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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57644	Apocalypsis, or, The revelation of certain notorious advancers of heresie wherein their visions and private revelations by dreams, are discovered to be most incredible blasphemies, and enthusiastical dotages : together with an account of their lives, actions and ends : whereunto are added the effigies of seventeen (who excelled the rest in rashness, impudence and lying) : done in copper plates / faithfully and impartially translated out of the Latine by J.D.	Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1945; ESTC R16929	56,554	106

He affirmed that he was Christ and the Messias the well-beloved Son of the Father in whom he was well pleased not born of blood nor of the flesh nor of the lust of man but of the holy Ghost and the spirit of Christ who vanishing hence long since according to the flesh and deposited hitherto in some place unknown to the Saints was now at length reinsused from heaven into David George 3. Hee held that hee onely was to bee worshipped as who should bring out the house of Israel and the true that is the professors of his doctrine tribe of Levi and the Tabernacle of the Lord not through miseries sufferings crosses as the Messias of the Jews did but with all meekness love and mercy in the spirit of Christ granted unto him from the Father which is in heaven 4. Hee approved himself to be invosted with the authority of Saving or condemning binding and loosing and that at the last day he should judge the twelve tribes of Israel 5. Hee further maintained that Jesus Christ was sent from the Father to take flesh upon him for this reason at least that by his doctrine and the use of his Sacraments men being as it were no better then children and uncapable of receiving the true doctrine might be kept within duty till the coming of David George who should advance a Doctrine that should bee most perfect and most effectuall should smooth out mankind and should consummate the knowledge of God and of his Son and what ever hath been said of him 6. But hee further affirmed That these things should not come to pass according to humane ceremonies but after a spirituall dispensation and after such a manner as had not 〈◊〉 ●eard of which yet none should be able to discern or comprehend but such as were worthy disciples of David George 7. To make good and prove all th●se things he wrested and mis-interpreted many places of the holy Scripture as if Christ and the Apostles whom he commends had intimated not themselves nor any other Ecclesiasticall times save only the coming of David George 8. And thence it was that hee argued thus If the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles bee most true and most effectuall for the obtaining of salvation the Church which they had by their doctrine built up and confirmed ●ould not possibly have been broken to pieces for as Christ himself testisieth against the true Church the gates of Hell shall not be able to prevaile But that building of Christ and his Apostles is overturned and pulled down to the very foundation by Antichrist as may be evidently seen in the Papacy according to the Testimony of the same Christ It therefore necessarily followes that the Doctrine of the Apostles is imperfect and interrupted whence he concluded his own doctrine and saith to be the onely solid and sufficient doctrine 9. Moreover he maintained himself to be greater than John Baptist yea then all the Saints that had gone before him for that the least in the Kingdome of God according to the suffrage of Truth it self is greater than John But he said David George was one whose kingdome was heavenly and most perfect whence he makes himself not only greater than John but also sets himself above Christ since that he was born of fl●sh and that himself was born of the spirit according to a heavenly manner 10. He further allowed with Christ that all sinnes committed against God the Father and against the Son may be forgiven but those that are committed against the Holy Ghost that is to say against David George shall be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come by which meanes it is apparant that he conceiv'd himself greater and higher than Christ admitting Christs own Testimony 11. He declared Polygamy to be free and lawfull for all even for those that are regenerated by the spirit of David George These hends without any brains did the Magistrate deliver to be carried to some that were in the prison to fish out what confession they would make who besides these being provoked and challenged by a number of Questions answered at last That this Davus I would say David George was the same who had embroyled the lower parts of Germany with so many tumults sedition but as that to that doctrine and the fore-recited Articles they unanimously affirmed that they had never heard nor read of any such things Neverthelesse they were to acknowledge the doctrine expressed in those Articles to be pestiferous execrable and derived not from heaven but from Hell and that it was heretical and to be banished with an eternal Anathe●a and withall as men miserably