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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81785	Johannes Becoldus redivivus or, The English Quaker, the German enthusiast revived : visible in this narrative. / Translated into English, for the use of his countrey-men, by J.S. ; Written long since in French by Guy du Brez.	Brès, Guy de, 1522-1567.; Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1659 (1659)	Wing D2413; Thomason E2137_3; ESTC R208359	48,581	94

some stirs and that by this means the siege would be raised before Munster but he was deceived by his vain hopes as we have heard for there was a goodly dispatch of his Legates He promised great matters to the Captains which he had chosen how when the Camp should be raised before the City he would make them great Lords and Princes and particularly he gave unto John Dents the Empire of Saxony whereby appeared the brutishness and Diabolical rage of this pleasant and goodly King Taylor to promise to give that which was none of his own and to take it away from him to whom God had given it In the Moneth of February the famine was so great that many died through hunger and want One of the Queens for there were many called Elisa out of pity to the people occasionally said That she did not believe that it was pleasing unto God that the people should thus perish through famine The King who had store of good provision in his house not only for necessity but also to make good cheer withal knowing this brought her into the Market place with all the other Queens and commanded them all to fall down upon their knees about her and unsheathing his sword he struck off her head from off her shoulders and not being contented herewith he reproached her as a bawd the other wives fell a singing after this goodly deed Glory be unto God in the highest and gave thanks unto the heavenly Father and then then they fell a dancing the King led the Galliard and exhorted the poor people to leap dance and to rejoyce also who had nought left but a little bread and salt When Easter was come and that there appeared no sign of deliverance the people were and that not without cause much grieved the King who all along fed them with fair promises fell sick and continued so six daies together that he might cover himself with some excuse after those six daies he came into the Market place and there shewing himself he told the people that he had promised them deliverance but it must spiritually be understood and behold this was the deliverance he said That he had rode the blind Ass and that the Father had laid upon him the sins of the multitude and that he had borne them and taken them away and that now they were delivered from all their sins which was the deliverance that he had promised unto them Thus must the poor and miserable people content themselves to hear this execrable blasphemy The blind Ass of this Gallant whereupon this devillish and desperate man rode was the poor people that endured and did bear the enormities of such a villain whom they adored If we should reckon up the miseries calamities and other evils which those of the City endured it were a miserable thing to hear Divers who could not bear the famine fled to the enemy not so much looking for mercy as that their pain might be expired by death many crawled upon their bellies in the streets and others died in the waies it was an horrible thing to see many walking quite stripped of flesh nothing left but skin upon the bones Their ears lips cheeks and noses were so shrunk up as one might almost see day-light through them as through a piece of paper Through feebleness they could not carry their bodies some went to the enemy disarmed trailing a staff in their hands whiles provision lasted none talked of going to the enemy but now when this was spent they began their desolation and discontent yet they helpt themselves as long as they could They sowed in the sides of the walls and in all wast places rapes pease and such seeds and with this they made shift to pass the Summer But when this crop was spent then it was as Venison to them to feed on dogs rats and mice and when the City was taken there were but two horses left alive many were so pressed with hunger as that they did eat the flesh of dead carkasses Finally they boiled shoos old leather and skins and beat them together and put them into a pot and mingled all sorts of matter together which they could finde this was instead of bread and yet this villain and wicked cheater deceived them telling them God tried them to see whether they would be faithful and constant and that certainly the Father would deliver them in a short time Now they that would depart out of the City to be delivered from these mischiefs were to present themselves before the King and there this Robber took from them all that they had and when they were ransacked he said Now get you gone to the Hereticks The King had yet provision of victuals in his Palace for about two Moneths but it was only for his Courtiers They consulted how they might victual the City Then there stood forth one named Hansken-Vander Langke-strate he was one of the Kings Secretaries and one in whom he confided much he undertook to re-victual the City and to bring in three hundred Souldiers to their assistance and all within 15. daies he departed out of the City and under this pretence went unto the enemy and for a certain sum of money sold the City unto the Bishop offering to lose his life if he did not accomplish it the time for this Plot to be put in execution was the even of S. Johns day at ten a clock in the night and that he would open the Gate unto them provided they came without noise to the Gate of the Cross