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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Vitell.

ALso I haue geuen forth certayn bookes, which are translated word for word as neare as we could, out of the bokes of HN. and some of them haue come to the hands of en∣uyous persōs, which are diuiled with the deuill, either diuelishly minded, for they be slaunderers, and lirs, and also blasphemers, whilest they haue laphemed th holy Ghost, and hi

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most holy seruice of loue. Moreouer, they hau ayled at, euyled, condem¦ned, despised, and blasphemed the Lord his elected minister HN. If this come not out of enuy, although they say nay, then I know no enuyous spi∣rites. And although there be many enuiors of the loue and her most ho∣ly seruice, yet are thee two horryble blasphemers of late rysen vp, whose bookes ar come to my hands. The one is named Steuen Batman, the o∣thr I.R. But they might both be na∣med with one name, Tertullus, if they cōtnue in their lying, wherof I must wryte although I haue no pleasure in such workers of wickednes.

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