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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-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

and put me in one of them and cause me to be carried through the Country and let no man see me but he that shall give thee a peny and by this means thou shalt receive more money then thou hast spent in the War The better and most holy Anabaptists hung about their necks the mark and ensign of their King engraven in Brass marked with these three letters D. W. E. which in their language signified The Word was made Flesh The King had for his Title I John by the grace of God and by vertue of the new Kingdome to come in the Temple of God Minister of Righteousness c. Thus the King with his two Companions were carried Prisoners here and there unto the Princes by which means the Ministers of the Lantgrave had opportunity to confer with the King and to dispute with him about the principal Points viz. The Kingdome of Christ The Magistrate Baptism The Incarnation of our Lord The Lords Supper Marriage and by testimonies of Scripture unto them so acted as though in all things they changed not notwithstanding all the oppositions they made to defend their opinions yet they yielded somewhat which the King did as some thought in hope to save his life for at the second time of their return he promised them if they would grant him his liberty to silence the Anabaptists which were in great numbers in Holland Brabant England and Friseland and to bring them in subjection to the Magistrate The 20 of Jan. 1536. the King and his two Companions were brought back to Munster and put in several Prisons the two next dayes were spent in holy Remonstrances to reduce them from their errours The King acknowledged his sin and had recourse to Christ by prayer the other two acknowledged not their faults but stood out The next day the King was brought forth upon a Scaffold and tied to a post where were two executioners with hot burning tongs he indured the three first pinchings of the tongs without speaking word afterward he ceased not to call upon the mercy of the Lord. Thus for a whole hour and more was he torn and dismembred and to dispatch him out of the world he was run through with a sword his two Companions had the like end Their bodies were put into iron Cages and hung upon S. Lamberts Tower for a perpetual memorial Let none think we recite stories of the Anabaptists which are not to be believed by adding thereunto of our own God forbid that we should so do for there are many yet living who were eye-witnesses of these things and present when they were done I speak this that none might be hindred from getting profit by this History which is true and certain and brought to light for the instruction of the people of God In the year 1535. upon the 3 of February in the City of Amsterdam in the street of the Salines in the house of one John Silert who then was far from home there assembled seven men and five women then called Anabaptists among whom there was one called Theodore Sarter who was there inspired he lay stretched out flat upon the ground for some space of time before the other brethren and sisters who in the end awakened and prayer being made with great gravity or rather fair hypocrisie he then said That he had seen God in his Majesty also that he had a vision of all things in heaven and in hell and that the great day of Judgement was now come Afterwards he pulled off all his garments not leaving so much as to cover his shameful parts withall He commanded the rest of his brethren and sisters to follow his example upon this pretence for said he The children of God must strip themselves and put off whatsoever is made and born of the earth inasmuch as truth is naked and cannot abide to be wrapped up in any thing therefore to shew themselves veritable and true ought to unclothe themselves The poor people hearing this put off their clothes and being no wayes ashamed became quite naked Theodore commanded them all to imitate him he leapt out of doors into the publick quite naked as also did the rest of the men and women who followed him crying after an horrible manner Wo wo wo Divine vengeance Divine vengeance c. and in this manner they ran furiously through the City like mad people crying out so hideously as never was known Then the Citizens ran to take arms for they knew not whether the City were surprized by enemies or what would become of this stir Finally these impudent people were taken being quite naked and being questioned upon the 5 of March these seven men were beaten and scourged the first of them cried out Praise the Lord for evermore another said Lord avenge the blood of thine the third Open your eyes c. the fourth said Wo wo. Afterwards the women were brought to punishment when they were taken they offered them garments but they rejected them saying That the truth ought to be naked What men ever heard of such impudency or fury In the ancient stories we reade of Adamites who also went naked but it was only among themselves and at their Festival dayes but these far surpass them When Adam saw himself naked he sought for covering and finding nothing more fit then leaves he made use of those of a Figtree but these when as garments were tendred unto them they refused them and like dogs ran without shame Behold what befalleth those that leave the word of God to cleave unto dreams and Satanical illusions but behold their madness in that they dare attribute so much villany unto the holy Spirit of God and to make him the author of their nakedness they ought to have in remembrance with what gravity the Apostle Paul commandeth women to have their heads covered in the Church what would he have said if he had seen or known women to run without shame quite naked like Bitches who commanded that women apparel themselves in decent habit with shamefac'dness and modesty The things which were done by these Anabaptists in the Towns of St. Gall in Switzerland are not less hideous nor horrible then these whereof we have already heard For in the year 1526 two brethren which came out of the same womb Thomas and Leonard Schitker inhabiting neer unto the town called Mulleg the 7. of February by night there assembled a great number of Anabaptists in their Fathers house who spent all the night in preaching and doing marvelous deeds and receiving of visions at Sun-rising upon the 8 of February Thomas took his brother Leonard and set him in the midst of his kindred and of all the company commanding him to fall down upon his knees now as the rest admonished him to do no unbeseeming thing unto his Brother he answered them That they needed not to fear for he should do nothing there but the will of the Father in the mean while unsheathing a Sword he

