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A90953	A breife relation, of some of the most remarkable pasages of the Anabaptists in high and low Germany in the year, 1521. &c. Gathered out of the writings of Sleyden, Antonius, Servanus, Lambertus, John Gastio, and others who write of their practises. And Bullinger, Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, Vrsinus, and others who write against their heresies. By George Pressick, of Dublin in Ireland.	Pressick, George.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3295; Thomason E1047_5; ESTC R208094	24,194	24

miscarried in the tumult and now they being masters of the City began to order their new state they made two Consulls Knipperdoling and Kapinbrook and two and twenty Senatore or Aldermen that had the civil power and the Prophets wereto rule matterrs of religion under which name they governed Church and Common-wealth for all matters were within the compasse of religion and what ever a Prophet said to be revealed to him passed for law the must famous of these Prophets was John Matthias a Baker of Harlem who was in effect a perpetuall Dictator in Munster that made lawes and thanged them at his pleasure by him was the aforesaid Order made his chief adjunct was John of Leyden and the next was Bernard Kniperdoling and by a revelation of John Matthias an order was made upon pain of death that all the gold and silver and moveable goods in the town should be brought to the common stock For which they appointed a publick house the order was obeyed more for fear than conscience For two maides prophetesses took upon them to find out the fraud to that common stock were brought all the goods of those that were driven out of the City with that common stock they kept four great Ordinaries where all fed in common none being allowed to diet at home unlesse he were sick plenty of provision they had and they husbanded it very ill feasting every day untill the Bishop beseidged them and began to cut off their victualls and then they stinted themselves but with too large allowance for the Towne was so strong by nature besides the fortification that the Bishop despaired to take it but by famine The Prophets then turned their care to the spirituall government Commanding that none should keep any bookes but Scripture and all the books that could be found but Bibles were brought to a publique place and burned from executing of books they fell to execution of persons For Hubart Trutling a bl●ck-smith seeing John Matthias pass by said there goes a shitten Prophet for this offence he was brought before the congregation and condemned to death John Matthias would himself be the executioner and first he wounded him with an halbart and after shot him through with a pistoll and then pardons him saying that God was appeased and that he had a revelation the man should not die which proved false for the poor man died in a few daies after we may from hence see the truth of that in the 12 of Proverbs the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel though they call themselves Saints Prophets But John Matthias to make amends for his false revelation when the man vvas dead runs in a mad mood through the Citty bearing a pike Crying that God the father had commanded him to drive the enemies from the Citty and so rushed alone into the enemies Camp to drive them away and was their slaine John Matthias being dead John of Leyden comforted the people saying that he knew long before by revelation that John Matthias should die that death and that himself should marry his wife which he did shortly after though he had one before but she was one of singular beauty able to make a lusty young Prophet of about six and twenty yeares old as he was to preach up the Doctrin of poligamy which he did shortly after and had Fifteen wives but he fell to other work before to make way for that in the interim Knipperdoling came forth with a revelation that they that were in high places should be brought down to the lowest and the lowest raised up to the highest We have seen this by wofull experience acted amongst our selves But John of Leyden met him with another revelation that seeing it was the heavenly fathers pleasure that those that were highest should be brought lowest he was sent of God to put down Knipperdoling from his place of Conful and to make him the hangman and for that purpose he gave him from God a sword to execute Justice But there was need of more revelations for the alteration of government John of Leyden was led by a propheticall spirit upon the City walls where he put off his cloths and ran naked through the Citty crying the kingdome of Sion is come the kingdome of Sion is come By which we may take notice by the way that our Quakers and Ranters are acted by the same deluding spirit that John of Leyden was acted by then John of Leyden returned home and falls into a deep propheticall sleep and dreames three dayes and three nights together and being awaked he comes forth and speakes not a word but by signs calls for a table book as Zachariah did and there he writes down the names of twelve men coblers and tinkers all trades men but on Gentleman of the Citty to these he assigned the government of the commonwealth putting down the order set up by John Matthias affirming that was the Fathers good will which he had received by revelation In that table-book also he writ and charged the preachers to teach the people or else he would have it ratified by the congregations which was