deacons c. After those he maketh mencion of Monkes whom he commendeth as men addicted to holynesse and separated from the world and all carnall desires But most playnly the Authour sheweth him selfe a frend to the Church of Rome saying that many through contention and discorde did cast of the Church of Rome and dyd blaspheme her with her ministeries and of their own braynes pretendyng the Scriptures haue brought in other ministeries and Religion they spoke much of the word of god Who doubteth that this is the voyce and iudgement of Papistes agaynst Protestauntes and true Christians Familie of Loue. WHere as you furthermore complayne of the insufficiencie of the expressing of Antechrist as to say who he is and where to be founde because the Authour applyeth him not to the Pope and his succession in the Church of Rome it sÃ©emeth if the matter were well looked vnto that meÌ„ should finde that Antechrist euen in the very selfe same place from whence you gather your exception flatly detected although he is not so employed to meÌ„s conteÌ„tations for if men could sÃ©e what Christ accordyng to the spirite is as he is a liuyng power of God were whereas his whole scope drift of writyng stretcheth they should then right well perceiue thereout that the man of sinne and child or broode of the Deuill and coÌ„demnation beyng a right aduersarie or an expresse contrary beyng vnto Christ the righteousnes of God the father and raignyng in all states of men generally Beyng fleshly Popes or other from the tyme of the declinyng

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 Prou. 30.12 There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceit and yet are not washed from their filthines AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate An. 1579. Cum Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis PErusing ouer this little treatise of M. Wilkinsons I could not but alowe his diligence and painefull trauell in this hereticall and schismaticall world and I would hartely wishe of God that our Church of England might be well weeded from to to grosse errors for it is high tyme. Richard Ely. Â¶ To the right Reuerend Father in Christ and his very good Lord Richard by the prouidence of God Byshop of Ely W.W. wisheth all ioye and peace both in body and soule with happynes in the Lord euerlastyng WIse Salomon the sonne of holy Dauid a prudent kyng and a peaceable Prince ReuereÌ„d father in Christ very fittely in his sweet songes resembled the Churche of God vnto a Vine and the enemies thereof vnto rauenous and greedy Foxes For that the Vine beyng a spreadyng plante diligeÌ„tly trimmed and paynfully attended vnto stretcheth abroad his sappy brauÌ„ches and broad leaues for a succour and harbour in a storme and is a comfortable gladsome fruite to him that eateth it or tasteth the liquor of the same Whiche Vine the Foxes sometymes spoyle and endamage by robbyng the fruite sometyme by bruysing the young and tender braunches therof before they be able by their grouth to succour themselues froÌ„ so many sortes of assaultes most dauÌ„gerous And not lesse aptely our Sauiour Christ the Sonne of God in his holy and diuine Sermons likeneth it vnto a field wherein good seede is sowne by the paynefull husbandman corrupt seede scattered by the haÌ„d of the enemyes Of both which similitudes albeit many excellent notes may be gathered yet the whole scope of them both in my iudgemeÌ„t is this to shew that shootyngs vp and encrease of Gods Church beyng but froÌ„ a feeble and weake begynnyng is continually by Sathan and his mischieuous ministers not a little disquieted that thereby the gladsome fruite and looked for encrease therof is much let and hindered What the remedy and redresse therof is I leaue to your Lordshyp to coÌ„sider whom with the rest of your godly and learned brethren and Reuerend Fathers Gods diuine prouidence hath placed ouer vs as in a high watchtower to foresee and discry the subtle assaultes of so slye and cruell enemyes And I hartly wish that it might not iustly be affirmed or beyng iustly affirmed I would that the losse of the soules of many poore Christians did not auouch the truth of the assertion that euen froÌ„ the tyme wherein the first scourge wherewith the Lord afflicted his Churche in the bloudy dayes of Queene Mary began neither in and from that tyme alone but euen long sitheÌ„ce also to the great hurt of Christes church hinderaunce of his chosen many false Christes arose and while the watchmen slept many lying seers and seducyng Prophets vnder Lambes skinnes craftely crept into the sheepfold priuily whisperyng peruerse thynges to seduce and beguile the simple And though the word of God his name be praysed haue a cleare free passage amongest vs and the bloudy bandoges of the Romish Sinagogue be tyed vp that by theÌ„ the sheepe of Christ are in lesse daunger to be worryed yet is not the encrease of that heaueÌ„ly seede so great with grief be that hard which is spoken with sorrow as many as do weene most men do wish for For the roaryng Lion dayly ruÌ„neth about his ministers are not idle zeale in hearyng and charitie in practising waxeth cold but specially the continuall labour of Gods husbandmen beginneth to fainte thornes bryers grow vp in the Lordes field the deuill transformyng him selfe into an Angel of light deceiueth many The reason is as I take it that those which ought to be breakers of Gods bread to satisfie relieue the hungry soules of his Saintes caÌ„not breake that which they haue not neither are able many of them being vnarmed to withstaÌ„d the enemy or those which are able either can and will not bycause they are sleepy or beyng both able willing hauing a watchful eye vpoÌ„ the Lordes inheritauÌ„ce they dare not aduenture beyng diuers wayes discouraged with the sundry manifold fetches of Heretiques especially not beyng acquainted with the daunger of that poyson which dayly floweth froÌ„ our Louely Familie to be sure of their owne safetie keepe them selues out of gunshote Of the Heresie it selfe in one worde to vtter the truth of that which almost by the experience and practise of three whole yeares I haue proued to be true it is the most pestiferous deadly Heresie of all others because there is not almost any one particular erroneous Schismaticall phantasie whereof the Familie of Loue hath not borrowed one braunche or other thereof to peece vnto theÌ„selues this their brokeÌ„ Religion The encrease of this Familie is great that dayly because the withstanders are not many the defenders are wily as Serpentes would fayne in lyfe seeme innocent and vnblameable In profession of the one they boast very much of the other they walkyng very closely do iustifie them selues because fewe haue to finde fault with them yet haue they their lothsome spottes and ougly deformities as in this booke to the diligent reader playnely may appeare Their bookes are many disorderly and confusedly written both for matter and manner of thynges deliuered in them their phrases are such as the Scripture speaketh of cloudes with out water and lightenyng without rayne their blossomes are as dust and their fruite as rottennesse The proofe hereof I referre to the sequele of the Treatise which ensueth the which I desire your Lordshyp the rather to accept because that within this Isle of Ely and other where within your Lordshyps Dioces diuers doe suspect that to be true whiche common fame reporteth that dayly those swarmes increase which in the end I feare me will wonderfully disquiet as it hath already begonne in diuers places and molest the Church of god The Lord vouchsafe when his pleasure is somewhat to cut them shorter and graunt to those vnto whom the care of his Church and ouersight of his flocke belongeth vigilant and watchfull eyes carefull harts willyng myndes and stroÌ„g and hable bodyes to finde out and to roote out beyng

of the man from the true fayth in Christ the light of lyfe to the addictyng of him selfe to the lye or darcknes or euer such tyme as they become conuerted to their God and are regenerated in the spirite of their mynde is the greatest Antichrist which also froÌ„ the very begynnyng as likewise in the very corporall appearaunce of Christ in the flesh like as S. Iohn also expresseth impugne it and persecute it in the truth of God and that in the inwardnesse of the man to the establishyng of all vnrighteousnesse in him and not onely a certaine disordred or abused Papistrie yea or euer the Papistrie was thought of which no Pope also or such outward fleshly creature could or can euer worke or bryng to passe And therefore deceiue not your selfe in the point to iudge the Author to be a maintainer of any fleshly or creature like Pope with his adherentes in their abusion of Ceremoniall seruices Ceremonies but he driueth his matter onely as in his worke beyng well noted you may sÃ©e to this point to wit that after the entraunce of the darknesse once chaunced the manly generations beyng falne away from the fayth towardes God which was established by Christ in his Apostles and Disciples the old Fathers grew out of a zealousnes of the mynde towardes God and his righteousnesse to institute certaine Ceremonies and seruices so neare as they could out of their insight and comprehendyng that they by their diligent study and searchyng of the Scriptures had attained vnto concerning Gods truth hit the same that resembled or were conformablest to the holy and diuine Scriptures to a commemoration of the thyngs wrought and brought to passe before with Christ and his holynes in the very true beyng to the susteinyng and staying vp of the ignoraunt people in the tyme of darknes from fallyng into any greater absurdities enormities and errours that might haue happened vnto theÌ„ and which also did happen vnto many such as maliciously and obstinately not rightly seyng but rather in meanyng to set vp some better degressed and winded of them selues there from and maliciously blasphemed and continewed the same tell that the light of Gods truth might spryng foorth agayne or be erected in the