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	Familists - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Familists, religious community founded in Friesland in the 16th cent.
		Niclaes, a merchant of Münster and originally a Roman Catholic, claimed to have been chosen prophet and prepared by special outpouring of the "spirit of the true love of Jesus Christ." His teachings combined elements of German mysticism with Anabaptist doctrines and the ethic of religious perfection.
		There was some government procedure against them under Elizabeth I and James I. Although the sect died out in the 17th cent., it strongly influenced similar radical groups.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-familist.html (363 words)

	English Dissenters: Family of Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Familists were charged with practicing the perfectionist theology known as Antinomianism, a natural state of Grace without Sin in the true believer.
		Familists influence may have initially spread into England through foreign merchants from Antwerp, Holland during the reign of Mary I. England was a frequent haven for foreign religious dissidents, especially in its port communities.
		Familists were never a major political force due to their small numbers in England, but their contributions may be more than previously realized.
	www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/familists.html (2194 words)

	§2. Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century; “Children of Light” in Holland. XII. William Law and the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		2 To this can be traced the root-ideas which animated alike quakers, seekers, Behmenists, anabaptists, familists and numberless other sects which embodied a reaction against forms and ceremonies that, in ceasing to be understood, had become lifeless.
		They all held that salvation was the effect of a spiritual principle, a seed quickened invisibly by God, and, consequently, they considered learning useless, or even mischievous, in dealing with the things of the spirit.
		So far, these various sects were mystical in thought; though, with the exception of familists, Behmenists and seekers, they cannot unreservedly be classed as mystics.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/219/1202.html (465 words)

	BURRAGE Chapter 8, Section 2, Champlin Burrage, The Early English Dissenters In the Light of Recent Research ...
		Inasmuch, however, as at a later period also the Familists and the Seekers were confused in the same way, we may cite the General Anabaptist, Thomas Helwys, on this point as apparently one of the first, if not the first, to make this mistake.
		Helwys is here, it seems to me, not describing the Familists, but only the Seekers, whom he here styles the ``scattered flock'', a name sometimes given to them before 1620.
		He does not confuse their teaching with that of the Familists, but he attributes to the Familists views which, though popularly ascribed to them, are only suggested or are certainly uncommon, if they ever appear, in genuine Familist publications.
	www.la.utexas.edu /research/poltheory/burrage/burrage.c08.s02.html (1876 words)

	Rev. Bachiler -- An Unorthodox Founder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bachiler has been called a “familist.” Familism was one of the Elizabethan sects that was also political.
		Familists believed in prelapsarianism — that is, there was an Eden on Earth before Adam’s fall.
		Familists accepted itinerant ministers and individual interpretation of the Bible.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/hampton350th/Page_5.htm (1402 words)

	John Carman
		These "familists" were followers of the doctrine that religion lay in love, not in creeds, - a dangerous theory and one liable to abuse.
		Winthrop says that most of these settlers were familists, which leaves us in some doubt as to whether Carman had emigrated for religious reasons or for other causes.
		It is certain however, that whether or not he was affiliated with this sect, he was required to have ten pounds for the venture, a not inconsiderable sum for the time.
	home.att.net /~carman_family_history/articles/art02.htm (1929 words)

	Page 273 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Christopher Vital, a native of Delft, the city of Joris, was, moreover, long the head of the English Familists, but the movement soon spread to genuinely English soil, and the most of the writings of Niclaes were translated into English.
		In 1574 the English government pro ceeded against the Familists, whereupon they addressed to Parliament An Apology for the Service o f Love and the People that Own it, and in: the fol lowing year issued A Brief Rehearsal of the Belief o f the Goodwilling in England, which are named the Family of Love.
		After the Restoration the Familists vanished, and by the beginning of the eighteenth century but one aged member of the sect was known to be alive.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc04/htm/0289=273.htm (881 words)

	Savage New England Register, Volume #4, Weld - Weller
		Similar exact conformity as to the spelling of the word, according to the then established usage, Errour, is found in both, and similar, also, is the use or non-use of the double e in be, he, me, she.
		For instance "Antinomians and Familists" of the Coll.
		"Antinomians and Familists" being established, nothing is yet clearly shown to prove, wh.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk4/weld-weller.htm (2892 words)

	Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 eBook
		The Ranters and Familists existed not as sects but in name, and soon disappeared.
		The Quakers, who were confounded with the Ranters and Familists, were not at this time formed into a society; nor had they published any book of discipline.
		The Society of Friends were some years after united, and have been one of the most useful as well as the brightest ornaments to this kingdom.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/6047/236.html (412 words)

	University of York - Dept. of History
		Members believed that one should outwardly conform to any established Church; that all true believers were without sin and were divine; and that the last judgement and the resurrection lay not in the future but the past (with the possible implication that there was no life after death).
		Thereafter the English Familist movement seems to have splintered into a number of different factions, but Familism still had a significant presence in the 1620s.
		There are a significant number of books surviving written by Familists, by critics of Familism, and by former Familists; there is also a play traditionally attributed to Thomas Middleton.
	www.york.ac.uk /depts/hist/undrgrad/courses/31family.shtml (557 words)

