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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for a time The same day such another sedition was raised at Harlem in which six Anabaptists were slaine and two at the Hague were executed shortly after six of the most seditious were burnt at Harlem and two women d●owned John Gastio in his Book saith it was their constant doctrine that women must be common and three reasons they gave for it worthy to be registred to perswade honest women to prostitute their bodies if they would be saved the first was that Christians must renounce those things they love best and therefore women must renounce their beloved honesty The second was that for Christs sake we must undergo any kind of infamy the third was that Publicans and harlots go to heaven before Pharisees lying with other women than their wives they called spirituall marriages with that doctrin they had seduced two sisters at St Gall near Zurick as John Gastio writes in his third Book p. 21. soon after they were rebaptised being in bed two spirituall husbands came and lay with them but with such fervent spirit that they brake the bottom of the bed the noise whereof wakened the people in the house who coming up in hast to know the matter found two spirituall They had another main reason for community of women that as Christi●●… are all one spirit so they must be all one body its very like the Ranters teach these doctrins now the author saith that these two poor maids of St. Gall. before they were Anabaptists had been much solicited and could never be won untill they were Anabaptists and then were perswaded to be whores for conscience sake others under pretence of childish innocency would ride naked upon sticks and hobby horses like children in great companies and women would run naked with them and then in pure innocency they lay together so in the end it proved to be childrens play indeed In the same town one being in his propheticall mood called his father mother brothers sisters together commanded his brother to kneel down with one blow he cut off his head and said the will of God was done and comming before the Burgomaster he said I announce unto thee the day of judgment it being the year 1541. a day which two yeares before they had foretold should be the day of Judgement but the Burgomaster announced him his day of judgement and he was executed as he deserved It were almost an endless peice of work to reckon up all their Doctrines and practises but this I have gathered to give an hint of their wofull proceedings where they got to any head we may see the sad symptomes hereof amongst our selves some have not spared to say they hoped within a short time there should not be a minister left in Ireland and have they not rooted out the Parliaments and all the fundamentall lawes of these lands and as John of Leyden did assumed a usurped power to themselves to make lawes and abolished lawes at their pleasure and exercised tyranny and oppression over the poor people and have they not assumed a regall power if their wings be not clipt to call a Parliament of their own with no lesse then one and twenty Kings I mean officers of the Army to have a negative vote in the Parliament so that if God do not restraine them and stir up his people to withstand them It is to be feared the consequence that will follow may prove as bad if not worse then their proceedings in Germany yet they call themselves Saints and holy people and righteous persons and all others that differ from them in not being rebaptised they counted wicked and ungodly and heathens not yet come out of Babylon whereas upon tryall there will little difference be found between them those you read of in Numbers 16.3 Corah Dathan and Abyram for just so they dealt with Magistrates and Ministers Moses and Aaron as these do with ours now seeing ye take too much upon you ye somes of Levi seeing all the Congregation is holy every one of them to these three Ch●rah Da●han and Abyram We may compare the three ringlerders of Anabaptists Quakers and Ranters for as then Corah c. gathered two hundred and fifty Princes famous in the Congregation men of renown to take part with them in their rebellion So these in England Scotland and Ireland have gathered I may justly say two hundred and fifty Officers in the Army famous in the Congregation men of them to take too much upon them seeing all their Congregations arch o●y in their own esteme every one of them And thefore like Thomas Munster and John of Leyden they would either remove or kill all Princes and Magistrates and all the ungodly and root out ministery but what the end was of these wicked men for their rebellion The Chapter shewes at large and the two hundred and fifty that took their parts and with their brasse censers offered strange fire as Nadab and Abihu did Levit. 10.1 2. Fire came out from God and Consumed them I desire these fearfull examples of Gods displeasure may be a warning to others for in due time God will shew who are holy and who not holy and as in Revela 2.2 He will try them that say they are Apostles are not but are liars those that call themselves Jews as some of the Quakers do and are not but of the Synagogue of Satan ver the 9. and those that call themselves Prophets Prophetesses and are not but teach rebellion and seduce the people ver 20. He will also try those that say they are Saints and are not but live more like Heath●ns and those that say they are Christ and are not as James Naylor and James Millner of Beakley in Lancasheer who also said that George Fox was John the Baptist such false Prophets and prophesies as these we have heard too much of in these three Nations of late so that it behoves all godly persons both civil and military and Ministers and people to endeavour by all lawfull meanes to defend the truth against such seducers FINIS Certain reasons against some Points of Popery which they are desired to answer if they can Of works of Supererogation FIrst we demand being the Pope doth brag that he hath in the treasury of the Church the superabounding paines and travells of Saints Munks Martyrs and others which is called works of Supererogation and which the Pope converteth into payment for the panishments due unto others distributing them by indulgence We demand who hath put the suffering of the Saints c. into the Popes treasury to be thus distributed Secondly we demand when this distribution began Thirdly how shall we be assured that God will receive that payment for us Fourthly We demand why God should receive such payment for us seeing the death of Jesus Christ is sufficient payment Fiftly how do ye prove that Jesus Christ doth give to any one that vertue to pay a debt which Sixthly hath the