seruice of the loue accordyng to the promises and goeth not about to establish the same in and of their ceremoniall much lesse abused seruice and Ceremonies where about men presently so greatly striue and varie now in this present tyme of the light of loue whiche he affirmeth to be the day of the cleare righteous iudgemeÌ„t of God wherein god will restore all thynges to their right to wit bryng or set the lye in his lying beyng to be condemned in the hellish caue and the truth likewise in his right fourme or degrÃ©e to wit to preuayle florish and beare sway ouer the vnrighteousnes for euer more Whereby that the will of God might eueÌ„ so be accomplished in earth as in heauen Wherefore me thinkes that should be very small discernyng in such as can not distinct the shadowes figures or image of a thyng from the body it selfe or the very true beyng either substaunce of the same And that he speaketh of mens ignoraunce in that place and touchyng their slender knowledge vnderstandyng in Gods worde that layeth he forth flatly to the effectuall word and not the imagelike or written word wherein the right Christians are not iniuried but the conceited Christians detected Rochester THe rest of the booke from the 34. Chapter vnto the end is of the callyng of the Gentiles and of the grace of God offred to the world in the last age of the world which seemeth to be the best part of that booke Familie of Loue. IT is well that ye like some part of the booke and if ye could therewithall note that there were a defectioÌ„ froÌ„ the truth and that there were also by that meanes no difference to bee had betwixt a ceremoniall either letter doctour Christian and an vncircumcised Heathen so had ye then somewhat for your part Rochester THus haue you a tast of this booke gathered as the tyme would serue whereby it appeareth to be no such precious price of worke as of some it is supposed to be Such fayre shewes and glorious titles may soone deceiue the simple to haue such bookes in more admiration then the holy Scriptures But we haue Moses and the Prophetes let vs heare them and iudge all others by them Family of Loue. I do not so collect by the authors wrighting that he would prefer his writing aboue the scriptures geuen by inspiration of God and brought forth and written by the holy Fathers in times past But if you had well marked or considered the same he witnesseth as by a concordable and vniforme testimonye either by record of the same their writynges what the Lord will now accomplish in these last dayes wishing euery one in the same booke to search the Scriptures whether that they also meÌ„tion and record not the very same affirmyng also therewith that God is not ne cannot be a God of contentatioÌ„ but of peace vnitie And that God moreouer hath stirred him vp to bee a seruiceable instrument or as his elect minister to bryng downe accordyng to his promises written in the Scriptures all controuersies growne among men about their misunderstanding of the scriptures to bryng the same to an end And doth also in the same booke vncouer sundry secret thinges which they that haue seing eyes may by ententiue reading of the same together with the Lordes assistaunce well perceiue and vnderstand that no selfewise or enuious scripture learned could or can euer attaine vnto it agayne What iniurie were it seing that it procedeth by the same spirite to valew it equall with those same sacred scriptures that were tofore written by the holy one of God. Also ye may remember that the fleshly Iewes had also for their aunswere to Christ enuying agaynst him being the truth it selfe the same testimonye that ye alledge to wÃ©ete that they had Moses and the Prophets c But who were in the meane time greater persecutours of him then they Rochester WE are sure that the holy Scriptures were wrighten by the spirite of Loue and truth the holy ghost And conteine all true and necessary and sufficient doctrine for our saluation let vs not hould vpon men proue all thinges hould that which is good beleue not euery spirite but proue the spirites Family of Loue. I Graunt that right discerning is good and commeth from the Lord and through him from them whome he and not themselues placeth and by them that are set in the right place of iudgement by the Lord himselfe and not by those that sitt on their owne stoole for it is to be doubted that so many as take vpon them that office of iudgemeÌ„t or medling with gods matters or euer Christ be come vnto them or haue a liuing shape in them that they all will

the Ceremoniall law is nÃ©edefull to be obserued HN. termeth our Baptisme an handfull of water Who soeuer is not Baptised accordyng to the forme or maner of Iohn that is with the water of repentaunce confessing their sinne he is no Christian No man sayth HN. can Minister the vpright seruice or Ceremonies of Christ truly but the regenerate HN. denyeth the outward admission of Ministers The Familie shal be in all perfection euerlastyngly vpoÌ„ earth to the end that Gods will might be done in earth as it is in heauen HN. beasteth perfection in this lyfe and in many places HN. sayth that this testimony and publishyng of the ioyfull message videl his Gospell is the kyngdome of perfection and that all the seruices and prophecies which are gone out from God doe lead hereunto and rest and cease herein HN. his sayth Familie must not conceale or dissemble their ReligioÌ„ but they must hold it out before euery one whoÌ„ the Lord stirreth vp in their wayes In HN. his Familie is the true most holy of the euerlastyng beyng of God from whence the vpright seruice of the Familie is ministred whereunto all seruices and prophecies which are gone out from God and his truth do lead as to the right and very true perfection that God might euer be declared vpon earth HN. sayth of all preachers without his Fam. that they are vnilluminated vnregenerated vnrenewed vngodded vnsent good thinkyng which out of their literall knowledge come into the shÃ©epefold of the beleuers besides the Church of Christ Which Christ calleth thÃ©eues wolues murtherers false hartes and Scripture learned HN. alloweth confession of sinnes in his Familie and forgeuenesse of the same and clensing whiche he calleth Purgatorie HN. sayth that the Romishe Church hath obediently grounded it selfe on the seruices and ceremonies which are the prefiguration of true Christianitie and her seruices and with diligence and ferueÌ„cie obserued the same to a good discipline or ordinaunce of the congregations HN. sayth that the annoyntyng with oyle which the Papistes vse is a Sacrament of the holy Churche of Christ and signifieth vnto vs the annoyntyng of Priests and Elders with the holy Ghost HN. alloweth of the Pope because sayth he through his seruice of the holy word the true clearenes of Christ was spread abroad in all landes HN. of the Popish Hierarchie namely Cardinals Bishops Parish priestes signifiyng the Leuiticall Priestes Deacons or helpers of the Parish Priestes Sextons or kÃ©epers of holy thynges Monkes whiche signifie such as dwell alone and are through the loue of righteousnes sanctified and therfore seperated from the world and all that is fleshly for to liue euen so as sanctified ones of God. All the aforesayd sayth HN. hath bene vsed in tymes past in his true beyng wheÌ„ the light of lyfe had his clearenes but now is become darkned HN. condenmeth as many out of their knowledge whiche they take out of the Scriptures brought in certaine seruices and ceremonies in any other wise and order then the Churche of Rome appoynted as vnorderly reiectyng and blasphemyng the Catholique Church of Rome and rentyng the consent and nurturable sustentation of the same It is mere lyes and vntruth which the Scripture learned through the knowledge whiche they get out of the Scripture institute preach and teach HN. sayth God raysed him vp which lay altogether dead without breath and lyfe from the death annoynted him with his godly beyng named him selfe with him and Godded him with him selfe All the Scripture speakyng of Christ of his sÃ©ede of his commyng in his glory is in this day of the Loue fulfilled HN. sayth that the prophecies 1. Edras 4. d. Esay 3. e. and 11. b. Ezech. 39. c. Soph. 3. b. Zach. 2. b. are in this day of Loue fulfilled Moreouer the raysing vp and Resurrection from the dead commeth to passe also in this same day through the appearyng of the commyng of Christ in his maiestie acaccordyng to his saying Iohn 6. e. I will rayse him vp agayne in the last day In this day are all prophecies fulfilled The seruice of Loue is the perfection it selfe All sayth HN. shall perishe without the Familie of Loue. Â¶ Hereticall affirmations and vngodly expositions of Scriptures by HN. out of the documentall sentences EVen thus haue the seruices of the testimonyes of the holy spirite of Loue their ministrations among the perfect ones and do remoue the midle wall which is betwixt the perfect and vnperfect ones To make euen so of twayne that it be one namely God and the man in one true being of Iesus Christ cap. 1. sent 4. Nothing can come from the true perfection but all humble and mÃ©eke vertues and righteousnes which flow out of perfection cap. 1. sent 7. He alledgeth that there is a perfection in his lyfe to proue it he quoteth 1. Cor. 13. b. cap. 1. sent 9.10.2 Pet. 1. d. The perfect can bring forth nothing but all good and loue quoted as a profe Iohn 13 14.16 he leadeth theÌ„ into all truth Cap. 2. sent 1. Â¶ Christ is taken on Â 1. With an imagination of knowledge Cap. 2. sent 1. Videl 2. Good thincking of the hart Â 3. Or out of the text of the letter No man can teach the word of doctrine of Christ but such as haue bene disciples obedient of the loue cap. 2. senten 1. Vnilluminated Scripture learned and vnsent preachers cap. 2. sent 2. The word that is ministred speakeable or in letters out of the Loue and out of the true lyfe is also Christ after the fleash cap. 2. sent 4. For euen so among the beleuers of the word the word became flesh and dwelt among them and Iesus was in such sort borne of the virgin Mary out of the sÃ©ede of Dauid after the flesh that is of pure doctrine out of the sÃ©ede of the Loue and whosoeuer feadeth of the ouerflowne word and his lyfe beleuingly in his soule he eateth truely the flesh of Christ and drinketh his bloud and is raysed vp by Christ in the last day to eternall lyfe and becommeth euen so in his new birth Consubstanciated with Christ after the spirit cap. 2. sent 5. As also for that the seruauntship of the Law should be noe Gal. 3. c. heire with the beleuer cap. 3. sent 10. That same was the complaint of Abraham which he or euer he had a sonne or an heire complayned before the Lord that he had obteined no. Gen. 15. a. sÃ©ede out of the beliefe And supposed euen so that his seruaunt that is his seruauntship out of the law should be his heire but the sonne wich shall be borne out of the spirite that is out of the fayth of Abraham cap. 3. sent 11. As long as the young ones are childish and not yet growne vp vnto the Elderdome of the perfect being they are yet vnder the ordinance of the

