An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

young men on horse back, and he on the right hand bare a crown, and the bible, the other on the left hand, a drawn sword. The pomp of his chief wife (for he had mo at that time) was after the same manner. In the market place there was an high throne made for him, covered with cloth of gold. The actions and complaints that were brought before him, for the most part were of marriages, and divorcements, which then were most frequent, and after such, a manner, that not a few which had before lived togethers a long time, were ⟨p. 431⟩then divorced. It came to pass, that on a certain day as the people were in the market place very thick, and thronging together to hear, Behold, Knipperdoling, leaped up, and creeping upon the heads of the people with his hands, and feet (for they stood so thick) he breathed in the mouth of every one of them, saying to one, after another, The father hath sanctified thee, receive the holy spirit. An other day he leading the dance before the king, said, thus was I wont to do with my harlot, but now the father hath commanded that I should do the same before the king. But because he did it so often, and never ended, the king being offended went his way. Then hastily he went into the throne, and behaved him self like a king. But the king coming in the mean while, thrust him out, and caused him to be kept in prison three days. During the siege they set out a book, naming it the restitution, in which book besides other things, they say: The kingdom of Christ to be such afore the judgement day, that the elect, and godly shall reign, but the wicked, that they should be destroyed every where. Also that it is lawful for the people, to put down the civil powers: and that although the Apostles had no commandment to take jurisdiction upon them, yet notwith standing, the ministers of the church now, ought to take the sword into their hands, and by violence to set up a new common wealth. Also that none ought to be suffered in the common wealth, that is not a true Christian: that none can be saved, unless he put all his goods in common, without possessing any thing proper unto him self: that Luther, and the Pope be false prophets, and of the two Luther to be the worse:

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