for it as David for the Lords filling of his Cup 〈◊〉 23. and spreading his Table Was not Christ at Feasts and banquets with his friends there were none but the hypocritical Pharisees offended at it calling him Glutton and Drunkard Paul saith He could tell how to abound as well as to want If a believer hath little let him be contented without murmuring if he hath much let him use it with moderation and sobriety and giving of thanks remembring that passage of the Apostle Whether you eat or drink 1 Cor. 10.21 do all to the glory of God They condemn all mirth and laughter as bad It is true Christ saith Woe unto you that laugh for you shall mourn yet Paul exhorteth to rejoyce with them that rejoyce Rom. 12 14. and Solomon saith There is a time to laugh Eccles 3. Abraham laughed Genes 18.10 and yet these men would banish all mirth and laughter All civil mirth is not to be condemned nay rather their hypocritical sighings and their sad and melancholy looks are to be censured whereby they would as more holy extol themselves above other men the Kingdome of God consists not in these things the Scripture no where condemneth honest mirth but every where hypocrisies In the time of Solomon Israel held a Feast for fourteen dayes together because of all the goodness of God vouchsafed to David his father As mourning proceeds from adversity so joy from prosperity which Jeremiah plainly holds forth when he saith Lam. 5.15 The joy of our heart is ceased and our mirth is turned into mourning c. They condemn also the honest banquets at Weddings as unlawful and evil and yet we see the Scripture speaketh often of the voice of the Spouse and espoused we reade it no where condemned either in the Old or New Testament Our Lord was not onely at a Wedding being invited but wrought there his first Miracle by turning water into wine he sate down there and his Disciples David saith God hath made wine to make glad mans heart Psal 104.15 and oyl to make his face shine Feasts and Banquets which exceed Christian modesty are not to be commended Lot made a feast to his two guests and Abraham did so at Isaacs weaning who ever will reade of the feast of the faithful let him reade these Scriptures Gen. 26.30 Gen. 43.34 Judg. 14 10 12 17. 2 Sam. 3.20 1 Kings 3.15 Job 1.4 5. It is said Matthew made a feast where many Publicans were Christ doth not forbid them yea he fetcheth a comparison from the Bride and Bridegroom from the Wedding-Supper Luke 14. and the Wedding-Garments We would not here encourage intemperance in any but to shew the liberty which Christians have of the good Creatures of God that none may condemn those who in Gods fear do make use of their liberty the Kingdom of God lieth not in such observations bodily exercise profiting little but godliness being profitable in all things Moreover if we should reckon up all their Errours and several Opinions time would fail us to refute them There be some who hold re-baptizing so necessary as that without it none can be saved Nor will they salute any nor give the hand nor acknowledge any but such to be their brethren some hold it not so necessary and make no scruple to be found with honest people and to account them as brethren but their number is but small Some account Childrens Baptism so bad as that they will rather be dismembred and suffer then to let their Children be baptized Others suffer it as an Ordinance which neither hindreth nor profiteth Some account themselves holy and pure these are separated from others and have all things in common none saith among them This is mine and to have any thing in propriety is accounted a sin Some have endured great torments because they would not keep Sundaies and Festival dayes in despite of Antichrist seeing they were dayes appointed by Antichrist they would not hold forth any thing which is like unto him Others observe these dayes but it is out of charity Some say they are come so high as that they cannot sin any more The most pure of them preach up the Cross and persecution so high that they seem to make it an Idol and a new Saviour putting of it in the place of Christ for salvation as the Papists do their works There be some who have daily some new command from God to make known unto their brethren and strangers Some are rapt into an extasie and have their visage and countenance changed lying upon the ground certain hours Some Tremble and Quake for two or three hours together after that when they are come unto themselves they prophecie and speak strange things as if they had been in another world or as if they had fallen from out of heaven 2 Cor. 12. and they account to have that in common with the Apostle when he was taken up into the third heaven Many cannot speak nor declare the great secrets and Mysteries which they have seen To some this Extasie or Trance cometh often to others not so often to others of them not at all Some among them fall down upon their faces and dream others do not but keep themselves to the Letter of the Scripture Some do nothing else but pray as the Friers do and say That they do hinder and keep back by their prayers all the mischief which otherwise would befal the world these will not that evil should be resisted by any other wayes then by prayers and in no sort will permit the use of arms John Denk did not 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 heare 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 read 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 falls out that some who have been excommunicated are received in again and finde 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 Eunuchs 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 THere is now in the Press and will very shortly be extant an excellent and usefull Treatise Entituled The Righteous Man's Evidence for Heaven c. By Mr. Timothy Rogers Minister of the Gospel