merueile at all for such a fountayne such water men gather not grapes of thornes nor figges of thistles And true it is that our Sauiour sayth out of the aboundance of the hart the mouth speaketh ARTICLE 1. No Church THe house of Loue sayth HN is the Church of God. 1. Exhor cap. 7. s 37. Theophilus his exposition FIrst note that it is all one to say the house of Loue and the house of God the familye of Loue and the family of God and then proceede William Wilkinson DArke wordes double speaches haue bin alwayes the starting holes of heretiques playne meaning men walke openly at noone lewd and euill disposed persons vage and wander abroad at midnight For he that euill doth hateth the light neyther commeth to the light least his dÃ©edes should be reproued YÃ©e speake in a riddle neither doth your reason follow Because it is framed A petitione principij You take that to be graunted which is in controuersie or rather cleane false For what proprietye of speach is this or how doth this reason follow The house of God is the Church of God therefore the good willing ones in England which are named the Familye of Loue are the Church of god But if you will in playne wordes affirme that you onely which are of that familye and no man els which is not of that societye is of the Church First I aunswere that the Anabaptistes did lykewise of their conuenticles affirme that they were the true Church Next I say that when I shall vnderstaÌ„d your meaning better I will tell you more In the meane time I would you knew that you are not of the Church but yÃ©e haue made a Schisme from the Church Christes coate without seame ye haue rent in pÃ©eces Truely sayth a learned father whosoeuer doth cut a sunder the vnitye and disturbe the peace of the Church whereby the fellowship of the faythfull is torne into diuers partes he is a Schismatique Such were Chorah Dathan and Abiram agaynst Moyses such were they which disquieted the church of Corinth by holding some of Paule some of Peter some of Appollos some of Christ Such are they whome S. Paule bad the Elders of Ephesus take hÃ©ede of for they should be greuous wolues not sparing the flock who speaking perverse thinges should drawe disciples after them Of such S. Paule sayth I beseech you brethren marke those which cause dissention amongest you contrary to the doctrine which you haue receiued and auoid them c. As for you of that Familie neither were ye of vs nor went from vs So ye haue choked the word in many weake brethren laying stumbling blocks in the wayes of the simple Ye haue led the blinde out of their way therefore are ye by Gods mouth accursed And albeit that offences must nÃ©edes come yet woe be to him by whome they come it were better a millestone were hanged about his neck then to offend one of the litle ones There must be heresies in the Church to try the faythfull and happy is he that holdeth fast least another take his crowne When ye can shew me by the scripture that your Familie is the house of God the piller of the truth I shall confesse my selfe to be in an error Christ hath geuen vs warning to take hÃ©ede that no man deceiue vs for many shall come in his name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many and there shall arise false Christes and false Prophets c. but he hath told vs before that we should not beleue them nor goe after theÌ„ Beleue not euery spirite sayth S. Iohn many false Prophets are gone out into the world Thus are wee warned in the mouth of the sonne of God if the sword come and take vs away our bloud shall be vpon our owne head HN. His assertion IT is the hill of the Lorde whereon his house is builded to the which he that subiecteth not himselfe is a false hart and standeth minded agaynst God and his Church Theophilus exposition THat is spoken of the loue it selfe and not of the Family For how is an house to be builded on an house which thing also may not be denyed for so much as God is loue and the other must consequently or necessarily follow William Wilkinson FIrst to the text of HN. and to Theophilus his exposition The familye sayth HN. is the hill of the Lorde whereon his house is builded for proofe hee quoteth Esa. 2.2 a. Mich. 4.1 a. It shall come to passe in the last day the mountaine of the Lordes house shall be prepared in the toppe of the mouÌ„taines c. The sence of the which places of the prophets is that in the last day vz. in the first comming of the sonne of God the Church shall by him be restored to her glorious beauty the which places in HN. his new gospell 3. chap. 3. sent are applyed to HN. himselfe and to the time of his appearaunce in these wordes Now shall the law be taught out of Sion and in the 4. sent for this is the day of promise Psal. and ver 24. c. which the Lord hath made which first place is directly vnderstode of Christ and the building agayne of the Church by him The other place of the psal declared that Dauid being appointed by God to be king ouer Israell should deliuer the Arke out of the handes of the Philistines wherein he foreshewed that by a figure which was true in Christ Ephe. 4. verses 4.8.11.12.13 the which HN. presumptuously taking vnto himselfe grossly erreth in applying the scripture gracelesly blasphemeth the sonne of god First making Christ lesse carefull of his Church than he is in dÃ©ede Secondly he is openly impious in this that whereas Christ sayth All is finished meaning all types and figures HN. maketh all vnperfect affirming that in him and his appearaunce all becommeth fulfilled His wordes be these The day of Loue Psal. 118. ver 24. c. is the appearing and comming Mat. 24. c. Luk. 17. c. Actes 24. of our Lorde Iesus Christ in the resurrection of the dead Esa. 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. Wherein the law of the Prophets and all that is written of Christ becommeth fulfilled All which places by him quoted are very playnely ment of the resurrection that is the second resurrection from death the secoÌ„d comming of Christ to iudgemeÌ„t whereby HN seemeth to emply the resurrection of the body and the second comming of Christ to iudgement to be past already which is heresie or els quoting those places for his first comming he alledgeth them amisse which is ignoraunce HN. TO the which he that subiecteth not himselfe is a false hart William Wilkinson IT is very true he that submitteth not himselfe to the Church of God is a false hart c. For he shall neuer haue God for his Father which hath not the

Church for his mother The Church is Noahs Arke out of the which he that is must nÃ©edes be drowned Christianus non est qui in Christi ecclesia non est sayth Cyprian He is not a ChristiaÌ„ which is not of the Church of Christ They be Antichristes which goe out of the Church and deale agaynst the Church The which Church of Christ if your Family be Shew me out of the scriptures these markes wherby the Church ought to be knowen this if you can truely doe I confesse that you haue the Church if ye cannot beware least the further ye wander from the shepfold the further ye goe astray from Christ and encrease you owne damnation Therefore loke well to your standing The doctrine is very true yet the place quoted by HN Fol 16. sent 38. out of S. Iude to proue it is very impertinent hauing no such proofe in it as he alledgeth it for For how hangeth this reason together God hath reserued vnto the Angels which kept not their first estate but left their owne habitation euerlasting chaines vnder darknes vnto the iudgement of the great day which S. Peter calleth their damnation Therefore he that turneth away from the comminalty of Loue which as you tearme is the Church of God bringeth euen so ouer himselfe the iudgement of his condemnation But it were hartely to be wished that his fault in abusing Scripture were the least which in the eyes of God is damnable so should not his cancred and poysoned Heresies besides his owne guilt draw with them likewise the soules of those that stumble vpon him And thus much for HN his text Now to Theophilus exposition Theophilus YOu say that this clause It is the hill of the Lord is spoken of the loue it selfe and not of the familie W. Wilkinson THen belike you would haue me take your meanyng to be this The loue the is God ye say for so in the next clause ye expound it is the hill of the Lord whereon his Church is builded What a perplexitie of speach is this the ye can not vtter your mynde so the I may vnderstand ye If you meane the God is onely the fouÌ„dation of his Church I graunt yet hath not your Paraphrasis vpon HN. his wordes as yet forced thus much Ergo God is the foundation of your Loue Familie Ye take in haÌ„d to explicate HN. his meanyng but the old Prouerbe will still belike be true An euill expositor marreth the text For herein you do but rayse dust with your shufflyng tell vs there is a marke if we could sÃ©e it when ye haue dimmed it with a darke exposition so that it can not be sene For in my simple iudgement you leaue the wordes very doubtfull For whereas you make a circumloqution and say it may not