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oasted of the number of his illegitimate children. Alexander was a monster of iniquity, who gave dispensations for crimes that cannot be written. Baronius says that the vilest harlots domineered in the papal see, at their pleasure changed sees, appointed bishops, and actually thrust into St. Peter’s chair their own gallants, false popes. Take the simple case of John XII. Bowden wrote: ‘The Lateran palace was disgraced by becoming a receptacle for courtesans; and decent females were terrified from the pilgrimages to the threshold of the Apostles by the reports which were spread abroad of the lawless impurity and violence of the representative and successor of two others equally vile.’ But these were no worse than Sixtus, who entered a house of ill-fame in Rome, the inmates of which, according to Justin, paid his holiness a weekly tax, which amounted sometimes to twenty thousand ducats a year. The purest spirits in the hierarchy blush to tell the hard narrative of monastic life in the sixteenth century, although it made pretensions to spotless virtue. Archbishop Morton, 1490, accused the abbot of St. Albans with emptying the nunneries of Pray and Sapnell of modest women and filling them with vile females. The clergy kept concubines openly from the popes down. … For centuries the fanaticism of Rome had immersed all people in a state of nudity. … Rome practiced the same indecencies in flagellation, borrowed from the heathen feast of Lupercale, in which, according to Virgil and Plutarch, young noblemen walked through the streets naked, cutting themselves with whips and rods, in austerity, while sacrifices were burning to their gods. The same barbarity was practiced by Christian woman of France, Mezeray being authority. For two centuries this flagellation madness ran through Bavaria, Austria, the Upper Rhine and Italy, nay through Saxony itself. These morbid fanatics practiced all stages of undress, formed a brotherhood, swept in thousands through these lands, singing hymns, having revelations from angels and the Virgin, and with a letter from Christ himself, which they exhibited in their pilgrimages. Motley calls the Munster men ‘Furious fanatics, who deserve the madhouse rather than the scaffold;’ and how much better were Catholics and Protestants in practicing the same things?” f523 Says Vedder, who is too ready to credit slanders on the ancient Baptists: “Fanatical outbreaks in South Germany had no connection with Hoffman. Their chief leader, if not instigator, was Thomas Muntzer. He is invariably called an Anabaptist, but in reality he never belonged to that body. It is true that he wrote and spoke against the baptism of infants, but he regularly practiced it, and was therefore a Pedobaptist. The disorders of his leadership cannot be laid to the charge of the Anabaptists.” f524 Says Prof. Geo. P. Fisher, D.D., of the Anabaptists: “The church they insisted must be composed exclusively of the regenerate, and they insisted, it is not a matter to be regulated and managed by civil rulers. Under the name of Anabaptists are included different types of doctrine and Christian life. It is a gross injustice to impute to all of them the wild
destructive fanaticism with which a portion of them are chargeable. … This fanatical class are first heard of under Thomas Munzer, as a leader. … Grebel and other Anabaptists … were enthusiasts but not fanatics. They were peaceful in their spirit, and, as it would appear, sincerely devout.” f525 The new American Encyclopedia is quoted: “There was another class of Anabaptists, widely different from those who have been described” as the Munster men. Fessendens’ Encyclopedia — a work quoted with approbation by Daubigne, is quoted: “Anabaptists: The English and Dutch Baptists do not consider the word as applicable to their sect. It is but justice to add that the Baptists of Holland and England and the United States are to be regarded essentially distinct from those seditious and fanatical individuals.” The New American Encyclopedia is quoted: “It is certain that the disturbances in the city of Munster were begun by a Pedobaptist minister of the Lutheran persuasion, … that he was assisted in his endeavors by other ministers of the same persuasion.” Says Keller: “Nothing can be more false than the assertion that any casual connection existed between these revolutionary efforts and the teachings of Denck and the better part of the Anabaptists generally.” f526 In the Examiner and Chronicle, Dr. William Whitsitt, says: “I believe that we cannot avoid accepting the testimony of Sebastian Frank, to the effect that Munzer, though at one time he rejected infant baptism, like many other men of a ‘like sentiment in that age, never went to the length of adopting Anabaptism.’ Frank says: ‘He himself never baptized any, as I am credibly informed. Erkbam, 495, note.’” Daubigne is quoted concerning the Munster troubles, as saying they came out of the bosom of the Reformation: “Confusion and ruin had taken hold of the city. The Reformation had seen an enemy spring up from its own bosom more formidable than all the popes and emperors. It was on the very verge of the abyss.” f527 Luther himself distinguished between the Anabaptists and the Munsterites. He said: “I have got over three cruel storms — Munzer, the Sacramentarians and the Anabaptists.” f528 In The Independent, the lamented specialist in Baptist history, Dr. Buckland, of Rochester Theological Seminary, refuting the Munster slander, called attention
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destructive fanaticism with which a portion of them are chargeable. … This<br />
fanatical class are first heard of under Thomas Munzer, as a leader. … Grebel<br />
and other Anabaptists … were enthusiasts but not fanatics. They were<br />
peaceful in their spirit, and, as it would appear, sincerely devout.” f525<br />
The new American Encyclopedia is quoted: “There was another class of<br />
Anabaptists, widely different from those who have been described” as the<br />
Munster men.<br />
Fessendens’ Encyclopedia — a work quoted with approbation by Daubigne, is<br />
quoted:<br />
“Anabaptists: The English and Dutch <strong>Baptist</strong>s do not consider the word as<br />
applicable to their sect. It is but justice to add that the <strong>Baptist</strong>s of Holland and<br />
England and the United States are to be regarded essentially distinct from<br />
those seditious and fanatical individuals.”<br />
The New American Encyclopedia is quoted:<br />
“It is certain that the disturbances in the city of Munster were begun by a<br />
Pedobaptist minister of the Lutheran persuasion, … that he was assisted in his<br />
endeavors by other ministers of the same persuasion.”<br />
Says Keller:<br />
“Nothing can be more false than the assertion that any casual connection<br />
existed between these revolutionary efforts and the teachings of Denck and<br />
the better part of the Anabaptists generally.” f526<br />
In the Examiner and Chronicle, Dr. William Whitsitt, says:<br />
“I believe that we cannot avoid accepting the testimony of Sebastian Frank, to<br />
the effect that Munzer, though at one time he rejected infant baptism, like<br />
many other men of a ‘like sentiment in that age, never went to the length of<br />
adopting Anabaptism.’ Frank says: ‘He himself never baptized any, as I am<br />
credibly informed. Erkbam, 495, note.’”<br />
Daubigne is quoted concerning the Munster troubles, as saying they came out<br />
of the bosom of the Reformation:<br />
“Confusion and ruin had taken hold of the city. The Reformation had seen an<br />
enemy spring up from its own bosom more formidable than all the popes and<br />
emperors. It was on the very verge of the abyss.” f527<br />
Luther himself distinguished between the Anabaptists and the Munsterites. He<br />
said: “I have got over three cruel storms — Munzer, the Sacramentarians and<br />
the Anabaptists.” f528<br />
In The Independent, the lamented specialist in <strong>Baptist</strong> history, Dr. Buckland, of<br />
Rochester Theological Seminary, refuting the Munster slander, called attention
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