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Worthy Sir,  
I Have here presumed to present you with a strange and bloody Tragedy of heretics and Enthusiasts, written in Latin by a most elegant pen, by one who hath concealed his name, as I conceive out of this reason, that, living near the times and places of this representation, it might have proved dangerous to him to have published it. Here you have Religion brought upon the stage in very strange disguises, nay they make her act parts the most contrary to her nature, imbruing her white & innocent hands in blood, & Massacres. But as she hath met with Wolves to destroy and tear in pieces, so hath she also met with shepherds to heal and protect, and among those the most laborious Author of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} AN●EBEIA hath not been the least considerable. His severe and most indefatigable labours in most parts of Learning, are consummated in this piece of Religion, wherein like an experienced Anatomist, he hath left no vein un-cut up. To fall into excessive commendations of him, were to commit a moral absurdity, by praising one whom the general Trumpet of Fame hath blazed abroad for so great an advancer of Virtue and Learning; But to trouble you with them, were yet to be so much the more importunate, whose conversation with him was so great, that whatsoever I may say of him, I shall not acquaint you with so much as yourself know. Nor did the influence of your Patronage raise and animate only him, but there are so many other monuments of your great encouragements to learning, that it will be thought modesty in me not to mention all. But your excessive Benefactorship to the Library of S. John's college at Cambridge (whereof I have sometimes had the honour to be an unworthy member) I cannot pass over, as a thing, which will stand upon the file of memory, as long as learning shall find professors or Children. And that which increases the glory of your munisicence, is, that that Library may boast that it is furnished with the works of its own sons, which, being the greatest act of retribution and gratitude that may be, must be accordingly acknowledged by all that shall come after. But that which hath the most engaged and satisfied the English world, is, that your endeavours have displayed themselves in their clearest light, in that one thing that is necessary, that is to say, Religion, not only by being a constant assertor of her purity here in England, but in that, after more than Ulyssean Travels throughout most parts of Europe, you have returned to your former enjoyments of that chaste Penelope, when others either out of weakness or surprise, are ensnared and besotted with the Tenets of other Countries, whereby they are both ingrateful and injurious to their own, by preferring the prudence and policy of another before hers. Religion certainly, if well improved, is the talon, that felicifies the improver, if not, coademnes him. It is that universal Patrimony, which entitles us to be the sons of God, and by which we are adopted into the assured hope of eternal happiness. It is the Loadctone wherewith when our souls are once touched, they are directed to the right pole of the eternally beatifical vision; and without which, we must infallibly expect to split against the rocks and shelves of perdition. It is the consummation of heaven's indulgence to Mankind, that which doth familiarize us, and makes good our Interest in the great being and cause of all things. It is the perfection of nature, since that whatsoever we know of the divinity by her comes only by the assistance and mediation of our senses, but the other furnishes us with a more evident assurance, (and that, in things, which can be neither seen, heard nor conceived), by the more particular providence of Grace and Faith, whereby he is pleased to how down the heavens, and descend unto a familiar conversation with our very spirits.  
But that which ought further to endear all men to Religion, is, that she only next to God may pretend Ubiquity, as being a thing written in such indelible characters in the hearts of all men, that even the most barbarous nations, and the greatest strangers to civility and policy have acknowledged some divine worship, though their pravity or want of instruction, may have blinded them from the true, but yet that eclipse of the true God hath not been total, insomuch, as they have still retained a sense and veneration of Religion, so that to the best of their imaginations, they have created something like God to themselves. To make this yet more evident, we are to note, that most people, though they had not so clear apprehensions of the immortality of the soul, as we have; yet were they not only persuaded of the impossibility of its annihilation, but have also acknowledged rewards and punishments to be expected after this life.  
To ascend yet a little higher; the divinity and pre-eminence of Religion is demonstrated, in that it exerciseth that Empire and sovereignty over the mind of man, that no blandishments of the flesh, no temptations, no torments have been able to dispossess it. It hath triumphed in the midst of its persecutions; and by her sufferings hath conquered her persecutors. Her pleasing Ravishments can stifle for a time all sense of humanity, elude flames, and racks, and so arm the delicacy and tenderness of virgin purity, as to overcome the hardiest Tyrants. It is she that raises our souls to a holy boldness and intimacy in our addresses to heaven, being indeed rapt into the heavens of divine contemplation, by her ecstasies and illuminations. It was her inspiring communication, that elevated your pious soul, when you described the divine perfections of the incomparable THEOPHILA. These things can she do and greater, when there is but one grain of true Faith; but when she is defiled and adulterated with human ceremonies and inventions, she is deformed, and loses all her grace and beauty. And among these hath she met with two most importunate pretenders, atheism and Superstition; the one strips her stark naked, the other meritriciously prostitutes her in the disguises of human Inventions. And that she hath been thus evil entreated, in all places and times, this book gives but too great testimony, whether you look on the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or this small appendix, treating for the most, of what happened in High and Low Germany. I would not draw any excuse for our own gyrations of Religion here, from their madness; but rather condemn them as things that would have outvied the extravagance of the former. But to draw any argument against Religion from either were impious; for if we did, we must in consequence, deny all, both particular and universal providence of Almighty God; we must deny the Scriptures, the heavenly Legacy of eternal salvation; we must deny Heaven, Hell, Eternity, nay take away the Cement of all human society, and expect to see the order and beauty of the universe hurried into darkness and confusion, since it ought not to outlast man, for whom it was created. Nay; but let us rather profess humanity, and make this use of the failings and extravagance of others in matters of Religion; To humble ourselves to a reliance on that immense Being, who hath thought fit to plant Religion in the heart of man, to direct him in his voyage to eternal happiness, wherein that every man might take the right way, is the earnest prayer of  
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The authors Preface TO THE READER.  
THE doctrine of the Anabaptiss, Courteous Reader, to give it thee in a single expression, is nothing but lying and deceit. Thou haply thinkest them a sort of people divinely inspired, and Prophets: Thou art deceived. They are false Prophets and false teachers, as being a contagion, than which hell itself hath not vomited up a more dangerous since the beginning of the world. For I do not think it can be easily demonstrated, what other mischief could have reduced not only the Netherlands, but almost all Germany, into so great calamity and devastation. When I more narrowly look into the heresy of these men, I confess I am puzzeled to find a name for the Monster, but what its aims are, I may haply guess.  
Its first part speaks a lion, its last a Dragon, the middle a pure Chimaera.  
I call it a Monster, and I may add the most monstrous that ever was, as having in it the Ingredients of all formerly condemned Sects. Which when I consider, methinks all the ancient heretics, such as Nicholas Anteochenus, the gnostics, the Valentinians, Noetians, Sabellians, Patropassions, Parmenians, present themselves anew out of Hell to me. So that I can make no other judgement of THOMAS MUNTZER, that author and raiser of a most pernicious Sect, then that he hath re-erected the Standards of all former heresies. But that it may not be said, as in the Proverb, that Africa always furnishes us with Novelties, he also with his desperate disciples, hath sacrilegiously attempted to advance some altogether new and unheard-of opinions, whereof who shall say that which is MADE is GOOD, must be very extravagant. Out of these, have they resolved and decreed, that children till they come to age, are only Catech●…ni, and ought not to be clad with the robe of holy baptism. Out of these, have they declared a community of all things. Out of these, teach to dishonour and discard Magistrates, who are the living ectypes of God, while in the mean time they themselves aspire to sovereignty, and would be accounted Potentates, when they are indeed the wickedest among men; Dissemblers, Cheats, Hypocrites, Novators, or Advancers of Novelties, and the subtle generation of the old Viper Novatu. Which said Novatus, if I display in the colours wherein the holy Father and Martyr Cyprian sets him forth, discreet men shall be my Judges, whether I have not hit the mark, and the same description most sitly suits the greatest part of the Proselytes of Muntzer. As concerning Novatus (Says that Ornament of his Carthage, lib. 11. Epist. 8. to Cornelius then Bishop of Rome) We needed not any relations to be sent to us of him, since that from us you were to expect a more particular account of Novatus, a man that is a constant Advancer of novelties, of an insatiable avarice, furious in his rapines, blown up with arrogancy and pride, even to astonishment; a man not admitting any good understanding with the Bishops: the end of his curiosity is to betray, of his flattery to surprise, his love is dogged by his infidelity, he is the fuel and firebrand that heightens the combustions of sedition, and the hurrican and tempest which causes the shipwreck of Faith, an opposer of tranquillity, and an enemy to peace. These were his thoughts of Novatus, which what wise man but will allow us to attribute to our Novators? Certainly, if John that butcher of Leiden, the ulcer and deformity of that gallant City, were to be drawn in his own colours, we need borrow them nowhere else. You therefore, Orthodox Doctors, reduce those erroneous and miserably seduced men, which yet are so, into the way of Truth, Deliver them, I beseech you out of this frenzy, and omit no opportunities which may help to recover them out of this imaginary disease to which they are so accustomed. This shall be your reward, this is the prize you shall obtain. Him that overcometh, will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God, and I will write upon him the name of my God, &c. Revel. 3. 12.   


1 THOMAS MUNTZER. His OPINIONS, ACTIONS, and END. The Contents.  
MUntzers Doctrine spreads, his aims high, his affirmations destructive; He asserts Anabaptism, rests not there, but grows worse and worse in his opinions and practices; his large promises to his party and the common people: he endeavoured to set up himself, pretending to restore the Kingdom of Christ; being opposed by the Landgrave, his delusive Animation of his followers, their overthrow; his escape; he is found, but dissembles himself; is taken, but yet obstinate; the Landgrave convinceth him by Scripture, when being racked, he laugheth, afterward relenteth; his last words; is deservedly beheaded, and made an example.   

2 JOHN MATHIAS. The Contents.  
JOhn Mathias repairs to Munster, his severe edicts, he becomes a malicious executioner of Hubert Trutiling, for contumelious expressions touching him, his own desperate end.   

3. JOHN BUCKHOLD, or JOHN of LEYDEN. The Contents.  
JOhn Buckhold his character, his disputing and contention with the Ecclesciasticks concerning Paedobaptism; he succeeds John Mathias, he comforts the people with a pretended revelation; he makes Bernard Knipperdoling of a Consul, to become common executioner, Buckhold feigneth himself dumb, he assumes the Magistracy, he allows Polygamy, he takes to himself three wives; he is made King, and appoints Officers under him; his sumptuous apparel; his Titles were King of Justice, King of the new Jerusalem; his throne, his Coin and motto thereon; The King, Queen, and Courtiers wait on the people at a Feast: with other d●gressions. The King endeavours to raise commotions abroad, is haply prevented. He suspects his own safety; his large promises to his Captains, himself executes one of his wives, he feigns himself sick, and deludes the people with an expectation of deliverance; in the time of famine, forgets community; he is betrayed by his Confident, is brought prisoner before the Bishop, who checks him; his jesting answer and proposal, he is put to a nonplus, is convinced of his offences; his deserved and severe execution.   

4. HERMANNUS suitor. The Contents.  
HErman the cobbler professeth himself a Prophet, &c. he is noted for drunkenness; The ceremonies he used in Anabaptism, Eppo his Host discovers him and his followers to be cheats; Hermans wicked blasphemies, and his inconstancy in his opinions, his mother's temerity; his Sect convinced, and fall off from him; by one Drewjis of his Sect he is handled roughly; Herman is taken by Charles Lord of Gelderland, &c. and is brought prisoner to Groningen; when questioned in his torments, he hardened himself, and died miserably.   

5. THEODORUS SARTOR. The Contents.  
THeodor the butcher turns Adamite, he affirms strange things, his blasphemy in forgiving of sins, he burns his clothes, &c. and causeth his companions to do the like. He and his rabble go naked ihrough Amsterdam, in the dead of night, denouncing their woes, &c. and terrify the people. They are taken and imprisoned by the Burghers, but continue shameless. May 5. 1535. they are put to death; some of their last words.   

6. DAVID GEORGE. The Contents.  
Dauid George, the miracle of the Anabaptiss. At Basil he pretends to have been banished his Country for the Gospels-sake; with his specious pretences he gains the freedom of the City for him and his. His Character. His riches. He with his Sect enact three things. His Son in Law doubting his new Religion, is by him questioned; and upon his answer excommunicated. His wife's death. He had formerly voted himself immortal, yet Aug. 2. 1556 he died, &c. His death troubled his disciples, His doctrine questioned by the magistrates, eleven of the Sectaries secured. Eleven Articles extracted out of the writings of David George, Some of the imprisoned Sectaries acknowledged David George to have been the cause of the tumults in the lower parts of Germany, but disowned his doctrine.  
Conditions whereupon the imprisoned are set at liberty: The Senate vote the doctrine of D. G. impious, and declare him unworthy of Christian burial, and that his body and books should be burned, which was accordingly effected.   

7. MICHAEL SERVETUS. The Contents.  
SErvetus his converse with Mahometans and Jews. He disguiseth his monstrous opinions with the Name of Christian Reformation. The place of his birth. At the 24. year of his age, he boasted himself the only Teacher and Seer of the world, He inveighed against the Deity of Christ. Oecalampadius confutes his blasphemies, and causeth him to be thrust out of the Church of Basil. Servetus held but one person in the Godhead to be worshipped, &c. He held the holy Ghost to be Nature. His horrid blasphemy. He would reconcile the Turkish Alcoran to Christian Religion. He declares himself Prince of the Anabaptiss. At Geneva Calvin faithfully reproves Servetus, but he continues obstinate. Anno 1553. by the decrees of several Senates, He was burned.   

8. ARRIUS. THE CONTENTS.  
Arianism its increase, Anno 323.  
THe General Council at Nice, Anno 325. called as a Remedy against it, but without success. The Arrians misinterpret that place, Joh. 10. 30. concerning the Father and the Son. They acknowledged one only God in a Judaeical sense. They deny the Trinity. Arrius his wretched death, Anno 336.   

9 MAHOMET. The Contents.  
MAhomet characterised. He made a laughingstock of the Trinity. He agreed with Carpocrates, and other heretics. He renewed Circumcision, and to indulge his disciples, he allowed them Polygamy, &c. His Iron Tomb at Mecca.   

10. BALTHAZAR HUBMOR.  
The Contents.  
HUbmor a Patron of Anabaptism. He damned usury. He brought in a worship to the Virgin Mary, &c. The Senate of Suring by a Council reduced him. He renounced the heads of his former doctrine. Himself or Sect still active. He is taken and imprisoned at Vienna in Austria. He and his wife both burned.   

11. JOHN HUT. The Contents.  
JOhn Hut the prop and pillar of Anabaptism. His credulity in dreams and visions. He is accounted a true Prophet by his Proselytes. At Merhern, his Fraternity became as it were a Monastery.   

12. LODOWICK HETZER. The Contents.  
LOdowick Hetzer a famous heretic. He gaint Proselytes in Austria and Switzerland. Anno 1527, at a public disputation Oecolampadius puts Hetzer's emissaries to their shifts. Hetzer denied Christ to be coessential with the Father. His farewell to his Disciples. He is put to death for Adultery.   

13. MELCHIOR Hoffman. The Contents.  
HOfman a Skinner, an Anabaptist; Anno 1528, seduced 300. men and women at Embda in West-Friesland. His followers accounted him a Prophet. At Strasburg, he challenged the Ministers to dispute, which was agreed upon Jan. 11. 1532. where being mildly dealt with, he is nevertheless obstinate. Other Prophets and Prophetesses deluded him. He deiuded himself, and volunt arily pi●●ed himself to death.   

14. MELCHIOR RINCK. The Contents.  
MElchion Rinck, an Anabaptist. He is accounted a not able interpreter of dreams and visions. His disciple Thomas Scucker in a waking-dream cut off his brother Leonar's head; pretending for his murder obedience to the decree of God.   

15. ADAM PASTOR. The Contents.  
ADam Pastor a derider of paedobaptism. He revived the Arian heresy. His foolish interpretation of that place, Gen. 217. so often confu●ed.   

16. HENRY NICHOLAS. The Contents.  
HEnry Nicholas, Father of the Family of Love. He is against infant-baptism. His devilish logic.   
The End of the Contents.   

