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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

ears shrivel'd lips black and blew throats slender as those of Spiders to bee short Hippocratical faces living carcases and excellent shadows of men They had sown certain kinds of seeds and pulses in the City which for a time served for high delicacies to the grumbling stomach but these being soon devoured by the hungry belly Cats Dormice and Rats which themselves were almost starv'd to anatomie became doubtful entertainments Some were reduced to that inhumane necessity that they fed on the flesh of the buried carcasses some drest the feet of sweaty woollen socks some cut to pieces the parings of tanned leather and mincing them with some other things bak'd them and made them serve for bread To this wee may add that the most wickedly obstinate citizens were not yet convinced that by crafty infinuations and specious suggestions they were brought into the noose whom therefore he stil entertained with considerations of Magnanimity and the deliverance they were yet constantly to expect from God but as for those who admitted any thoughts of running away and endeavoured to avoyd their miseries he peremptorily sends for and like a publick Robber taking away all that their industry had furnished them with depart says he and be gone to the Hereticks and bid sarewel to this place The King though he had gotten at his house sufficient provision for two months yet was he willing to imbrace all occasions wherby he might keep up the heart of the City which now continually barked for sustenance To which end behold a certain man named John Longstrat being a Nobleman and privie Counsellor to the King and one of whom he was very confident boasted that he would within fourteen days reliev this hunger-starv'd City both with provisions and supplies of men to the number of three hundred By this pretence hee flyes to the enemy and betrays the City to the Bishop for a certain summe of money with his life included The Eve of Saint John was appointed for the execution of this design about ten of the clock at which time hee had obliged himself by oath to cause the gate called the Crosse-gate to be opened This Commissary for provisions returning at length to the City assured the King upon his saith and reputation that the said recruits of provision and forces should be ready within the time appointed The day assigned being come hee acquaints the Guards that the promised forces were to come in in the night which would bee starr-light enough that so they might receive them as friends The gates are hereupon set open and the enemies being admitted into the City as into another Troy upon the Watch-word given soon dispatch'd the Guards and others that were neer Now could bee nothing heard for the cry of Armes Armes The King and his Courtiers being gotten into a body drove back the enemie to the Gates which the citizens had by that time shut again whereupon the rest of them that were without were forced to set Engines to force open the Gates which being once broken open they flourished and set up their Colours The citizens stiffely resisted the first assault and made a strong body in the Market place where the fight became very hot and bloody The King himself Knipperdoling and Krachting fell into the enemies hands but Rotman seeing there was no possibility of safety rushing where the enemy was thickest was trod to pieces hee it seems placing all hopes of life in death The Anabaptists upon the taking of their King being quite cast down and discouraged went and hid themselves in Larders Kitchins and other lurking holes The City was most unmercifully plundered and to make a full search of it there were ten days allotted There was found by those of the Kings Guard at the Royall Palace as much provision as would maintain two hundred for two mouths O Goodman King where is now the Community of goods and provisions which your Religion holds forth This sad fate did that City suffer in the year one thousand five hundred thirty and five The third day after this sacking of the City the King was carried to the Castle of Dulmen three miles off The Bishop having caused the King to bee brought with all speed before him said to him O thou cast away of Mankind by what deplorable means hast thou corrupted and destroyed my people To which the King with an undisturbed and proud deportment made answer thus O thou Pope have wee done thee any injury by delivering into thy hands a most well-fortified and invincible City But if thou thinkest thy self any way injur'd or endammag'd by us if thou wilt but hearken to our advice thou shalt be easily enriched The Bishop hardly abstaining from laughing desired him to discover that secret to which hee replyed Cause an Iron Cage or Basket to bee made and cover it with leather and carry me into all the parts of thy Country to be seen for a shew and if thou take but a penny of every one for the sight assure thy self it will amount to more then all the charges of the war The more eminent Anabaptists wore about their necks a certain medall wherein was the effiges of their King to which were added these ietters D. W. F. whereby was signified that the word was made flesh But the King being carried up and down as a captive with his two associates was shewn to divers Captains and Ecclesiasticks of the Landgrave which gave occasion of dispatation between them about some things as of the Kingdom of Christ and of Magistracy of Justification and of Baptisme of the Lords Supper and of the Incarnation of Christ as also of Matrimony in which disputation they prevailed so far by the divine testimonies of holy writ that they brought the King of the Anabaptists though not acknowledging the least satisfaction to a Non-plus who to obtain another disputation out of hopes of life as was said promised that hee would reduce the Anabap●ists which swarmed in Holland Braband England and Friezland and that he would do all honour to the Magistrate Upon the twentieth of January one thousand five hund●ed thirty and six he is brought with his companions to Munster where they were secured in severall prisons two days were spent in weeding and rooting up their errors The King indeed confessed his offences and cast himself wholly upon Christ but his companions discover'd a vain obstinacy in the defence of their cause The next day the King is brought to the place of execution fasten'd to a stake and is pulled piece-meal by two executioners with pincers red hot out of the fire The first pains he felt hee suppressed at the second hee implor'd Gods mercy For a whole hour was hee pull'd and delacerated with those instruments and at length to hasten somewhat his death run ●hrough with a sword His companions were dipped with the baptisme of the same punishment which they suffered couragiously all whose carcasses

