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I found the Society charged there with Dodrines and Inmioralities of (b grofs a Nature, that the very Enormity of diem prevented my giving Credit to the Charee, chiefly as the Author had not fufficiently evidenced his Allegations; and, befides, fhewed a Bitter- nefs in his Expreflions, that could give Room for fufpeding him of Calumny. I had fometinte after, an Opportunity of diicovering the Place, where the Moravi- ans held their public Worftiip, and hear- ing great Encomiums beftowed on Count Zinzendorf by fome that had Connexion with the Society, I refolved to aflift at his Sermons, or Difcourfes, as well as thofe of tibc other Moravian Tisachers. At that Time I had not as yet read any of their Writings, and as I knew not, that, befides thefe public Meetings, they held private ■%■ a 2 ones. -iss^. ■v..i C + ] ones, to which only apprvi^ed Members were admitted, and that their Teachers took Care, publicly to profefs only fuch Things, as every body might hear, whe- ther Moravians or not: I began to be confirmed in my Difbelief of the Allega- tions mentioned in that Treatife, as thofe Matters, which I, at firft, heard in their public Sermons, appe^ed to have na Analogy thereunto. "^ '^ But, how unprejudiced ibever, I conti- nued, for a confiderable Time, to mix with the Audience, I could not help at Length furmifing, that, atleafl, fomePart of the Charge brought againft them, was not without Foundation. Strange Doc- trines now and then efcaped their Teachers, one of whom went fo far as to profefs in explicit Terms, that Trarifgreffion and Sm were no more-, and though this might per- haps proceed from his being a young un- experienced Man, who had forgot, that all his Hearers were not pro fejed Members, ytt thefe unguarded Expreflions made me fuf- pedt, that there muft be among them Doc- trines of a dangerous Tendency; and this I fhould have had full Convidtion of, had I been acquainted with the following re- markable Fadl, related to me feme Time after, viz. that Count Zinzendorfy in a Ser^ mon ' < '• i'~ '■S [5] inofi preAch'd fay him in London on the iiihStmJay after Trinity 1746, publicly hiad fctfbrtn: that tbefeventh Commandment couU oblige us no more in the New Teftamenty ^eaiufeit was at a Time, when one Man had fcoe (^fix Wives, This can be proved by the Depoiition of a Reverend Clergyman, who was prefent at that Sermon. t Whilft I frequented the Moravian Meet- ings, I got Sight of a Book, publifhed at Francfort and Leipzig, in 1751, which gives an Account of the Behaviour of that Society in the County of BUdingen, chiefly rekting to political Matters, but where the Reader has likewife an Opportunity of learning from their Tranfadions, that their Tenets are likely to be very pernicious to Church and State* As a great Number of Letters, wrote by Count Zinzendorfhrni" felf, to the Regency of that County, are to be met with in this Piece, and as they are fo many authentic Vouchers for the Truth of the Fadts there inferted; I yielded to the Solicitations of an Acquaintance, who had defired me to give the Public a Trans- lation, or Abridgment of this Account, which is known to have been printed by Authority, in Order that every unpreju- diced Peribn might be enabled by thefe Documents to form a Judgment of this ■ iji a 3 new V odtrines and Tenets, and that with a View of doing them impartial Juftice. This was the Scheme I went upoii, and was refolved to carry it into Execu- tion, when a Reverend Divine of die Church of England who is allowed by all that know him, to be an Honour to hii3 Profeffion, acquainted me, that a Paftoral Letter againfl Fanaticifm^ publiihed in Holland by Mr. Sfinfira^ Minifter of the Mennonifii at Harlingeny had been tranflated into French by an anonymous Author, who had thereto prefixed a Preface, in which feme Account was given of the Hermhuters or MorofutanSy and of the Writings of their Leaders, and that it would be doing a Service to the PuHic, fliould I publifh a Tranflation of both Preface and Letter; after having previoufly compared thofe Matters alledged againfl the Hermhuters with the Original German Writings of their Teachers. As by this Time I had difcover'd the proper Sources from en fiomMienicel wa&ta furni/h tii^^f with ^ D6(Mnes of the Sodety^ and as ieveral ^aSf Friends Ivere willing to tfiift m^ ivi^vdie. Writings quoted in the faid Pre<* face, and likewife with others wrote for andigainft the Herrmbutirsy I was inclined io iinderbdke the Ta£k. But after ftirther Gonfid^ration, perteiving that the Paftoral Letter, tlkb* wrote with great Judgment^ ( i ) was^QO more than a Treatife agaiilil Fana-- ticifm iti^ general, and that the Account of die &rmkiters prefixed thereto, was im-^ perfe^, and in fotne Places inconfiftent with the Meaning of the Writers of Jr^«* buttfifty I changed my Purpoie of barely trandadng this Work; and after .having carejyiy peruied the Writings of the Af(»^ r»v/^ Teachers, piseierved thofe Artidei of Accuiation that had been properly ^ed in the a^ove Preface, and colleaed^further what appeared to me worthy of Notice c i thence compo(ed this Narrative of the Rife and Progrefs of J^rmbmj^ and itis Dodbines; to which I have added Obfer^ vations on the Politics of that Society, (hewing the Danger that may ari(e to a State from its favourite Tenets, and exem- (i) 7h0 Author of the following Tveitife propofes ftiortly to give an Mn^UJ^ Txanflatioo of that excellent a 4 plifying ;;..'.il.iit:., - [J,, 'icii.- ?* en plifyihg the fame in :a: 43ar)ticukf Manndc by their Condud; in the County of BUdif^ gefti abftradted from the.before-mentionVi G^r/»ii«-Tceatife publifhed. at Frmcfint 2ind Leipzig, ,dMy dsm 6^v^r:>m ban .soui^ ! I am ienfible> I -have undertaken aBuiS-H nefs diii^eafing in. itfelf,;: and whlcli will: doubtlefa, be diflikedi by Count iZSioBwi!^ {iorf, who, as he has charged vtfeofe- Qi^ v'mtsin Germany that have wrote againfl: Tiim, with a •jr6?\.HTfioJfJco(riJvvii will be much more liberal in. beftowing thia Cenfte:i3a a Laymanv But, aal t&e it ta be,t»bfi in-r -difpenfil^ Duty of a Qhriftian, torluifde-' ceive . the World whenever it lies, iiV his* Powet", this Confideration alone wUtfuf* iiciently • apologize for the Liberty IrhmG *aken j'and,belides, if Imi^ake not,, the FeE"^ fornSance itiielf will, bnrthis Account, ndett with arfevQurable Reception from tbe.Pub-» Jic. Had a Clergyman undertaken the dif- agreeaWe Tafk I hayeijiow in Hand, fome Perjfonisniight, p^KhapB,be inclined to place his Zeal on the Score of Inteireft or Party; my being a Myman fcreens me even from jthejSu^icion of any Ivlotive of this Kind; ' . .Upon the whojci .'tis not I that "Charge the Society with tlie grofs Errors and Prac- tices mentioiied in the following TVeatifej *the Writings and Condud of ^e Count ''^jr., N . . him- A * ■tii [[9 1 Bimfclf/andlliofe of the odia Ti^achers of HkrrnbuSifitty are < their folc:^ Accufers. I Itave barefy reported what has been pqb^ lilked by diem, without magnifying or l^afienitig Objects. As for the Obfervations made by^ me on^ their Politics and fecret C^onf)&utidn^ they are fo obvious and de- Hflrerfobajtsarallyr irom: their Do^rines^dd Difc^licBe,vthat whoever is :d[cquainted ynith ^m', ; mufl iide with me in die following Gpinidn, liiss;. That no Government thair harbours th^m, can be fecure whilfl theif Leaders go on' at the Rate they have done hitherto ; efpedally when it is confidered ^ that their Gsnd'ud: abroad plainly proves, ^ey make no Scruple, under the Clokeof Religion aind Liberty of Confbience, to afr^ Icmpt any Thing that fiiits their Defigns. I purpofely mention the Leaders of Herm- butifmi as I would not be underflood to have (6 indifferent an Opinion of die pri- vate Mehibcra of that Body. This would "be z rafh, an oinwarrantable Judgment ; I really Ipelieve the latter to be, for the nioft Part, Honcft and undefigning. The Go- Arernmeiits that, granted them Prote(ftion abroad never objedled againfl thefe ; they ^ere only for removing the Leaders, who appeared too bufy in tampering with their Credulity, I am perfonally acquainted with ^ ■.. fome '■'Ml [ ?0( li &me df ihtJSehiibuienoe MarmdMs^'^i. takcthemtobe jtxft andupnghtin dieirDeal4 ings ; but theii, the^ arevrfaoUy ignorant of the /br.cana orfectet Couniels oEtheir Leaidi^ cr&» and only ghoeihe Name pf thp 3acicl]|( tD tiie Undertakihjgs of the former^' :.'> 4fi -,As I have qaottd Ibme oftheHynoul ^ihe Berm&utierst 'tis fit, I (botdd^menrf tbh, that Count ZiirzifWffT^ ortfaofethai »Kilogize £3r him, endeavour to evade«thd Charge of Scandal bmught againfl him oil &e ^ Score, of thcfe H)minsj partly by af-» ferting, that th^ are compofed in ^ Ger-» T^um Idiom peculiar to the Bi^etnians,.2nd that it is this Peculiaiity, diat rendersr fome Parages in them obnoxious to the Cenfuiid of .thofe that^&unacquairited with the faid Idiom 5 partly . by denying point-blank; that fuch of their &andaIous Hymns as will not admit of a tokrable Defence, and are contained m their Xlltlt Appen-* dix, did ever exifl, or were ufed by the Sopety. In Anfwer to the firft Part of their Plea, X may with the greateft Truth aiTert, diat nothing can be m(xi pitiful than this Evaiion, which fo fre- quently occurs in the Writers of that Party. I am not a Stranger to Bohemia, having crofs*d the whole Count^, and been con* Ferfant with many of the Inhabitaiits ; but :......- ' could JfX It could never find any-Difiercnce betweci that German and tltat fpoke elfe wherc^> excepting that of tJuar Pronunciation df Accent, which, I own, doth not come ap to that of SaxofTf, However, ihoiild my Evidence be deemed partial in this Point* I muft beg leave to appeal to any GcT'^ man here, that id not an Hnrnhtter ; whe-' dier or no the Words I have quoted from their Hymns are not the very iamd German- he has heard at the Place of hi^ Nativity; bairingone fingle Word, mentio-' hedinme 1 7th Line of Ae 46th Page, itt»J Brifchel, which,if I miftakenot,theifer-» mbuters themfelves do not underfbnd,and has only been made ufe of to rhime with ^ifchely by a Licence that dolii not much fcdound to the Honour of their Poetiy i not to mention, that thefe Hymns werd made in Gerwar^* As to die fecond Part of their Defence, viz. a flat Denial, that thofe of their fcandalous Hymns, which are to be met with in their Xllth Appendix^ ever cxifted or were ufed by die Society^ it requires no other Confutation, than that of one of their own Apologias, who calls him{t\£ j^TJus Sincerus, and whofe Tef* timony they will, doubtlefs, ftand by ; after which the Reader may judge for himfelf what Strefs can be laid on fuch kind of Re- Reformers, as make noScniple todeny to-', iporrbw what they have afierted to-day.; ivhefe^ are his Words,, page; 121: * Tia t notitrue, what Dr/Baumgarten{^Divmt. * -againft whom\Mlnus Sincer'iisjwrotchhi V Treati'fc) affirms, viz. that ^eXIIth Apn * pendix of the Hymns of the Society is! ^ kept fecret. It was printed abovea Ycart f and an half ago (he wrote in 1747) and ^•hasiinoe that Time been publickly -fold t by the Brethren \Ki7r/^. at Altona, But) -nas the, 'firft. Edition confiiled oiily of. V five: Thoufdnd Copies, it was immedi- * ately dilpofed of, fb that afterwards fix * Thoufand more were printed, which now ^ are fent away to be vended where they ^ ought J for, I cannot deny, thatwe do not ' choofe to have our Society'sBooks treated: * as other Books thatareputupforSale.* i : The Apologifts of the Herrnbuters or Moravians y have two indeterminate Ways of anfwering what is objedted againft them, and thefe are their moft common Methods of Defence. They pretend^ either that they are purpofely calumniated, or not un- derftood by their Adverfaries. As for the firfi:, they cannot, with any Appearance of Truth, make ufe of it againft me, as I liave advanced nothing but what I found in their Books, .or was well atteftedi and •».**• m"—* ti [ 13 ]' 1 imagine myfclf to be beyond the Reach^ of the fecondj.as I have joined all alongf the Original German Text to the Tranfla-T tion of thofe Paffages I have quoted from* their Authors, : in order to do' impartial. Juftice both to them and myfelfj though^ I muft acknowledge at the fame Time, that the inimitabie StiJe of Count Zinzen- dorfy has fometimes given me no fmall Pains to make him intelligible in Englijh without fwerving from his Meaning. Let me add, that it is not unufual for the Apologifts I am fpeaking of, to treat their Adverfaries unhandfomely 5 they, frequendy mention with the utmoA Con- tempt the Writings that appear againft them, adding, that they deferve to be burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman, though penn*d with never fo much Mo- deration. This fhews what Spirit they are of, and that were their Power equal to their Inclination, a Spanijh Inquifition would probably be the Confequence. They are pleafed fometimes to intrench themfelves behind a Wall of Paper ; Char^ ters, Grants, Teftinjpnials, Synodal Adls, are a Kind of Barrier they oppofe to their Adverfaries with no fmall Oftentation, pre- tending them to be fufficient Proofs of the Soundnefs of their Do. iiiiiiiii.xifMf' '"'•'"m .' i 1^ ?! 'I [ X4 ] ever they make a Shew of defending them,' tfiey conmionly deviate from the Matter propofed; they multiply Words about Things no body denies, or elfe anfwer ia fbch a Manner, as to fave fome Hole to creep out at; denying what they ownod before, and what is in expKcitTerms fet fordi in their Writings. They are likewile ex- pert at concealing their Names, that fuch as call them to an Account, may not know whom they have to deal with, and whether their Apologies are to be aicribed to (bme particular Member of the Body, or to Count Zinzendorf bimfelfy and thus to the mhok Society y which we may fuppofe to be vir- tually compri&d in him; nay, fome pre- tend not to be Members of the Herrn" httersy that their Apologies may bear a greater Appearance of Impartiality. Such Shifts and Contrivances, whatever ' they may think of them, fhew, that they have not the Truth in View, but the Execution of a favourite Plan. Tis to be hoped not- withftanding, fliould they think proper to anfwer this Treatife, that they will confi- der, they are among a Nation too clcar- fighted to fufFer themfelves to be impofed upon after this Rate, and that they will be prevailed upon at laft, to give up the Infincerities they have been conver^t in for fo long a Time, I r»5] ; I ran Scarce ^xpedt fo much Candour df the Monroim Lcsijd&n, astofufFer theif' Flock to read what has been fet forth here^ iince their Apologiils are uiedto boaft^ that no Member of their Society read^ what has '^been wrote againft their Doc-^ trines. If the Fad be true, 'tis not to b^ wondred at, that they can k^eptheirPeos* pie in fervile Dependance, who, as it has been obferved by others, are fo ignorant, that they look upon what is alledged againft the Writings of their Chiefs as downright Calumny, &ying, that as they live among them, weretne Allegations true, they needs muft be the Hrfl to know them to be ib. I have but one Thing more to animad- vert upon, which is, that the Leaders of Herrnhutifmy being fenfible that their Dodrine and Conflitution cannot poflibly bear a Scrutiny, have, among fundry other Artifices made ufc of to prevent it, endea- voured to furprife the unwary, by telling them ; that (hould their Tenets be handled promifcuoufly in public Writings, Chrifti- anity would run the Rifk of being ridiculed by Unbelievers, as it had been formerly by Lucian. This I take to be a kind of Ac- knowledgment that they hold Dodtrines, either ridiculous in themfelves, or at leaft that afford a Handle for Ridicule. True Chri^ K«%" [ .6] ChrifHanity has none of this Nature.' It fxrould be fomething quite new arid uih common indeed^ (hould a Criminal pretend to avoid being tried and condemned, l^ pleading, that the Government would iherebv make known to tha World, that it had harbbured a bad Subject in its Bafoniii r-^Figetmpluraproferre,* ^.-h^aio^f^. .,v !ol^ . ' . . i:-i-^i;- ... - . ■• jVdi sril2a.iu;:si • t *■ Tr " •*" *• ? •> " k ' ' "li'^' '* . ^.-k,:^.:..^ ERRATA... ^^%,A^^, Ui Page 1 8, Line ult. for Schlefwick rtai Kolflein . "^ ^, . 36, Line 18, /or aufFerliche r^oiauflerliche. '»,, 42> Line 21 , yor als r^ .",,. tza. Line 2c, /or Fappa rW Papa. . , .. ■ ' ,'-•.■' ^ '-■ , , , * - ■ "^ , " ■• 'l-,f^«- • ■■ .'•/•w •v:.-t'5'*'' '■' 'l'. '" ' ■».*?■." N.*! •^'i'* i^ ■; .-.•■,-■'••. "^'i S ■^■'1 V'-* ■:.' •* -^ ■-> • ♦■■■- ■- .- '■J'-' * '.--Jk^ «•■ .-<<: ii» . . ■ -■ ■•. » J. - > ' ]' r •■ V » k ' r. X • i'.*vi .^i .- ": .JL • r '-r • ' 1 1 '■ ■' t . ' "■' *• ■ ", t'"* "' ■ ;•■ "V* !, '-■■ ■ < • 'i -i ■ '<.■ ■>:><.«.