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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	battle_n	prince_n	1,374	5	5.3323	4	true

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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

the field with his and sack'd the Country about Isfield pillaged the Fortresses and Temples or Church●s and slew divers Gentlemen taking others prisoners which having done he returned laden with plunder and having so well sped the popularity were encouraged in the mean time they skirmished and ravined in the Country of Mansfield wherefore Muntzer thinking that there was a revolt in all parts came forth from Mulhuze with three hundred seditious men Upon these stirs Albert Count of Mansfield at an instant assembled some Troopes of Horse and fought Muntzer so as two hundred were left upon the place the rest being astonished with drew and fled toward Fraucuse and sojourning there waited for the recruit of their Army which was the cause of retarding their stirs In the mean time the Princes gathered together to the number of 1500 horse with some foot the Peasants being encamped in a mount neer Fraucuse they could not easily be assailed by reason of the Carts they had furnished themselves withal The poor people being unprovided either of Arms or Artillery and for the most part not acquainted with Souldiery the Princes bring moved with compassion admonished them by messages that they would deliver up the Authors of this sedition and that laying down their arms every one might with assurance and without fear of punishment return unto their houses Muntzer then fearing his skin advanced into the midst of the Troops and with a stern countenance made his Oration Muntzers Oration You see fellow Souldiers and Brethren how these Tyrants neer unto you have conjured to put you all to death and yet they are so saint-hearted as that they dare not fight us they make foolish and unworthy tenders to make you day down your Arms you know that I am the Author and mover of this enter prize but not upon mine own authority or particular fansie for it is not of mine own head but by the command of God these things being thus led on you and I must obey and not abandon the place and rank where God hath set us heretofore he commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son who not knowing the issue without difficulty obeyed the Divine command Gen. 22.2 wherefore God preserved his son and adorned his faith with great benefits we then who are in the same estate ought to persevere leaving the event of things unto God howsoever there is no doubt but all will fall out according to our wish and ye shall with your eyes behold the Lords relief for we shall destroy as many as there be enemies In many places of Scripture Psal 72.4 13. God hath promised to help the poor and needy which doth truly belong unto us for we are poor and miserable and inasmuch as we desire to return and increase in the knowledge of God none should doubt of the Victory or of an happy issue Behold on the contrary the condition of our Enemies they call themselves Princes but indeed they are very Tyrants for they take no care of any one of you but they squeeze out all your estates and swallow them down with all greedinesse Among the people whom God particularly chose it was ordained that their Kings should not be unprofitable spend-thrifts and they were commanded diligently to read in the book of the Laws which he had constituted but what do these Tyran●s now and how do they spend their time they think that they are not concerned in the Commonwealth nor do they informe themselves how it fareth with the poor and miserable They see not to justice but suffer Robbers upon the highwaies they punish not thieves nor do they take order against evil doing they in no wise comfort the fatherless nor the widow nor do they take care for the instruction of youth they not only do not advance Gods honour but they hinder the same nor have they any thought but how get other mens estates unto themselves wherefore they daily finde out new inventions to raise money nor do they care to procure or maintain peace with many the like speeches afterwards he exhorted them saying Be then couragious and rid this great unprofitable troop out of the way knowing that in so doing you shall fulfil the good pleasure of God I perceive no means either of sure or safe composition for they will never be otherwise minded they neither will grant us our liberties nor the true service of God Wherefore we ought rather to die then to approve of their wickedness or to let them snatch the Doctrine of the Gospel from us In sum I do assure you that God will help us and that the day shall be ours for be himself hath promised me it openly he himself I say who can neither lye nor deceive hath commanded me thus to proceed to punish the Magistrate Behold how Gods power appeareth when as a small handful of people overcometh a great number as for example you know what Gideon did with his small company and Jonathan with his armour-bearer what David did alone against that monster Goliath I put it out of doubt that this day shall be noted by the like Victory and that posterity will alwaies have it in remembrance for though we be in bad equipage not well furnished with arms and things needful we shall not fail to worst them and this frame of heaven and earth will sooner fail then we shall be forsaken of God Take heed left Reasons judgement make you shake or the appearance of danger that presents make you fraid but lively fall on the enemies be not daunted with their Guns or Artillery for I will receive all their bullets into my Gown Behold see how our God is for us contemplate I pray you the witness and sign of his good will toward us lift up your eyes and behold the heavenly how I could wish that in our Ensign the same Rainbow were pourtraied God evidently showeth by this sign which appeareth on high that he will in the Battel assist us denouncing ruine and perdition unto the Tyrants our enemies be couragious then and being assured of his fvaour fall on for God will not that you should make an agreement with your enemies His Oration being finished the greatest part of his company by reason of their present peril ceased not to be much afraid all being in disorder and without any conduct Yet there were in the band some bold and desperate ones bent to do mischief they being over-forward and ready to do evil were inflamed the more by reason of his speeach especially the Rainbow before spoken of did encourage them and they judged it as a most sure sign of Victory there was this further to their advantage that their Army was great it being about 8000 men and the place advantagious for their defence these Varlets cryed out that all should take up their arms and with courage they came to close with the enemy singing an hymne whereby they did implore the aid of the Holy Ghost There was sent