bee denied for as much as God is loue and the other must consequently or necessarily follow I vnderstand HN. very well when he sayth God is loue it is very true and therefore I take it that in diuers places he vseth this diffuse terme the loue for the Lord our God as a worde that is equiualente of signification But whereas you say the other must consequently or necessarily follow I vnderstand not yet what you meane for it is as though ye bad me looke stedfastly and yet shut myne eyes For what is the other which you adde Is the sence this the Familie of Loue by you pretended is Gods Church that God is the grounde of that your Familie Geue me leaue to vse your own wordes neither is the consequent good nor doth it follow of necessitie for which you induce it For to let passe your learned and weightie Parenthesis for how is an house to be builded on an house with a sad interrogatorie ministred in the same what a necessarie consequeÌ„t is this God is the hill of the Lord or this God is the foundation of his Church Ergo your pretended Familie is the Church of god How this consequent doth halte in his followyng he that knoweth what a consequent meaneth can easely consider But it sÃ©emeth that you are no great gatherer of necessary consequentes albeit ye iumbling stumbled on these wordes To follow consequently or necessarily vnwares But if hereafter vppon a further deliberation by you had you shall enforce your consequent more necessarily I shall hit on your meanyng the better so shape you a fitter aunswere And thus much of the first Article An addition to the first Article out of HN. THe Familie and coÌ„munaltie of the same house vid. of the loue is Gods chosen people of Israell and he him selfe with them is Ierem. 24. a. 31. d. Ezech. 27. c. Apoc. 21. a. their God and will likewise bide their God from generation to generation euerlastingly And if they chaunce to transgresse in any thing God will then 1. Chron. 3. chasteÌ„ teach and informe them but he will no more withdraw his grace and mercy froÌ„ them Psal. 89. c.d. For God hath chosen none other house nor Ierem. 7. b. Temple but 1. Cor. 3. b. c. 2. Cor. 6. b. c. the godly childreÌ„ or Communialtie of loue For the F. of L. is the mercy seate of the loue that is of the Lord the schole of grace Exhor Cap. 12.44 Heb. 5. a. The rest prepared from the beginnyng for the people of God and all repentaunt persons It is the Sion and Ierusalem from whence the law was prophesied Esay 2. Mich. 4. to come The Familie of Loue is the true tabernacle of God which shall in all perfection be euerlastingly vpon earth For so it hath pleased God to the end that his will and iudgemeÌ„t of his righteousnes may be done vpoÌ„ earth as it is in heauen Math. 6. Luke 11. All prophesies ministratioÌ„s which are gone from God doe tend or lead to the Familie of Loue as to an euerlasting very true perfect good most holy seruice of the loue that is the Lord which shall remaine in the same clearenes in his ministery euerlastingly to the end that the same most holy Prophet good froÌ„ henceforth might perpetually be declared vpon earth W. Wilkinson THese haue I good Reader put downe as a tast that thou mightest bee somewhat acquainted with their horrible blasphemies and thereby thou knowyng them mightest more carefully eschew and auoide them ARTICLE 2. HN. No truth HN sayth that he can not perceiue nor find the true belief in Iesus Christ amongest any people vpon earth that walke without the Communialtie of loue and liue vnto them selues and that same is appeared and manifested vnto the holy ones of God in the Communialtie 1. Iohn 1.3 a. of the loue through the appearyng Mat. 25.3 d. Act. 1.11 d. of the comming of Iesus Christ out of the most high heauen So can not likewise the same most holy belief become rightly witnessed or confessed by any other people nation or communialities but onely by the 1. Cor. 12. a.

the houshold of Fayth permitting them what religion they will. But hereby ye thought to stretch your Familye from sea to sea and from one end of the world to another So that here you shewe what kindred acquaintauÌ„ce your Heresie hath with the Anabaptistes who affirme that for their quietnesse sake they may confirme them selues to any Religion of the people amongest whoÌ„ they dwell How neare you and these meÌ„ iumpe I leaue to the discrete Reader to discerne M. Bullinger his censure on them is this Of this iudgement was that beast Dauid George sayth he and this sect is the most pestilent of all others Thus much sayth M. Bullinger who was acquainted with theÌ„ as hee him selfe testifieth I did put truth for true belief thinkyng them to be all one neither as yet haue ye shewed any difference betwixt them I haue looked on HN. his text sufficiently God geue you grace to looke better on the Testament and to come backe to the truth whence ye haue slydden and kÃ©epe me in that which I doe and haue professed HN. THe true light hath not bene declared by any of them all that haue taken on set forth and taught before the same and without the same Familie of loue Heb. 9. b. 10. Theophilus YOu shuld do wel to alledge the text as it is and not your owne imagination which is that there is hath bene or can be any more thaÌ„ one true light vz. Christ or the loue whiche presently is appeared to his chosen in the house of loue or of god For before and without the Church and his seruice there caÌ„ be no truth taught W. Wilkinson THat our blynde southsayer told vs there is not any truth to be fouÌ„d without his fond Familie although it hath by me bene handled in that part of this Article which immediately goeth before yet this learned Elder of this Louely Familie barketh and brauleth stil against vs and will not suffer playne and manifest truth to stop his mouth And although the place by me alledged out of HN. be verbatim and word for word as I alledged it yet will he not be satisfied but as it were facyng me out with a carde of x. he sÃ©eketh to ouerrunne me with his eloqueÌ„ce sayth to blanke me withall that I haue mistaken and falsified the author But because he taketh me vp for an Imaginer of the text vouchsafe gentle and curteous Reader to way myne Imagination as he pleaseth to terme it The place by me rised out of the 1. Exhort of HN. Cap. 16. sent 9. fol. 42. is in the very first line thus Therefore the holy nor the most holy the true nor the most true light which the most highest hath presently in his most holy seruice vnder the obedience of the loue geuen vnto vs for to be declared forth hath not Heb. 9. b. 10. a. bene declared by any of theÌ„ all that haue taken on set forth and taught any thyng before this same or without this same our seruice of the loue Are not these my very wordes sauyng that for breuities sake I pretermitted your long and vnnecessary Parenthesis Haue I not delt truly with your houshold-father in that I truly and faythfully as from his owne mouth did report his wordes Am I not vniustly charged and falsely blamed for my Imagination in the text of so worthy an Author But seyng it is not expedient that I be myne owne iudge of myne innocencie I refer me to the sentence of the indiffereÌ„t Reader whom also I desire to be aduertised that he hath heard me take an Elder halting in his word wheÌ„ as the fayth of their Familie HN. I meane in the booke by him intituled Dictata per HN. or documentable sentences sayth nothing can come from the true perfection but all humilitie and meeke vertues and righteousnes floweth from all perfection Now if to slaunder and misreport be a worke of righteousnesse and worthy of their perfection let them glory therein I had rather in that sort be vnperfect As for me and those that desire not hand ouer head to receiue all that comes from euery maÌ„ it is sufficient and shal be that if they lauish out any vntruth that I be pardoned for not sealyng vnto it before I way it in Gods ballance least it proue light and try it at the touchstone least it be counterfeite The places of Scripture by HN. quoted are very impertinent and absurdely alledged hauyng not any thrÃ©e wordes that sounde toward such a sense as he would father on them Theophilus THere hath not bene is ne can be any more thaÌ„ one light which is presently appeared vnto his chosen in the house of loue or as HN. sayth our house of loue W. Wilkinson WHy then haue ye left the Churche into the which ye were Baptised why did ye promise ye would manfully fight vnder Christes banner and continue his faythfull souldiour and seruaunt to your liues end and now lyke a runnagate Apostata a cowardly souldiour or rather a traiterous Iudas ye betray his Saints to SathaÌ„ breake truce with the son of God into whose obedience ye were sworne Why do ye like children past grace insolently taunt and checke your mother and impudently tread vnder your fÃ©ete the Lordes pearles as most filthy swine why come you not to the light that your workes may be sene how they are wrought in God what meane you to frame and imagine to your selfe a new Churche For whereas so ofteÌ„ you affirme that you haue no church but ours no assemblies but ours why doth HN. terme it our Familie or seruice doth not this word our Familie note a particular secte or faction in the possession of a few Ye say very truely there can not bee any truth without the Churche If this be true then your doctrine is false for there is but one Lord one fayth one redeemer one spirite of sanctification one AbrahaÌ„ the father of the faithful one Isaac one Iacob one body wherof we all are meÌ„bers The Churche hath but one head and one body As for deridyng and scoffing Ismaell he shall be cast out with the bondmayd his mother prophane Esau shall haue no part in the Lordes inheritaunce neither your Schismaticall Familie vnles ye repent hartely for that which is past They Iewes cryed the Temple of the Lord yet were they a stiffenecked peopel you cry the schoole of grace the mercy seate the Familie of the Lord and yet all is but hypocrisie For the Iewes had an externall tabernacle instituted of god Therfore they might boast better thaÌ„ you You haue coined and inuented a Schisme yet very coÌ„fidently you affirme your conueÌ„ticle is the Church without the which is no truth to be looked for An Addition of HN. vnto the 2. Article NO maÌ„ sayth HN. how wise soeuer he be in the knowledge of the Scriptures can by any meane vnderstand or comprehend the wisedome of God but onely they