Then this Purveiour returned unto the City and comforted the King telling him that he had well ordered his business and that within 15. daies they should have a recruit of Victuals and Souldiers When the day was come he told the Watch that this night their aid and victuals should come and therefore when they saw them approach that they should take heed that they made no noise but be very quiet At the very time appointed at ten a clock in the night the Gate was opened and the enemy entred They kill'd the Sentinels and the Corps du Gard having got the Word Being thus entred into the City the trumpets sound an Alarm suddainly the King and his men put themselves into a posture to fight and to repulse the enemy back again to the Gate which was now shut by some of the Citizens The enemies without broke up the Gates for they heard how they charged upon their people within and being now entred in they display their Colours Those of the City abode the brunt a little at first and were drawn up in the Market place the Battle was very great The King Knipperdoling Chretchting were taken then Rotman seeing no hope to escape thrust himself into the middle of the enemies and there was run through because he feared to be taken alive But when the Anabaptists heard that their King was taken their courage failed them and they hid themselves here there

teach no more saying Know the Lord as if he should say Ignorance shall not possesse the judgements and understandings of men as formerly when they knew not who the Lord was yea in this restauration of the Church the true knowledge of God should become so common and vulgar that all should know how that the Son of God who is the lively image of the Father is descended here below upon earth to be united unto us being made our brother to guide us unto eternal life We know there is a double us● of teaching one is for those who are altogether ignorant to whom the first rudiments as points of Catechism are to be held forth there be others who being entred in must make further progress seeing then that none hath so profited but that he hath need farther to be taught so it is the greatest part of our wisdom to become teachable Paul sheweth how we should profit by teaching Eph. 4.11 if we would be Christs Disciples saying That God hath constituted Pastors and Teachers c. that we be not unstable children tossed to and fro with all winds of strange doctrine c. whereby it appeareth that the Prophet never intended to bereave their Church of an ornament so precious and necessary The Prophet onely would tell us Joel 2.2 that God would manifest himself both to small and great Isa 54.13 Jer. 31.34 and that the Church should have children instructed and taught of God as was promised by Isaiah This passage then is very clear behold the Prophet saith That they shall no more teach every man his neighbour saying Know the Lord and why because saith he I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their inward parts he doth not reject the external Ministry of the word but he sheweth that the knowledge of God cometh not properly by the labour and travel of men but it is because the Lord engraveth the Law of his Word in the understanding Ministers by their preaching strike upon mens ears and God by engraving his Law worketh upon and teacheth their hearts as he dealt with Lydia at Pauls preaching Acts 16.14 Therefore it is that Jesus Christ Joh. 6.45 seeing the Jews to murmure and storm against the external Ministry of the word saith None can come unto me except the Father who hath sent me draw him it is written in the Prophets And they shall all be taught of God whosoever then hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me Christ thereby sheweth that those who have heard and learned of the Father do not disdain and reject the Ministry but they come unto it and receive profit thereby and all this sheweth that we are of our selves altogether indisposed to come unto this knowledge of God for otherwise God would not promise to cause us to walk in his statutes and if it were in our own power so to do and that neither great ones by their wisdom nor little ones by reason of their ignorance can mount so high unless by the holy Ghost they be drawn Behold the true sense of the place so wofully corrupted by these first Anabaptists and all they pretend unto tends not but after they have deprived the Church of the Ministry and the preaching of the Word to open the door unto Visions and Dreams as they already have shewn at Munster and Amsterdam as Munzter their first father had begun unto them Was it not a pleasing thing to hear this alwaies sounding from their mouths The Spirit hath revealed it unto me The Father hath commanded me and when any brought a testimony of Scripture contrary to their dreams and visions suddainly they replyed What have we to do with the dead Letter seeing we have the lively word of God imprinted in a living spirit as if the holy Ghost who is the author of the holy Scriptures could contradict himfelf The Apostle Paul foreseeing that such Sects would rise up who would despise the preaching of the Word he adjureth his Disciple Timothy before God and the Lord Jesus who shall judge both quick dead to preach the word to be instant in season c. Satan knoweth that he must take off men from the Ministry of the word when he will have them at his beck to put into their heads what shall seem good unto him therefore his labour is to bring men unto this that they might hold nothing certain but that they finally being disturbed and uncertain he might make them despair Thus in the beginning he wrought with our Mother Eve denying the express word of God the Lord had said In the day