on this Occafion, were stuffed with fuch high-flown Praises, that I could not have imagined should belavished upon him who would admit of fuch Encomiums and Exaltations from Men, as happened at this Festival, and many Times afterwards. This was followed by finging of hundreds of People, and choice Mufic, as if at fome Prince's Court, of which I had indeed heard fomething before, but never had seen, nor was it ever seen among them who belong to Chrift, and have crucified the Flesh with the Lufts and Affections thereof; and this Jubilee came about no feldomer than eight Times in the Year, viz. for the Count, Countefs, the young Count, the three young Counteffes, Anne Nitfchmannin, and John Langgut, or von Wattenwille, the Count's Son-in-Law. This was a Novelty to moft, and Abundance of other People flocked thither to fee this famous Spectacle, this Scene of Gluttony, Parade, and idolatrous Profufenefs; an Account whereof being carried to Francfort and other neighbouring Places, it afforded abundant Matter for Ridicule and Reproach, as it' little agreed with the Doctrine of Chrift, that fays, Let your Light fo fhine before Men that they may fee your good Works, and glorify your Father who is in Heaven; but here a Spirit of Drunkenness and Debauchery seemed to be broke loofe among the Community. The young Folks began to grow wanton, laughing, sporting, jefting, leaping, throwing one another on the Floor, and ftrugling till they were quite spent and out of Breath, befides many filthy, grofs Indecencies; once a Brother was drinking Tea in his Chamber, when in comes another, and lifting up his Leg, breaks Wind over the Brother's Tea-cup, fo that a Brother and myself who were together in another Room heard it, it, upon which I faid †, fuch ranting Doings I never in my Life heard, not in a Guard-Room of Soldiers. The Name of the Brother who was with me is Winicke; he had carried a Musket a Twelvemonth in the Pruffian Service: he confirmed my Words, and faid fuch Pranks would not be allowed of in a Guard Room. This is one of the Fruits of the renowned Church Difcipline, or rather of the licentious Life of Nature, tearing up all Piety by the Roots; as they have not ftuck more than once openly to declare in their Meetings, that they would not give over till they had driven Pietifm out of the Community, Root and Branch ||, and that the Life of Nature or none, was what they would have. . The general Elder over the unmarried Brothers throughout the whole Country, and whofe Name is Rubufch, living at Marienborn, has been known to fay; all Godliness, all Devotion, all Piety, are no more than fo many Snares of the Devil*: And another + It would fhock any modeft Ear particularly to relate the licentious Pranks of thefe People, who forfooth call themselves Wound-worms, and dare fay, that they have experienced the Blood of Chrift, and dwell in his Side-hole. This Chriftian Winicke, lofing his Arm at the Battle of Wolwitz in Bohemia, betook himfelf to the Herrnhuters, with a View of leading a religious Life among true Chriftians, but he was fadly out in his Choice, and often fets himself against their Wickedness. They make Atheists and Naturalifts of the most hopeful Perfons who lift among them. *This is infernal indeed, this is Impiety beyond Example; the Doctrine of this Agent of the Devil is fufficient to create Amazement in Heaven. But what says God in his Word. "The "Fear of the Lord that is Wisdom, and to depart from Evil "that is Understanding, Job xxviii, 28. Prov. ix. 10. Psalm cxi, 10. Among the righteous and the faithful a Man is bettered. Syrach, i. 16. "Whofoever fears God and works Righteousness 66 B 1 -1 another Time he faid, Things must be brought to this Pafs in the Community, that nothing fhall be Spoken of but Wounds, Wounds, Wounds, all other Difcourfes, however fcriptural and piou, must be fpued out and trampled under Foot +. A flat Contradiction to the laft Difcourfe of the Saviour, after his Resurrection, when he en -joined his Difciples to teach all Nations to obey all Things which he had taught them. Another, one Vieroth, a Preacher in high Repute from Friefland +, faid, in his Sermon at the Caftle-Church at Marienborn, Nothing gives the Devil greater Joy, than to decoy into good Works, "is acceptable to him, As x. 35. The Lord will grant his Pe"titions. John, ix. 31. Pf. cxlv. 19. Godlinefs is profitable to "all Things, and hath the Promifes of this Life and that to "come, and therein should a Man exercise himself. 1 Tim.iv. 7,8. St. Paul further faith, "If any Man teach otherwise and adheres "not to the wholefomeWords of our Lord Jefus Christ, and the "Doctrine of Godliness, he is blind, and knoweth nothing. 