that a man is not tyed to one wife but that he may marry as many as he pleaseth when his Doctors would not approve of that monstrous paradox he cited them before his twelve Magistrates there he recoverd his tongue keeping a great clamour and throwing down his clothes upon the ground and the new testament upon them swearing by that holy book that the doctrine which he had announced was revealed unto him from heaven and threatned that if they consented not God would withdraw his mercy from them and to testifie his evidence of spirit and Power he commanded the first opposer of that new Gospell to be beheaded which was presently done and for three dayes together they preached for confirmation of that opinion but the best confirmation was his own practice for presently he married three wives one of which was the relict of the grand prophet John Matthias and married again and again untill he had Fifteen wives many followed his example and it became a matter of great praise to have many wives This seemes to have been the first motive to move him to broach that doctrine A souldeir of the Bishops having changed partyes was harboured in the house where John of Leyden lay and he observed in the night that this holy Prophet left his own bed and went to the servant womans bed John of Leyden perceiving he was discovered calls the souldier aside and gives him gold to keep his Counsell but after mistrusting the souldiers toung he thought it safer to countenance the fact by a publique doctrine of the lawfullness to have many wives this doctrine then was readily imbraced by those whose Age and temper was ablest to consult with flesh and bloud none refrayning himself from having many wives for want or Coveteousness for their wives were kept upon the common stock and after receiving that law

A breife RELATION of some of the most Remarkable Pasages of the ANABAPTISTS in High and low Germany in the year 1521. c. Gathered out of the writings of Sleyden Antonius Servanus Lambertus John Gastio and others who write of their Practises And Bullinger Luther Melancthon Calvin Vrsinus and others who write against their heresies When the righteous are in authority the people rejoyce but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourne Prov. 29.2 For through covetousnesse shall they with fained words make merchandize of you whose Judgement now of a long time lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not 2 Pet. 2.3 For such are false Apostles deceitfull workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvell for Satan himself is transformed into an Angell of light Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works 2 Cor. 11.13 14 15. By GEORGE PRESSICK of Dublin in Ireland TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Roger Lord Broghill Sir Charles Coote and Sir Theophilus Jones Grace and peace be multiplied Righ Honour I Have four yeares since put forth a booke in answer to Mr. Thomas Patients book called the doctrine of baptisme and the distinction of Covenants and I did expect that Mr. Patient would have replyed to mine and therfore I did by reading provide my self in part for a reioynder but seing he hath not replyed I have made bold to present to your Honours something of what I had gathered together and by what I have observed from the Anabaptists and Quakers amongst us I have drawen up I think the breifest relation that hath been hitherto of the most remarkable passages both of Doctrine and practice in Germany 139 yeares ago and so forward In which the Judicious Reader may observe how near these Sectaries in these Nations have advanced both in Doctrine and practise to these in that in Germany And considering how God hath raised up your spirits and how Instrumentall your Honours have been in the hand of God to suppresse their insolent tyrannicall usurped Authority which they exercised over Gods people in this nation to inslave us to their insatiable lusts and also how God hath prospered your Honors indeavours therein beyond what we could in natural reason expect in so short a time Which plainly demonstrates the work to be of God and yet we may and ought and that upon well grounded reason own your Honours as Gods instruments to be the three chief worthyes of Ireland in this blessed work and though there are many other gallant spirits in this land that have acted their severall parts and are most honourable yet none have attained to the Honor of the first three I therefore humbly beg leave to dedicate my service to your Honours as your dues and my duty First for that your earnest care and endeavours for the defence of the protestant religion and the lawfull liberties of the people have manifestly appeared to all men Secondly that I may hereby acknowledge my humble thankfullnesse First to God the author of all good Secondly to your Honors in hope of being a sharer in this mercy of deliverance as I have had a sad share in suffering under their tyranny and wickedness I humbly beg pardon for my presumption and I beseech the God of heaven to keep your hearts humble and to deliver you from every evill way untill he bring you to his Glory which is the prayer of him who is February 1659. Your Honours humble servant Gorge Pressick of Dublin A breife Relation of some Remarkable Passages of the Anabaptists in High and low Germany Gathered out of the writings of Sleyden Antonius Servanus Lambertus John Gastio and others who write of their practises And Bullinger Luther Malancthon Calvin Ursinus and other who