Among the beliefs they inherited from him are said to have been these:--( 1) That God may and does deceive man; (2) That Scripture is not necessary to salvation, the immediate action of the Spirit on souls being sufficient; (3) That there ought to be no Baptism of Infants; (4) That truly spiritual believers are not bound by law and ceremonies; (5) That Sabbath-observance is unnecessary, all days being alike; (6) That the ordinary Christian Church is degenerate and decrepit.

One sees here something like a French Quakerism, but with ingredients from older Anabaptism.

Had Milton's letter had the intended effect, the sect might have had its home in London.[1] [Footnote 1: _Nouvelle Biographie Generale_, as before .-- It is to be remembered that Milton himself authorized the publication of his letter to Badiaeus with his other Latin Familiar Epistles in 1674 (see Vol.

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239).