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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

own and that it was impossible for any to be both rich and a Christian Who would not wonder to see the foolishness of these poor people they would carry neither shooes staff nor money in their purses like begging Friers they consider not the meaning of that Scripture The use and practise of the Apostles declare fully that our Lord said that to prevent his disciples from being sollicitous for things needful for their journey seeing they should not want because the labourer is worthy of his hire this Christ instructed them in when he said When I sent you without purse without scrip Luk. 22.35 without shooes lacked you any thing They said unto him Nothing He saith unto them Now he that hath a purse let him take it c. As for preaching upon house-tops what he had told them in their ears it is no more but that what he had told them in secret they should preach openly And as for washing of their feet he would signifie nothing else thereby but that out of love we should be helpful one unto another for then they had other kind of shooes then we have now so as their feet were soiled with travelling and therefore they rightly washed their feet which now we have no use of being shod after another manner Our Anabaptists who practise this I would have them to consider how comely this is for it may fall out through want of women that men must wash their feet which how seemly it would be let them judge When Christ saith we must be as little children Mat. 18. it is not said We must be children and become foolish but that we should imitate the plainness integrity which is in little children and that is it which the Apostle Paul holds forth when he saith Be not children in understanding but in malice c. in understanding be men and every where in the Scriptures their wanderings and vagations are condemned 1 Tim. 5.8 for he saith Whosoever taketh not care of his own c. And let every one abide in the calling wherein he is called c. As for the Community of Goods whereof they make so much Plato taught it the Essenes had all things common Community of goods and this was sometimes practised in Jerusalem but when it is said Act. 4.32 They had all things common c. Luke understands it of many and not of all for it is manifest that all did not so because it is particularly specified of some saying And Joses also sold his possession if all sold their inheritances there was no need of naming particular persons for particulars are comprized in the number of all he intends not that all the faithful sold all that they had but as much as necessity required it was in the liberty of every one as Peter told Ananias When the field was sold was it not in thy power Act. 5. c. It is very evident that Christians possessed proprieties and that there were some very rich who left not their riches to put them into a common stock Abraham was very rich this is not to be rejected though in the old Testament Gen. 24.33 for he is in the new Testament called the father of the faithful Yea Christs speech Mat. 25.35 fully teaches us propriety in goods So Paul 1 Cor. 16.1 2 Cor. 8.10 2 Cor. 9 6 7. Rom. 12.13 Gal. 6.6 This communion was not in the Church of Ephesus Eph. 4.28 neither in the Church of the Philippians see Phil. 4.18 The Apostles charge concerning rich men proves propriety 1 Tim. 6.17 John alloweth propriety 1 Joh. 3.17 so Heb. 10.34 Jam. 2.25 Theft is forbidden by God and therefore no community Were not Isaac and Jacob and Job and Joseph of Arimathea rich and retained propriety in goods Lazarus with his two sisters retained their house The women and Luke ministred of their goods unto Christ Dorcas Lydia Cornelius had propriety in their estates c. Much more is said to this purpose but this may suffice Moreover then the multitude of believers for the most part were very poor as Paul saith Brethren you know your calling not many noble c. This was not done in a disorderly way but in good order it being committed unto the Apostles to distribute according to their judgement to poor believers among the Jewes who were hated had not means to get bread and because they who had estates were plundered or were in danger of confiscation of their estates for this cause it may seem the Holy Ghost timely set them a work thus to dispose and expend their estates which otherwise would have been lost at the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and Vespasian which came shortly after before which ruine the Christians were retired from Judea as Eusebius recites but these Anabaptists would put all the world in a confusion by their community of goods and that they might enjoy other mens labours but it is worse for them to bind all men unto it upon pain of damnation Of the spiritual Anabaptists who are separated from the world AS for the Anabaptists who call themselves separated from the world and are wholly spiritual they say they will have nothing in common with the Gentiles as they call them not fasting observation of daies life eating and drinking c. These establish a rule how plain their garments must be of what stuff how long how large of what matter and how for manner they forbid the use of all costly garments calling such as use them Gentiles and Pagans when they see any laugh or be cheerful they cry Wo unto you that laugh now for ye shall weep They fetch continual deep sighs and are alwaies sad they reject all feastings and banquets at Weddings all use of musique and as for that speech Rom. 12.1 they have it alwaies in their mouths Fashion not your selves unto the world they alledge it as if the Apostle had intended to change the nature and property of all things and as if so be he commanded us to go upon our heads because the Gentiles go upon their feet or to speak with our feet and hear with our heels because the Gentiles speak with their mouths and hear with their ears Whereas the Apostle understandeth no other thing then that we should not imitate the world in that which is evil which the Apostle John saith Love not the world nor the things that are in the world for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life is not of the Father And the Apostle Paul expoundeth this Ephes 4.17 when he chargeth that we should not walk as the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their understandings It is folly in them to draw these words from the true sense to make them condemn a multitude of things indifferent as some of them will not put on a clean shirt upon Sunday because unbelievers do so some will not call

