Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
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go by as certain a rule as the Judges of the Land do, when they
give true Judgment according to the Law. For God hath ordained me
the chief Judge in the world at this day to give sentence upon
men and women's spiritual and eternal estate what will become of
them after death. Full of this cursing I confess my mouth is, and
I do rejoice in it too, I know that God is well pleased in the
damnation of those that I have cursed, and I am wonderous well
satisfied in giving judgement upon them, according to the tenor of
my Commission; and this is that which you call swelling words._ And
in another place of the same book are contained these other false,
feigned, malicious, scandalous, blasphemous, unlawful, seditious
and heretical sentences following, viz.:--_Therefore I shall speak
a few words unto you two in particular, because you two have
committed that unpardonable sin that never will be forgiven in this
world, nor in the world to come; for you have done despite unto
the Spirit of Truth, in speaking evil of things you do not know,
for you have called the Doctrine and Declaration of the Spirit,
Blasphemy, Deceit, and Lies, with many other railing speeches,
with high impudency, from a light within you, and from the dead
letter without you, and hath presumptuously lifted up your selves
with that light within you, to speak evil of the Commission of
the Spirit, which we received from the true personal God without
us, even the Man Christ Jesus in Glory. Therefore in obedience to
my Commission, I do pronounce Samuel Hooton and W. S., for this
their Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that sent me, cursed and
damned soules and bodies from the presence of God, elect men and
Angels, to eternity. Your light within you, nor God without you
shall deliver you from this Sentence which I have declared upon
you, because you shall know that there is a true Prophet now in
the last Age, as well as there hath been in former times. And this
Sentence shall be the mark of your Reprobation in your foreheads
to eternity, even as your great Grandfather had in his forehead,
and all the Seed of Faith that shall read this Epistle and see you,
shall see the mark of Reprobation in your foreheads, neither shall
you scrape it out, but it will be seen by the Elect as long as you
live. And when you dye, you shall pass through this first death
into the second death, and in the Resurrection you shall never
see the face of God, nor man, nor Angels, nor your own faces, to
eternity: but you shall be in utter darkness, where is weeping, and
gnashing of teeth for evermore._ To the great scandal and contempt
of the King, his Crown and Dignity, also of the religion rightly
established in this kingdom, to the bad and pernicious example of
all others in like case offending, and against the peace of the
King, his Crown and Dignity.
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