that be of the Familie who soeuer is without the Familie is inueigled with wiles subtletie and falsechode For no man rightly accordyng to truth of the Scriptures nor accordyng to the spirituall vnderstandyng of the godly wisdome can deale in or vse the true Gods seruice nor the seruices of the holy worde but onely the Illuminate Elders in the godly wisedome whiche walke in the house of loue The wise men of the world and the Scripture learned haue not knowen the veritie of the heauenly truth nor yet obteined or gotten the clearenes with Christ. It is mere lyes and vntruth what the Scripture learned through the knowledge they got out of the Scriptures institute or teach c. They preach in deede the letter and Imagination of their knowledge but not the word of the liuyng God. Therefore sayth he they are meÌ„ whose knowledge doth imagine much in them ARTICLE 3. of HN. No Baptisme WIthout the Familye of Loue sayth HN there is no true Christian Baptisme This same is the schole of grace to an euerlasting remission of sinnes ouer all such as cleaue there vnder There is no true Christianitye but the Comminalty of the holy ones in the loue of Christ Iesus Ion. 17. c. Ephe. 4. a. h. All other that haue not the Christian doctrine of the seruice of the loue forgoing their Baptisme It is not meete and conuenient that men should count such vnbeleuers and vnbaptised ones for Christians neither yet also for men at whose handes one should any way suppose or trust to finde any word of Ioh. 1. a. 3. a. gods truth or yet any workes Mar. 1. a. righteousnesse or Gods seruice that God regardeth or accepteth They are without Christes body Theophilus COnsider better of the text Rather vnder the obedience of the father and his loue vnder the obedience of Christ and his beliefe and the obedience of the holy ghost and his renewing of the lyfe and minde c. to be baptised in the name of the father the sonne and the holy ghost c. William Wilkinson WHat account HN. maketh of our Church and the truth therein taught is already declared Now followeth it to be vnderstode what his opinion is of our Sacramentes And first to speake of baptisme For of the holy Sacrament of the supper of our Lord he hath written very litle what he attributeth to our Church therein is playne that vnlesse we haue our foregoing in the doctrine of the loue we are not to be counted of him and his Fam to be baptised ones To the which I will aunswere briefly if first he shall satisfy me in this demaund Whether when there was no Family of Loue there were no vpright baptisme in England If he say there was a lawfull baptisme than is there an vpright baptisme without the foregoing of his louely doctrine and without his Family a true Christian baptisme If he say there was none than doe I aunswere that these Famelers in England are not rightly baptised speake the truth worke righteousnes or an acceptable worke in the sight of god To the which if the Familye shall further aunswere though then they were not yet since they haue bin rightly baptised This it may be Vitels the Ioyner will aunswere to approue his hereticall behauiour at Cholchester ad to this I am to reply that if the Fam. acknowledge a rebaptization then are they hypocrites all the sort of them For they in their last coÌ„fession being a rehearsall of their doctrine beliefe and religion affirme that they doe deale simply and playnely c We haue say they nor vse any other Ceremonyes lawes statutes nor Sacramentes of Baptisme and supper of the Lord then such as are ministred in the Church of England But I say that the Church of England vseth not rebaptization Therefore if they be rebaptised they be double faced dissemblers Furthermore if they shall affirme that they vse not other Sacramentes c. than is vsed in the Church of England that is in their Fam. in the Church of England because it was sayd in the first Article that we haue no Church without their Family I aunswere They pretend in their confession they deale faythfully with all men If this be their fayth what I pray you is their falshode Furthermore I let passe to repeate much lesse to confute that fond opinion of those vaine heads which thought the partyes baptised of heretiques ought to be rebaptised agayne Of this opinion the Fam. of Loue semeth to lyke very well for because they affirme before that without this Fam. there is no Christian baptisme And thus much for this Article is sufficient As for you frend Theophilus ye huddle vp so that no man can vnderstand you when you shall learne to speake out of the mouth and leaue to fumble with your c. I will tell you my minde more art large An addition of the 3. Article of HN. HN. Reproueth our doctrine with this terme and handful of water an Elementish water Whosoeuer is not baptized according to the forme and manner of Iohn who baptized the people confessing their sinnes flowing with the water of repentaunce into their hartes he is not rightly baptized neyther may he boast els that he is a Christian ARTICLE 4. HN. No forgeuenes of sinnes WIthout he Familye fayth HN. there is no forgeuenes of sinnes for this is the true Christianitye the Familye of Loue wherein God himselfe 2. Cor. 6. b. Apoc. 21. a. dwelleth liueth and walketh Theophilus FOr so it is agreable with the Scripture William Wilkinson THe truth of this exposition I must gladly graunt and willingly confesse vz. No pardon of sinnes without the Church of Christ For truely it is sayd No man must seuer or put in sunder that which God hath lincked together and so in our CrÃ©ede the Communion of Saintes and forgeuenesse of sinnes are ioyned together And S. Paule sayth that Christ gaue him selfe for the Churches to satisfy it and clense it by the washyng of the water through the woorde that hee might make it a glorious Church spotlesse and without wrinckle c. And I know very well that we are naked in our selues and poore but in Christ and his Churche so many as are members of that head are clothed richly with the manifold graces of God and continaully enriched And to this purpose fitly sayth the spirite of god by Esay the Prophet God is in the Churche and the 21. of the Apocal. 3. a. is fitly alledged and the truest hetherto that HN. hath cied As for his place out of the Corinth there is no such thyng nor any steppe of such a sence as he sÃ©emeth to alledge it for All the Article if it should be geuen yet shall you not thereby proue that without your particuler conueÌ„ticles and Schismaticall assembles is no remission of sinnes For the promise of the keyes and the remission is geuen to the Church which

vaine and endles Questions which engender strife of wordes more theÌ„ godly edifying of the which S. Paule geueth Timothy a straight charge to beware 1. Tim. 1.4 and 4. chap. Titus 1.14 2. Pe. 1.16 1. Tim. 6.4 The which watchword if our Familye had diligently taken hede vnto they had not so mightely ben deceiued with such strong illusions For this is the light vnto the which we must take hÃ©ede as vnto a candle shining in a dark place so shal we not faile of the reward after lyfe nor in this lyfe make shipwrack of our owne saluation Now followeth the second part of the comparison of D. George his heresies with HN. whereby we shall see the one not to be any whit in impietye inferiour vnto the other THe Familye of Loue in their first Epistle to M. Rogers pag. 72. lin 7. c. very vehemently stomack as their maner is because M. Rogers enlinketh HN. with Iohn a Leyde and the Archheretique Dauid George to haue ben confederates in spreading the heresie of the Anabaptistes at Munster Anno 1533. And least that M. Rogers should scape vntarred with their opprobrious EloqueÌ„ce they very louingly as well becommeth their Familye brande him with his marke An egregious vntruth vttered by this new shameles wrighter Furthermore they affirme that many learned wrighters testify the matter vz. of Dauid c to be Anabaptisme and yet say they this man will haue it the Familye of Loue and here they triumph hauing taken M. R. tardye as though the Familye of Loue and the Anabaptistes were such great straungers that at no time they had bin acquainted nor euer yet talked or met together To remoue the which doubt if any shall happen to stand in doubt which I thinke he will not that knoweth throughly what both the opinions meane by laying of the schismaticall opinions of these two heretiques together the Fam. shall not neede to be so straunge with their kinne nor be so nice because their faction is more famous then the other of their Elder brethren I meane the Anabaptistes The first opinion of Dauid George as M. Rogers alledgeth and M. Bullinger in his booke agaynst the Anabaptistes auoucheth to be true was this The doctrine taught by Moses Christ the Prophetes Apostles is vnto saluation but his heresie is perfect as he sayth to saluatioÌ„ The reasons which do induce me to thinke the heresie of Dauid George and HN. is in effect all one are because they iumpe both in this They prefer their owne doctrine before the doctrine of Moses Christ the Apostles Prophetes and secondly affirme it is abler to saue those that heare their 's theÌ„ the other Now to proue they prefer their doctrine before Moses c. This shal be playne and an vndeniable reason The doctrine which in the Churche of England the Lordes most holy name be praysed for it is by Publike authorie commaunded by all that preache the same approued and by the Fam. of Loue confessed to be the doctrine of Moses c. But they say that this is not sufficient vnto saluation Therefore are they Anabaptistes and Dauid Georges Schollers For proofe of the first proposition that the doctrine by publique authoritie commaunded is the doctrine of Moses c. they will not deny it for so much