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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77132	The description and confutation of mysticall Anti-Christ, the Familists; or, An information drawn up and published for the confirmation and comfort of the faithfull, against many Antichristian Familisticall doctrines which are frequently preached and printed in England: particularly in those dangerous books called Theologia Germanica, the Bright Star, Divinity and Philosophy dissected. / Written by Benjamin Bourne. Published according to order.	Bourne, Benjamin, fl. 1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3844; Thomason E349_21; STC 672; ESTC R201037	116,136	151

Doest thou not blaspheme this Monster I have already strangeled therefore I le speake no further to it The Conclusion NOw you cannot chuse but love and imbrace me for what I have spoken and though I speake never so much against you yea though I should kill you a thousand times if it were possible yet you would wish all good to befall me Germanica pag. 80. and that for these Reasons First adeified man knowes nothing but to love Secondly all things are the Act of God be not angry with God Thirdly if your words were true I am God as well as you Thus much for a Description of Familisme other wayes called mysticall Ant christ The Postscript Dearly Beloved I Am ingaged to adde this at the conclusion of all because of the brevity and shortnesse in my Epistle I intreat you not to except against the universality of my Dedication it concernes you all as I said before to you I speak whose defire is to imbrace a particular crucified Jesus I doe not present this to any other because it concernes not any other but you you are all ingaged in this quarrell as well as I am you are bound to the Lord Jesus who is your Saviour and my Saviour your God and my God in a bond of Faith and love to lay out all your strength and ability for the exaltation of his name against all those who are enemies to his truth and contemners of his glory I speak to all that are in union with Christ high and low great and small from the richest Pallace to the poorest Cottage I have a Question or two to ask you an Information or two to declare to you and a Request or two which I desire to present unto you most humbly craving these of you not for my own sake but for your Saviours sake The first question is this Is not the glorious person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ very deare and precious to you in all your private and publick meditations I remember what the Prophet David said Lord who have I in heaven but thee or on earth that I desire in comparison of thee as if hee had said although there are Gods many and Lords many yet to mee there is but one God in heaven nor in earth neither there is no person in heaven that is so deare to mee as thou art no beeing is so glorious as thy beeing is no spirit in heaven hath done or is able to doe that for my soule which thou hast done thou hast loved me with an everlasting eternall love Lord who have I in heaven but thee Psal 103.1.2 Thou hast loved me with such an unexpressible infinite love such an exceeding love as never eye hath seen eare heard nor none of all thy Saints that either have been before mee or shall bee after mee can conceive of 1 Cor. 2.9 Lord who have I in heaven but thee There is no other God besides thee I know this to bee a truth which I speak of thee Psal 73.28 and 83. last Thy love is so exceeding high that Angels doe admire at the glory thereof Ephes 3.18 Lord what is man that thou art mindefull of him or the sonne of man that dost visit him Who have I in heaven but thee thou hast done much for mee thou art my portion and inheritance I have no other portion in heaven besides thee thou hast no reason or cause on my part to doe any thing for me my righteousnesse extendeth not to thee it cannot adde to thy glory it cannot increase thy blessednesse Thou haste forgiven mee all my iniquity thou hast not left one unpardoned thou hast blotted out all my sin as a thick cloud that it shall never be remembred nor laid to my charge Psal 32.2 3. and the 103.1 Lord who have I in heaven but thee Or on earth that I desire in comparison of thee thou hast made mee to bee one of thine annointed ones thou hast conferred an earthly Crown of glory upon mee and committed a Kingdome to my charge all the delights and glories of this world are round about me I am incompast in the midst thereof yet who have I in earth that I doe so highly prize and value in comparison of thee Are not all the glories of this world as a heap of drosse in comparison of thee is my life and kingdom so glorious in my eye as thou art shall not my honour glory and outward greatnesse praise thee Psal 108.1 My second question is this are not the members of Christ dear to you above all things in this world next unto Jesus Christ are you not willing to assist them upon all occasions are you not willing in all your pompe and glory to own a poore Lazarus if Christ bee in him for