THOMAS MUNTZER. His OPINIONS, ACTIONS, And END. 
Hei mihi quot sacras iterans Baptismatis undas Muntzerus Stygijs millin tinxit aquis!  THE CONTENTS.  
MUntzer's Doctrine spreads, his aim's high, his affirmations destructive; he asserts Anabaptism, rests not there, but grows worse and worse in his opinions and practices; his large promises to his party and the common people: he endeavours to set up himself, pretending to restore the kingdom of Christ; being opposed by the Landgrave, his delusive animation of his followers; their overthrow; his escape; he is found, but dissembles himself; is taken, but yet obstinate; the Landgrave convinceth him by Scripture, when being racked, he laugheth, afterward relenteth; his last words; is deservedly beheaded, and made an example.  
ABout the year of our Redemption. 
Anno 1521, 1522.  M. D. XXI. and M. D. XXII. there rise up in Saxony near the River Sales, a most insolent Sect of certain Enthusiasts, among whom Nicholas Storkius was no ordinary person. These presumptuously boasting that their Dreams, Visions and Revelations, were inspired 
heretics their usual pretence.  into them from heaven, had s●ily scattered it among other seditious persons of the same kidney; That the world was to be reformed by their means, which done, and the wicked utterly cut off from the face of the earth, it should be governed by Justice itself. All that gave not up their names, and embraced their Sect, they branded with the name of ungodly. One of this Sodomitical lake sprung THOMAS MUNTZER, 
Muntzer a quick Scholar in a bad school.  one that boasted that he had had communication with God. This man's doctrine incredibly spread, as being in the first place leveled at the holy Doctors of the Reformed Religion; And from thence discharged at the Magistrates themselves; for the 
His Doctrine spreads,  Christian flock being once deprived of these two constitutions of men, there were nothing to hinder the greedy Wolves to break out into all rapine 
His aim's high.  and oppression. And this is the reason why the Wolves, 
The end that heretics propou●d to themselves, in opposing the Ministry and Magistracy.  that is to say, the false Teachers, have ever most violently opposed the the Ministry and the Magistracy, in hopes, if possible, to draw these from the care and charge of their flocks, or at least to bring them into contempt with their sheep, which by that means should stray into their parties. This Muntzer did both by his teachings and writings publicly affirm, that the Preachers of that time that contributed their endeavours to the 
His affirmations des●●ullive.  advancement of the Gospel, were not sent by God, but were mere Scribes, and impertinent interpreters of the Scriptures; That the Scriptures and the written Word, were not the pure word of God, but only a bare Testimony of the ●●e wo●d; that the true real word was something that were intrinsical and heavenly, and immediately proceeding out of the mouth of God, and consequently to be learned intrinsically, and not out of the Scriptures, or by any human suggestion. With the same breath he brought 
Anabaptists their leading principle.  baptism into contempt, most inconvincibly affirming that there was no warrant from God for paedobaptism, or baptism of children, and that they ought to be baptised after a spiritual and more excellent dispensation. 
seldom rest there, but grow worse and worse.  He further endeavoured to teach that Christ's satisfaction for us was unnecessary, whatever honest and weak understanding men could urge to the contrary; That matrimony in the unfaithful and incontinent, was a pollution, meretricious and diabolical; That God discovered his will by dreams (whence it was that he was mightily infatuated with them) holding that those were (as it were) communicated by the holy Ghost. Hereupon was he acknowledged by his followers for some heavenly and spiritual 
Sectaries like tinder, are soon on fire.  Prophet, and it was believed that he was thus taught by the spirit of God, without any human assistance. This doctrine did he disperse throughou● all Germany by printed books and Epistles, which the tinder-brained disciples of his seditious sect were soon fired with, read, approved, and propogated. The same man in the years M. D. XXIII. and M. D. XXIV. 
Anno 1523. 1524.  taught at A●sted which is a City in Saxony, near Thu●ingia; and when not only the Ministers, but also the Magistrates lay under the lash of his calumny, insomuch that his Sermons were stuffed with most seditious and bitter invectives against them, and pretending to groan for the return of lost liberty, and for the insufferable pressures 
An usual pretence to raise sedition.  of the people under Tyranny, he complained of it as a great grievance, that their wealth and estates were the prey of the Magistrate, and therefore would persuade them that a remedy was timely to be applied to these things. Being for this doctrine dispatched out 
heretics restless.  of Alsted, he comes to Norimberg, and thence without discontinuing his journey into Basil, and thence into Switzerand, from whence at length he came to Cracovia, where at a certain town called Griess●n, he continued some weeks. In the mean time he was no less idle than ever, and that especially in the County of Stuling, where he sowed so much of his contagious seed among his factious disciples, as afterwards thrived into an extraordinary harvest. At the same time he publicly scattered abroad his doctrine of baptism, and the word of God, in such sort as we have touched before. Departing out of his country, and wandering up and down Mulhusium in the country of During, he w●it letters to some of the most confident to his Religion; by whose countenance and assistance factious spirits were sometimes more and more exasperated against the Magistrate. Some small time before the Counntrey people took up arms, he sent up and down certain briefs by Messengers, wherein were divers things, and among the rest was represented the greatness of those warlike instrments which were cast at Mulhusium upon occasion of this sedition, so to encourage and inflame the fiery followers of his faction. For having stayed two months at G●lessen, and that he thought he could not so much advance his designs if he returned into Saxony because his affairs prospered not according to his desires in those places, he returns back to the people of During and Mulhusium. But before he was arrived thither, LUTHER had by letters forew●…ed the reverend 
Luther adviseth the Senate to beware of Muntzer, and his opinions.  Senate of Mulhusium concerning him, that they should beware of him as of a destroying wolf, and fitte● to be s●unned then Serpents, or whatever Mankind bears any antipathy to, for that both at Swickaw, and not long before at Alsted, he was accounted a tree sufficiently evil and corrupt, which bore no other fruit but Tumult and inevitable destruction; and one, who, no more than his comrades, could ever be brought to make any defence of their opinions, among which was, That they all were God's el●ct and that all the children of their Religion were to be called the children of God; and that all others were ungodly, and designed to damnation. And divers other things to the same purpose were contained in the foresaid letter, which was dated from ●●imaria, on Sunday, being the day of the Assumption of Mary, in the year M. D. XXIV. Muntzer in the mean time with words plausibly sweetened, drew away 
Muntzers large promises to his party, and the common people.  she minds of all he could to savour his party, and by promising mountains of gold to the common people, to the end they should cry him up with the general acclamations of being a true Prophet, it came to pass that a very great concourse of the dregs of the people repaired to him from Mulhusium and other places; nay, by his subtlety and the authority he had gotten, he perverted the very Magistrate of Mulhusium, and made him a 
Magistrates seduced, most ominous.  new abettor of his opinion. And this was the first original of the mischief; and thence divers other Hydra's of seditions like so many excrescencies took a sudden growth from this. For all mens' goods became common, and he taught that no man had any propriety in what he enjoied. To which he added, that it was revealed to him from God, that the Empire and Principalitities 
Muntzer endeavours to set up himself, pretending to restore the Kingdom of Christ.  of this world were to be extirpated, and that the sword of Gideon was put into his hands to be employed against all Tyrants, for the assertion of true liberty, and the restauration of the kingdom of Christ: and at this time he gave orders for the preparing of certain warlike engines. While he was wholly taken up about these things, that is, in the following year MD. XXV. the country people throughout Swedland and F●anconia, and diverse other places, rise up against their Magistrates, 
An ill precedent soon followed.  forced away a great part of the Nobility, plundered Towns and Castles, to be short, made an absolute devastation by fire and sword. The Landgrave Henry being 
The Landgrave raiseth a war, and fighteth Muntzer and his party.  moved at these things raises a wa●r, and fought the country people, the first time near Frankenhusium, the fourteenth day of May, which done, he prepared himself for a second fight to be fought the next day, which Muntzer having intelligence of, said by way of animation to his followers, What are those Cannon-bullets? 
Muntzers delusive animation of his followers. Their overthrow.  I will receive them in my gloves, and they shall not hurt me, whereby the country people being encouraged, were the next day beaten by the Landgrave, five thousand slain, and three hundred taken, who had all their heads cut off, so that, while they were ambitious of Liberty, they lost even the liberty of life itself. And herein was the ancient Proverb verified, War● is most delightful to those that had never experienced it. The discreeter part of the country peop'e, having laid down their arms, put their hands to the golden plough, to hold which they had been designed, rather than to manage Lances and Pole-axes. Mantzer escapes to Frankenhusium, and hid himself in a house near the Gate, where 
Muntzers escap●.  a certain Nobleman had taken up his quarters. This man's servant going up into the upper rooms of the house to see how they were accommodated, finds one lying upon a bed, of whom he inquired, whether he were of those who had escaped the fight, which he denied, averring that he had lain some time sick of a fever: whereupon looking about, he perceives a little bag lying 
Is found out but dissembles himself.  carelessly near the bed side; he opens it and finds letters from Albert Count of man's field, wherein he dehor●ed Muntzer from his wicked purpose, and from promoting the tumult already raised. Having read them, he asked him whether they were directed to him, who denying he threatens to kill him; whereupon he cried quarter, and confessed himself to be Muntzer. he is taken, and 
Muntzer taken, yet obstinate.  brought before George Duke of Saxony and the Landgrave, whereupon they having made him confess that he was the cause of the popular insurrection, and sedition; he answered that he had done but his duty, and that the Magistrates who were opposers of his Evangelical doctrine, were by such means to be chastised. To which the Landgrave made answer, and proved it by several testimonies 
The Langrave convinceth him by Scripture.  of Scripture, that all honour is to given to the Magistrate; and that all tumult raised in order to a man's particular revenge, was by God forbidden Christians. Here Muntzer being convinced, held his peace. Being laid upon the rack, while he cried out aloud and wept, the Duke of Saxony spoke to him to this purpose; Now thou art punished, Muntzer, consider with thyself by what unspeakable ways thou hast seduced and brought so many to destruction! whereat Muntzer broke out into a great laughter, saying, This is the judgement of the country people. But when being brought 
Muntzer when racked, laugheth, but afterward relenteth.  to his death, he was thrust into close prison, 'tis wonderful how faint-hearted he was, and stood extremely troubled in mind, not being able to give any account of his Faith, but as the Duke of Saxony pronounced before him, and which he told him, he was to make a confession of before God: Being surrounded with soldiers, he openly acknowledged his wickedness, and withal addressed these words to the Princes that were present; show mercy and compassion, ye Princes, lest hereafter, you incur by my example the punishment I now suffer; 
His last words.  Read and attentively consider the holy Books of the Kings. Having said this, his head was struck off, and fastened to a stake, for a monument and example to 
Is deservedly beheaded.  others.   

JOHN MATHIAS. 
Primus hic e Batavis Muntzeri dogma secutus Turbavit miris Westphala regna modis.  THE CONTENTS.  
JOHN MATHIAS repairs to Munster, his severe edi●●s, he becomes a malicious executioner of Hubert Trutiling, for contumelious expressions touching him; his own desperate end.  
IN the year of our Lord God, M. D. XXXII. at Munster (which is the Metropolis of Westphalia) a 
Anno 1532.  certain Priest called Bernardus Rotmannus undertook to preach the Gospel of Christ; which being done with great success, certain messengers were sent to Marpyrgum, a place in Hassia, whose business was to bring along with them some men of learning and good conversation, who should be helpful in the propagation of the Gospel. From Marpyrgum were there some dispatched, who arriving at Munster, reduced the principal heads of Christian Religion into thirty nine Articles, which they proposed to the Magistrate, being ready, (as they pretended) to make good and prove the said heads, by places of the holy Scriptures; which was effected. The Religious, and (as they 
Pretenders to Religion, prove usually the disturbers thereof.  are called) the spiritual who were possessed of the chiefest Church, could by no means digest this, so that departing the City, they caused much trouble to the Citizens. Upon this weighty business, the Magistrates and Citizens sat in long and prudent consultations. At length there was a certain agreement, upon these terms, viz. That all injuries committed in those Tumults should be pardoned, and that the Gospel should be freely preached in six Parish Churches, and that the Church of our Lord only should be absolutely reserved to them. These conditions were readily subscribed to by both sides, and thereupon all things laid asleep in peace. But this peace was not long undisturbed by the devil, 
The devil an enemy of peace.  (that irreconcilable enemy of peace and virtue) and therefore by doing at Munster what he had done at other places, that is, by raising up out of the jaws of Hell, the seditious and pestiferous Anabaptists, those importunate disturbers and turn-pikes of the Gospel; his design was not only to discourage the good and godly, but withal, shamefully to destroy the Gospel itself. For in the same year there rise up at Harlem a Baker called John 
John Mathias a Baker at Harlem.  Mathias, a man utterly unlearned, yet crafty and boldly eloquent. This man being excessively lecherous, neglected and slighted his own wife, who being somewhat well stricken in years, was so much the less fit for the 
His lechery notorious.  exercises of Venus. Being therefore over head and ears in love with a certain Vi●age who was an Alehouse-keepers daughter, he could not resolve of any way more advantageous to seduce, then by an Angelical carriage, and a counterfeit sanctity. He made frequent visits to her, and entertaining her with his visions and revelations, he thereby drew her to his opinion, and conveyed her into a secret place in Amsterdam, where he professed 
At Amsterdam he professeth himself a Doctor, and a Preacher.  himself a Doctor and a Preacher, affirming that God had revealed certain secrets unto him, not yet revealed to others, and that he was Enoch the second high Priest of God. Upon some he laid hands and sent them two by two as Apostles and messengers of Christ, dispatching to Munster one Gerard a Bookseller, and John Buckhold the butcher of Leyden, others into other places. These emissary messengers of Christ, or rather of Satan, boiled over with their various opinions, held marriages of no account, and dreamed diverse other things. Some taught by parables, and their own illusive dreams; others acknowledged not him a Brother who desiled his baptism with sins; others preferred the baptism of John before that of Christ; others taught that all Magistrates, 
A murderous opinion.  and whoever were unsatisfied with their Religion, aught to be destroyed root and branch; some would acknowledge nothing but their own visions and prophecies; others, that all the Prophets and Teachers that were departed this life, should shortly rise again, and should reign with Christ upon earth a thousand years, and should receive a hundred fold for what ever they had left behind them. Some of these men affirmed that they had communication with God, some with Angels; but the more discreet and wiser sort of men conceived that their conferences had been with the devil. Here upon the great Prophet John Mathias (upon whose account his most vain Apostles already proclaimed a Peace) perceiving an occasion by this means of domineering in this world, consecrated in his stead his disciple James Campensis, a Sawyer, Bishop at Amsterdam. committing unto his charge the people, to be seduced with the same zeal, as he had begun. These things being thus fairly carried, he repaired to Munster to his 
John Mathias repairs to Munster.  Apostle and ambassador John Buckhold, whom he made governor of the City, who presently published these severe edicts. That every man should bring his gold 
His severe edicts  and silver, and whatever were of greater importance, into the common heap, and that no man should detain any thing at his house; for the receiving of which things so collected a place was appointed. Though the people were not a little astonished at the rigour and severity of the edict, yet did they submit thereto. Moreover he forbade the reading of all books but the Bible, all which that they ought to be burnt, the divine authority had by him, its witness commanded.  
At this very time a certain Tradesman, whose name was Hubert Trutiling, had scattered some contumelious expressions concerning this great Prophet; where at he being immeasurably incensed, even to the loss of all compassion, caused the foresaid Trutiling to be brought into the Market place, where he is accused and sentenced. Whereupon he himself laying his violent hands upon this innocent man, lays him along upon the ground; in that posture he runs him through with a spear; but finding 
He becomes a malicious executioner of Hubert Trutiling, for not siding with him.  by the palpitation, that there was some remainder of life, he made him to be conveyed thence, and taking a musket from one that stood by, which was charged, killed him, intimating that he was commanded by God, that is to say, his own, (who was a murderer from the beginning) to do what he had done. This noble exploit performed, he took a long lance in his hand, and hastily ●an about the City, crying out that he was commanded by God the Father to put to flight the enemy, which at that time had closely besieged Munster. Having taken the said weapon, and running like a mad man upon 
His desperate end.  the enemy, he himself was run through by a soldier of Misna.   

