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scripture_n	baptism_n	baptize_v	infant_n	3,255	5	9.3290	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19395	Conspiracie, for pretended reformation viz. presbyteriall discipline. A treatise discouering the late designments and courses held for aduancement thereof, by William Hacket yeoman, Edmund Coppinger, and Henry Arthington Gent. out of others depositions and their owne letters, writings & confessions vpon examination: together with some part of the life and conditions, and two inditements, arraignment, and execution of the sayd Hacket: also an answere to the calumniations of such as affirme they were mad men: and a resemblance of this action vnto the like, happened heretofore in Germanie. Vltimo Septembris. 1591. Published now by authoritie.	Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597.	1592 (1592)	STC 5823; ESTC S108823	96,463	116

Father had laid vpon him the sinnes of the whole multitude so that now they were cleansed and freed from all vice which was the deliuerance which he promised vnto them therewith they were to holde themselues contented When the Bishops strength by common supplies from the Princes of the Empire were much reēforced matters in the town grewe to that extremitie that by meanes of two persons who conueyed themselues secretly forth of the towne it was at last surprised by the assaylants though with much adoe and bloodshed euen after they were entred Their King with Cuipperdoling and Crecliting their two false prophets were taken aliue but Rotman their Reformed preacher seeing no hope to escape desperately ranne in amongs the thickest of the armed companies and by them he was cut in pieces The three persons aforenamed were caryed about the countrey as a spectacle to sundry the Princes and others thereabouts and after were brought backe againe vnto Munster The Bishoppe of Munster demaunded of the King by what authoritie he tooke vpon him to rule in that Citie who asked the sayde Bishoppe againe by what authoritie he the sayd Bishoppe claymed any power there When he answered that he had it by meanes of election of the Chapter and by consent of the people the King replying sayde that himselfe had his authoritie from God After two dayes had bene bestowed with them to reduce them by godly perswasions from their errours Leyden their King confessed his sinne and desired for giuenesse at Christes handes But Cuipperdoling and Crecliting would confesse no fault but defended their course and opinions with great obstinacie So all three being tyed vnto postes were dismembred by peece meale and pulled in small peeces with hotte burning pinsers and tongs and afterward their carkases were hanged vp there in yron cages but the King in the midst and much higher then the other two as his place required Besides certaine especial opinions which these Anabaptists held namely the yong childrē were not to be baptized touching lawfulnesse of Poligamie or hauing many wiues Of communitie of goods and that Christ tooke not flesh of the virgin Mary c. they also taught and defended many other strange erroneous and hereticall positions and yet they shewed as much deuotion outward holines and puritie as might be As for example they held these folowing viz. that a perfit Christiā might not exercise the office of a Magistrat nor might take an oth before him that God doth now oftētimes shew his will by extraordinarie reuelations dreames and visions That the common people haue an especiall authoritie in determining and establishing of Chruch causes That before the day of iudgement the kingdome of Christ shal be such as that the godly and elect shall ouerthrow subdue all the wicked and then they alone shall rule in the earth That it is lawfull for the people to depose and put downe the Prince or Magistrate That Ministers and others godly affected ought to establish though it were by force a Reformation in all Countries That Princes and Magistrates ought not to pursue this kinde of persons for that they are innocents and the beloued people of God That the seate of Dauid which was fallen downe must bee reestablished and that Christ nowe in the latter ende of the worlde shall reigne externally vpon the earth That the time of besiege they then liued in was that whereof Esaie prophecied wherein the iust and godly were afflicted and persecuted That the time of their deliuerance and enlargement was at hand which should be like to that deliuerance of the Israelites from the thraldome vnder the Babylonians And that then the wicked and vngodly shall receiue the guerdon and recompense of all their impieties committed against the saints all the vngodly being ridde out of the way the seate of righteousnesse should bee prepared and aduanced That there is none efficacie or force in that baptisme wherewith infants are baptized All which they obstinately defended and yet whensoeuer they were charged they pretended that they woulde acknowledge and confesse their errors if they shoulde bee shewed vnto them by the Scriptures to be errours Nowe as I haue done afore in the Historie of Thomas Muncer I must craue leaue that with the readers patience I may also briefly compare and resemble some of the dealings and errours of the Anabaptists of the Citie of Munster with the actions and opinions of these late conspirators of their Disciplinarian schoolemasters from whom they haue sucked like poyson For did not Hacket the most ignorant of all the three being but an vnlettered Maltster in like sort take vpon him to rule the other and to mannage the whole action and are not the most ignorant of such as be of this humor most presumptuous to direct all others and to discusse deepest doubts Haue not their mutuall cohortations and seditious instructions with their conceiued prayers and hypocriticall Fasts that they practised in priuie conuenticles and assemblies giuen greatest strength to his faction to the seduction of numbers Haue not the Magistrates now as great cause to looke into these proceedings before they make head vpon confidence of their multitudes Haue not all the stayed and sounde Preachers of this land by sundrie Maleperts and nowe againe by Arthington bene most insolently challenged vnto disputation Hath not the cause of this pretented Discipline beene neuethelesse quashed oftentimes in Pulpits in publike disputations in the vniuersities and by learned treatises written whereby the weakenesse and meagernesse of their childish collections haue beene fully displayed Will they make any haste or dare they to offer disputation if such conditions assistants and indifferent and learned Iudges as are fit shall bee set downe and appoynted and being beaten from their ordinarie meanes haue not these Conspirators and such as haue animated them betaken themselues vnto pretended extraordinarie callings rauishings in spirite caryings into Heauen reuelations dreames and visions Haue they not seditiously filled our streetes with their like hypocriticall outcries of Repent Repent c. and by gathering of Routes tending to vproare and popular tumult If their purposes had succeeded and their prophecies of killing and massacring men like swine in London streetes had come to passe woulde the outrages in haynousnesse haue come any whit behinde those of Munster If this sort of persons haue bene gratified with any indifferent toleration coulde their restlesse busie heads though they haue promised otherwise cease to hammer by long hand and secretely the bringing to full effect of their designements viz. That they might gouerne in the Church with Christes scepter and administer his kingdome for so they blasphemously terme the Discipline which they haue forged Was not the displacing of her Maiesties Counsell plotted by the Confederates and had they not assigned other Counsellors in their roomes Should those whome themselues had thus chosen and assigned haue remained long in place if their King Hacket had bene once inuested as fully and royally