These Trades-men are Preachers in and about the City of LONDON. Or A DISCOVERY OF THE MOST DANGEROVS AND DAMNABLE TENETS THAT HAVE BEEN SPREAD WITHIN THIS FEW yeares: By many Erronious, Heriticall and Mechannick spirits. By which the very foundation of Christian knowledge and practise is endeavoured to be overturned.
a Confectioner a Smith a Sho-maker a Taylor a Sadler a Porter a Box-maker a Sope-boyler a Glover a Meal-man a Chicken-man a Button-maker
1. THat Christs righteousnesse was a beggarly righteousnesse.
2. That Christs blood did not purchase Heaven for any man.
3. That Christ shed his blood for Kine and Horses, as well as for men.
4. That the soules of men and divels are mortall, and that none a [...]e immortal but God.
5. That we are onely to beleeve the Scriptures, so far as they are agreeable to sense and reason
6. That the Scriptures are uncertain and unsufficient, and not an infallible Rule of Faith.
7. That the Scriptures cannot be said to be the Word of God, because there is no word of God but Christ.
8. That the Scriptures of the old Testament do not binde or concern Christians under the new.
9. That adultery and drunkennesse is no sin.
10. That Prayer in Families is unlawfull.
11. A company of Souldiers in derision of Baptisme, baptised a horse, having pist in the Font, sprinkled it on the Horse, and crost him on the Fore-head, and named him Ball-Esau, because he was hairie.
12. That Christs sufferings were onely for our examples, and not to purchase Heaven for us.
13. That Beleevers have nothing to doe to take care, or keep from sin.
14. That no man was cast into hell for sin, but onely because God would have it so.
15. That Christ will destroy all Governments, lawfull and unlawfull.
16. That God was never displeased with men for sin; if he were, there were a changeablenesse in God.
17. That the soul of man dies with the body.
18. That the Church of England and Ministery thereof is Anti-christian, [...]nd of the Devil.
19. That it is the will of G [...]d that tolleration of the most P [...]g [...], Jewi [...]h, Turki [...]h, or Antichristian worship be granted to all men in all Nat [...]ons.
20. That a man may lawfully put away his wife if she be not a meet helper
21. That God is the Author of the sinfulnesse of his people.
22. That man had life before God breathed it into him.
23. That there is no resurrection of the bodies of men after this life.
24. That if a womans husband was a sleep or absent, she might lawfully lye with another man, for sleep was death.
25. That John Baptists, doctrine was a leatherne doctrine.
26. That Adams sin did not deserve hell.
27. That all the children of Adam that die in their infancie shall be saved.
28. That all the heaven there is, is here on earth.
29. That Johns Baptisme which was of Water, did end at the coming of Christ.
30. That it is unlawful to sing Psalmes.
31. That it is blasphemy to say that there is now any office of the ministery.
32 That Universities is of the Devil, and humane learning is of the flesh.
33 That many shall be saved that were not elected.
34 That they are the great Antichrist that deny the generall redemption of the whole Creation.
35 That we have no example in all the Gospel, for Saints to pray with unbeleevers.
36 A Sectary said, what had any man to do if he worshipt the Sun or moon, no man had to do with his Conscience.
37 That it is injustice in God to punish the soules of the wicked in Hell, whiles their bodies are at rest in their graves, since both lived together.
38 That all the Heathen shall be saved, because they are not guilty of unbeleef.
39 That millions of thousands are damned for a time, and not totally, for not beleeving the Covenant of generall redemption.
40 That the true faith of beleevi [...]g the Covenant of generall redemption, though it were but in three persons, is sufficient to save all the rest of the Creation.
41. That the Doctrine of repentance is a soule depraving doctrine.
42 That there ought to be no Fasting daies under the Gospel.
43 That Sanctification is but a Dung-hill, and dirty qualification.
44 That there is no Originall sin in us.
45 That under the daies of the new Testament all daies are alike to Christians, and that the Lords day, or sabbath ought not to be kept.
46 That there is no Church, nor Ordinance nor Ministery in the world.
47 That it is unlawfull to teach children to pray.
48 That Infants shall never rise againe, because they were not capable of knowing God, and so not of enjoying God.
49 That there is power in men to resist grace.
Printed and Published according to Order. 1647.