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religion_n	church_n	great_a	way_n	2,889	4	4.3202	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90669	Mock-majesty: or, the siege of Munster. Being a true story of those fine things, wherewith King Iohn Becock, at first a botcher of Leiden by profession, and his companions the Anabaptists, pleased themselves after they were become masters of that city. You shall here likewise have the issue of the whole mock-show. Imprimatur, James Cranford.	Phillippson, J.	1645 (1645)	Wing P2120; Thomason E270_20; ESTC R212338	27,128	34

whereas hitherto they had made the people beleeve their Doctrine to be sound and warrantable all proceeded either from opinion or ignorance Wherefore the Magistrates upon conviction of their falshood and errours in Doctrine having nothing to answer for themselves but the bare confession of their owne lewdnesse commanded that for the time to come they should cease preaching to the people and yeeld up their roomes every where to these new Teachers who had detected and laid open their ignorance and impostures Afterward by a joynt agreement of the Magistrates and people they had each of them particular Churches appointed to teach in which the Fryers in generall tooke very scurvily but they especially of the Cathedrall being most of them descended of good Families They when they saw no other remedie departed in an anger making their addresse to the Bishop the result of their consultations with whom was to beset all the wayes and passages whereby provision might be brought into the Citie Which being done the Bishop with the rest went to Telget a small towne some three miles distant from the Citie to take further Counsell there At length they dispatcht a Messenger with letters to the Magistrates warning them to cease from their intended courses and to restore all things to their former state and condition otherwise that they should be declared as enemies The Bishop then was Count Francis Waldecke and before him Fredericke brother to the Archbishop of Collen But hee either for his healths sake or fore-seeing the storme that was like to fal had not long before voluntarily quitted both office and place contented to lead a private life rather in his own Country then to hazard his quietnesse among a factious and seditious people They of Munster upon deliberation detayned the messenger and issuing out upon Christmas Eve some nine hundred of them came unexpectedly upon the Town which instantly they tooke besetting every way that none might make escape but the Bishop had departed thence the day before Thus they brought the prisoners into the Citie among whom were the chiefe of the Clergie and others of very noble descent The Magistrates demanded of them what they intended to do and whether they purposed any more to hinder the preaching of the Gospell for the time to come They freely answered they would do what in them lay to further it By this means they fell to an agreement a Copie whereof the Magistrates sent to the Landgrave of Hessen withall intreating him that for the Gospels Common-wealths sake he would not be wanting to help on a busines of so great moment Here upon he disparcheth some to them by whose intercession a reconcilement was made But all wrongs and injuries being forgotten a firm peace was concluded of that in sixe Churches the Gospel should be taught that whatsoever was unbeseming or superstitious in matters of Religion should be abolished that in the Cathedrall nothing should be altered that the Citizens should not thinke that it any way belonged to them These Articles of agreement were subscribed and signed with the seales of the Landgrave the Bishop and his Officers the Nobility Gentry and people in generall February the XIV M.D.XXXIII Things being setled in this manner there came to Munster one Iohn of Leyden an Hollander and a Botcher by profession a stiffe Anabaptist He having cunningly insinuated himselfe into the acquaintance of the Preachers there began at first in private discourse to aske them whether they thought it fit to baptize Infants which they affirming he wholly carryed with the contrary opinion fell to scoffing and contemning of them Whereupon Bernard Rotman of whom there is former mention in a publike assembly of the people exhorted them all to pray unto God that they might enjoy the Doctrine of Christ in purity not polluted with the corruptions of fanaticall and hot-braind men especially the Anabaptists who secretly crept in among them and frequented their Assemblies whose opinion if it should once but get the upper hand was like to prove destructive both to Church Common wealth About the same time came thither also one Herman Stapreda who being appointed collegue or partner in the Ministery with Rotman began publiquely to inveigh against the Baptisme of little ones This fellow had been sometime a heater of one Henry Roll whom they of Vtricht had not long before this put to death for his preaching of Anabaptisme And this was another degree and step whereby to advance this new doctrine the matter being already brought to such a passe that all the talke of the Town was now concerning the Anabaptists Yet what they did was all in private none being admitted into their assemblies but such as were of their owne Sect their Teachers likewise forbearing to maintain any thing in publike venting their doctrines in the night time when others were asleepe then only performing their misterious works of darknesse But matters could not be carried so close but that the people must needs take notice thereof who tooke great exceptions at it and cryed out shame that new doctrines should be sowed and scattered abroad by night as if they feared the reproofe and confutation of the day light Hereupon the Magistrates made an Ordinance that the chief authors thereof should quit the City which indeed they did but were no sooner gone forth but they returned back by another way being now so bold as to give it out that God had commanded them to continue there still and to play their parts with a deale of bravery and confidence This somewhat moved the Magistrates and indeed struck them with no small wonder Therfore to avoid greater uproares and commotions in the Citie as wel the Ministers of the Anabaptists as of the Gospell are cited to appeare in their Towne Hall and a set number of learned men appointed besides Here Rotman bewrais of what spirit temper he was having for so long together kept himselfe close he now in a generall concourse publishes his opinion and with a great deal of bitternesse he declares the baptisme of Infants to be a thing both ungodly and execrable but Herman Busch a very learned man so ably maintained the contrary in presence of the Magistrates that they by a publique decree were strait way commanded to forsake the Citie They finding no remedie pretended how unsafe it was for them to passe the Bishops Countrey whereupon the Magistrates gave them safe conduct and provision for their journy But having formerly resolved never to change their abode for any other but to nestle here still after a while returned privately to their proselytes here lurking closely in their houses for a time The Magistrates in the meane while before such time as they began to peepe out of their holes shut up the doores of all their Churches save one For their feare was lest the Anabaptists whose numbers daily encreased having once more got the company of their Teachers there might wholly shut out the Ministers of the