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A81785	Johannes Becoldus redivivus or, The English Quaker, the German enthusiast revived : visible in this narrative. / Translated into English, for the use of his countrey-men, by J.S. ; Written long since in French by Guy du Brez.	Brès, Guy de, 1522-1567.; Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1659 (1659)	Wing D2413; Thomason E2137_3; ESTC R208359	48,581	94

affirm that the sense of these words written and spoken by the mouth of the Minister is the true and indubitable word of God as it more plainly appeareth Jer. 36.4 6 8. where the Prophet Jeremiah commandeth Baruch to write from his mouth all the words of the Lord. The words of Jeremiah written with ink in a Book are called the word of the Lord. How often do we hear in the Prophets Thus saith the Lord read these Scriptures Jer. 25.15 Jer. 20.33 1 Pet. 1.23 Isa 40.6 1 Thes. 2.13 Deut. 10.18 Acts 4.31 Acts 6.2 Acts 8.14 25. Acts 11.1 Acts 13.5 7 25. Acts 17.13 Acts 18.11 Heb. 13.7 Ephes 1.13 We ought rather to give credit to so many evident testimonies of Scripture then unto such Ravers who do nothing but rave and dream Muntzer careth not for that but dareth give the Apostle Peter the lye Now they which thus leave the Scriptures finding out another means to come unto God through pride they are deprived of their senses They pretend unto Revelations of the Spirit and despising all reading they mock at the simpleness of those which yet follow the dead and killing Letter as they call it By what spirit is it by inspiration whereof they are so highly rapt as that they dare reject all the Doctrine of the Scriptures as a babish and childish thing they say It is the Spirit of God but it is plain mockery so to speak For they must needs grant us that the Apostles and the faithful in the Primitive Church were inspired by the Spirit of Christ yet none of them durst contemn the word of God and the holy Scriptures but rather each of them had them in very great reverence as we may see it by their writings which are furnished with many testimonies from the Old Testament and certainly thus was it promised by God through the mouth of the Prophet Isa 59.21 where we see that the Lord joyned these two together his Word and his Spirit wherefore should we separate what God hath by an inviolable bond conjoyned Moreover 2 Cor. 12.4 Paul who was rapt up into the third heaven and there heard things unlawful for man to utter notwithstanding gave not over diligent reading nor profiting by the Books of the Old Testament Commanding Timothy to bring with him the Books which he had left at Troas with Carpus 2 Tim. 4.13 2 Tim. 3.15 1 Tim. 4.13 Yea he exhorts Timothy who though he was an excellent Teacher and well instructed in the holy Scriptures to give himself to reading and what praise doth he put upon the Scripture 2 Tim. 3.16 I would ask these men whether they have received another spirit then our Saviour promised to give his Disciples they will not dare to vaunt of another spirit now what Spirit our Saviour promised to send unto his Disciples he sheweth plainly when he saith Joh. 14.26 This Spirit shall not speake of himself but should bring to their remembrance what they had formerly heard of him It is not the Office of the holy Spirit that which Christ promised to dream of dreams of new and unknown revelations or to hold forth new doctrine but it is the work of the Spirit of God to confirm us in that which he hath already spoken by the Prophets and Apostles seeing also that the Lord promiseth not to send us another doctrine saying Hold fast that which thou hast until I come Revel 2.24 Gal. 1.8 9. whereby it appeareth that we ought diligently to travel as well in the hearing as in the reading of the holy Scripture if we will feel the benefit and fruit of the Spirit of God Luke acknowledgeth the diligence of those of Baerca in searching the Scriptures Acts 17.11 To this purpose tend these Scriptures 2 Pet. 1.19 Joh. 5.39 Luk. 4.21 Mat. 4.4 Ephes 6.16 Mat. 22.19 Luk. 24.27 Joh. 2.22 And Paul would have a Bishop to hold fast the faithful word Tit. 1.9 c. Apollos was mighty in the Scriptures c. Acts 14.24 28. If it were otherwise how could we take heed of the deceits of Satan who daily transformeth himself into an Angel of light whereupon should our faith rest we should be carried to and fro without any stability But they do alleadge Object it were a great absurdity to subject the holy Spirit unto the Scriptures to whom all things are to be subjected As if it were a shame and ignominy to the Holy Ghost Answ to be alway like unto himself and to be constant in the same word without wavering at all if any should reduce the Spirit to an Humane or any other Rule it were debased yea brought into servitude but when we say That the Holy Ghost having once spoken is not mutable and changeth not discourse now speaking one thing and then another as men are wont to do who will say that we offer any injury to the Holy Ghost But they say Object He is by this means examined which belongeth not unto men to do Is is very clear Answ that it is such an examination as he hath pleased to establish in the Church that we may not receive the spirit of Satan instead of him wherefore it must needs be that the Spirit abide for ever such as once he hath revealed and manifested himself to be in the holy Scriptures It is no shame nor opprobry to the Spirit for any to say of him That it is no dishonour for him not to be mutable nor to renounce himself As for that which they tax the Ministers to be Ministers of the dead letter one may plainly see the Lords taking vengeance upon the outrage offred unto his holy Word smiting them with a spirit of giddiness for having despised the true and only means of coming unto God which is the Scripture and the Word of God In that passage of the Corinthians where Paul saith 2 Cor. 3.6 The letter killeth and the Spirit quickeneth let any closely consider against whom the Apostle disputeth and they will understand his drift It is very evident that Paul in this place had to do with false Apostles who preached and extolled the Law without Christ caused the people to recoil from Salvation purchased by Christ and the grace of the new Covenant whereunto the Lord had promised to write his Law in the heart of the faithful the Law then being separated from Christ as a body without a soul Jer. 31.33 Ezek. 11.19 Ezek. 36. Heb. 8.10 and nothing cometh from it but death to those that are under it it doth nothing but beat and strike the ears without any quickning the soul until by faith we are sent from it unto Christ as from the Usher unto the Master and then the Law will be found such as David sings it Psal 19.8 The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is faithful making wise the simple the commandments of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart c. Thus must we

