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A93596	Englands vvarning by Germanies vvoe: or, An historicall narration, of the originall, progresse, tenets, names, and severall sects of the Anabaptists, in Germany, and the Low Countries: continued for about one hundred and twenty years, from anno 1521. (which was the time of their first rise,) until these dayes. VVherein is set forth their severall errors dangerous, and very destructive to the peace both of church and state: the way and manner of their spreading them: the many great commotions: (yea,to the effusion of much blood,) which they occasioned in those parts, by their opposition to, and resistance of the civill magistrates; and what course there was taken for the suppressing them. / By Frederick Spanhemius, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the Vniversity of Leyden in Holland. Published according to order.	Spanheim, Friedrich, 1600-1649.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4798; Thomason E362_28; ESTC R201224	43,736	52

defensive and partly confutatory stand in the maintainance of their errors So that it concerns us to indeavour by all meanes to hinder the same and to provide by all diligent care for the regaining of those soules unto God who are either led away with this error or bred up in the same and for preserving those from contagion whom this pestilentiall starre hath not yet infected Now as the builders of ancient Babell by the confusion of their tongues published their owne wickednesse and deserved punishment so in like manner God would not onely that the Anabaptists should be stricken with a fingular blindnesse but likewise that their tongues should be divided and by his most just judgement permitted that these Sectaries should not onely dissent from one another The Anabaptists divide into severall factions and they excommunicate one the other and rend into divers parts but also that they should with spitefull hearts and pens like so many new Midianites fight one against another and with mutuall execrations teare out their owne bowels For not onely the Anabaptists of Moravia depart one from another but likewese those of the Low Countryes divided amongst themselves thunder one family against the others and for frivolous matters excommunicate one another CHAP. III. Of the divers Sects of the Anabaptists and of the names by which they are called TO search out the names governments and tenets of all the Sects into which this Kingdome is divided and wherein they dissent one from another would be of an over-tedious enquiry yea scarce possible to any except tainted yea nourished up in their Religion this indeed is confessed that many sorts of the Anabaptists were numbred of old and are at this day which drew their names either from the Doctors whose opinions they chiefly followed or from the kind of life which they professed or else from the places where they had their resort Concerning the first ranke As first Muntzerians some were called Muntzerians who inrolling their names under this seditious Doctor or rather Captaine intangled themselves with his ungodly doctrine and mischievous practises Others are called Huttites from Iohn Hutt 2. Huttites who according to their masters example called themselves the corporall Israel of God vaunted visions and inspirations but ruefull and tragicall cryed out that all the Canaanites must be cut off with the sword that the day of Judgment was at hand and the Angels Trumpet began to sound Hereupon many of them began to waste away their meanes as being an unprofitable burden for the world to come but who afterwards bidden to begin long hopes perceived themselves brought to extream poverty and found all too late that their owne vain credulity and their masters mad promises had cost them very deare Others were named Augustinians 3. Augustinians from one Augustine a Bohemian who besides many other opinions common to the rest affirmed that the soules of the faithfull enjoyed not the sight of God nor had heaven open unto them untill the day of Judgment Others were called Hosmannians from Melehior Hofman a wily fellow 4. Hosmannians and furnished with popular eloquence who began to be famous at Straesburgh and drew away a great company of disciples after him To this Patriark is usually ascribed the first planting of those Anabaptists who so multiplyed in Lower Germany For comming to Emden An. 1528. when he had there with much polishing and a smooth tongue which he was excellent at thrust off his counterfeited wares he got great confluence of such people as itched after novelties and mightily increased this new Sect and this our new Evangelist purchased so much authority that by his disciples he was judged to be Elias which shall be sent into the World before the day of Judgement Returning to Straesburgh upon the prophecy of an old man of Friezland and there publickly professing Anabaptisme he not a little troubled the Church in that