<'^ ■» j; vv:.;4 :;.?im::;: t « I ■■ ? A 1 1 '„>';J NARRATIVE OF THE Ri s E, Pro g r e s s, ^c. A Religion is known to be a true one, if its Articles of Faith are founded upon the Authority of Divine Revelation. This is al- lowed by all that acknowledge the Scrip- tures to be the Word of God. Hence it might feem an eafy Matter, to difcover whether the Dodrines of a Religion are found or not, by only trying them by this moft facred Standard. But fo it hap- pens, that, whilft amongft Men of dif- ferent Perfuafions in Matters of Religion, fome agree to Doftrines which others diflent from ; the only Queftion is, Whe-» ther they can be proved by Scripture, or are contradictory to it. One Party pre- tends to (hew, that their Dodlrines are con- fonant to Holy Writ, and the other again endeavours to prove the Contrary. This B has iifs to has happenM in the Courfe of many Cen- turies, and is certainly, amonff others, one Rei^on why too many fhew lo much In- difference towards Religion in general, by looking upon its Do6hrines at leaft as un- certain, nnce they perceive that Perfons of different Denominations in Religion, pretend, each in their Turn, to maintain their Principles by diredb Proofs or Con- fequences, deduced from the fame divine Authorities. In order to remove this Inconvenience, and, at the fame Time, to take off all Pre- tences for Irreligion,; fome have thought, that the Decifion in Matters of Religion ought not folely to be left to whatever any might alledge on that account from the Scripture, but to the Determination of, the Church, that is to fay, to the Deci- fion of the principal Members of the Clergy. But after all, let Mens Senti- ments about this Matter be what they will, there remains but one Way to try a Reli- gion by, and that is, to examihe, whether its Doctrines give us fuch an Idea of the Supreme Being, and lead us to fuch a worfhip of him, as is confiftent with the Reverence we owe him, and the Practice of them are conducive to the Intereft of civil Life. For, it will always remain an inconteftable Truth, that the Tree is to be known by the Fruit it bears. "When therefore Men broach any Doc- trine concerning the Deity, that muft tsl be ihbcking to the Ears of til true Chrl- ftians, and rather difgrace than honour it } when its Teachers avowedly hold, Thar Reafon muft entirely be given up ; when they ufutp an arbitrary Power, pretending to immediate Orders fromChriic, and, un- der that Colour, impofe upon their de- luded Followers whatever they pleafe^ when they teach, that Chrift can make the moft villainous A6t to be Virtue, and the moft exalted moral Virtue to be Vice; when they hold it lawful to break the Tye between Parents and Children ; when none of their Brethren and Sifters, as they call them, have Liberty to marry according to Inclination, but as their Chiefs direffc; when they defpife the eftablifh'd Church, by openly profefling. That the Divines, without the Pale of their SeA, have to thisTime deceiv'd the World •, when thofc Things which Decency forbids to men- tion, are lafcivioufly commemorated in their Hymns, and muft of courfe prove Incentives to a fcandalous Life; when Matters concerning the interior ftate of their Affairs are fo contrived, as evidently ihew, their Leaders are gradually fapping the Foundation of the civil Government of any Country they fettle in, and efta- blilhing an Empire within an Empire ; I fay, when thefe Things can be made ap- pear, will any body believe, That the Re- ligion of fuch a Society is a true one F and will not every one be of Opinion, tha^ B 2 it /• '^^1 'i 141 it deferve^ no Countenance, let its Chief* difguife themfelves as much as they pleafd under the Name of Proteftants ? I am forry to fay, that this is the Cafe of t^ie Herrnhuters^ who vainly take upon themfelves the Name of Moravians^ or Moravian Brethren^ or otherwife ftile them- felves Unitas Fratrum, I am fenfible it will appear ftrange, nay perhaps incredible to many, that this Society fliould deferve fuch a Cenfure. For, 'tis known, that a refpeftable Body of learned Divines, viz, the Theological Faculty at the Univerfity of Tubingen^ has given them Teftimoniala of Orthodoxy. We alfo know, that the Leaders of this Brotherhood made the Le- giflative Power of this Kingdom believe, that their Tenets do in no refpeft differ from thofe of other Proteftants, and that upon this, an Ad has pafled in their Fa* vour, which grants them Leave to fettle in the Britijh Dominions. But thefe Objec- tions, how fpecious foever they are, will immediately 'ranilh, if the Reader will give -himfelf the Trouble to infped, at the End of this Treatife, Teftimonials of a later Date, given by the fame Univerfity, which, I fuppofe. Count Zinzendorf^ the Head of the Herrnhuterj, or Moravians^ has not thought proper to produce j in which thofe Divines, that granted the for- mer in Favour of this Se6t, give a lively Pifture of their grofs Errors, and the dan- gerous Tendency of the Authority of its Leaders J f Leaders ; and publickly avow, that they vrere impofed upon at the granting of the firftTeftimoniais. As feveral Princes of the Empire were deceived in the like Manner,, and afterwards found themfelves obliged, for their own Security, to expel thisSedt out of their Dominions, it will not ap- ' pear ilrange, that an honourable Parlia- ment ihould likewife be impofed upon. The Leaders of this Se6t, are from a long Time known, to make no Confcience of averring any thing, provided good may arife therefrom to their Society. Count ZtHzendorf, in order to induce the World to believe that his Do6trine was found» had the Confidence, in a Book wrote by him, intitled Natural ReflexionSy (^c, to affert, that he had fubmitted to be exa- mined by the Theological Faculty at Co- penhagen ; and yet the whole Aflertion, up- on Enquiry, was found to be an open Un- truth, which induced that Body to teftify the fame, by a public A6t under their Seal ; a Copy whereof, N® 2, is annexed to this, Treatife. I could produce many more Proofs of the like Infincerities ; hut as my Intent at prefent is to give the Reader an Idea of this Sed in general, I fhall not dwell any longer upon thefe Particulars j and begin with the Origin apd Progrefs of Herrnhu- iifm i after which I fhall treat of its Doc- trines, and in the laft Place, .ftiew what Danger may accrue to a State from it. 6 3 NiMat -:«»•*■ .•I: (6] TheOri. Nicholas Lewis Count of Zinzendorf^ is |inof this the Author of Hermhutifm^ as has been ■^ already faid, and 'tis to him that the Pro- grefs this Sed has hitherto made, is to be afcribed. According to the Account he gives of himfclf, he formed from the tenth Year of his Age a Delign to gather to- gether a little Society of J5f//>i;^j, amongfl: whom he might live, and who fhould en- tirely employ themfelves in Exercifes of Devotion, under his Diredtion (i). When he became of Age, which was in the Year 1 72 1, his Thoughts were wholly bent on executing his Projeft, and being join'd by fome Perfons, that were of his Way of Thinking, he fettled at Bertholfdorf in Upper Lufatia, an Eftate which he had purchafed, giving the Curacy of that Village, then vacant, to a Student, in whom he had per- ceived Sentiments analogous to his own. Bertholfdorf foon came to be known for this Sort of Piety. News thereof was brought to Moravia by a Carpenter, named Chrijiian Davidy who, according to Le Long (2), had been before in that Country, and (1) Count Zinzendorf^s m^) l»vra or. Natural Reflexions on fever al Subje£lSf in the manner he is ufed ta think nvithin himfelfy (sfc. In the German Tongue, .page 1 57. (2) In a Book wrote in Dutch^ intitled. The Wonders vfGod rd\ and from this the whole Sed hasi taken its Name. The Dif- xhe Herrnhuters foon eftabliflied amoi^ Sr^: themfelvesa Sort of Difcipline, which clofely huteru unites them to one another, divides them into different ClaiTes, puts them under an entire Dependance of their Superiors, and , confines them to certain Exercites of Devo- ^ tion, and to the obferving of different little Rules. One may call it a momJHc Infti-^, tution. The difference of Age, Sex, and the Si- tuation their Members are in with Refpe6k to Matrimony, conftitute thefe different Claffes (3). There are Clafles of married Men, married ^Women, Widowers, Wi- dows, Maids, Bachelors, Children. Each has its Diredlor, chofen by its Members. The fame Employments the Men have a- mong themfelves, are among the Women, which are exercifed by Perfons of their own Sex. Every Member is daily vifited by one of his Clafs, who ^ives him Exhortations and takes Notice of the adlual State of his Soul, whereof he makes a Report to the Elders. Frequent particular Aifemblies are held (3) Le Longt Tom. i. page 246. '■ft . t9j ;::.■'■:-■ ^. lield m each Clafs, and general ones by th'6 whole Society. - The Overfeers or Leaders have alfo their private Meetings to inftruft one another in Matters concerning the Gui- dance of Souls. The Members of each Clafs are fubdivided into People that are dead, awaked, ignorant, willing Difciples, Difciples that have made a Progrefs. Pro- per Afliftance is given to each of thefe Sub- idivifions ; but above all, great Care is taken of thofe that are fpiritually dead (4). They pay an uncommon Attention to the* Inftrudion of Youth. Befides thofe that have the Care of Orphans, there are others that are intruded with that of all the other Children. Count Zinzendorf*$ Zeal has fometimes carried him fo far, as to take Children to his own home to inftrud them, to the Number of Twenty, whereof nine or ten flept in his Bed-chamber. There are Aflemblies held of little Children that are not yet in a Condition to walk. They are carried thither. Hymns are fung in thefe Meetings, and Prayers made; even Sermons are preached to them fuitable to the Capacity of thefe Infant-hearers. The Mlder, Co-Elder^ the Vice-Elder ^ fu- perintend all the Claffes. There are like- wife Informers by Office, fome of them known, fome kept fecret, befides a great piany other Employments and Titles, the Deitail <4) Le Long, Tom. I. page 249, 250. page 220. Tom. & [foj Detail of which would be too long and tocf tedious here. A great Patt of their Worlliip conf^fts in finging. They pretend that Children in particular, arc inftrufted in their Religion by Hymns (5). Count Zinzendorf relates a very extraordinary Thing in his Natural Reflexions (6), viz. that the Chanters of the Society muft have received a particular and al- moji inimitable Gift of God : (he might as well have faid a quite inimitable one) for when they are obliged to Jing at the Head of the Congregation^ their Songs are always a con- neffed Repetition of thofe Matters that had been preached juft before. At all Hours, whether Day or Night, fome Perfons, of both Sexes, are appointed by Rotation to pray for the Society. And what is nioft remarkable, thefe People, without Call, Clock or Watch, are ac- quainted, by an inward Feeling, when their Hour comes in which they are to perform their Duty (7). When (5) Z.* Longi Tom. i, page 252. See here a Patteca, ivhich is the 1909th of their Hymns, made for the Ufe of Children. Ich liehe mein Papagjetiy ich Hebe mein MamaseHf und Bruder Ldmmelein^ ich Hebe die lieben En- gelf ich Hebe den abern Sprengel, das KirchUin und mein Herzeleitt. Engliih. I love my little Pappa, I love my little Mamma and Brother, the little Lamb ; I love the dear Angels, I love thofe that are at the Head of the Society, the little Church, and my little Heart. (6) Page 330. (7) Le Long, Tom. i. page 248, 689. ■% \si'-. ["1 ^ When the Brethren perceive Ihat the 2eal of the Society is declining, their De- votion is revived, by cejebrating jigapes or Love-feails (8). ^he Cafting of Lots is much praAifed a- snong them. They make Ufe of it to learn che Will of the Lord (9). The Elders have the fole Right of mak* \na Matches. No Promife of Marriage is 01 any Validity without their Confent (i). The Maids devote therhfelves to the Savi- our, not that their Intent is never to marry^ but to marry only fuch a Perfon, with Re- ipedt to whom God fhall have made known CO them with Certainty, that he is regene- rated, initruffced in the Importance of the Conjugal State, and appointed by the di- vine Direction to enter into that State (2). AU t i {8) Ibid, page 259. (9) Ibid, page 256. (i) Memorial of the Clergy of the Reformed Church of the Province of Utrecht^ prefented to the States of that Province, intitled, Memorie ivegens de Hermbuters en bunne Leere^ &c. page 113. ^Uym /%- rathen haben die CborAlteften ein Votum negativum : Zum affrmativo haben fie fo viel Recbt ah ein Vommndy Fa- toe or Freund in niita cemmttni, Keine Ehe foil ohne Vor- bewuji der Altefien hefchlojfen : nocb ein Verlohniifs ohne ihreGegemuarty oder Genehmhaltung giiltig feyn. Eng- lifh. The Elders have in Marriage-alFairs a negative Voice : and to the Affirmative uiey have as much Right as a Guardian, God-father, or Friend has in common Life. No Marriage (hall be concluded with- out the Knowledge of the Elders : nor ihall a Be- trothing be of Validity, unlefs they are prefent o)r confent to it. {2} Le Long, Tom. i. page 252, t " ) •Wv Pretence of the Herm- huters of •^'' AH is extraordinary at Herrnhut, The moft fhibbom Difeafes vanifh there without Help : Very rarely one dies there of a vio^ lent Fever. But 'tis common to die there of a Cold, Defluxion» or fuch like other flight Indifpofition. Thefe are at leaftThings Count Zinzendorf affirms in a Writing, dated January 24, 1732, and prefented to the Miniftry of the Court of Drefden (3), I do not find that the Hermbuters to the Year 1729, pretended to be any thing more than Members of the Lutheran Church at •n"of Ae ^^r^^'^V'^o^f' Indeed, they were all of them ancient ^ either born among iMtherans^ or converted Mora'vian from Popery to the Faith of the Augsburg Church. Confeffion ; and if fome amongft them en- tertained Ideas of Calvinifm, Count Zin" zendorf took Care to cure them of it (4). But from this Time the Herrnhuters^ un- doubtedly with a View to fet their Society off to better Advantage, would pafs for a Sprig (5) of thofe Bohemian and Mora- *uian Brethren, who, a long time before Z.«- ther^ lived "feparated from the Romijh Church, and who in the Time of the Re- formation entered into brotherly Correfpon- dence with the two great Proteftant Socie- ties, but without uniting with either of them. And Count Zinzendorf has fince that time ever talk'd in this Strain. He pre- tends (3) Le Lofigy Tom. i. page 230. {4) Ibid, page ig6, 674. (5) See an Inftrument made by a Notary in le Longy Tom. «. page 127. . teh Longy Tom. ii. page 80. (2) Ibid. Tom. i. page 87. {3) This Aft, with other Things, relating to this Qfficc, ar« in I4 Long, 17, had believed he had a Call from Provi«' dence to an Ecclefiadical State or Condi* tion of Life, and who had already publickl/ preached in fome of the Lutheran Churches, fot himfelf confecrated Biihopof his Se6t (4), rom that Time, according to the Cuftom of Bilhops, he made Ufe of his Chriftian Name and of that of his Sct% viz. Ludo*' victts Moravienjis. The Prelate of this new* falhion'd Creation, neverthelefs did not fiiffer himfelf to be dazzled by the Luftre of his Mitre. He tells us himfelf, that he had very little Forwardnefs to make a Fi- gure as a Bifhop •, and in the 3d general Synod of Herrnhuti/m^ held at Gotha in 1 740^, he laid down his Epifcopal Dignity (5) i which however had made- no Change with Reiped to his Office of 1'ruftee or Guardian of the Brethren. It appears at leaft, that he was ftill vefted with it in 1 743» bccaufe at that Time the Brethren dilcharged him from it. But this was only done with a View to give him a much more honourable Title, viz. that of Minifter Plenipotentiary arJ Oeconomift^ with Power to nominate a Succeflbr, and an exprefs Clauie, that no-> thing of Importance fliould be done or con- cluded without his Confent (6), He did not (4) Natural Reflexions, fee. page 14, 1731^76. (5) Ibid, page 176, 251, 262. (6) The Aft, which gives to Count Zinxendo)ft\i\s new Dignity, is dated Noiemher 21, 1743, and is to be found, page 179, 180, in a Book printed in 1744, in- titled Sieyfried's befcheidene Beleuchtung^ ^c. of which Count V.inxendorf himfelf is the Author ; and which, be quotes in his Natural Rejemnff ^(^ piigc 30 j, I 17 J not accept this new Promotion till towards the Clofc of the following Year (7). Lately we fee him ftile himfelf Lord Advocate of the Unitas Frairum. The Reader, perhaps, will be furprifed to find Count Zinzenaorf thus change his Offices and Titles, to abdi- cate, to take them again, and nevertheleis to enjoy the fame Power. Should any one be tempted to make Reflexions upon it» he*ll tell them : My dear Critics^ don* (take it amifij that I tell you, you meddle with an Af- fair, to which you are Strangers, you argue about things you do not underjland, and you have none of thofe Salifications , which are ne- cejfary to decide, with any Appearance of Skill and Equity, in Matters that concern me {%), And indeed, the Count is in the Right, if what he fays be true, viz, that, to judge pertinently of his Conduct (which he ac- Knowledges to have fomething enigmatical in it), a Perfon ought to be actuated by the fame Principle with himfelf; and truly *tis a Principle of fo extraordinary a Nature, that it is to be wifhed, it were peculiar to him- felf and uncapable of being communicated to others. He has nothing more at Heart than to retire, and waits only till certain Affairs are finilhed, in order to give an Ac- count to the Society, and put an End to thirty Years Labour. At leafl this was his way {y) Natural Reflexions, &c. page 303. (8) y\m Shift is fo fmgular, that 1 am obliged to acquaint the Reader, the fame is Word for Word to be found in Count Zinaendorfs Natural Rejlexiom, pag» 336, 337- C \ The Pro. pagation oiHerm- kutifm. ti8 1 way of thinking in 1749 (9). He won*t have a Succeflpr. The important Ofiiceft which he is charged with, will be executed by feveral Brethren joined together in Com- miflion for that Purpofe ( i ). He is one of thofe Men, that cannot be fucceeded by an Equal, and who are like Pieces of Gold, a great Quantity of fmall Money is fcarce fuf* ficient to make up the Value. Count Zinzenaorf has very early been about extending his Se6t. He has fent his Fellow-Labourers throughout the World, He himfelf has been over all Europe^ and at leaft tvi'ict in America. From the Year 1733, a new Hermhutt has been fet up in Groen^ land', and before the End of the preceding Year the Mifiionaries oiHefmbutifm had al- ready pafs'd the Line (2). The Society pof- fefles Bethlehem in Penfylvania: It has a Set- tlement amongd: the Hottentots. China is entered into its Plan. But it has no where made better Conquefts than in the Britijh EuropeanTiommions^ in xhtUnited Provinces^ and in Wetteravia; in the laft Province, however, where their Views were difcovered, they have again loft Ground (3), as will be feenin the Sequel of this Treatife. They have alfo been turn'd out of the Danifi Do- minions, where -f they had made a Settle- ment. A Di- {9) Ibidem, page 335. (i ) Count Zinzendorfxn. the Append, to his Natural Reflexions y page 145. (2) Le LoNg, Tom. I . page 472, and the following. (3) Viz. At Hermhaag. t At QUeJloh in the Dutchy of Schhf'wick, l\ li h won*t : Ofiices xecuted in Com- s one of (i by an old, a rce fuf. been "ent his W^orld, and at '733, ceding lad al- typof- aSet- ina is where Britijh 'Jtnces^ t^ince, ^ered, ill be have Do- :ttJe- Di- Jturai ing. t »9 1 A Difcipline, fo much ovcrburden*d Count Jorf «s that of Herrnbutifm^ could not very well cake Place but in a fmall Society, and we cbmplai find, that in Proportion, as this Se6t came to fance for ipread abroad, it was thought necelTdry to aU Seas. forego, in fome Meafure, the Rigour of its Rule,in order to accommodate the Inftitution to the Tafte, Humour, and Ideas of the new Profelytes. This gave Rife to the Modifi- cations, Forms, and different Ufages now in Being among thefe Sedtaries. CoyxTitZinzen- . page 359 and 176^, ._c^ „Ti ■I-..