Onnooselheydts peyl: van't Munsters onheyl.

5. Luther comforts Melanchthon in 1530 that their actions were not done by men, but were God's work. Sled. lib. 7.

6. Although Müntzer left the Evangelical teaching and preached against Luther and the Pope, he remained of the opinion that weapons should be used against the authorities, and by helping, making the congregation rebellious, choosing a new council, and deposing the old one. Sled. lib. 5. Anno 25. And although H. Bullinger lists him among the first of the Anabaptists, he says that Müntzer despised water baptism. And in 1523 he preached against the authorities, lib. 1, fol. 1, 2. These Anabaptists accuse Zwingli because he did not promote the matter that concerned the Church and the kingdom of Christ diligently enough. This zealot contradicts Zwingli, calling them his dear brothers. lib. 1. cap. 4.

7. B. Rotteman, an Evangelical teacher, was the first founder of the riot in Münster. Sled. lib. 10. Guido de Bres calls Rotteman's co-helpers "servants of the Divine Word" in his Wortel Root. lib. 1. cap. 2.

8. Guido de Bres omits this in his Wortel; also H. Bullinger against the Anabaptism, lib. 2, c. 8, as being the root of the riot, which both these writers also understand as the Anabaptists usually do, and therefore also recount against them.

9. Here the Devil shows himself to be a lawyer and a theologian, and Rotteman a disciple of Luther. Sled. lib. 10. flet n 4.

10. Petrus Worthemius and Godfridus Stralen; the latter later became an Anabaptist pulpit preacher. H. Dorpius, Anno 1536, in his True History.

11. Of these six, Rotman, Stralen, and Rollius fell into Anabaptism and continued to preach in the main church. H. Dorpius Fol. 7.

12. The Papists said: "all this comes from the Lutheran teaching, and yet they know that they lie shamelessly before God and before the whole world; we have opposed the rebellious rascals with the teaching and with deeds; that cannot be denied." Henr. Dorp. Anno 1536, in his preface to the true history. NOTE: These rascals were Rotman, Rollius, Stralen, and Staprede, who preached in St. Lambert's, St. Giles', and at Overwasser in Münster. The Lutherans were not scolded any less as rascals by the Papists.

13. As the Münster citizens stopped the Bishop's warning messenger from demanding the burden on the clergy to cease, and against that night they were 900 strong and well-armed: they encountered the enemies at Telgte, take the gate and streets, so that no one could escape; everything they found inside, they imprisoned. But the Bishop had departed a day or two earlier; otherwise, he would have been imprisoned like the others. H. Dorp. Fol. 8. Thus they returned with 4 wagons of imprisoned cathedral canons, the Bishop's advisors, and nobility, and thus [obtained] religious freedom, which was forced from the Bishop through violence.

...untouched was Jan van Leyden among the Evangelicals; the Anabaptists were those who secretly... preached.

preached in the Church (such follows Zwingli Anno 1524). At this time sects grew, who said they had spoken with God, and also had orders to strike all godless people dead, and that in a new world, only the pious would rule. Such an opinion did not displease Carlo Stadius. From these fellows, later came Thomas Müntzer, who was a beginner of the peasant war against the authorities. Sled. lib. 3. Anno 1522. Thereafter, the Catholic Confederates in Switzerland complained that Zwingli (then in agreement with Luther) taught and interpreted the Word of God, which serves for peace and unity, in such a way that it opened doors and gates to rebellion and discord. Anno 1524. lib. 4. This appears at Basel, under the guise of uprooting idols, against the will of the magistrates, introducing the new teaching, deposing twelve from the Council, whom they nevertheless declared to be of good name and fame. Anno 1529. lib. 6. With that understanding, 7 Bernart Rotteman began to preach the Gospel near Münster in St. Maurice's Church, Anno 1532. lib. 10. The Papists, hearing this, by giving money, made him depart. He, however, after a few months 8 returning, and being taken into the city by some of the principal citizens, erected his pulpit in the porch of the Church: through this pleasing influx, 9 one attempted the opening of churches, if not that they would do it themselves with violence, to thus sow the seed of the Gospel. B. Rotman, writing for help from pious and learned men, 10 found two from Marburg out of Landgrave Hessen's land. 11 The six of them deliberated, to depose the Papacy as quickly as possible, and forged 30 articles, with which they seemed to silence the Papists. So the Council forbade the Catholics to preach. This unexpected suffering through the Papists' complaint to the Bishop 12 not being able to be prevented, the Catholics, after much concession, struck a 13 peace with the Evangelicals on the 14th of February, 1533. After this time, Jan Beukelsen of Leyden came to Münster among the Evangelicals, where he proposed the Anabaptism, with condemnation of infant baptism, to some preachers. Rotteman, hearing this, warned the congregation to hold themselves to the pure teaching and away from the 14 fantastic people, especially away from the Anabaptists, although they had now crept in among them quietly. Thereafter came Harman Staprede, who became Rotteman's companion in preaching.