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The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A…
The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A brief tractate, concerning the doctrine of the Quakers, demonstrating the destructive nature thereof, to religion, the churches, and the state, with consideration of the remedy against it. : Occasional satisfaction to objections, and confirmation of the contrary trueth. / By John Norton ...
Cambridge: printed by Samuel Green, 1659
Chapter 3 › Their Opposition to Civil Order, is thus evinced.
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About 1524 arose Thomas Muncer, who in his letters styled himself Thomas Muncer, the servant of God, with the sword of Gideon against the ungodly. He crieth down books, and the letter of the Scripture, saying the Spirit was Leader and Rule to believers.
About 1524 arose Thomas Muncer, who in his letters stiled himself Thomas Muncer, the servant of God, with the sword of Gideon against the ungodly. He cryeth down books, and the letter of the Scripture, saying the Spirit was Leader and Rule to believers.
Amongst other things he teacheth parity amongst men, rejection of Dignities, Community of goods, that all the world should abide in the liberty wherein it was at first created. Of his dangerous attempt in Alstad to destroy the Princes, innovate the Government & change the times, we heard also before. In Mulhuisen an Imperial City in the Province of Turingia, he so wrought upon the people ⟨p. 42⟩that they changed their old Magistrates, chose new ones of Muncer's way, whence arose many troubles. Many people leavened with his doctrine, desist from their ordinary Labour & when they had need of any thing, they took from those who had it, whether they would or not. In Swaben & Francony the husbandmen & labourers take up arms to the number of Forty thousand, they drove away the Nobles, imprisoned some (according to the French Historiographer they slew many of the Nobility) sacked & burnt their Castles & fortresses, as the fetters of their liberty. At last he & Henry Pfeiffer pretending a vision from heaven gather forces & with a numerous company take the field, fight with the princes are taken & put to death 1525. In these tumults of Muncer were slain first & last fifty thousand of the people: according to some one hundred thousand.
Amongst other things he teacheth parity amongst men, rejection of Dignities, Community of goods, that all the world should abide in the liberty wherein it was at first created. Of his dangerous attempt in Alstad to destroy the Princes, innovate the Government & change the times, we heard also before. In Mulhuisen an Imperial Citty in the Province of Turingia, he so wrought upon the people