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A29317	The rise, spring and foundation of the Anabaptists, or re-baptized of our time vvritten in French by Guy de Brez, 1565 ... ; and translated for the use of his countrymen, by J.S.; Racine, source et fondement des anabaptistes ou rebaptisez de nostre temps. Book 1. English	Brès, Guy de, 1522-1567.; Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1668 (1668)	Wing B4381; ESTC R62	47,994	64

life long together now separated one from another It came to pass one day that when the people were in the Market-place close crouding and in a throng to hear that Knipperdoling leaped on their heads and scrambling with his hands and feet being now above them he breathed upon the men one after another into their mouthes saying The Father hath sanctified thee Knipperdolings blasphemy receive the Holy Ghost One day he fell a dancing before the King saying Thus I am wont to do with my Whore Confesses himself an whoremaster but now the Father hath commanded me to do it before the King but because he did it too long and would not make an end the King was angry and went his way He suddenly mounted into the Throne but the King surprizing him threw him down and three dayes kept him in Prison Is there not here to be seen a wonderfull rage and madness Who could have believed that any bearing humane shape should have been left to commit things so foolish absurd villanous and execrable but it cannot be otherwise with such as violate trample upon and reject the Word of God they are by Divine judgement smitten so as to be an example to the Elect. But let us behold their goodly glorious King now mounted with more then Royal Pomp where is the spirit of these Anabaptists who were so ready to reprove and reject others At first they cried out against all if they saw any Matron wear silk or any man of fashion to wear a gold Ring they cried down all but now their glorious King Taylor omitteth nothing that may set forth his Pomp and State In the beginning they would not bear to hear that any honest man should be a Bailiff or Governour of a Village but soon the wind is changed and now by command from the Father their King is not King of a Village but of the whole World for so he caused himself to be styled During this Siege the Prophets of Munster published a Book which they intituled The Ristitution wherein they maintained Muntzers damnable Doctrine and an infinite of Errours Afterwards in the Moneth of August on the day which is called S. Bartholomews the new Prophet called John Twiscoscar sounded the Trumpet through the streets and cried out that All should meet in Arms about the way to the great Church for they must give a repulse to the Enemies of the City being thither come they finde a Supper ready which the King had provided and by command the people did sit down to the number of four thousand the King Queen and Courtiers waited at the Table Supper almost being finished the King gave unleavened bread to all Becolds mock-Lords Supp●r saying Take eat declare the death of the Lord then the Queen presented the Cup saying Drink declare the death of the Lord. Behold the brave Supper of these Anabaptists which was rather a voluptuous Banquet the Table of Devils then the Table of our Lord Jesus Christ Now when the Supper was ended the new Prophet gat him up into the Pulpit and asked them whether they would obey the Word of God they all said Yes Twiscoscar reveals that 28 Teach●rs must be sent forth he told them then that the command of the Father was that they must send Twenty eight Teachers of the Word Then he named them in order declaring the place whither each should go Six were sent to Osemberg as many to Warrendort eight to Susar and as many to Corsfield The King and the Queen with those that served at the Table supped afterwards The King and Queen and the 28 Teachers sup together and those which were appointed to be sent forth As they were at Supper the King rose up and said That he had received a Commission from the Father whereas upon an adventure there was a Souldier which had been taken the King accused him that he was a Traitor as Judas and with his own hands cut off his head This being done he returned to sit down at Table and by way of merriment recited what he had done After Supper within night they caused the twenty eight above-mentioned to depart out o● the City and over and above their expences they gave to every one of them certain pieces of Gold to leave in such places where their Doctrine should not be received in witness of their perdition and eternal damnation for their refusal of the peace and doctrine of Salvation And when they were arrived at the places assigned unto them they began to run through the City with horrible cries crying Repent repent otherwise ye will suddenly perish then they cast their garments upon the ground and threw their pieces of Gold which were given unto them upon their garments assuring them that they were sent by the Father to bring peace unto them if they would receive it they commanded them to put all their goods in common if they did refuse it by this sign and as by a mark they did bear witness against their ingratitude and evil deeds for behold the time now is come which was foretold by the Prophets wherein the Lord God would that Righteousness should reign through all the earth and after that the King shall have discharged his trust and shall have so done that Righteousness shall reign every where Then Christ shall deliver up the Kingdome to the Father Upon those words they were apprehended and in the beginning fairly demanded then by the Rack examined of their faith life and Ammunition of the City They answered that they alone had the true Doctrine which they would unto the death maintain for since the Apostles time the Gospel was not truly preached and that there was no righteousness that there were four Prophets two of which were true namely David George and John Becold of Leyden two were false namely the Pope and Luther worse then the Pope Being asked why they drave the honest people out of the City against their faith and promise and detained their Goods Wives and Children and by what Text of Scripture they could warrant that unrighteousness They answered That the time was now come wherein the Word of Christ should be fulfilled that the meek should possess the earth and that God in this manner gave the goods of the Egyptians unto the Israelites After they declared their Ammunition and Victuals that was in the City with their Garrison some of whom had above five Wives Moreover that they looked for Souldiers from Friseland and Holland who being arrived the King would take the Field with all his Army to reduce the whole World under his power and subjection after he had slain their Kings which did not righteousness After they were questioned and still persisted in their opinions they were all beheaded except one who escaped At the same time there arose another Prophet called Henry Hilvers a wicked man subtil and wary he came to declare unto the King and the people that the heavenly Father had