that you eat thereof you shall die the death The Devil on the contrary denyeth it and saith No no you shall not die so now he laboureth to take from our eyes the word of God but what may we look for afterwards but that we may be confounded not knowing what side to turn unto for if we acknowledge no more the Scriptures to be the true word of God which as the Apostle Paul saith Was before time written for us that we through patience and consolation of the Scriptures might have hope what will our estate be certainly we shall be more miserable then the beasts and we must give up our selves to Dreams and Fables as those who have rejected this light and must perish wofully Of the Dreams of the Anabaptists and how they are condemned by the Word of God Muntzer preacheth dreams and revelations Muntzer having thus prophaned and rejected the word of God he preached dreams very goodly revelations which he at his pleasure forged as did the false Prophet Mahomet saying That he had seen Angels and gloried that he had talked with them by this means to cheat and deceive the poor ignorant people but all was feigned and counterfeit to make musique unto poor and inconstant fools and the Apostle Paul giveth warning of such gallants that we should take heed of them saying Col. 2.18 Let no man beguile you of your reward c. Yea the Scripture forbids us lending ear to such dreamers the Lord of Hosts speaking in the book of Jeremiah saith thus Hearken not unto the words of the prophets which prophecie unto you Jer. 23.16 21 22 26 27 28. c. we shall have intelligence of this in these last daies are they not in a dead sleep who Will not be awakened by the noise of this strong hammer of the word of God which breaketh the stones in pieces who can be cleansed by such dung and what truth can come forth out of a lye dreams have deceived many and those have fallen who have trusted to them These words of God are true and sufficient to entangle all our dreamers and ravers with all their celestial visions whereof they do falsely and out of a certain malice vaunt Let us then reject such cheaters and follow the counsel of God in his word and we shall alwaies finde it to

not that evil should be resisted by any other waies then by prayers and in no sort will permit the use of arms John Denk did admit of swearing by way of witness Some hold not the Trinity of persons in one Essence saying That the Son only is a person Some esteem of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper as we do but they preach it up so highly as that it will be very hard to finde so much as two fit to communicate therein and therefore some are of opinion not to do it until their death In some places they banish and excommunicate all those which will hear any Preacher or Minister preach they speak all the evil of them that may be calling them Scribes and Pharisees Others endure that one may hear see and reade any thing but in the mean while the manner of Ministers living pleaseth them not They have the Cross in such estimation that they despise and reject all those which are without it and persecution and say That their case is not good for say they if they were in the Lords way they would suffer persecution some therefore seek the Cross others are of another opinion And many times they break fair housholds by separating the parties when one of the parties is excommunicated the party which is not excommunicated must withdraw from the other party and their excommunications are for very small matters yea when they are married one to another they make them promise that if one of them come to be cast out of the Church that the innocent party shall withdraw from the nocent and by this means their marriages are all conditional when one is thus separated the party offended cannot be remarried if the other party being married be not delivered by the death of his adjoynt yea sometimes it fals out that some who have been excommunicated are received in again and find their party married to another and there they must see their wives before their eyes to be unto another man and they themselves cannot remarry yea though they have not the gift of continence they say unto them as unto the Friers that they must make themselves Eunuches for the Kingdom of heaven Behold how the Devil makes himself sport with these men They are in mortal war with the Franiques upon this occasion the Mennonists have excommunicated the Franiques because they would not approve of these goodly marriages They say also That when a man hath sinned though he doth repent that he is to be excommunicated and then if he doth persevere therein he shall be received in again Behold the fair stir of Satan how he playeth the game with these men which follow not the true light of the Gospel Our Lord be pleased to give eyes to all the world that they may take heed of these Sects which make men turn aside from the way of truth So be it FINIS Books sold by John Allen at the Sun-rising in Pauls Church-yard Viz. Caryl on Job Vol. 5. quart Vol. 7. quart Vol. 9. quart Beza Novum Testamentum fol. Allen's Scripture-Chronology quart Baxter's Call to the Unconverted quart Lukine's Practice of Godlinesse twelve Burges of Original sin fol. Davenport and Hook of New-England their Catechism Gataker against that wicked Cheat Judicial Astrology proving it to be the Abomination of the Heathens and that it ought not to be tolerated in a Christian Commonwealth Isa 47.12 Jer. 10.2 The Faith and Order practised in the Congregational Churches in England agreed and consented unto by their Elders and Messengers at their Meeting at the Savoy October 12. 1658. Cases of Conscience concerning Astrology octa Cotton on the Covenant octa