JOHN BUCKHOLD, or, JOHN of LEYDEN. 
Agres●●●ssque nefas magnum et memorabile, Regem Somniat, abje●ta forfiee sceptra gerens.  THE CONTENTS.  
JOHN BUCKHOLD his character, his disputing and contention with the ecclesiastics concerning paedobaptism; he succeeds John Mathias, he comforts the people with a pretended revelation; he makes Bernard Knipperdoling of a Consul, to become common executioner. Buckhold feigneth himself dumb, he assumes the Magistracy, he allows Polygamy, he takes to himself three wives; he is made King, and appoints Officers under him; his sumptuous apparel; his Titles were, King of Justice, King of the new Jerusalem; his throne, his Coin and motto thereon; The King, Queen, and Courtiers wait on the people at a Feast, with other digressions. The King endeavours to raise commotions abroad, is haply prevented. He suspects his own safety, his large promises to his captains, himself executes one of his wives, he feigns himself sick, and deludes the people with an expectation of deliverance, in the time of famine, forgets community; he is betrayed by his confident, is brought prisoner before the Bishop, who checks him; his jesting answer and proposal; he is put to a Non plus, is convinced of his offences; his deserved and severe execution.  
JOHN BUCKHOLD was a butcher of 
John Buckhold his character.  Leyden, a crafty fellow, eloquent, very perfect in the Scriptures; subtle, confident, more changeable than Proteus, a serious student of sedition, briefly, a most servant Anabaptist. This man being sent by John Mathias to Munster was a perpetual thorn in the sides of the ecclesiastics, craftily sisting them about 
His disputing and contention with the ecclesiastics concerning paedobaptism.  the business of paedobaptism, in which employment he spent nine whole months, and most commonly making his party good with them, both as to disputation and litigious contention, while in the mean time he secretly spawned and scattered the doctrine of Anabaptism, as much as lay in his power. About that time a certain unknown Preacher of the word of God, one Hermanus Stapreda of Meurs came to Munster, who supplying the place of Rotmannus in preaching, seduced him, and leavened him with Anabaptism, and he also publicly anathematised pedobaptism. This gave occasion of raising tumults among the people; they who before were only secretly instructed by John Buckhold, discover themselves 
Conventicles usually the nurseries of Tumults.  openly to the world, and lay aside all disguises of their intentions; in most parts of the City, they have their frequent meetings; in divers houses, but all in the night time, whereat the Magnistrates being incensed, and offended, prohibited their Conventicles, and some they banished; But they weigh not this any thing, and being sent out at one gate, they came in at another, and lay concealed among those that were the favourers of their Sect. Hereupon the Senate caused all the ecclesiastics to assemble at the Palace, to dispute the business of paedobaptism. In this Assembly, Rotmannus stood tooth and nail for the Anabaptiss, but those of the Reformation fully refuted their errors, as the public acts concerning that business do abundantly testify. At this very time the ministers of the Church of Argentoratum signed and set out an account of their Faith in a printed Book. Hereupon the Senate of Munster by a public edict banished the Anabaptiss, out of the City; which edict, they, persisting in contention, opposed, being now arrived to that rashness and impudence, that they thrust a reformed Preacher, one Peter Werthemius out of the Church. Yea, some of them rioting about the City,) whereof the Ringleader was Henry Rollius) cried out as they went, Repent and be rebaptised, otherwise will the heavy wrath of God fall upon you! These things happened about the end of the year M. D. XXXIII. and the beginning of M. D. XXXIV. Some honest-hearted 
Anno 1533. &c.  and harmless men, partly out of an apprehension of divine wrath (as they made them believe) partly for fear of men, suffered themselves to be washed in the laver of Anabaptism. For, the Anabaptiss leaving 
Anabaptists their bold attempt.  their dens, broke into the City without any control, and with an unanimous violence assaulting the Market place, they soon possessed themselves of the Palace and the Magazine, sentencing with loud conclamations and such as required a greater voice than that of Stentor, that all were to be destroyed as so many Heathens and Reprobates, that did not embrace Anabaptism. In this tumult, a certain young man of Burchstenford was killed. This gave occasion both to the Papists, and to those of the Reformation to provide for their safety. The chiefest Patrons of the Anabaptistical Heresy were, Bernard Rotman, John Buckhold, Bernard Knipperdoling, Gerard Knippenburch, Bernard Krachting, &c. These two parties having skirmished with as great eagerness and animosity as greater armies exasperated one against another, for some days, there followed a Truce, whereby it was agreed that every one should quietly enjoy, and persever in his own Religion. However the surges of Anabaptism were not yet laid, till they had entered into a conspiracy to drive those of the Reformation out of the City. The most eminent of the Conclave writ to the Anabaptists of the Cities adjoining, viz. to these of Dulmen, Coesvelt, Soyst Warendorp, and Osenburg, that leaving all things behind them, they should repair with all speed to Munster, promising they should have tenfold what ever they left. Being enticed by these propositions, husbands and wives leaving all behind them, came in swarms to Munster. A great number of the more religious Inhabitants looking on that strange rabble as an insufferable grievance to their City, left it to the disposal of the Anabaptiss, who being by this means increased in number, became also more extravagant, degraded the Senate, and chose another out of themselves, wherein were Consuls, Gerard Knippenburg, and Bernard Knipperdoling, whose Effiges is the ensuing.   

