Anabaptists and their persecutors

The following statement was made in 1538 by an unnamed Anabaptist leader during a meeting between  the Swiss Reformed and Anabaptists in Berne: "While yet in the national church we obtained much instruction from the writings of Luther, Zwingli, and others, concerning the mass and other papal ceremonies, that they are vain. Yet we recognized … Continue reading Anabaptists and their persecutors

A flower that could not be burned

[The following account is found in the Martyrs Mirror, pages 420-421.  The English translation is from 1886, I have done some slight editing.] When the believers greatly increased under persecution and the cross, there was in Bavaria a learned priest of the mass named Leonhard Keyser.  He examined the writings of Zwingli and Luther and … Continue reading A flower that could not be burned