Onnooselheydts peyl: van't Munsters onheyl.

being, has 15 openly challenged infant baptism.
Here, having been incited against the Council 16 of the Evangelical congregation, they made a decree that the Baptists should vacate the city, which was obeyed the first time (but refused the second 17 time through Rotteman's spirit), provided they secretly returned by another way. However, the Council, fearing greater evil, 18 summoned the Evangelical and Baptist preachers to the City Hall. There, Rotteman condemned infant baptism as godless. lib. 10.
But not to open the churches with violence, which he taught Jan van Leyden in the exchange of rebaptism, also that it is permitted for religious matters to take up arms against the authorities: In contrast to the Anabaptist sentiment, which Sledan. lib. 10. declares to be that a Christian may not be an authority, etc. Also H. Bullinger. lib. 1. cap. 8. art. 16. Ibidem lib. 2. c. 8. If one wants to say Rotteman 19 was misled, Jan van Leyden much more so: (besides the fact that his teaching office coming to Münster, nor that he misled Rotteman, does not appear) who in any case only brought Rotteman to adult baptism. But he, Jan van Leyden, brought him into the most harmful doctrine, that one might rise up with force against the authorities for the sake of faith, from which all the Münster, German evils and destruction mostly originated. This Rotteman 20 was the foremost one who, with writing to all surrounding places, advised the common people, with the abandonment of their property, to break camp, [saying] they would find the same tenfold in Münster, in order to thus escape God's impending punishment: Sled. lib. 10. and this only to be able to resist the Bishop's power with population density. This Münster, and elsewhere, innocent misled people (not the leaders) is what Menno, after the passing of events, calls weak brothers, after they were so miserably led astray by Rotteman and other hellish shining virtues of deception. 21 Who among all sects is free of error? unless one pays close attention to the target of the Holy Scripture, which should only serve for the betterment of the sinful life, next to the knowing of God and His Christ. There the Devil then comes and abuses them in the imprudent toward sin, and seeks the innocent in place of God. NOTE. Here the Mennonites are called clandestine preachers/ and have appeared besides the pulpit preachers, being Anno 1533. Sled. lib. 10. and Hend. Bul. says against the Anabaptists lib. 2. Cap. 8. That Anabaptists Anno 34. Finally found the weapon.

19. The Devil has moved the preachers Rollius, Rottem. and several others to reject infant baptism, and although the honorable Council at the time violently fought against such horror, they still drove their teaching so secretly into the people that one could not finally prevent it, and, how could the Council protect itself here, while Rottem. had handed over a manuscript, that he would never again adhere to the Anabaptist teaching. Acta. Corv. Anno 1536.

20. That B. Rotteman's booklet / named Restitution of the Christian congregation. Therein he disputes about the Lord's Supper. Love seeks not her own... where is that now among all nations that do not break bread with their brothers? of which works give public testimony / as well among the Calvinists and Mennonites / as with the Papists. NOTE. Here the Lutherans are passed over in silence / and Menno is reported.

21. Luther and Zwingli themselves, head-teachers, are [led] from their first simplicity to weapons. Prot. Emd. art. 12. 3. act. I omit every adhering congregation. But such does not appear in Menno / and therefore [he is] not only as innocent as Christ of Judas the traitor / as well also as praiseworthy / as he who sought the lost sheep. Luke 15. 4.

15. The Pastor asks Jan van Leyden / being imprisoned / was there not a Recess, between the Lords of Münster and you established, that in the Parish churches God's word should be [preached] and free of all fanaticism? Jan of L. says: We have, however, afterwards recognized the Anabaptist [teaching] as right, which has forced us to exceed our given recess. Act. Disp. Corv. Anno 1536. With this agrees H. Dorp. Fol. 10.
NOTE. The Pastor counts Jan van Leyden also under the first agreement with the Evangelicals / which Jan van Leyden also grants. After which [he] understood rebaptism as law / not from other points like all misdeeds / committed by Pope / Luther / and Zwingli / one to be blamed for the other / because they all practice infant baptism / so also with the Mennonites what the Münsterites have committed. Thus one does not find / that J. van Leyden placed himself among the night teachers / but friendly among the church preachers / and thus asked after the infant baptism ground.

16. After Staprede already preached openly in the Church at Münster from the Pulpit against infant baptism / then the previously existing Mennonites remained secretly in the houses still teaching. Ergo / the root [did] not arise from the clandestine teachers / but from the Lutheran Pulpit-preacher H. Dorp. Anno 1536. in his true [account of] strangers who seek to chase away the wolves with force.

17. The Evangelicals have done as they did to the Catholics / the Anabaptist Pulpit-preachers have chased the infant-baptism preachers out of the city / these were punished by the Bishop as instigators. There, D. Joh. Wick. H. Dietherich, the one from the Ham, Anth. Guldenam's brother-in-law preacher, [was] beheaded. H. Dorp. Fol. 16.

18. These Evangelical and Baptist Preachers were both Lutherans / having no difference than about the Baptism / both preaching by day in the main church. Here Jan van Leyden is not thought of. H. Dorp. Fol. 11. The church the erroneous and rebellious spirit (Rot) with his followers dares to call the other Anabaptists and clandestine-preachers / [saying] that infant baptism is a horror.