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A93596	Englands vvarning by Germanies vvoe: or, An historicall narration, of the originall, progresse, tenets, names, and severall sects of the Anabaptists, in Germany, and the Low Countries: continued for about one hundred and twenty years, from anno 1521. (which was the time of their first rise,) until these dayes. VVherein is set forth their severall errors dangerous, and very destructive to the peace both of church and state: the way and manner of their spreading them: the many great commotions: (yea,to the effusion of much blood,) which they occasioned in those parts, by their opposition to, and resistance of the civill magistrates; and what course there was taken for the suppressing them. / By Frederick Spanhemius, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the Vniversity of Leyden in Holland. Published according to order.	Spanheim, Friedrich, 1600-1649.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4798; Thomason E362_28; ESTC R201224	43,736	52

To set forth particularly and curiously wherein all these doe agree or disagree were to no purpose nor is it easy to be done seeing nothing can be more fickle then these kinde of men are and points of Divinity are turned up and downe by them like dice they using likewise doubtfull and uncertain phrases and wrapping up their meaning with manifold obscurities as also for the slightest matters especially for the opinion and exercise of excommunication dividing one from another and making more parties These things being before-hand considered it is now manifest by what names these Sectaries are called and for what cause they are given them and they are either generall or speciall The generall are Anabaptists Catabaptists Enthusiasts Fanaticks and Libertines T is evident also that they are called Catabaptists because they inveigh against Childrens Babaptisme and will have it banished out of the Church of God as being not onely unprofitable but altogether unlawfull Anabaptists because they will have those Baptized againe which were either Baptized in their tender yeares or in their riper if out of their assemblies and doe actually performe it in those that come over to their Sects It appeares likewise that they are called Enthusiasts for the Enthusiasms raptures and other such like things which they give out for secret and divine inspirations and for which they will not onely have place given to their owne dreames either in exposition of the Scripture or determining points of faith or in direction of the especiall actions of a mans life but at leastwise divers of them ascribe thereunto uncontrollable authority for which cause also the name of Fanaticks was given them It appeares also that many have the name of Libertines either from their Tenets onely or else from their Tenets and practise both Wherefore of Libertines amongst the Anabaptists some might be called Doctrinall onely other Vuruly Factious and Epicures of whom some have risen up against the State some practised the use of Wives in common and other such like impure and carnall deeds To these generall names may be added also the speciall taken either from their Teachers manner of life and profession or places of habitation all which may be gathered out of what hath beene before spoken CHAP. IIII. Of the Erroneous opinions of the Anabaptists NOw for the Erroneous opinions of the Anabaptists they are so many by reason of the many Sects into which they are divided that their number can scarce be cast up And although they might be divided into those which are common to the Anabaptists with other Hereticks either Ancient or Moderne and those which are peculiar to them only notwithstanding for better order sake I thinke fit to reduce all and every of them to certaine common places of Divinity And I shall comprehend in this division not those opinions alone which all the Anabaptists or Catabaptists have anciently maintained or which all of them doe maintaine at this day but those also which many of them or at least some of them have anciently or do at present defend that so the partition may be the more perfect and that I may present the Reader with the whole body of the Errours which they have hitherto erred and as yet doe erre Notwithstanding I shall not touch the Errours of David George or Michael Servetus from which the Anabaptists for the most part protest they ever have been and still are free as neither the idle dreams of Schwenckfeld I make two generall Classes unto which all the Heterodox opinions of the Anabaptists may be referred for they either concerne the sacred rule of Holy Scripture or else the doctrines of Faith and ordinances which are taught in the same What concerne sacred Canon the Anabaptists erre 1. Errours against the sacred Canon of the Scriptures by detracting from the Scripture 1. About the matter of the Holy Scripture 2. About the Forme About the matter they offend § 1. By