Henry Nicholas was borne at Amsterdam as some think, he spread his heresy a little after David George, about the year 1556 he was an ignorant, foolish man, a crafty hypocrite, had a sort of deceiving violence in his smooth eloquence of love. he calleth himself The first illuminate Elder of the Family of Love, was at the beginning austere, rigged, and fasted, waked divers nights, and prayed and praised, spread his errors through Holland, and Lower Germany pretended visions, and conferences with the Angels from whom he had his way of exponing scriptures by allegories, but turned afterward, loose and vain; he came over to England and spread his foul heresies, and seduced a number of Artificers, and silly women, and wrote an Epistle to two daughters of Warwick, dissuading them from regeneration by the word of God, read or preached, and called that regeneration Ceremonial, •lementish and false and laboured to persuade the maids to a spiritual new birth, by the Spirit and internal word, and did forbid suffering for the truth▪ or confessing of Christ to the death, before men, and exponed the laying down of the life for Christ ▪ of the mortifying the body of sin: he had his errors from the Antitrinitarians and denied Christ to be God. This Epistle was answered and refuted by H. Ainsworth, he wrote a Book of Documental sentences, another called Evangelium regni. The Gospel and joyful message of the Kingdom•, his doctrine and that of David Georgius ⟨p. 56⟩was confuted by M. Martin Micronius Minister of the Dutch-church at London, under Edward the Sixth of England, and by M. Nicholaus Charineus, Minister also of the Dutch Church, who dyed, An. 1563. H. Nicholas his tenets, especially his joyful message was refuted by M. John K•ewstub preacher in Queen Elizabeth time, the book was printed at London, An. 1576. and Dedicated to Ambrose Earle of Warwick. H. N. wrote in dark and obscure terms, following much that wicked pe•ce called Theologia Germanica, set out by Randall, 1646. this form of writing saith Knewstub is an evident note of a seducing spirit.
HEnry Nicholas was borne at Amsterdam as some thinke, he spread his heresie a little after David George, about the yeare 1556 he was an ignorant, foolish man, a craftie hypocrite, had a sort of deceiving violence in his smooth eloquence of love. he calleth himselfe The first illuminate Elder of the Family of Love, was at the beginning austere, riged, and fasted, waked divers nights, and prayed and praysed, spread his errors through Holland, and Lower Germany pretended visions, and conferences with the Angels from whom he had his way of exponing scriptures by allegories, but turned afterward, loose and vaine; he came over to England and spread his foule heresies, and seduced a number of Artificers, and silly women, and wrote an Epistle to two daughters of Warwicke, disswading them from regeneration by the word of God, read or preached, and called that regeneration Ceremoniall, •lementish and false and laboured to perswade the maids to a spirituall new birth, by the Spirit and internall word, and did forbid suffering for the truth▪ or confessing of Christ to the death, before men, and exponed the laying downe of the life for Christ ▪ of the mortifying the body of sinne: he had his errors from the Antitrinitarians and denyed Christ to be God. This Epistle was answered and r•futed by H. Ainsworth, he wrote a Booke of Documentall sentences, another called Evangelium regni. The Gospell and ioyfull message of the Kingdom•, his doctrine and that of David Georgius ⟨p. 56⟩was confuted by M. Martyn Micronius Minister of the Dutch-church at London, under Edward the Sixth of England, and by M. Nicholaus Charineus, Minister also of the Dutch Church, who dyed, An. 1563. H. Nicholas his tenents, especially his joyfull message was refuted by M. John K•ewstub preacher in Queen Elizabeth• time, the book was printed at London, An. 1576. and Dedicated to Ambrose Earle of Warwick. H. N. wrote in dark and obscure termes, following much that wicked pe•ce called Theologia Germanica, set out by Randall, 1646. this forme of writing saith Knewstub is an evident note of a seducing spirit.