BERNARD KNIPPERDOLING. 
Quo non fastus abit? quid non Rex impius audet? Carnificem fecit, qui modò Consulerat.   
BEing now become Lords and Masters, they in the first place seized on Maurice Church, and burned it, and the houses all about it, thence falling forcibly upon 
Anabaptists where Masters, most insolent.  other holy places and Monasteries, they carried away Gold, Silver, Ornaments and Utensils, and whatsoever else was of any consequence. Upon the fourth day after those rapines, trudging up and down the streets and highways, they with a horrible howling, uttered, Repent, Repent! to which is added, Depart, depart, be gone ye wicked, otherwise woe be to you! This done, they immediately went armed in multitudes, and with unspeakable barbarism and cruelty, turned out their miserable fellow-citizens, as enemies to their Religion, out of their houses and possessions, and thrust them out of the City without any consideration of age or sex, so that many women with child had this misfortune seconded with that of dangerous obortions. The Anabaptiss presently by what right they please, seize to themselves the possessions of the banished: so that the honest and godly party being cast out of the City, fell into the hands of the soldiers, who had blocked up the City and all the avenues, as among enemies, by whom some were taken, others unadvisedly killed; at which entreaty the other honester part of citizens being discouraged, and seeing, that guilty and not guilty fared alike, would not stir a loot out of the City; which being closely besieged by the Bishop's Army, all places were filled with blood, sighs, tears. Now do the mad men of Munster, and such as no Hellebore can have any effect on, grow insufferably insolent, and above all, that great Prophet John Mathias, of whom we have spoken before: But that sally of his out of the City, those of Munster looked on as a great Omen of their destruction, and thought that the unexpected death of that most holy man did signify, that some great calamity did hang over their heads. But John Buckhold 
John Buckhold successor of John Mathias.  must be his successor, a lid fit for the other pot; who addressing himself to the people, comforted them, persuading them that they ought not to mourn for that unlooked for miscarriage of the Prophet, for that it had long before been revealed to him, and withal, that he should marry his widow. Upon Easter Eve they fell upon all the Churches and places of devotion about the City, 
He comforts the people with a pretended revelation.  and pulled down all the brass works. Some few days after, Bernard Knipperdoling prophesied that all the chiefest men ought to be disqualified and degraded, and that the poor and the humble were to be exalted. He also declared, that it was the command of the divine Oracle, that all Churches should be demolished, which indeed was sufficiently performed. The very same day John Buckhold putting into the hands of Bernard Knipperdo ling, the Executioners sword, conferred on him withal 
He makes Knipperdoling common executioner.  his employment, and that according to God's command; so that he who had discharged the office of a Consul, was now to execute that most dishonourable employment of a common executioner. This most excellent condition he cheerfully accepted. By this time had the City been besieged some months by the Bishop's forces when resolving to storm it, they lost both Gentlemen, Commission Officers & others, to the number of about 
About 4000 men lost at the siege, of Munster.  four thousand, upon which they quitted all hope of taking it by force. Some few days after Whitsuntide, the City being notwithstanding the disexecution of that assault still besieged, was wholly taken up to rest and imaginary dreams, wherein there were spent three whole days; which done, THE ANABAPTIST being awaken, acted the part of Zacharias, John Baptist's father; for, pretending to 
Buckhold signeth himself dumb.  be dumb, he desired to have a Table-book; wherein he wrote down the names of twelve men, who should be as it were the twelve Elders of Israel, and should administer all thing, at Munster, as if it were the New Jerusalem, and this he affirmed that he was commanded to do from heaven. By this broke●y d●d this crafty knave chalk out his way to that sovereign dignity whereof he was so ambitious. But in the mean time, consider by what a strange stitch this excellently wicked butcher did utterly disrepute that Magistrate whom God had ordained, and by the assistance of most illusive dreams & his own excellency 
He assumes the Magistracy.  of playing the impostor, he possessed himself of that dignity. A while after our Prophet advanced certain conclusions tending to the allowance of Polygamy, whereat 
He allows Polygamy.  the ecclesiastics made some opposition, but afterwards were content of fit still. So that, not long after the Prophet at one bout took to him three wives, whereof the most 
He takes to himself ●pee wives.  eminent was the widow of the deceased Prophet Jo. Mathias, and whom he afterwards dignified with the title of Queen. This example of Kingship, some other knaves like himself did without any difficulty admit; but divers of the 
A bad example soon followed.  more godly citizens, looking on this thing with the greatest indignation that might be, repairing to the Market 
Godly and loyal citizens hate usurpation.  place laid hands on the Prophet Knipperdoling, which occasioning the people to take up arms, they set upon those Citizens in the palace, and having taken them, they delivered 
Loyalty not always succes●…  the Prophet and the ecclesiastics out of their hands. Nine and forty of the said Citizens were after a most barbarous manner put to death. Hereupon the Prophet cried our, that all those who should do any violence to those enemies of God, should do God a very high piece of service, whence it came to pass, that some 
heretics; their cruelty.  were torn in pieces with Hooks; and not a few killed by Knipperdoling himself. Upon the four and twentieth of June, which is the day of the Nativity of John Baptist, 
ANNO 1534.  in the year one thousand five hundred thirty four, at Munster or rather Monster; (for so may that place be called from the monstrous and portentous pullulation of Anabaptists) there sprung from Hell another new Prophet, one John tuysentschrever, a Goldsmith of Wa 
John tuysentschrever an upstart, and abettor of John Buckhold.  rendorp. The people being generally summoned to the Market place, this man acquainted them, that the most holy Prophet John Buckhold of Leyden was to be exalted to Kingly Dignity, and that he should inherit the eternal seat of his Father David, and should possess it with far greater majesty. Having prophesied 
John Buckhold com●…s his delusi ●prophecies  these things, Buckhold kneeling down confirmed all, saying, that so much had been revealed to him from God the Father ten days before; though it was against his inclination to undertake the difficulties of Government. The common people being astonished at this extravagant piece of villainy, tore their hair as they went; yet however some might smell out the cheat, fear was able to stifle all muttering. For, this Beast fattened for destruction, having been very successful in some encounters, had now assumed what Authority he pleased. Behold, he that at Leyden was but a butcher, is made King 
He is made King.  at Munster; John Buckhold is invested with all the Regalia of supreme Authority. Having hereupon immediately degraded the twelve counsellors of State, according 
He appoints officers under him  to the wonted manner, he constitutes a viceroy, a Controller of his household, four Huissers or common criers, a Noble man, a chancellor, Cup bearers, Carvers, and Tasters, and Master-builders, and disposed of all other officers as Princes use to do. The Kingly robes were some made of watered stuffs, some made of silk, some 
His sumptuous apparel.  of pure silk, some scarlet, some made more sumptuous with the Gold of the Ornaments which the sacrilege had furnished him with, so that it can hardly be expressed how artificially, how gallantly, how indeed Emperor-like they were interwoven, being embroidered with gold, edged, scolloped; and disposed into divers colours, His spurs were gilt with gold, and he had two crowns of solid gold, and a golden scabbard. The King walking in these ornaments, two young men in a Courtly and magnisicent habit, one of each side of him accompanied him, whereof one carried a naked sword, the handle whereof glistered with gold and precious stones; the other held up the Holy Bible, together with a golden Crown shining with most excellent pearls. A certain jewel dazzling the beholders with the bright sparkling of a Diamond, and whereat was hanged a golden apple (to repesent as it were the world) wounded through with two swords a cross, hanged at his neck. His sceptre was set forth with three golden incirculations. His Nobles, who were eight and twenty in number, clad in green and ashy coloured garments, and having on white turbans, accompanied him. The King's title was, THE KING OF JUSTICE, THE KING OF 
His Titles were King of Justice, King of the new Jerusalem.  THE NEW JERUSALEM. In the Market place there was erected a Throne for him of three steps high, which, when the King sat in it, was adorned with ornaments of more than Attalick sumptuousness. Some 
His Throne.  money he caused to be coined, whereon was this Latin Inscription, VERBUM CARO FACTUM 
His Coin and Motto thereon.  QUOD HABITAT IN NOBIS, that is, The word made flesh, which dwelleth in us. The City being all this while besieged, the Prophets and the Doctors published the book called THE RESTITUTIONS, wherein they endeavoured to defend that monstrous (I would say Munstrous) and seditious tumult, and all those almost infinite inconveniences that were consequent to it: but to prevent that poisonous Hydra, a gospel antidote was prescribed. In the month of August, about S. Bartholomew's day, John tuysentschrever went sounding a Trumpet through all the streets, thereby inviting all to the Lord's Palace, where there being a sumptuous feast prepared, he magnificently entertained all that came. The King himself, the Queen, and all the Courtiers waited on them. At the last course he gave to every one a loaf of unleavened 
The King, Queen, and Courtiers wait on the people at a Feast.  bread, saying, Take ●at, and celebrate the Lord's death; which done, the Queen in like manner carried about the Cup, by which ceremony, the Supper of the Lord, or rather that scene of pleasure, wantonness, and temerity, was certainly very frolickly celebrated. Hunger being banished sa●e enough by this feast, the Prophet tuysentschrever goes up to preach, requiring of them obedience and compliance with the word of God, whereunto, (with one head and as with one eye) 
A mock Sacrament.  they unanimously consented. This obtained; he acquaints them, that it was revealed from the heavenly 
A seditious Sermon.  Father, that eight and twenty ecclesiastics should depart out of this City, that should preach our doctrine throughout the world, whose names he recommended, and designed the way they were to take their journey, that is to say, six for Osenburg, as many for Warendorp, eight for Soyst, (for which quarter he himself was one) and the rest for Coesveld. These exercises performed, the King went to Supper, and at the second watch of the night caused the forementioned Apostles to take their journey, giving unto each of them a piece of gold, with this charge, that neglecting their own safety, they should deposit it for a note and testimony of consequent condemnation wherever they bestowed it. They went their ways, and never returned again, all having (except 
Sedition goes not always unpunished.  one who escaped the Gallows) met with punishments corespondent to their sedition. For, being entered the fore-recommended Cities, they in a direful manner howled out their, Kepent, repent, the axe is laid to the rote of the Tree; if you repent not and be rebaptised, woe be to you, ye are undone. But the several Senates of the said Cities caused them to be apprehended, and brought before them to give an account of themselves; who answered, That they were divine Preachers of the Gospel, called and sent by God, and that all those who would receive their doctrine must be baptised, and that all things were to be made common; but to those that should neglect 
Anabaptists of a levelling principle.  these things, they were to leave the golden coin of eternal damnation. Nay further, That the Gospel had not been preached as it should have been, since the times of Christ and the Apostles, but that there were two Prophets, the Progeny of truth itself, slipped down as it were from heaven, viz John of Leyden, and David George born at Delft in the Low-countries, that there were many false Prophets, that is to say, the Pope of Rome, and Martin Luther, of ●ittemburg, who was worse than the Pope. Being taken and cast into Irons, they were asked, by what right or privilege they had thrust out of the City so many godly people, together with their wives and children, not granting them any toleration for their Religion, and had disinherited them of all they had? 
Anabaptists as the devil, pretend Scripture for their base actions.  To which they replied, That the time was now drawing nigh, wherein the meek and the humble should inherit the earth, and that they followed the example of the Israelites, who with God's approbation ●ook away from the Egyptians their jewels and earrings. Moreover they hoasted that Munster was well furnished with provisions, ammunition, and all things requisite to war, and that the King did daily expect great recruits out of Holland, Zealand and other places, by the means and assistance 
They ●●m atuniversal Monarchy.  whereof, he should bring the whole world under subjection; and all wicked and refractory Princes being subdued, should establish the peaceful reign of Justice. About the same time another Prophet fell down from heaven, one Henry Hilverse, a notable knave. This man acquainted the King that it was revealed to him from heaven, that God was pleased to bestow on him three most rich Cities, Amste●dam, Daventry, & res●l, near Lippa. Upon this Divine message, he advises with his counsellors, whom he were best to send ●●ither to baptise them with his baptism. In the first place he sends John Campensis to Amsterdam, to be the chiefest man in that City, to whom he assigned for companion and coapostle John Mathias of Mtellburg. These being sent into Holland, issuing out of their holes, kept themselves among those of their own tribe, and infected most Cities with the mortal infection of their doctrines. For at Leyden about January in the year following, viz. one thousand 
ANNO 1535.  five hundred thirty and five, very many by the persuasion of Anabaptism, and by the means of its contagious Conventicles, were baptised into the baptism of death. About the end of the year one thousand five hundred thirty and five, this Kingly butcher sent into Friezland a most subtle fellow, and one very well experienced 
Kingly butcher endeavours to raise commotions abroad.  in warlike affairs, whom he furnished with very great sums of money which had been raised out of the sacrileges, wherewith he should raise soldiers in Zealand, and should raise the close siege which was then before the City. He being departed, managed his affairs very secretly with the assistance of those of his way, and at length, upon the last of March one thousand five hundred thirty and five, having gotten together some hundreds of soldiers he setupon the Monastery, which also was called old Munster, drove away the Monks, and having plundered all, he there pitched his tents, out of hope thereby to strengthen his party by the accession of any that should come in. But George Sckenck the then governor of Friesland, having with as much expedition 
He is happily prevented.  as could be got together certain expeditionary forces, besieges these tumultuary Rioters, and gave an assault to the place, which though they avoided as much as might be by a gallant defence, yet had they their belly●ull of murder, blood, and dry blows, so that they were all destroyed, save threescore and two, who being brought to Leoward were paid for their audacious folly with the wages of death. The ringleader of this business, who was also the Camp-m●ster, John Geel escaping at this fight, flies to Amsterdam, to prove the occasion of a greater slaughter. For many Anabaptiss being found in that place, whom John Campensis had strangely fascinated, to engage them the more, they made promises to them of golden mountains, and talked highly of the Magnificence and Liberty of the Anabaptists of Munster, and cried up the new kingdom of Justice upon earth; for the report of the siege and defence of Munster had smitten, and raised up the minds of a many; in regard the City being closely besieged by a potent Army, yet performed religious duties without any disturbance. Hence came it to pass, that the Liberty and Liberality of the City was celebrated beyond all truth and belief, and there wanted not a many who desired to be embarked in the same Fortune. There was therefore at Amsterdam a Burgher called Henry Gotbelit, a strong man and warlikely given, who being bathed in the waters of Anabaptism, joined his endeavours with those of John Geel. For by divers pretences and crafty shifts (which it is not worth our labour to repeat in this place) they drew together six hundred Anabaptists, with 
Anabaptiss, their design upon Amsterdam.  whose assistance their intention was to have possessed themselves of Amsterdam, to enrich themselves, and to introduce the Religion of those of Munster. Whereupon, upon the tenth day of May, the chiefest that were engaged in this conspiracy, having their Rendezvous at the house of Peter Gael, broke out in the night time 
They break out in the night time.  to the Market place, wherein being more and more seconded by some of their own, they killed some of the Watch, and some they kept prisoners. But the Burghers making head, discharged some muskets at the Anabaptiss, who most unworthily, when their Consuls were cruelly killed, entrusted their safety to their heels; so that the others courages being heightened by this, they violently ran upon the Deuterobaptists, and after a most bloody 
They are worsted.  engagement put them to the worst, wherein John Geel and Gothe it were slain, James Campensis was taken and put to death. Now other Tumults had already forced others from those places, the prevention whereof could not be possibly without the infinite inconveniences which fell upon the lionester sort. There wanted not also some clandestine vipers, who diguisedly waited for the restauration of the kingdom of Israel (as they called it) whereof one being apprehended at Leyden, and upon examination put to the question, confessed, That the King of the Anabaptiss, who was a Hollander, sojourned then at Utricht, and had not yet began his reign, but that according to the good hope they had conceived of him, and the confidence placed in him, they doubted not but he would undertake i●. Having with what's above, gotten out of this fellow, that some gold and silver vessels and other ornaments had by a most wicked surprise, been taken out of their Churches by the means of their King, and who with his followers had attempted some most detestable villainies, it was dicovered that there could no other be meant than David George. I crave thy pardon, courteous Reader, if I acquaint thee, that it is not any thing the less for thy advantage, if, in the description of these rotten and contemptible rags and menstruous clouts of humanity, I have woven a longer web of discourse than thou didst expect. Although John Buckhold, and the other Prophets had entertained the ignorant greedy vulgar with hopes of more than Arabian wealth; yet the citizens being daily more and more straightened by the siege, were accordingly brought into greater perplexities, and being brought low by the famine, which is the consummation of all misery, began, as it for the most part happens, 
Famine the consummation of all misery.  upon the barking of the stomach, to snarl at one another, to grumble and complain, and to hold private consultations about the taking of their King, and by delivering him to the enemies, to better the terms of their composition. But the King, the stitcher and botcher of all deceit, being afraid of himself, chose out 
The King suspects his own safety:  of all the people twelve men in whom he could place most confidence, and these he called his Captains, assigning to them their several guards and posts in the City, which they were to make good. This done, he promised the Citizens that the close siege should be raised before Easter, for he was confident that a certain emissary, whom he had sent into Zealand, Holland and Friezland should return with such supplies, as by a furious and desperate assault made upon the besiegers should deliver the City: But hope itself was to him become hopeless, nor could safety itself save him. To his Captains as he 
His large promises to his Captains, both of moneys and preferments, the usual bai●● of sedition.  called them, 'tis incredible what wealth he promised, such as the fabulous riches of Pactolus and the treasures of Midas should not make good, with oceans of goods (which haply must be paid them out of his dreams) and that after the City were relieved, they should be Dukes and governors of Provinces, and particularly that John Denker should be Elector of Saxony? But behold, in the month of February, a sad face of things appeared, many being merely starved to death, which occasioned, that one of his Queens (for he had gotten a many) Elza or Elisabeth, who was distinguished by the name of the Glove maker, had been often heard to say, that the most cruel sword of Famine came not from God, which though he had not heard himself, having caused her to be 
He becomes executioner to one of his wives  brought with his other wives into the Market place, he struck of her head, kneeling in the midst of them, which done; insulting ●…er her, he affirmed that she had carried herself as a common prostituted whore, and had been disobedient to him, while in the mean time her fellow Queens sung this hymn, Glory be to God on high, &c. Easter day being now dawning: and no hope of deliverance shining on them, the common people with just reason were extremely astonished; nor, confide●ing how things were carried, could they have any longer patience. In this conjuncture of affairs, to elude the people, according to his wonted insinuations, he feigns himself 
He feigns himself sick, and deludes the people with an expectation of deliverance.  to be sick, and that after six days, he would appear publicly in the marketplace, but that as to the deliverance which they were to expect according to his intimation, it was to be understood after a spiritual manner, and so it should certainly come to pass For he affirmed for a most certain truth, that in a divine dream he saw himself riding on an ass, and bearing the unspeakable weight of fin, and that all that had followed him were freed from their sins. But indeed they may be fitly said to be like Asses that rub one another; or to the blind leading about the blind. It is a great affliction, it is a penance to repeat the miseries and the woeful consequences of Famine and want. There were a 
Famine, its character, and miseries.  many who being impatient of so long hunger, revolted to the enemy, not so much out of hope of compassion, as to accelerate their own deaths; not a few creeping upon all four, endeavoured to get away; for being weak and strengthless, they could hardly fasten their feet on the ground; some falling down were content to give up the ghost in the place where they lay. There you might see a sad spectacle of foreheads and cheeks pale as ashes, temples fallen, eyes sunk into hollowness, sharp noses, ears shrivelled, lips black and blue, throats slender as those of Spiders; to be short, Hippocratical faces, living carcases, and excellent shadows of men. They had sown certain kinds of seeds and pulses in the City which for a time served for high delicacies to the grumbling stomach; but these being soon devoured by the hungry belly; Cats, Dormice, and Rats, which themselves were almost starved to anatomy, became (doubtful) entertainments. Some were reduced to that inhuman necessity, that they fed on the flesh of the buried carcases; some dressed the feet of sweaty woollen socks, some cut to pieces the parings of tanned leather, and mincing them with some other things, baked them and made them serve for bread. To this we may add, that the most wickedly obstinate citizens were not yet convinced, that by crafty infinuations and specious suggestions they were brought into the noose, whom therefore he still entertained with considerations of Magnanimity, and the deliverance they were yet constantly to expect from God, but as for those who admitted any thoughts of running away, and endeavoured to avoid their miseries, he peremptorily sends for, and like a public Robber taking away all that their industry had furnished them with, depart, says he, and be gone to the heretics, and bid sarewel to this place. The King, though he 
He forgets community.  had gotten at his house sufficient provision for two months, yet was he willing to embrace all occasions whereby he might keep up the heart of the City which now continually barked for sustenance. To which end, behold a certain man named John Longstrat, being a Nobleman and privy Counsellor to the King, and one of whom he 
John Longstrat his confident betrays him by stratagem.  was very confident, boasted that he would within fourteen days' relieve this hunger-starved City, both with provisions and supplies of men, to the number of three hundred. By this pretence he flies to the enemy, and betrays the City to the Bishop, for a certain sum of money with his life included. The Eve of Saint John was appointed for the execution of this design, about ten of the clock, at which time he had obliged himself by oath to cause the gate called the cross-gate to be opened. This Commissary for provisions returning at length to the City, assured the King upon his saith and reputation, that the said recruits of provision and forces, should be ready within the time appointed. The day assigned being come, he acquaints the Guards that the promised forces, were to come in in the night (which would be starr-light enough) that so they might receive them as friends. The gates are hereupon set open, and the enemies being admitted into the City as into another Troy, upon the watchword given, soon dispatched the Guards and others that were near. Now could be nothing heard for the cry of arms; arms. The King and his Courtiers being gotten into a body, drove back the enemy to the Gates, which the citizens had by that time shut again: whereupon the rest of them that were without: were forced to set Engines to force open the Gates, which being once broken open, they flourished and set up their Colours. The citizens stiffly resisted the first assault, and made a strong body in the Market place, where the fight became very hot and bloody. The King himself, Knipperdoling and Krachting fell into the enemy's hands; but Rotman seeing there was no possibility of safety, rushing where the enemy was thickest, was trod to pieces; he it seems placing all hopes of life in death. The Anabaptists upon the taking of their King being quite cast down and discouraged, went and hid themselves in Larders, kitchens, and other lurking holes. The City was most 
The City of Munster unmercifully plundered.  unmercifully plundered; and to make a full search of it, there were ten days allotted. There was found by those of the King's Guard at the royal Palace as much provision as would maintain two hundred for two mouths. O Goodman King, where is now the Community of goods and provisions which your Religion holds forth? This sad fate did that City suffer in the year one thousand five hundred thirty and five. The third day after this sacking of the City, the King was carried to the 
The King is brought prisoner before the Bishop.  Castle of Dulmen, three miles off. The Bishop having caused the King to be brought with all speed before him, said to him, O thou cast away of Mankind, by what deplorable means hast thou corrupted and destroyed my people! To which the King, with an undisturbed and 
Who (deservedly) checks him.  proud deportment made answer thus; O thou Pope, have we done thee any injury, by delivering into thy hands a most well-fortified and invincible City? But if thou 
His jesting answer and proposal.  thinkest thyself any way injured or endamaged by us, if thou wilt but harken to our advice, thou shalt be easily enriched. The Bishop hardly abstaining from laughing, desired him to discover that secret, to which he replied. Cause an Iron Cage or Basket to be made, and cover it with leather, and carry me into all the parts of thy Country to be seen for a show, and if thou take but a penny of every one for the sight, assure thyself it will amount to more than all the charges of the war. The more eminent Anabaptists wore about their necks a certain medal wherein was the effiges of their King, to which were added these ietters, D. W. F. whereby was signified, that the word was made flesh. But the King being carried up and down as a captive with his two associates, was shown to divers Captains and ecclesiastics of the Landgrave, which gave occasion of dispatation between them about some things, as of the Kingdom of Christ, and of Magistracy, of Justification, and of baptism, of the Lord's Supper, and of the Incarnation of Christ, as also of Matrimony: in which disputation, they prevailed so far by the divine testimonies of holy writ, that they brought the King of the Anabaptiss, (though not acknowledging the least satisfaction) to 
King of the Anabaptiss put to a nonplus.  a nonplus, who to obtain another disputation out of hopes of life (as was said) promised, that he would reduce the Anabap●ists which swarmed in Holland, Braband, England, and Friezland; and that he would do all honour to the Magistrate. Upon the twentieth of January one thousand five hund●ed thirty and six, he is brought with his companions to Munster, where they were secured in 
Anno 15●6.  several prisons; two days were spent in weeding and rooting up their errors. The King indeed confessed his offences, and cast himself wholly upon Christ; but his 
He is convinced of his offences.  companions discovered a vain obstinacy in the defence of their cause. The next day the King is brought to the place of execution, fastened to a stake, and is pulled piecemeal 
His deserved, and severe execution.  by two executioners, with pincers red hot out of the fire. The first pains he felt, he suppressed, at the second he implored God's mercy. For a whole hour was he pulled and delacerated with those instruments, and at length, to hasten somewhat his death, run ●hrough with a sword. His companions were dipped with the baptism of the same punishment, which they suffered courageously; all whose carcases put into Iron baskets; as anathemas of eternal example hang out of the tower ●f S. Lambert. And this was the retiring room of the Tragedy of Munster.   

