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 June 3, 2024.

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Aunswere.

THat the bokes of HN. were tran∣slated out of Dutch by you, we knew before, but in distributing them to the Quéenes subiects without any allowance of the magistrate, contrary to law, therin we tel you, you haue not dealt lie a rue subiect, nor a christiā,

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you complayned of disobedience to ma¦gistrates, but you your selfe are the most disobedient of all others. And some of those bookes haue come into my hands, whom you tearme enuious and diuelled with the diuell. Strange Doctrine must néedes haue strange tearmes. Your iudgement of me and master Batman we wil only answere with this saying. The Lord geue you a better minde, and a more modest spi∣rite. I would you were as free from heresies and false doctrine, as we are from a diuilish mind.

You affirme we haue blasphemed the holy Ghost, and his elect minister HN. Here is sharpe iudgement, and such as should not be in any of Christ his church: this doth well become you lders in HN. his Family. Surely if there were no other matter in y wold to discerne your doctrine by, your own poysoned words would bewrap your spirit, & of what housholde you are of. The childrē of God do know that you are herein, manifest and wicked liars,

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but you haue no pleasure in such wor∣kers of wickednes, and no maruayle, being come to that perfection that you are, we poore sinners are despised in your sight: but our hope is in the lord Iesus, who doth not despise sinners, but for vs he shed his bloud, and for you which are so righteous, in whom no motion of sinne can be found, I doubt doth this saying appertayne: I came not to call the righteous, but sin∣ners to repentance.

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