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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

that God would manifest himself to small and great 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 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 Act. 16.14 Therefore it is that Jesus Christ John 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 not 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 Muntzer their first father had begun unto them Was it not a pleasing thing to hear this alwayes 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 suddenly they replied 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 himself 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 and dead to preach the Word and 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 and 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 dye the death The Devil on the contrary denyeth it and saith No no you shall not dye 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 miserabe 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 MVntzer having thus prophaned and rejected the word of God he preached dreams very goodly revelations Muntzer preacheth dreams and rev●lations 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 musick 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 Jer. 23.16 21 22 26 27 28. Hearken not unto the words of the Prophets which prophecie unto you c. we shall have intelligence of this in these last dayes 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 falsly 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 alwayes finde it to be a strong buckler against all assaults Prov. 30.5 Isai 8.19 20. The Lord sends us to the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no morning-light in them And when Dives desired that the living might be taught by some other means besides the word of God it was answered That they had Moses and the Prophets let them hear them Moreover Muntzer cometh from thence to grapple with the sacrifice of the Son of God to vomit out his stinking blasphemies against it saying Ministers are lyers when they say That Jesus Christ hath satisfied for us Muntzers denial of Christs satisfaction Justification by faith and that we are justified by faith alone without works thus speak these Scribes when they mince unto men These are his words as they may be read in his Books But I pray you is not this filthily to blaspheme the Son of God it will not only follow that the Ministers are only delicious and mincing and make mens Consciences drousie Act. 10.43 Jer. 11.3 but also all the Prophets For thus spake Peter in the house of Cornelius the Centurion All the Prophets bear witness unto Jesus Christ That whosoever shall believe on him shall receive remission of sins through his name Joh. 1.29 36. Yea John Baptist held up

revealed unto him that three rich Cities with all their goods should be given unto them by God namely Amsterdam Deventer and Wesel The King hearing this set himself to consult with his Council by what means they might bring these three Cities unto Anabaptism and to this effect they sent certain men unto these places In the first place he sent James Campense to Amsterdam and commanded him to be Prince in that City and ordered him John Matthews of Middleburg to be his consort they Went into Holland and hid themselves at a Sectaries house and there with their mischievous doctrine they impoysoned many re-baptized their disciples and secretly by night held Conventicles and Meetings yea also they scattered their poyson in the neighbouring Cities for in the City of Leyden in the moneth of January in the year following 1535 many were put to death for Anabaptism and for their seditious counsels and enterprises Moreover in the end of the year 1534 the King sent into Friseland John Gelen a subtil man and well vers'd in arms he having formerly had charge in the Army the King gave him good store of gold out of the spoil of the Churches and gave him in charge to raise an Army in Frise and acted so by certain men that assisted him that on the 30 of March 1535 he mustered up and raised an Army and took a Monastery and drave out the Friers and there quartered his Camp until his Army should augment and be compleated George Schenck who was then Governour of Frise speedily assaulted them as seditious persons they valliantly defended themselves but he gained the Victory and defeated them but not without great loss they were all cut off except sixty who were brought to Leanard and after were punished according to their deserts Their Captain John Gelen escaped and fled to Amsterdam to be the author of some further sedition where he found many Anabaptists whom James Campense had seduced he promised them great matters highly exalting the glory and liberty at Munster magnificently preaching the new raign of righteousness upon earth For by this time the renown of Munster was spread which animated the courage of many seeing so great an Army had besieged them yea and had stormed them often with the loss of many and that they saw the Anabaptists to persist in their purpose many who were desirous to be freed from their debts and to triumph did greatly desire to enjoy the liberty of Munster Henry Gesbell a Citizen of Amsterdam a stout man and of renown for Souldiery was gained by the Anabaptists and was very familiar with John Gelen who being drawn to their party by large promises much was wrought by him for in the conclusion 600 Anabaptists met together with whom they intended and attempted to take Amsterdam to set up their new raign as they had done at Munster for upon the 10. of May the first and the chiefest of them assembled in the house of Peter Gale where after consultation they came forth into the street for that day the Citizens were merry and had according to a custom among them been at a Game About 10 a clock the Anabaptists ran together in the streets about the Cross which was a publick place crying out Amend your lives c. whosoever will this night be rich and happy let him march along with us and as the number of their people encreased more and more they slew part of them who had charge of the watch and the other part they took prisoners Now the Citizens assembled themselves and assaulted the Anabaptists but they carried the matter so ill as that their Consul was slain and the rest put to flight but then they reinforced their strength and gave battel unto the Anabaptists who were then defeated though with much blood which then was shed among whom John Gelen and Henry Gesbel were slain James Campense was taken and executed by the hand of justice Afterwards in many parts of those places of Holland the Anabaptists raised tumults and seditions not without loss and great damage unto several honest people for they could not keep themselves quiet for when they were defeated in one part they began in another making in secret many disciples who waited for the restoring of the Kingdom unto Israel There was a certain man in the Town of Leyden who being forced unto it by torments confessed that the King of the Anabaptists dwelt in Vtricht but that he was not yet crowned but only designed to be Prince in the Kingdom of Israel this prisoner was not only found possessed of vessels of silver and gold which by evil practise he had stoln but also guilty of several crimes for which he was executed there is no doubt but that by this King they did intend David George In the mean while although at Munster their King and Prophets had made unto the poor people most great and magnificent promises yet now every day they were oppressed with great necessity and chiefly through Famine insomuch as many were starved and died for want of bread The Inhabitants secretly resolved to apprehend the King and to deliver him up unto the Bishop and by this means to purchase their peace the King making doubt hereof and not trusting to himself he chose twelve men whom he judged would be most faithful unto him and appointed them to be Captains of each Quarter of the City that he might be in the better rest and assurance afterwards he promised the people that by Easter they should be freed and delivered from this siege and all their poverty for he hoped that the Legates which he had sent into Frise and Holland and other Regions having raised Souldiers would make 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 bruitishness 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