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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

should be nothing published that were disconsonant to Christian Doctrine That children should be educated according to incorrupt manners That they should not make such promiscuous marriages among themselvs as they did That they should take no Dutch into their families That they should submit to amercements and pecuniary mulcts if any were inflicted on them as Citizens ought to do That upon a day assigned they should in the Parish Church in the presence of the whole congregation make a publick abjuration of the said Religion and condemn and anathematize the whole sect of it That they should hold no friendship or correspondence with any that shall persist in that Religion To these conditions did they promise to subscribe with all the reverence and gratitude they could possibly expresse These things being thus managed the most renowned Senate returning afresh to the business of the Arch Heretick passed these votes viz. That the doctrine of David George upon mature examination thereof was found impious and derogatory to the divine Majestie That the printed books and whatsoever may have seen the light should have the second light of the fire That he as the most infamous promoter of that execrable Sect and a most horrid blasphemer against God and Christ should not be accounted worthy Christian burial That he should be taken up out of his grave by the common Hangman and together with his books and all his writings and his manuscripts should according to the Ecclefiastical Canons be burnt in a solemn place According to the said judgment the carkasse being digged up was with all his writings whereof the greatest part was that truly miraculous book together with his effigies brought by the Hangman to the place of execution where having opened the dire●ul Coffin he being found not much disfigured nay so little that hee was known by diverse hee being covered with a watered garment having about him a most white sheet a very clean pillow under his he●d his yellowish Beard rendring him yet graceful to be short having a silk Cap on under which was a piece of red cloth and adorned with a garland of Rosemary was set up publickly to be seen and in the third year after his death was with his writings consecrated to Vulcan that is to say burned MICHAEL SERVETUS Omnia quum portenta voces hominemque Deumque Infandi SERVES nominis opprobium THE CONTENTS SERVETUS his converse with Mahumetans and Jewes He disguiseth his monstrous opinions with the Name of Christian Reformation The place of his birth At the 24 year of his age he boasted himself the onely Teacher and Seer of the world He in●eighed against the Deity of Christ Oecolampadius confutes his blasphemies and causeth him to be thrust out of the Church of Basil Servetus held but one person in the Godhead to be worshipped c. He held the Holy Ghost to be Nature His horrid blasphemy He would reconcile the Turkish Alcoran to Christian Religion He declares himself Prince of the Anabaptists At Geneva Calvin faithfully reproves Servetus but he continues obstinate Anno 1553 by the decrees of several Senates he was burned MICHAEL SERVETUS like another Simon Magus having conversed long among the Mahumetans and the Jewes and being excellently well furnished with their imaginous opinions begat both out of Divinity and the general treasury of Christian Religion a monstrous issue of opinions with the coition of what he had received from the extravagant Mahumelans and Thalmudists upon which b●at this instrument of Satan must needs bestow the disguised name of Christian Reformation From this Cocks egge were bred these Cockatrices Gonesus Gribaldus Blandratta Gentilis Alciatus Simanus Casanovius Menno and diverse other Anabaptistical Vipers who extreamly increased the restless waves of Sects and opinions We recommending the rest to their proper place Hell will take a more particular survey of one Religion and by the horridnesse of that guesse at the others This Servetus was a Spaniard born in the Kingdom of Arragon most unworthy both of his Name and Nation Being wrapt into a most incredible Enthusiasme he boldly lays his unwash'd hands upon holy divinity and at the four and twentieth year of his age boasted himself to be the onely Teacher and Seer of the world making it his main design and that by his impious and worthlesse writings to inveigh against the Deity of the Son of God with which writings being sufficiently furnished and withall enflamed with hopes of raising no ordinary tumults hee bestirrs himself winde and tide for Basil but Occolampadius an Ecclesiastical Doctor learnedly before a full Senate confuted the blasphemies of this man and by the publick Authority he had caused him as a poisonous blasphemer to be thrust out of the Church of Basil From thence he went to Venice where in regard the Venetians had been timely forewarned of him by the wise and learned Melancthon he made no harvest of his incredible blasphemies nor indeed was he permitted seed-time for them Religion is no where safe But having consulted with the Arch-hereticks his Predecessors and being bird-lim'd he held that there was but one person in the God-head to be worshipped and acknowledged which was revealed to mankind sometimes under one notion sometimes under another and that it was thus that those notions of Father Son and Holy Ghost were to be understood in the Scriptures Nay with the same line of his blasphemous mouth he affirmed that our Saviour Jesus Christ according to his humane nature was not the Sonne of God nor coeternall with the Father The Holy Ghost he granted to be nothing but that influence by which all things are moved which is called nature He most impiously Ironicall affirmed that to understand the word Person we must referre our selves to Comedies But the most horrid blasphemy of all was when by the suggestion of Satan he imagined that the most glorious and ever to be worshipped and adored Trinity who doth not tremble at it was most fitly compared to Cerberus the Porter of Hell-gate But he stayed not here no he thought it should be accounted nothing but a diabolicall phantasme the laughing-stock of Satan and the monsterous ●eryon whom the Poets by some strange mystery of Philosophy feigned to have three bodies O incredible and unheard of subtilty of blasphemy The most glorious name of the most blessed Trinity is grown so odious to this man that he would personate being the greatest that ever was all the Atheists that have quarrelled with that name Moreover he maintained that taking but away the onely Article of the Trinity the Turkish Alcoran might be easily reconciled to the Christian Religion and that by the joyning together of these two a great impediment would be removed yea that the pertinacious asserting of that Article had enraged to madnesse whole Countries and Provinces This abomination of God and men held that the Prophet Moses that great servant