THE RISE SPRING AND FOUNDATION OF THE Anabaptists Or RE-BAPTIZED of our Time VVritten in French by Guy de Brez 1565. Minister of the Word and MARTYR And Translated for the use of his Countrymen by J.S. Eccles 1.9 The thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun CAMBRIDGE Printed and to be Sold by Marmaduke Johnson 1668. To the Reader AS the reviving of this Root of Bitterness in the Quaker after its being dead above an hundred years caused the Translation and first Impression of this small Book under another Title so the sprouting forth of its fruits of gall and wormwood and the issuings from this corrupt fountain of those streams which make sad the City of God have occasioned its second Impression under the Name and Title put upon it by its Author Guy de Brez whose praise in the Churches by his laborious planting and faithful watering of them by his blood is largely set forth in the famous Book of Martyrs the third Volume in the Continuation of the History by Dr. Edward Bulkly pag. 37 38 41 42 43. where he is described to be not onely an eminent Witness of Christs Truth unto the death but his Labours Prayers and Sufferings are there recorded to posterity his rejoycing in God when hands and feet were so laden with Iron Chains as they eat through his Flesh to the very bones his glorying in their ratling more then if they had been Chains of Gold his fulness of God when shut up in the Dungeon which for its darkness was called Brunain where he had no more air but at one little hole where drunkards vented their urine even then his heart leaped for joy provoking his wife to comfort in that God had not onely given her a Husband who was a Minister of Christs Gospel but to be honoured with Martyrdome A Dignity said he which the Angels of Heaven are not capable of All which declare him a more then ordinary Man of God and how worthy of credence th●se Relations by him held forth are There also is mention made of this Book he being engaged in an holy Conflict as the Author calleth it against the pestilent Sect of the Anabaptists which as Cockle mingle themselves among the good Corn. This Translation is a small part of the Book the rest is Doctrinal and a solid Conviction of their Tenents which whosoever shall intelligently reade and compare his Reasons with those of our Worthies in these our dayes he will finde that as Satan is the old Serpent so Christ Jesus is the same yesterday and to day and for ever A threefold Character he giveth of them in his Epistle to his Book 1. That they multiplied quotations of Scripture against their true sense and meaning to gain applause of the weak and unstable 2. That they gloried in their specious Holiness of Conversation 3. That they professed their readiness to suffer unto death Of these he warneth Christs Flock scattered in Flanders Brabant c. being his own Country If by any thing the faithful then might be preserved from the scandal which hereby is cast upon the Gospel and that they might be provoked to a more affectionate inquiry and cordiall closing with the truth of Faith and Order of the Gospel which as then was his so now is the weak desire of him who is Thine in Christian duty J. S. The Rise Spring and Foundation OF THE ANABAPTISTS IN the year 1521 and the year insuing there arose a certain number of mutinous and seditious persons who secretly made Factions they chiefly dwelt in the quarters of Saxony which bordered upon the River Salah among whom their chief was Nicholas Stork They dreamed dreams and said Nicholas Stork and his accomplices they preached dreams That they spake familiarly with God by Visions they preached their dreams for truths and Divine Oracles and because that there should come a new world wherein should dwell righteousness Therefore they ought to exterminate all the wicked with all the Princes and unbelieving Magistrates oppose Magistrates from off the earth they called all those unbelievers which were not of their Sect and Faction From out of this School came Thomas Muntzer Dr. Balthazar Hubmore Melchior Rink John Hutt John Deuter Lodovike Hetzer c. All these boasted that they familiarly conferred with the Lord. In their teachings they with heat of affection did defame and detract from the Ministers of the Gospel and Ministers afterward with the like violence fell upon the Magistrate thinking that if they could make void these two Orders unto the Church the wolves might safely fall upon and dismember the Flock wherefore these wolves i. e. these false Teachers have alwayes principally set themselves against the Ministers of the Church and the Magistrates to see if they could drive them out from the Flock or at least disgust some of the sheep against their Pastors that so estranging them from them they might undo them Th●ir Doctrine spreads Rebaptize thousands Their Doctrine suddenly spread throughout all the Country and in a little space they gathered much people after them and Rebaptized many thousands insomuch as many simple people were led by a zeal without knowledge being by their fair appearance insnared They tyed themselves unto the only simple and naked Letter of the Scripture They varnish over their soul intentions with fair pretences without regard to the sence thereof they carried it very fairly before all men for they had alwayes in their mouths the love faith and the fear of God the mortification of the flesh and the cross which were the garnish wherewith that they might be of value to the simple they painted and adorned themselves but inasmuch as such colours were false they lasted not long but they soon began to fade and without fraud to appear what they were Muntzers Doctrine Thomas Muntzer of whom we formerly spake said That whosoever would be saved must firstly flye all manifest vices Murders Blasphemies against the Name of God that he must chastise and macerate his body by fastings and mean apparel that he must hold forth an austere visage speak little c. he called these things the Cross the Mortification of the Flesh and Discipline after that he had so fashioned his people he said That they must withdraw from the multitude and conversation of men and often to think upon God who he is and whether he hath care of us whether Christ suffered death for us and whether our Religion were to be preferred before that of the Turks moreover that we ought to ask a sign from God to be assured whether he hath care of us and whether we owned the true Religion if instantly he gave not a sign that we ought to persist and pursue in prayers yea lively to complain of him as of one that doth us wrong for seeing the Scripture promises