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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

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

HN. dare not expresly and definitiuely so affirme least all mē should hold him for a false Prophet yet as it were a sloape and couertly affirmeth it in takyng vnto him the prophecie of Christ c. as is declared before pag. 52. 53. so that yet in the second degrée D.G. and HN. agrée very filthy in their heresies ech with other Dauid George his third heresie was this that he would restore the house of Israell and the tribe of Leuy he will rayse the tabernacle of God by the spirite of Christ That HN. is the minister by whom the Church is restored through the spirite of the Loue or of God in many and sundry places cited already is more thē manifest if though they beyng incident to the matter I should repeat them they of the Fam. would charge me that I alledged thē often to make the volume arise the greater Let it therefore besides the places quoted already in the pag be sufficient for me by one testimony out of his Euang. to proue this in him to be true wherewith I charge him Now in the same day shall the Citie of the Lord be builded vpon her brief place or auncient roome of the tēple of the Lord or tabernacle of his dwellyng shall stand euen as the same ought to stand Namely inwardly in vs in the beyng of the holy Ghost and therefore when HN. is disposed to boast of the restoring of the hill of the Lord and of the repayring of the Church then straight he vseth to quote Esay 2. chap. 2. vers d. and Micheas 4. chap. 1. vers d. and thē immediatly before or after straight hee putteth this shall come to passe in this day of the Loue or now or in this same most newest day of the loue c. vpon the which places as those most often wherein the redyfiyng of the Church by Christ is prophecied and foretold of by the Prophetes he that marketh this obseruation well shall see him stumble very often What may be gathered thereby is not hard to coniecture vz. that he dreamed and so would néedes perswade his Disciples the instauration of the Churche should be perfected by him Euang. 2. chapter 1. sect 2. leafe And in the third Chap. section the first and 9. are notable places to verifie the truth of this verdict which for breuitie I pretermit onely notyng them not further meanyng to encomber the Reader with them and thus much to proue that HN. agréeth with D. George in his iij. heresie Dauid George his fourth heresie That who soeuer speaketh agaynst his doctrine shall neuer be forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come In this doth HN. fitly with Dauid George agrée accord in one as in my Additions may appeare at large to the 3. and 4. Articles and Theophilus him selfe will not deny it For hee expoundeth HN. his meanyng thus in the 13. Article in these wordes To the enemyes or enuious of the loue of Christ and to the obstinate which turne them away there from there is no mercy promised Yf this be not all one both in wordes and sence with Dauid George I cā not tell what it should bee to agrée with him at euery turne both in wordes and sence And because by the way of comparison I haue in the former Articles declared that HN. and Dauid George do fully consent and agrée in the principall matters wherewith we charge them let it be lawfull for me good Reader to set one foote further in this comparison that I may shew more euidently how in as weighty a point as hethereto I haue layd agaynst them that in the accord of their heresie they so conspire either with other that it clearely and to HN. his perpetuall shame it may be affirmed which M. Rogers reporteth that Dauid George layd the egge of this heresie and HN. hatched the chickens As for HN. though it séemeth his wit is pestilent enough to peruert the truth yet by Dauid George his Maisters whettyng him forward hauyng of him selfe a cankred mynde agaynst the truth and a swellyng hart he became x. fold more the sonne of perdition in beyng wholy bent to seduce the simple that thereby he might not so much be holy as he pretended as increase his priuate wealth which by his fiskyng to and fro was not a litle empayred For to affirme that in word which the deed it selfe auoucheth to be true sufficiently apparaunt it is that Dauid George first put downe the principles of this secte which when he had so done and with writhyng and wrestyng had brought his heresie into tune HN. was now by him further to be instructed how with a malitious mynde and perilous wit he might runne descāt at will and quauer at pleasure vpon this straunge doctrine and new tuned opinions The first straine wheron this further heretical accord was to be stretched was this that after D. George perceiued that openly in the face of the world to professe his opinions was not without spot godly Magistrates had diligently prouided that the Church of God should no lōger receiue any detrimēt straight way then did he forge this new found fond principle as a soueraigne salue to cure that mischeuous maladie and imminent perill which abode those that were defiled with that horrible infection And seing the daunger was not smale to be outragious in so great a matter he thought it sufficient that his sectary bare a good hart stode single in myndedly vnto his doctrine to kéepe their consciences to themselues and for their further quietnes sake to cōforme themselues to any people whatsoeuer amongest whome they liued with whome they had to deale This as it was a principall point so was it also a pestiferous poyson wherewith the diuel hath deceiued many a simple soule and thrown many a stumbling block in the way of the wauering and weake harted Christian That this was Dauid George his opinion and that hereafter I be not sayd to slaunder him let M. Bullenger be heard who testifieth thus of him Of this opinion was this beast D. George whiche sect also is the most pestilent of all others To the which I further adde Of this opinion is that wretched man HN. and by this bayte hath he choaked more Christians then by any other whatsoeuer For hereby in the tyme of Papistry he had his faultors also whom by the Suthwarke Ioyner he licensed to be present at Idolaters seruice and to kéepe their consciences secret vnto themselues hauing taught them before it was an indifferent thing to hould any thing so they kept the doctrine of the Loue by him taught vnto them And this is manifest in his Euangelye especially in that O yes which he maketh before his blasphemous proclamation to the whole world in these words following To the louers of the truth here and there wheresoeuer or in what part of the world they dwell or haue their abode of what sort