- I 20] Public with, that the Bohemian Confeflion is received by the firft Trope, the Confejfion ofAugJburg by the fecond, and that of thtf Reformed Churches in the United Provinces by the third. Indeed, from the Year 1748, Count Zinzendorf has made (6) all the Tropes receive the Augjburg Confeflion j however *tis pretended, that this has made no Confufion among thefe feveral Modifica- tions. Condefcenfion being what has given Rife to thefe TV^w, Count. Zinzendorf , from the fame Motive, fhews a general Inclination to all Chriflian Communions. He would have wrote to the Pope, had he known what Tide to give him. -He has even been perfecuted, for having maintained, that the Pope was not the Antichrift. He has fent a Deputation to the Patriarch of Conjianti^ nople, which has been very well received. He fhews a great Attachment to Lutheran- ifm, whereof he conftantly pretends him- felf to be a Member. He boafts of being a Minifter of that Church, and affirms, in Spite of all that can be faid to the contrary, that he and his Brethren have no other Dodrine, than what is taught by that Com- munion. He is of late become more fa- vourable to Cahinifm, than he was in the Beginning. It was in his Power, fays he, , to have rooted it out from among the Bre- ■ thren, (6) Natural Refle£iion%t ^c, page 242, 334. Ap- pend, page 105. :: -1 -f 21 ] :,„,■ :....':.. thren, he however declined it. Althouigh, according to himi the taking of Oaths i» hot prohibited ; yet the Society, wherever it fettles, is known to be averfe to them, and that probably out of Complaifance to the Mennonifts or Anabaptifis. He declares / in general, that whoever embraces Herrn'4 hutifm^ need not change his Religion (7)»\ Such Advances as thefe cannot but infinitely ' \ facilitate the Propagation of theSeft, which !_ already boafts of decimating all Nations, and pretends, it has a Right to all the Chil- dren of God of whatever Perfuafion they .. ' be (8). Though Count Zinzendorf tells us, that 5"^""^ he has fometimes met with Refiltance from wSlofthe the Brethren, and that they have contra- Superiors difted him; yet it appears in general, that in^»T«. they have Ihew'd great Docility both for i?j:^* j him and thofe he has been pleafed to make g^y ^^_ * Partakers of his Authority. Subniiflion to tends to the Will of the Superiors of the Society, is rule by a very effential Article of his Syftem. He JJ*^*^ teaches, in his Sermons to the Synod of ^^^ Zeifly that God obeys the Voice of his Ser- vants (that is to fay, of the Brethren), but that it is required, that firft of all they agree with their Friend^ that they a6t in concert with their Chief (g). The Tradtablenefs, C 3 which (7) Natural Re/effioM, &c. page 173, 262, 339, 360. Append, page ss> 9h 'H* ^^S' IUdSermoa preach'd at Zeifi, page 25. (8) Hid Sermon at Z«/, page 26. (9) XX}(im S«naoii at ZeiJ, page 276. lir- 'i'^-i' [ t2] which he prefcribes them, muft go (b far as to fufFer themfelves to be led Step for Step, like little Children, by Men whom he calls Minifters of die Holy Ghoft, and of the Church (i), reprefenting them as being fp many living Images of our bleffed Saviour (2). The Irkfomnefs of thus obeying without Refervc is great, it muft be owned, but then 'tis much al- leviated by the Notion that is inftilled into them, that their Superiors receive from Chrift himfelf the Orders that are mven. This the Count inculcates among his Flock i* with equal Caro and Afliduity. Every I) Thing is done by the Saviour's Injunftionj !| Jefus will have it fo, the Lamb commands it : I this is the Stile of the Minifters of the So- ciety. According to them, the Saviour gives ;his Orders on the very Moment, they are 'to be executed. He will not fuffer that thofe who are to obey them, have Time to confider. Thus Bufinefs is done, quickly^ alt at once', and, as it were, in Pofl-hajle. Thefe are the Count's own Expreffions (3), who looks upon this Method of the Saviour, as a Condefcenjion he has for his Children, with whofe JVeaknefs he is not unacquainted. He knows, adds he, for inftance, how it is with a Maid, whenfhe is apprifedfhe is to marry (4). Therefore he doth not willingly let Perfons know >^», ;^ (i) XLVIth Sermon at Zeiji, page 362. (2) LI ft Sermon at Zfj^, page 423. (3) Xth Sermon at Zeijiy page 74. (4) Ibid. % know their Defiinatien much beforehand {^\ Who does not plainly fee through this Cant, the Artifice of the Chiefs of the Se6t, which is here father'd on our blefled Saviour ? An Artifice, which is likely to be attended with {o much the more Succefs, as Men are lefs able to withftand Orders they have not Time to examine. But Count Zinzendorf Ihould have known, that this Contrivance is not a new one ; John of Leyden^ the fa- mous King of the Anabaptijis at Munfier^ did the fame before him, only with thia Difference, that he afcribed his pretended Orders to the Holy Ghoft (6). The lending of Miffionaries, according Concern- to this Sed, is a Bufinefs in which the Sa- VW/**"" viour_is_j)arric^ularlj._jQ^ Count ^^^ ^*' Zinzendorf informs us minutely, what the Saviour prefcribes in this Matter. For inftance, fome of the Society earneftly de- firing, that thofe of their Brethren, who had been pitched upon to be fent away, fhould be difpatched a Day fooner, than the Saviour had appointed: The Count op- pofed this Motion with fo much Steadinefs, that it was dropped. It wis to no Pur- pofe they obje<5ted, that the Captains, who were to take them on Board at Rotterdam^ would pay no Regard to the Day appointed by the Saviour ; He refolutely anfwered j They will do ity or if noty our Miffionaries C 4 wili (5) Xth Sermon at Zeifty page 74. (6) See my Memoirs of the Houfe of Brunfwick, page 245. I in] vbill Cdme^ in another Manner^ to the Place for which they are dejiin^d (7). This Ex- ample of the Count's Faith will appear lefs aftonilhing, when we attend to what he tells us further, viz. That he has found by Experience, that the Brethren, when the Saviour directed them in their Travels, have performed amazing Things, Things which no Art, no human Precaution ever could attain to. He himfelf has once, without human Afllilance, made a Voy- age in eleven Weeks, which another Herrnr huter could not compals in lefs than Sixty- fix, becaufe he was in the Hands of Men (8 ). ^he Saviour^ continues this great Apoftle, in a prophetical Strain, in his xxxiiid Ser- mon, preached at Zeiji^ (9) prote^s his People in a quite wonderful Manner. My Wijhes and Dejires are^ that I could bring it to pafs, that we could have a couple of ShipSf no Matter of what Bulk^ that belonged folely to the Society, and which the Maritime PoW' i €rs might not fufpeSi of carrying on a Trade^ , er being employed in Smuggling 5 which majf j- be pojfible to obtain, and depends only on a \ favourable Moment, Then wefhouldfee Won* \ ders. For, atprefent, our Affairs are too much \ blended with the Bufinefs of Men, with their \ hiterejl and Views ; this makes a great Alte- \ ration, and cannot but have, fome fFdy or \ ether y an Influence over the Brethren, But were (7) XXXIIId Sermon preach'd at Zeiftt page 272. (8) Ibid. (9) Page 274, 275. were' it once to become the Saviour^s Bujinefs alone, then he would let us fee Wonders on the Sea. He would not only caufe us to make Voyages with great Swiftnefs, hut to land where never any body landed. A Tempeft would be fufficient to bring us to the intended Place. In Cafe Leave was denied us to enter a Port, wefhould be conveyed into fome inaccef- fible Bay, at fome Miles Dijiance from the Port, where we might land, and no body could find Fault with it, becaufe it would appear, that we were arrived there by Strefs ofWea* ther. This would coji nothing to the Saviour^ it would be a Play to his Angels. But let me be allowed to alk the Queftion, Would it coft him more to provide the Brethren with a whole Fleet, than to give them the Two Ships fo much defired ? Would it be more - Pains to the Angels to tranfport the Bre- thren through the Air, than to convey them by Sea. Where a Teacher has Credit enough over his Flock to inftil fuch Notions into their Minds, there can be no Difficulty for him to prevail upon them to rife up againft the Government, whenfoever his Inclina- tion or Circumllances fhall prompt him fo to do. When we confider this Confidence of what Count Zinzendorf, and the Tide he gives Comiffio* himfelf, of being the Expediter charged with the Socic- f ending the Servants of God into all Parts of the ^itj^^Rg. World {i)', when we attend to the Noifefpeftto and Buftle made by the Herrnhuters about Heatheni the (i) Natural Rf/exions, &c. page 17. K^-^^ '*■*• [a6 1 {tie Voyages and Entcrprifcs of their Mif- fionaries for the Converlion of the Heathen i who would not be tempted to think, that this Se6b was purpofely fet on Foot to bring about fo great and good a Work, and that this was its peculiar Calling ? And yet, on a nearer Inrnedtion, it appears that this is very far from being their Purpofe. Count Zinzendorf tells us himfelf, that the Com- mifllon of the Society was never calculated for a general Converfion of the Heathen, that the Time of this great Event is not as yet come : But that the Society being ao. ixAoyv (an £le<5tion, a chofen People), it muft have an •Tofx^" (the Firftlings or Firft-Fruits), here and there among the Heathen. The little Number, the Brethren have hitherto converted to the Chriftian Faith, is but a Comfort^ which the Saviour has granted them to make them Amends for their Labours, and they believe themfelves well rewarded for their Toil, if in Two Hundred Voyages they make but One Hun- dred Converts (2). May not this again be called a cunning Refource, to have an Ex- cufe at Hand as often as Need requires ? For whenfoever the Mifllonaries of the Herrnbu- ters fucceed ill, or grow tired of their Coni' miflion, they need only fay, that their In- ftrudions did not oblige them to do any more. 'Tis true, we have not an Oppor- tunity of inlpeding thefe Inftruftions, and we (2) XXIId Sermon preached at Zfj/?, page 174, and Nat. Reflex, page 271, t «7 3 • we muft therefore refer ourielves on that Head to the Count, who without Doubt, has received them from Heaven^ executed in due and legal Form ; and Satan himfelf, it ieems, muft have alfo received Notice of it» if we are to credit the Count. For, he af- fures us, that this Enemy is quiet enough, and lets the Brethren alone, as long as they do tiot tranfgrefs the Bounds that are prefcribed them. But when they go beyond their Com- miiTion, then Satan indeed plays the Devil, and oppofes them with all his Might (^)j He alfo tells us. That the Henmhuters^ in Order to acquire the FiriUings oi Paganifm^ chufe to look out for them amongft thofe Heathen, that have had the leaft or no Com- munication at all with the Pretenders to Chriflianity, rather than among the laft (4.^ Is not this likewife an artful Plan, much a- kin to that already laid to their Charge ? Do they not thereby put it out of the Power of Byftanders, to contradidl their Report and invalidate their Teftimony? As the Brethren have always a great Num- ber of Labourers on the Roads, oftentimes among thefe their Chief himfelf with his Fa- mily and Retinue; and as, befides, their Un- dertakings and the Acquifitions they make, require confiderable Expence ; 'tis neceflary, they ftiould have what is called the Sinew of all (3) XXIId Sermon preached at Z^//,page 175. (4) Ibidem, page 174. [28] - all great Schemes, Money (5), Thus we find they have betimes eftabliih'd a Fund call'd by them the Lamb''% — or i\it Saviour's' Cbejij which is become very confiderable by the Contributions and Donations of the Pro- fclytes of Hermhutifm and its Favourers. From the Beginning, two Brethren were trufted with it i of whom, one kept the Cheft, and the other the Key (6), But Count Zinzendorf has always had the prin- cipal Direftion over it. This Addition of temporal Concerns muft infallibly have crulh'd him under its Weight, he being; already fo much taken up with the Spirituai ones of the Society, had he not found in the Countefs, his Spoufe, a proper Affiftant to Ihare his Fatigues with him. In a Manu- fcript Hiftory of the Society, whereof the Count gives us fome Abftrads in the Ap- pendix of his Natural Reflexions, 'tis faid, that this Lady, during a Time of Twenty Six Years, has fo well hufbanded the fcanty Funds of the Society, that nothing was ever wanting, either in his Family, or amongft the Brotherhood, though there had been a Necefllty of furnifliing from thence above One Million of Crowns tor fundry Under- takings. (5) The Count has fometimes advanced greatSunu towards the common NecefTity, and lacriiiced feveral Sums to the Eftablilhment of H«r«A«/. LeLong, who agrees in this with the Count, adds, however, that he had nothing loft by it. Natural Rijkxions, page 333. LeLongi Tom. i. page 8g. (6) LeLong, Tomi. page 243. t 1749. 