he takes to himself three wives he is made King and appoints Officers under him his sumptuous apparell his Titles were King of Justice King of the new Jerusalem his throne his Coin and motto thereon The King Queen and Courtiers waite on the people at a Feast with other digressions The King endeavours to raise commotions abroad is haply prevented He suspects his own safety his large promises to his Captaines himself executes one of his wives he feignes himself sick and deludes the people with an expectation of deliverance in the time of famine forgets community he is betrayed by his confident is brought prisoner before the Bishop who checks him his jesting answer and proposall he is put to a Non plus is convinced of his offences his deserved and severe execution JOHN BUCKHOLD was a Botcher of Leyden a crafty fellow eloquent very perfect in the Scriptures subtle confident more changeable then Proteus a serious student of sedition briefly a most servent Anabaptist This man being sent by John Mathias to Munster was a perpetuall thorn in the sides of the Ecclesiasticks craftily sisting them about the businesse of Paedobaptisme in which employment he spent nine whole moneths and most commonly making his party good with them both as to disputation and litigious contention while in the mean time he secretly spawn'd and scatter'd the doctrine of Anabaptisme as much as lay in his power About that time a certain unknown Preacher of the word of God one Hermanus Stapreda of Meurs came to Munster who supplying the place of Rotmannus in preaching seduced him and leavened him with Anabaptisme and he also publickly anathematized Pedobaptisme This gave occasion of raising tumults among the people they who before were onely secretly instructed by John Buckhold discover themselves openly to the world and lay aside all disguises of their intentions in most parts of the City they have their frequent meetings in divers houses but all in the night time whereat the Magnistrates being incensed and offended prohibited their Conventicles and some they banished But they weigh not this any thing and being sent out at one gate they came in at another and lay concealed among those that were the favourers of their Sect. Hereupon the Senate caused all the Ecclesiasticks to assemble at the Palace to dispute the businesse of Paedobaptisme In this Assembly Rotmannus stood tooth and naile for the Anabaptists but those of the Reformation fully refuted their errors as the publick acts concerning that businesse do abundantly testifie At this very time the Minsters of the Church of Argentoratum signed and set out an account of their Faith in a printed Book Hereupon the Senate of Munster by a publick edict banished the Anabaptists out of the City which edict they persisting in contention opposed being now arrived to that rashnesse and impudence that they thrust a reformed Preacher one Peter Werthemius out of the Church Yea some of them rioting about the City whereof the Ringleader was Henry Rollius cryed out as they went Repent and be rebaptized otherwise will the heavy wrath of God fall upon you These things hapned about the end of the year M. D. XXXIII and the beginning of M. D. XXXIV Some honest-hearted and harmlesse men partly out of an apprehension of divine wrath as they made them believe partly for fear of men suffered themselves to be washed in the laver of Anabaptisme For the Anabaptists leaving their dennes broke into the City without any controll and with an unanimous violence assaulting the Market place they soon possessed themselves of the Palace and the Magazine sentencing with loud conclamations and such as required a greater voice then that of Stentor that all were to be destroyed as so many Heathens and Reprobates that did not embrace Anabaptisme In this tumult a certain young man of Burchstenford was killed This gave occasion both to the Papists and to those of the Reformation to provide for their safety The chiefest Patrons of the Anabaptistical Heresy were Bernard Rotman John Buckhold Bernard Knipperdoling Gerard Knippenburch Bernard Krachting c. These two parties having skirmished with as great eagernesse and animosity as greater armies exasperated one against another for some days there followed a Truce whereby it was agreed that every one should quietly enjoy and persever in his own Religion However the surges of Anabaptisme were not yet laid till they had entered into a conspiracy to drive those of the Reformation out of the City The most eminent of the Conclave writ to the Anabaptists of the Cities adjoining viz. to these of Dulmen Coesvelt Soyst Warendorp and Osenburg that leaving all things behind them they should repair with all speed to Munster promising they should have ten-fold what ever they left Being enticed by these propositions husbands and wives leaving all behind them came in swarms to Munster A great number of the more religious Inhabitants looking on that strange rabble as an insufferable grievance to their City left it to the disposal of the Anabaptists who being by this means increased in number became also more extravagant degraded the Senate and chose another out of themselves wherein were Consuls Gerard Knippenburg and Bernard Knipperdoling whose Effiges is the ensuing BERNARD KNIPPERDOLING Quo non fastus abit quid non Rex impius audet Carnificem fecit qui modò Consulerat BEing now become Lords and Masters they in the first place seized on Maurice Church and burnt it and the houses all about it thence falling forcibly upon other holy places and Monasteries they carried away Gold Silver Ornaments and Utensils and whatsoever else was of any consequence Upon the fourth day after those rapines trudging up and down the streets and high-ways they with a horrible howling uttered Repent Repent to which is added Depart depart bee gone yee wicked otherwise woe bee to you This done they immediately went armed in multitudes and with unspeakable barbarisme and cruelty turned out their miserable fellow-citizens as enemies to their Religion out of their houses and possessions and thrust them out of the City without any consideration of age or sex so that many women with child had this misfortune seconded with that of dangerous abortions The Anabaptists presently by what right they please seize to themselves the possessions of the banished so that the honest and godly party being cast out of the City fell into the hands of the souldiers who had block'd up the City and all the avenues as among enemies by whom some were taken others unadvisedly killed at which entreaty the other honester part of citizens being discouraged and seeing that guilty and not guilty fared alike would not stirre a loot out of the City which being closely besieged by the Bishops Army all places were filled with blood sighs tears Now do the mad men of Munster and such as no Hellebore can have any effect on grow insufferably insolent and above all that great Prophet John

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