seduced yet desiring for the time to come to be reduced into the right way they were with good reason to implore forgiveness Among those that were in close prison there was one formerly of David's greatest confidents who confessed that indeed he had been infected with that Religion but that since by the illumination of the grace of God he discovered and detested the errors springing from it and avoided them as he would do a cockatrice But there were others who were civilly acquainted with this man who denied that they had known any such thing by him and cried out against the fore-mentioned Articles as impious and blasphemous These passages the Judges appointed by the Magistrate gave him an account of who perceiving that some that were in custody were not so extravagant but that they had some remainders of discretion left he sent to them some learned and able Preachers of the Word who having diligently weeded out the tares of their errors should sow into their hearts the saving seed of true faith Those who were sent ●i●ting them with all the humanity mildnesse meeknesse and charity possible could scrue nothing out of them more than what the Judges who had been emploied before had done In the mean time a report was spread about the City that it was not David George not any eminent person of any other name that had been buried but that a meer swine calf hee-goat haply an Asse had been carried out and buried and that the dead carkasse embalmed with the strongest spices was worshipped and adored with great devotion and religion But this was but a report and was not true Those that were in custody abhorring that doctrine as unheard of and such as deserved to be anathematized and desiring to renew their acquaintance with discretion and their sences are delivered out of those habitations of Iron which they had kept possession of for two months upon these conditions That none should make any purchases either within or near the City without the knowledge and consent of the Magistrate That they shall not entertain any coming out of the lower Provinces though of their kindred but at publick houses or Inns. That the printed books and writings that were translated into the Dutch language shall be brought into the Palace That there

and madnesse having their intervalls of calmnesse and ●erenity he admonished them that all arms and weapons were to be laid aside and that they should put off their guarded edged and scolloped garments and their wrought smocks and petticoats nay that women ought to abstain wearing their neck-laces and all things that were burdensome intimating the manner wherein God that needs no arms would fight their battels for them and should discomfit all their enemies The cowardly and inconstant vulgar being moved at the madnesse of this Doctrine disburthened their bodies of all manner of cloathing A certain harmlesse man having cast away his knife takes it up again which his daughter looking asquint upon rebuked her father to which he answered Be patient be patient daughter we shall have emploiment hereafter for this to cut bread withall O how was this girle once a childe but how was the old man twice When the student of Bedlam the Son with his yelling was exhorting the bewitched people to singing and praier and to resist the Divel the Father presently with his own son in whom he was well pleased taught them that the time of praier being done and that the time of war coming on they must take up the instruments of war whereupon he gets up into a Pulpit and declared himself to the people who stood all about him with a loud voice that he was the Sonne of God and cried out that he was born a true Mediatour unto them c. His mother being there present they asked her whether she was the mother of the Son of God To which between force ●nd fear she at length answered though innocently that shee was This gave occasion to many to bee diffident and to waver in the faith received insomuch that a certain man discovering his dissatisfaction and speaking ill of the sonne the said sonne taking hold of him flings him into a common shore saying unto him now art thou deservedly cast into Hell from whence the said man coming out all dirt diverse others unanimously acknowledged that they were defiled and bespattered with the same filthiness and abomination And hence rise up that impious report of the Sonne of God that hee was thrust out of doors which that Ambassadour Antony being returned from Munster having heard took it in mighty indignation and by force breaking into the house would have vindicated those holy expressions The Father and Son were much against it that any should come in yet hee though the people flocking about him made some opposition bitterly rebuking that blasphemous wretch broke forth into these words Thou villanous and contagious burthen of the earth What madness what extravagance hath bes●tted thee without fear of divine judgement to assume to thy self the title of the Son of God which spoken swelling up with the leaven of wrath he ca●●s himself upon the ground whereupon the people ran violently upon him knocking beating and kicking him like a foot-ball at last being well loaden with