1 29 1 takings (y). Upon the Whole, *tls well known, that whoever defires to be received as a Brother, is not welcome among them, unlefs he contributes to theCheft. The Count fays himfelf, That the CEconomifts of the Society may fay to a young rich Man : Either give us all thou haft, or get tbefgone; give us all thou haft J or thou canft not be with us(S), I have already hinted at the rapid Pro- j>^^ ^^^^ grefs made by Herrnhutifin. Here follows of Hernia another curious Detail, which Count Zin- hutifm in zendorf |748»an4 (7) ^tpf^^' to ih. Natural Reflexions t page 21. Count 'Linxendorft in another Place, fhews a deep Senfe of the great Qualifications of his Lady, and that after 25 Years Marriage. He thanks J^w for having made her on Purpofe for him. She is the only one in the World that fuited him. This leads him to a moft An- gular Thought; he fays. That ii iveryHufijand would refleft upon this Matter, he would likewife find, that the Wife he has, is the very fame Perfon he ought to have, preferably to any other. Natur. Refex. pag^ 113. The Count loves Paradoxes ; but ihould aHuf band,, who got a Wife from the Brethren, either by Lot, or by Appointment of the Elders, find him- felf improperly yoked, I am apt to think, he would, but indifferently reliih fuch a Doftrine. (8) Lift Sermon preached at Z»/, page 422. In the Original, above tranflated, it is thus : Siekonnenzu einen reichen Jungling fageny gib alles her oder fnke dich, gib alles her oder du kanji nicht by uns Jeyn. The Zeal of Ifaac he Long, the Hiilorian of Hermhutifm fo often quoted, and the great Services he had done to the Brethren, could not make him efcape the Harfhncfs of fuch a Compliment. He was defired to withdraw, be*, caufe he would not give up what he had, and hig Children to the Difpofition of the CEconomifts of the Society. This is at leaft reported by an Author who ought to know it. Volk de Verhorgenhtid 'van dt Sectt dtr HerrnhHten, 4 Stuck, page 1 44. / • t 3« 1 ftenJdrf Wimklf gives US in his Appendix to his Natural R^effions, &;c. wrote in the Years 1748^ and 1749. This will Ihew, (if Credit may be given to what he fays,) what Situation the Se^ was in at that Time* The Society, fays he, had almoft a thou- fandLaHourers difperledall over the World* This Number however was not yet fuffi- cient \ for, in Proportion as they work*d, the Harveft increafed. Twenty-four Na- tions had been awakened from their fpiri- tual Drowfinefs, by the Care of thefe Apoftles. f^f^e preach, fays he, to an innu- merable Number of Souls in fourteen Lan^ guages, amongft whom, without reckoring thofe that don*t belong to the Protejiant Re-l ligion, nor the Jews and Heathens, there are at leafi twenty 'thoufand People, that were not born Lutherans, nor intend to become Lu- therans, whom we neverthelefs bring to the Augfburg Confejfion, and indeed, we cannot recommend to them a better Ccnjlitution, than the Church of the Brethren (9). This fup- poles, that thefe twenty Thoufand Souls muft be look*d for amongft the Reformed, and Mennonijls or Anabaptifts ; but for what Reafon he denies, that, at leaft, the former, are of the Augjburg Confelfion, doth not appear. We have, adds he. Ninety-eight EJiablifhments, amongji which are Cajiles, that have 20, 50, or 90 Apartments (^)» The (9) In the Original above tranflated it is thus ; Wir hahtn 98. Gtmin-Qrtt und Jnjialttn-Hdufert ivo- ruuttr \dit the fcew. t3» 1 The Miflionarics of the Hermhuters don*t go and preach in every Place, where their Miniftry is required. On the a 8th of Fe- hruary 1748) they had received above one hundred and leventy Invitations, only from Eqfter of the foregoing Year, with regard to which they had not as yet taken any Refblution. In the mean while they are not idle } in the Year 1 740, they haid al- ready made two hundred Voyages by Sea. As to the Progrefs theSe£t has made abroad for thefe three Years paft, I fhall not ven- ture to fpeak of, as I have not fufHcient Materials for the Purpofe ; but as for the Succefs they have met with in thefe King- doms, and are daily making, every Body is an Eye-witnefs of. It is to be fup- pofed, that their Succefs from the Year 1 749, mull furpafs that of the two Year* abovementioned ; The Conquefts, which are the Objedt of this Society, are of the fame Nature as thofe, that are efFefted Sword in Hand. Every Acquifition fur- niflies Means to make ftill greater ones. I relate this Detail, in the fame Manner as I rttnter Schlojfer von Zwemzig, Funfxig md Neunzig 'Limtium find .... Wir predigen auf ordehtlichen Benif einer umuhlbaren Mengt Seelen in vierz^hn Sprachetif luO" runterfo nvohl alles was nicht zur Proteftantlfchen Reli- gion gehorett ah die Juden itnd Heiden ungerechnet, auft nvenigste "Liuantzig taufend nicht Lutherijh gebohren find, muh nicht tntendiren Lutherifih zu iverden ; die tuir doch xur Augsburgifihen Confejpon bringen, aber ihfien freylich keine bejfere Verfajfung anzurathen oci^t*, als die BrUder- Kirche. The above is an exaft Tranflation of the German Original. the Te- nets of the Hermhu- ters. The Ob- fcurity theyaffeft 1 find it reported by Count Zinzendorf, There may be poffibly an Hyperbole in it ; *tis a Stratagem of War to exaggerate one's Forces. The Reader may think of it, as he pleafes. The Count would make us be- lieve, that he never formed a Plan (i)t but adbed from Time to Time, as the Sa- viour direded him. 'Tis very likely, that at the Beginning his Plan was very mo- derate, but that he afterwards extended it, and is now himfelf aftonifh*d at its Pro- grefs. The fame has happened to the moft jfamous Conquerors. I come now to the Tenets of Herrnhutifm, As long as Herrnhut belonged to the Church at Bertholfdorf, the Society was ' held in great Efteem, and not at all fufped:ed to differ from the Confeffion of Augfburg, This was the Reafon, for which the Theo- logical Faculty at 'Tubingen^ did not fcruple to grant them thofe Teftimonials, to which Count Zinzendorf^ has fince that Time al- ways referred himlelf, to prove the Sound- nefs of his Do6crine. The Reader will find in the Appendix the Judgment of the faid Faculty afterwards given by them, dated May 8, 1747, concerning the grofs Errors of this Sed, which had they known at firft, they never would have granted thofe Teftimonials, under the Sanction of which fo much Mifchief h is been done. I do not know, nor is it material to inquire, whether (i) LIvth Sermon preached at Zeifi^ page 442, Ap* |>^dix to the Nat. Refieit, page 22. f 31 I whether Count Zinzendoff beesui to broach his new Dodbine, immediately upon the Beginning of the fiift Bftablimment of the Society at Herrnbut ; it feems more likely, that as he enlarged his Plan, he enlarged his Notions alfo. Thus much is certain, that it is no eafy Matter to come at the Tenets of this Seft, on Account of the great Obfcurity affefted by their Teachers. They make it their Study, to fpeak and write, that they may hot be underftood. 'Tis a Rule among them, to fpeak to thofe, that are not initiated into the Myfteries of the Theology of Blood and Wounds, that is to fay, their own Theology, in a Manner, that they may not be able to tell again any thing of what they h^ve heard. They adt, fays Count Zinzendorf himfelf, in the fame Manner as one would do, who, to catch People that are too curious, writes in a Charafber they are not able to decypher (2). They fucceed wonderfully in this Kind 'i ..m':^ -' of :n (2) Appendix to the Natural Re/le£iion$y page 47. In denjetvdgen heillofen 7.eiten ifi ehenfo n'dthtg, paradox xujprechen und die gotlichen Warheiten 'uor aUe die nicht ifey dem Gtheimnufs-der Blut und Wunden Iheolop her- konunen Jhtdf unnachj^rechlich auszuretkn, ah es nothing ifi tinm Nahnun ku machen, den ein anderer nicht nachfchrei- ben kan , oder etwa eineHandzu/chreiieny die ein Fiirur fug. Idle *^rgy, to pfepate Matters and propofe them. I the nloit willitlgly maketJfeof theie Sermons, a$ they have been preached for the Inftruftioh m feveral Fetldw-La- bourersy Englijb and Duicb, lately received among^ the Se£b, and fince the Preacher propofes there to hiftifelf, to put into a better Light certain cenftal Ideas, by which one oueht to regulate one's Adtions, Words and Thoughts (3). If it be poffible, to ^ meet any were with the Tenets of Herrn- butWny it muft be in them. ^- * . ' ■ I begin with the Idea, this S^£l has ofDoarine the Sciipture. Thoudi Count Zinzendorfof the doth not, as yet, think proper direftly to ^*^^- difown die Scrip'^^re ; yet the indifierent ceraing* Manner the Scrip- (3) Preface to the e. n as at Xeift. Es nuird nicht turc. ttuftdleH Synedis Jo viei Mart: die Menge aier neiier und ndt tttifim Saehen noch nicht in einerfolchen Nahe zufam- men gewthnter nat-arheitery fondtrlich ems Holl-und En~ gtl-lmdt veranlaffete damahls etnvas iveitidu/Hgere Pa- rapbrafes derjenigen Shrifi Textty die man fiir ordi- nair mit fehr iurtzen Worten zh der Jlnwefettden eigenen Vachdenhn infinuirt .... Das Haupt Abfehen bey der- ^eichen Reden ifi iiberbaupt, diejenigen central-idstn immer heffer ins licht zu fetvun^ aus iXie/chen jich aUe unfre Handluttgeny unferRedent und die erjle Gedcmktnfelbfiyfor' mren nmjfen. Englifli. So much is not taught upon every Synod : the Number of new Fellow-Labourers, chiefly from Holland and England, who are not yet fo well acquainted with our Affairs, induced us at that Time, to paraphrafe more largely on thefe Texts of Scripture, which are commonly ofier'd in a few Words to the Confideration of the Audience . . . The chief View in delivering thefe Sermons, is, to put into a better Light fuch central Ideas, out of w|iicii all our Aftions, our Words, and our ytry Thoughts, muft form themfelves. Da t-v- t36 1 Manner, in wluch he gives his Opinion of* It, ihews what he aims at. He fays in a Sermon preached at Philadelphia^ that the Stile of the Scripture is fometimes like that of a Peafant, fometimes like that of a Carpenter, fometimes like that of a Fiiherman, or of a Toll-gatherer (4). Chriff himfelf had fpoke very meanly, and ufed many a Phrafe becomiflg a Pea- fant, which is now looked upon to imply fomething of quite a" different Nature,, (ince we are unacquainted with the Man- ner of- fpeaking, ufed by the Journeymen' at Nazareth (5). He prefcribes a Me-, ' >^ . ' thod (4) Colle£lion of public Sermons preached by> Count Xinzendorf in jimerica, Tom. i . page 1 26. Was dtnjiilutn def Schrifif die dufferliche artjicb aus nu druc' ken hetrifti fo iji dir zteweilen bdurifchf zutveilen luit. gin Tiimmermam reM, nvie ein Fifcher^ *u}ie eta Mantt, der by der Zoll Buden herkommen. Engllih. Concerning vie Stile of the Scripture, or the Manner of exprefling ones felf, 'tis fometimes like that of a Peafant, fome- times of a Caroenter, fometimes of a Fiiherman» fome&nes of a Man tnx>ught up among Toll-eathe- rers. See alfo Frefenim\ Account 01 Herrnbutifm, Tom. II. page 56. (5) leh ^ubet unfer Heyland Jelbft magfthr platt ge- rtdt, und 1 ... thod to his Miflionarif^, how to 4eal with, the Cimpirellerijl iheimpturf '(Mu^hom he meaos ^tm^ that defire Frq^^^ c^f every Dodtrinc out of the Scripture ) waj. that they ought to prove all fuch Things by the Defedts or Imperfe(5bions of thefe Writings, which thoCe Comptrollers prcr^ tend to make good by the rerfe^uln atid Infallibility of the Scripture (6). The Reading of the Scripture appears to him to be more dangerous than ufeful to the Society (7). A Foundation this, which beingonce laid, is large enough to admit ! any Thing Count Zinzendorf nas a Mind i to build upon. People, being once 1 taught, that the Scripture is defediVe and not infallible, will regard no Proofs al- ledged from it : In that Cafe, the next Queftion (6) AUtiodus mlt den Controhurs der beiUgtn S^cbri/i. Alles das out der Schri/i Miinrein henueifevx tuM JU ms ibrer Unfehlbarkeit tmlUu oewie/hf h/tien. Enj^fll. Method to be ufed againft the Comptrollers of the Sacred Writ. viz. to prove dl fuch Things by the Defe£b of the Scripture, which diey, pretend to prove by its Infallibility. Count ZimxendKfB Natural Re- Jlexionsy page 37. Frejen. Tom II. page 42. (7) Icb babe liielmahh Sorgt getraren, daft das Bibei Lefettf ivann es mit einergenmuen dlftUtm oder "Zufammen- baltung der Spriicbe, Erfor^nmg md Art eines Studirens, "jerkniipft ift, der Gemeine mebr fciadUcb ait nutz£ck /eyn kotme. Eneliih, I have oftentimes been afraid, that the Reading of tKe Bible, by comparing one Paflage with another, fcrutiniiing thereinto, and mak- ing a Study of it, would be more dangerous than uieful to the Society. Count Xinxendar/i Tbeokgicat Qfiniofit page 187. Fre/en. Tom. II. page 115. D $ ^'■: [ 38 ] QueftioA will be, what Rule the Hrnn" buters can ihew, which ought to be fol- lowed in Matters of Faith ? And hei?e they will tell you, that Chrift intending ^ a new Period in his Church, has refolved > to declarie his Will henceforth infallibly to the Brethren. Coneern- According to Count Zinzendorf^ the ing the i Doctrine that God the Father is our Cre^- Tnnitjr. ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^j. j^edgg^er, and the Holy Ghoft our Sanftifier, is a falfeDoc- trine^ and one of the capital Errors, that reign in Chriftendom. Creation and Sajoc- tification ought not to be afcribed to me Father and Holy Ghoft. To avoid Ido- latry, People ought to be taken from the Father and Holy Ghoft, and conduced to Chrift, with whom alone we have to do. The Ancients never dreamt of a. Tri- nity ; whoever adores the Father and the Holy Ghoft, differs not from a Servant of Jupiter, Mercury , Apollo, or of any great Hero to whom the Ancients gave the Title of God. Our great Do£bor ap- pears fo pofitive of the Orthodoxy of his new Opinion, that he calls the Theology received among Chriftians, a dry one, and good for nothing elfe than to amufe Dogs and Swine, Unbelievers and Atheifts, in- vented by the Devil and that fuch as teach it are Satan's Profejfors, Satan has thought within himfelf, fays he. Men Jhall not corhe \tB fee the Father, that is, the true Father, ; who is the Saviour, according to Count Zinzen- Ps., ( S9 ] ' ^ a Fo"f'.f",J^^,6, is their God. thus tbt fmurlj id, that '*"'*'"' „ ,4^ mims, W»r PM ?«'J'' ^^; Jp^be, think tm and only Fatbtr ( 8). - ^^ the Father arc ^^""l^lT^^.^ Voter oc.V fo ^ f^^ rum ift die l^^Jj^ 2hrten «^^. ^i«^f^^ concermngtheFaAeir.inthe wia wheiewiA up in Chnftendom. is » ^^f. J^, ^ Atheifts di- ' Z Dogs and S^Jfspife K ^^^ ^' ''"'"^i HofyVrinity. ^Ae .co"^^^/,^^ PaSer of all Crea- the Saviour j this is V^^JJ"^ ^^y are Creatures, wres. Men and Tunes, as tar as w y ^.^^ ^ XLth Sermon, ^rJnKlbieibfth^i«^fi^ %' ••» [40l The Holy Ghoft is called by the HerrH'^ buterSf ts thou doft not believe in die Lord Jefus, and lceep*ft to a God the Father invented by thyfelf, and who is not permitted thee .... Thoa nfeft in vain the Name of Uie Father : for, he is not thy God, he it not given thee to be thy God. Count Zinxiiubtrft Ser- mon, vitcz€i\cA Decern. 20-31. ij\\.9,tGerman-tonunm, PbiUJelpbia. Frefen, Tom. i. page 187. leb iaie mich JhoH ofierkldrstydafseinfolcherynach meineuErkiuifnufitVM einen Diener des Jupitersj des Mercuriiy desAfoUoyoJkrfonfi eines grojfen He/tkn, Jen tUe Htyden den Goites 7ittlgegeht» ifaten in nichts tSfferire. EngUfh. I have oftentimes ex- plained myfelf, that fuch a Perfon, according to my Conception, does not differ from a Servant ofjuplter. Mercury t Apollo^ or any other great Hero, to whom the Heathens gave the Title of God. Uatur. Reflea. page 289. Der m/verfiand komt by ehrlichen Leutem numchmaldahery dafsju mcht begreiffen^ dafs ex Ehre genug *vor den Voter ifi Dei Creatoris ru» Uufltn Jein eigener und tiniger Voter xufeyn. Englifh. The Miftal^e among honeft People, fometimes arifes from their not com- prehending, that it is Honour enough for the Father, to be the own and fole Father of God the Creator of all Things. Hymn the 1 897th, direded to Jefus Chrift. 7 « numen gentium^ Es et Ens entinm, Et caufa CaufarufHt Und der Amts-Gott darum. EngUih. Thott Godhead of Nations^ art alfo the Being of all Be- ings, the Caufe of all Caufes, and for that Reafon the omciating God. (Deus officialis.) Memorial prefented Jtau 12. 1750. by the Clergy of the Reformed Church of the Province of Utrecht to the States of that Pro- vince, intitled, Memorie nvegens de Hermbuters en htmnt Leere, page 36, Die trockene Theology ^ die die gantxt Welt erfult und die in Penjyh/anien tuubjhon Mode tuirelf iji die^ das man immer The ' (6) In the 1883d Hymn, the 3d and 41)1 Verfes : * Wie ill ein Hertz fo wohl gcmuth, das in der theiiren < Hohle ruht, da lebt und liebt und fpielet, da ar- ' beit't und dasLammlein lobt, und wans auch drauT- * fen wiit't und tobt, nichts davon drinnen fiihlet. * Freylich I'ifst's fich nicht befchreiben j denn ca * bleiben juft die Sachen, welche das Schiboleth ma- * chen. Mein Hertz lebt in Tefu Seit ; ich kiifs mit * inn'ger Zartlichkeit, die Narb auf Hand und Fiiflen ; * ich Kiifs den Speer ; wie wolte ich, O Kriegs- * knecht ! dich fur diefen Stich noch felber gehen * kiiflen ; s'ah ich nur dich zu der Stunde, wann die * Wunde halt Gerichte mit versohntem Angefichte." < In the 1894th H^mn, the 5th Verfe. * Wenn ich in * meinen Winkelem umarm und kiifs mein Lamme* * lein, fmd die ftinf Wunden meine : ich lee mich ' in der Hohl vom Speer, bald in die Lang, bald in ' die Quer, als war fie mein alleine ; denn mein * fiettlein ift die Lende, und die Hiinde und die Fiiif* * brauche ich zu meinen KiifTen." In the 2305th Hymn, which is intitled. Conference with the little Lamb concerning the very dear Side-Opening, the I ft 2d and 3d Verfes. * Mein allerliebftes Llinune- * lein, ein zart verbundnes Hertzelein, mit denen * Creutz Luft Vozelein, beriecht und kiift dein Let« * chelein, doch iibers Seit Revier, du zappelts Hertze * mir, Ich fehs noch, wie d^ Kriegs knechx ftach * das Their Opinion concern- ing Rea- fon and Faith. t46l The Htrrnhuters have this diftingulfliln^ Chara6ler of Fanaticifm, that they rejca Reaion» ■*■ < daft allerliebfti Seiten-fach, dai Seiten Hohlgen; * Gotc Lob ! for diefen Speeres Stich, du Knegt « knecht, ich bedanke mich. Ich hab es um and * iim belekt das Steinfaltz ! O wie hats gefchmekt, ' in dem puidct ift mein Seeleeh venlikt zum Seiten * Hohlgeli. Noch eins ihr liraen Hertzelein, ich fe- * liges Gefchopfelein erkenne diefes Seiten Maal fori * atquiereo meiner Wahl, fo fast mirs die Bdama, die ' Mutter Jefua : momentlich, cut der Stich gefchah, ' da fuhr ich^raus Halleluiah I Pleuram laudamus. ' Hangt nicht ein kleines Kindelein, nur gar zu gern ' am Mutterlein ; drum hang ich fo am Seiten Maal, *^ das ift mein Ort, mein Haus, mein Saal, mein Bett- *■ gen «nd mein Tifchel, da mach ich manches Brif. < chel. Ihr Wimden feyd mir alle grofs, doch geh ' ich auf die Eine lofs ; ich kiifs euch alle innigfieh * and CreUtzluft-vogleins-haftiglich, doch eine ift ' mirfoarreta fentio: fie ift ansLammleinsLeichelein * mein favorit ftiik, mein ach mem I (de foil ichs * nennen ? Du Fels-graft an dem Lammelein f ach * taufend fchones Seitelein ! da halt ich Mahlzeit * friih und fpat, erquick und efs und trink mich fatt, ' bis Leib und Geift und Seelgen, verfchwind im ' Seiten Hohlgen/ Engltfi^. What Pleafure doth a' Heart perceive, that refts in the precious Hole, lives there, loves and fports, works and praifes the little Lamb, and tho' it ftorms and blufters without, feelt nothing of it within this his Dwelling. 