obeyed and the heavenly command as he called it put in execution At the same time John Becold gave the sword unto Knipperdoling Becold makes Knipperdoling Hangman and appointed him to be executioner because it so fell out that he was the Consul and had administred the chief Magistrates place Being now made Hangman he is put in a lower rank Knipperdoling made no scruple of it and received this place very acceptably which he accepts and whereas the Camp had now been some moneths before the City They sally forth and make a great slaughter to the number of 4000. they stormed it and of the chief Nobility and best Captains and Souldiers there were slain before the City about four thousand then all hopes of taking them by force failed A few daies after Whitsontide John Becold of Leyden after that assaults had been given without effect Becold for three daies dreams and feigns himself dumb as Zachary and writes the names of twelve chief Commanders he went to sleep and laid and dreamed three entire daies together and when he awaked he spake to no man but as Zacharias John the Baptists father so he made signs that they should bring him paper wherein he wrote the names of twelve men and among them of some of the best rank who were to have the Supreme charge and to have the whole Government as it was in Israel for he said it was the will of the heavenly Father that Munster should be governed as the heavenly Jerusalem By this means this wicked one made way that he might be King afterwards he proposed direct articles unto their Preachers and required them to confirm them Propounds divers Articles by testimony of Scripture otherwise he would bring them unto the people that they might ratifie and approve them The sum of these Articles was that a man was not bound to have but one wife The chief concerning plurality of wives and that it was lawful to espouse as many as he pleased but as their Preachers did confute this sentence he assembled them at the Councel-house with the twelve where in the presence of them all he pull'd off his cloak and cast it upon the ground with the New Testament and sware by these marks and signs Swears it was so revealed to him from God that these Articles by him proposed were revealed to him from heaven wherefore he threatned them that if they consented not unto them God would never be merciful unto them Finally they agreed and were of his Opinion and the Preachers for three daies space spake of nothing but of the point of Marriage Without delay John Becold married three wives one of whom was the widow of the great Prophet John Matthews He marries three wives others like lewd men followed his example so as it was a praise-worthy thing to have many wives The Citizens are displeased take the Prophets Some of the honest Citizens were sorely displeased to see Marriage thus prophaned and they gave a sign to gather all those together into the Market place who loved the Doctrine of the Gospel and then they ran into the Market place and laid hands upon the Prophets and took Knipperdoling and all the rest of the Prophets The Common people rescue them and cruelly torture and kill fifty But the common people having notice hereof took arms and having rescued the Captives kill'd about fifty with great torments tying them to trees and posts discharged Muskets at them in the mean while the great Prophet cried out that he that would do God service should fire first They killed others With another sort of death Becold hath fifteen wives at once This great Prophet John Becold of Leyden having by his vision gained this point that it was lawful for a man to take together as many wives as he pleased played his pranks for he married but fifteen and had them all at once and it was lawful for any one to have six or seven for they must thus renew their Marriage as they had done their Baptism And that none might take ill what they did they merrily coloured over their villanny with testimonies out of Gods word they brought the examples of the Patriarches Abraham Jacob David and Solomon and divers others and said that the word of God commanded it Gen. 1.28 saying Increase multiply and fill the earth When that sentence was brought 1 Tim. 3. That a Bishop must be unblamable the husband of one wife they answered That it was clear from the text That the Apostle required that of none but the Bishops and that for several reasons That he might not burthen the Church and that he might the better attend upon his Office but this was not forbidden to any other Upon the 24. of June 15.34 there arose a new Prophet by Trade a Gold-smith named John Twiscoscar A new Prophet John Twiscoscar declares that God appointed John Becold Emperour of all the earth he having assembled the people into the Market place made known that the will and command of the heavenly Father was that John Becold of Leyden should be made Emperour of all the earth and that should march into the Field with a mighty Army and that he should without making any difference destroy all Kings and Princes pardoning only the people that is to say those which loved righteousness that he might hold the throne of his father David until that the Father did deliver up the Kingdom unto him for the Saints should raign in this world after that they had destroyed all the wicked These things were soon brought to John Becold of Leyden Who accepts it who falling down upon both his knees and lifting up his hands to heaven said It is several daies since I knew this Brethren yet I would not divulge it but now the Father hath made use of another Minister to perswade it He made semblance as if he received the Kingdom against his will yet he laid hold on it with both hands and had long before bribed for it and plotted it and cashiers the twelve Commanders Being now King he who before was but a Taylor at that instant cashiereth the twelve and on the suddain attireth himself with more then Royal Pompe and Magnificence he chose great Lords Invests himself with kingly Robes and commanded that they should make two Crowns of pure Gold he bore a Scepter with a Chain of Gold and likewise his Spurs with Rowels of gold in brief he was not clad but with Silk Velvet and Gold which they had stollen out of the Churches his horses were accordingly accoutred he appointed certain daies to give audience to all such as addressed themselves unto him for any business His Pompous Train and attendance and when he went abroad he was attended upon by his Servants and Gentlemen of his Court next unto him there went two young men on horseback magnificently clad he that went on the right hand