blows hee rises and breaking through the presse of the people he got away and escaped In his way hee comes to a hole in the ice broken for the cattle to drinke twenty foot over which hee made a shift to get over as is said with the help of the Devill for many that would have found him out lost their labour All being now convinced that they were abused for fear of the most noble Charles Lord of Gelderland the Viceroy of Groningen called also King of Gelderland who was sent to appease that tumult got secretly away But before they were all departed one of them called Drewjis whom they called Doctor Nucius out of pure spight laying hold of the Father being sick in his bed thundred to him in these words Thou villain thou fruit and groanings of the Gallows where where is now your governing and authority now the time of prayers is past c. Having dragg'd him out of bed by head and shoulders they with some assistance bound him with cords and delivered him to the custody of the Mistresse of the house to bee safely kept till night In the mean time the valiant Charles surrounds the house with his men and besieged it which the woman seeing cut the co●ds Being loose hee takes a trident fork wherewith assaulting them as with a sword he put to flight forty men through other houses whom he hastily pursuing was unawares surprised by others and brought to Groningen But behold the miracle to that very place where this naked of all truth Messias with his fork● Scepter and this Shoomaker of Cobler beyond his Last had with his Trident put so many to flight did the water-dreading Anabaptists resort and ●ender unto God infinite thanks for the 〈◊〉 us privilages thereof Of this lewd Messias who was ●ow well acquainted with the fetters of Groningen it was asked in his torments whether those routs of whom he was ring-leader were out of pretence of sanctity raised to rob the publick treasuries as many thought which yet as some say was denied For he hardening himself against even the most cruel torments could be inflicted on him still cried out Destroy destroy destroy Monks Fo●●s kill all the Magistrates and particularly our own In the midst of these bawlings being miserably worried ou● he gave up the ghost THEODORUS SARTOR Quis qu●●●o hic Sartor nudus qui deperit ille Quî rogo ●●ruentis nomine dignus ●●at THE CONTENTS THEODOR the Botcher turns Adamite hee affirms strange things his blasphemy i● forgiving of sins he burns his cloaths c. and causeth his companions to do the like He and his rabble go naked through Amsterdam in the dead of night denouncing their woes c. and terrifie the people They are taken and imprisoned by the Burghers but continue shamelesse May 5. 1535. they are put to death some of their last words IN the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred thirty and five upon the third of Februay at Amsterdam in a street called Salar street at the house of John Si●●id a cloth worker who at that time was gone into Austria about some businesse there met seven men Anabaptists and five women of the same perswasion of which flock the Bell-weather was Theodorus Sartor who rapt into a strange enthusiasme and extasie stretching himself upon the ground stark-naked upon his back before his brethren and sisters seemed to pray unto God with a certain religious dread and horrour Having ended his prayers he affirmed that he had beheld God with his eyes in the excessive and ineffable riches of his glory and that he had had communication with him both in heaven and in hell and that the day of his judgment was at hand After which he said to one of his companions Thou art decreed to eternal damnation and shalt be cast into the bottomless pit at which the other crying out The Lord God of Mercy have compassion on

happen nothing but what should be according to the will of God Of this waking dream did they all unanimously expect the interpretation The foresaid Thomas guilty alas of too much credulity did in the presence of all those sleeping-waking spectators cut off his own Brothers head and having forgotten the use of water baptized him with his own blood But what followed The Magistrate having sudden notice of it and the offence being fresh and horrid the Malefactor is dragg'd to prison by head and shoulders where he having long considered his action with himself professed he had therein obeyed the decrees of the Divine power These things did the unfortunate yeare one thousand five hundred twenty and seven see Here men may perceive in a most wicked and unjustifiable action the eminent tracts of an implacable fury and madnesse which God of his infinite goodnesse and mercy avert from these times ADAM PASTOR Nomine qui Pastor tu Impostor moribus audis Qui â recto teneras Tramite ducis oues THE CONTENTS ADam Pastor a derider of Paedobaptisme He revived the Arrian heresie His foolish interpretation of that place Gen. 2. 