	Sub Ratione Dei: April 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Familists’ ecclesiology was centred on the degree of their member’s enlightenment or divinization which Williams (727) labels a “charismatic hierarchy”.
		Like the recent Family the Familists were accused of sexual libertinism although in the Familists case there is no real evidence to support this charge.
		The most abiding influence of the Familists is the importance it held for the development of Quakerism; by the end of the seventeenth century it had been absorbed into the Quakers and it seems likely that this was a primary source for the Quaker doctrine of the light within.
	subrationedei.typepad.co.uk /sub_ratione_dei/2006/04/index.html (10713 words)

	English Dissenters: Grindletonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There are ties to the Anabaptists, Familists, and the early Quakers.
		The Rev. Stephen Dennison in 1627 refers to the Grindletonian Familists.
		They may have been practicing a form of Familism which was itself not uniformly practiced.
	www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/grindletonians.html (232 words)

	The English Civil War Society of America Home Page
		The seed of Quakerism was sown long before, as with many radical church movements.
		It was founded in the spirit of Lollards, Familists, and Anabapist traditions.
		It was induced by the ideological flux of the mid-seventeenth century.
	www.ecwsa.org /relquakers.html (1492 words)

	Works of John Bunyan — Complete eBook
		They went forth upon their mission at a fearful sacrifice of comfort, property, health, and even of life; calling all to repentance, and to obey the light within—to follow on to perfection in this life—and, at the same time, denouncing all hireling ministers.
		They were called in derision, Familists, Ranters, Quakers, New Lights, andc.
		The Familists, or family of love, were consistent in their lives;—considered every day a sabbath, and baptized none under thirty years of age.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/6049/1822.html (424 words)

	A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience by Samuel Rutherford
		The other thing (saith he) left out which yet refers to all, The Covenant is, that he that swears shall by all lawful ways and means, and according to his place and calling endeavor to perform the Covenant, v.
		He swear to bring the Churches to nearest uniformity according to his place, but when this man defends the toleration of all the sects in England, Socinians, Arians, Familists, for he writing anno.
		and their doctrine even in fundamentals not so sure but Socinians, Arians, and the Saints your brethren the Familists may hold the contrary, and be tolerated as Saints, and their doctrine, though opposite in fundamentals to ours, may be as satisfactory truths to your conscience as ours of Scotland.
	www.apuritansmind.com /SamuelRutherford/SamuelRutherfordPretendedLiberty.htm (2677 words)

	Who Are The Illuminati
		Name assumed by or applied to various societies or sects because of their claim to special enlightenment in religious or (later) intellectual matters.
		(1) applied to a sect of Spanish heretics which existed in the 16thC under the name of Alumbrados or 'enlightened', subsequent to a similar but obscure sect of Familists which arose in France in Louis XIII's reign.
		(the Oracle adds that the Familists were a religious heresy which maintained that the only religious duty was that of Love, and that no opposition was ever to be offered to any Government however oppressive)
	www.rosebush.org.uk /page40.html (1014 words)

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		They went forth upon their mission at a fearful sacrifice of comfort, property, health, and even of life; calling all to repentance, and to obey the light within--to follow on to perfection in this life--and, at the same time, denouncing all hireling ministers.
		The Familists, or family of love, were consistent in their lives;-- considered every day a sabbath, and baptized none under thirty years of age.
		The Ranters mingled a little truth with much error--abused their Christian liberty--and lived licentiously, and were a scandal to religion.
	www.mountzion.org /johnbunyan/text/bun-truths.txt (12236 words)

	The Family of Love in English Society, 1550—1630 - Cambridge University Press
		The Familists, devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch mystic named 'H. N.', were passionately denounced by many literate contemporaries, and an association with extremism, subversion and hypocrisy has endured.
		The author tracks the English Familists into their houses, fields and places of work.
		Although members of the Family were few in number and highly secretive, identification has proved possible in contexts ranging from the court of Elizabeth I to rural villages in Cambridgeshire.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052102000X (347 words)

	Savage New England Register, Volume #4, Weld - Weld
		on the reverse of the title-page of "Antinomians and Familists condemned," had noted, that it was the same work with Weld's Short Story, and infer.
		of "Antinomians and Familists," with the Athemaeum copy of the "Short Story," and he assures me that it is apparent that from p.
		An expert in printing, or even an apprentice, would judge of Antinomians and Familists, andc.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk4/weld-weld.htm (3019 words)

	Religious Radicals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is difficult to tell how widely Familist ideas spread since its adherents had no objections to denying their beliefs if persecuted.
		It has been suggested that the philosopher, Justus Lipsius and Queen Elizabeth herself were members of the Family of Love.
		During the 1640's, Familist works were reprinted, but it hard to discover to what effect.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/367/367-072.htm (2212 words)