Soveraignty and would be accounted Potentates when they are indeed the wickedst among men Dissemblers Cheats Hypocrites Novators or Advancers of Novelties and the subtle generation of the old Viper Novatu Which said Novatus if I display in the colours wherein the holy Father and Martyr Cyprian sets him forth discreet men shall be my Judges whether I have not hit the mark and the same description most sitly suits the greatest part of the Proselytes of Muntzer As concerning Novatus sayes that Ornament of his Carthage lib. 11. Epist. 8. to Cornelius then Bishop of Rome We needed not any relations to be sent to us of him since that from us you were to expect a more particular account of Novatus a man that is a constant Advancer of novelties of an insatiable avarice furious in his rapines blown up with arrogancie and pride even to astonishment a man not admitting any good understanding with the Bishops the end of his curiosity is to betray of his flattery to surprise his love is dogg'd by his infidelity he is the fuell and fire-brand that heightens the combustions of sedition and the hurrican and tempest which causes the shipwrack of Faith an opposer of Tranquility and an enemy to peace These were his thoughts of Novatus which what wise man but will allow us to attribute to our Novators Certainly if John that Botcher of Leiden the ulcer and deformity of that gallant City were to be drawne in his own colours we need borrow them no where else You therefore Orthodox Doctors reduce those erroneous and miserably seduced men which yet are so into the way of Truth Deliver them I beseech you out of this phrensy and omit no opportunities which may help to recover them out of this imaginary disease to which they are so accustomed This shal bee your reward this is the prize you shall obtain Him that overcometh will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God and I wil write upon him the name of my God c. Revel. 3. 12. 1 THOMAS MUNTZER His OPINIONS ACTIONS and END The Contents MUntzers Doctrine spreads his aims high his affirmations destructive He asserts Anabaptisme rests not there but grows worse and worse in his opinions and practises his large promises to his party and the common people he endeavoured to set up himself pretending to restore the Kingdom of Christ being opposed by the Landgrave his delusive Animation of his followers their overthrow his escape he is found but dissembles him self is taken but yet obstinate the Landgrave convinceth him by Scripture when being racked he laugheth afterward relenteth his last words is deservedly beheaded and made an example 2 JOHN MATHIAS The Contents JOhn Mathias repairs to Munster his severe edicts he becoms a malicious executioner of Hubert Trutiling for contumelious expressions touching him his own desperate end 3. JOHN BUCKHOLD or JOHN of LEYDEN The Contents JOhn Buckhold his character his disputing and contention with the Ecclesciasticks concerning Paedobaptism he succeeds John Mathias he comforts the people with a pretended revelation he makes Bernard Knipperdoling of a Consul to become common executioner Buckhold feigneth himself dumb he assumes the Magistracy he allows Polygamy he takes to himself three wives he is made King and appoints Officers under him his sumptuous apparel his Titles were King of Justice King of the new Jerusalem his throne his Coin and motto thereon The King Queen and Courtiers wait on the people at a Feast with other d●gressions The King endeavours to raise commotions abroad is haply prevented He suspects his own safety his large promises to his Captains himself executes one of his wives he feigns 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 proposal he is put to a Non-plus is convinced of his offences his deserved and severe execution 4. HERMANNUS SUTOR The Contents HErman the Cobler professeth himself a Prophet c. he is noted for drunkenness The ceremonies he used in Anabaptisme Eppo his Host discovers him and his followers to be cheats Hermans wicked blasphemies and his inconstancy in his opinions his mothers temerity his Sect convinced and fall off from him by one Drewjis of his Sect he is handled roughly Herman is taken by Charles Lord of Gelderland c. and is brought prisoner to Groningen when questioned in his torments he hardened himself and died miserably 5. THEODORUS SARTOR The Contents THeodor the Botcher turns Adamite he affirms strange things his blasphemy in forgiving of sins he burns his cloaths c. and causeth his companions to do the like He and his rabble go naked ihrough Amsterdam in the dead of night denouncing their woes c. and terrifie the people They are taken and imprisoned by the Burghers but continue shameless May 5. 1535. they are put to death some of their last words 6. DAVID GEORGE The Contents DAvid George the miracle of the Anabaptists At Basil he pretends to have been banished his Country for the Gospels-sake with his specious pretences he gains the freedom of the City for him and his His Character His riches He with his Sect enact three things His Son in Law doubting his new Religion is by him questioned and upon his answer excommunicated His wifes death He had formerly voted himself immortal yet Aug. 2. 1556 he died c. His death troubled his disciples His doctrine questioned by the Magistates eleven of the Sectaries secured Eleven Articles extracted out of the writings of David George Some of the imprisoned Sectaries acknowledged David George to have been the cause of the tumults in the lower parts of Germany but disowned his doctrin Conditions whereupon the imprisoned are set at liberty The Senate vote the doctrine of D. G. impious and declare him unworthy of Christian burial and that his body and books should be burned which was accordingly effected 7. MICHAEL SERVETUS The Contents SErvetus his converse with Mahumetans and Jewes He disguiseth his monstrous opinions with the Name of Christian Reformation The place of his birth At the 24. year of his age he boasted himself the onely Teacher and Seer of the world He inveighed against the Deity of Christ Oecalampadius confutes his blasphemies and causeth him to be thrust out of the Church of Basil Servetus held but one person in the Godhead to be worshipped c. He held the holy Ghost to be Nature His horrid blasphemy He would reconcile the Turkish Alcoran to Christian Religion He declares himself Prince of the Anabaptists At Geneva Calvin faithfully reproves Servetus but he continues obstinate Anno 1553. by the decrees of several Senates He was burned 8. ARRIUS THE CONTENTS Arrianisme its increase Anno 323. THe General Council at Nice Anno 325. called as a Remedy against it but without success The Arrians misinterpret that place Joh. 10. 30. concerning the Father