13 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— new and strange sects: Anabaptists, Libertines, Menonians, and Zuenckfeldians
13 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— new and strange sects: Anabaptists, Libertines, Menonians, and Zuenckfeldians… Epiphanius rehearseth up fourscore sundry heresies; and Augustine many more, which sprang up even together with the Gospel?, pp.57-59 Jewel, John. “The Apology of the Church of England.” Project Gutenberg. 5 Aug 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17678/17678-h/17678-h.htm . Accessed 1 Aug 2015. Indeed, we grant that certain new and very strange sects, as the Anabaptists, Libertines, Menonians, and Zuenckfeldians, have been stirring in the world ever since the Gospel did first spring. But the world seeth now right well, thanks be given to our God, that we neither have bred, nor taught, nor kept up these monsters. In good fellowship, I pray thee, whosoever thou be, read our books: they are to be sold in every place. What hath there ever been written by any of our company which might plainly bear with the madness of any of those heretics....