1 Tim. vi. 3, 4. befides innumerable other Paffages of holy Writ. Is it any thing less than Blafphemy to call the fcriptural Precepts concerning Godlinefs the mere Artifices of the Devil. The Lord rebuke thee, Rubufch, for thou teacheft the Doctrine of Devils. + Can any Thing exceed the monftrous Blafphemy of fuch Preaching as this? That whatever is fcriptural and godly is to be fpued out, and trampled under Foot. Such People excite Aftonishment to call themselves Chriftians! Is it poffible that fuch Blafphemers, fuch Miffionaries of the Devil, fuch Seducers are tolerated? The Danger, Impiety, and Hellishness of the Zinzendorfian, or Herrnhutifh Sect, is now manifeft to the whole World. It is an Overfight in the Writer, or an Error of the Prefs; Vieroth being not from Friesland, but was a Lutheran Preacher in Livonia; but became a thorough-paced Herrnhuter, adopting all their Abominations in a Lump, and is at prefent Director of the Seminary at Marienborn, where, as Head-Schoolmaster of this School of Satan, he forges and prepares more Engines to fap Chriftianity, abolish the holy Scriptures, and fet up Naturalifm and Atheism. Of this, the Words of his Sermon here cited, are a glaring Proof. departing departing from Evil, fhalling and willing, trying, watching, and examining, thofe Souls who have experienced any thing of the Saviour's Grace in their Hearts. Yet this is irreconcileable with the Doctrine of Christ himself, Thou shalt love God with all thy Heart, &c. Whofoever bears and does my Will fall &c. Beye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven, &c. that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect Will of God; and in feveral Paffages we are directed to do and forbear, to fall and will, to try and examine; yea, it is according to the exprefs Words of St. Paul, that all Scriptures are profitable for Doctrine, for Inftruction, for Confolation and Amendment. A Labourer among the unmarried Brethren, whofe Name is || Calic, has further faid in the Brethren's Calic or Callic, is by Trade a Peruke-maker, which Business he followed at Herrnhaag; afterwards entering himself in the Seminary, he was made a Labourer and Director; and, if a fhort little Man in Person, of an enormous Size in Profaneness, as thefe Words fufficiently fhew. The Doctrine which thefe Emiffaries of Satan labour to inftill into the unmarried Brethren, is big with fuch execrable Blafphemies that we fhall give a fhort Analyfis of it. 1. Whoever meditates, or fets a high Value on the Bible, is without any Experience of the Saviour's Grace in his Heart. 2. The Bible is as loathfom Dung, to be fpit upon. 3. The Bible does not deserve that any one who has a Knowledge of the Saviour's Wounds fhould beftow a fingle Thought on it. 4. He who has taken up his Abode in the Lamb's Wounds, cannot but live the Life of Nature, and be merry and jovial. 5. Such a one commits no Sin, though his Irregularities be fuch that all the godly exclaim against them. 6. Thefe Irregularities which the godly term Sin, give no Manner of Displeasure to the Saviour. 7. On the contrary, he takes Delight in the Sportiveness of the little Wound-worms. B 2 Can ઃઃ Brethren's Quarter of an Hour, " It is a certain Sign that a Brother has not yet experienced the Saviour's Grace in his Heart, if he meditates on the Bible, a Thing fo contemptible that it ought to be spit on, and is not anywife deferving the Thoughts and Attention of him to whom the Saviour's Wounds are known; for any one having found Lodging, Bed and Board in the Lamb's Wounds, cannot but be merry, and live according to Nature; fo that when fuch a one plays any Pranks, that the godly ones cry out against them as Sins, the Saviour himself is fo far from being difpleafed therewith, that he rejoices the more over the sportive little Wound-worms." وو And at the Conclufion of the last Evening-Quar ter of an Hour, there was often fuch an Uproar among them, as if a Mad-house had broke loofe and before they went to Bed, the Musicians never failed to heighten their Mirth with all Manner of wanton Tunes: And these Orgia, as they may be termed, lafted till One or Two in the Morning, with the most indecent Levity; and, what is worse, the Saviour's precious Wounds are made a Veil for thefe diffolute Practices, which he cannot behold without Abhorrence and Aftonishment. Yet this was I to hear, and if I offered to find Fault I was fo hooted and railed at, that I was obliged to suppress my Dislike, and recommended it to the Lord; fully purpofing, however, at the Count's Return to talk the Matter over with him, and hear how he relifhed fuch frantic wicked Doings; he had been away from April, and it was Can any Christian patiently hear fuch deteftable Pofitions, furely Severities against the Preachers of thefe Abominations cannot be accounted cruel; the Welfare of Souls feems to require at any Rate the Suppreffion of these infernal Seducers. November |