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Dr. Limborch, Professor in the University of Amsterdam, at the Reformation
period, said:
“To speak candidly what I think, of all the modern sects of Christians the
Dutch Baptists mostly resemble the Albigenses and the Waldenses.’” f705
Zwinglius, of the same age: —
“The institution of Anabaptism is no novelty, but for thirteen hundred years
past has caused great disturbance in the church, and has such a strength that
the attempt to contend against it in this age appeared for a time futile.”
Bullinger further says:
“Let others say what they will of the German Anabaptists; I see nothing in
them but gravity; I hear nothing but we must not swear, must not do any one
injury, etc. The Donatists and the Anabaptists held the same opinions. … The
Baptists display their ignorance when they assert that no constraint should be
used in regard to religion or faith, they are similar in every particular to the
old Baptists, the Donatists.”
In 1522 Luther says: “The Anabaptists have been for a long time spreading in
Germany.” f706 The late E.T. Winkler, D.D., quoting the above, says:
“Nay, Luther even traced the Anabaptists back to the days of John Huss, and
apologetically admits that the eminent reformer was one of them.”
Dr. Ludwig Keller, the Munster archivist, a Lutheran, a specialist on this
subject, an expert authority and who has done more to clear up this subject
than probably any other writer, in the Preussische Jahrbucher for Sept. 1882,
says:
“There were ‘Baptists’ long before the Munster rebellion, and in all the
centuries that have followed, in spite of the severest persecutions there have
been parties which as Baptists or ‘Mennonites’ have secured a permanent
position in many lands. … A contemporary, who was not a Baptist has this
testimony concerning the beginning of the movement: ‘The Ana-baptist
movement was so rapid that the presence of Baptist views was speedily
discoverable in all parts of the land. The Baptists obtained a large number of
adherents. Many thousands were baptized, and they attracted to themselves
good hearts.’ … A contemporary chronicler estimates that already, in 1531,
the number of executions in the Tyrol and Gortz was nearly a thousand. At
Ensisheim, the seat of the father Austrian government Sebastian Franck puts
the number at six hundred. In Linz, in six weeks, seventy-three persons were
burned, drowned and beheaded. An Anabaptist chronicler, whose statements
in general are regarded as very trustworthy, states that in the Palatinate, about
the year 1529, ‘the Palsgrave Ludwig, in a short time, put to death on account
of their faith, between one hundred and fifty and two hundred.’ “He goes on,