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A08219	An epistle sent vnto tuuo daughters of VVarwick from H.N., the oldest father of the Familie of Love ; with a refutation of the errors that are therein, by H.A.	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?; Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580? Epistle sent unto two daughters of Warwick.	1608 (1608)	STC 18553; ESTC S1318	62,756	66

his shadow and figure Howbeit herein he was overseen to gather his pedegree frō the Papacie which he enought much better have fetched frō the holy scriptures but that he is an enimy to scripture learning as he oftē bewrayeth For H. N. the greatest in the Family who is as himself sayth Godded with God in the spirit of his Love Because The God of heaven as the Father himself is come down bringeth in the service of his Love himself with his Christ his holy Ghost with al that which with him is Gods vnto his obedient man H. N. Godding the same with him he hath manned him with the same This new God of the Nicolaitans is described in scripture thus They have a king over them which is the Angel of the bottomlesse pitt for so also H. N. sayth he was raysed vp from the death whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek he is named Apollyon in al languages The destroyer The doctrine taught by this H. N. corrupting and darkning al the holy scriptures was figured out by the smoke of the botomlesse pit which darkned sun and aier And the ylluminated Elders of this Family ar pourtrahed out by Locusts that came out of the smoke of H. N. his heresies with stings in their tayls like scorpions to wound mens cōsciences by their deceivable doctrines This had ben a directer and playner pourtrature of the Familists then that figure fetched frō the Papists And thus we may perceiv it was not without cause that H. N. cried out Oh oh no the Antichrist is neerer vnto vs wer it wel knowen when in deed so great a monster of Antichristianity was hatched in his own bosome who thus hath Deified hmself and blasphemed God Neyther is he a friend to Popery onely and a Lover of the whore of Babylon but of Judaisme also that he may appear to be quite abolished from Christ. Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrewes proveth at large the abrogating of the Levitical Priesthood and sacrifices by the coming of our high priest Christ Jesus and sacrifice of his own body according as was prophesied of him that he should cause sacrifice and oblation to cease and for the Jewes that would stil continew their figurative worship he sheweth them to have no part in Christ when he sayth We have an altar wherof they have no authority to eat which serv in the Tabernacle But H. N. teacheth vs that the services of Aarōs priesthood are yet necessary for some in these words Oh alas how grosly hav then certayn wise of the world and scripture-learned overreached them herein which have without diversity forsakē the law the service of the Elders Testamēt and of the Priests office after the ordinance of Aaron and set back the same as a thing vnneedful not once distincting vnto whom the service after the ordinance of Aaron is yet necessarie nor yet with whom the same at th' appointed time ceaseth or leaveth off Thus H. N. sheweth how good a friend he is to Jewes and Papists But his enmity agaynst Christ and his Gospel can not easily be opened it is in so many particulars He thrusteth himself into Christs throne and maketh himself the Judge of al the world For behold sayth he in this present day the glorious coming of our Lord Iesus Christ with his many thowsands of his saincts which hath set himself now vpon the seat of his Majestie for to judge in this same day which the Lord hath ordeyned or appoynted the whol world with equitie c. with many like speeches as before is shewed wherin the scriptures which foretel of Christs comming to judgement at the worlds end H N. applieth to himself and so the playn doctrines of the gospel are made but fabulous by this blasphemers allegorie and he sheweth himself to be the Father of those mockers that wer foretold should come in the last dayes which walking after their lusts should say where is the promise of his comming c. Now because at Christs comming must be the resurrection of the dead therfore that one errour necessarily draweth on another namely that the resurrectiō is past already which was the kanker wherby Hymeneus and Philetus in the Apostles dayes destroyed the fayth This heresie hath H. N. published in his Gospel saying Behold in this present day is this scripture fulfilled and according to the testimony of the scripture the raysing vp the resurrection of the Lords dead cometh also to passe presently in this same day through the appearing of the cōing of Christ in his majestie Which resurrection of the dead seing that the same is come vnto vs from Gods grace we doe likewise in this present day to an Evangelie or joyful message of the kingdome of God Christ publish in al the world vnder the obedience of the Love In which resurrection of the dead God sheweth vnto vs that the tyme is now fulfilled that his dead or the dead which ar fallen a sleep in the Lord rise vp in this day of his judgment appear vnto vs in Godly glory which shal also from henceforth live in vs everlastingly with Christ and reign vpon the earth Thus hath this Sadducee overturned that mayn groūd and principle of Christian religion without which our fayth were but vayn and we were of al men the most miserable And that his religion might be even a sink of synful errors he hath taught that in their Lovely societie they do not vow or bind themselves in the matrimony of men nor yet suffer themselves to be boūd therin but are like the Angels of heaven to verify the Apostles words that in the latter times some should teach and give heed vnto doctrines of Divils forbidding to marry c. Now seeing he sayth in another place that they commit not any adultery for they are honest chast of life and clean or pure of hart what may we think is among them but a cōmunity of al men and women yet without syn as they suppose so long as it is not with them of the World especially seing he sayth also further There is no man that claimeth any thing to be his own as to possesse the same to his own private vse For no man that out of every ones good disposition can desire any thing to be his own or yet to make any thing proper to himself from an other but also whatsoever is there is free is there left free in his vpright form Ther is also no man denyed to vse any thing in freedom of al what is profitable and needful for him for they stand all in the equitie as one in the Love and again That they know not of any other religion or God-service then of the service of Love and to love one an other and so to keep themselves pure and vnspotted of the world Which writing of H. N.