bare the Crown and the Bible the other on the left hand bare a naked Sword the Pommel whereof was of pure gold and richly adorned with precious stones the King had his chain of gold about his neck and he was all glittering with gold and precious stones he bare in his hand a Globe of gold His waiting Gentlemen were twenty eight clad like Courtiers with garments of mixed colour of green and blew to signifie his heavenly and earthly power Upon the Kings Girdle was written The power of God is my strength thus was the Name of God prophaned and blasphemed to cloak this Villains stinking infamy Farthermore his Title was The King of the new Jerusalem King of Righteousness throughout all the World The pompe of his chief wife for he had many together was equal to his own his servants were clad in green and bordered with a brown colour and upon their sleeve there was a world with a little cross about it and two swords thwarted a-cross He had his Throne set up aloft whereunto he ascended by three steps and all was beset with gold and Jewels The Law-suits which ordinarily came before him were for the most part about women and divorces insomuch as some who had lived almost all their life long together now separated one from another It came to pass one day that when the people were in the Market place close crouding and in a throng to hear that Knipperdoling leaped on their heads Knipperdoling's blasphemy and scrambling with his hands and feet being now above them he breathed upon the men one after another in their mouths saying The Father hath sanctified thee receive the Holy Ghost Confesses himself an whore-master One day he fell a dancing before the King saying Thus I am wonted to do with my whore but now the Father hath commanded me to do it before the King but because he did it too long and would not make an end the King was angry and went his way He suddainly mounted into the Throne but the King surprizing him threw him down and three daies kept him in prison Is there not here to be seen a wonderfull rage and madness Who could have believed that any bearing humane shape should have been left to commit things so foolish absurd villanous and execrable but it cannot be otherwise with such as violate trample upon arid reject the word of God they are by Divine judgement smitten so as to be an example unto the elect But let us behold their goodly glorious King now mounted with more then Royal Pompe where is the spirit of these Anabaptists who were so ready to reprove and reject others at first they cried out against all if they saw any Matron wear silk or any man of fashion to wear a gold Ring they cryed all down but now their glorious King Taylor omitteth nothing that may set forth his Pomp and State In the beginning they would not bear to hear that any honest man should be a Bailiff or Governour of a Village but soon the wind is changed and now by command from the Father their King is not King of a Village but of the whole World for so he caused himself to be stiled During this Siege the Prophets of Munster published a Book which they intituled The Restitution wherein they maintained Muntzers damnable doctrine and an infinite of errours Afterwards in the Moneth of August on the day which is called St Bartholmews the new Prophet called John Twiscoscar sounded the Trumpet through the streets and cried out that all should meet in arms about the way to the great Church for they must give a repulse to the enemies of the City being thither come they finde a Supper ready which the King had provided and by command the people did sit down to the number of four thousand the King Queen and Courtiers waited at the Table Supper almost being finished the King gave unleavened bread to all Becolds mock-Lords Supper saying Take eat declare the death of the Lord then the Queen presented the cup saying Drink declare the death of the Lord. Behold the brave Supper of these Anabaptists which was rather a voluptuous Banquet the Table of Devils then the Table of our Lord Jesus Christ Now when the Supper was ended the new Prophet gat him up into the Pulpit and asked them whether they would obey the word of God they all said Yes Twiscoscar reveals that twenty eight Teachers must be sent forth he told them then that the command of the Father was that they must send twenty eight Teachers of the word Then he named them in order declaring the place whither each should go six were sent to Osemberg as many to Warrendort eight to Susar and as many to Corsfield The King and Queen and the 28. Teachers sup together The King The King and the Queen with tho served at the table supped afterwards and those which were appointed to be sent forth As they were at Supper the King rose up and said That he had received a commission from the Father whereas upon an adventure there was a Souldier which had been taken the King accused him that he was a traitor as Judas and with his own hands cut off his head This being done he returned to sit down at Table and by way of merriment recited what he had done After Supper within night they caused the twenty eight above mentioned to depart out of the City and over and above their expences they gave to every one of them certain pieces of gold to leave in such places where their doctrine should not be received in witness of their perdition and eternal damnation for their refusal of the peace and doctrine of Salvation And when they were arrived at the places assigned unto them they began to run through the City with horrible cries crying Repent repent otherwise ye will suddainly perish then they cast their garments upon the ground and threw their pieces of gold which were given unto them upon their garments assuring them that they were sent by the Father to bring peace unto them if they would receive it they commanded them to put all their goods in common if they did refuse it by this sign and as by a mark they did bear witness against their ingratitude and evil deeds for behold the time now is come which was foretold by the Prophets wherein the Lord God would that righteousness should reign through all the earth and after that the King shall have discharged his trust and shall have so done that righteousness shall reign every where Then Christ shall deliver up the Kingdom to the Father Upon these words they were apprehended and in the beginning fairly demanded then by the rack examined of their faith life and ammunition of the City They answered that they alone had the true doctrine which they would unto the death maintain for since the Apostles time the Gospel was not truly preached and that there was