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A90953	A breife relation, of some of the most remarkable pasages of the Anabaptists in high and low Germany in the year, 1521. &c. Gathered out of the writings of Sleyden, Antonius, Servanus, Lambertus, John Gastio, and others who write of their practises. And Bullinger, Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, Vrsinus, and others who write against their heresies. By George Pressick, of Dublin in Ireland.	Pressick, George.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3295; Thomason E1047_5; ESTC R208094	24,194	24

A breife RELATION of some of the most Remarkable Pasages of the ANABAPTISTS in High and low Germany in the year 1521. c. Gathered out of the writings of Sleyden Antonius Servanus Lambertus John Gastio and others who write of their Practises And Bullinger Luther Melancthon Calvin Vrsinus and others who write against their heresies When the righteous are in authority the people rejoyce but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourne Prov. 29.2 For through covetousnesse shall they with fained words make merchandize of you whose Judgement now of a long time lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not 2 Pet. 2.3 For such are false Apostles deceitfull workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvell for Satan himself is transformed into an Angell of light Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works 2 Cor. 11.13 14 15. By GEORGE PRESSICK of Dublin in Ireland TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Roger Lord Broghill Sir Charles Coote and Sir Theophilus Jones Grace and peace be multiplied Righ Honour I Have four yeares since put forth a booke in answer to Mr. Thomas Patients book called the doctrine of baptisme and the distinction of Covenants and I did expect that Mr. Patient would have replyed to mine and therfore I did by reading provide my self in part for a reioynder but seing he hath not replyed I have made bold to present to your Honours something of what I had gathered together and by what I have observed from the Anabaptists and Quakers amongst us I have drawen up I think the breifest relation that hath been hitherto of the most remarkable passages both of Doctrine and practice in Germany 139 yeares ago and so forward In which the Judicious Reader may observe how near these Sectaries in these Nations have advanced both in Doctrine and practise to these in that in Germany And considering how God hath raised up your spirits and how Instrumentall your Honours have been in the hand of God to suppresse their insolent tyrannicall usurped Authority which they exercised over Gods people in this nation to inslave us to their insatiable lusts and also how God hath prospered your Honors indeavours therein beyond what we could in natural reason expect in so short a time Which plainly demonstrates the work to be of God and yet we may and ought and that upon well grounded reason own your Honours as Gods instruments to be the three chief worthyes of Ireland in this blessed work and though there are many other gallant spirits in this land that have acted their severall parts and are most honourable yet none have attained to the Honor of the first three I therefore humbly beg leave to dedicate my service to your Honours as your dues and my duty First for that your earnest care and endeavours for the defence of the protestant religion and the lawfull liberties of the people have manifestly appeared to all men Secondly that I may hereby acknowledge my humble thankfullnesse First to God the author of all good Secondly to your Honors in hope of being a sharer in this mercy of deliverance as I have had a sad share in suffering under their tyranny and wickedness I humbly beg pardon for my presumption and I beseech the God of heaven to keep your hearts humble and to deliver you from every evill way untill he bring you to his Glory which is the prayer of him who is February 1659. Your Honours humble servant Gorge Pressick of Dublin A breife Relation of some Remarkable Passages of the Anabaptists in High and low Germany Gathered out of the writings of Sleyden Antonius Servanus Lambertus John Gastio and others who write of their practises And Bullinger Luther Malancthon Calvin Ursinus and other who write Books against their Heresies TRithenaeus Abbas Aspergensis setts forth in his Cronicle of the year 1503. The disposition of the commons in high and low Germany That there arose agreat sedition of Peasants about Bruxels which he calls Liga Solutaria which were sworne to these Articles viz to shake off the yoak of all higher powers and get liberty by force of Armes to pull down all Magistrates and kill all that should stand against them I pray God blesse England Scotland and Ireland from such plotts and they engaged to seize on the Citty of Bruxells and invade the Marquesse of Baden and to seise on all the revenues of Monasteries Churches and Clergy men to stay no where above twenty four hours but to go forward still till they had brought many Countreyes in to their society to pay no more tithes nor Lords rents nor tribute and who oever was received into that league was to say five times a day on his knees one Pater noster and one Ave Mary for the good success of their Enterprize and their word of Cognizance was the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist But they were timely prevented and the authors put to death by Maximillian their Prince But by this we may see from whence Anabaptists and Quakers and Ranters and Levelers all had their originall namely from the Papists by their word of Cognizance and their Ave Maries and their Pater nosters If you compare these with the Anabaptists and other their doings some few yeares fter and now in this Age in these Countryes only the Anabaptists added something more to their licentious rebellion as their rebaptizing and poligamy c. but both were varmished with a Colour of religion For about the year 1521. there arose a new sect in Saxonr much like our Anabaptists and Quakers now who boasted that they talked with God and God with them and had revelations and that God Commanded them to kill all the wicked and to make a new world wherein the godly shall raigne alone Melancthon saith that Nicholas Stoke was the first that broached this opinion for 〈◊〉 spake to him by an Angell and revealed his will to him in dreams promising him the place of the Angel Gabriel and the Empire of the world he taught that the Saints must raigne in the world and that he should be their leader to kill all the Kings and Princes and to purge the Church he took upon him to have the gift of descerning spirits to know the elect from reprobates he made holinesse to consist in speaking little and living homely and sordidly as our Quakers do In Nicholas Stokes schoole was Thomas Muntzer bred who amplified his Masters doctrine he began to teach at Alstetum a place belonging to the Elector of Saxony He tanght that his Consorts must have a new baptisme And that Christians must be of Austere Countenance and speak little and weare long beards and this he called the mortification of the flesh and that they ought to retyre into desarts and private places he ascribed much to dreames In that City he began to make a confederacy administring an Oath and taking