write Books against their Heresies TRithenaeus Abbas Aspergensis setts forth in his Cronicle of the year 1503. The disposition of the commons in high and low Germany That there arose agreat sedition of Peasants about Bruxels which he calls Liga Solutaria which were sworne to these Articles viz to shake off the yoak of all higher powers and get liberty by force of Armes to pull down all Magistrates and kill all that should stand against them I pray God blesse England Scotland and Ireland from such plotts and they engaged to seize on the Citty of Bruxells and invade the Marquesse of Baden and to seise on all the revenues of Monasteries Churches and Clergy men to stay no where above twenty four hours but to go forward still till they had brought many Countreyes in to their society to pay no more tithes nor Lords rents nor tribute and who oever was received into that league was to say five times a day on his knees one Pater noster and one Ave Mary for the good success of their Enterprize and their word of Cognizance was the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist But they were timely prevented and the authors put to death by Maximillian their Prince But by this we may see from whence Anabaptists and Quakers and Ranters and Levelers all had their originall namely from the Papists by their word of Cognizance and their Ave Maries and their Pater nosters If you compare these with the Anabaptists and other their doings some few yeares fter and now in this Age in these Countryes only the Anabaptists added something more to their licentious rebellion as their rebaptizing and poligamy c. but both were varmished with a Colour of religion For about the year 1521. there arose a new sect in Saxonr much like our Anabaptists and Quakers now who boasted that they talked with God and God with them and had revelations and that God Commanded them to kill all the wicked and to make a new world wherein the godly shall raigne alone Melancthon saith that Nicholas Stoke was the first that broached this opinion for 〈◊〉 spake to him by an Angell and revealed his will to him in dreams promising him the place of the Angel Gabriel and the Empire of the world he taught that the Saints must raigne in the world and that he should be their leader to kill all the Kings and Princes and to purge the Church he took upon him to have the gift of descerning spirits to know the elect from reprobates he made holinesse to consist in speaking little and living homely and sordidly as our Quakers do In Nicholas Stokes schoole was Thomas Muntzer bred who amplified his Masters doctrine he began to teach at Alstetum a place belonging to the Elector of Saxony He tanght that his Consorts must have a new baptisme And that Christians must be of Austere Countenance and speak little and weare long beards and this he called the mortification of the flesh and that they ought to retyre into desarts and private places he ascribed much to dreames In that City he began to make a confederacy administring an Oath and taking

the Anabaptists and Quakers and Popish Agents that are amongst them who are their ringleaders have been endeavouring in these three nations these eight or nine years by past They taught that Christ must raign over all the world therefore all other Kings and Princes must de slayne and what they taught they went really about to practise untill Hopman for his sedition was imprisoned at Strasburg and his confederates repressed by the maigistrates that crew dispersed themselves in Westphallia Frise Holland most parts of the low countreys where they got many to joyne with them and when they were admonished and by arguments Confuted thei● answer was that the Spirit taught them other wayes and would say the spirit bloweth where it listeth as our Quakers and Annabaptists say now judging none to have the Spirit but themselves but their rage could not be kept in long for sometimes they would rush out of Cities and places where they were in great companies and ransack Convents and great mens houses pretending for their warrant the Example of the Israelites that took the spoile of the Egyptians yet in these incursions they made conscience of entring into the temples of such as were not rebaptized as Lutherans or Calvinists but made no Conscience to lye with their wives as being left a prey for the godly It is a Greife to tell how that in the City of Munster truth made way for errours for one Bernard Rottman came to St. Maryes Church hard by Munster and for a time preached good Doctrine as I fear many others do amongst us for a time to get into favour The people would have brought him into the Citty but the Papists gave him a summe of money to depart and he loving the wages of unrigteousnesse did depart for some time and returned again at which time some of the best sort brought him into the Citty but the Papists kept the Church-dores shut they made him a pulpit in the Church yard Rotman seeing the progresse of reformation sends to Marpurge and desires some Ministers might be sent to carry on the work of reformation which was done so that they challenged the Popish Clergy to dispute and presented thirty Articles against them and did so prevaile that the Senat allowed the reformed party six Churches in the City Hitherto all went well if it could have stayed there in the interim comes a pestilent Anabaptist a Taylor of Leyden John Becold by name but better known by the name of John of Leyden this man begins to confer with Ministers and people mantaining the