An answere vnto a wicked & infamous libel made by Christopher Vitel, one of the chiefe English elders of the pretended Family of Loue maintaining their doctrine, & carpingly answeringe to certaine pointes of a boke called the displaing of the Fam. Aunswered by I. Rogers.
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An answere vnto a wicked & infamous libel made by Christopher Vitel, one of the chiefe English elders of the pretended Family of Loue maintaining their doctrine, & carpingly answeringe to certaine pointes of a boke called the displaing of the Fam. Aunswered by I. Rogers.
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Rogers, John, fl. 1560-1580.
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At London :: Printed by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate,
Anno. 1579.
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Vitell, Christopher, fl. 1555-1579 -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Familists -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"An answere vnto a wicked & infamous libel made by Christopher Vitel, one of the chiefe English elders of the pretended Family of Loue maintaining their doctrine, & carpingly answeringe to certaine pointes of a boke called the displaing of the Fam. Aunswered by I. Rogers." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10909.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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Aunswere.
H••re is expressed the maner of this mans conuersion, and how he came to be of the Familye of Loue: wherein are many shewes of piety, and humility requisite in a Christian, but where he sa••th, he humbled him∣selfe be••ore the Lord, and his cle••ed m••nister HN. therein he bewrayeth himselfe: we are taught in all our troubles to call vpon the Lord. Innoca
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me in die tribul••tionis 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ to humble our selues before the Lo••d, it is good and conuenient, but before HN. what warrant haue you so to do? why ioine you HN. and God together in ••our hu¦miliation? I will not crye out no you doe, that this is blasphem••e: yet I tell you, it is not Christianlyke spoken. I know not how you will qu••li••ie this your speach, you say that the Lo••de when he saw it good released you of all offence••, wherein you had liued contrary to his commaundements: but now being released doe you sinne any mo••e? ••f you would speake plain∣lye as you haue vttered your repen∣taunce, so now resteth that you should also speake of your perfection, and of the state wherein you now stand. For that is the matter that we would haue you to be playne in: but that is con∣cealed, and kept secret, least your ly∣bertye should be espyed.
••ou say further that through the seruice of Loue, and his elect minister HN. all the promises made vnto ••∣braham,
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how, when, and where, they are fulfilled, and made manyfest vnto you. And I pray you, could you not imbrace the promise made vnto Abra∣ham, without HN. are not the scrip∣tures sufficient to manifest the same without him? surely this is great pitye that you extoll your Aucthor so aboue measure, the Prophets haue written thereof: Christ and his Apostles, haue opened to vs, how, when, and where, those promises are fulfilled sufficētly: ••f HN. had neuer written.
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