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.

TOuching the saying of ••achary, we wish the very same: that euery [ 42] one shew mercy, and deale rightly with his brother, with the widow and fatherles, strangers and poore &c. But can you alleadge these places, & haue no regard to folow the exhortatiō your selues, how rightly do you deale with your brethren, that being required to vtter your faith which you hold, you deal suttelly and deceitfully with such as with well vnto you, and seeke your health and delyuery from error. Now regard you that no man imagine euill in his hart against his brother, when as you call vs free ••nes, Liberti••es, and wicked blasphemers, &c. Who turnes their backs, who stoppes their

••ares, who harden their harts? Haue not you turned from Christ to HN? Haue not you stopt your eares against all holesome admonition, which the holy Ghost hath plentifully in the ho∣ly scriptures set forth? and only bent your harts vpon the bookes and wry∣tyngs of HN? Haue you not hardened your harts and bent your faces against a manifest truth, and placed HN. a pro¦phet, & priest, by whō God wil receiue all vnto mercy? On whom may this propheticall speach or exhortation be better applyed, then vpon your selues, and yet will not I goe about to excuse my selfe and others that we do therein what is required, but only let y^• world see that these men of the Family cry out, and apply the sayings of the Pro∣phets against vs, and for themselues, they su••pose it belongeth not to them, to take wa••ning thereby, in so perfecte a state do they remaine.