WHereas I Robert Sharpe, have hertofore unadvisedly, conceyved good opinion
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of certayne bookes of an aucthour, otherwyse unknowne, save onely, that hee noteth hym-
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selfe by the Letters H. N. And was induced thereunto, partly by the straunge tytles that he
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gyveth to him selfe, terming hymselfe, amongest other names, A Prophet raysed up from the
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dead: Specially by God appointed, and stirred uppe, according to the promises for this tyme
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which he calleth the last day of grace. Affirming that he hath receyved his message from the
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mouth of God himselfe. And partly being also mooved by the noveltie of the Doctrine, and
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great promises made, as though men might therby attayne to bee Deified, or made as God:
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Now uppon conference wyth the Godly learned, (whereof some are in auctoritie) being admonished of the ar-
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rogancie of the sayde aucthour, in usurping the sayde tyttles, and of hys blasphemous sacriledge, in taking unto
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hym other greater tytles, as, That he is the illuminate with the true light of the perfect being: Annointed with
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goddes divine being: One whome God hath hominified himself withall, and who is codeified with God himselfe:
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(For with such monstruous and unused termes, he cloketh his blasphemies, as though he were made one with
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God, and God one with him) Segregating unto him selfe a private Conventicle of simple deceaved men, (whom
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he nameth the Familie or Comunaltie of Love) and detesting all wyse and learned men, whom he tearmeth Scrip-
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ture learned. And also I being advertised by the sayde Godly learned, of a great number of detestable Errors
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contayned in the bookes of the sayde H.N. And specially in those twoo wicked Bookes. Whereof the one hee
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nameth The Evangely or Gospell of the Kingdome: As though hee had brought a newe Gospell into the world,)
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which Sainct Pawle forbiddeth, and holdeth acursed, though it were brought by an Angell from heaven.) And
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the other Booke hee calleth, The Declaration of the Masse. In the which twoo Bookes, and other lyke wicked
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Bookes, of the sayde aucthour, not onelye the usurped auctoritie of the Bushop of Rome, and his Cardinalles,
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and the Sacrifice of the Masse, wyth manye other lyke wicked errours, but also divers damned heresies of the
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Arrianes, Pelagians, and Anabaptistes, are maintayned: To the overthrow, of the true doctrine of our justifi-
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tacion, and fayth in Jesus Christ, and of all true Religion.
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Therefore understanding nowe my grosse errours, I doe here before God and you utterly detest, and from
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my heart abhorre, as well the sayde Aucthour, wyth all hys arrogant, and blasphemous titles, as the instru-
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ment of Sathan, by hym stirred up, to seduce and beguyle the simple people: As also all his Damnable errours
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and Heresies whatsoever. And doe confesse here before God and you, that I am hartily sorye that ever I dealt
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wyth any such Books, or resorted to any secreet Conferences, assemblies, or Conventicles, wyth those that are
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named The Familie or Comunaltie of Love: And that thereby I have gyven so great offence unto the Churche
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of God: for the which I most humbly and hartily aske forgivenesse both of God and you. And doe promise fayth-
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fully never to meddle, with these, or any other such Bookes, or with that secte hereafter: But utterlye doe re-
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nounce and forsake the same, and all other Errours and Heresies whatsoever contrarie to the Common, Ni-
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cene, and Athanasius Creedes, or to the holye Scriptures conteyned in the Bookes of the olde and newe Testa-
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ment. And doe also forsake whatsoever is repugnaunt to the Doctrine nowe taught and pupliquely set foorth in
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the Church of England, which Doctrine I acknowledge and confesse, to be the true and Catholicke Doctrine,
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agreeable to the Canonicall Scriptures, and that the same of all Christians, ought to be professed, without re-
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spect of any daunger to the body, whether it be by death or otherwayes. In whiche profession, that I maye con-
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stantly remayne to my lyves ende, I doe most hartily beseeche you, to commende me in your prayers, to the
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great goodness and mercye of Almightye God.
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