HERMANNUS suitor, 
Hic qui se Christum, et qui se Jactârat IESUM, SERVASSE haud potuit seque suisque fidem.  THE CONTENTS.  
HERMAN the cobbler professeth himself a Prophet, &c. He is noted for drunkenness; The ceremonies he used in Anabaptism, Eppo his Host discovers him and his followers to be cheats; Hermans wicked blasphemies, and his inconstancy in his opinions, his mother's temerity; his Sect convinced, and fall off from him; by one Drewjis of his Sect he is handled roughly; Herman is taken by Charles Lord of Golderland, &c. and is brought prisoner to Groeninghen; when questioned in his torments, he hardened himself; and died miserably.  
THat there were divers Emissaries and ambassadors sent by the King of the Anabaptists into Holland, Friezland, and other places to raise soldiers, you have understood out of the History of Munster; which soldiers having raised a Tumult, caused the Bishop to discamp from before Munster; and of this Heard was there one Nicholas Alcmariensis, a worthy disciple of John Mathias, who being dispatched into Friezland for the foresaid negotiation, got together a promiscuous crew of Anabaptiss for● the relief of Munster: but that it might appear how real and effectual he was in the business, they sent two of their fellow-soulders, Antony Cistarius, and a tradesman whose name was James, to Munster. These two with some others having compassed their desires at a Town called Opt'zant, having shuffled together from all parts into a kind of a Troop, made their rendezvous at the house of one Eppo, about the twilight out of a pretence that they there should meet with some 
success in bad enterprises. causes evil men to oejoyce.  later intelligence, which they receiving from their Ambassadors, out of very joy for those good tidings, absolutely broke forth into Tumults. The bell-wether of these, was one Herman [an excellent vamper of all abomination] a cobbler of Opt'zant, who professed himself 
Herman●he cobbler processed himself a Prophet, &c.  a true Prophet, and that he was the true Messiah, the Redeemer and Saviour of the world, nay, (which causes horror to me in the relation) that he was God the Father. This fellow lay naked in his bed from the privy parts downward, and caused to be laid near him a hogshead of strong beer, which he desired to drink in Healths, which required no small draughts; for he had gotten an excessive thirst, greater than that of any dog; or that which the Serpent Dipsas causeth in those that are stung by it; & all through his extraordinary bellowing and bawling. For, having for some days led a life like one of Epicurus' herd; that is to say, being drunk even to extravagance, he with a Stentors voice, and a horrid howling, 
He is noted for drunkenness.  among other things often repeated this; Kill, cu● the throats without any quarter, of all these monks, all these Popes, and all, especially our own Magistrate; Repent, Repent, for your deliverance is at hand, &c. In the mean time, he, with the assistance of his fellow soldiers, denounced to certain Proselytes of another Religion, 
His design to invoigle others.  that Peice was not to be rejected without incurring the dreadful effects of the last judgement, which was now at hand, and these were such as both by solicitations and promises, his main design was to inveigle into his deceit. Moreover he sent to redeem some of his followers out of a prison belonging to a certain Nobleman called John of Holten, with this charge, that they should kill with swords and pistols, whosoever should either by words or blows any way oppose them. When they returned with their delivered captives, they had dispatched a man (it is thought he was Priest) looking out at his door, with a Musket, had he not turned his back and shut the door against them. The very same night, which was to be the last, or wherein the world being to be turned to deceitful ashes, they expected it should by the means of this Mediator and Intercessor (as was thought) presently be restored to liberty, there were a great many that embraced him where ever they could, with those compliments which they should use to one, as without the earnest of whose baptism, they were to expect the reward of disobedience, and eternal destruction to be trrasured up for them. The Sacrament of Anabaptism 
The ceremonies he used in Anabaptism.  being according to these cerremonies celebrated, the fore-commended Parent exhorted his children to prayer in these words, Pray, pray, pray, pray, mouthing it out with an agitation of his lips, like that of our Sto●ks; which done, falling on their knees, they disgorged, a strange vicissitude of prayers and songs. The owner of that house, who was an innkeeper, 
Eppo his Host, discovered him and his followers to be cheats.  and withal lame, sat near this great Father, towards whom the Father turning, said unto him, Arise and walk. But Eppo being still lame, and seeing that they were all deceived, and that by a sort of cheats wickedly stitched together, withdrew from them, and hid himself for fear in another's man's house far from thence. These things being thus past, there rises up another, one Cornelius 
* Supposed to be a digger of graves.  Coemiteriensis; who ran about after a most strange manner, and when the Father [of all execrable temerity] lay sick in his bed, tormented with an imaginary, or at least such a disease as puzzelled the Physicians to find any name for; this man for an hour together uttered these and such expressions: O FATHER, look upon thy people; have mercy upon thy people: O let thy bowels, O Father, be moved to compassion: &c. At which addresses the Father being moved, he commanded a tankard of beer to be drawn out of the hogshead, which was now almost at the bottom, which he drinking to his son, drank till it came to the Lees, which presenting to his son, he said to him, Drink 
Hermans wicked blasphemy.  up the holy Ghost. The son like his father, and following his example, having taken it off, he flings out of bed, and falls upon those that stood by, and tossing the tankard from one hand to the other, ran up and down like a drunken man, and at length joined with the father [who was sick of an imaginary extravagance, wherein he was much given to laugh] in roaring out these word; mortify the flesh, mortify the flesh; the flesh is a devil, the flesh is a devil, mortify the flesh; &c. Upon this there immediately starts 
heresy, a catching, or mad disease:  up another, pursued (as he thought) by an extraordinary vision, and after their example, roared it out most furiously, which fellow (as was reported) was really advanced to some degrees (if not the supreme) of madness. A certain woman better than middle-aged, being frighted almost out of her wits, by the bawling and howling of this son, entreated that they would keep in the lunatic and possessed person, and that he might be carried to Bedlam. The common people being astonished at this impious, hellish crew; were forced to pin their faith upon their sleeves, as a truth confirmed by the lying of those prophetical mouths. These ●elapses of fury and madness, having their intervals of calmness and ●erenity, he admonished them, that all arms and weapons were to be laid aside, and that they should put off their guarded, edged and scolloped garments, and their wrought smocks and petticoats, nay that women ought to abstain wearing their necklaces, and all things that were burdensome, intimating the manner wherein God that needs no arms, would fight their battles for them, and should discomfit all their enemies. The cowardly and inconstant vulgar being moved at the madness of this Doctrine, disburdened their bodies of all manner of clothing. A certain harmless man having cast away his knife, takes it up again, which his daughter looking asquint upon, rebuked her father; to which he answered, Be patient, be patient, daughter, we shall have employment hereafter for this to cut bread withal. O how was this girl once a child, but how was the old man twice! When the student of Bedlam, the Son, with his yelling, was exhorting the bewitched people to singing and prayer, and to resist the devil, the Father presently with his own son, in whom he was well pleased, 
heretics inconstant in their opinions.  taught them, that the time of prayer being done, and that the time of war coming on, they must take up the instruments of war; whereupon he gets up into a Pulpit, and declared himself to the people who stood all about him, with a loud voice, that he was the son of God, and cried out that he was born a true mediator unto them, &c. His mother being there 
Herman blasphemes again.  present, they asked her whether she was the mother of the Son of God? To which between force ●nd fear, she at length answered, though innocently, that she was. 
His mother's teme●i●y.  This gave occasion to many to be diffident, and to waver in the faith received; insomuch that a certain man discovering his dissatisfaction, and speaking ill of the son, the said son taking hold of him, flings him into a common shore, saying unto him, now art thou deservedly cast into Hell: from whence the said man coming out all dirt, diverse others unanimously acknowledged that they were defiled and bespattered with the same filthiness and abomination. And hence rise up that impious report of the son of God, that he was thrust out of doors, which that ambassador Antony, being returned from Munster, having heard took it in mighty indignation, and by force breaking into the house, would have vindicated those holy expressions. The Father and Son, were much against it that any should come in; yet he, though the people flocking about him made some opposition, bitterly rebuking that blasphemous wretch, broke forth into these words, Thou villainous and contagious burden of the earth; What madness, what extravagance hath bes●tted thee without 
The Proverb verified. vice corrects sin.  fear of divine judgement, to assume to thyself the title of the Son of God? which spoken, swelling up with the leaven of wrath, he ca●●s himself upon the ground, whereupon the people ran violently upon him, knocking, beating, and kicking him like a football; at last being well loaden with blows he rises, and breaking through the press of the people, he got away and escaped. In his way he comes to a hole in the ice broken for the cattle to drink, twenty foot over, which he made a shift to get over, as is said, with the help of the devil; for many that would have found him out, 
Hermans party are convinced, and fall off from him.  lost their labour. All being now convinced that they were abused, for fear of the most noble Charles Lord of Gelderland, the Viceroy of Groningen (called also King of Gelderland) who was sent to appease that tumult, got secretly away. But before they were all departed, one of them called Drewjis (whom they called Doctor Nucius) out of pure spite, laying hold of the Father, being 
One Drewjis of his party handles him roughly.  sick in his bed, thundered to him in these words; Thou villain, thou fruit and groanings of the Gallows, where, where is now your governing, and authority? now the time of prayers is past, &c. Having dragged him out of bed by head and shoulders, they with some assistance, bound him with cords; and delivered him to the custody of the Mistress of the house to be safely kept till night. In the mean time the valiant 
Charles Lord of Gelderland; &c. with his men surrounds the house where Herman is.  Charles surrounds the house with his men, and besieged it, which the woman seeing, cut the co●ds. Being loose, he takes a trident fork wherewith assaulting them as with a sword, he put to flight forty men through other houses, whom he hastily pursuing, was unawares surprised by others, and brought to Groningen. But behold the miracle! to that very place, where this naked 
Herman is taken & brought prisoner to Groningen:  [of all truth] Messiah with his fork● sceptre, and this shoemaker of cobbler beyond his Last, had with his Trident put so many to flight, did the water-dreading Anabaptists resort and ●ender unto God infinite thanks for the 〈◊〉 us privilages thereof. Of this lewd Messiah, who was ●ow well acquainted with the fetters of Groningen, it was asked in his torments, whether those routs (of whom he was ringleader) were out of 
He is questioned in his torments.  pretence of sanctity raised to rob the public treasuries, (as many thought) which yet (as some say) was denied. For, he hardening himself against even the most 
He is hardened.  cruel torments could be inflicted on him, still cried out; Destroy, destroy, destroy Monks, Fo●●s, kill all the Magistrates, and particularly our own. In the midst of these bawlings being miserably worried ou●, he gave up the 
He dieth miserably.  ghost.   

THEODORUS SARTOR. 
Quis qu●●●o hic Sartor nudus qui deperit? ille Quî rogo ●●ruentis nomine dignus ●●at?  THE CONTENTS.  
THEODOR the butcher turns Adamite, he affirms strange things, his blasphemy i● forgiving of sins, he burns his clothes, &c. and causeth his, companions to do the like. He and his rabble go naked through Amsterdam in the dead of night, denouncing their woes, &c. and terrify the people. They are taken and imprisoned by the Burghers, but continue shameless. May 5. 1535. they are put to death; some of their last words.  
IN the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred thirty and five, upon the third of Februay at Amsterdam, 
Anno 1535.  in a street called Salar street, at the house of John Si●●id a cloth worker, who at that time was gone into Austria about some business, there met seven men Anabaptists, and five women of the same persuasion, of which flock, the bell-wether was Theodorus 
Theodorus Sartor an Adamite.  Sartor, who rapt into a strange enthusiasm and ecstasy, stretching himself upon the ground stark-naked upon his back before his brethren and sisters, seemed to pray unto God with a certain religious dread and horror. Having ended his prayers, he affirmed that he had beheld God with his eyes in the excessive and ineffable 
He affirms strange things  riches of his glory, and that he had had communication with him, both in heaven and in hell, and that the day of his judgement was at hand. After which he said to one of his companions, Thou art decreed to eternal damnation, and shalt be cast into the bottomless pit; at which the other crying out, The Lord God of Mercy have compassion on me; the Prophet said to him, be of good cheer, now art thou the son of God, thy 
His blasphemy in forgiving of sins.  sins are forgiven thee. Upon the eleventh day of February, the foresaid year, the persons aforementioned, unknown to their husbands, repaired to the same Aug●●●'s stable. This Prophet, or Seer, having entertained them with a Sermon of three or four hours long, casts a helmet, a breast plate, a sword, and other arms, together with all his clothes into the fire, Being thus stark naked, 
He burns his clothes, &c. a●d causeto his companions to do the like.  and his companions who yet had their clothes, being uncovered, he peremptorily commanded them to do the like, as being such as must be as safe as himself. He further affirmed, that the children of God ought to look upon all things of this world with contempt and indignation. And since Truth, which is most glorious in her nakedness, will not admit the deformity of any earthly disguise whatsoever, he affirmed that they ought in all things to conform themselves to that example of Truth and Justice. A great many hearing these things having quite cashiered all shame, offered up their shirts, smocks, and petricoats, and whatsoever favoured of earth, as a burnt-offering unto God. The Mistress of the house being awaken by the stink which these clothes made in burning, and going up into the upper chambers, she finds this deplorable representation of immodesty and impudence; but the power and influence of prophetical integrity brought the woman to that pass, that she was drawn in to wallow in the same mire of unshamefacedness, whom therefore he advised to continue always a constant adherer to the unblameable truth. Going out of the house in this posture, 
He and his rabble go naked through Amsterdam in the dead of night, denouncing their woes, &c. and terrify the people.  about three of the clock, the other men and women marched barefoot after him, crying out with a horrid voice, Woe, woe, woe, the heavy wrath of God, the heavy wrath of God, &c. In this fanatic error did this hypocondriac rabble run about the streets, making such a horrid noise, that all Amsterdam seemed to shake and tremble at it, as if it had been assaulted by a public enemy. The Burghers not having the least hint of such a strange and unlooked for Accident, (for this furious action happened in the dead of night) took up arms; and getting these people (lost to all shame and modesty) 
They are taken and imprisoned by the Burghers, but continue shameless.  up to the Palace, ●●apt them into prison. Being so disposed of, they would own no thoughts of shame or chastity, but would justify their most white and naked Truth. In the mean time the fire being smelled, they broke into the house where it was, and wondering at their casting off their clothes into the fire, which had since reached the bed, they made a shift to quench it. But the other distracted and mad people, such as deserved to be sent to their kindred, the Savages and Heathens, inconvincibly persisted in their pestiferous opinion, and so upon the fifth of May the same year, they expiated 
May the fifth 1535. they are put to death Some of their last words.  their wicked impieties by their death. Ones farewell saying, was, Praise the Lord incessantly! another's was, O God revenge thou these our sufferings! Others cried out, Woe, woe, shut thine eyes!   

