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A60366	The general history of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome, begun in Germany by Martin Luther with the progress thereof in all parts of Christendom from the year 1517 to the year 1556 / written in Latin by John Sleidan ; and faithfully englished. To which is added A continuation to the Council of Trent in the year 1562 / by Edward Bohun.	Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699. A continuation of the history of the Reformation to the end of the Council of Trent in the year 1563.	1689 (1689)	Wing S3989; ESTC R26921	1,347,520	805

the payment of Six thousand Crowns which was confirm'd by a Treaty Signed and Sworn between them and the King of Poland After which Furstemberg resigned his Dignity to Gotard Ketler There was also a Complaint made by the Livonians against the Inhabitants of Lubeck Riga and Revel for furnishing the Russ who were the Enemies of Germany not only with all sorts of Mechandize imported by them to Narva a Town of Russia but also with Arms and Ammunition which for the future was by a Law made in this Dyet forbidden which was afterwards repeal'd The Twenty eighth of March the French Embassadors were introduced into the Dyet and after they had in an Elegant Speech declared the great Affections their Master had for the Emperor and the States of Germany they desired the ancient League might be renewed between the Empire and that Kingdom and that for the future there might be a firmer and closer Union and Friendship Upon this the Emperor returned Thanks to the Embassadors saying That the King might be assured of the Friendship of the Empire the Princes and States and of his too if his Actions did agree with his Words and those Cities which had lately been taken from the Empire were restored to it That this being done he did not see what could hinder their entring into a sincere Friendship At this the Embassadors replied That they had no Instruction concerning what he had proposed about the Cities but they would give an Account of it to the King their Master and in the mean time they desired the States would meet the King's Proposals of Friendship with equal Candour Upon this the Assembly broke up and the Embassadors were re-conducted back with great Civility and Respect to whom it was hinted that the Emperor could not but mention the Restitution of the Cities but then that neither he the Princes nor the States would break with the King of France though those Cities were not restored They decreed also a Noble Embassy to the King of France in which the Cardinal of Ausburg and Christopher Duke of Wirtemburg were employed One David George a Native of Delft in Holland born of mean Parents his Father being a Fencer and his Mother a mean Woman and himself unacquainted with any other than his Mother-Tongue was a Person of great seeming Moderation so that all took him for a very Honest and well-meaning Man tho' he was of a stubborn and incorrigable disposition He was a Person of a comely Countenance and good meine and all the Motions of his Body were Grave and becoming so that he seemed made up of Honesty This Man spread amongst his Country-men the Pestilent Sect of Anabaptists to which they were very much disposed and this being done to his great advantage for he had got a good Estate by it and fearing he might not be safe if he continued any longer in his Native Country where he was accounted the Head of that Sect he went with some of his Followers to Basil in the Year 1544 under the Name of John Bruck and the first of April made a Speech in the Senate of that City desiring He might be protected by them as one forced to flee for his Religion and that they would receive his Wife Children Family and Fortunes as in a safe Harbour The Cause the Person and the Speech agreeed so exactly and his Temper was so wholely unknown to them as well as his former Life and his Country being very remote what he said appeared so like Truth and had happened to so many others That August 25 having given the usual Oath he was taken into the Protection of that City where he lived with that Respect to the Magistrate that Humanity towards the Citizens and the Civility towards all observing carefully their Religious Rites and in all things behaved himself so well that he gave not the least occasion to any to suspect him of any erroneous Doctrin and he was as well thought of by the most as he desired to be or was esteemed by his own Party Thus he lived very quietly in his Family observing very strictly three things 1. Concealing the Name of David George by which he was well known in Holland and Friesland 2. Of what State and Condition he was at Home so that some took him for a Person of good Birth others for a Nobleman or Rich Merchant 3. Lastly he took Care not to admit any into his Sect of the City of Basil or of the neighbouring Country But in the mean time he took care by Letters Books and Messengers to enlarge his Sect in Holland and in other such distant Places But as to Switzerland he medled not for fear he might be discovered Having thus spent six Years with great Pleasure there happened a thing which gave him some Disturbance one of his Followers falling off upon better Information and appearing with great Zeal against the Doctrins of his quondam Master His House being also burnt with Lightning was a sad Presage That his good Fortune and his Life were near their End. But that which most afflicted him was That an able Person was come from Holland who had given an exact account of him and his Family to the Citizens of Basil this brought a great Despondence of Mind upon him and that a Sickness which seized his Wife also who dyed first and David George followed her himself August 25 1556 and he was buried with great Pomp in the Church of S. Leonard Thus died that famous Impostor and Deceiver who had pretended That he was greater and more Divine than Christ and Immortal that the Doctrin of Moses and the Prophets Christ and the Apostles was imperfect and did not lead to a true and perfect Felicity but his was such as would certainly make him who rightly understood it happy That he was the true Christ and Messiah the most beloved Son of the Father who was begotten not of Flesh but by the Holy Ghost and the Spirit of Christ which having reduced his Flesh to nothing and kept it in a certain place unknown to the Saints had at last delivered it to David George with much more such Blasphemous Non sense After his Death the Fraud broke out and this Year March 12 his Sons and all that belonged to him to the number of eleven were brought before the Senate and examined concerning his Name Country and Doctrin And they answering as he had taught were committed to different Prisons and all his Papers and Writings were delivered to the Divines April 26 the Divines and University having considered them condemn'd his Doctrin as false contrary to the sacred Scriptures pernicious and injurious to Jesus Christ and to be exterminated out of the Christian World. After this his Sons were dismiss'd out of Prison upon condition they should buy no Lands without the Walls of the City without the Permission of the Senate That they should entertain no Travellers though of their near Relations but should send them to

