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

JOHANNES BECOLDUS REDIVIVVS 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 ECCLES 1.10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said See this is new it hath been already of old time which was before us LONDON Printed for and are to be sold by John Allen at the Rising-Sun in Pauls Church-yard 1659. 1659 Post Tenebras Splendet Ip s●●iche Iohn Allen at the Rising sunn in Paules Church yard TO THE READER THe Soveraign disposer of beings the times thereof and the changes therein appointed to Adams sons having allotted ours to be in these last and perilous daies signally parallel unto those which this Narrative relateth there being then as now Deceivers sent forth and judicially commissionated to execute the writ of vindictive justice upon the non-receivers of truth in love God sending energy of errour that they may believe a lye the more effectual vigilance is required of us all that in this our now we may carry it as those which have found the favour to be preserved and accounted faithful therein and that the present must be of heresies may be subserviently tending to the manifesting of us approved Now see the prodigious practises and blasphemous belchings of these then Satans Emissaries comply with these his late Agents in itching and bewitching times I leave to judicious consideration when at the Frogs crept out of the mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet content not themselves to sprawl in ponds and fresh waters but have ominously crawled over the vast brynish Ocean attempting our Nova-Albion shores whose daring designs by the Lords good hand have hitherto been frustrated that the frantick opinions of such fanaticks may not unto the vulgar sliely pass under the mask of new unknown light but barely may appear as indeed they are Satanical illusions by the old wily Serpent under such specious shews now again usher'd in he being again let loose to try our Gospel-stedfastness and to punish the wanton ingratitude of this our present age Let it be considered whether in this small History which though printed neer a hundred years since the spirit countenance language garb gestures and practises of those which pass under the name of Quakers do not lively appear declaring themselves to be the genuine off-spring of such a father the first and second brood so resembling the deceiver his master-piece in both being to break in sunder all natural civil and sacred bonds and policies not with Amalek contenting themselves to fall upon the rere of Gods Israel in their march out of spiritual Egypt but in the day of this our Jerusalem crying Rase it rase it even to the foundations and also whether the adversary of mankind hath not in our native soil already acted the comical part of the German enterlude represented in the sequel and whether he watcheth not his season to bring in the Tragical part also As for the Author of the Original of this book he is unknown to us but by his works which now follow him I have only translated the Historical part of the first Book of his larger Treatise it being about the tenth part thereof the rest not unworthy of the same labour being spent in the solid eviction of the great truths of the humanity of our Lord Jesus of the necessity of Baptism to believers Infant seed of Magistratical power under the Gospel of the lawfulness of an oath and of the immortality of the soul all which were both questioned and opposed by those which in this book he styleth Anabaptists between whom and meer dissenters in the point of Pedobaptism being otherwise Orthodox and peaceable the Reader ought alwaies conscientiously to distinguish He titleth his book Le source raeine fondement des Anabaptistes ou rebaptises de nostre temps I find him quoted by Mr. Rob. Baily in the second part his Disswasive from the errors of the times The second Book he dedicated to Christs scattered Flocks in Flanders Brabant Artois c. thereby manifesting how there lay upon him the care of the Churches Affectionately he provoketh the faithful therein to a more awful enquiry serious study and cordial receiving of the truth By the sight of these pillars of salt if any wandring misled souls should be reduced from the errour of their way or if any others who through grace have hitherto been kept should be encouraged to hold fast the truth and order of the Gospel he shall rejoyce who desireth to approve himself Thine in Christian duty Joshua Scotton Boston in New England the 26. of Novemb. 1658. JOHANNES BECOLDUS REDIVIVUS IN the year 1521. and the year ensuing there arose a certain number of mutinous and seditious persons who secretly made Factions th●y chiefly dwelt in the quarters of Saxony which border upon the River Salah among whom their chief was Nicholas Stork They dreamed dreams Nicholas Storks and his accomplices they preached dreams and said That they spake familiarly with God by Visions they preached their dreams for truths and Divine Oracles and because that there should come a new world wherein should dwell righteousness therefore they ought to exterminate all the wicked with all the Princes and unbelieving Magistrates from off the earth oppose Magistrates they called all those unbelievers which were not of their Sect and Faction From out of this School came Thomas Muntzer Dr. Balthazar Hubmore Melchior Rink John Hutt John Deuter Lodovike Hetzer c. All these boasted that they familiarly conferred with the Lord. In their teachings they with heat of affection did defame and detract from the Ministers of the Gospel and Ministers afterward with the like violence fell upon the Magistrate thinking that if they could make void these two Orders unto the Church the wolves might safely fall upon and dismember the Flock wherefore these wolves i. these false Teachers have alwaies principally set themselves against the Ministers of the Church and the Magistrates to see if they could drive them out from the Flock or at least disgust some of the sheep against their Pastors that so estranging them from them they might undo them Their Doctrine spreads Their Doctrine suddainly spread throughout all the Country and in a little space they gathered much people after them and Rebaptized many thousands Rebaptize thousands insomuch as many simple people were led by a zeal without knowledge being by their fair appearance insnared They tyed themselves unto the only simple and naked Letter of the Scripture They varnish over their foul intentions with fair pretences without regard to the sence thereof they carried it very fairly before all men for they had alwaies in their mouths the love faith and the fear of God the mortification of the flesh and the cross which were the garnish wherewith that they might be of value to the simple they painted and