'Tis true no De- fcription can be made of this Pleafure, for thefe are juft the Things which make the Schiboleth, (the charaAerifing Difference) — My Heart dwells in Jefus* Side, I kifs with the greateft Tendernefs the Scars on his Hands and Feet. I kifs the Spear ; how would 1, O Soldier, run even to kifs thee for this Piercing, Mras I to (ee thee at the Time, when the Wound, (I fuppofe the Meaning is Jefus) is to hold Judgment with an appeafed Countenance.— When in my little Corner I embrace and kifs my little Lamb, then the five ^ t47l Reafon, Reafoning and Philofophy (yj^ The Children of God don't inftruft them- ;-.i;:. ■/ ;-■'"; -':. f^ ,:-■ -:iv:t- ielves five Wounds are my own^ I lay myfelf in the Hole made by the Spear, fomedmes Leneth-wife, tome- times Crofs-wife, as if it belonged folely to me» dien ihe Loins I ofe for my little Bed, and the Hands and Feet ferve me for a Pillow — M^ moft dear little Lamb, a tenderly united Heart with the Crofs-Air- little-Birds, (mells and kifles thy little Corps, but coming near thy Side, there my Heart firuggles. I ftiU fee the Soldier piercing the Cavity of my moft dekr Side, the little Side-Hole. God be jvaifed I Soldier, for this Prickinz with the Spear I give the* Thanks. I have licked it all over that Rock Salt I O how well did it taile, on that Moment my litda Soul is tranfported to the little Side-Hole. On* Thing more, ye litde dear Hearts, I, blefled little Creature, acknowleoge this Mark in his Side as the atqui ergo of my Choice or Predeftination, fo Mamma tells me, the Mother Jefua : in the Moment the Pier- cing happened, I jumped out. Hallelujah ! pleuram laudamus. Doth not a little Child ftick willingly to his little Mother : For this Reafon am I fo much wrapped up in the Mark of his Side, there is my Place, my Houfe, my Hall, my little Bed and tny little Table, there make I — Ye Wounds ! ye are all venerable to me, but I addrefs myfelf more to on« of them, I kifs you all tenderly and Crofs-Air-Bird- like *, but one is to me arreta fentio (I feel inexpreffi- ble things) 'tis my favorite Bit of the little Lamb** little Corps, my, O my ! how fhall I call it ? Thou Rock-like Vault on the little Lamb! O thoufand Times pretty little Side ! there I feaft early and late, recreate myfelf, eat and drink my Fill, till Body and Spirit and the little Soul difappear in the little Side- Hole. * This is the litteral Tranflation, no Senfe can bs made of this compounded Word. (7) In the 1 826th Hymn, the ninth Verfe, they fay, that they prefer Fancy to Pbilofophy, Feding to Reafoning. '.^r l^v. 'm filv^es out of Books. To demonftrate Re- ligion, to make it as evident as four times four are Sixteen, is an ufelefs and fuper- fluous Labour (S). Faith don't require the leaft Demonftration. 'Tis brought forth in the Heart by the Holy Ghoft. The Children of God believe, becaufe they find Pleafure in believing. Neverthelefs this Eaith, produced without Reafoning, ferves them inftead of all other Things. No , other Reafoning. * Wiirde mir geleget for, ich foil von * beyden wehlen aus, wenn ich wiitt dafs eins ieyit * miift, fo wehlte ich mir diefes draus, lieber noch in * Phantajie ftehn als in Phihfephie. FiUilen wird durch * Prufung juft J raifonniren bringt Verluft.' Tranf- lated. Was it propofed to me, that I fhould choofe one of the two, did I know I muft eleft one of them, then I would choofe Fancy rather than Philofophy. Feeline is afcertained by Experience; Reafoning is hurtful, or makes us lofe ourfelves. (8) XXXIft Sermon preached at Z«^, page 247. Ich fetze, man fchlagt die Menfchen mit allem was fie fiir Schliiife gelten laffen, was fie fur die fcharf- fte Argumentation pafliren laflen, man plefFt fie das fie ohne Antwort bleiben, man macht ihnen alles fo evident, dafs fie das Ding fo gewifs begreifFen, als vier mahl vier fechfzehn id, fo eewifs als fie fonft eine mathematifche or gecmetrifche Aufgabe gelten laflen; quid inde ? was kompt herausT fi6 wifiens, und glaubens dennoch eben fo wenig als 7uvor, glauben kan man fie nicht machen.* Tranf- lated. I Tuppofe, we convince one by all that is re- puted to be Conclufive, by the moft cogent Argu- ments, they are brought to a Nonplus, we make it fo evident to them, that they find it as certain as four times four make fixteen, as fure as any other mathe- matical or geometrical Propofition they admit of; what then ? What is the Refult ? they know it, and neverthelefs don't believe it any mor^ ^an befor(^. Belief caiuiot be given them. [49 I ether Commanament fhould be preached to Men, than that of Believing. This is Count Zinzendorfs Doflrine (^). After • ,. , having (9) Vlt^ Sermon preached at Zdji, page 53. * Mit den Kindem Gottes, ift das eine gantz eigene * 3ache ; fie lernen ihren gantzen Wandel nicht aus * den Biichem.* XXXIft Sermon preached at Z^, p^e 249. * Zu den Glauben wii J nicht die geri agile * Demonftration erfordert, fondern es kompt daher, ' dafs das Hertz vom Heiligen Geiil angezrifFen ift ^ and Lnft nnd Liebe undVerlangen zur Sac^e hat ..w * Wenn das eine Weile gewahrt hat> fo fetzt mans ' fefte, ich glaube es, es gefalt mir fo> dele^lor, wie * Cicero fagt, errorem hunc quo deledor, fi error * eft, eximi mihi non patiar.* XLth Sermon preached ztZeifi, page 330. * Sehet meine Gefchwifter, wic * leicht und naturell im Hertzen die Erf iillung aller * Gebote liegt, fo bald man an den Heiland glaubt, * fo bald man glaubt, dafs ein folcherM monftration is required for Belief, but it proceeds from this, wx. the Holy Ghoft feizes the Heart, which has an Inclination, a Love, a Defire to the Thing. — - AVhen this has lafte4 a while, then 'tis firmly ellablifh- ed within us, I believe it, it pleafes me fo, I am delighted, as Gctro fays, this Error, wherewith I am delighted, if it is an Error, I fhall not fufter any body to beat it out of my Head.— Look there my Brethren, how eafy and natural the Accomplilhment of all die Commaftdments lie in the Heart, as loon as one believes in the Saviour, as foon as one be- lieves, that fuch a Man has been, that the Creator of all Things has clothed himfelf with our Flefh and Blood, {;?(. — Our Method to bring to Salvation is,-> E To f - 1 50 ] having heard this, we cannot be furprifed to find, that he charges Jefus Chrift with having given Anfwers, that cannot bear an Examination according to the Rules of V Logic, impertinent Anfwers. Thefe are his own Words (1). Their Regeneration comes of itfelf, without Doarine our being requii cd to do any thing towards concern- it. 'Tis a Capital Truth, fays our Mora^ Sng Rege- ^^-^^ Bifhop, that fuch as have not receiv- ed Grace, that are not yet Children of "^ God, that have not yet a Feeling of their Reconciliation, that do not know yet upon what Terms they are with their Creator and Saviour, ought not to be engaged to . prepare themfelves for it by any Adion, , good Works, good Refolutions. They muft be told, that all that has been believed hitherto to be a Preparation for coming to God, is rather an Hinderance to their Sal- vation. Regeneration is brought about fuddenly, ail at once. One Moment is ■^ 4 ^» fufficient To preach no Commandment, but that of believing in him : viz. the Saviour. (i) XlXth Sermon preached at Zeijiy page 131. * Wenn der Teufel fagt : Sprich dais diefe Steine * Brod werden ; fo ift das eine impertinente Ant^ * v.'ort nach der Logic : der Menfch lebt nicht vom * Brod allein, ^c' XXXIVth Sermon, page 279. * £r (der Heiland) gab manchmal den Leuten Ant- * worten, die man nacH der Logic nicht examiniren * mufs.' Tranjlated. When the Devil faid : Com- mand that thefe Stones be made Bread ; 'twas an impertinent Anfwer according to Logic: Man lives not by Bread aloney ^c. He (the Saviour) did fome- times give Anfwers to People, that are not fit to b« examined according to Logic. '^ [st] fufficient to make us free to receive Grace, to be transformed to the Image of the little Lamb (2;. ' ' (2) Vlldi Sermon preached tt Zeijl, page ;t. * Dais ift cine Haupt Erkantnifs, dafs man folcha < Menfchen, die nocn nicht begnadigt find, die noch < keine Kinder Gottes find, die die Verfohnunes * Gnade erft noch erfahren follen, die noch nicht * wifien, wie fie mit ihren Schdpfer undHeiland dran * find, in der heiitigen Zeit durch kein Thun, durch * keine gute Werke, oder gute Meinune fich dazu ' praepariren lafTen mufs ; fondern fie bedeuten, dafs* * das vielmehr alles Hinderniflen der Seligkeit find, * was man vor diefem zur Prxparation gerechnet, zu * einer Bereitung zu Gott.' JbiJem, page 53. * So * geht das gantze Werk der Seligkeit nut uns hinter * einander weg, das nichts darzwifiien kommt, man * wird auf einmahl Celig, man wird abfolvirt vom * Nicht Glaaben, vom nicht gutes thun, man gelan- ' get zur Gnade des Glaubei\3, des gates thuns. To * viel gates za thun as einem vom neiland zuge- * meHen wird, von Zeit zu Zeit, und da hat man ' auch zu allem Luft was man foil, und wozu man * keine Lufl hat, dafs foil man nicht. XLth Sermon preached at Z^?, page 350, 331. * So bald man ' elaubt, dafs ein folcher Mann gewefen ift, dafs der ' Schdpfer aller Dinge in unfer armes Fleifch und * Blut verkleidet gewefen ift, und dafs ein folches, * herzliches, friedlichcs, freyeebiges und geduldiges * Hertz, auf Erden gewefen ut ; da ift man gleich in * dasLammleinpuneingebildet,ehe manfich cine Stonde * driiber befonnen hat.' Tranjlated. 'Tis a capital Knowledge (or Truth) that fuch as have not yet re- ceived Grace, as are not yet Children of God, as are ftill to experience Reconciliation, as do not know yet upon what Terms they are with their Creator and Sa- viour, ought not in thefe Days we now live in, to be c^g^gcd to prepare themfelves for it by Actions, good Works, or good Refolutions ; but it muft be intimated to them, that whatever before this Time, has been £ 2 believed ' ■. / ••:'^: t 52 ] A Pcrfon regenerated enjoys a great Li- berty. He doth what the Saviour gives him an Inclination to do, and what he has no Inclination for, he is not obliged to do. He doth what the Saviour makes him do, for he is the Mafter, in whofe Power it is to make Laws and to repeal them ; wha at all Times can change tne Oeconomy of Salvation-, make criminal what was vir- tuous, and virtuous what was criminal (3), 'Tis believed to be a Preparation for coming to God, it rather an Obftacle to Salvation .... Thus the whole Buiinefs of Salvation with us, goes on without any thing coining between, we are regenerated all at once» we are freed from Not-believing, from Not-^doing good AfUons, we get Grace to believe, to do good, as much as the Saviour meafures out for us to do, from Time to Time } we have alfo an Inclination to do what we are to do, and fuch Things a» we find no Inclination in us to do, we are not to do .... As foon as we believe, that fuch a Man has been, that the Creator of all Things was clothed mlh. our poor Flefh and Blood, and that fuch a good-natured, peace- able, liberal and patient Heart has been upon Earth, we immediately are transformed to the Image of the little Lamb, before we have confider'd an Hour upon it. (3) XlXth Sermon preached at Zetfi, page 141. * £r (derHeiland) kan difponiren iiber Leib und Seele, * er kan die Ordnung des Heils machen und fie alle * Stunde wieder umdrehen, dafs das hinterfle zu for- * deril komt; er kan Gefetze machen und abfchafFen; * er kan zur Moral machen was wieder die Natur ift, < und kan die hochftc Moral zu der fchandlichften '* That, und zum fchandlichften Gedanken machen, * was am gefitteften gedacht iftj er kan in einer Vier- * tel-ftunde den Abraham dazu bringen, dafs er feinen ' Sohn fchlachten wolte, dafs doch der abominabelfte * Gedanke Is 1$ t 53 ] •Tis wrong to fay, that a regenerated Pcrfon doth any Thing. Properly fpeak- ing they do nothing. 'Tis the Saviour that a6ts for them. He is with Refpedt to the Saviour as a Child, whofe Hand one guides, yet who believes it is himfclf that writes and rejoices at it (4). 'On < Gedanke ift* den einer haben lean.* TrtrnJIiUed, He (the Saviour) can difpofe of Life and Soul, he caa make the C^conomy of Salvation and change it every Hour, that the hindcrmoft be the foremoil ; he can make Laws and abrogate them ; he can make that to be moral wich is againft Nature; the greateft Virtue to be the moft villainous Adion, and Uie moft virtu • ous Thoughts to be the moil criminal ; he can, in a Quarter of an Hour, mak^ Abraham willin? to kill his Son, which however is the moft abominable Thought , A Man can have. (4) Vllth Sermon preached at Teijiy page 53, 54. ' TJnfre grbften, unfere feligften Handlungen, die in * der That was heift'en, da in der Wahrheit was he- ' raus komtj das iind lauter geborgte Sachen. Die . * Fran^ofen fagen : On me prete cela, man fchreibt ' mir dafs fo zu, man gibt mich fur den Autorem, * fiir den Thiter an, fo gehets uns. Der Heiland ' |ibt uns Schuld das wirs gethan haben ;...Sie wuften * felber nicht recht was fie machten, es kam ihnen * alles fertig in die Hiinde, dafs wen fie, zugriifen ' fo wars gemacht : da freuete fich der Heiland mit, ' er freuete fich iiber fie, wie man mit einen Kinde ' macht, dafs man an der Hand fiihret und es denken « laflt, ich fchreibe, ^c' Tranjlated. Our greateft, our moft blefied Atlions, that in Reality are of ibme Importance, and produce fomething, are nothing elie but borrowed Things. The Trench fay ; On mt prcte tela. People afcribe it to me, I am looked upon as the Author, the Doer of it ; thus it happens with us. The Saviour charges us with having done it.... They did not know themfelves what they did, whatever £ 3 came 4 (54l How the On the great Day of Judgment, ^tHerm* ^^'^mL ^^^ will not be placed on the Saviour's 2^*^ left Hand among thofe that are called theDayof Gcots -, this is to be underftood of Courfe. Judgment Nor will they be amongft thofe, called the Sheep on the right Hand of the Judgment Seat, a Place of Honour they look upon too mean to be afTigned them. Count Zinzendorf tells us, that the Words, hofy . AngelSy coming with the Saviour in his Glory ^ denote the Saints coming alone with him, and that the Herrnbuters wUl be thofe Saints that accompany him. He adds, that fuch as do not die Herrnbuters^ will have Mercy on that Day, provided they think favourably upon their dying Bed, on thofe belonging to that Se6t (- ). L The / . came to their Hands was prepared, fo diat when the/ firetch'd their Hands out, 'twas done; then the Sa- viour rejoiced along with them, he was pleafed at them, as it happens with a Child, whofe Hand one conducts and makes him think, he writes, t^c. (5) Sermon preached by Count Zinzendorf at Jiermhaagt Nov. 22, 1744. paee ic. * Wir freylich, * lieben Gefchwifter, legen nickt darauf zu, auf die * rechte oder linke Hand zu treten, fondem mit den * Heiland zu kommen, ihm im Triumph nach zu- ' Ziehen, und fich um die Seiten Gruft zu ftellen, da * wir heraus gemben find, als der Heiland ver- * fchieden ift/ Ibidem, page 14. * Wann die Lente, ' die aus der Welt gehen, 00 fie ihon nicht alsHerm-i * huter fterben, nur by fich dachten : Es hat an mir * gefehlet, es ill dochs Heilands Volck, es find * doch feine firiider ; meine Seele ilerbe des Todes ' diefer Gerechten und mein Ende werde wie diefer * Ende : fq wiirden fie fchon an jenem Tage Barm- * hertz [ 55 1 The Circumciiion of the Sariour h^s, according to them, ferved to Ihew of what Sex he was. It has likewife reflored to Honour that Part of the Human Body, which, as a Confequence of Adam's Fall, was become a Difgrace to it ; infomuch, that it is at prefent, the moft noble, and the moft refpe(ftable Part of a Man's Body (6). The Sifters arc exhorted never to ■firw/y' >njr-d/. "...,'..: think ' hertzlgkeit eriangen.