as they haue in their CoÌ„fession of their fayth published An. 1575. openly protested that they are not iustly to bee blamed accused detected or burthened as transgressors of the law agaynst any of the Queene her Maiesties proceedyng in causes Ecclesiasticall c. But all men know that it is an Ecclesiasticall cause concernyng the truth of doctrine Publiquely preached therfore they are likewise obedient to her therein If they shall here sÃ©eke to starte by affirmyng that they meane outward pollicie of the Church that is a thyng of lesse waight then the doctrine of the word of God openly professed for that the truth of the word is alwayes one and immutable it is the same vnto all nations and people of the world But the externall pollicie in gouerning the Church is mutable neither alwayes one but chaunged diuersly in diuers places accordyng to the state of the places tymes and people Therfore they shall aunswere here nakedly if they say that they agrÃ©e vnto the pollicie of gouernement not vnto the doctrine of the Churches of England they shall shewe very plainly and that they 1. deale doublely notwithstaÌ„dyng they pretend in their foresayd Confession that they deale with all men vprightly faythfully and charitably Further more when as in their confession meÌ„cionyng Religion they affirme that they obey our soueraigne Lady the Queene and the Magistrates our foregoers spirituall and temporall c. Whiche by the word of God they should not neither ought to do vnlesse the doctrine by the Prince commaunded were from God therefore secondly I conclude that they confesse the doctrine by vs professed publiquely to be the doctrine of Moses Christ and the Apostles and Prophetes and this is the proofe of my first proposition But coÌ„cernyng the second proposition vz. that the doctrine of Moses is vnsufficieÌ„t is apparauÌ„t For no man in the choyse of two thyngs wherof he must nÃ©edes chuse the one will chuse that which is insufficient therefore is the particular Fam. whiche they fayne vnto them selues thought by theÌ„ more sufficieÌ„t then the Publique doctrine assembly of our Church ChristiaÌ„ congregation Now least they should shift in saying that our Chruch theirs is all one as some times they do to dazell and deceiue the simple I aunswere that in the third Epistle that is Extant of theirs to M. Rogers they affirme that of such an houshold as we haue challenged to our selues they are straungers Therefore say I they thinke their Fam. to be more sufficient for to attaine saluation in then the open visible Church of Christ is England which doth impugne their Familie And to this purpose very naturally they Exhort such as be wise among vs to looke ouer the Scriptures agayne For if their Fam. of Loue haue founde the true or old way correspondent with all the doctrine of the Apostles of Iesus Christ and therfore s needfull that without it there shall no man finde mercy with God or els through Christ become saued Item read the second Article of HN. pag. 23. and there this is handled at large The places which further at large out of their bookes proue this matter are 1. Exhort cap. 12. sent 42. 20. sent 7. Dictata cap. 9. sent 3. Eu aÌ„ cap. 3. sent 3. cap. 23. sent 7. cap. 24. sent 25. in all the which they affirme as Dauid George doth in his heresie that onely their Familie is sufficient vnto saluation whereby is clearely auouched that their Fam. of Loue are guiltie in the first degrÃ©e Dauid George his second heresie was that he affirmed himselfe Christ and Messias the beloued sonne of God.

this lyfe they shall fÃ©ele in some measure the torment and worme of the conscience that they shall haue in the world to come when as the godly shall haue all ioye that can possible be thought and more in dÃ©ede then mortall man can imagine the quietnesse of conscience that passeth all vnderstandyng but this is meant of this lyfe and not to be vnderstanded of the resurrection or the lyfe to come For that in all that Chapter the meanyng scope of the Prophet is not to handle any such matter And thus much for the manner how the personnes whereby and the doctrine that is taught by them whom the scripture termeth an heretique which in my iudgement doth as fitly agrÃ©e to HN. and is by S. Peter as fully foretold as if he had liued in HN. his tyme and bin priuie vnto all his dealinges Now in one word concerning HN. his stile and the maner of the deliuerye of his opinions in his bookes His method is take it among ye The thred of his speach is sometymes knotty and sometimes great and sometyme small as vnskilfull spinners vse to afford his grace and giftes in peÌ„ning thereof is euen such as Marcion is reported to haue vsed in penning of his hereticall writings Whose whole talke of the spirite was in such a straunge kinde of stile that those which hard or read them at the first did wonder at them And this being a part of that wherein our Familye doe as it were wonderfull loue and make of themselues so that in their speach which they dayly vse in talke with any man if euer they may be gotten to confer of the knowledge of the Scriptures of the law of sinne inner man and regeneration of the humblyng of the soule which are the largest Common Places of their studye straight way by the vnusualnes of their speaches and strauÌ„ge termes ye may easely vnderstand what way they are enclined So that when I my selfe haue spoken publiquely the great paynes which I haue taken in perusing their bookes haue so acquainted my selfe with HN. his phrases that I vsing them at vnwares haue by diuers which knew me not ben suspected to be priuie vnto their doctrine But concerning the generall noates of an heretique this shall suffice with the perticuler application thereof vnto HN. it remaineth that I confer his opinions with the perticuler fantasies of diuers heretiques with whom we shall finde him so to agrÃ©e that it may easely appeare they haue had all but one and the same Scholemaister who hath instructed them in the same principles to ouerthrow and disquiet the Church of God. HN. his opinions compared with Heretiques opinions THe Origianists Nepotians and Priscilianists did altogether peruert the certaintye of the written word of God by turning it into allegoryes so doth HN. Docum sent or Dictatis cap. 3. sent 11. 12. Euang. cap. 8. sent 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. epist. 3. cap. 22. sent and almost in euery side of euery leafe in all his wrightinges 2. The Montanistes Praeputians Donatists Luthusiastes Monkes and Anabaptists boast of reuelations so doth HN. Euang. cap. 2. sent 1. contrary to the Scriptures 1. Gal. 8. ver 3. The Cerdonians Marcionites and Appellites boast of their new Prophets and prefer them before the olde so did the Anabaptistes prefer Thomas Muncer their Arch-heretique before Luther and Zuinglius Bulleng fol. 9. b. Vitels in his reply to M. Rogers display termeth HN. a Prophet in these wordes Ye despise HN. because he sayth he is a Prophet sent of God but the tyme may come that you shall finde his prophesie true and in the same reply he sayth whereas ye say that HN. doth call himselfe Rectorer of all thinges I aunswere that there is no such word writteÌ„ by him and yet hath the Lord accomplished according to his promises through the spirite of Christ in him all what he hath spoken through the mouth of his seruauntes the Prophets And agayne ye say we affirme HN. to be the true Prophet of God sent to blow the last trumpe of doctrine which shall be blowne vpon the earth marke what his workes testifie of him and so is he whether it be beleued or not 4. Noetus sayd he was Moses HN. sayth he is Malachias and Iohn Baptist praeface Euang. sent 3. 5. The Heracleonites made a double confession of God wherof either part was equall one was with the hart only and the other with the mouth to auoyd persecution So doth HN. Dictatis 16. chapter 18. sent and 11. epist. cap. 6. sent 3. So sayth Theoph. that the misteries ought not to be reueiled to the withstanders c. contrary to the scripture 1. Pet. 3.15 Heb. 10.23 Phil. 2.11 6. The Messalians taught it was lawfull to deny God and the fayth of Christ Theophilus sayth the beliefe ought to be declared to all men But not the secrets no more theÌ„ we ought to coÌ„fesse to a theefe what treasure we haue about vs the Anabaptistes thought it was frÃ©e vnto them either to confesse or deny their fayth in persecution the sam opinion held the Priscianistes and the Andiani contrary to the Scriptures Math. 10.33 Luke 9. 26. and 12.8 contrarye to HN. his owne doctrine 1. exhor cap. 5. sent 9. cap. 6. sent 1. cap. 4. sent 5. 7. 8. cap. 12. sent 22. 7. The Hetianites Cerinthians Nazarenes affirmed that Ceremonies of Moses law are to be kept of necessitye so sayd the false Apostles Act. 15.1 so sayth HN. Euang 13. chap. 4. sent contrarye to S. Iohn cap. 19.30 and the whole epist. to the Galatians 8 The Nazarenes had more Gospels then 4. the Papistes had S. Thomas and other gospels HN. hath made a gospell of his owne contrarye to S Paule Gal. 6.8 9 The Basilidians thought that the misteries of Fayth ought to be reuealed to few so thought the Papistes so thinketh the Fam. 10. Hymineus and Menander thought that sanctification and regeneration of the spirite was the resurrection of the flesh coÌ„founding the first and second resurrection so doth HN. 1. exhor cap. 7 sent 24. 11. epist. cap. 5. sen 10. and Dictat cap. 6. sent 3 he sayth the 15. chap. to the Corinthians verses 50.53.54 are not meant of the earthly body in these wordes Verely the mortall whereof S. Paule witnesseth is not any creature of earthly flesh and bloud but it is the liuing worde or being of God which in the beginning was mortall in the manhode and is in vs for our sinnes cause became mortall 11. The Aerians and Iouinians refused to come to sermoÌ„s so doe the Familiers of Loue which be illuminated For sayth HN. As long as the yongons are childish and not yet growne vp into the Elderdome of the perfect being they are yet vnder the ordinaunce of the Lord of his word not that they should alwayes remaine as subiect there vnder but vntell the appoynted tyme vntell the manly olde age in the godly vnderstanding of the holy worde