your Brother are you not willing for their sakes to doe much to suffer and undergoe much by contending for that Faith which was once given and cannot be given again My last question is this is any thing more contrary to the inward temper and inclination of your spirits then those Doctrines which doe not acknowledge Jesus Christ are not these great enemies to you and doe they not make great breaches in your spirits is it any joy and pleasure to you to heare many able knowing persons scoffe and make a mock of Christ and him crucified doe you not continually put up supplications to God for these poore faln apostatized spirits who once made Christ their chiefest joy and would have been very contrary to them that should have said but that of Christ which they themselves speak now My Information is concerning my particular judgement and those that I plead against and it is this I present this to all you that feare God whether Presbyterians or Independents you that are for the Baptisme of Infants or for the Baptisme of Beleevers to you all doe I present this my information concerning those that I write against is this whilest wee are striving and contending about different opinions many of which are things of indifferency whilst wee about these are a striving and contending the common and grand enemy of our peace takes an advantage at these contentions and vain janglings and so makes this time which is a time of disagreement and discord amongst the Saints to bee his opportunity to step in and rob you all of all the sweet and pretious things of God which are most sweet and dear unto you just as if two loving deare Brethren should for a small matter fall out with one another and in the mean time a common Theife an enemy to them both comes and cuts their throates My Petition and humble request to you all is this I pray you for Jesus Christs sake to except of this pooremite that I have cast into your treasury and to cover all infirmities with love I hope I have spoken to the experiences of many of you if this be a truth that I have writen then you know who is the Authour

the Plot had they but known the event thereof little did the devil think when he came to our first parents in the form of a created Serpent to tempt them with many fair stories curious lies and loving expressions to eat of the forbidden fruit that so he might be lord over all that ever that action of theirs should bring such glory to God as by the Almighty power of God it did Power in God cannot increase nor decrease but his power in his creatures hath and still doth the least Angel in heaven is greater in power then the greatest Devil that is in hell yet the greatest devil that is now in hell for any thing I know to the contrary was the greatest Angel that was in heaven next unto the Lord Jesus When a man hath lost an arm or any other member he cannot do that after which he could before why not onely because he hath lost a member but also he hath lost the power the power doth not go in to those members that are left to strengthem them but rather they are all made the weaker by that losse you may put the member to the body but not put life and power in to it again Now his inward spirit may be one and the same in the power of it not in its degree When God doth convert a man to the knowledge of himself he doth put that power in to him that he never had before such a power as is divine and heavenly for the spirit is the power of God and a Christian in the first instant of conversion doth receive the Spirit of God which changes and transforms him from the image of the devil into the likenesse of Jesus Christ Now God leads into temptation that so he may bring light out of darknesse and good out of the greatest evil contrary to the thoughts and expectations of men or devils Now shall we sin that grace may abound God forbid let the Lord work which way he pleaseth according to his secret counsell yet it is impossible that we who are once dead to sin should live any longer therein Rom. 6.1 2. Secondly it s a great temptation to be for a moment forsaken of God now God doth this sometimes mediately by means and sometimes more immediately from himself it may be God hath ordained that the devil shall come to a Christian in this estate of weaknesse as he did to Christ when he was an hungry Matth. 