N. is but a carnal worldling to love his elementish life more then Christ and teach men so vnder colour of forsaking our own wicked life and life of the Divil If the prophets and Apostles had known this deep vnderstanding which H. N. conceiveth and had not thought they were also bound to lay down the natural and elementish man they would never have endured such things in their flesh as is witnessed of them What needed Shadrach Meshach and Abednego to have changed the kings commandement and yielded their bodies to the fyre rather then they would serv or worship his image or Daniel have jeoparded his life among the Lions or Stephen have been stoned to death for confessing of Christ or others to have been racked scourged prisoned hewen asunder slayn with the sword c or what meant the Apostles to shew vs these patterns and wil vs to take the prophets for an example of suffering adversity Was is not thinketh H. N. a great overshooting or misunderstanding in al these to teach both by word and practise that afflictions should be suffred in the natural or elementish man Or rather had not al these holy martyrs first layd down the spiritual synful life and then gave vp the natural life also How cōtrary then is this H. N. to al holy men that ever were or wrote that thus disswadeth frō the outward crosse vnder pretence of inward holynes Therfore let vs al y t lov the Lord Jesus say Anathema to such false prophets as thus teach doctrine cōtrary to the scriptures for to favor the flesh avoid afflictiō as is best pleasing to their sēsual minds Let the same mind be in vs that was in Christ Jesus who besides the troubles and anguishes in his hart humbled himself and became obedient vnto the death evē the death of the crosse And he which suffred these things for vs hath left vs an ensample as sayth the Apostle that we should folow his steps who his own self bare our synns in his body on the tree And let vs learn with Paul to take pleasures in infirmities in reproches in necessities in persecutions in scripes and prisonment in hunger and thirst in cold and nakednes and al other anguish for Christs sake for when we are weak then are we strong and this is a part of our mortification and denyal of our selves vnto which when true faith and obedience in the spirit is adjoyned God 's work goeth forward in vs towards perfection the end wherof wil be everlasting life H. N. 25. Oh comprehend I beseech yow the vnderstanding We our selves have not made the natural mā wherfore he cannot belong vnto vs. For the heaven with the earth and al that is therin belongeth vnto God and it is Gods pleasure and will that al shaped creatures so wel the manly creature as any other of al those which God hath created should live and that it mought goe wel with them 26. What shal the man then forsake that he mought be reconciled to God not any thing els but his own life that is the man of syn which hath so long lien hidd in the hart of man which is the temple of God and hath sayd that he was God 2. Thes. 2. H. A. IT is hard to cōprehend any good vnderstanding in any thing which H. N. doth write he is so ledd with the spirit of error in al his wayes yet may we comprehend that his first reason here is against himself we have not made the natural man wherfore he cannot belong vnto vs. Very true but God hath made it therfore it belongs to him If he made it and it be his then may he require it when he wil and we must not deny him his own Now he requireth it when for witnesse of his truth men wil shed our blood though they doe it vnjustly yet his requiring is just and we may not deny him or his truth for the saving of our lives as before is proved Of this reason therfore which H. N. bringeth we may say with the prophet his sword hath entred into his own hart His next reason is a depth of iniquity for seeming to plead for God he seeketh to draw men from God Gods wil is sayth he that al shaped creatures so wel the manly creature as any other should live that it might goe wel with thē So then to save their natural lives y e Familists think they may deny forswear Christ al true religion may cōmunicate with al idolatrie worship of divils if Princes vpō payn of death shal so cōmād This was the intendement of this present Letter sent to two maydens that refused as it seemeth the idolatrous Masse and subjectiō to the Romish Antichrist with hazard of their lives This is the dayly practise of the Nicolaitans H. Ns disciples who rather then they wil suffer imprisonment banishment death or the like for their religion wil joyn with Papists Protestants Arrians Anabaptists or any religion if the magistrate authorize and cōmand it For though they hold that their God of Love as they cal him is the true living God and besides him ther is no God more and his Gods-service of Love which they minister vnder the obedience of his Love is the true safe-making Gods-service and besides the same ther is not any Gods-service more neyther in heaven nor yet in earth yet wil they partake with any of the Godservices vsed in the world though they be contrary one to another For H. N. in his new Gospel complayneth that many have vnorderly rejected and blasphemed the services and ceremonies of the catholik church of Rome rented the concord nurturable sustentation of the same turned them away therfrom even so out of their knowledg which they took out of the scripture brought in certayn services ceremonies in another wise or order c. But his disciples in England which land hath rejected and departed from the catholike church of Rome as many other nations have doe pretend in their late supplicatiō to the King y t they ar his true faithful loyal and obedient subjects to al his lawes and ordinances spiritual temporal and doe deny that they vary or swarve frō the now established religion in this land eyther in services ceremonies sermons or sacraments Thus eyther H. N. or these his folowers or both must needs be hypocrites that so doe write and professe of two adverse churches and religions when in deed they approve of neyther but think as H. Ns Co-elder avoucheth that they which remayn without them and their Communaltie and without the Requiring of the gracious Word and his Service of Love or withdraw them selves therfrō have no living God nor yet true God-service but are without God and without Gods-service in this world yet notwithstanding this their judg mēt and profession rather then the manly creature should die they wil