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 16, 2024.

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Vitell.

ANd yet▪ are complayned of to the Maiestrates with many false brutes and slaunderously reported of where through the Maiestrates are moued to trouble and persecute thē & yet their aduersaries haue not any¦thing worthy of punishment agaynst them: but I see that the tyme is now, euen as it was when the Lord Iesus Christ was personally vpō the earth: for the Pharesies sayd that Iesus was

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a breaker of the Sabboth; they also found fault with his Disciples because they goyng through a corne fielde pluck of the eares & rubbed out the corns & eat, for they were hungry, euē so the Family of loue, going through a corne field haue pluck of eares of corne and rubbed and eaten thereof to satisfie their hūgry soules the which the enuiers of the loues vnitie haue of pied and are offended at them, and haue accused them therefore, but o∣ther matter they haue not agaynst them and yet they say they are brea∣kers of the Law. &c.

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