4.2 and think by some divellish trick or other to bring him to utter confusion but if God be pleased to work by this means so as to deliver a Christian in this combate from his unexpressable sorrow the devils action is neverthelesse devillish and sinfull So God by this means brings glory to his Name by raising a Christian and confounding the devil Again Gods leads into temptation by persecution and to exalt his glory and to make manifest his power he raiseth up Pharaoh and hardens his heart for the affliction and triall of his people Now here is an act of Pharaoh and an act of God too the act of God was to harden the act of Pharaoh was his severall actions being hardened The act of Pharaohs heart was not the act of God not in its severall thoughts See Theologa Germanica he saith that sin is a great torment to God that he wouldwillingly endure corporall death that it might be extinguish ed. pa 87. purposes and inclinations did God think as Pharaoh thought and were Gods purposes and Pharaohs both one and the same and was the Almighty inclined and resolved to make war with himself as Pharaoh was and did God lay that punishment and these seven grievous plagues upon himself and upon his own Spirit which he laid upon Pharaoh and all Aegypt and was God sensible or did he feel that grief pain and torment which he felt or that that our spirits feels often in many conditions of sicknesse fears sorrows passions and extremities that we know to be true now all things cannot be the act of God Again when God requires and commands me to yeeld obedience to him to repent and beleeve the Gospel and to forsake my self and this world to look up to him for salvation to prepare for death affliction and judgement who doth he speak to to himself all this while Again God doth not rule all things in all respects there are many rulers under and besides God the Devil is a ruler a governour and there are many rulers under the devil Again man is a Ruler and there are many Rulers under man The Pope is a great Ruler and he holds up his kingdom for the Devil Antichrist among the Familists is a mightie Ruler a subtle politick one he rules by the power of the Devil by all his doctrines miracles and lying wonders Revel 13.13 but he is not grown so great yet Again there are many Rulers under men the King under an Emperour and many Rulers under a King some are Christians some Heathens God doth not rule all things nor act all things When a man resolveth to kill or rob such a person and all his thoughts run upon it and he cannot rest untill it be done when he doth it is this the act of God If this were true there could be no order nor government in the world Theol. Germ. pa. 80. If a man should come and before thou art aware should knock out thy brains would you if you should return to life again thank him for his pains desiring him that he would do so again telling him it was not his act but Gods Thou mayest say this but who will beleeve thee Germ. p. 8. Germanica Chap. 29. and what truth is there in all this sometimes thou sayest that God is not active but now he acts all things CHAP. IIII. The third Errour which is that nothing shall remain eternally but the essence life or Spirit of God which is now in all creatures The contrary is proved both by Scripture and Reason And three Errours more nominated but handled in order Hebr. 1.10 11 12. Psal 102.25 I Shall open this Errour thus the bodies of men shall turn to dust or to what it was before if it was nothing it shall turn to nothing But they say that it was hid potentially in God and so it shall return into silence with God again There is no created thing whatsoever shall continue if Angels were created within those six dayes in which God did make and finish his work they also shall perish and come to nothing but those spirits that we call good and evil Angels they call good or evil motions of mans minde The Confutation I do not know any truth that is either expressed or implyed in this Errour either according to Scripture or Reason if there were I should be willing to plead and contend for it I shall include three Doctrines or Errours in this one and set them down in order and so open and discover them to

you The 4. Errour is this That the Scriptures are a confused Allegory a meer shadow a false history and ought not to be any mans foundation no more then any other book or the Apocrypha Fifthly they deny the coming dying Resurrection Ascention and Intercession of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Sixthly that all Ordinances are but meat for babes that a man should live above them without the use of them Now the first of these which includes the rest I shall prove is against the Scriptures and against Reason too I shall divide the third Doctrine into two branches first if nothing but the Godhead shall remain or continue to eternity then it is plain that the Godhead or essence is in every creature Secondly that nothing but God shall continue to eternity this first branch of this mysticall Antichristianisme I have already opposed by such plain Scriptures and Reasons as none that have any desire to acknowledge the truth can willingly deny yet because I desire to make sure work as I go for the profit and comfort of all those who do in truth love and acknowledge the Lord Jesus I shall bruise the first head with the whole Errour also by these positive conclusions First that the present universall frame and state of all things in this world shall not remain to eternity here is two things to be inquired into and they are these First what is the present estate or universall frame of all things in this world Secondly how shall it be proved that this world shall not continue in the nature being and course of it by the multiplications of ages to all eternity I le discover the present estate of this world under these severall considerations First this world in respect of the universall composall of all things is ordained and created for to continue for a set time and not to be eternall in its generation Jam. 5.7 2 Pet. 3.13 Ephes 6. 