City Whereupon a Synod being called in the Month of Iune An. 1532 hee was admitted to a publique disputation with the Ministers of the Word by whom the opinions and dreams of the frantick fellow were confuted When as yet he would not be at quiet and the Anabaptists bragged that Straesburgh was new Jerusalem in which a new Kingdome of Christ was to be erected and joyned Cornelius Polterman as an Enoch to that Eliah and began to make uproares Hofman taken by the magistrate and imprisoned Hofman is taken by the Magistrate and clapt into prison Out of which the Anabaptists boasted hee should come with 144000. sealed ones which should smite the earth with a curse and break thorow all the bars which were set upon him That their Elias and Enoch should be the two olive trees and the two candlestickes which no man could hurt and if any man should attempt it fire should come out of their mouthes and consume their enemies But when these sonnes of the prophets had in vaine expected the deliverance of their Elias at the time foretold by other of their prophets Hofman fearing least he should lose his credit or his disciples their confidence began to write out of the prison that they must be still for the space of two years after the example of Ezra and Haggai whose ondevours for restoring the Temple of God were in like manner stayed untill God raised up the spirit of Cyrus Continuing thus obstinately in his errours at last dying in the prison he deceived all the hopes of his followers The principall tenets of Hofman were Hofmans opinions that the word did not take flesh of the Virgin Mary whose flesh was infected with sinne and accursed That Christ had only one nature That the means of attaining salvation was in our own power and by our free will was either imbyaced or rojected That childrens baptisme was not of God but rather of the enemy of God and man To this ranke pertaine likewise the Gabrielites 5. and 6. Gabrielites Hutterians 7 The Mennonites and Hutterians Anabaptists of Moravia who tooke these names from their Teachers before mentioned So were other of the Anabaptists long since and are at this day termed Mennonites from Menno Simonz a famous apostle of the Anabaptists who borne in a Village of Friesland neere Harlingen came indeed out of Popery but into the errours of the Anabaptists over head and eares not only imbracing divers heresies concerning the humane nature of Christ Childrens baptisme the office of the Magistrate and other points of that nature but likewise by word conferences and writing sowed the same abroad every where and although in a solemne disputation with Martin Muronius An. 1554 he could not with all his sophistry either elude the force of the truth nor avoid the same notwithstanding he persisted in spreading and defending his errours till that in the yeare of our Lord 1559. between Lubecke and Hamburg or as others will have it at Old slo An. 1561. he ended his daies aged more then 60.

made and seditious persons armed against their Princes and flourishing provinces wasted with miserable civill warre and stained with much bloud The chiefe Trumpet and kindler of these uproares was this Muntzer who having gotten himselfe authority amongst the heedlesse common people began openly to proclaime That he was raised up by the command of God for the punishment of wicked Princes and altering of Politicke Government For this cause being by Frederick Elector of Saxony driven out of that Country and wandering here and there through Germany and Helvetia he sowed the seeds of sedition every where and at length being returned to Mulhaysen a famous Towne in Thuringia he came to that height of presumption that by the helpe of factious persons and such as were addited unto him he put off the Magistrates and filled the Court with his Sectaries yea challenged to himselfe the cognizance of all both Ecclesiasticall and Civill matters spreading this Doctrine that judgements under the new Testament ought to be framed and administred onely out of the word of God And that the hearts of the common people might be the more fastly knit unto him who have commonly but small revenues he would not onely that all Monasteries should be prey and spoyle unto them but likewise commanded that all things should be in common according to the example of the Primitive Church and those of the richer sort he either by Arguments perswaded to ascent or by force and feare of worse compelled them thereunto When nothing in shew more favourable then this could come to the eares of the common people who had either beene burdened with taxes or sometime oppressed by the more hard government of their Superious or which were in want and penury and Muntzer by his seditious letters sent abroad every where by his Messengers published this doctrine and withall preached all manner of liberty grievous commotions followed in many provinces especially in Sweden Thuringia and Franconica where the clownish multitude