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.
Author
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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Vitell.

[ 23] MOre you are offended at the confession of the Familye of Loue: vnderstand the matter well: that there is no man cōpelled there∣vnto: but if any one be wounded, or trobled in his cōscience: then he may to his cōfort, make his euel thoughts or els what, manifest vnto a priest, or Elder, acording vnto the counsell of the holy scripture. Also I thinke it is an ordinaūce in the Church of Eng∣land: that if any one be troubled in minde, he shall come and aske coun∣sell of the person, or minister, and I thinke he must then make manifest his thoughtes &c. And the Catho∣lik Religiō holdeth thought, word, and deede: but there are many, that

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will compell men to delare their thoughts▪ whih 〈◊〉〈◊〉 n••••ther piestes, nor Ministers of the ord.

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