* Tranjlated. Dear Brethren, and Sifters, we, indeed, do not propofe to ourfelves, to be on the Right or Left Hand, but we are to come along with the Saviour, to follow him at his comins in Triumph, apd to place ourfelves near the Mark made in his Side by the Spear, out of which we were dic^;ed, when the Saviour gave up the Ghoft. — In cafe thofe People, that do not die Hermbutersy did only think thus within themfelves at the Time of their Death; it has been my Fault, they (the Hemt' buters) are neverthelefs the Saviour's People, they are his Brethren ; let my Soul die the Death of idxti9 righteous People, and let my End be like theirs: they would poifibly meet with Mercy on the Day of Judg- ment. (6} IJd Sermon preached at Zeifi, page 7. * Wai ' in der Bibel hundert und iiber hundertmal genennet * ift, aber um der Narbe des Falls, um des Verder- ' benfwillen, mit einen fcheiiflichen Nahmen, ftukum * duMy das hat er zum Verendtv^raAfScAy in dem eigent. < lichen und nechften Sinn diefes Wortes : Und was ' durch die Befchneidung, zur Zeit des Gefetz?s, ' geziichtiget worden, dafs wurde wieder in fein erftei * Elfe und Flw gefetzet, dafs wurde wieder den cdel- ' ften und refpe^abelften Theilen des Leibes gleich, * ja es wurde feiner Wiirde und Deftination nach^ < alien andern iiberwichtig ; zumahl dadurch, daft * das Lamm feine erfteWunde, feine erfte Marter ' 4«raQ ausfteben woUen/ Natural RefeUhnsy &c, E 4 page Strange Ideascon- ceming ' the Or- gans of Genera- tion. ■; t' - :_,'.. I1 « f 56 j think of it, but with Sentiments of the moft profound Veneration. They *are even pace 1 1 f . < Wie komft du mit dem Gebot der Keu- * ^hheit nach dem Buchftaben und Geift iiberein i * Antw. ilich, Dafs ich die menfchliche Unterfchei* * dungs Glieder der Chriften f iir die ehnviirdigft^n am * gantzen Leibe achte, wie fie mein Herr und mein * Gott theils bewohnet, theils felbft getragen hat. * 2tens, Dafs ich von keiner andern Vereinigung * menchlicher Hiitten etwas verftehe als in fenfu oeco- * nomico & minifteriali, Amts-halber, aus Gottes Ge« * bot, als der Liturgie einer eigens dazu beftimtea * Sacriftey, die man das Ehe-bett nennet, wo zwey ' Perfonen, deren eine den Mann aller Seelen,- und * die andere die gaiitze Seelen Gemeine, d.i,den Leib * diefes Mannes vor eine Zeit repra^entdren* einen * ^glichen Gottes Deinft halten da denn unter andern * Amts-Pflichten und Kirchen-Gnaden auch diefes * vorkomt, dafs refp. im Nahmen Jefu Kinder erzeu- * get, und im Namen der Kirche empfangen werden, * die hernach, well fie durch den menfchlichen 1. e. * fiindlichen Canal gegangen, von ihrer Siindlichkeit * und Infection mit Blut und WafTer aus JefuHertzen ' gebadet werden.* In the 1990th Hymn the 6th and 7th Verfes, * Wird eine Gnaden EJiier und nach ' den^ Leibe Schwefler das Bundes Glied gewahr, fo * fchliefifen fich die Sinnen und fie wird heilig inneo ' dafs Gottes Sohn ein Knabe war. Ihr heilige Ma- * tronen! die ihr in Ehe thronen, urn Vice-Chrifien * feid, ihr ehrt das cheiire Zeichen, daran fi Chriftp * gleichenmitinnigerGebogenheit." Tranjlated. What in the Bible is mentioned an hundred, and more than an hundred Times, but on Account of the Fall^ by Keafon of the Depravation, is calPd by the hi4eou9 Name Pudendum \ this he (the Saviour) has changed into Verendunty in the proper and ftridteft Senfe of ^at Word : And what was chaftifed by Circumcifion, in the Time of the Law, is reftored again to its firft Efience and flouriihing State ; 'tis made again equal tp the moft noble and refpe£lable Parts of the Body, yea 'tis ".'PF-.t ire len [57] even thought to make a Scruple of ref- pcfting Men for any other Rcafon (y), *tis» on Account of its Dignity and Diitin6Uon, be- come fuperior to all the reft { efbecially a« the Lamb would choore to endure in that Part his firft Wound, his firft Pain. — How doft thou agree with the Pfaver of Chaftity according to the Letter and Spirit ? An- fwer I ft, I confider the Parts for diftinguilhing both Sexes inChiiftians, as the moft honourable of the whole Body, my Lord and God having partly in- habited them and partly wore them himifelf. zdUy, I do not underftand the Conjundlion of Sexes any other- wife, than in Sen/u ofconomico (eA by ihnen * im ledigen und verehlichten Stande, und wann fie * folten emen andern Refpedt, von uns fdbfl herge. < nommen, UQd aufler der Abbildung des Miinleinft ' Jefus, vor nns haben, fo ware es eine Schmach fiir ' ihren ewigen Mann.' Ibidem, page 58. — * Wann ' die Schweftem die Briider fetien, nicht nar die * Ehe-Schweftem, fondem auch alle fchweftero, ' denen ein Bmder vor die Augen komt, oder die ' gelegentlich ans gianliche Gefcnlecht denken, oder * die ein Knablein zu warten bekommen, dafTelbe ' allemahl mit der tiefllen und ehrfurchtfvollen Re- < flexion gefchehe, dafs das Knaben find, mit einen ' refpedueufen Andenken an den Mann der auch To ' GUeder getraeen hat.* Tranjlated. This is what draws RefpeA from the Sifters. For, though they alfo have Ible^ed Bodies, in one of which the Hut- band of Souls has lain, in which he was formed, by which he was born, whom God begot, and a Wo- man fuckled : vet they honour that Member, by which we refemble Chrift, with the utmoft Venera- tion . — His firft holy Wound attracts to us (the Men) an eternal Refpeft from them, in the married and unmarried State, and if they had another Motive for refpe^Uns us, taken from ourfelves, and not on Ac-^ count of our refembling the little Man Jefus, it would be an Injury to their eternal Hufband.— When the Sifters fee ^e Brethren, not only fuch Sifters as are married, but all Sifters, when they behold a Bro- ther, or occafionally think on the Maie-Sex, or nurfe a little Boy, they are always with the ntmoft Veneradoh to refleft, that mey are Boys, refpe£tfully remembring the Man, who wore the like Member. (8) See the two foregoing Notes. '";.«./• Vi* the irfta 1 59 1 Expreflions whilft I abridge him, for Fear of ofiTending the Modefty of my Readers. All the Souls are of the Feminine Sex. There are only 0» , , lit (i) XXVIth Sermon, preached at Zet/t, pa^ 208. < Es gibt keine (mannliche Seele) in der Welt, es gib( ' keine im Himmel und auf Erden; fondem alles < unferer Hutte for eine Zeit adaptirt^ mannliche, ift * mit dem Moment dafs der Leichnam in die Erdet ' komt abgethan/ Ibidem, page 209, * Was ift alfo * das mannlicheTheil, was wir fo heiflen, was fich To * prxfentirt in der Geftalt des Leichnams Jefu ? Was * lit das far eine Abtheilung, divifion oder chor un- * ter den GefchopCen ? dem zu Ehren Jefus fich hat * befchneiden laflen, damit alle Welt wllTen folt*, * durch eine Kirchen Regiftrator, dafs er ein Mannlein * ware : was ill das fiir ein Ding ? Es ift eip Colle- < gium von lauter Amts Perfonen ; die Mannfchafb *. ift ein Amt, und kein ftand, keine natur, kein in\- < mediat und Ur-Gefchopf, fondem es ift ein Amts- * und Nach Gefchopf, das aut wichtigen gottlichen * Uhrfachen geftiftet ift im Paradiefe, und mit feinem * Amts-Siegel verfehen worden.' TranJIatfJ. There are none (viz. Male Souls) in the World, there are none in Heaven, nor upon Earth, but all that is of a Male Quality, adapted for a Time to our Body, is detach'd from it as foon as the Corps is interred What is therefore that manly Part, which we call fo, which prefents itfelf fo in the Figure of Jefus 's Corps ? What Divifion or Choir is this among the created Beings ? In Honour of which Jefus fuffer'd himfelf to be circumcifed, that all the World might know by a Church Regifter, that he was Man : what Thing is this ? 'Tis a College intirely compofed of officiat- ing-Perfons ; Manhood is an Office and no Condi- tion, no Nature, no immediate and primitive Crea- tion, but *tis an After-Creation for the Sake of offi- ciating, inftituted in Paradife for divine and pregnant Reafons, and provided with an Office-Seal. ^ rs. lit lit) 111 every Refpedt like thofe Ambaflldoi'l in ancient Times, who on marrying a Princefs in the Name of their Mafter,, put a booted Leg in the Wedding-Bed. A Hulband is alfo properly no more than a Chamberlain of his Wife; his Office is but for a Time, and ad interim. However the Titles which the Count gives him, are not lefs glorious. I tremble for Horrour to tranfcribe them, but I find it necef- fary : he is Vice-Chriji^ Vice-God (2). The (2) Ibidem, page 207. * Sie (die Schweftct^ foil * ihm (dem Heiland) zugefuhret werden mediante * procuratore, ihr foil fo ein Engel, einLegat, ein Fice-^ * Chrift entgegen gefchikt werden, an ihr foil ficheine * Zeidang die Kirche, und an dem Legajten der Hei- * land feines Leibes repraefentiren/ In the 1990th Hymn, the 7th Verfe. ' Ihr heilige Matronen, die « ihr in Ehe Thronen, um Vice ChriRen feid, ihr * ehrt das theure Zeichen, daran fie Chrifto gleichen, * mit inniger Gebogenheit." Memorial, of the Clere/ of the Reformed Church of the Province of Utrecht^ tec. page 109. * Wie ehedem ein grofler Herr, * wenn er eine Princefiin, als procurator heyrathete * im Nahmen des Brautigams zu thun pflegte, und ' alfo in der Realitxt und cum ef(e6iu fich kein * Menfch, kein Kind Gottes riihmen kan, dafs er * eine Frau hat, fondern ein jeder ein bloil'er Kiim- * merer ift, der die verlobte Perfon durch das Jam- * merthal hindurch begleitet.' Albinus Sincerus, page 134. * Der Mann denkt by der ehelichen Beywoh- * nung, zwar wie Jacob der Enkel des Vaters der * Glaubigen, Gen. xxx, 3, dafs ihm aber gleichwol * ein Geichafte dabey abgetreten ift, Welches er im * Nahmen Jefu that. Daher er ein Procurator und * Vicanus Jefu Chrifti fenfu propriiflimo ift, gleich" * fam ein Fice-Chriji, und was er by der ehelichen * Vereinigung zur £x\ftenz des kindes thut, als ein * Vkt t 6* ] The Sifters are conduced to Jefus by the Miniftry of their Hufbands, who thus are their .Saviours in this World. When there- fidre a Marriage is made, what is the Rea- fon of it ? Bccaufe there was a Sifter, who ^uid be brought to the true Spoufe by the Mediation of fuch a Procurator (^), From ■'-* ' Fm Gottts Amt anzuf«hen, und feine Fran ihn da* * vor zu erkennen hat, dafs er nomine Creatoris han« * dele.' Tratijlation. She (the Sifter) ftiall be con- dudted to him (the Saviour) mediante procuratorey fuch an Angel, a Legate, a Vice-Chrijl is fent to meet her j Ihe is to reprefent for aTime the Church, wherea^ the Le- gate reprefents the Saviour of his Body Ye holy Matrons, who, as Wivfs, are about Vice-Chriftsi you ]Mnour that precious Sign, by which they refemble Chrift, with the utmoft Veneration As formerly a great Lord, by marrying a Princefs in Quality of Procurator, ufed to a£t in the Name of the Bride- groom, thus in Reality, and cum effeSiu, no Man, no Child of God, can boaft of having a Wife, but every one is but a Chamberlain, who condudts the be- throted Perfon through this World. . .Though the Man» whilft he conjugally embraces, thinks like Jacob the Grandibn of the Father of the Believers, Gen. xxx. 3. Yet he knows, that neverthelefs an Office is given him, wifish he executes in Jefus's Name. He is therefore a Procurator and Vicar of Jefus Chrift, in the moft proper Senfe, a Vice-Chrift, as it were, and what he doth, whilft he conjugally embraces, to- wards the Exiftence of the Child, is to be looked upon as an Office of a Vice -God, and his Wife ought to regard him as a£Ung in the Name of the Creator. (3) XXVIth Sermon, preached at Zeijiy page 207. * Wann ich mir einen Concept von der Gemein-Ehe < machen folte ; fo wiifte ich keine Uhrfache warum * man heyrathet, als well eine Schwefter da ift, iiber * der feines Leibes Heiland befchlolTen hat, fie foil ' ihm zugefiihret werden mediante procuratore.* Ibidem, 1 63 ] Count Zimundorf^ in a Conference oa diis Subjed, held at Oly with the Seventh* Day Men, made ufe of the following £x« preflions, which, to avoid Scandal as much as polTible, I choofe to give in Latin, viz. In ipfo affu conjugali moriturus, pojfem dicere Sdvatori : Vent de ijio a£lu, h. e. quern im* mine tuo peregi *. From what has been faid, two Confe- quences naturally refult, which have not cfcaped the Count. The one is, that whoever knows himfelf to be a Man, ought to acknowledge the Dignity that is in him, and honour the Choice that has been made of his Perfon (4). The other* that Ibidem, page 210. * Aberdas alles haben wirdani, ' damit wir Heilandd werden in diefer Welt, Hei- * lande desjenigen Leibes Gliedes, das uns das Lamm * anvertraut, des Modclgens einer Gottes Capelle, * des Vice-kirchleiift, daran fich eben fo was von * den Gliedern Chrifti repraefentirt, als an uns den * Miinnern, das Haupt/ Tranjlation. Was I to form to myfelf an Idea of Matrimony in the Society, 1 could not find a Reafon why a Man marries, unlefft it be, that there is a Sifter, with Refpe£t to whom the Saviour has refolved, fhe fh^dl be condu£ied to him, medianie procuratore But all this we have, that we may become Saviours in this World, Savi- ours of the Member of that Body, which the Lamb has intruded to us, of that little Model of a Chappel of God, of that Vice-Church, where alfo fomething reprefents itfelf of the Members of Chrift, as in uc Men, v/ho are the Head, * Frejen. Tom. IIL p. 493, & 789. (4) XXVIth Sermon preach'dat "Zeiji, p. 209. * Das * fmdmeine Gedanken von dem Mafculo. Wer ikh als * einen Maankent, 4er xaufs iich allezeit in der perfon Jef* 16+] ^t Marriage is the moft predot!^ Depa-* fitum, the Saviour has iiitrufted with hit Church, that is to fay, without Doubtj ta the Society of Herrnhutersy and the moft important Myftery to which he has given them the Key (s). Confidering this, we cannot at all be furprifed at being told, that they look upon all that are married out of their Societyj to live in Fornication and Adultery* , . The • JefuChHfti betrachten ;foehret er feineWahljfobetet • er an iiber feinem Amt, fo erkennet er die Wiirdig.* • keit die in ihm liegt vor Gnade.' Tranflatiom. Thefe are my Thoughts of the Male Sex. Whoever knows himfelf to be a Man, ought always to confider himfelf in the Perfon of Chrift; Uius he honours the Choice made of him^ he adores in performing his Office, he acknowledges as a Grace the Dignity that lies in him; (5) Ibidem, page toy, * Die EheA find einHaupt ftiick der Gemeine, fie find ein primum principium ut ita dicam : der gantzen Gemeinfache, eine Wur- zel des Gemeinbaums ; und wir miifien fie allezeit als das theiirfte depofitum aus der Hand unfers Herrn anfehen, als das grofle Geheimnifs unter alien menfchlichen Sachen das uns in die Verwah- rung befohlen, und wozu uns die Schliiflel gege- ben find: warum? nicht um der Umftiinde von aufien willen, fondern um des Grund Plans willen» den der Herr, des alles verftanden, in feinem Hertzen gehabt." Tranjlathn. Marriages are a capital Article of the Society, they are a primum pritt- ctpium, ut ita dicam^ of the whole Society, the Root of the Society's Tree ; and we muft always confider them as the moft precious Depofitum from the Hand of our Lord, as the greateft Myftery of all human Things depofited with us, and whereof the Key is given us : why ? not on Account of the exteriour Circumftances, but for the Sake of the principal Plan, which the Lord who knew evety Thing, had in his owo Breaft. [6Sl The Mile Sex confifts of married Men, tinmarrted ones, and Widowers. Accord* ing to the primitive Plan of the Saviour, all that had pafTed the twentieth or twenty- firft Year, fhould be married. After thefe Years, the State of unmarried People is a brutiih State, a State of Madnefs, where one doth not know onefelf Befides, this Divifion of Men into three ClaiTes, there is another more general one, by which chey are diftinguifhed into two Choirs. One includes the married People of both Sexes, and the other the unmarried ones» Count Zinzendorf is not entirely pleafed with either of the Choirs, and much left with the firft than the fecond. He re- bukes the Hufbands and upbraids them with, I do not know what Abftradbion or Remiflhefs (6). In another Sermon he obferves, that when the Children of God will not experience phyfically, certain Things fuitable to a certain Age, 'tis cafting off human Nature, they become unhappy i (6) XXVIth Sermon, preached at Zeiff, page 211. * Unfere Eheq haben viel Refpeft, viel Gnade, viel * Seligkeit, aber noch nicht die gar genaue Obfcr- * vation des Amts tifid des GenufTes defTelben. Wir * thun und genieiTen noch nicht genag, die Manner ' mtihen ficn noch nicht genug for ihre Weiber, et * geht noch zu abflra£t zu.* franflation. Matrimony dmong us, is full of Refped, Grace and Bleflednefs ', \i\xt our Office and the Enjoyment in it, is not, as yet, ftriflly enough obferved, we do not perform and en* joy enough, the Hufbands labour not enouj^h for th^ Wives, Uiere is (till too much Reqdi&^ri. . ., . ■%■ / .« •i?^ •».('/*. ■■n^! yxHhAppfi ihey forge to tHemi^elves CkU macras •, thcf fay, T don't feel the fiimtf Thing as ether People (y). This appears a little obfcure, but could perhaps be ex- j|)lained, by what the fublime Doctor elfc- "tvhere relates of a I do not know what Mortification, caufed by a I do not know tirhat Non-Uic (S). I grow tired 6i ttan* i- ... (7) IXtK Sermon> preached at Xeiftf pitge 66. * Dingc die zu der und der Zeit phyfice erfahren * werdcn. noffen, die laifen fich mcht abbringeu; * und wtti; die Kinder Gottes dergleichen nicht cr- :n V olten, fo warens Chimaeren; und wenn Ax^ui ausgeht, und will . fich uber die Men> :/:, f ah; ;n C\i)i. *^ fcliiic Ik ?'* wegfctzen, das gibt hernach ungliikliche *" Kna\)j^ n lad Madgen : denn wenn fie fich forciren, ' fi> brings; a fie es endlich fo weit, das fie fich eine * Phantalie machen, und denken, ich fiihle da& nicht, ' ich erfahre das nicht fo» wie andre Menfchen.