unto them to parly a young man of a Noble Family whom Muntzer against the Law of Arms had slain herewith the Princes being provoked caused the Alarm to be sounded and ordered their Battle in array The Lantgraves Oration Philip Prince of Hessia exhorted the Souldiery to carry themselves couragiously and to perform their duty shewing them that although the accusation charged on them by the enemy should be true yet it was unlawful for the Communalty to take up arms against the Magistrate which might be proved by Testimony of the Scripture 1 Pet. 2.13 and that yet be would neither excuse himself nor the other Princes from their faults They cover themselves with the Name of the Gospel but in truth they forge nothing but thefts robberies and the like mischiefs their endeavour is to take from others to abolish Magistracy to offer violence to other mens wives and children and to commit all crimes without punishment and seeing under the fair and holy Name of God they cloak such villanies and execrable misdeeds there was no doubt but God would avenge those injuries wherefore every one ought to fight against them as against robbers and so to maintain the publique peace and to defend every ones estate with their wives and children The caus of the war is most just and had be not been assured that the work had been acceptable unto God Rom. 13.2 3 4 5. who hath put the Sward into the hand of the Magistrate he would not have been there This Oration being finished they came to close and no sooner were the Artillery and small shot discharged but these poor people as men amazed and deprived of understanding neither defend themselves nor set themselves to flight for safety but sang their vulgar song to invoke the aid of the Holy Ghost some trusting in the promises of Muntzer waited for succour from heaven The Harquebusses being discharged they began to re-inforce the battle and to slay them right down then they betook themselves to flight all in a rout toward Francuse some of them drew off to the other part of the Mountain and some the while bare the brunt of the Battle in the Valley against the horse of whom there fell one or two but so hotly were they pursued 5000 Slain that there were 5000 left in the place soon after this slaughter the City of Francuse was taken 300 Prisoners and neer 300 prisoners which were beheaded Muntzer having gained the City by flight hid himself in an house neer unto the Gate whither by accident there came a Gentleman whose waiting-man going up to see the rooms he found a man laid upon the bed who asked him who he was and whether he was not fled from the Battle and whether he was not one of the seditious By accident there lay a purse neer unto the bed the other taketh up the booty and having opened it he found therein Letters whereby Albert of Mansfield did admonish Muntzer to desist from his enterprize and not to cause the poor people to mutiny these Letters when he had read he asked him if the Letters were not directed to him which he denyed very stiffly until being sharply threatned craving pardon he confessed Munzter taken that he was Munzter being taken he was brought before George Prince of Saxony and the Lantgrave being asked of them what moved him so to abuse the poor people he replyed that he had done but his duty and that those Magistrates that would not receive the Gospel were so to be dealt withal The Lantgrave puzzled him proving by Testimony of Scripture that the Magistrates ought to be had in reverence and that all seditions were forbidden by God and that it was not lawful for a Christian to avenge his private quarrel whereunto Muntzer had not to answer Tortured afterwards he was put unto grievous torture and as by greatness of the pain he cried out George Duke of Saxony said unto him Truly Muntzer you endure at present but think also upon the ruine of so many people which this day by occasion of thy sedition are slain he answered much laughing that they would so have it he was afterwards brought to Welderung a City of the Signory of Mansfield where he was sharply drawn put to torture and confessed what was his deliberated purpose and who were the complices of his Conjuration The Princes being come to Welderung and Mulhuze they caused many of these seditious persons to be beheaded and among the rest that bold fool Phifer of whom there hath mention formerly been made then afterward Muntzer was brought into the field who found himself very much discouraged and overwhelmed in this extremity so as without help he could not give account of his faith as it commonly falls out with such in the like case Henry of Brunswick to help him caused him to say after him when he was ready to die he confessed clearly and loudly his fault and errour and being surrounded with Souldiers he exhorted the Princes to use greater pity towards the poor people and that by this means they should not need to fear he admonished them also to read diligently the book of Kings which are in the holy Scripture his discourse being ended Executed they cut off his head From this marvelous defeat discomfiture several escaped who seeing their sedition profited them not and that the Prophets were slain with their brethren and companions instead of repenting and acknowledging the pestilential venome that lay hid in their Sect they assemble at Munster the chief City of Westphalia Those that escape get into Munster Pretend humility cary out against the Magistrates power and first made semblance of humility holding forth nothing in them that was splendent or magnificent yea they reproved and cryed out against all excellency greatness and magnificency they held forth outside-holiness and cried out against the sword and power of the Magistrate riches and honour were rejected by them as loathsome vomit at least as they made shew of they spake of nothing but of the mortification of the old man and of the renewing of the spirit and of a life wholly dedicated unto God above all they despised the world and the things that are therein but it was because they could not yet play their pranks nor themselves have dominion nor make a new world according to their model as they afterwards shewed unto all Bernard Rotman preaches the Gospel with success He and other Ministers present Articles against Popish errourr In the year 1532 Bernard Rotman began to preach the Gospel without the City of Munster in the Temple of St. Maurice and that not without great effect insomuch as that there being certain Ministers they presented thirty Articles unto the Magistrates wherein all the errours of the Papacy were contained submitting themselves unto all punishment if they did not prove all these Articles to be false and repugnant to the word of God the Senate