this long tyme borne their schollers in hand and others whome they séeke to seduce nay doe they not now at this instant perswade the simple that Henrye Nicolas and Christofer Vitels are no such men as they are bruted amōgest the people The lyke is reported by Iosias Simlerus in his Epistle prefixed before M. Bullengers booke agaynst the Anabaptistes Of the Anabaptistes themselues whom he sayth fly open conference and créeping from house and seduce the simple M. Huldrich Zuinglius in the same wordes doth vtter the same sence of the Catabaptistes of his tyme which sayth he priuily spread abroad their bookes in the handes of their owne sectaries Whereas when Christ taught any thing he came first into the Sinagogue priuilye sayth our Sauiour I haue sayd nothing The Apostles in semblable maner whē they preached any thing they came to the temple and when the hye priestes called them and commaunded them to silence committed them to prison the Aungell of the Lord sayd vnto them goe your way and stand in the temple and speake vnto the people c. Furthermore S. Paule comming vnto Antiochia on the Sabboth day he went into the Sinagogue and being at Athens when he saw the whole Citie geuen to Idolatrye openly in the market place he disputed with the Epicures and Stoick Philosophers and such as he met and Standing in the middest of the Mars streate he openly inueighed agaynst the superstitiō of that worthy Citye and Vniuersitye euen to the faces of the greatest Clerkes and wisest men or naturall light I meane in all the world besides Neither was S. Paule affraid of all their learning and countenaunce but boldly hee preached vnto them the vnknowen God and the resurrection from the dead vnto whome how vnlyke our Familyes are in zeale of profession I leaue to the whole world that knoweth them to iudge and their owne consciences to testifie For whether in the teaching of their doctrine and in the defending of the same they are lykest to the auncient Anabaptistes and to the ould heretiques and vnto S. Paule the Apostle this one coullor wherby we sée a schismatique discribed can sufficiently testifie For if the doctrine secretly taught by those who are termed the Famlye of Loue be such a truth and grounded vpon such inuincible profes as they in euery corner vse to bragge of why follow they not that course which the sonne of God by his example shaped forth vnto them that is euen in the presence of the ciuill and spirituall Magistrate in the chiefest Citye of the Realme and that in the concourse and greatest assēblies of the people why doe they not before them that openly blame them and in sermōs publiquely confute them protesting the truth of HN. his bookes openly at Paules crosse Nay being at Paules Crosse for their fantasticall opinions why doe they deny them and renounce them with detestation openly But herein did the Anabaptistes deale more orderly then our Fam. in England For they procured an open conference and disputation to be had in the presence of the Maiestrate thereby to testifie their schisme to be truth but our Fam. are so far from procuring an open that dare not abide a priuate conference if they be therevnto vrged by any man priuately without witnes whereby they indéede betray their sect to be but a scisme and shew how far vnlyke they are herein vnto the olde Prophets and Apostles of the Primatiue Church 2. Token of an heretique out of Scripture THe second note of an heretique saith S. Paule is this that those which sowe the corrupt séede of such erroneous doctrine as schismatiques most commōly doe they become vaine ianglers desirous to teach yet vnderstād not what they speake nor whereof they affirme Whereby it is geuē to vnderstād that they who in S. Paule his tyme began to sowe such séede were but simple men and in knowledge very base in that they toke in hand to dispute they wot not what and maintain that which they had no skill of Such in times past were heretiques and such as thought it a glorious and glittering thing in the sight of the world to set abroad straunge opinions that they onely might cary away the prick and prise not hauing so much as the emptye caske smalest smacke of learning And so alwayes hath it falne out that those partyes which first taught heresies were least able to defend them tel by little and little they gathered strength Sometyme vaine heades being not altogether vnlearned tooke part with them and vnhapely labored to perfect that which was vngratiously begone The chief of the Anabaptistes in Germanie were men silly for their wits rather to be pittied for their follie thē enuied for their knowledge Which being weary of their seuerall craftes and occupations sought by a more easie trade to get their liuyng And beyng of meane and illiberall sciences sought in the profession and interpretation of the word to shoulder and out face the Preachers therof with reprochfull tauntes and scoffes vntollerable such was Cnipper Dollyng and Iohn a Leid beyng a Boatcher HN. was a Mercer in Amsterdam and those who are yet alyue both in Emdene and London els where who haue kept him company and knew him very wel affirme that his knowledge was but small neither was he expert in any toung saue his owne Dutch toūg onely neither was he euer trayned vp in any liberall Art or had commendation for his learnyng Vitels was a Ioyner and if his learnyng was so singular as his frendes affirme it is lyke that he came by it rather by Reuelatiō thē by the ordinary meanes of study There is a T. in Cambridgeshyre who was Vitelles companion who was a flat Arrian as by his owne hand I am able to auouch and before men of worshyp Anno. 1574. March. 24. in Cābridge denyed Christ to be God equal with his father 2. He said that childrē are not by nature sinfull neither ought to be Baptised tell yeares of discretion 3. The Regenerate sinne not 4. S. Paule his Epistles be not to be more accompted of then the letters of priuate men This man beyng then a flat Arrian since once recanted his errour and secondly is falne into the same opinion His name is W. H. of B. perhaps vnto the Family he is not vnknowen for that Vitels had sometymes lodged in his house and hee vseth to conferre with them concernyng their opinions this man would séeme in the company of simple mē to be very learned and they that haue talked with him affirme that he hath many wordes but small wisedome beyng of a wealthy occupation but smal in wit and might be better occupyed to learne the first principles of Gods feare and him selfe bee instructed before he teach that which he hath no skill of And so is it with the chief Elders of our Louely Fraternitie some of them be Weauers some Basketmakers some Musitians some Botlemakers and