detraction there-from while they reject the writings of the Old Testament as delivered to the Jews only and not to the Christians and as being unprofitable for them and imagine that only the Books of the New Testament must be the rule of our Faith and walking neither will they have proofs of the Articles of Faith brought out of the Old Testament to be received except when they are not contrary to the doctrine of Christ supposing that those two writings are in many things contrary one to another or that the Old Testament is of lesse authourity then the New Colloq Francothall and Leovard and Confess of the Mennonites § 2. By addition thereunto 2. By addition to the Scripture 1. While some of them equall the Apocrypha Books with the Canonicall Scripture and thinke that points of Faith may be proved out of them likewise So Menno Simonz sometimes opposeth the Apocryphall books of the Holy Scripture to the Canonicall and the Mennonites his Sectaries in their confession ground their Tenets upon the books of Ecclesiasticus and the wisedome of Solomon So Reineir Wybrandz in his Catechisme published at Amsterdam Anno. 1640. divides the Books of the Holy Scripture into those of the Old and New Testament and the Books of the Old into Canonicall and Apocryphall although in this point he is not very constant to himself and others of the Anabaptists seem here to be of the same mind with the Orthodox 2. while they teach that not only the written Word of God is to be hearkned unto but also revelations enthusiasms dreames and the immediate voyce of God and according to these the government of the Church and all our actions yea even very rash and perillous ones ought to be regulated as appears by the doctrine and practise of those of Munster and the conference of Antony Corpinus and Ioannes Kymaeus Divines of Hessen with Iohn of Leyden at Beve●ga An. 1536. § 3. By alteration thereof while they contend that the doctrine of Faith delivered in the Old and New Testament is divers in substance oppose Moses and Christ one to another and teach that Christ in the New Testament hath proposed a new doctrine of faith more perfect righteousnesse and not only earthly and temporall promises as were under the Old Testament but moreover eternall Colloq Emba and Leovard About the forme of the Holy Scripture the Anabaptists offend two marmer of wayes 3. About the forme of the holy Scripture 1. About the internall form while they will admit only that sense of the Holy Scripture for lawfull which is expressed in so many letters and sillables and at least-wise some of them will allow no place to consequences and inferring one thing out of another which appears partly out of the conferences had with them concerning the exposition of the words Ioh. 1.14 The Word was made flesh where they will have the words and letters urged precisely partly out of their complaints yea triumphing that Childrens baptisme cannot be proved out of the Holy Scripture in

yeares The unconstancy and contradictions of this brain-sick Doctor both the writings of Menno declare and the Orthodox Divines have enough and more then enough manifested From this Menno many Anabaptists of the Low-Countries are now commonly called Mennonites although all of them do not follow his opinions The Mennonites properly so called are likewise gone into divers parts and some of them are called old Mennonites other new or latter Mennonites Amongst those Anabaptists which received names from their teachers are used to be reckoned by some 8. Servetians 9. Georgians 10. Swhenck-feldians Servetians Georgians and Swhenck-feldians because they oppose childrens baptlsno and hold baptizang again Inspirations and many other erroneous opinions common with the Anabaptists The Servetians are so called from Michael Servetus a Spaniard who for his execrable and unheard of blasphemies most obstinately belcht out against the sacred Trinity and the Sonne of God and other hainous crimes was not only by the procurement of Calvin that most learned and pious Divine which of meer malice is reported by some but upon mature consultation and communicating the matter with the Common-wealths and Churches of Helvetia burnt at Geneva Servetus burnt at Geneva pouring out his ungodly soule amidst most horrible blasphemies in the very fire and was aswell by the judgment of Papists as Protestants held most worthy to perish in the revenging flames The Georgians were so named from David George of Delph in these Netherland a most notorious Impostor and patron aswell of most horrible blasphemies as abominable and unnaturall lusts who came to that height of presumption and impiety that besides divers other opinions wherein he conspired with the Anabaptists He gave himselfe out for the Christ of God The opinion of David George preferd himself before the eternall Son of the Eternall God applyed unto himself the prophecies spoken by the holy men of God concerning Christ and was so audacious as to