in Cellars holes and Shop-bulkes yea if it had been possible would have ran into mouse-holes They were ten daies in pillaging the City and they found in the Kings Palace provision for 200. men for two Moneths whereas the poor people were for a long time starved This was called to have things in common when as some had to eat and others were starved This was like Ananias and Saphira's dealing before the Apostle Peter Thus was the City of Munster taken the 25. of June 1538. the King was three daies after by a guard of Souldiers brought to a Castle three leagues from the City called Dulme As soon as the Bishop perceived the King he cried out Oh thou wretch how hast thou brought spoil and wast to me and to my poor people The King readily and proudly answered lifting up himself and despising the Bishop said Priest we have not damnified thee one mite but we have delivered a strong City into thine hands which is able to stand out against all strength yet if We have done thee damage if thou wilt hearken unto us we will make thee rich The Bishop hearing that could not forbear laughing and asked him how he would do it The King answered him Get Baskets made of Iron and cover them over with leather and put me in one of them and cause me to be carried through the Country and let no man see me but he that shall give thee a peny and by this means thou shalt receive more money then thou hast spent in the War The better and most holy Anabaptists hung about their necks the mark and ensign of their King engraven in brass marked with these three letters D. W. E. which in their language signified The Word was made flesh The King had for his title I John by the grace of God and by vertue of the new Kingdome to come in the temple of God Minister of righteousness c. Thus the King with his two companions were carried prisoners here and there unto the Princes by which means the Ministers of the Lantgrave had opportunity to confer with the King and to dispute with him about the principal points viz. The Kingdom of Christ The Magistrate Baptism The Incarnation of our Lord The Lords Supper Marriage and by testimonies of Scripture unto them so acted as though in all things they changed not notwithstanding all the oppositions they made to defend their opinions yet they yielded somewhat which the King did as some thought in hope to save his life for at the second time of their return he promised them if they would grant him his liberty to silence the Anabaptists which were in great numbers in Holland Brabant England and Friseland and to bring them in subjection to the Magistrate The 20. of Jan. 1536. the King and his two companions were brought back to Munster put in several prisons the two next daies were spent in holy Remonstrances to reduce them from their errours The King acknowledged his sin and had recourse to Christ by prayer The other two acknowledged not their faults but stood out The next day the King was brought forth upon a Scaffold and tyed to a post where were two executioners with hot burning tongs he indured the three first pinchings of the tongs without speaking word afterward he ceased not to call upon the mercy of the Lord. Thus for a whole hour and more was he torn and dismembred and to dispatch him out of the world he was run through with a sword his two companions had the like end Their bodies were put into iron cages and hung upon St. Lamberts Tower for a perpetual memorial Let none think we recite stories of the Anabaptists which are not to be believed by adding thereunto of our own God forbid that we should so do for there are many yet living who were eye-witnesses of these things and present when they were done I speak this that none might be hindred from getting profit by this History which is true and certain and brought to light for the instruction of the people of God In the year 1535. upon the 3. of February in the City of Amsterdam in the street of the Salines in the house of one John Silert who then was far from home there assembled seven men and five women then called Anabaptists among whom there was one called Theodore Sartor who was there inspired he lay stretched out flat upon the ground for some space of time before the other brethren and sisters who in the end awakened and prayer being made with great gravity or rather fair hypocrisie he then said That he had seen God in his Majesty also that he had a vision of all things in heaven and in hell and that the great day of Judgement was now come afterwards he pulled off all his Garments not leaving so much as to cover his shameful parts withal He commanded the rest of his brethren and sisters to follow his example upon this pretence for said he The children of God must strip themselves and put off whatsoever is made and born of the earth inasmuch as truth is naked and cannot abide to be wrapped up in any thing therefore they to shew themselves veritable and true ought to uncloath themselves The poor people hearing this put off their cloaths and being no waies ashamed became quite naked Theodore commanded them all to imiate him he leapt out of doors into the publick quite naked as also did the rest of the men and women who followed him trying after an horrible manner Wo wo wo Divine vengeance Divine vengeance c. and in this manner they ran furiously through the City like mad people crying out so hideously as never was heard Then the Citizens ran to take arms for they knew not whether the City were surprized by enemies or what would become of this stir Finally these impudent people were taken being quite naked and being questioned upon the 5. of March these seven men were beaten and scourged the first of them cried out Praise the Lord for evermore another said Lord av●nge the bloud of thine the third Open your eyes the fourth said Wo wo. Afterwards the women were brought to punishment when they were taken they offered them garments but they rejected them saying That the truth ought to be naked What men ever heard of such impudency or fury In the ancient stories we reade of Adamites who also went naked but it was only among themselves and at their Festival daies but these far surpass them When Adam saw himself naked he sought for covering and finding nothing more fit then leaves he made use of those of a Fig-tree but these when as garments were tendred unto them they refused them and like dogs ran without shame Behold what befalleth those that leave the word of God to cleave unto dreams and Satanical illusions but behold their madness in that they dare attribute such villany unto the holy Spirit of God and to make him the