DAVID GEORE. 
Hereti●● plures visi hic, cui visus ego, illi Pluribus in visusque Haeresiarcha fui.  THE CONTENTS.  
DAVID GEORGE, the miracle of the Anabaptiss. At Basill he pretends to have been banished his country for the gospel's sake; with his specious pretences he gains the freedom of the City for him and his. His Character. His Riches. He with his Sect enact three things. His son in Law, doubting his new religion, is by him questioned; and upon his answer excommunicated. His wife's death. He had formerly voted himself immortal, yet Aug. 2. 1556. he died &c. His death troubled his disciples. His doctrine questioned by the Magistrates, eleven of the Sectaries secured. XI. Articles extracted out of the writings of David George. Some of the imprisoned Sectaries acknowledged David George to have been the cause of the tumults in the lower parts of Germany, but disowned his doctrine.  
Conditions whereupon the imprisoned are set at liberty.  
The Senate vote the doctrine of D. G. impious, and declare him unworthy of Christian burial, and that his body and books should be burned, which was accordingly affected.  
DAVID GEORGE, a man born at 
David George the miracle of the Anabapitsts Anno 1544.  Delft in Holland, the miracle of the anabaptistical Religion, having lived in the lower Provinces forty years, did in the year one thousand five hundred forty and four, with some of his kindred and companions, in the beginning of April, begin his journey for Basill, in the state and condition of which place, he had before very diligently inquired. Whereof having sufficiently informed himself, he pretended that he had been driven out of his country for the gospel's sake, and that he 
At Basill he pretends to have been banished his country for the gospel's sake.  had been hitherto tossed both on the land and sea of the miseries of this world; and therefore he humbly entreated, that now at length he might be received into some place of Rest. Some being by the representation of his misfortunes and his tears, melted into compassion towards him, he presumed to entreat the Magistrate, that in tenderness to Christ and his holy Gospel, he might be made capable of the privileges of the City, which if it were granted, he bid them be confident of God's most particular protection towards their City, and that for the preservation of it, he engaged for him and his, that they should be ready to lay down their lives. The Magistrates being moved with these just remonstrances and desires received the viper as a Citizen, 
With his specious pretences he gains the freedom of the City for him and his.  gave him the right hand of welcome and fellowship, and made him and his free of the City. What should the Magistrate do? Behold, he hath to do with a man of a grave countenance, free in his behaviour, having a very long beard and that yellowish, sky-coloured and sparkling eyes, mild and affable in the midst of his gravity, neat in his apparel; Finally one that seemed to 
His Character.  have in him all the ingredients of honesty, modesty and truth; to be short, one, if you examine his countenance, carriage, discourse, and the cause he is embarked in, all things without him are within the limits of mediocrity and modesty; if you look within him, he is nothing but deceit, fraud, and dissimulation; in a word, an ingenuous Anabaptist. Having already felt the pulses of the Senate and divers of the Citizens, coming with his whole family to Basill, he and his are entertained by a certain Citizen. Having nested a while in Basill, he purchased certain houses in the City, as also a Farm in the country and some other things thereto appurtenant, married his children, and by his good offices procured to himself many friends. For, as long as he remained at Basill, he so much studied Religion, was so great an Alms-giver, and gave himself so much to other exercises of devotion, that suspicion itself had not what to say against him. By these cunning insinuations (this is beyond a young fox, and smells more of the Lybian wild beast) many being surprised, came easily over to his party, so that he arrived to that esteem and reputation in matters of Religion, he pleased himself. This persuasion thus craftily gotten, was heightened by his great wealth (and his riches in jewels, whereof he 
His riches  brought some with him, some were daily brought from other places in the Low-countries) & was yet further increased, by his sumptuous and rich plate and householdstuff, which though they were gorgeous and majestical, yet were they not made to look beyond sobriety, cleanliness and mediocrity. These people sojourning thus in common houses, desiring as yet to suppress the pernicious infection of their sect, very religiously enacted 
He, with his Sect, enact three things.  three things: First, that no man should profane or speak idly of the name of David George. Secondly, that no man should rashly or unadvisedly divulge any thing concerning his country, or manner of life; whence it was that some thought him to be a person of some quality; some, that he was some very rich Factor or Merchant, whence it came that he was so excessively rich; others had other imaginary opinions and conceits of him, for as much as they themselves being strangers, lived in a Country where they could not be ascertained of any thing: Thirdly, he was very cautious that none of the Basileans should be carelessly admitted into his acquaintance, society or correspondence, imitating therein the policy of the Ferrets and weasels, which (as is reported) never assault any bird of supremacy, in the places where they frequent. And thus did he by letters, writings and emissaries, plant and water the venomous seed of his sect through the lower Provinces, yet kept the ways by which he wrought unsuspected and undiscovered. For, although he had lived two years among them, there was not so much as one man infected; or had privately caught the itch of his Religion. What transcendent Mysteries are these! This man, though he feared neither deceit nor treachery from strangers, yet the fire kindled out of the deceitful embers of his own household. For, behold; one of his own Retinue doubting of the certainty of the New Religion, he caused him to be 
His son in Law doubting his new Religion, is by him questioned, and upon his answer excommunicated.  brought before him, and asked him whether he did not acknowledge him to be the true David sent from heaven upon earth, and to be the Horn, Redeemer, and Builder up of the Tabernacle of Israel? to which the other answered roundly and peremptorily, that the restauration of the kingdom of Israel and other things foretold by the Prophets were fulfilled in Christ, the true Messiah, and that consequently there was no other to be expected. Which he hearing, not without great astonishment, did with much commotion of mind and bitter menaces thrust him, though his son in Law, out of doors, and [which is heavy to think on] excommunicated him. These things being thus managed, David's wife fell sick of a disease (which afterwards visited him and many more) that dispatched her into the 
His wife's death.  other world. What a miracle is this! He that declared himself to be greater than Christ, and voted himself immortal (upon the second of August, one thousand five 
He had formerly voted himself immortal, yet Aug. 2. 1556. he died, &c.  hundred fifty and six) did die the death, and was honourably buried according to the ceremonies of the Parish Church, and his funerals were celebrated in the sight of his sons and daughters, sons in law and daughters in law, servant-men and maids, and a great conflux of Citizens. This sad calamity of his death extremely troubled 
His death troubled his disciples  and tormented the minds of his diciples, as a thing that very much thwarted their hopes of his promised immortality, although he had foretold that he would rise again in three years, and would bring all those things to pass which he had promised while he was alive. Upon the death of this man, a great many with resolute minds made it their business not only to bring his doctrine into suspicion, but into utter disesteem, unanimously resolving to embrace whatever was good, sound, 
A good resolution.  and consonant to Christian doctrine, and reject the rest as heretical. In the mean time, the report beat up and down, both among the people, and the more learned, that this man of ingenuity, and author of private doctrines, this very David George, was a contagion and a destructive pestilence, a devoted incendiary of a most dangerous Sect, that (though most falsely) he was born a King, and that he accounted himself the true Messiah. The Magistrate being extremely moved at these things, not deferring 
A pattern for good Migistrates.  his zeal any longer when the glory of God and his son Jesus Christ was so much concerned, caused all those who were conceived to be infected with the pestilence of that Religion to be brought to the Palace, to whom he rubbed over what things had been transacted some years before; that is to say, acquainted them, how that they had been banished their country upon the account of the gospel, and upon their humble addresses received into the protection, and made capable of the privileges of the City, &c. But that it had appeared since, that they had fled for refuge to Basill, not for the propagation of the Gospel, but for that of the leaven of the sacrilegious David, though by all outward appearance, they had hitherto been accounted favourers and professors of the true Religion In the first place therefore the Senate being desirous to know the truth, required 
The senate's enquiry.  to have his true proper name; for, some have thought (as some authors deliver), that his name was John Burges. Secondly, whether he had privately or publicly dispersed his Religion, and what Tenets he held. To which some made answer unanimously, that they had left their country for the true religion's sake, nor did they acknowledge themselves any other than the professors and practisers of the lawful Religion. That for his name, he had not called himself by any other than his own proper name; and for his doctrine, they had acknowledged none either privately or publicly, save what he had privately sometimes suggested, which was not disconsonant to the public. The Magistrate perceiving this obstinacy of mind caused eleven of them, the better to discover the real truth, to be 
Eleven of the Sectaries secured.  secured, and more narrowly looked to. In the mean time, the Senate leaving no stone unmoved in this business, appointed some to bring forth into public view some books and writings of David, which should give no small light in the business, and these the Magistrate recommended to men of the greatest learning to be read over and 
In such cases the learned to be consulted with.  examined with the greatest care possible, that so whatsoever they should meet with repugnant to the Truth, they should extract, and give him an account thereof. Those who had this charge put upon them, presented the Senate with this extract of Articles out of his Writings.  
1. THat all the Doctrine delivered by Moses, the Prophets, or by Jesus Christ himself and his Apostles, 
Articles extracted out of the writings of David George.  was not sufficient to salvation, but dressed up and set forth for young men, and children, to keep them within decency and duty; but that the doctrine of David George was perfect, entire, and most sufficient for the o●taining of salvation.  
2. He affirmed that he was Christ and the Messiah, the well-beloved Son of the Father in whom he was well pleased, not born of blood, nor of the flesh, nor of the lust of man, but of the holy Ghost and the spirit of Christ, who vanishing hence long since according to the flesh, and deposited hitherto in some place unknown to the Saints; was now at length reinsused from heaven into David George.  
3. he held that he only was to be worshipped, as who should bring out the house of Israel, and the true (that is, the professors of his doctrine) tribe of Levi, and the Tabernacle of the Lord, not through miseries, sufferings, crosses, as the Messiah of the Jews did, but with all meekness, love, and mercy in the spirit of Christ granted unto him from the Father which is in heaven.  
4. he approved himself to be invosted with the authority of Saving, or condemning, binding, and losing, and that at the last day he should judge the twelve tribes of Israel.  
5. he further maintained, that Jesus Christ was sent from the Father to take flesh upon him; for this reason at least, that by his doctrine and the use of his Sacraments, men, being as it were no better than children, and uncapable of receiving the true doctrine, might be kept within duty till the coming of David George, who should advance a Doctrine that should be most perfect and most effectual, should smooth out mankind, and should consummate the knowledge of God and of his Son, and what ever hath been said of him.  
6. But he further affirmed, That these things should not come to pass according to human ceremonies, but after a spiritual dispensation, and after such a manner as had not 〈◊〉 ●eard of, which yet none should be able to discern or comprehend, but such as were worthy disciples of David George.  
7. To make good and prove all th●se things, he wrested and misinterpreted many places of the holy Scripture, as if Christ and the Apostles, whom he commends, had intimated not themselves, nor any other ecclesiastical times, save only the coming of David George.  
8. And thence it was that he argued thus: If the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles be most true and most effectual for the obtaining of salvation; the Church which they had by their doctrine built up and confirmed, ●ould not possibly have been broken to pieces, for (as Christ himself testisieth) against the true Church, the gates of Hell shall not be able to prevail: But that building of Christ and his Apostles is overturned and pulled down to the very foundation by Antichrist, as may be evidently seen in the Papacy, according to the Testimony of the same Christ; It therefore necessarily follows, that the Doctrine of the Apostles is imperfect and interrupted: whence he concluded his own doctrine and saith to be the only solid and sufficient doctrine.  
9 Moreover he maintained himself to be greater than John Baptist, yea then all the Saints that had gone before him, for that the least in the kingdom of God (according to the suffrage of Truth itself) is greater than John. But he said David George was one whose kingdom was heavenly and most perfect; whence he makes himself not only greater than John, but also sets himself above Christ, since that he was born of flesh, and that himself was born of the spirit according to a heavenly manner.  
10. He further allowed with Christ, that all sins committed against God the Father, and against the Son may be forgiven, but those that are committed against the Holy Ghost, that is to say against David George, shall be forgiven neither in this world, nor in the world to come; by which means it is apparent that he conceived himself greater and higher than Christ, admitting Christ's own Testimony.  
11. He declared Polygamy to be free and lawful for all, even for those that are regenerated by the spirit of David George.  
These hands [without any brains] did the Magistrate 
Some of the imprisoned Sectaries acknowledged David George to have been the cause of the tumults in the lower parts of Germany, but disowned his doctrine.  deliver to be carried to some that were in the prison, to fish out what confession they would make, who besides these, being provoked and challenged by a number of Questions, answered at last, That this (Davus) I would say David George, was the same who had embroiled the lower parts of Germany with so many tumults & sedition, but as that to that doctrine and the forerecited Articles, they unanimously affirmed that they had never heard nor read of any such things. Nevertheless they were to acknowledge the doctrine expressed in those Articles, to be pestiferous, execrable, and derived not from heaven, but from Hell, and that it was heretical, and to be banished with an eternal Anathe●a; and withal, as men miserably seduced, yet desiring for the time to come, to be reduced into the right way, they were, with good reason, to implore forgiveness. Among those that were in close prison, there was one formerly of David's greatest confidents, who confessed, that indeed 
An ingenuous confession and resolution.  he had been infected with that Religion, but that since by the illumination of the grace of God, he discovered and detested the errors springing from it, and avoided them as he would do a cockatrice. But there were others who were civilly acquainted with this man, who denied that they had known any such thing by him, and cried out against the forementioned Articles as impious and blasphemous. These passages, the Judges appointed by the Magistrate, gave him an account of, who perceiving that some that were in custody were not so extravagant, but that they had some remainders of discretion left, he sent to them some learned and able Preachers of the Word, who, having diligently weeded out the tares of their errors, should sow into their hearts the saving seed 
A pious act.  of true faith. Those who were sent, ●i●ting them with all the humanity, mildness, meekness and charity possible, could screw nothing out of them, more than what the Judges who had been employed before, had done. In the mean time a report was spread about the City, that 
A lying report raised.  it was not David George, not any eminent person of any other name that had been buried, but that a mere swine, calf, he-goat (haply an ass) had been carried out and buried, and that the dead carcase embalmed with the strongest spices, was worshipped and adored with great devotion and religion. But this was but a report, and was not true. Those that were in custody abhorring that doctrine, as unheard of, and such as deserved to be anathematised, and desiring to renew their acquaintance with discretion and their senses, are delivered out of those habitations of Iron which they had kept possession of for two months, upon these conditions, That none should make any purchases 
Conditions whereupon the imprisoned are set at liberty.  either within or near the City, without the knowledge and consent of the Magistrate: That they shall not entertain any coming out of the lower Provinces, though of their kindred, but at public houses or Inns. That the printed books and writings that were translated into the Dutch language, shall be brought into the Palace. That there should be nothing published that were disconsonant to Christian Doctrine. That children should be educated according to incorrupt manners. That they should not make such promiscuous marriages among themselves as they did. That they should take no Dutch into their families. That they should submit to amercements and pecuniary mulcts [if any were inflicted on them] as Citizens ought to do. That upon a day assigned, they should in the Parish Church, in the presence of the whole congregation, make a public abjuration of the said Religion, and condemn and anathematise the whole sect of it. That they should hold no friendship or correspondence with any that shall persist in that Religion. To these conditions did they promise to subscribe, with all the reverence and gratitude they could possibly express. These things being thus managed, the most renowned Senate, returning afresh to the business of the Arch heretic, passed these votes. viz. That the doctrine of David George, upon 
The votes of the renowned Senate.  mature examination thereof, was found impious and derogatory to the divine majesty; That the printed books, and whatsoever may have seen the light, should have the second light of the fire; That he as the most 
The doctrine of D. G. declared impious.  infamous promoter of that execrable Sect, and a most horrid blasphemer against God and Christ, should not be accounted worthy Christian burial. That he should be taken up out of his grave by the common Hangman, 
He is declared unworthy of Christian burial.  and together with his books and all his writings, and his manuscripts should, according to the Ecclefiastical Canons, be burnt in a solemn place. According to the said judgement, the carcase being digged up, was, 
And that his body and books should be burned.  with all his writings, whereof the greatest part was that (truly) miraculous book, together with his effigies brought by the Hangman to the place of execution, where having opened the dire●ul Coffin, he being found not much disfigured, nay so little, that he was known by diverse (He being covered with a watered garment, having about him a most white sheet, a very clean pillow under his he●d, his yellowish Beard rendering him yet graceful; to be short, having a silk Cap on, under which was a piece of red cloth, and adorned with a garland of Rosemary) 
A fit punishment for perverse heretics  was set up publicly to be seen, and in the third year after his death, was with his writings consecrated to Vulcan, that is to say, burned.   

