and imprisoned at Vienna in Austria. He and his
wife both burned.
DOctor Balthaz•• Hubmor of Friburg, a man
excellently well learned, another Roscius in
his affaires, a Clergy man at Ingolstade, was
the third eminent Patron of Anabaptisme, and
asworne promoter of that worthy Sect. This
man in his Sermons at Regenburgh, inveighed so bitter∣ly
and so implacably against the usury of the Jewes, that
he banished it even to eternal damnation; he brought
in a certain religious worship to be done to the Virgin
Mary, and some superstitious vowes, and was the cause
of great tumults and insurrections, and had built up
his doctrine upon very firm and solid foundations, until
the most wise Senate of Suring applyed the universal
medicine of a Council to these things, and assigned a
day to reduce and root out that sect, which was the seven∣teenth
of Ianuary, in the year one thousand five hun∣dred
twenty five, wherein the Senate being present, and
a great presence of people, the most learned Zwin∣lius
and other sonnes of learning, opposed this our
Doctor, by whom, and the strength of truth after most
hot and serious debating on both sides, he ingenuously
confessed himself to be overcome. The heads of the
Doctrine, which he before defended, and whereof he
afterwards made his abren••nciation, were these: That
he detested the cheat, and humane invention of Ana∣baptisme;
He affirmed that the spirit both before
the fall and after was uncorrupt and unblamable, and
that it never dies in sin; whence it should follow, that
not it, but the flesh, is deprived of liberty; he also
acknowledged that the spirit overcomes and triumphs
over the flesh. Though his Recantation was made, and
divers rebaptized into their better sences, yet the Tor∣rents
of this sect neither stood still, nor were dried up,
but increased in Switzerland into a deluge, which over∣turned
almost all. This man escaping the endeavours
of spies, and shunning the Halter, was at length taken
with the figtree leafe of divine vengeance, and cast into
prison at Vienna in Austria. Being afterwards put
much to the question, it being the designe of vengeance,