Last one..

Unluckily for Ed, there's always a last one, lucky for us it was him. Fortunately we've matured as a society to the point that we (mostly) realise that great truths in this world always start life as heresy, and that we can't really be 100% certain of anything! As Hulme said 100 years later, 'a wise man proportions his belief to his evidence'. This is particularly true of claims that are offered by authorities whose status, incomes and livelihoods depend on us believing them! It's quite incredible to look at the so called summary of "charges" against Ed, they read like a list of Harry Potter spells, not that Wightman was an unbeliever, he simply had a different set of delusions that didn't comply with the pervasive set at the time. Here's the list for reference,

1. That there is no Trinity;
2. That Jesus Christ is not God, perfect God and of the same substance, eternity and majesty with the Father in respect of his God-head;
3. That Jesus Christ is only man and a mere creature and not both God and man in one person ;
4. That Christ was never incarnate and did not fulfill the promise that the seed of the woman shall break the serpents head;
5. The person of the Holy Ghost is not God, co-equal, co-eternal and co-essential with the Father and the Son;
6. That the three creeds of the apostolic church are the heresies of the Nicolaitanes;
7. That he, Edward Wightman, is the prophet spoken of in Deuteronomy 18 in the words "I will raise them up a prophet" and in Isaiah "I alone have trodden the wine press" and in that place "Whose fan is in his hand";
8. That he was the Holy Spirit, the Comforter spoken of in John 16;
9. That the words of Jesus on the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit refer to him;
10. That the fourth of Malachi refers to his person (the prophecy of Elijah);
11. That the soul and body does sleep and this sleep is the first death, and that the soul and body of Jesus did also sleep in the sleep of death;
12. That the souls of the elect departed (that is dead) are not in heaven;
13. That the baptizing of infants is an abominable custom;
14. That the practice of the Church of England in reference to the Lords Supper and baptism are incorrect and baptism of water should be administered only to those with sufficient age and understanding;
15. That God has ordained and sent him, Edward Wightman, to do his part in the work of the Salvation of the world, (to admonish the heresy of the Nicolaitanes);in comparison to Christ who was sent to save the world and by his death to deliver it from sin and to reconcile it to God;
16. That Christianity is not wholly professed and preached in the Church of England, but only in part