* ^ranjlation. Things that ought to be experienced Jihyfically at a certain Time, cannot be aboliih'd. t would be a Chimaera, if the Children of God would not experience them; fuch as endeavour to put themfelves above human Nature, become un- happy Boys and Girls ; for, when they force them- felves, they arrive to that Pitch, as to have flrange Imaginations, and to think, I do not feel the fame Thing, I do not experience the fame Thing as other People. (8) IVth Sermon, preached at Tieiji, page 37. * Er Weifs es, verfteixts, refpeftirts, aber denkt nicht * dranvorfich, dadurch mufs das t} eiire E'^nds Glied * in ein folches Vergeflen, Ungebi^iichlichkeit, und * folglich in eine folche natiiriich? f .rfterbung durc'i * den Nicht-Gebrauch kommen, dais wenn einerher- * nach in die Ehe foil, und foils wiedcr brauchen, fo * mufs es ihn der Heiland lehren, fo mufs er fich erft '■^ wieder reftituiren laffen vom Heiland von der Mor- ' tification feiner Hiitte, die er urliis Lammes willeh, * . * um r«7] JSWm and Mhri^g his Expnflloni, by -whicn i caitiot avoid offending chaft Ears, thougk I take never fo great Pains to do it, and even then 'tis, I find, impoflible always to fucceed. They are like Defor- mities which no Vail can hide ; his Senti? ments cannot be exhibited in a tolerable decent Drefs. What can be faid, for In- iRiance, of thofe Hymns of the Herrnhu- tarsy where they with Devotion direft their Speech to what was formerly adored at Lfimfacus? (o). ■..■ ;;.:■ .-::. ■ •' .•; ,. Thp < am dcr Uinftai|de willen, crlitten.* TranJIatton. He, (the uiunamed Brother) knows it [vix. Matri- mony) he refpeAs it, but doth not think upon it of his own Accord ; thus the precious Member of the Covenant is fo much forgot, becomes fo ufelefs, and confequently is reduced to fuch a natural Numbnefs, by not makinc; Ufe of it, that afterwards, when he is to marry anq ufe it again, the Saviour mud inftruft him in it, the Saviour muft reftore him from the Mor- tificatioa of his Body, A^hich he has fuffered for the Xanotb's Sake, for the Sake of fome Circumftancei. Count 'Linxendarfy at the Clofe of this Sermon, fays, that he had advanced nothing there, but what he k|iew very well, and had experienced himfelf in hift Time, before the Society was in being. (9) In the 2010th Hymn, the 8th, 9th, and nth Verfes. * Und Geheimnifs voiles Glied ! dafs die * eheUchen Salben, Jefus halben, heilig gibt und * keufch empfaht im Gebet, in dem von dem Ertz- * Erbarmen felbft erfundenen Umaripen, wenn maa * Kirchen Saamen sat. Sey gefegnet und gefalbt mit < dem Blut, dafs unfern Manne dort entranne: fiihl* * hciffe Zardichkeit, zu der Seit die fiirs Lamms Ge- * mahlin ofFen, feit der Speer hineingetroffeii, da» < Objea der Ehel^ut, Binen Friedens Kufs und Graft fa * ub« The Hermbu- iers are accufedof nfing in- famous Ceremo- nies at theirMar- riages. [ 68 ] The Leaders of Hermbutifin are accufiid of having appointed, for the Celebration of Marriages, fuch Ceremonies as fuppofe them to have entirely given up all Senfe of Shame: Ceremonies, 'tis faid, that are w re- * iiber alle unfre lieben Bein und Rieben, auf die ^ Bruft wo unfre klein'n Kinderlcin ihre Nahrung * daraus heifchen, und der Schweftern Leib dem « Keufchen auch fo eingeleibet feyn.* Tranfiated. Member full of MyAeryt which holily gives., and chaftly receives, the conjugal Ointments for jefus^s Sake, during the Embraces, invented by the' Moil Merciful himfelf, there being then Seeds of th'j Church fowed. May ft thcu be ble&d and anointed with the Blood that formerly ran from our Hufl^and: mayft thou feel or meet with great TendemefR at the Side, which is open for the* Lamb's Spoufe, flnce the Spear has pufhed into it, and which is the Objedl of mar- ried People. A Kifs of Peace (is given) and a Greet- ing to all our dear Bones and Ribs, upon the Breaft» where our little Children take their Nourifhment from* and the Body of the Sifters, incorporated with the Chafte: ^The Saviour, I fuppofe, is meant here) Item, the zd, 3d and 4th Verfes, of the 2114th H^n, where the Ideas agree with fuch an Addrefs. * Deine heirge erfte Wunde, falbe mich zum Ehe- < bunde, auf dem Gliede meines Leibes das zum Nut- * zen meines Weibes ; und das Purpur rothe Ocle * fliefs auf meine Priefterhohle, und fie recht gefchi- * klich mache zu der Procurator Sache: Das ich meine * theure Riebe mbg umfrJien mit der Liebe, damit du * dein Weib umfangen, als ts dir zur Seit aufgangen.' May thy, ('viz. Saviour's^ firft holy Wound anoint me for the conjugal Bufinels upon that Member of my Body, which is for the Benefit of my Wife ; and the Purjple red Oil flow upon my Prieil's Hole, and make it rightly fitted for the Procurator-Bufmefs ; that I may embrace my precious Rib with the fame Tender- nefs, thou did ft embrace th)' Wife, when it went out of thy Side, ^c. rcfervcd for profeflcd Members, initiated in the nioft fecret Myiteries of the Society, and whereof great Care is taken not to fpeak to the Neophytes, or new Converts, and even not to the common Sort of Bre- thren. I avoid giving a Defcription of them. I fliould even be inclined to hope, that there is not the leaft Foundation for fuch an horrible Charge, and that the whole is a Calumny. But there are two Things, which prevent a Decifion in their Favour. The one is, that this is charged upon them by grave People, who are in the Way of knowing, what pafies in the inner Part of the Society. I have parti- cularly in View, Mr. Alexander Volcky Se- cretary of State, and Counfellor of the Regency of Budingen, (a City fituated in the Neighbourhood of Herrnhaag, where the Hermhuters have had one of their beft Settlements ) who challenges them, to pro- ceed againft him by due Courfe of Law, if they can convid him of Fallhood. Mr. Kuiemkamp, Minifter at Amfterdam, whom Count Zinzendorf praifes much in his Na- tural Refle^ions^ page 2^6, and would have made a Bifhop, though he had wrote againft him, is alfo one of thofe that con- fom thefe Accufations The other Mo- tive, which hinders us from acquitting the Chiefs of Herrnhutifm is, that thefe fup- pofed infamous Myfteries happen, unfor- tunately for them, to fall in with what we have reported of their Dodrine, and with F 3 «. l7o] t great manv other Paflkges that are kit inedligible, but whereof the above Accu- ^tions a{>pear to be but too clear a Com« taentary. I could relate a great many other Thin|^ concerning Herrnbutifm, but fhall reTervt^ them for another Opportimity^ Befideii what has been faid is fufficient, in the mean while, to enable the World to form a Juc%- ment of this Sed. I quelhon, whether Examples are to be found of a Fanaticifm more extravagant, and a Myfticifm more grofs and fcandalous« I am neverchelefs apt to believe, that many of Count Zitt" tsendorj's Followers, are Men of far better Principles, than he would inftill into their Minds, and that they diredk their Piety and Condudt, according to the Rules of Chriftianity, which they were formerly taught and have ftill preferved, rather than by the new InftruCitions he gives them. , As this fhort Sketch of the Doftrines of lierrnhutifm, is taken from Count Z/^z^ir- dorf*s own Sermons and Writings, without adding to or fubftrading from them, it will appear ftrange, that he fhould prefume to declare himfelf of the Augjburg Confeffio% and thus to claim the Name of a Pro- teftantj efpecially as 'tis evidci.., that his Errors, fo far from being in the leaft agreeable to, are rather condemned by it. It feems, the Count is confcious, that his Seft cannot ftand upon its own Bottom, and for thatReafon, makes ufe, for a Time, of {71 J of bofcrowcii Denomihatlons, in Order to make his Principles go down with the icfs Straining. 'Tis, undoubtedly, from th^ fame Motive, he fo carefully endeavour^ to perfuade the World, that his Society, cither in Part, or in the Whole, is a Rem- nant of the ancient Moravian Church, and Profeflbrs of its Tenets ; though the con- trary can be made appear by authentic hif- torical Records, and that he firft broached the Dodtrines of his Sedt, adding at Times, JTubftraAing at others, till it arrived to the State it is at prefent in. Such Shifts, | fear, will induce the Reader to have but an indifferent Opinion of the 'Divine Miflion the Count pretends toj but let him remem- ber what has been quoted above from this fublime Doctor's own Writings, viz. That in judging of him, we meddle with Affairs we are intirely Strangers to ; that we reafon on what we do not know ; that we have none cf tbofe Sl^alifications that are required for ar- guing about Things that concern hiniy and that for judging pertinently of his Conduct ^ we mufi have exercifed the fame Profeffton he has. — .1 hafben to make a few Obfervations, which will fhew, how far Herrnhutifm may af- feft the Security of a Government. I declare fmcerejy, I am very far from being an Enemy to Toleration : For, in my Opinion, a Man that has done nothing |o deferve Death, has, according to the laws of Nature, at leaft, a Right to a Settl^ejtit fomewhere or other. But Self- F 4 Pre- , ./wp*"^ <>•. o *^*>. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 11.25 IIS lU u I: ■ lis, i2.0 U 11.6 ^^P "^J^J ^>' '» Photographic Sciences Corporation 33 WIST MAIN STRKT WIBSTM.N.Y. MSSO (716)«72-4503 ) ,* ^ ^ The nUTHOU' ttrsaxe ♦ ■ * ' ' . ^ ' Prefer vatlon no lefs requires us» tp be weO afliired, that a Society, admitted to enjoy the Proteftion of the Civil Govemmenty has previoufly given a true Account of it- felf, and that it entertains no Principles or Opiipons, which, ihould its Membos ever be tempted to ad; by, may in the leaft en- danger the Security of a Government : For* whenever it can be made appear that thry have concealed the Truth, and that thor ^Principles are dangerous, the moft (blemn Grants given to fuch a Society, cannot be looked upon in any other Light, than as iurrepticioufly obtained. The Herrnbuters^ we find, have at all ,r.m^ to ^^'^ affedcd a moft extraordinary Se- be'Mpeft crecy with refpeft to their Doftrines 5 fo edon Ac- that the Articles above related, are but a count of Part of their Syftem, and have, as it were, Secydic ^^^V^ *^"™' Hiftory no where affords affea in*^ "s an Inftance, that a Set of Men had Li- theirDoc- berty, even in Spiritual Matters, tp make trincs. a Secret of their Opinions ; nay, numerous Examples may be met with, that fuch Peo« ^ewere looked upon as Men, from whom Danger may be apprehended. And what can be more natural, but that a Govern- ment, which grants Liberty of Confcience to a Society, fhould h6 informed of the moft minute Parts of their Doftrine, Dif- cipline, and interior State j as by this only a Judgment can be made, whethdr the Security of a Realm is likely to be af- fe^ed thereby or not ? *Tis true, Count ■' " * Zitt' f 73 1 fhiiiidarf^ whenever this Objection ' httf petti nuuleto him in other Countries, has •nfwered: Come and fee i that is to fay. Come among us and fee in what nuumer we pray and fing; infpe£fc like^fe, the printed Afts of our Synods, which will manifeft our Tenets, and that we are a peaceable and quiet People ; or if you de- nre more, propoie Queftions, and ws will aniwer them. I cannot deny, that an Of> ler of this Kind, having fo much Appear-^ tnce of Sincerity, muft make a great Im- preflion in Favour of the Society, upon • such as have not yet a juft Idea of it. And what elie could be the Reafon diat fo many Princes have received this Society in their Dominions ? What could elfe be the Rea- - fon, that a whole Body of Divines of afaik> mous Univerfity abovementioned-, i^as in- duced to approve their Dodrines ? And yet Time has fhewed, that even thofe Princes, who had fo ^vourabk an Opinion of the Hermbuters, and if pofllble, would have had them continue in their Domini- ons, found themfelves at length under a Neceflity to caufe their Emigration i and that the fame Body of Divines, though, as may be believed, with great Reluftancy, were obliged to retraft their former Te(6- monials. The Chiefs of the Herrnhuters \ftxc found to be a Sort of People, whole Word could. not be taken •, it plainly ap- peared, that they Ihewed Things only on the fairefk Side, and no more oi their Doc- w, iv .. ' trinei V t 74 I l^es tinu» they tbdu^ fit thole fhouM |bik>w» thftC are not of their SeA ; the An-r ^ners ^ey gave to the Queftions propoied to them, were BM of fivafions, and their Sjnodfll Ads contained no more, than what they thought proper to divulge. This has been found to be the Charadsri&ick d^ ibutifm^ By which its Followers diftin^ themfelves in particular from aU ries, that yet appeared. We meet igmh none that ever endeavour'd to make « Myflery of their Dod:rines, they openly Ifrofefs'd them, fome even died for them ; ftnd in ading dius, they at leafb appeared fincere, how erroneous foever their Tenets might be. But fuch a Sincerity, cannot be cxpedf d from the Chiefs of the Herrnbuters^ as, according to them, they are intruded with the Execution of the Saviour^s Plan, known only to themfelves, and which even the Evangelifts themfelves had been ignorant ef^ (i) in the managing of which, un- doubtedly, great Prudence is required. How eamy could the new Period, Chrift is to begin in his new Church, be fruftrated, ibould they lay open more than People ought to know ? Would not the Divine Truths be divulged to unhallowed People, and thus the Saviour's Plan I narred again, as the fame was marred hj^re by the ^ojllesy whom Count Zinzendorf is fo au-i dacious to accufe of having flafd falfe J ^'- >- j'/f '■ tT-s*** -<,.•• bricks* i«*',i.. ' (i) Count Zimaauhtfi LlUd Sermon preached mtZeiJif page 438. ^ I 7S i rH^(2). Might not fuck j^/rrmibb# play*dafeoondT|jne? Tiihis aBufitRft .-■■. df A and that of thofe^ whofe Habits were fitting, there would be but a veiy imal^^umber ; and that all this would properly not w the Fault of the People themfelves, but of the .^pofiUsy who from the very firft Day of the Gofpel had already wrongly cut the Clothe (or marr'd Chrih*« Plan.) ' I 76] •F too much Confequence to be tnfled irith* 'Tis wrong, according to him, (3) that the great Mjfierjy the Saviour wkifperd UsApofies in their Ears, and which thrfehad intruded to their Audience^ and whereof they bad dmofi /poke a little too muchy has been made 4 common Theolop^ Fodder for Cattle^ pub as theHerdfman mves out : fVhereforey be judges it as much neceffary to fped para- doMcSly^ and to exprefs the Divine truths to sBfucb as are not initiated in the M^ftery of the c. (3) In his Vth Sermon preached ztZeift, paee 40^^ ' Das groife Geheimni(s, dafs der Heiland leinen ■* Jiingem ins Ohr gefagt hat, dafs die Apoftel in < ihren Epifteln, als eine ins Ohr eefagte Wahrheit * den Gemeinen wieder anvertraut naben ; iind ent- * wedcr auch, aus alter National Einfalt, (denn za * der Zeit redete man fecorins, und wer heut zu ' Tage mit Kdnigen-und Richtem und Hohenprief- * tern reden wolte wie damals, dem vertrauete man ' sewifs kein Gemein-Syndicat an) or auch aus f blofler menfchlicher Art, (denn wes das Heotz voll * iStt des geht der Mand uber) bald ein wenig zu viel * davon geredt haben : das hat man zur allgemeinen ' Theologie, zum Putter vors Vieh, wies der Hirte ' auftreibt, gemacht.* Tranjlatei. The great My* fiery, Chrift whifper'd into ^e Ears of his Apoftles, who in their Epiftles committed the fame to their Congregations, as a Truth whifper'd into their Ears, and which either fit>m an ancient National Simplicity (for in thofe Days they fpoke with greater Security than now-a-days, where one would not obtain the Office of a Synd^ of a Society in fpeaking to Kings, Magiftrates, and High-Priefts, as they then did) or from a natural Way of behaving (for what the Heyt thinketh, the Moutii fpeaketh) they fpoke almofr a little too mixch^of; this has been made a common Theolo^, Fodder for Cattle, fuch as t;he Herdf- man drives out. [773 ibe ^iokp of Blood and H^oimdsin a Mil!0i ner^ that they mvf not bi able to repeat thmf% as it is neceffarj to make a Name^ vobom ano^^ tber cannot imitate^ or write aCbarafferiUfbick • a too curious Perfonjhall not give bimjelf tbt Trouble to read, (/^) I ^ill not dwell upoa what has been obferved by feveral difincer- efted Pcrfons, viz. that oh judging only in general of the Sedt, nobody could have a good Opinion of it, on account of the many notorious Untruths its Chiefs openly make ufe of, whereof (till more Inftapces will appear in the Sequel of this Treatiie, The PafTages quoted here from the Count's own Sermons, might give me an Opportu- nity to fhew, how grolly he impofes upon the Government, by pretending to Pro- teilantifm, and that this Denomination fits him no more, than if a Turk ihould call himfelf aj^w, on account of having kept fome of ^tjewijb Dodtrines in his Syftem of Religion. But, as I am perfuaded, the judicious Reader will, of his own Accord, eafily difcover thefe Artifices, I Ihall only add to what has been faid, that, according to the Count's own Coi^eliion, there are Matters in the Doctrinal Part of his new Religion, which mufi: be kept fecret, and are Myfteries not to be divulged to fuch as are not of his Se6b •, that it is known, he did not acquaint the Legifiative Power of thefe Realms therewith as he ought to have done, which therefore couM not judge ■3 .i u.i r;*., (4) See before page 33, Note 2. »:>, , And in their tern* poral Af- lam. '#liecher oi^noi» thde fecretlVbinesllitch JeiMdvitK the Slecunty of the Government i tint ftom the grofs Do£bihe9 that havs tkapcd hiai, and are noentioned here, wc fiaturaUy muft believe, that there are ftill nore^ which will not bear a Scrutiny ; «Dd that therefore the Count's whbie Sj^ tetn is to be iufpe^d ; efpcdaUy as no body can be ignorant, what pernicious Sdiemes in former Ages have oeen cac- ried on under the Cloke of Religion. . If a Government has Reafon to fuibeft the HerrnbuterSi on the Score of meir keeping iecrct their Dodbrines; how much more mud: their Sed be miilrufted, as they obierve the fame Secrecy in all their Af^ fairs? Count Zinzendorf^ who perfedUy knows that the Plan he has formed, cannot kt executed all at once, has, indeed, ad«^ mitted to his Synods Deputies of thofe So* vereigns, in whofe Dominions his Society was fettled. But this Condefceniion, of which he fi-equently boafls, has fo much the Air of a Farce, that, whoever remem-" bers what has been quoted from his Writ- ings, viz, that none oughts nor can know the interior State of their JffairSy but fucb as are Members of his Se£i^ will eafily be« lieve,- that nothing is propofed there, but what every body may be apprifed of. 