A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in…A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in…

CHAP. XVII. Of the late Familists banished out of New England in Massachusetts and now inhabitants of Shaw-omet, otherwise called Providence, and their tenets.

CHAP. XVII. Of the late Familists banished out of New England in Massachusets and now inhabitants of Shaw-omet, otherwise called Providence, and their tenets.

There is a piece lately Printed and Licensed, Aug. 3. 1646. called Simplicities defence against seven-headed Policy, Or, Innocency Vindicated, being unjustly accused and sorely censured, by that seven-headed Church-government united in New England. Its a piece stuffed with wicked principles and gross and blasphemous deductions of Familism, smelling rankly of the abominable Doctrine of Swenckefield, Muncer, Becold, David Georgius, and of H. Nicholas the first Elder of the Family of Love, of the piece called Theologia Germanica, and the Bright Star. It is flowered with a Poem, inveighing against the godly in New England, who hate the deeds of the Nicholaitans, cannot endure those that call themselves Apostles, and are not, and oppose wicked Liberty of Conscience, and have banished Antinomians and Libertines out of their bounds, these Libertines say, that the same spirit of persecution works in Papists, Jews, Turks, and the Churches in New England. The Author of the Poem, who makes •one Saints, and of the Kingdom of Christ, but Familists and Antinomians, and all the rest enemies, is reported to be R. Beacon, who wrote a Catechism, of stuff not unlike this.

THere is a piece lately Printed and Licensed, Aug. 3. 1646. called Simplicities defence against seven-headed Policy, Or, Innocency Vindicated, being unjustly accused and sorely censured, by that seven-headed Church-government united in New England. Its a piece stuffed with wicked principles and grosse and bl•sphemous deductions of Familisme, smelling ranckly of the abominable Doctrine of Swenckefield, Muncer, Becold, David Georgius, and of H. Nicholas the first Elder of the Family of Love, of the piece called Theologia Germanica, and the Bright Starre. It is flowred with a Poem, inveighing against the godly in New England, who hate the deeds of the Nicholaitans, cannot indure those that call themselves Apostles, and are not, and oppose wicked Liberty of Conscience, and have banished Antinomians and Libertines out of their bounds, these Libertines say, that the same spirit of persecution works in Papists, Jews, Turks, and the Churches in New England. The Author of the Poem, who makes one Saints, and of the Kingdome of Christ, but Familists and Antinomians, and all the rest enemies, is reported to be R. Beacon, who wrote a Catechisme, of stuffe not unlike this.