that is to know to cary an instructioÌ„ in memory in memoria habere to RomeÌ„ber or haue in remembraunce And to cary in vnderstanding intelligentia compraehendere to vnderstand from the which proprieties of speach if either HN. or Theophilus shall sÃ©eke to slip they shall straight declare how well they are ouersene in the tounges and common speach So that if vpon all these we shall gather this sentence The Familie must not know remember nor vnderstand the doctrine or instruction whiche the Eldest in the Familie deliuereth forth vnto them which Eldest sayth Theophilus is Christ him selfe and his holy worde How blasphemously and Papistically HN. and Theophilus do play the heretiques is manifest For what man is so blynd that he will not sÃ©e or so gracelesse that he will not confesse that The word of God must be knowne remembred and vnderstode of the simple if this be not Popery what is Popery And that First the simple ought to know Secondly vnderstand Thirdly remember these places quoted for proofe out of the Scripture shal be sufficient Furthermore HN. is contrary to his owne doctrine which he him selfe teacheth in his owne bookes whereas for his vsual Embleme he taketh 1. Exhort cap. 12. sent 10. b. this sentence or posie for his coÌ„mon badge whereby his bookes are knowne froÌ„ others of his fellow Elders Take it to hart Which is according to the best translations Let thine hart hold fast my wordes Where it is ment that his wordes ought wholly and throughly to be knowne vnderstode and remembred contrary to his former doctrine in the place first alledged But to let passe these two former partes of contrarietie betwixt HN. and the written word of God secondly betwixt him selfe and his owne writynges if we diligently way and consider we shall assuredly finde that this thyrd clause concerning naturall reason and common experience it is as wholly agaynst HN. and impugneth his doctrine as truth is agaynst falsehode and light darknes And herein to vse the same example which the Scripture doth in like matter The wiseman doth very excellently commend the diligence of diuers men in their sundry occupations and seuerall handlabours As the Grauer in his Imagery the Smith at his anuill the Potter at his clay all these sayth the wiseman vse wisedome in their worke whiche they could not do vnlesse their common practise had taught them experience and vse makyng theÌ„ perfect they should by remembraunce renew the same from tyme to tyme which they before had learned And to vse yet more familiar example think you that it is lyke that when Vitels Maister instructed him in his Arte of Ioignerie was it not conuenient for him to instruct his Prentice Vitels often in those thynges whereby he might get his liuyng in time to come and was it not Vitels part to cary his maisters Arte and his instructions in his memory and vnderstandyng els if he had not remembred his maisters preceptes how should he hauâ— compacted that great knowledge neither haue got the singular coÌ„mendation for to be so skilfull a Ioyner as his Familie doth report of him that he is albeit for greater matters sake he hath lefte that his trade now professeth him selfe a teacher in that his Louely Familie What Schoolemaster vnto his Scholers would so ofteÌ„ take paynes to inculcate and repeate the selfe same principles with great labour vnto the one and vnpleasauntnes vnto the other if he thought it not expedient that it should be of him remembred And blessed Esay saith Precept must be vpon precept and line vpon line here a litle and there a litle to the end that by often iteratyng the same thyng it might the better be remeÌ„bred But sÃ©ekyng to conuince HN. by the ineuitable and most certaine rule of reason why doe I alledge Scripture seyng that the excellent Philosophers Themistocles Simonides Carneades Sceptius Metrodorus are singularly praysed in prophane writers for the worthy remembraunce which they had in Philosophy and other Sciences and shal we thinke that seyng by the kÃ©epyng of Gods commaundements there is great reward ought we not to remember those thynges for the remeÌ„braunce wherof we shal receaue a reward or how shal we kÃ©epe them if we do not remember them True it is that is wisely remembred by a HeatheÌ„ Oratour Memoria non modo Philosophiam sed omneÌ„ vitae vsum omnesque Artes vna maxime continet RemembrauÌ„ce doth not onely conteine Philosophy but also the whole practise of mans lyfe yea she alone comprehendeth all other Artes and Sciences whatsoeuer But what should I oppose the iudgement of the wise agaynst him that is witles and the Scriptures diuine testimonies agaynst a prophane and godles Atheiste Whose scope iustly iuÌ„peth with the Romanistes in this to forbyd a particular knowledge in matters of saluation and to teach that if men beleue as the Church beleueth they can not do amisse In the confutation wherof seing that by these thrÃ©efold testimonies I haue throughly conuinced HN. his Assertion for this 8. Article and all the partes therof let this be sufficient ARTICLE 9. HN. Of Reuelations FOr vnto the Elders and Fathers God hath reueled his word in this day of loue Publishyng of the peace cap. 1. sent 12. 6. The Lord hath reueled the true beyng vnto me out of Sion and Ierusalem Esay 2. a. Mich. 4. a. 2. Pet. 1. b. HN. sayth the mistery of the kingdome of god Math. 25. d. Actes 16.17 d. Iude. 1. b. his righteous iudgementes and the commyng of Christ now in the last time in the resurrection of the dead Ezech. 37. b. Iohn 5. e. Rom. 8. b. Phil. 3. b. is declared vnto him as vnto an elect vessell house or dwellyng of God from the mouth of God himselfe HN. sayth hee will declare the secret mysteries of God and make relation of thynges that are hidden from the beginnyng of the world William Wilkinson VNto many it may sÃ©eme straunge and scarse credible vnto some that there should lyue a people vpon the earth whiche not holdyng them selues content with the written word of God would adde vnto it some tricke of their own deuising which although they agrÃ©ed as euill as a new pÃ©ece of clothe vnto an old garment yet fayne would they their toyes were pewefellowes with the sacred truth of God not onely to match but some tymes to geue a checkemate vnto the same Yet vnto him that equally considereth all things with an vnpartiall eye it is easely to be sene that it was not onely the practise of the Popishe Prelacie so to outface the simplicity of the Scripture partly with the bringyng their blynd and vnsauery traditions partly with the burthenyng of the church with the intollerable yoke of their vnwritten verities but the dealyng of the Anabaptistes and Libertines and all other like Heretiques hath agrÃ©ed in this accord that when the touchstone would not serue and a naked truth would not so much hide

handled more at large And though that those which know not Theophilus bringing vp may by vnsÃ©emely and vnciuile speach thinke it to haue ben very rude in that at the first stoppe he breatheth out into this homely phrase that is vntrue and ye vtterly shame your selfe yet being somewhat acquainted and hauing as his phrase is an experimentall knowledge of his modestie I toke him better then he meaneth not measuring him by his owne elwand For I wot well it alwayes will be truth that the ould Oratour sayth to his frend Qui semel vericundiae fines transiliuerit c. He that once hath raunged without the listes of honestye he without all hoe must nÃ©edes be impudent To proue that I haue vnderstode amisse and falsified HN. his meaning in my places which I haue set downe Theophilus referreth me to the Lamentable complaint to the same sect which I quoted before thinking belike the if I looked againe I should finde it otherwise in the section 6.7 The words that I misliked in that place are these Euen as partely that same is well knowen and become manifest vnto vs of certaine namely of those which are the auncientest in the scripturlearnednes or principallest in the Ceremonye seruice which haue made vp themselues agaynst the truth of Gods testimonies and his promises agaynst the holy spirite of Christ and agaynst the Loue c. This place whome HN. in playne wordes auoucheth that the Auncientest that is the Bishops and reuerend Fathers and preachers of the word in the Scripture learnednes the principallest in the Ceremonye seruice c. is that wherewith I charged him The same is more euidently also to be sene 1. Exhor cap. 15. sentence 8. and 10. c. which is a slaunderous and a blasphemous section which because it is tedious I refraine to set downe verbatim after HN. his copie And Chapt. 16. sent 3. For certaine take in hand vse out of the imagination of the knowledge whereon they set their hartes at peace false God seruices which they notwithstandyng institute or bryng in for true God seruices Religions Lawes and Commaundementes of God and plant the same knowledge into the people as though they ought of right to be obedient thereunto And sent 14. Dare any man teach or set forth any thyng through the imagination of the knowledge whether he then haue taken on the same out of the learnednesse of the Scriptures or out of his good thinking wisedome as a word or Commaundement of the Lord or yet to institute any seruices out of the letter of the Scripture accordyng to his good thinking and so to plucke or make subiect the hartes of men to dissention thereunder c. sent 15. 