Monday, May 9, 2022

Interesting Excerpts from the Anabaptist Articles from Moravia (c. 1527-28)

  

“Eight articles of the preacher[s] at Nikolsburg, that one [of those] at Lichtenstein, now imprisoned at Vienna, with many others, who have had themselves baptized a second time. . . .

 

“The last day is two years in the future.

“The angels were conceived with Christ and took flesh with Christ.” . . .

 

“He who is related to any magistracy can not be saved. One must understand that there would be no magistracy. . . .

 

Another series at the same place: . . .

 

“He who is related to any magistracy can not be saved. . . .

 

“The holy scripture was not given to believers, but to the godless that they might be overcome

“Within two years the Lord will come from heaven and will deal and war with the worldly princes, and will root up the godless, but the pious and unworldly will reign with the Lord on earth. (William Joseph McGlothlin, Baptist Confessions of Faith [Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1911], 11, 12)