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.

Answere.

NOw after this man hath shewed [ 37] his conflict of minde, and how he was delyuered through the seruice of loue, ministred by HN. Now he tel∣leth that by y^t same he vnderstood that God would be mercifull to al sinners, and I pray you, did you not know of this mercy but by HN? Were you ig∣noraunt ••of the Scriptures before you came acquainted w^t him & his bookes? His mercy and compassion is plenti∣fully declared in the gospell, which it seemeth you were ignorant of. This medicine m••ster HN. hath wrought a great cure vpon this man. For as one

of your schollers haue written in his defence, He teacheth with power, and it may be, the power of Sathan which leadeth men into errors and heresies. Although you imagine that this is wrought by the mighty hand of the Lord, abusing the words of the ••anti∣cle, which the blessed virgine did set forth magnifying the name of y^• Lord thereby.

Touching your diseases which you count to be cured: it is out of dout that you are more full of infirmities, and desperate diseases then euer you were, although you feele them not. For a bo¦dy that feeleth no sicknes, yet infirme, and weake, is hard to be cured, yea ir∣recuperable as Phisitions prescribe. Looke therfore more rightly into your selfe, and you that are so whole & clene you shall finde matter of corruption in you, whereupon the true Phisition of our soules Christ Iesus, shall (if you acknowledge your sicknes and infir∣mity) worke therby such an alteration in you, as heretofore you neuer had

the lyke: but if you stand vpon your perfection, & integrity, he commeth to such a as terrible Iudge, to your confu∣sion: where on the contrary we reioyce in his mercy, still acknowledging our sinnes, & our wantes, crying, & calling vpon him all the dayes of our ly••es with the Prophet Dauid, and saying: if thou O Lord, looke straightly vpon our sinnes, Lord Lord, who shall abide it &c. Correct vs O Lord, but yet in thy mercy, not in thy fury, least we should be consumed &c. thus we still call vpō the Lord for our deliuery, & acknow∣ledge our continuall transgressions, which are euer before vs, as prickes to prouoke vs forward, to doe therein our duety, that is, to aske mercy of the Lord our God: who willeth vs to call vpon him, in the day of our trouble.