1 Pet. 1.24 Isa 65.17.66.22 Revel 21.1 This world hath had many alterations and changes in it since the creation we know it to be true both by Scripture Revelation and Reason too all these have and do still declare unto us the mortality mutability and insufficiency of this world Matth. 24.34 Gen. 7.1 Joh. 2.15 Job 5.17 Isa 40.6 Jam. 1.10 The glory of this world in all things hath been one and the same for the matter and manner to all persons in all ages it is not an increasing glory it hath no new thing to shew us it hath no after depth of sweetnesse to empty or powre forth in to our bosomes in any other respect or any more then what it hath already discovered unto our Fathers Secondly God hath promised that out of the ruine and by the destruction of this old world he will raise up a new one a world that shall be full of glory a new creation that shall be full of righteou●nesse and peace in another manner then ever it hath been in this world Rev. 21.17 1 Pet. 3.10 11. Isa 30.20 66.9 Thirdly the whole world at this present lies under a bondage of corruption and is altogether subject to vanity Vanity of vanities saith the Preacher all is vanitie Eccles 1.2 The greatest glory of this world is nothing else but an earthly vanity Again it is not onely vanity but it s also subject to it Rom. 8.20 Fourthly the constant waiting and present desire of this creation is for a Revelation and discovery of a Christians glory which will be to them also a day of joy and freedom from all corruption and vanity Rom. 8.14.21 The day when the King comes to his Crown is a day of liberty and freedom to poore prisoners and captives the glory of God shall be so stampt in a higher sublime divine degree then ever upon the subjects of that kingdom that it shall be a great comfort and refreshment to all creatures I mean to all that are ordained to all those to whom God hath promised it Lastly the present condition of this creation is a poore dying consuming condition Job 15.15 Revel 16.15 Chap. 1.7 Dan. 7.13 Jam. 5.1 Matth. 6. last Care not for the morrow for the morrow shall care for it self the day hath enough with his own grief this we all know by our experiences unlesse we will deny that that is as plainly to be understood as that the Sun is in the firmament CHAP. V. Antichrist described and confuted in his fourth Errour which is that the Bible is a meer shadow a false History a confused lying Allegory being of no more Authority then any ether book or the Apocrypha The Scriptures are proved and vindicated from these Familisticall blasphemous reproaches and aspe●sions cast upon it by the lying spirit of Antichrist COnfider of the truth and sufficiencie of the Scriptures by these following confiderations First if the truth of God were such a thing as that it might be understood and spiritually apprehended by flesh and blood by humane reason which is not Divine but belowe God then is it possible for darknesse to comprehend light and to be united too and made one therewith But the first is impossible and therfore the last for St Paul saith that there is no fellowship between light and darknesse 2 Cor. 6.14 15. between righteousnesse and unrighteousnes Christ and Belial now if there be no fellowship communion and agreement between God and the Devil Christ and Antichrist sin and grace how is it possible for flesh and blood to know or understand the minde of the Spirit And although many say that all things are gathered up into one fulnesse as the rivers by returning are gathered into the Sea yet the contrary is daily made manifest to us by those direct oppositions which we see between the hearts of men and betwixt their lives too there is no truth in this namely that the infinitenesse of God gathers up all creatures into it self as the Sea gathers up all Rivers and I prove it thus First when the Rivers by returns are swallowed up in to the Sea they are made one with it whilest they were they might be distinguished but now they are not as they were all distinctions are annihilated every river by running into the Sea is made one ocean and one water together with it For if it were possible for a man that knows all things to look upon the Sea and in that to see and know what the waters were if he could distinguish between the waters in the Sea which ever hath been the Sea originally and those waters which are Sea by being in the Sea and of the same element but before were Rivers he would acknowledge that all creatures are not thus gathered up into and made one with God for then all creatures by being gathered up by one fulnesse in to one which is God then should all creatures by being thus gathered become one fulnesse with God Secondly there is no truth in this because there is no truth neither