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S121850 WHereas I Robert Sharpe, haue hertofore vnauduisedly, conceyued good opinion / of certayne bookes of aucthour, other wyse vnknowne, saue onely, that hee noteth hym- Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 18338 The Confession and declaration of Robert sharpe Clerke, and other / of that secte, tearmed the Familie of Loue, at Pawles / Crosse in London the. xij. of Iune: / an. 1575. The Confession and declaration of Robert sharpe Clerke, and other of that secte, tearmed the Familie of Loue, at Pawles Crosse in London the. xij. of Iune: an. 1575. The Confession and declaration of Robert Sharpe Clerke, and other of that sect, termed the Family of Love, at Paul's Cross in London the. xij. of June: an. 1575. Sharpe, Robert Printer William Seres. 1575-1575

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