# The Second Edict By Those Of Zurich, In Which All So-Called Anabaptists Are Threatened With Death, A. D. 1530.

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There has existed, writes a certain author, in the
Zwinglian churches, from their beginning, a great
hatred and bitterness against the Anabaptists, or
more properly speaking, against those baptized according
to the ordinance of Christ as history certifies;
by which they commenced very early to tyrannize
over them; for we believe the Zwinglian church
was not yet ten years old when said abuse occurred.
Yet it did not stop at this, but they proceeded, the
longer the worse, in this tyranny; so that those of
Zurich, A. D. 1530, emitted an edict very much
like the bloody decrees of the Roman Emperor, in
which they write as follows:

“Therefore we strictly command all the inhabitants
of our country, and those who are in any wise
united with them, particularly high and low magistrates,
bailiffs, constables, judges, elders of churches,
and ecclesiastical officers, that, if they hear of any
Anabaptists, they give us information concerning
them, by virtue of the oath with which they are
bound to us; that they nowhere tolerate them, or
allow them to multiply; but that they apprehend
them, and deliver them to us; for we shall punish
with death, according to the purport of our laws,
the Anabaptists with all those who favor them or
adhere to them; and we shall also punish without
mercy, according to their deserts, as having violated
the faith and oath which they swore to their
authorities,” those who assist, and do not report,
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drive away, or bring as prisoners to us, all such
persons.

This we have taken word for word from the edict,
as Bullinger (contra, etc.) has cited it. Compare
the note in the preface to the Offerboeck der Doopsgesinde,
A. D. 1615, letter Y, with P. J. Twisck’s,
Chron., p. 1031, col. 1, from different authors.



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