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A29317	The rise, spring and foundation of the Anabaptists, or re-baptized of our time vvritten in French by Guy de Brez, 1565 ... ; and translated for the use of his countrymen, by J.S.; Racine, source et fondement des anabaptistes ou rebaptisez de nostre temps. Book 1. English	Brès, Guy de, 1522-1567.; Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1668 (1668)	Wing B4381; ESTC R62	47,994	64

the finger at Christ saying Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of of the World Isai 53 7. Isaiah witnesseth and testifieth that Christ hath surely born our languishing and sustained our dolours what can be more plainly said then when he saith He hath born the pain and punishment which was due unto us and that we are healed by his wounds the same is affirmed by the Apostle Peter 1 Pet. 2.24 and Jesus Christ himself saith Joh. 3.16 God so loved the World c. The Apostle John testifieth 1 Joh. 2.2 If any man sin c. so Paul Col. 1.20 He made peace and reconciled us by the blood of his cross Read to this purpose 2 Cor. 5.21 and Rom. 5.19 and divers other Scriptures testifie unto this truth so as nothing is more clear and yet Muntzer dareth to accuse the Prophets and Apostles with the Ministers as those that flatter mens Consciences because they teach not righteousness by works It is a marvel how that sentence of the Apostle is forgotten who saith That if we be justified by the works of the law Gel 2.22 Christ is dead in vain We teach to do good works and live holily but not to be justified by them and that we live only by faith in Jesus Christ Muntzer thinketh to mend the matter by saying That thus to preach Christ Preaching of justification makes not careless of well-doi●g is the way to make men careless of doing well but on the contrary to preach Christ who dyed for our sins and that he gave himself out of perfect love a sacrifice for our Redemption is the way to be stirred up with burning zeal to good works Furthermore we must not preach the Gospel as we please but as it is appointed of the Father and as the Scripture testifie that the Apostles preached it of such men the Apostle Peter warneth us saying That there shall arise false Prophets c. 2 Pet. 2.2 Let notice be taken whether Muntzer and his companions be not of that number who dare not plainly say as much but they will say as we do but being put unto it they make Jesus Christ but an half Saviour by bringing in good works We say That faith without works is dead but they justifie us not before God neither blot out our sins As the flame is not without light otherwise it were not flame Simile yet it 's light burneth not it is the fire and the flame only that doth lighten so faith is not without works but works burn not i. e. take not away sin it is faith in Christ only thus we speak of the vertue of the property of faith shewing that those who have this true faith cannot be lazie so as out of love to God they should not do good works to glorifie God c. He likewise fell upon Marriage in a foolish and villanous manner saying Rails against Marriage That the Marriage of Pagans and other ignorants and unbelievers was polluted and unclean and that it was fornication and a very shew of Satan so as many light spirits being moved and spurred forward by this woful doctrine took occasion to break many marriages leaving houses desolate 2 Tim 3.6 and drew after them silly poor women laden with lusts to leave their husbands perswading them that the believing wife i. e. after their account the re-baptized ought not to abide with the unrebaptized husband Holding that a wife dwelling with her Gentile husband is polluted and defiled and cannot be saved They called the marriage of those that were not of their Sect whoredome and the fleshly bed and their marriages were spiritual The Apostle was of another minde when he saith Marriage is honourable c. But it may be they will say H●b 13 4. This is to be understood of the Marriage of such where both parties are believers and not of the believer with the unbeliever But the Apostle Paul taketh off all objection when he saith unto the married I command them yet not I but the Lord 1 Cor. 7.10 12. c. what could be more plainly said to prove the marriages of believers with unbelievers to be true marriages though they were joyned together in the time of their unbelief See how these poor people are become shameless in laying open their filthiness before all the world who would not wonder to see such spiritual people as these pretend themselves to be to live upon the goods and riches of whore-mongers this is the honour that they put upon their Fathers and Mothers that begat and brought them forth yea and upon themselves Apostolical Anabaptists As for the Apostolical Anabaptists they are so called because they follow as they say the Apostles and Apostolical Church step by step They regard the naked letter of the Scripture They walked as Vagabonds through the Country and Regions without shoes without staff without girdle and without money they said that they were sent by God and because Christ saith He that will enter into the Kingdom of heaven must become as a little child they said We must play the children with Children and therefore they so did and because our Lord saith He that leaveth not all that he possesseth whether Wife Children Father Mother Lands and Inheritance c. they often took slender occasions and left their Country leaving their wives and children and went as spiritual Lanskeneths they said that a Christian ought not possess any thing as his 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 shoes 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 solicitous 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 without shoes lacked you any thing Luk. 22.35 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 shoes 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

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 Kingdome 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 and put in several Prisons the two next dayes 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 tied 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 S. 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 Sarter 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 withall 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 to shew themselves veritable and true ought to unclothe themselves The poor people hearing this put off their clothes and being no wayes ashamed became quite naked Theodore commanded them all to imitate him he leapt out of doors into the publick quite naked as also did the rest of the men and women who followed him crying 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 known 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 avenge the blood of thine the third Open your eyes c. 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 dayes 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 Figtree 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 so much villany unto the holy Spirit of God and to make him the author of their nakedness they ought to have in remembrance with what gravity the Apostle Paul commandeth women to have their heads covered in the Church what would he have said if he had seen or known women to run without shame quite naked like Bitches who commanded that women apparel themselves in decent habit with shamefac'dness and modesty The things which were done by these Anabaptists in the Towns of St. Gall in Switzerland are not less hideous nor horrible then these whereof we have already heard For in the year 1526 two brethren which came out of the same womb Thomas and Leonard Schitker inhabiting neer unto the town called Mulleg the 7. of February by night there assembled a great number of Anabaptists in their Fathers house who spent all the night in preaching and doing marvelous deeds and receiving of visions at Sun-rising upon the 8 of February Thomas took his brother Leonard and set him in the midst of his kindred and of all the company commanding him to fall down upon his knees now as the rest admonished him to do no unbeseeming thing unto his Brother he answered them That they needed not to fear for he should do nothing there but the will of the Father in the mean while unsheathing a Sword he