exalt his wicked and franticke opinions above Gods holy Word a most odious fellow yea a monster and shame of mankinde Which blasphemies together with other dotages of his he hath gathered into his Booke of wonderfull things where he likewise teacheth that the doctrine delivered in the Scripture is unperfect yea childish and carnall and delivered as it were in the infancy of the World And although one would thinke that these blasphemies could not be perswaded to any in the World yet t is not to be said how great a multitude of men this most vile wretch drew to his party chiefly by two meanes How he brought his followers to imbrace his opinions 1. An outward shew of an holy life and seeming continuall and ardent powring out prayers unto God 2. By a wary and crafty way of scattering and instilling his opinions into others making himself way by little and little from one degree to another and by strange meanes creeping into the minds of credulous men and procuring credit and authority to himself Nor would he reveale those his horrible mysteries except to those onely whom he had made wholly his own and that secretly also By which wiles and with a certain comly and majestical frame of countenance he inveigled the minds of innumerable and by the powerfull working of deceit seduced abundance of people for many years and withall cozened his disciples of their mony He cheated them of their moneys until at last fearing the deserved punishment of his blasphemies seeing he was sharply reproved by Menno Simonz and Melchior Hofman and other of the Anabaptists forsaking his ancient name and taking upon him the new name of John a Bruck he thought it safest for him to depart to some other place where he was neither known by name nor face He chooseth the noble ●ity of Basill whither to transfer the seate of his affaires He changed his name and fled to Basill and seeing persecution was very hot against the reformed Churches in these Provinces of the Netherlands professeth himselfe of the number of those exiles which were forced to leave their Country for the cause of Christ and so with his Family and some of his Sectaries was received of the pious Magistrate who tooke pitty upon such as were for Christs sake faine to go into banishment There the crafty fellow a long while hid his venome and plighting his faith to the Magistrate frequenting the Church assemblies and by divers good offices winning the mindes of a great many and by his homely habit liberall table honest attendance and prudent and civill conversation gaining the favour both of high and low he lived both safely and gallantly having gotten himselfe besides a spacious dwelling in the City an house of pleasure likewise in the Country till in the yeare of our Lord 1556. about the month of September rather by the gnawing worme of Conscience and feare of imminent punishment Where he pined away and dyed then with any great sicknesse he pined away when he perceived that by certaine strangers of the Low-Countryes continually flowing to Bazill his vizard began to be pluckt off and the mindes of his Sectaries began likewise to waver But which is wonderfull notwithstanding it was three years after the death of the Impostor who was honourably buried in Lawrence Church ere the vaile was withdrawne and the story discovered Then were the blasphemies of the ungodly man brought before the Senate his Sectaries called into the Court question had with them concerning the name Country life and doctrine of the deceased The houses and cabinets of David and all his followers searched their letters and books gathered together and every thing delivered into the hands of Divines and Lawyers to discusse the same The blasphemies and cozenages of this deceiver being detected by a solemne ordinance of the Magistrate all his bookes and papers are burnt by the hand of the common hangman the picture of the naughty man His books and papers burnt by the common hangman and his Corps consumed to ashes after it had been carryed about the Streets in the malefactors Cart was cast into the fire his infamous corps brought in his Coffing into the publique place of execution and there consumed to ashes Those of the Sectaries which had aforetime been familiar with the Impostor that protested they had and did abhorre the blasphemies of their Master had their lives granted them of the Senate by whose piety and wisedome the contagion of this heresy was hindered from spreading any further all wayes of sowing it abroad being stopt up His disciples forsweare his opinions and they forswearing publiquely in the Church the communion and doctrine of this false Teacher are admitted to partake of the holy things The rest which pertaines to this history is performed by Ioannes Wygandus Bishop of Pomezania and the authour of the History of David George lately here published by the reverend man Iacobus Revius The Swenckfeldians were so named of Caspar a Swenckfeld of Ossiga a Knight of