	The Era of Cromwell And The Commonwealth
		The Familists, or Family of Love, were a species of Anabaptists, who originated in Holland from Henry Nicholas.
		Not attempting to set up a separate church; the Familists considered it their vocation to advocate in the existing establishments the religion of the Spirit, as opposed to forms and ceremonies.
		The Muggletonians, headed by Ludowick Muggleton and John Reeve, mixed depreciation of the letter with anthropomorphic conceptions of the Deity, and with various strange notions.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /sheldon/commonwealth.html (3379 words)

	Amazon.com: "new familists": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		See all pages with references to new familists.
		Many recent commentators, who Burtt dubs the `new familists; have suggested that this evidence supplies good justification for public policy measures aimed expressly at promoting this type of traditional...
		NEW FAMILISTS On the state of the American family,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/new-familists (360 words)

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		Saying in the pulpit, such a way of Familisme is a way of heresie, is not resolved in, thus saith the Lord, by such preacher, but such a preacher so thinketh, possibly phancies, that the Lord sayth such a way is heresie.
		Is but the dictates of their own conscience, and so they preach, so they beleeve, and so they professe not, because God so saith, but because their conscience so dictates to them.
		and their doctrine even in fundamentalls not so sure but Socinians, Arrians, and the Saints your brethren the Familists may hold the contrary, and bee tollerated as Saints, and their doctrine, though opposite in fundamentalls to ours, may be as satisfactory truths to your conscience as ours of Scotland.
	www.swrb.com /newslett/actualNLs/freedis21.htm (5958 words)

	The god IN EVERY MAN
		From Joel’s army to the Christian Coalition to the likes of the Millstat Forum, all believe in a 'Christian theocracy.’ Another influence on Quaker doctrine was a group called the Familists or "the Family of Love".
		Authors Reeves and Gould, state that the ‘familists’ taught the deification of man.
		One form or another of the heresy was accepted by many Baptists and probably by John Goodwin, William Ebery, Clement Wrighter, as well as by Milton, Locke, and Newton."20.
	www.seekgod.ca /mystics.htm (2729 words)

	Light and Silence: Origins Archives
		But this absence of traditional Presbyterianism does not mean that there were no popular religious movements in these parts, still less that there were no traditions of popular revolt.
		Like Francis Bacon, Familists believed that men and women might recapture on earth the state of innocence which existed before the Fall: their enemies said they claimed to attain the perfection of Christ.
		In the 1570s English Familists were noted to be wayfaring traders, or 'cowherds, clothiers and such-like mean people.
	lightandsilence.org /origins (7326 words)

	Issue #1: Puritanism, Spiritualism, and Quakerism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The conditions brought on by the Civil War in England, not primarily continental "mystical" influences, were responsible not only for the splintering of Puritanism into a group of orthodox "denominations" but for the rise of the "fanatics or enthusiasts to the left of them".
		Moreover, most of the leaders of the Quakers, Ranters, Familists, and Seekers can be seen to have arrived at their destination after traversing much of the Puritan spectrum.
		For Familists: The Familists did not publish separate treatises in the Interregnum, although works of Henry Nicholas began to appear in English after 1646 (see Jones, Mystical Religion, chap.
	www.quaker.org /quest/issue1-2.html (5739 words)

	Familists (subject at ISBNdb.com)
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		Familists -- England -- History -- 16th century (1)
		Familists -- England -- History -- 17th century (1)
	isbndb.com /d/subject/familists.html (78 words)

	The Antinomians Were Heretics Destroying the Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From Thomas Welde's preface to John Winthrop's A Short Story of the Rise, Reign, and Ruine of the Antinomians.
		Familists, and Libertines, 1644, as reprinted in Antinomtanism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1836-1638, edited by Charles F. Adams (Boston, 1894).
		Which was this, that some going thither from hence, full fraught with many unsound and loose opinions, after a time began to open their packs and freely vend their wares to any that would be their customers.
	shs.westport.k12.ct.us /jwb/ap/summer/Antinomians.htm (1462 words)

	Find in a Library: The description and confutation of mysticall Anti-Christ, the Familists; or, an information drawn up ...
		The description and confutation of mysticall Anti-Christ, the Familists; or, an information drawn up and published for the confirmation and comfort of the faithfull, against many Antichristian Familisticall doctrines which are frequently preached and printed in England particularly in those dangerous books called Theologia Germanica, the Bright Star, Divinity and Philosophy dissected.
		Subjects: Familists -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/371454085a8e6aada19afeb4da09e526.html (163 words)

	A Brotherly and Free Epistle to the Patrons and Friends of Pretended Liberty of Conscience
		And in that day shall five Cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of hosts.
		But I am afraid, that Familists, Antinomians, Arminians, Socinians, whom M. Burton calleth the Saints, shall not be found the only true Israel of God.
		And we teach that the Magistrate, as the Minister of God, after due examination according to the word, is obliged to add his civil sanction to these constitutions, and to guard the Ministers with his Sword; and to punish Arminians, Socinians, Familists, andc.
	www.covenanter.org /Rutherfurd/surveyofspiritualantichrist/rutherfurd_epistle.html (3167 words)

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