16. By all the which places it is manifest what opinion he hath of the preachyng of Gods word that it is but an institute knowledge inuented by mans wit to the bredyng of discord disseÌ„tion then the which I say not what Papist what Atheist or Macheuile in the world could write or inuent any thyng more vngodly Besides this I am able to auouch by myne own experieÌ„ce that some with whoÌ„ I haue conferred which haue affirmed that the Scripture is to hard for a simple maÌ„ and therfore the bookes of HN. do make a more easie passage and geue a readyer way to the vnderstandyng therof In somuch as when that the Elders haue perswaded any man to become their sectarie they haue for a tyme taken all the bookes of holy Scriptures from him and all other bookes altogether and geue him the bookes of HN. to meditate and be exercised in and this is that which HN. him selfe exhorteth them after this sort Glasse your beyng and minde in the glasse of righteousnes Iam. 1. c. and behold therein how many spottes and wrinkles there are yet in you Wherein he sheweth that he preferreth his booke which he termeth the Glasse of righteousnesse before the word of God in referryng them thereunto for to espy the spottes of sinne cleane contrary to the word of God which teacheth vs that the knowledge of sinne commeth by the law And this he doth not in this place alone but also almost at the end of euery Chapter in his Euang. This horrible treason agaynst God and his word as it would make any Christian hart to melt so is it not for the manifest impietie therof by many argumentes or places so much to be confuted as by the losse of the lyues of such gracelesse Atheistes to be chastised which the sooner shall stay if those to whom the Lord hath committed the care of his Church and gouernaunce of this commoÌ„ wealth shal by some waight of seuere and sharpe lawes kÃ©epe vnder so horrible impietie and blasphemy agaynst the sonne of god For herein is the infection more pestilent that the bookes of HN. beyng made of equall countenaunce with the word of God the writynges of HN. are receiued as a playne and easie truth the word of God either wholy abandoned and set aside or els read by the ouersight and allowance of their Elders who often tyme dust the beames of the truth by their vayne Allegories and idle Expositions But this is the iudgement of God which is iustly in great measure come vpon vs that whilest diuers of the ministers of the word haue not preached the word as the word of God and the people haue heard it as the word of man it is come to passe I say that our eyes are blynded least we should sÃ©e and our eares waxed deafe least we should heare our hartes are waxed dull least we should beleue and so the secret though iust punishment of hardnes of hart is come vpon vs so that thereby euery day we are nearer hell then other For what wickednes can be compared with this or what blasphemie hath the world euer bene witnes of the like that the fonde nature of our flesh as a swift streame hath caryed vs to the depth of such impietie that we should loade and burthen the blessed word of the eternall God with such intemperate and graceles tauntes as to doubt whether the truth be the truth or no. Well I say no more but he that is filthy let him be filthy still And that Argument which S. Paule thinketh to be of such weight to proue his preachyng to haue bene the vndoubted truth of God the same would I vse to perswade all such as wauer in the truth therof Proue your selues whether ye are in the fayth examine your selues knowe ye not your owne selues how that Iesus Christ is in you except ye be cast awayes c. Wherein S. Paule appealeth vnto their owne conscieÌ„ce to approue the certaintie of his doctrine truth of his Apostleshyp Right so say I vnto the Familie of Loue that whereas they affirme we teach nothyng but our owne good thinkyng I demaunde of them when they heare the word of God preached and their consciences shaken with the terrour thereof

definition sith already euery part is confuted it shal in this place spare me a further labour In the definition as he termeth it there are coÌ„tained diuers out-roades extrauagant varying of phrases altogether repugnyng vnto Arte which willeth that euery deffinition be as brief and playne as possible may be yet is HN. his definition so compacted together as if the one part of it stode at Collen and the other at Amsterdam but herein rather pitie we his folly then enuy his learning and dexteritie in formyng a fit definition But seyng we haue founde fault with HN. his definition of the vpright fredome let vs sÃ©e if there may a more playne and pithy definition be drawne then erst he hath set downe Christian libertie is the forgiuenesse of sinnes Psal. 32.1 a Rom. 4.8 Purchased by the death of Christ Rom. 4.25 d. Ephes 1.7 b. Preached vnto vs by the Gospell Ioh. 8.32.2 Tim. 1.10 c. sealed by the vse of the word Actes 13.26 d. Rom. 1.16 b. and Sacramentes Rom. 4.11 1. Cor. 11.26 The which definition I reale to amplifie or to prosecute the partes therof because the testimonies of the holy Scriptures shal be my sufficient warrant in that behalf The second crime that HN. burtheneth our Ministry withall is that those that preach are vnregenerate vnrenewed which that it hindreth not the truth of doctrine in that it is taught by a wicked person is apparaunt by the testimonie of our Sauiour who biddeth the Disciples and the people obey the doctrine of the Scribes and pharisies which sit in Moses chaire but do not after their lyfe which he would not haue done if the Pharisies euill lyfe had made voyde the truth of their doctrine But this is touched more in the 5. Article where it is impugned by HN. that a man lewde in lyfe can not speake the truth in doctrine The thyrd crime of preachyng out of the learnednes of the letter we shall haue a fitter place to touch it afterward in the next Article The fourth crime which HN obiecteth is coalewortes more then tenne times sodden and yet being refused by vs eftsone is in the next seruice set downe For how often doth he in his wofull exhortation still heate vpon this a ceremonie seruice that maintayneth dissention and agayne which stretcheth no further but to the breding of schisme partialitye and sedition among the people quoting Math. 24. a. 5. ve and b. 24. v. Where Christ sayth Many false Christes shall arise and deceiue many HN. expoundeth it of those which professe religion without his loathsom and schismaticall Familye and in the same place he quoteth 1. Cor. 3. a. 3. Iam. 3. b. which conteineth a discription of the intemperancie of the tongue being abused he vilanously doth aply it to those preachers which reuereÌ„tly handle the pure word of God without his hereticall secresie and frentique conuenticle and in the same 15. Chap. of HN The simple and vnlighted people Ierem. 23. c. d. Ezech. 13. b. ver 8.9.10 c. become therewith seduced and beguiled Math. 24. c. 2. Tim. 3.4 2. Pet. 2. a. Iude. 1. b. still HN. applieth those places to the preachers of Gods worde which are ment of him and such lyke bedlem heretiques as he is as also captiued with many diuises and sectes the which knowledge of the worde that the same preachers haue HN. termeth in the same blasphemous and schismaticall chap. Variaunce renting or diuision bringing forth discordable disputations about vnprofitable argumentes Rom. 1. d. Galla. 5. c. 1. Tim. 6. a. Titus 3. a. Iam. 3. b. then the which what can be vttered with more malice or set abroach with more cancred hatred and yet will HN. nÃ©edes be counted the Father of the Familye that in it hath nothing but loue and mÃ©eke mindednes The which accusation of his as it is most pestilent and full fraught with an hart wholy resolued to raile and backbite vnder the cloake of calmenes so is it a thing that continually hath ben obiected agaynst the Church to infring the trueth thereof after this sort There are in such and such particuler Churches disagreementes in some pointes of doctrine varietye of iudgemeÌ„tes ergo there is no truth in those Churches This I say is an ould Argument framed first by heretiques vsed by the Papistes as an Iron flayle and now againe furbushed and being new fethered is shotte againe cleane besides the white and the butt also For the auncient Fathers hauing it often obiected to them frier Hosias and the graceles runnagate Staphilus and M. Harding himselfe hath often turned this stone which so is fastened by the Father of blessed remembraunce the Byshop of Salisburye that if all the Famblers of Loue and heretiques in the world shall set their shoulders vnto it therewith to ouerwhelme the truth they neuer shall be able so much as once to stir it and yet if they should they must take hÃ©ede that in the rembling therof they crush not all their bones in sunder to their vtter confusion But that this gappe may finally be stopped that hereafter HN. neuer with his fellow hereticks breake in to disturbe the peace of Sion let it be remembred that is written Gen. 13.7 b. 27.11 Luke 22.24 c. Actes 15.39 f. 1. Cor. 1.11 b. Gal. 2.11 c. that alwayes in the Church of God there hath ben iarres aswell in maners as also in religion And thus much brieflye for this second part of HN. his doctrine of the dignitye of the word and the opinion of the truth thereof As for Theophilus who frendly geueth me counsell to blaze my selfe in the former definition of a Libertine I doe him to know that such libertye as is to be claymed by mercye and imputation of the death of Christ that libertie from sinne I loke for and none other and this is that which in my poore iudgment all the children of God doe loke for Rom. 8.20.21 both in this lyfe as also in the lyfe to come As for his Rhetoricall terme of blazing and Blazonrie I wish him to spare it tell he come in place where he may haue occasion to vse it for vnto me if he be that party whome some that wishe well to the Familye report to me that he is he should not haue needed to haue shadowed him selfe by a terme of heraultrie but if I were disposed to blase his coate perhaps if I should say that he were like to be that E. R. which ouershot himselfe in his Epistle to I. R. I might so dissipher his personage that the vizard of Theophilus should not be sufficient to saue him that he be not knowne by blushing but it is good for him to kÃ©epe him to that which he is called and rather to learne the principles of the Catechisme and the first groundes of Gods feare then to busie bimselfe in that which he hath no skill of to the hurt of the Church the offence of the weake and endamaging of

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