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.

Aunswere.

YF euery one wrest the scripture, where shall wee finde Christ his [ 41] Church, who is led by the spirite of trueth, according to his promise: th•• greatest wresters of the word, are you your selues, as is before shewed:

that euery one thinketh, that he hath the best part, (as you say:) For mens thoughtes, we referre to his know∣ledge that is Scrut••tor cordium, & re∣mum.

Also you affirme, that man is pla∣ged with such a miserye, and burthen: but we rather say, oh miserable man, out of whose corrupt nature springeth such presumption, and wickednes: to be vnder the obedience of the Loue of Christ Iesus, is our whole care and study••: to him onely we cleaue: on him we call: vpon his mercy we de∣pend: and carefully seeke, & indeuour to be obedient to his will: for he is our hope, our anker hold, our mercy seate, our only cōfort in all distresse of mind: our phisitiō in sicknes: our gouernour in health: our peacemaker: the onely purchaser of our health, and saluatiō: he is all in all with vs, and wée enioy all in all by him, and through him: and if this sayth were also planted in you, then would your HN. be bani∣shed out of your hartes, and your per∣fection

would soone quaile: and in hu∣militye of spirite, you would ••ith v•• fall downe before this méeke Lambe Christ Iesus, and say, peccauimus cum patribus nostris, &c. We haue sinned with our Fathers: without which Christ, no flesh, that is, no creature liuing is iustified in his fathers sight: and Christ his death is proper to none nor b••longeth to none, but sinners, and such a•• feele sinne, or are laden with sinnes.

What shall then become of you Iusticiaryes with your perfite state which sinne not: to follow brotherly loue, is also to be wished: both in you and vs, and I pray you doe euen the same: thē shall you not séeke out y^• sim¦ple people, whose capaciti is lyke vnto ware, which will easely receiue any print or marke: seek not with your fly, and suttle perswasions, to seduce thē with your corrupt doctrine▪ vnder pre∣••ence that you seeke, onely the godly lyfe which Christians should follow: whereas in déede you séeke to leade thē

from Christ to HN. from the ••omfort of the holy scriptures: which sheweth how mercy is offred to all penitent sin∣n••rs: vnto a perfite state of lyfe, which must be attained in this world which neuer any, Christ Iesus except, could attayne vnto: and so you corruptly leade them away from all comfort in Christ: Therefore we will not let to desire the Lord in mercy, to pre∣serue his childrē, from your infected poyson.