arising in great numbers betake themselves to Armes contemne the commands and dignitie of the Magistrate pull downe all Castles and fortresses as the fetters put upon their liberty Muntzer yet sets the mindes of those men more on fire who were already more then enough enraged cals the Minets out of the Mines of Mansfield unto prey and tumult denounceth to all That he is the servant of God ordained by Heaven to cut off the ungodly and that God had committed unto him the sword of Gideon ordinarily using this subscription in his letters Thomas Muntzer the servant of God against the ungodly as also Thomas Muntzer with the sword of Gideon And yet is the minde of this mad-man The Anabaptists enter the field with an Army more and more inflamed by one Henry Pfeiffer who of a Monke become a brawler counterfeiting a vision from Heaven gathers forces of mutinous persons and brings forth his Troopes into the field The Princes of Saxony Brunswicke and Hessen The Princes of Germany make warre against them with the Count of Mansfield being by the Rebels constrained to Armes prepare likewise an Army and after many admonitions spent to no purpose they set upon these bands of husbandmen rather then Souldiers which were set downe on the hill neer the Towne of Frankenhaysen whom quaking before the fight began and in vaine exhorted by Muntzers trembling voice to courage and constancy they overthrow and put to flight storme the Towne of Frankenhaysen and Muntzer who had fled thither and fained a sicknesse as being pined away with long faintnesse being through the singular providence of God discovered by the servant of a Noble-man by certain letters hid in his cloakbagge neer the bed where he lay was plucked out of his hole Munster and Pfeiffer taken and hanged neer Mulhaysen and together with his consort Pfeiffer committed to safe custody where having by the Racke and Tortures compeld him to declare the names of his complices he almost desperate together with Pfeiffer who was taken neer Isenacke paid for his wickednesse and the death of so many thousands being cut off with the sword of vengeance by the hand of the hangman neer Mulhaysen in the yeare of our Lord 1525. Otherwhere also in Sweden Thuringia Alsatia Franconia Bavaria Austria and Stiria were the Princes Armes victorious the routed Troops of the Rusticks are scattered in every place the Cities possessed by these factious men are either taken by force or constrained to deliver up and by the punishment of a few many are restrayned all terrified this spreading evill stayed and the former peace and tranquillity again restored to those Provinces These frantick and seditious men being subdued by force in upper-Germany and the spring of rebellion with the losse of much bloud at last drawn dry this evill grew fresh again in Helvetia and those seeds of Anabaptisme which had been sowne by Muntzer traviling through these parts and received with open eares and mindes by some Ministers of the Word began both in publique and private assemblies to be preached unto the common people Of which Preachers the principal men were Foelix Mantzy Conradius Grebelius of Zurich wherof the first had strived in vaine to come to the profession of the Hebrew and the other of the Greeke tongue and Balthazer Hubmeier Pastor of the Towne of Waldshut who when he had not onely by word but also by publishing a booke of Anabaptisme troubled the consciences of a great many Huldricus Zuniglius that valiant Champion of the truth set forth a writing and confuted the turbulent fellow And at Zurich in a solemne disputation with the two former for three dayes together in the month of November publiquely in the Court after two others had with them in the month of January and March in the yeare of our Lord 1525. solidly confuted their Arguments or rather cavillations against Childrens Baptisme which they contended was first instituted by Pope Nicholas in full demonstration of the spirit and of power Anabaptisme being triumphed over in this disputation by the helpe of Zuriglius Leo Juda and Casper Megander and the truth laid open to the light the Senate of Zurich by a publique edict establisheth Childrens Baptism and command the Anabaptists teachers to be silent and quiet Notwithstanding as yet these troubles of the State would not cease but that in private meetings they had not onely perswaded Anabaptisme againe to many of the Citizens but also divers of them who had addicted themselves to these new Patriarks were rebaptized To this thing lend their assistance Gulielmus Raubli Panicellus Brotlcin George Blaurock John Denck and Andrew Stultzy but above all others Hubmeir who having at first taught the Gospell at Waldshut a Towne in the confines of Helvetia and afterwards turned to the Anabaptists and so having set the Citizens together by the eares for this diversity of opinions made the City again liable to the Armes of the house of Austria and the Idolatry of the Church of