MICHAEL SERVETUS. 
Omnia x portenta voces hominemque Deumque Infandi SERVES nominis opprobium!  THE CONTENTS.  
SERVETUS his converse with Mahometans and Jews. He disguiseth his monstrous opinions with the Name of Christian Reformation. The place of his birth. At the 24 year of his age, he boasted himself the only Teacher and Seer of the world. He in●eighed against the Deity of Christ. Oecolampadius confutes his blasphemies, and causeth him to be thrust out of the Church of Basil. Servetus held but one person in the Godhead to be worshipped, &c. He held the Holy Ghost to be Nature. His horrid blasphemy. He would reconcile the Turkish Alcoran to. Christian Religion. He declares himself Prince of the Anabaptiss. At Geneva, Calvin faithfully reproves Servetus, but he continues obstinate. Anno 1553, by the decrees of several Senates, he was burned.  
MICHAEL SERVETUS, like another Simon Magus, having conversed long 
Servetus his converse with Mahometans and Jews.  among the Mahometans and the Jews, and being excellently well furnished with their imaginous opinions, begat both out of Divinity; and the general treasury of Christian Religion, a monstrous issue of opinions, with the coition of what 
He disguiseth his monstrous opinions, with the name of Christian Reformation.  he had received from the extravagant Mahumelans, and Thalmudists, upon which b●at this instrument of Satan, must needs bestow the disguised name of Christian Reformation. From this cock's egg were bred these Cockatrices, Gonesus, Gribaldus, Blandratta, Gentilis, Alciatus, Simanus, Casanovius, Menno, and diverse other Anabaptistical Vipers, who extremely increased the restless waves of Sects and opinions. We, recommending the rest to their proper place, Hell, will take a more particular survey of one Religion, and by the 
The place of his birth. His arrogant Boast. He inveighs against the Deity of Christ.  horridness of that guess at the others. This Servetus was a Spaniard, born in the Kingdom of Arragon, most unworthy both of his Name and Nation. Being wrapped into a most incredible enthusiasm, he boldly lays his unwashed hands upon holy divinity; and at the four and twentieth year of his age, boasted himself to be the only Teacher and Seer of the world, making it his main design, and that by his impious and worthless writings, 
Oecolampadius confutes his blasphemies, & causeth him to ●…e thrust out of the Church of Basil.  to inveigh against the Deity of the Son of God; with which writings being sufficiently furnished, and withal inflamed with hopes of raising no ordinary tumults, he bestirrs himself wind and tide for Basil; but Occolampadius, an Ecclesiastical Doctor, learnedly▪ before a full Senate confuted the blasphemies of this man, and by the public Authority he had, caused him as a poisonous blasphemer to be thrust out of the Church of Basil. From thence he went to Venice, where, in regard the Venetians had been timely forewarned of him by the wise and learned Melancthon, he made no harvest of his incredible blasphemies, nor indeed was he permitted seedtime for them. Religion is nowhere safe! But having consulted with the arch-heretics his Predecessors, and being bird-limed, he held that there was but 
Servetus held but one person in the godhead to be worshipped, &c.  one person in the godhead to be worshipped and acknowledged, which was revealed to mankind sometimes under one notion, sometimes under another, and that it was thus, that those notions of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, were to be understood in the Scriptures. Nay, with the same line of his blasphemous mouth, he affirmed that our Saviour Jesus Christ according to his human nature, was not the son of God; nor coeternal with the Father. The Holy Ghost he granted to be nothing but that influence by which all things are moved, 
He held the holy Ghost to be Naure.  which is called nature. He most impiously ironical, affirmed that to understand the word Person, we must refer ourselves to Comedies. But the most horrid 
His horrid blasphemy.  blasphemy of all, was, when by the suggestion of Satan, he imagined, that the most glorious and ever to be worshipped and adored Trinity (who doth not tremble at it?) was most fitly compared to Cerberus the Porter of hellgate. But he stayed not here; no, he thought it should be accounted nothing but a diabolical phantasm, the laughingstock of Satan, and the monstrous ●eryon, whom the Poets by some strange mystery of Philosophy feigned to have three bodies. O incredible, and unheard of subtlety of blasphemy! The most glorious name of the most blessed Trinity is grown so odious to this man, that he would personate (being the greatest that ever was) all the Atheists that have quarrelled with that name. Moreover he maintained, that taking but away the only Article of the Trinity, the Turkish Alcoran might be easily reconciled to the Christian Religion; and that by the joining together of 
He would reconcile the Alcoran to Christian Religion.  these two, a great impediment would be removed; yea, that the pertinacious asserting of that Article had enraged to madness whole Countries and Provinces. This abomination of God and men▪ held that the Prophet Moses, that great servant of God, and faithful ●…ard of the Lord's house, that Prince and Captain general of the people of Israel, one so much in favour with God that he was admitted to speak to him face to face, was to be accounted no other than an Imposter. He accounted the Patriarch Abraham and his seed, too much given to Revenge, and that he was most unjust and most malicious to his enemy. The most glorious Church of Israel, ('tis the swine that loves the mire) he esteemed no better than a hog-sty; and declared himself a 
He declares himself Prince of the Anabaptiss.  sworn Prince of the Anabaptistical generation. But, keep o●●, and approach not, O all ye other Heresies and Hydra's of opinions of this one man, furies not capable of expiation! Being arrived at Geneva, and being forbidden to spew out and spatter his pestiferous blasphemies, he continued in hostility against all sharp, but wholesome admonitions: which Calvin, that 
At Geneva, Calvin reproves Servetus.  famous Minister of the Church perceiving, being desirous to discharge the duty of a soul saving Pastor, went friendly to Servetus, in hopes to deliver him out of his most impious errors and horrible heresy, and so to redeem him out of the jaws of Hell, and faithfully reproved him. But he being dazzled with the brightness of Truth, and overcome, returned nothing to Calvin (so well deserving of him) but an intolerable obstinacy, and 
Serve●●● his obstinacy.  inconvincible recapitulation of his blasphemies, whence it came to pass, that by the just and prudent Decree of the Senates of Bernen, Zuring, Basil, and Scasfuse, and by the righteous condemnation of the eternal God, in the month of December in the year one thousand five hundred 
Anno 1553. By the Decree of several Senates he was burned.  fifty and three, (or as Sleidan hath it, in October) he was (how great is the obstinacy of blasphemy!) being at that time ecstarically hardened and intoxicated, consecrated to the avenging flames.   

ARRIUS. 
Divisit Trini qui form●●●uminis ecce! Dividitur membris, Visceribusque suis  THE CONTENTS.  
Arianism its increase, An●● 323.  
THe General Council at Nice, Anno 325. called as a remedy against it, but without success. The Arrians misinterpret that place, John 10. 30. concerning the Father and the Son. They acknowledged one only God in a Jud●icall sense. They deny the Trinity Arrius his wretched death, Anno 336.  
ABout the year of the Incarnation of the Son of God, three hundred twenty and three, 
Arianism, its increase. Anno 323.  Hell was delivered of a certain Priest at Alexandria named Arrius, a man subtle beyond expression, the trumpet of eloquence, one that seemed to have been cut out for all honesty and elegance, who yet, with the poison of his heresy, and the 〈◊〉 cups of his destructive doctrine, did in the time of Silvester Bishop of Rome, and the Emperor Constantine, draw in a manner all Christendom to his opinion, and so corrupted some, even great nations in the East, that except a few Bishops who stood to the true doctrine, none appeared against him. To remedy this disease, at Nice in Bythinia, in the year three hundred 
The General Council at Nice. Anno 325. called as a remedy against Arianism, but without success.  twenty and five, a general council was called; but to no purpose; for the contagious stocks of Arianism were deeply rooted, so that they were become such ravening wolves among the flock of Christ, that all that would not embrace their belief, were to expect banishment or death. These imagined that the son was not of an equal nature and coeternal with the Father, but that he was only agreeing and concurring with his Father; to confirm which, they alleged that place of John 10. 30. 
The Arrians misinterpret that place, Joh. 10. 30 concerning the Father and the son.  which says, I and the Father are one; and though they called the son a great God, yet they denied, that he was a living and true God, and coessential with the Father. They boasted that they were ready to answer all objections, and acknowledged one only God, in a Judaical sense. To that, I and the Father are one, they were used to retort thus, Doth the unity in this place denote coessencie? It most therefore follow, that it is as much, 
They acknowledged one only God in a Judaical sense. They deny the Trinity.  where the Apostle says, 1 Cor. 3. 8. He that planteth and he that watereth, are one. They accounted the word Trinity a laughingstock and a Fiction; that the son of God was a Creature, and that the Holy Ghost, was both born of Christ, and conceived and begotten of the Virgin Mary. All that were baptised in the name of the blessed Trinity, they baptised again. They denied that Christ was the son of God according to the Spirit and the Godhead; they denied God his own Son.  
While Arrius was disburthening himself of the necessities 
Arrius his wretched death, Anno 336.  of Nature, his bowels came forth, and with them his life. And so he who was the successor of those arch-heretics, Artemon (who lived about the year of our Lord two hundred) and Paulus Samosatenus (who lived about two hundred forty one) came to a miserable death, in the year three hundred thirty six. See Athanasius, Epiphanius, Hilarius, Hierom, Augustine, Ambrose, Basill, Theodoret, Eusebius, Socrates, Nicephorus, Sozomen, and other ecclesiastical writers, who have treated of these things more at large.   

MAMOMET. 
Adsum Ingens Mahomates ●go, lachrymabile mundi Prodigium, omnigeni dux, et origo mali.  THE CONTENTS.  
MAMOMET characterised. He made a laughingstock of the Trinity. He agreed with Carpocrates, and other heretics. He renewed Circumcision, and to indulge his disciples, he allowed them Polygamy, &c. His Iron tomb at Mecca.  
IN the year six hundred twenty two, Honorius the 
Anno 622.  fift being Bishop of Rome, and Heraclius Caesar Emperor of the East, a transcendent arch-heretic called Mahomet, exchanged Hell for earth; a Prephet, 
Mahomet characterised.  by Nation an Arabian, but most depraved and corrupt. He had sometimes been a Merchant extremely rich, and withal very subtle; to be short, he was a serious professor of diabolical Arts, a most ungodly instrument of Satan, the Viceroy of Antichrist, or his sworn forerunner. This man endeavoured to exoll his brother Arrius, with such praises as are correspondent to his Heaven. He also with Sabellio renewed 
He made a laughingstock of the Trinity:  the laughingstock of the Trinity. He with Arrius and Eunomius, most fervently and contumeliously held that Christ, was only a Man, and that he was only called God, secundum dici, that is to say, according to a certain manner of speaking. He 
He agreed with Carpocrates, and other heretics.  agrees with Carpocrates who denied that Christ was a God and a Prophet. This is also he that shakes hands with Cerdonus who utterly abjured the Godhead of the son, or that he was cosubstantial with Father. He imagined with the Manichees, that it was not Christ, but some other that was sastened to the cross. With the Donatists, he contemned the purest Sacraments of the Church. With the most impure Origen he affirms that the devils shall be eternally saved according to an human, yet an invisible manner. He with Cerinthus placed eternal Felicity in the lust of the flesh. Circumcision, that was long since abolished and antiquated, 
He renewed circumcision, and to indulge his disciples, he allowed them Polygamy, &c.  he renewed. Upon his dicisiples he bestowed the privileges, of Polygamy, Concu●ines and Divorce, as Moses had done; and with such dreams and an imaginary Phrenly was the miserable wretch ever troubled. This man when he died was put into an iron tomb at Mecca, which by the strength of L●adstones, being as it were in the middle and centre of an arched edifice, 
His Iron Tomb at Mecca  hangs up to the astonishment of the beholders, by which means the miraculous sanctity of this Prophet is greatly celebrated. All the dominions of the Creat Turk, profess this man's saith, whom they acquiesce in as a miracle.   

BALTHAZAR HUBMOR. 
Ille ego qui Vndarum mysteriasacra negavi Igne cremor●fato disce cavere meo.  THE CONTENTS.  
HUBMOR a Patron of Anabaptism. He damned usury. He brought in a worship to the Virgin MARY, &c. The Senate of Suring by a Council reduced him. He renounced the heads of his former doctrine. Himself or Sect still active. He is taken and imprisoned at Vienna in Austria. He and his Wise both burned.  
DOctor Balthazar Hubmor of Friburg, a man excellently well learned, another Roscius in 
Hubmor Patron of Anabaptism.  his affairs, a Clergy man at Ingolstade, was the third eminent Patron of Anabaptism, and a sworn promoter of that worthy Sect. This man in his Sermons at Regenburgh, inveighed so bitterly 
He damned usury.  and so implacably against the usury of the Jews, that he banished it even to eternal damnation; he brought in a certain religious worship to be done to the Virgin 
He brought in a worship to the Virgin Mary, &c.  Mary, and some superstitious vows, and was the cause of great tumults and insurrections, and had built up his doctrine upon very firm and solid foundations, until the most wise Senate of Suring applied the universal medicine of a Council to these things, and assigned a day 
The Senate of Suring by a Council reduced him.  to reduce and root out that Sect, which was the seventeenth of January, in the year one thousand five hundred twenty five, wherein the Senate being present, and 〈◊〉 great presence of people, the most learned Zwin●lius, and other sons of learning, opposed this our Doctor, by whom, and the strength of truth, after most ●ot and serious debating on both sides, he ingenuously confessed himself to be overcome. The heads of the 
He renounced the heads of his former doctrine.  Doctrine, which he before defended, and whereof he afterwards made his abrenunciation, were these: That 〈◊〉 detested the cheat, and human invention of anabaptism; He affirmed that the spirit both before the fall and after was uncorrupt and unblameable, and that it never dies in sin; whence it should follow, that not it, but the flesh, is deprived of liberty; he also acknowledged that the spirit overcomes and triumphs over the flesh. Though his Recantation was made, and 
Himself, or Sect, still active.  divers rebaptised into their better senses, yet the Torrents of this sect neither stood still, nor were dried up, but increased in Switzerland into a deluge, which overturned almost all. This man escaping the endeavours of spies, and shunning the Halter, was at length taken 
He is taken and imprisoned at Vienna in Austria.  with the figtree leaf of divine vengeance, and cast into prison at Vienna in Austria. Being afterwards put much to the question, it being the design of vengeance, the reveuging fire soon turned him to ashes. His wife being also baptised into the same whirlpool of baptism; 
He and his wife both burned.  they both, with minds hardened to their own persuasions, were not disengaged of their faith, but with the departure of their lives.   

JOHN HUT. 
Huttus ab Hubmoro excrescit; cervice resectâ Sic unâ in geminum pullulat Hydra caput.  THE CONTENTS.  
JOHN HUT the prop and pillar of Anabaptism●. His credulity in dreams and visions. He is accounted a true Prophet by his Proselytes. At Merhem, his Fraternity became as is were a Monastery.  
IN the times of the forementioned Balthazar rise 
John Hut the prop and pillar of Anabaptism  up John Hut, a learned man, the prop and pillar of Anabaptism, an eminent despiser of paedobaptism, which kind of baptism he accounted the execrable fiction of the Schoolmen; whence it came, that he persuaded men, that if they were not baptised by him and his, they must necessarily incur great danger to their souls. To which he added, that, those who were honoured with the prerogative of his baptism, 
Anabaptists aim at the advancement of themselves, but destruction of others.  should be the restored people of Israel, and that the wicked Canaanites should be destroyed by their swords, and that God himself should reveal from heaven the times wherein these things should be fulfilled. To visions and horrible dreams, (which he thought proceeded to him from God) he gave great credit, and he affirmed that 
Hut his credulity in dreams. and visions.  he saw the preparations of the last day, and the Angel going to blow the Trumpet, by an indisputable revelation from Gold Upon the account of which dreams, his Disciples as credulous as their Master, spent and destroyed all they had, fearing the difficulties of the times, wherein they should spend them; all which being scattered and consumed before the day came, they suffered a punishment, and inconveniences befitting their folly, having the lash of poverty perpetually at their backs. However they, a generation on whom the greatest quantity 
Hut accounted a true Prophet by his Proselytes.  of black Hellebore would not be much effectual, did still adore this miraculous piece of madness as a true Prophet, even to admiration; of which men, some not worthy the face or name of mankind, do at this day in great numbers live at Merhern in Palaces and Covents upon their accidental contributions, and where they get their livelihood with their hands, and apply themselves to any handicraft, whereof they are the Masters and 
At Merhern the Hutfian Fraternity became as it were a Monastery.  governors, who by the commodities gained by them increase the common stock: They have at home with them their Cooks, their Scullions, their errand-boys, and their Butlers, who have a care and dispose all things as they do in Monasteries and Hospitah; They study to maint●in mu●●al peace and concord, being all equal. These even to this day are commonly known by the name of the Hutsian Fraternity.   

LODOWICK HETZER. 
Polluit ut mentem Sectis deformibus error, Corpore sic Hetzer foedus adulter erat.  THE CONTENTS.  
LOdowick Hetzer a famous heretic. He gains proselytes in Austria and Switzerland. Anno 1527. At a public disputation Oecolampadius puts Hetzer's Emissaries to their shifts. Hetzer denied Christ to be coessential with the Father. His farewell to his Dis●iples. He is put to death for Adultery.  
LOdowick Hetzer, famous for his heresy and Learning, was first very intimately acquainted 
Lodowick Hetzer a famous heretic.  with Nicholas Stork, and then with Thomas Muntzer, yet he agreed not with these in some things, as in that opinion of theirs of the overturning and destroying of all the powers of this world, which opinion he looking on as 
* An item to the hotspurs of our times.  malicious and barbaro●s, forsook them, and joining with John Denk, they by their mutual endeavours, sent some Prophets into Germany. But di●●enting also from him in some things, he propagated his own Sect in Austria, and 
He●zer gains Proselytes in Austria, and Switzerland.  made many Pros●lites at Bern in Switzerland. Which gave oc●a●ion that the Reve●end Senate appointed a public disputation at Soning, and caused letters of safe conduct to be sent to Hetzer and his followers, for which bickering was set apart the first day of February, in the 
Anno 1527, at a public disp●tation, Oecolampadius puts Hetzer's Emissaries to their shi●ts.  year one thousand five hundred twenty seven, where he appeared not himself, but his Emissa●ies came, who were by the most learned (but withal stinging,) Oecolampadius driven unto their shifts, and enforced to acknowledge conviction. Hetzer was a considerable part, and the firebrand of the Anabaptistical sect, but he stiffly denied Christ to be coessential with the Father, which 
Hetzer denied Christ to be coessential with the Father.  the verses made by him upon the carrying of the Cross, do more than hint.  

