The major difference in what most Anabaptists teach versus Catholic/Protestants,
is the literal interpretation of the sermon on the mount in Mathew 5-8.
Non-resistance, non-conformity, total obedience (as is understood) and total separation of church and state, and the belief in the two kingdoms as outlined in Danial 2 and defined by Jesus in Luke 17;20-21.
And both Catholic and Protestant leaders persecuted and slaughtered Jews and Anabaptists, including Luther and Calvin.
Some of the butchery is detailed in a 1600 publication, Martyrs Mirror that can be read online at homecomers.org/mirror
The often taught misconception that the Anabaptist churches started in the 16th century is
refuted by the writings of a Catholic cardinal in a 1558 work that was translated to English by Richard Shacklock in 1565. This translation, "The Hatchet of Heresies" is still available from Google Books.
Historians have cited the hostile testimony of Stanislaus Hosius concerning the Anabaptists. Hosius was a Polish Roman Catholic who became prince-bishop of Warmia in 1551, rose to cardinal in 1561, and was one of five papal legates who presided over the third period of the Council of Trent from 1561 to 1563. His distinguished rank and reputation among Catholics of the Reformation period give his remarks on the Anabaptists, though hostile, particular weight in the consideration of Anaptist history.
Cardinal Hosius, one of the Pope's Presidents at the Council of Trent, who said thus of them;
"If the truth of religion were to be judged of, by the readiness and chearfulness which a man of any sect shows in suffering, then the opinion and persuasion of no sect can be truer or surer than that of the Anabaptists; since there have been none for these twelve hundred years past, that have been more grievously punished, or that have more cheerfully and steadfastly undergone, and even offered themselves to the most cruel sorts of punishments, than these people.
If you behold their cheerfulness in suffering persecutions, the Anabaptists run far before all other heretics. If you will have regard to the number, it is like that in multitude they would swarm above all other, if they were not grievously plagued, and cut off with the knife of persecution. If you have an eye to the outward appearance of godliness, both the Lutherans and the Zwinglians must needs grant, that they far pass them. If you will be moved with the boasting of the word of God, these be no less bold than Calvin to preach, that their doctrine must stand aloft above all the glory of the world, must stand invincible above all power, because it is not their word, but the word of the living God. Neither do they cry with less loudness than Luther, that with their doctrine which is the word of God, they shall judge the Angels. And surely how many so ever have written against this heresy, whether they were Catholics or heretics, they were able to overthrow it not so much by the testimony of the scriptures, as by the authority of the Church."
is the literal interpretation of the sermon on the mount in Mathew 5-8.
Non-resistance, non-conformity, total obedience (as is understood) and total separation of church and state, and the belief in the two kingdoms as outlined in Danial 2 and defined by Jesus in Luke 17;20-21.
And both Catholic and Protestant leaders persecuted and slaughtered Jews and Anabaptists, including Luther and Calvin.
Some of the butchery is detailed in a 1600 publication, Martyrs Mirror that can be read online at homecomers.org/mirror
The often taught misconception that the Anabaptist churches started in the 16th century is
refuted by the writings of a Catholic cardinal in a 1558 work that was translated to English by Richard Shacklock in 1565. This translation, "The Hatchet of Heresies" is still available from Google Books.
Historians have cited the hostile testimony of Stanislaus Hosius concerning the Anabaptists. Hosius was a Polish Roman Catholic who became prince-bishop of Warmia in 1551, rose to cardinal in 1561, and was one of five papal legates who presided over the third period of the Council of Trent from 1561 to 1563. His distinguished rank and reputation among Catholics of the Reformation period give his remarks on the Anabaptists, though hostile, particular weight in the consideration of Anaptist history.
Cardinal Hosius, one of the Pope's Presidents at the Council of Trent, who said thus of them;
"If the truth of religion were to be judged of, by the readiness and chearfulness which a man of any sect shows in suffering, then the opinion and persuasion of no sect can be truer or surer than that of the Anabaptists; since there have been none for these twelve hundred years past, that have been more grievously punished, or that have more cheerfully and steadfastly undergone, and even offered themselves to the most cruel sorts of punishments, than these people.
If you behold their cheerfulness in suffering persecutions, the Anabaptists run far before all other heretics. If you will have regard to the number, it is like that in multitude they would swarm above all other, if they were not grievously plagued, and cut off with the knife of persecution. If you have an eye to the outward appearance of godliness, both the Lutherans and the Zwinglians must needs grant, that they far pass them. If you will be moved with the boasting of the word of God, these be no less bold than Calvin to preach, that their doctrine must stand aloft above all the glory of the world, must stand invincible above all power, because it is not their word, but the word of the living God. Neither do they cry with less loudness than Luther, that with their doctrine which is the word of God, they shall judge the Angels. And surely how many so ever have written against this heresy, whether they were Catholics or heretics, they were able to overthrow it not so much by the testimony of the scriptures, as by the authority of the Church."