baptisme of Children to be unlawfull seducing many and sowering the whole lump with the leaven of his perverse doctrin this was the year 1533. He being assisted by one John Matthias a Baker of Harlem and one Harman Strapeda who had been brought up with Henery Rell a little before executed at Vtrech for his villany With severall others these had their meetings in the night and got a great party to joyne with them who they incensed with most desperate resolutions many of them being the very filth of men invited thither by the Anabaptists from neighbouring Provinces till then Rotman did well but seeing such multitudes of Anabaptists increasing daily he hunting after popular applause joynes himself to them by an open revolt the Magistrates and people not yet infected with that new seditious Doctrine finding so much distraction amongst them commanded all forrainers and sectaries to depart out of the City but they went out at one gate and came in at another saying they must not desert Gods cause The Senate to prevent sedition appointed a publique conference where Rotman and his faction appeared but was opposed by a worthy divine one Herman Basilius that the Senate was satisfied and concluded for the truth and the Anabaptists teachers were sentenced to be banished but they being resolved not to go lay lurking among the sectaries whom they had poysoned with their doctrine and still increased as they did of late here in Ireland One of the Anabptists faining himself to be seised with a propheticall spirit ran through the Citie crying repent and be baptized again or else the wrath of God will fall upon you this stirred up the people for many ran with him crying the same words that many of the simpler sort were baptized some for fear of the wrath of God and many for fear of the wrath of men for this crying and running through the streets ended in ransaking the best houses and laying violent hands on the owners for many that lay hid before came forth and rushed into the market place crying out that all that were 〈…〉 must be killed presently as ungodly and heathens and they seized on the Town-house the weapons there and began to dominere as in a conquered place The other partie gathered themselves in a place called Overwater and both sides were fortifying the places for three dayes till hostages were given on both sides and agreed that every one should enjoy the freedome of his religion and all should go home in peace this tumult was toward the end of December 1533. But this would not satisfy the Anabaptists for we now see by wofull experience that Anabaptists will either have all or else they will not be satisfied for this composition gave but time to the Anabaptists to strengthen themselves for in 1534. Rotman and Bernard Knipperdoling c. Sent letters to Ousburg Wesel Croswel and Waringdorp that God had sent a holy Prophet to Munster who spake wonders and shewed the right way to salvation and that if they would leave their houses and come to Munster in all hast they should get ten times more than they left and with worldly riches get also spirituall wealth These faire promises drew all the scum of the neigbouring townes to Munster the poor and Idle people liking well of that religion that made all men alike and all goods common and put down the Magistrates that should restraine their licentiousness But can any man imagine that all these were believers before they were rebaptised that was wonne with this kind of doctrine so pleasing to the flesh as to share other mens goods and to have as many wives as they pleased yet in a short time the City was full of strangers and vagrants that looked upon the place as a land of promise and that they must expulse Cananites the richest of the town being frighted at their comming thought it their safest course quietly to give them place and without ●oyse to with raw themselves out of the Citty The Anabaptists seeing themselves strong ran to St. Lawrence Church and burnt it with all the houses about it and pillaged other Churches depopulated Convents and Colledges and burnt a great Library and drove all the protestants out of City but some few that they mistook for Anabapists drying get you hence all yee wicked else ye shall be slain and with such violence they thrust them out that some women with Child

the names of all them that promised to assist him in his designe of killing all the ungodly and all Princes and Magistrates and erecting new ones in their places professing openly that he had commission from God to punish wicked Governours and to change there civil policie as Anabaptists have done with us and for this cause being expelled out of Saxony he wandered up and down Germany and Helvetia sowing the seeds of sedition at length he came to Mulhus where many of his disciples resorted to him where he prevailed in a short time to put down the Magistrates and assumed to himself to judge all causes both civil and Ecclesias●ciall affirming that under the new Testament all causes must be judged by the word of God and whatsoever he determined was received as an Oracle especially when he preached that all goods must be common and all men free and of equall dignity an acceptable doctrine where the Nobillity and Gentry oppressed the poor people he gave also the Monasteries for publike plunder and those that had Estates if he could not perswade them to give it by arguments he took it from them by violence No wonder then if this new doctrine wonnemany of the meaner sort to be of his opinion who presently