Ipse ego qui propriâ cuncta baec vi●tute creabam  
Quaeris quot simus? Frustra, ego solus eram.  
Hîc n●n tres numero, verùm sum solus, at i●●i  
Ha●d numero t●es sunt, nam qui ego, solus eram.  
N●scio Per, woman, solus sum ●ivus ego, & sons,  
Qui me nescit, eum nescio, solus ero.   

I who at first did make all things alone,  
Am vainly asked my number; as being one.  
These three did not the work, but only I  
That in these three made this great syzygy.  
I know no Person, I'm the only Main,  
And, though they know me not, will one remain.   
He was excellent at three tongues, he undertook to translate the book of Ecclesiasticus out of the Hebrew into High-Du●ch. Plauterus hath testified for him in writing, that he very honestly and unblamably bid farewell to his Disciples, and with most devout prayers commended 
His farewell to his Disciples.  himself to God, even to the astonishment of the beholders. He having been kept long in close prison, was on the fourth day of February, in the year one thousand five hundred twenty nine, sentenced to die: and thinking himself unworthy of the City, was led w●thout the walls, where he was put to death, not for sedition 
He is put to death for Adultery.  or baptism (as Plauterus says) but for Adultery, which act he endeavoured to defend by some arguments fetched from the holy Scriptures.   

MELCHIOR Hoffman. 
Pellibus a teneris suetus, doctissime, nôsti Ho●manni teneras excoriare Greges.  THE CONTENTS.  
Hoffman a Skinner, and Anabaptist, Anno 1528, seduced 300 men and women at Embda in West-Friesland. His followers accou●ted ●im a Prophet. At Strasburg, he challenged the Ministe●s t● dis●ute, which was agreed upon Jan. 11. 1532. where ●e●ng mildly dealt with, he is nevertheless obstinat●▪ Other Prophets and Prophetesses d●luded him. He deluded himself, and volu●tarily pined himself to death.  
IN the year one thousand five hundred twenty 
Anno 1528.  eight, Melchior Ho●man a Skinner of Strasburg, a most eloquent and most cra●ty man, at Embda in 
Hoffman a Skinner, and Anabaptist, seduced 300. men and women at Embda in West-Friesland.  West Friezland, ensnared 300. men and women into his doctrine, where he conjured up Anabaptism out of hell upon pain of damnation, whereupon being ●eturned to the lower Provinces, who ever addressed themselves to him, he entertained them with water, baptising all promiscuously. This man upon the prophecy of a certain decrepit old man went to Strasburg, it having been foretold him, that he should be cast into prison, 
A delusive prophecy.  and remain there six months, at which time being set at liberty, he should, with his fellow-labourers, disperse the harvest of the Gospel through all the world, He was by his followers acknowledged and honoured as 
His followers accounted him a great Prophet.  a great Prophet. This was the great prop and pillar of the re●gn of Mu●ster. Having therefore made what haste he could pos●ible to St●asburg in order to the fulfi●ling of the phophecy, he there challenges the Ministers of the Word to dispute, which offerture the Senate engaged 
At Strasburg he challenged the Ministers to dispute, which was agreed upon, Jan. 11. 1532.  with, upon the eleventh of January one thousand five hundred thirty and two; at which time, the mists and clouds of errors and blindness, were quite dispersed by the sun of the Gospel. However, Ho●man stiffly adhered to the foresaid prophecy, as also to his own dreams and visions; nor would he acknowledge himself overcome; but, their mildness having somewhat appeased him, he was thence dismissed, as one judged w●rthy of such a place where Lepers are shut up, lest others be infected. But 'tis incredible how joyful he was at 
Being mildly dealt with, he is ●●verthelesse obstinate.  that news, out of an excessive thanksgiving to God, putting o●●▪ his shoes, and casting his hat into the air, and calling the living God to witness, that he would live upon bread and water, before he would discover and brand the author of that opinion. In the mean 
Other Prophe● 〈◊〉 delude hi●.  time some Prophets began to rise and keep a stir, hinting, that he should be secured for that half year, and that afterwards he should go abroad with one hundred forty and four thousand Prophets, who should, without any resistance. 
* Yet it's like, to back their prophecies, they pretended liberty of conscience.  reduce and bring the whole world under the subjection of their doctrine? There was also a certain prophetess who should prophesy, that, this Hosman was Elias, that Cornelius Polterman was Eno●●, and that Strasburg was the new Jerusalem, and she had also dreamed, that she had been in a great spacious Hall, 
A Prophetess deludes him.  wherein were many brethren and sisters sitting together, whereinto a certain young man in ●…ing apparel should enter, having in his hand a golden bowl of rich Nectar, which he going about should taste to every one; to whom having drunk it to the dregs, there was none Pretended to compare with him, but only Polterman. Alas poor Melchior! He having nothing, yet made Master 
He deluded himself.  of a strong Tower, did after the example of Esdras, signify by Letters that his baptism should, be put off for two years longer, until afric should bring forth another monster, that should carry hay in its horns. There were many other dreams, and some nocturnal pollutions, which they attributed to heaven, and thought such as should have been written in Cedar. But it was Melchior's pleasure to think it a miserably happy kind of 
He voluntarily pined himself to death.  death, o die voluntarily, by pining and consuming away with hunger, thirst, and cold.   

MELCHIOR RINCK. 
Discipulos sic Rincke doce● Baptisma negare, Sanguine carnifices et scelerure manus!  THE CONTENTS.  
MElchior Rinck, an Anabaptist. He is accounted 〈◊〉 notable interpreter of dreains and visions. His ●isciple Thomas Scucker, in a waking dream cut off his brother Leonard's head; pretending for his mi●rther obedience to the decree of God.  
MELCHIOR RINCK, a most wonderful Enthufiast, was also a 
Melchior Rinck, an Anabaptist.  most extraordinary promoter of Anabaptism, and among his followers celebrated the festivals of it, He made it his business to extol Anabaptism above all others, with those commendations (which certainly it wanted not) Besides he was accounted no ordinary promoter and interpreter of dreams 
He is accounted a notable Interpreter of dreams and visions.  and visions, which it was thought, he could not perform without the special indulgence of God the Father; nay, he arrived to that esteem among the chiefest of his opinion, and became so absolutely possessed of their minds, that his followers interpreted whatever was scattered abroad concerning dreams and visions, to have proceeded from heavenly inspirations from God the Father. Accordingly in Switzerland (to omit other particulars) at Sangall, even at a full Council, his disciple Thomas Scucker, being rapt into an enthusiasm, (his Father 
His disciple Thomas Scucker, in a waking dream cut off his Brother Leonar's head.  and Mother then present, and his Brother Leonard, having by his command, cast himself at his knees before him) calls for a sword, whereupon the parents and divers others running to know what was the cause and meaning of such an extravagant action, he bid them not to be troubled at all, for that there should happen nothing but what should be according to the will of God; Of this waking dream did they all unanimously expect the interpretation. The foresaid Thomas [guilty alas of too much credulity] did, in the presence of all those sleeping-waking spectators cut off his own brother's head, and having forgotten the use of water, baptised him with his own blood. But what followed? The Magistrate having sudden notice of it, and the offence being fresh and horrid, the Malefactor is dragged to prison by 
He pretends (for his murder) obedience to the decree of God.  head and shoulders, where he, having long considered his action with himself, professed he had therein obeyed the decrees of the Divine power. These things, did the unfortunate year one thousand 
Anno 1527.  five hundred twenty and seven see. Here men may perceive, in a most wicked and unjustifiable action, the eminent tracts of an implacable fury and madness; which God of his infinite goodness and mercy avert from these times.   

ADAM PASTOR. 
Nomine qui Pastor tu Impostor moribus audis, Qui â recto teneras Tramite ducis oves.  THE CONTENTS.  
ADam Pastor a derider of paedobaptism. He revived the Arian heresy. His foolish interpretation of that place, Gen. 2. 17. so often consuted.  
ADAM PASTOR, a man born at a village in Westphalia, was one of those, who with 
Adam Pastor a derider of paedobaptism.  the middle finger pointed at paedobaptism; that is to say, looked upon it with indignation, as a thing ridiculous, being of the same opinion in that business, as Menno and Theodorus Philip, but as to the incarnation of God, he was of a quite contrary judgement. For Menno held, that Christ was something more worthy and more divine than the seed of a woman, but (our) Adam stood upon it, that he was less worthy than that of God, so that he roused up the Arian heresy, 
He revived the Arian heresy.  which had lain so long asleep, as having been but too famous in the year three hundred twenty five. For in a certain book of his, whose title was, OF GOD'S mercy, he writ thus, The most divine word, which is the main considerable in our business, is written in the second of Gen. v. 17. The day that ye shall eat of the fruit, ye shall die the death; This is that word, which is made flesh. Joh. 1. Yea that God which is uncapable of 
His foolish interpretation of that place, Gen. 2 17.  suffering and impassible, is made passable, and he that was immortal, is made mortal; for he was crucified, and died for our advantage. To be brief, he held, that Christ was not to be accounted any thing but the hand, the finger, or the voice of God. But although the opinion or Religion of this (third, but most unfaithful) Pastor Adam wander out of the limits of divinity, and that it seem to be an ancient heresy, containing nothing in it but what is childish, trifling, and mere foppery, & hath been confuted & brought to nothing by the most religious preachers of the word 
His opinion hath been sufficiently resuted.  of God, notwithstanding the barking of the viperous progeny of Arrius and Servetus; yet he hath this in particular, that he would have us look narrowly to his explication of the second of Genesis, which he so commends, where he foolishly and vainly endeavours to prove that the prohibition there, is the word made flesh. This monster did not only beget this sect, but nursed it; here are baits, allurements, and all the poisonable charms imaginable that may cunningly seduce the best and most innocent of men. But alas! where is the free and indulgent promise of God of the seed of the woman, which cuts the very throat of the devil, and ties him in the strictest chains? where are his often promises to Abraham? to Isaac? to Israel and to his old people, confirmed by a league so solemnly made? In thy seed all the earth shall be blessed. And thou shalt be a blessing unto me. This seed, witness the Apostle, is none other than Christ himself, whom God without question meant. The desperate contagion of this man's Religion did Servetus and his adherents profess, embrace, and celebrate.   

HENRY NICHOLAS. 
Vestra Domus Nicholae cadat, quae exrudore versoe Futile fundamen Religionis habet.  THE CONTENTS.  
HENRY NICHOLAS, Father of the Family of Love. He is against infant-baptism. His devilish logic.  
THere was also o'er Henry Nicholas the Father 
Henry Nicholas Father of the Family of Love.  of the Family of Love, (as he called himself) and not the meanest man of all his Gang, one who by many means endeavoured to cripple the baptism of Children, as is too known and apparent out of his writings, which at a third hand, he with all 
He is against Infant-Baptism  freedom, earnestness and kindness, endeavoured to communicate to David George and the other of his fellow-labourers, and his new Jerusalem friends. This man in a Pamphlet of his, wherein he notably described himself, and which he dedicated to an intimate friend of his under the name of L. W. maintaining that the 
* As to that minute (if he confine not God) we may believe him.  minute of the last Trumpet was coming, that should unfold all the Books of unquiet consciences, hell, and eternal Judgement, which should be found to have been only things grounded upon mere lies, and as all wicked and high misdeeds were hateful and detestable to God, so also were glorious and plausible lies no less odious to him. The same man endeavoured to persuade people, that he was a partaker of God, and the humanity of his Son. He further affirmed, that at the last day God should bring all men, nay the devils themselves into 
His blasphemy.  perfect happiness. All the things that were said of 
Doubtless he hugged himself in this opinion.  devils, of Hell or Angels, and eternal judgement, and the pains of Damnation; he said, were only told by the Scripture to cause fear of civil punishments, and to 
His devilish logic.  establish right Policy.  
FINIS.   

The Conclusion.  
These few things we have brought to light, were not invented by us, but were extorted out of their own Disciples, with abundance of discourse, not without the presence of many men of godliness and excellent understanding, 
* heretics allow not of the Scriptures.  they admitting not the universal rule of the Scriptures. But alas! take these away, where is Faith? fear of God? eternal happiness? But let us believe them, let us believe them, and we shall be saved.  
Oh! that to Heresies I could say   

An Alphabetical TABLE to the Revelation of heretics.  

A.  
APious Act. 48.  
Adam Pastor, a derider of paedobaptism, 7●. &c.  
Anabaptists their leading principle, 3. usually they grow worse and worse, ibid. their bold attempt, 14. &c. where Masters most insolent, 10. of a levelling principle, 21. they, as the devil, pretend Scripture for their base actions, 2● they aim at universal Monarchy, ibid. their de●ign upon Amsterdam, 24. they aim at the advancement of themselves, but destruction of others, 64 they would enforce others to their opinions; yet: pretend liberty of conscience as to themselves. 70.  
Arrius, his character, and wretched death, 55. &c.  
Arrianisine, its increase. 56.   

B.  
JOhn Buckhold, or John of Leyden, His actions and end. 1●. &c.   

C.  
CAlvin's reproof of Servetus, 54  
Godly and loyal Citizen● hate usurpation. 18  
Conventicles usually the nurseries of Tumults. 13   

D.  
THe devil an enemy of peace. 9   

E.  
A Bad Example soon followed. 18   

F.  
FAmine the consummation of all misery. 25  
its character, &c. 26   

G.  
Dauid George, an Anabaptist, his character doctrine, actions, and death. 40, &c.   

H.  
heresy a catching, or mad disease. 33  
heretics, their usual prerence, 2. the end that they propose to themselves in opposing the Ministry and Magistracy, 2. they are restless. 3. their cruelty, 19 they are inconstant in their opinions, 34. they allow not of the Scriptures. 78  
Hermannus suitor, or Herman the cobbler, his blasphemies, opinions and end. 30. &c.  
Lodowick Hetzer, a famous heretic, 65, &c. his end, 67.  
Melchior Hosman an Anabaptist, 68 pined himself to death. 69  
Balthazar Hubmor an Anabaptist, 60, &c. he and his wife burned, 62  
John Hut an Anabaptist, 63, &c.   

I  
JOhn of Leyden, vide Buckhold.  
An item to the Hotspurs of our times, 66   

K.  
BErnard Knipperdoling, 16   

L.  
THe Learned to be consulted with, in detection of Sectaries and heretics, 45  
loyalty not always successful 19  
Luther's advice to the Senate concerning Muntzer, 4   

M.  
magistrate's seduced, most ominous 5  
A pattern for good Magistrates. 44  
Mabomet characterised, 58 &c. his iron Tomb, 59  
John Mathias a Baker at Harlem, his actions and end, 8, &c.  
Moneys & preferments, the usual baits of sedition, 25  
Thomas Muntzer, His Opinions, actions, and end. 1. &c.   

N.  
HEnry Nicholas Father of the Family of Love, he is against insant-baptism, his blasphemy, and devilish logic, 77, &c.  
OEcolampadius puts Hetzer's Emissaries to their shifts. 66   

P.  
AN ill precedent soon followed, ●  
Pretenders to Religion, prove usually the disturbers thereof 9   

R.  
A Good Resolution, 44, 48  
Melchior Rinck, an Anabaptist, 71, &c. his disciple Thomas Scucker cut off his or others' head, 72   

S.  
SEctaries like ●inder, are soon on fire, 3. their usual pretence to raise sedition, ibid.  
Sedi●ion goes not always unpunished, 21  
Michael Servetus an Anabaptist, his blasphemous opinions and end, 51, &c.  
Success in bad enterprises causes evil men to rejoice 31   

T.  
THeodorus Sartor, or Theodor the butcher, an Adamite, his blasphemy, actions, and end, 37, &c.  
John tuysentschrever, an abettor of John Buckhold, 19, &c. his seditious Sermon, 21   

V.  
Vice corrects sin, 3●.   
FINIS.