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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

ENGLANDS VVARNING BY GERMANIES WOE 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 untill these Dayes VVherin 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 was there taken for the suppressing them By FREDERICK SPANHEMIUS Doctor and Professour of Divinity in the Vniversity of Leyden in Holland Foelix quem faciunt aeliena pericula cautum Published according to Order LONDON Printed by John Dever Robert Ibbitson for John Bellamie at the three Golden Lions in Corn-hill neere the Royall Exchange 1646. Englands warning by Germanies Woe OR An Historicall Narration of the Originall Progresse Tenets Names and severall Sects of the Anabaptists in Germany and the low Countryes CHAP. I. Of the Originall or beginning of the Anabaptists PUrposing by the assistance of God The Proem for the confirmation and vindication of the truth to dispute against the Anabaptists for the more full illustration of the matter I have taken in hand I thought fit briefly to praemise these things 1 Of the Originall of these Sectaries 2 Of their Progresse 3 Of the divers Sects into which they are divided 4 Of the Names by which they are commonly called 5 Of their Heterodox opinions Concerning the first namely the Originall or beginning of this sort of men which are most commonly termed Anabaptists Their first birth is challenged by the yeare of our Lord 1521. when they began to appeare on the stage and to enter into these parts of the Christian world Those that are read to be the first which helped the world to be delivered of this Sect were Nicholas Storch Marcus Stubner and chiefly one Thomas Muntzer men borne in upper-Germany whose pretence was piety of a civill life in appearance but their mindes greedy after innovations ambitious of Honour and made and fitted for ungodly enterprises To their designes a while joyned himselfe Martinus Cellarius a Swede by Nation disciple of Capnion and one of Melanchtoms familiars but who afterwards both by his and Luthers admonition repented and together with his Sect cast of his Country name taking unto him from thence-forth the name of Borrhai under which name he was first placed in the profession of Philosophy and afterwards of Divinity in the famous University of Bazill where besides his writings in Logicke and Mathematicks by publishing Commentaries upon some Books of the old Testament he commended himselfe unto the Church of God untill at last being seized by the Pestilence he there finished his life in the Communion of the Orthodox Church the yeare of our Lord. 1564. Nicholas Storch and Marcus Stubner by divers practises indeavoured to draw the heedlesse people after them this latter by the fame of his learning and a certaine dexterity he had in expounding the holy Scripture the former as being altogether unlearned by his popular eloquence and report of inspirations revelations and secret conferences with God both by a great deale of jugling and divers frauds These notwithstanding proceeded more warily and gently but more violently and furiously Thomas Muntzer under whose conduct brake forth that lamentable sedition of the Country-men by which in the former age upper-Germany was so grievously shaken and with the same the fruites of that new Gospell where-with Storch and Stubner had possessed the mindes of the common people The residue of both whose lives and their ends are uncertaine Of Muntzers further enterprises comes now particularly to be spoken Some fanaticke spirits take occasion of making parties and rending the Church of God upon the words of Luther in his Booke of Christian liberty which is extant amongst his workes in the third Tome and was first published in the yeare of our Lord 1520. having read there that a Christian man is Lord of all things and subject to none which words written by Luther that eminent servant of God in the best part and largely expounded and by a contrary aphorisme namely that the same was servant of all and subject to all more fully declared were wrested to an ill sense by men impatient both of their owne and others quietnesse who upon that occasion first privately and afterward publiquely began to speake evill of the Government of Princes unto the people telling them of their exactions and boasting the liberty purchased to all under the Kingdome of Christ and making large complaints not onely of the Tyranny of the Pope of Rome but also of many faults still tolerated in the Church by the first reformers and so shaking the two pillars of publique order the dignity of the Magistrate and the reverence of the sacred Ministery and the authority of both Thereupon consulted about framing a new and more perfect Church and concerning its new policy and on this occasion thought of a new Baptisme to initiate the disciples thereof But least the reverence of the Baptisme formerly received should be any hinderance to their purpose Childrens Baptisme was exclaimed against as vaine yea unlawfull being conferred upon Infants which were uncapable thereof whereas this Sacrament ought to be administred to none but men growne and who had the use of their will and reason And that the zeale of this new Church which these Doctors desired to raise out of the rubbish might the more deeply enter into the mindes of the common people they tooke speciall care to make great shew of piety themselves and to presse the same upon others Hence the ordinary subject of publique Sermons and private Conventicles was That wee must detest sinne suddue the flesh stirre up the spirit exercise duties of charity beare the Crosse of Christ give our selves to fasting bee plaine in apparell moderate in dyet compose the dressing of our bodyes to neglect rather then ornament and be sparing of speech It cannot be said how much the enemy of mankinde by this slight transforming himselfe into an Angell of light and hiding the depths of Satan advanced his cause and how much this meere out-side of godlinesse and holinesse made the mindes of men not evill addicted unto these new Evangelists The mindes of men being thus prepared Thomas Muntzer first Pastor of Cygnea afterwards of Alstet a Towne seated in the limits of Thuringia and Saxony thinking he might now go on with his designes hardned himselfe in his audacious wickednesse yea resolved in his minde to adventure on any mischiefe whatsoever For when he observed the name of Luther to be famous every where for restoring the Churches liberty and all mens mindes to be inclined towards him he thought he must by some notable enterprize get himselfe a