left working and what they wanted they tooke from them that had it About that time in Daringen Fueva and Franconia forty thousand Boars Trades men-rose up in Armes killed ransacked a great part of the Nobility pilledged and burned many forts and Castles and overthrew all like a sudden inundation for the banks of authority being beaten down nothing could stop their suries till they lost themselves in their own Confusion by running venturers in that holy war Muntzer's cheife associate was on Henery Phiser one that gave much heed to dreames and night visions and amongst other visions he said he had seen a great company of rats in a stable and that he had driven them all away which he interpretea as a command from God to take Arme and dispossess all the the Nobility and Gentry Whereupon he rushed into the Country and pilledged Castles and Churches destroyed many of the Nobles and brings some of them bound and returnes with a great booty which successe raised the minds of the Boares and caused another defection in the county of Mansfield so Muntzer hoping that the rebellion was universall taketh his journey from Mulhus and is presently supplyed with a Company of Franchusians but before he could do much more Count Mansfield stopped his course for having raised in hast some companyes of horse he falls upon him and killed two hundred of his men at which the rude Boares were so terrified that they all fled to Franckhus this skirmedge broke the edge of their fury and gave time to John Electour of Saxony his vncle George of Saxony and Phillip Land-Grave of Hesse and Henery Duke of Brunswik and Count Mansfield to raise Fifteen hundred horse and some Companies of foote The Boares were pitched upon a hill by Frankhus but very ill armed and worse disciplined the Princes sent to offer them pardon if they would yeild up the authours of the sedition but Muntzer understood not that Gospell and told the Boares that proffer came from the Princes fearfullnesse and that he was sent of God to command and lead them in that action and their duty was to obey as Abraham did when he was commanded to offer his son and that they should ceartinly overcome these and all other enemyes It being promised that the righteous should wash his foote in the bloud of the wicked From hence we may see how Satan transforming himself into an Angell of light enters into and deludes poor people untill he brings them to ruin Muntzer further exhorted them to be valiant in the Lord and to kill every mothers son for an acceptable sacrifice to the Lord. By this you may guesse if Anabaptists Quakers and Ranters should get the upper hand what they would do Muntzer further assured them that God himself had promised him victory and indowed him with such strength that he was able to turnt the bullet back with his coate and perceiving a rainbow in the sky he turned toward his Colours where a rainbow was painted look up said he to heaven here is a Joyfull sign of Gods favour the rainbow the very Emblem of our Colours and besure that God promiseth us to be our standard bearer to fight for us himself This new doctrine made a strong impression in some but the Princes drawing neare with a warlike march made a stronger impression of fear in that rude multitude than Muntzers revelations and signes the Princes began to play with their Ordinance one cannot well say to break their rankes for they kept neither rank nor sile nor scarse their understanding for for a time they neither advanced not fled not put themselves in a postuer of defence only they had made some entrenchments and they began to sing Come holy Ghost expecting that God would fight for them as their Generall Muntzer had promised them and that he would turne back the bullets with his coate but then all proved to be Satans delusions for the Princes advanced and came to handy blowes away fled all the Boares some one way some another five thousand were flayne Frankhus taken the same day and three hundred taken and executed Muntzer was found on a bed in Frankhus sayning him to be long sick of an Ague but the truth is he was brain-sick of giddie-mindedness but letters being found about him he was known to be Muntzer which yet this lying Prohpet denyed long he was executed by the common hangman and his head set one a high pole in the feild near Frankhus in the yeare 1525. shortly after Phiser and other rebells were taken and executed at Mulhus The rout then of these cracked brained seditious scismaticks seemed to be rooted out but the seeds remained for in the year 1527. arose another of great learning his name was Micher Hopman with severall others they denyed the incarnation of Christ in the virgins womb Condemned the baptisme of children and rebaptized themselves and all that embraced that sect They would not allow Christians to recover their own by law nor to take an oath nor to bear the office of a Magistrate for they pulled down Magistrates where they had strength and gave the power of the sword to their Ministers and Prophets who was to decide all differences they undertook to kill all Princes cut off the ungodly with another sword than that of the spirit they taught that in their Churches all were holy and that none could be saved that would not make his goods common and that it was lawfull to have many wives and that all learning is prophane and that mean men are the fittest to expound Scripture and that there must be no ordinary Calling in the Church but every man must speak as he is inspired and this is it which