Menno Simons (1496–1561), the Dutch reformer and leader of the peaceable Anabaptists, in the complete English translation from the Dutch published by John F. Funk & Brother, Elkhart, Indiana, 1871 — every writing in both parts, proofread page by page against the scan and kept exactly as printed. A modern English edition sits beside it.
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Contents
Part I
1Publishers’ Preface2The Conversion and Renunciation of the Church of Rome3Account of the Persecutions of Menno Simon4Foundation and Plain Instruction5Foundation and Plain Instruction: Sincere and True Repentance6Foundation and Plain Instruction: Concerning Baptism7Foundation and Plain Instruction: Counter Arguments with Their Replications8Foundation and Plain Instruction: The Lord’s Holy Supper9Foundation and Plain Instruction: The Corruption of the Holy Supper10Foundation and Plain Instruction: Sending Preachers11Foundation and Plain Instruction: The Conduct of Preachers12Foundation and Plain Instruction: Counter Arguments of Babylon and Its Builders13Exhortation to All in Authority, Part 114Exhortation to All in Authority, Part 215Exhortation to All in Authority: Appeal to the Learned16Exhortation to All in Authority: Appeal to Corrupt Sects17The True Christian Faith18The True Christian Faith: The Lutheran Belief19The True Christian Faith: Noah’s Faith20The True Christian Faith: Faith and Fidelity of Moses21The True Christian Faith: The Faith of the Centurion of Capernaum22The True Christian Faith: The Murderer’s Faith23The True Christian Faith: Faith of the Woman of Canaan, Part 124The True Christian Faith: Faith of the Woman of Canaan, Part 225The New Birth, Part 126The New Birth, Part 227Exhortation to the Dispersed Children of God28The Cross of Christ, Part 129The Cross of Christ, Part 230The Cross of Christ, Part 331The Cross of Christ, Part 432Meditation on the Twenty-fifth Psalm33Meditation on the Twenty-fifth Psalm: The Twenty-fifth Psalm Explained34The Spiritual Resurrection35Account of Excommunication, Part 136Account of Excommunication, Part 237Account of Excommunication, Part 338The Education of Children39Letters Written by Menno Simon