# Reason Why We Have Called This Whole Work After The Anabaptists.

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The reason which has induced us is two-fold:

1. Because, as we have shown clearly, there have
been persons in every century, from the beginning
of the Gospel all along, who have believed and
taught the article of holy baptism, with other articles
noted in the margin—on account of which the
Anabaptists have received this name—in the very
same manner as the Anabaptists, and have, each
in his time, instructed, engrafted, and confirmed
their contemporaries therein, as may be seen in the
whole history, especially in the first fifteen centuries.

2. Because we have not found mentioned in the
writings of authentic authors anything concerning
those persons whom we have noted as true witnesses,
which conflicts with the above mentioned doctrines
of the Anabaptists. And whenever something
has been laid to their charge, which is not in
harmony with the uprightness of the faith professed
by them, we have shown that the witnesses to such
charge were not authentic or acceptable; or that
the things brought against them, were committed
by them not after, but before their conversion; or
that, if they at any time have fallen into them, they
truly forsook them before their death, and from
which all this appears.

But whenever we have found that any, as regards
the faith professed, were actually guilty of serious
errors, offensive mis-conceptions, or bad actions,
for which the above excuses could not be brought
forward; we have dropped such entirely, and not
mentioned them; that the pious and most holy witnesses
of Jesus Christ might not be defiled with their
unclean and unholy leaven.



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