provision left for his own family the town was taken in Iune 1535. having indured a left of eighteen moneths Upon the surprize the Towns-men cryed for quarter and had it but the King resisted to the last in St. Lamberts Church-yard and was with much ado taken with Kniperdoling and Krechling another Prophet and Rotman would not yeild but was slain in the Conflict The King and no King was sent Prisoner to a castle four miles from Mu●ster he went thither a little faster then he would being tyed to the tayle of a galloping horse Kniperdol●ng and Krechling were sent prisoners to another place soone after all three were brought to Telgate where the Bishop asked John of Leyden by what authority he made himself King over his City John of Leyden asked him again who had given him authority over that City and people he answered he came to it by election and I sayd Iohn of Leyden came in by the will and calling of God two Lutheran Divines were sent to conferre with John of Leyden and Kniperdoling the first did abujre many of his errors and would hear reasons But Kniperdoling was like a mad beast would neither hear nor answer reason but stood only upon revelation a particular spirit as our Quakers do they were condemened and executed as Traytors Rebels Krechling suffred the like death J. of Le●d●n hearing the sentence read he confessed that indeed he had offended the Magista●●s but not offended God thus died this imaginary K of justice by the hand of justice and there was the end of his kingdome and prophesies he was about twenty six years of age a lusty young Prophet of a fair proportion of an awfull yet lovely presence of a present wit eloquent close politique ambitious which aspired to no lesse then the dominion of the world he was a dangerous instrument of Satan the good Lord destroy the plots of such where ever they are What other tumults were raised in Frezeland Holland and other places by the Anabaptisticall crew especially in Amsterdam and Leyden may be seen at 〈…〉 in the province besotted the minds especially of the vulgar sort under the colour of simplicity sincerity humility charity c. So that many otherwise good and zealous persons sided with them and were deluded by them as too many do at this day But these sectaries brake into Fractions and like new Incendiares prosecuted each other with inveterate minds and writings thundering against one another and delivering each other to Satan to set forth their severall opinions were almost impossible but it is well known that then and now at this day they are divided into severall Classes and names derived either from their Ring-leaders or from the course of life they follomed or the place of their entertainment In the front are placed the Muntzerians so called from Muntzer that grand incendiary their generall others were called Hulites from John Hull who his after example called themselves the Corporal Israel of God he taught that all the Cananites were to be cut down with the sword and that the day of judgement was at hand that the angel was sounding the last trumpet others were called the Hopmannians from Melcher Hopman one furnished with popular eloquence he first grew famous at Argentum and drew a great sort of Disciples after him that they cryed him up for Elias others were called Servetians from Michael Servetus a Spaniard who for his execrable and not once to be named blasphemies against the sac●ed Trinity spread abroad maintained with great obstinacy and other wickedness he was burnt at Geneva breathing out his soul in blasphemies The Davideans had their denomination from David George a Batavian an infamous Imposter both for blasphemies and shamefull lusts who came to that height of impiety as to arrogate to himself to be Christ the Lord to be the eternall son of the eternal Father to apply to himself the prophesies concerning Christ our Saviour which blasphemies and other dotages he compiled into a book intituled wonders but was bitterly inveighed against even by other Anabaptists whereupon he renounced his own name and sled calling himself by the name of John a Bruck he went to Basill a famous Citty where with the direfull sting of an accusing conscience rather then any bodily infirmity he dyed all these miscreants with an outward forme of godlinesse drew multitudes of followers after them In Ianuary 1535. It was discovered that the Anabaptists had a plot to set Leyden on fire by night and although timely notice was given fire was set in severall places of the town houses were searched and the cheif of the conspiratours taken together in one house fifteen men and five women the men were beheaded and the women drowned and so baptized the third time The neath moneth in Amsterdam one Theodoret a taylor who beare himself for a Prophet fell upon his face and prayed with great vehemency and rising as it were out of an extasie I have seen God 〈…〉 Heaven then he said he descended into Hell and searched every corner It s possible Mr. Gray might descend from that Tribe he knowe's Hell so well because he declares He● to be paved with Kings crovvne and Bishops Sculls c. but thou saith this Prophet to one of the company art not good enough for Hell then the poor condemned man fell on his knees craving pardon and the Prophet anounced him a full remission of all his sinnes another night the Prophet and six men more and five women vvho had left their husbands in bed met in a house after some time spent in prayer and teaching the Prophet stripped off all his cloaths and his shirt and threvv all into the fire and commanded them all to do the like they did so the women having not so much as a hairface nor any thing to hide their shame for the Prophets pleasure was to burne all as a sweet sacrifice to God then he commanded them to follow him so running his disciples after him through the streets they cryed horribly Woe Woe Woe the divine vengearce the divine vengeance which put the whole town in an uprore thinking they had been surprized by some enemy they were all taken but one woman that slopped aside and brought before the Magistrates and they stood naked before Court they refused garments offered to cover them saying they must have no covering for they were the ●aked truth they were kept in prison till the great conspiracy about two months after and then executed In another Town at noon ●●y five Anabaptists ran naked through the streetes with swords in their hands crying in the name of the Lord that the blessing of God lay upon one part of the Towne and his curse on the other part and soone after were followed with others of the same faction in Armes but the Magistrates raised in hast some companies of Archers to oppose them the Authors of the sedition were taken the rest quieted