17. so often confuted ADAM PASTOR a man born at a village in Westphalia was one of those who with the middle finger pointed at Paedobaptisme that is to say looked upon it with indignation as a thing ridiculous being of the same opinion in that businesse as Menno and Theodorus Philip but as to the incarnation of God hee was of a quite contrary judgment For Menno held that Christ was something more worthy and more divine then the seed of a woman but our Adam stood upon it that he was lesse worthy then that of God so that he rowsed up the Arrian heresie which had lain so long asleep as having been but too famous in the year three hundred twenty five For in a certain book of his whose title was OF GOD'S MERCIE he writ thus The most divine word which is the main considerable in our business is written in the second of Gen. v. 17. The day that yee shall eat of the fruit ye shall die the death This is that word which is made flesh Joh. 1. Yea that God which is uncapable of suffering and impassible is made passible and he that was immortal is made mortal for he was crucisied and died for our advantage To be brief he held that Christ was not to be accounted any thing but the hand the finger or the voice of God But although the opinion or Religion of this third but most unfaithful Pastor Adam wander out of the limits of divinity and that it seem to be an ancient heresie containing nothing in it but what is childish trifling and meer foppery hath been confuted brought to nothing by the most religious preachers of the word of God notwithstanding the barking of the viperous progeny of Arrius and Servetus yet he hath this in particular that he would have us look narrowly to his explication of the second of Genesis which he so commends where he foolishly and vainly endeavours to prove that the prohibition there is the word made flesh This monster did not onely beget this sect but nursed it here are baites allurements and all the poisonable charmes imaginable that may cunningly seduce the best and most innocent of men But alas where is the free and indulgent promise of God of the seed of the woman which cuts the very throat of the Divell and tyes him in the strictest chains where are his often promises to Abraham to Isaac to Israel and to his old people confirmed by a league so solemnly made In thy seed all the earth shall be blessed And thou shalt be a blessing unto me This seed witnesse the Apostle is none other than Christ himself whom God without question meant The desperate contagion of this man's Religion did Servetus and his adherents professe embrace and celebrate HENRY NICHOLAS Vestra Domus Nicholae cadat quae exrudore versoe Futile fundamen Religionis habet THE CONTENTS HENRY NICHOLAS Father of the Family of Love He is against Infant-Baptisme His divelish Logick THere was also ore Henry Nicholas the Father of the Family of Love as he called himself and not the meanest man of all his Gang one who by many means endeavoured to cripple the Baptisme of Children as is too known and apparent out of his writings which at a third hand he with all freedom earnestnesse and kindnesse endeavored to communicate to David George and the other of his fellow-labourers and his new Jerusalem friends This man in a Pamphlet of his wherein he notably described himself and which he dedicated to an intimate friend of his under the name of L. W. maintaining that the * minute of the last Trumpet was coming that should unfold all the Books of unquiet consciences hell and eternal Judgement which should be found to have been onely things grounded upon meer lies and as all wicked and high misdeeds were hateful and detestable to God so also were glorious and plausible lies no lesse odious to him The same man endeavoured to perswade people that he was a partaker of God and the humanity of his Son He further affirmed that at the last day God should bring all men nay the Divels themselvs into perfect happinesse All the things that were said of Divels of Hell or Angels and eternal Judgment and the pains of Damnation he said were onely told by the Scripture to cause fear of civil punishments and to establish right Policy FINIS The Conclusion These few things we have brought to light were not invented by us but were extorted out of their own Disciples with abundance of discourse not without the presence of many men of godlinesse and excellent understanding * they admitting not the universal rule of the Scriptures But alas take these away where is Faith fear of God eternal happinesse But let us believe them let us believe them and we shall bee saved Oh! that to Heresies I could say An Alphabetical TABLE to the Revelation of Hereticks A. APious Act. 48. Adam Pastor a derider of Paedobaptisme 7● c. Anabaptists their leading principle 3. usually they grow worse and worse ibid. their bold attempt 14. c. where Masters most insolent 10. of a levelling principle 21. they as the Divel pretend Scripture for their base actions 2● they aime at universal Monarchy ibid. their de●ign upon Amsterdam 24. they aim at the advancement of themselves but destruction of others 64 they would inforce others to their opinions yet pretend liberty of conscience as to themselves 70. Arrius his character and wretched death 55. c. Arrianisine its increase 56. B. JOhn Buckhold or John of Leyden His actions and end 1● c. C. CAlvin's reproof of Servetus 54 Godly and loyal Citizen● hate usurpation 18 Conventicles usually the nurseries of Tumults 13 D. THe Divel an