had and might err of the Dignity of Scripture and whether the Scriptures were to be preferr'd before the Church or did borrow their Authority from the Church Claud d' Espence a learned Man who desired very much the Church might regain her former Peace being Commanded by the Cardinal of Lorrain to answer Beza began with a Declaration that he had a long time wished that there might have been Conferences and said he had ever abhorred those Bloody Proceedings which had been used against those miserable Men. Then he said he wondered by what Authority the Protestants took upon them the Office of the Ministery and by whom they were Ordain'd and Instituted and that seeing the had received Imposition of hands from no body how could they be accounted lawful Ministers for it was manifest they had no Ordinary call And they must prove an Extraordinary Vocation by Miracles which they had not And thence he concluded they never came into the Church either by an Ordinary or an Extraordinary call As to Traditions if any Controversie arose about the Sense of Scriptures which could not be otherwise adjusted they must of necessity have recourse to the Fathers who had their Authority from their lawful and ordinary Call or Succession because upon them the Guifts of the Spirit were bestowed As it was written of the Levites whose Answers were not to be question'd That many things were setled by Traditions which were not written in the Scriptures As that the Father was not begotten That the Son was of the same Substance with the Father That Infants were to be Baptized That the Blessed Virgin continued a Virgin after she brought forth That the Decrees of General Councils should be valid and that they cannot err in Matters of Faith and that it cannot be shewn that any of the later Councils have corrected the former Beza replied that the Imposition of hands was no necessary note of a lawful Call The two principal were a due Inquiry into the Doctrine and Manners of the Person and an Election of them to the Ministery That they were not to expect Imposition of hands from the Bishops who opposed the Truth and persecuted those that Preached it And that Miracles were not always necessary to an extraordinary Call which he endeavoured to prove by Isaiah Daniel Amos Zachariah and St. Paul. In the next congress Beza spoke much about the Calling of the Protestant Ministers but in such a manner as tended more to the exasperating of the Prelates than the appeasing them so that these two days were spent in mere squabble without order and to no purpose There was then in France John Laines a Spaniard General of the Jesuits who came thither with Hippolito d' Este Cardinal of Ferrara sent by Pope Pius IV. as Legate to the King. This Laines being present this day at the Conference call'd the Protestant Ministers Monkeys Foxes and Monsters and said they were to be turn'd over to the Council call'd by the Pope Then he fell upon the Queen for medling in things that did not belong to her but to the Pope Cardinals and Bishops and he said it was not lawful whil'st a General Council was in being for the Queen to appoint by her private Authority a Conference here The Queen was much enraged at the Insolence of this Man but out of Reverence to the Legate suppress'd her resentment after this Day there were no more Publick Conferences but they Drew out three of a Side and endeavoured to form such an Exposition of the Lord's Supper as both Parties might agree in which in the End proved impossible to be done and so the Conference of Poissi ended which was the first Liberty that was granted to dispute the Established Religion in France and was blamed by some as a thing of ill Example and approved by others as the only means left to prevent the Storm which hung over their heads But it had not that effect so the Ministers and especially Beza who was invited by the Queen were honourably dismiss'd The Fame of this Conference being diffused through Italy and Spain Philip the Second was strangely surprized at it so the Queen sent Jacques de Monbron a Person of good Birth and Repute to excuse it That Prince would hardly be induced to hear the reason of it and turning him over to the Duke de Alva he blamed their fearfulness and advised them to return to the same Severities which had been used in the Reigns of Henry II. and Francis II. promising his Masters Assistance for the Extirpation of the Protestants Adding That the King had been solicited to it by the Catholick Nobility and People of France and that he could not neglect their Petition but he must be wanting to himself That he did not fear such vain reproaches as that with foreign Forces he invaded what was anothers because in this Cause the Spanish Forces were no foreigners when the Religion of their Ancestors was at the stake By this it appeared to the Court of France That there was a Correspondence between their Catholicks and the Spaniards and one Arthur Desier a Priest was taken much about this time near Orleans going into Spain with a Letter from some great Men to King Philip to persuade him to undertake the Protection of their Infant King and of the Catholick Religion which was in great danger to be ruin'd for which he was ordered to be Penance by the Parliament of Paris and committed to the Carthusian Monks to be kept a Prisoner for ever but afterwards he made his Escape This Sentence was pronounced against him the 14 th of July In the End of this Year one Jean Tanquerel a young Divine proposed as his Thesis in a Disputation That the Pope as Christ's only Vicar and the Monarch of the Church can by his Spiritual and Secular Power command all faithful Princes as his Subjects and if they disobey his Precepts deprive them of their Dignities and Kingdoms which being complain'd off to the King the Chancellor sent a Commission to inquire into it and Tanquerel being fled it was ordered that the Parritor of the Theological Faculty should make a Recantation of it in his Name in the School of the Sorbonne before the Dean and all the Fellows and Students of that Faculty in the Presence of the President of the Parliament of Paris the King's Counsel and Solicitor and for the future the Parliament forbad all such questions to be given And ordered the Sorbonne to send two of their Fellows to beg the King's Pardon This Decree passed the 2 d of December and was put in Execution ten days after The Pope had till now dreaded a General Council as tending to the abatement of his Power and on that score had delayed it till Cosmus Duke of Florence and the fear of a National Council in France prevail'd upon him to reassume that which was began by Paul III. continued by Julius III. and was at