'Tis on the contrary known, that the Chiefs of the Society comprehend political Matters in their Difcipline. They openly avow, xhdiihey know nothing ef an Ecdefiajiical Dif- cijiline^ /*>. t w 1 wifibur^ kit ikat Mr J)tfiiplku Mfy tftrJt mforal Marnri is-) TKdr poor dekidc4 Followers arc mack to believe, that tho Saviour rales them by the Chiefs, whoit Orders muft be eiecuted the Moment they are given, how arbitrary and unpleafing Ibevcr they may appear. This Govern* ftient, which may juftly be called an Et* elffinffiieal Cmmempeakki under the Direc- tion of Coyamt Ztmumiorft it fo curioufly contrived, that ^ is next to Impollibility to know the iPfMlifaAions that happen in it, chiefly, as tbey have a Way to elude ali Enquiries by fending to the remoteft Part •f the World whomfoever among them they in the kaft fufpedt of being difpleafed* without giving him a Moment's Time ta confider, and this all by Authority of the Saviour, whoi according to them, com^ mands it. Count ZimienMrf inTifks that his Society is a ^beoankyt that the fending away bis FoilewiTSj is an effential Part of the Dif' 4iplim of Herrnhutifm, and that he lo^ nftnit as a Prindpium fiantis et cadentis Ec- ^fae (6). He has fometimes thought him- lelffofure of becoming able, in due Time, bfieAually to defend that Church, (whereof he really is the Head^ but at prefent out of Modefty only calls himfelf the Lord Advo- cate) that he has threaten*d to make Ufe of ^gumtuta Regum9%2L\xA thofe that oppofe /. .. L'.--. . - - • • hiin. m- (5) A Letter to this Purpofe will be quote4 below. ^6) Tbis alfo wiU b« ovidenc'd btloi;^ \ »./ ■¥:. htm (7). Whoever confiders this iUrbitfiu)i Fower« exercifed by the Chiefs of this St&t. or in other Words, this Efupsrn within iM. Empire^ muft allow, that a Governmenl ought to take Umbrage at it, as in Fropor« tion this Society increafes by making Pro-^ ^y(es, it will, gradually. become more dan* serous and formidable. The Will of ont Man, or a few joined with him in Autho*^ rity, being fi#cient, to make a Number of People, here and in other Countries, a^ i^ainft their own InclinatiiQtfis, nay, againft common Senfe, upon barely telling them» that tbg Saviour will have it fo\ what Con^ fequences may not arife therefrom? chiefly as their Tranladtions are kept with the ut-* piioft Secrefy. May. not the Safety of^ Government depend on their good Will } which, I think, is a very precarious Secu* rity i or fuppofe this to be out of (^cftion, is it not in their Power, when, if a Govern^ ment (hould not condefcend to gratify their Humour in every Refped, to difpeople a whole Country ? which, as they have Lit berty to make what Profelytes they can^ may poffibly happen in Time *, a pretended Order from the Saviour being all they need for bringing it about. This is the Reafon^ why feveral Protefjtant Princes, after hav^ ing found, that Count Zinzendorf txtrcikd more than a Papal Power over. his Society, and that a blind Obedience was paid him in i..t*ii (7) A Letter to tkis Poxpofe will be quoted below. *'■' ■«■ tM ilm gyer he direAicl, cKoft to pait, M ibon «s pofllible, wTth fuch Sutjefts, rather thM isjr kccpinff thsm longer, to be^ at lenothy at the Mercy of their Rulers. Ye^ &<» has been the Prudence and Humanity 9f thete Princei, that, to avoid all man- lier of Blame, they caufed public Proda« ^ ' matioiit to be made, to anUre thefede^ ' hided People, before their Departure, that they were at Liberty to remain in their Do- minions, provided they would give up their Dependency on Count Zinzendorfi which x thi^ did not chooib to complv with ( nay^ \ etacnly declared, (i) /iw/, tn deing ths^ ui^iwnddfaU under the Cenfure of t£it PaJ^ fiigg SM Saripturi i JVkoeuir denies fn$ b^ori MMj bim will lalfo deny before my Fatbef vfbUb is in Heaven, This can be proved hf m public hGi : What Judgm'^nt are we t^ make* after this, of the Fidelity of Herm-^ iuiHerSf and of the Do^ine of Hermhufifm Idelf f is it not pl?p, that thefe People iubmtt to the Authority of a Per^, if ho^ la Reality, is their Pope, and whom diey acknowledge to be Supreme in Temr podals f What Opinion muft we idfo have fif: the Count, who had the Afluranoe to ^tetend, that thefe People were perftcuted €ut the Sake of their Relieion ? whereaa chey ]^iight to this Day, and all their Life- ^tr^ have remained where they were, had rvt^r'v 'T^-j ' G they -^^(i) This happened at Htrmbaar, the Particulars ^l^h«Mf iiiU btpK«(ciitty raiifd. 'D !"■ The Doc trine of pernici- ous to a Govern- ment. 182 1 iHey-ibceniii iDlfpoRtmaXb behsve^ g $ubj^ts ought to do. ; ' - i:.v : ^ I^ ha9 been obfervedlDy fome, that it is ^CtfiiOiing, how People could follow a giving up s^ ^j^ J profeflcs Errors of fo gfofs. a Reafon is xt ./-»1u u ^l • lytj^iure^.: Others have, on the contnuyy f(pW>d'nQ Rieaibh to wonder at it* ia& they titj^e; it : for granted, , from the Depofitioni pjf fuchr.as have kft the Society, thac:fikch Things ;pafs among' the /m'//^/^ as arc.al-* moft as unfit to be mention'd as to.beprac-* ti^s'd., ;I wave entering into> a Difcuflion of this Matter. There: is, however, /Ws Reafon for being fiiiprifed, that i'ieople Continue Members .or- it, than at . tbeie making of Profelytes. Itfhas beeA proved aboyd, that one of the effential AttklfiB of* their. Do^rine is, thatfuch as are ofatheir dumber, \mu(t givie up the Ufe of their Reafon. Hence ;i^ rftaturally followsj that they mu(l be expofed to all manner of De^ ;luljonj? }; there b^imgic^no AbfuJdity,: ho Dof^lri^e fo extrayagant and pernicious^ that wgy not find Emtiince into their Miads> prcivided it itrikes'theii* Imagination^ fismd alfeits their PalHons. ^t follows fiarther^ that the moft exprefsciDeclarationsciii the Scripture; cannoit">preyerit their being Xedu?ted, \ as. they! ;*!»; ludiffferent ijwtet- ther, the , Interprc^tidni '■ that ; . is r igiTen ,pf theni, be conforriiable on contja^. to •Reafon. This is theiVehicle, by the Help of which, all ,the other Dodtrines of , ^e Herrnhulers go down, ^d a thouiand incfre . would. »>. ; ,-■■* fe :;.-'• Would, of ftill greater Abfurdity, if pofllblc. But is not fuch a Principle highly detrimen- !tal to a Government ? Who can tell, to what Lengths fuch Delufions may be carried and what Ufe the Chiefs of this SeCt may make of a People, that are only guided by Fai- ingj Imagination and Paflions ? 'Tis with Principles of this Nature, as with Crinies in general. Men arrive not to the hfgheft Pitch of Wickednefs all at once. The Cor- ruption increafes by Time, and is gradually jooted in the Heart. The Anabaptifts of Minjiery who had likcwife fet afide the tJfe of Reafon, and were led by Feelmg^ Imagination and Paflions, had not certainly from the Beginning, formed that abo- minable Undertaking, which they executed afterwards. Thefe are Surmifes, I own ; but they are fuch, as Prudence di^ates^ Schemes of this Nature, ihould the Chiefs of the Hermbuters be difpofed fo to do, could be the more eafily carried on by then), as an impenetrable Secrecy is kept in all their Tranfadlions. They have People in almoft all Parts of the World, whom, on Occalion, they can eafily bring toge- ^er : They command arbitrarily, and their Will is executed without Reafoning, Deli- beration, and, as it were, inftantaneouQy. ,^ What has been faid of the Poflibility, Another that Hermbutifm may aflfed the Security of a Doarine, Government, will receive ftill greatet ^^"^"[^ Weight, if we recollect Count Z/»2^»/«>/*$ ous to*a Ailertion above quoted, that Chriji can Govern- ' '■ ' Q 2 make "^ent. Wf»!*»(ft-*H>«;«' [ 84 1 mke Virtue to he Viee^ and Vict to h Trrilk: As Reafon is given up by die thrrnbuttrSj who fubmit themfelves implicitly to tht Guidance of their Chiefs, and to meir own Imagination and Paffions ; 'tis eafy fOr thefe kulers to make *hcm perpetrate Ae moft liorrid Enteiprizes whenever they pleaie. . Vittu* is not Virtue at all Times, and Vice fjiufl; be. Virtue^ when they will hare it fo. This is a Dodtrine, the Count preached before One of his Synods, where, he fay^ the Doors arc open for all Hearers, whc*- ther they belong to the Society or not. But it were to be wilhed, he had employed fiis Talents to better Purpofes, than 1» in- ftil fuCh Notions into Peoples Minds. As the Saviour, according to him, manifefb hi^ .Will to the Brotherhood, or rather to the Chiefs, who, under this Pretence, have an Opportunity to ftir up their Flock to any Attempt J what Security can a Government have, diat they will not make Ufe of thiife Dod^rine? I know none but his, or dieii: Wordj which, I again r^at, is but a very bad Security. From the Tendency of this Do6trine, there is, befides, ftill more to be apprehended \ as 'tis known, that the Herm^ huters pretend to be a quite dijlinff Pevplet a chofen Flock, a cbofen Race, and look with Difdain upon all Oth^ Chriftiains, calling them IdeiaferSy ChriJHanersy that is to fay. People that only pretend to Chriftianity, i fuid are guided by a Clergy, who are Sa- "ii-iivi :<&■ -^-.W^- C 85 ] ia»*t PrtftfforSf and have deceived the WwrU 4p.ihisDayii). /' I have hitherto fpoke of Pofllbilities, or ihac Herrnbutifm may become dangerous to 1^ Government. I could offer a great many oth^r Arguments of as much Weight, to corroborate what I have faid, but fhall only ^uid, that the political and worldly Views this Religion is founded upon, infer not only a Pofllbili^, but a great Probability, that a Government will be nearly afFed:ed by it. The Means, which the Chiefs of this Sed make Ufe of, fquare fo exa(5bly with their pretended Theocracy — ^with their . Ecdefiaftical Commomvealth,— and with their ptrofejfid IHfciplim in temporal Matters, that^ in all Appearance, not much Good can ihence .be foreboded to States. 'Tis true, the Opulency, this Society fo much boafts of, may be of Advantage to a Country, but I leave it to the Reader to judge, whether ihis^ upon confidering the dangerous Prin* tuples of tJhis Sed, oi^t not rather to be a Motive for a Government to have nothing to do wi^ i^em. Be(ides,- what Account can be made of Subjedb, that fuffer them- ^Ives to be fo far deluded, as to part with their Subiiance, (which Men in general mott value) to their Chiefs, in Order td enable them to carry on Projedbs for ag- grandizing themfelves in all Parts of the World? Will they after this fcruple to ex- .v%'vv-*- ^^; ■:■-'"-': ^.: G 3 ecutc {r) See a:bove Count Zinzendorfs own Word^ Mge 38, and 39. See alfo in the Appendix of this rri»tir<;, page UCi line 1, and 32. %i " V [86] ecute any Thing propofed to them, under the Pretence of its being the Saviour's Command ? Can they refufe to comply with Count Zinzendorfs Orders, who expefts fuch a Docility in themy that they muft fuffer tbmf elves to be guided Step by Step, like little Children (i)^ ^» I conclude thefe Obfervations with an Abftra6t of a Book publifhed abroad (2), which gives an Account of the Condu£b of the Hermhuters, and chiefly of Count Zinzendorfs, at Herrnhaag in the County of Bitdingen, near Francfort on the Mayni where this Sed lately had a Setdement; 'Tis* wrote with a great deal of Modera- tion, and the Fafts ftated there are fup- ported by the Count's own Letters, and thofe of the Chiefs of the Society. The Reader will thence be enabled to judge, whether my Appreherifions, concerning the Danger a Government may be expofed to from this Sed, are juft or not; he will alfo get a more perfed Idea of Herrnhutifm .-";i . V.V :'\.A , , * Tranf- (i) See this Paflkge quoted from his XLVIth Ser- mon, page 22. (2) This Book, which is printed in German^ and contains 636 Pages. 8vo. is intitled, A^ Hiftorieal Ac- eount of the Moravian Brethren at Herrnhaag, in tbt County 9/*Budingen, giving a Detail of the TranfaSions carried on nuith them at their Reception and afiernuardt, tbiejly relating to Political Matters; taken from the pub- lick Records in the County ©/"Budingen, and fupparted bf necejfary Vouchers ; to luhich are adtkdy Remarks Jhewing the dangerous Syfiem of the Herrnhuters nuith Regard ta the Spiritual and Temporal Prerogatives of Princes. N.B. A more extenfive Abflradl of this Book may pdflibly . be given to the Publick in Time. and pf the Counv^, hy looking into- hfs Traii(a6biona related and proved there^ and whether or no he has given up all.wp;:ldly Thoughts, and lives the Lite of ah An- choret or Hermit, as he endeavours to make the World believe. . : . The Court of Drefden having, in the Year 1736, appointed Commiflaries tore-: pair to Herrnhut^ and to inqi|ire there on the Spot into the Affairs of that Society; Count Zinzenderf did not think proper to wait their Arrival, but went into the JCounty oi Ifenburgi fituated in the Circle of the Upper Rhine^ in the Neighbourhood of Francfort on the Mayn^ with a View, as it afterwards appeared, to eflablifh there hi^ Se6b. As the Government of the County of Ifenkurg-Budingen declined to have any •Thing to do with Count Zinzendorf on that Score, two Deputies of the Brethren of that, Society took upon them in September^ 1737, to make Propofals to the Miniftry there, for purchafing a confiderable Num- ber of Acres of Land, in order to build Houfes, and fettle forty or fifty Families there; which, for the greateft Part, as it ■was given out, were to carry on Woollen and Linnen Manufadturies, ^c. It ap- pears, that the Miniftry had already fome Sufpicion of the Dodtrincs of that Scd; but this was foon removed by their pro- ducing Teftimonials of Orthodoxy from the Theological Faculty at the Univerfity of Tubingen^ and other Vouchers to the lamp Purpofe, and by their folemnly aver- G 4 ring. Abftraa ofaBook, which gives an Account of the Condudl of the Herrnhit- ters in one of their Settle- ments abroad. / , t8n itefiants^ and wotddtotform to the iMnirgy^ the Reformd Churchy in order to avoid entirtfy all Sitfpicion of Separutien, Particnlarifit, or tf hdvmg a particular Religion, H^itUpOA Ho DifHculty was made (S* granting thdil their kequeft; and the Price of the Land being a^^d upon, a Patent was given them for dxir Eftablifhttient •, out of which 'tis neceiikry to relate the following Arti"- cles for the better underftanding the Sc*- ifi|uclj viz. I. The Government referves to it*- filf the Confirmation of the Preachers of the Society, who, before they are appointed^ JhaH he prefented to the Regency ^ in Order to be etc^ emined, whether their Doitrines are'ew/fimn*- 4ible to the above Teftimonials. 2. The Society has Leave to regulate their Worjhip and Church I>ifcipline in the fame Manner as the French Refugees in the Pruflian Dominiont^ or atry where elfehave JJlerty to do* 3. f^ Colonics have promifidy thatj whereas Liberty is granted them to regulate their Church Af- fairs, they do not defire nor intend under thetit Colour, tofuhjeB thmfelves to any other Head {by which Count Zinzendorf and his Pleni^ potentiaries were meant) but that they know cf no Head beftdes JeTus Chrift. 4. They an in Temporal Affairs, civil or criminal, withoui any Reftriflion, fubjeSl to the Government if Biidingen, in the fame Manner the other Sub^ Jeffs in that Country are. 5. No more Fami^ lies than is abovemmtior^d, Jhall have Libtrty to fettle, unlefs fpecial Leave be Stained for . that Purpofs, Thia t«f 1 '•: Tlidt btkig icttled, the Society^ buih f^ftt) calitng their Settlement Hennlm^^ Count ZitKOkittf hating before, by LoCi difcoter'd the Spdt for it. A Number of People^ broiig^ over from other ReligioQi t&HetnAmUJm^ immediately lilkd the Plaoe^ thoiigh it had been given out at the obtain* iflg of the Grants that this Setdement was intended only for a Shelter to B^bmiMu and A^irpnnis oj^refTed in their Countries on Account of FHigion. Thefe Things, kewever, were not ftridtiy looked into a^ that Time ; on the contrary, the Chiefs of the Soft, fome Years after, found an Op* portunitj^ of exoending their Views, by means of a Tery fubftantial Man from Art^irdgm^ named Beumng^ then among them, who pfofer*d to lend a confiderabie Sum of Money at 4 per Cent, to the Go^' vemmient of BUiUngm for the Space of Thirty Years, upon mortgaging and de> livering up to him fome Demefnes ; the R«nts of which^ during that time, were gradually tx> repay both Principal and In- toreft. This Propiofal, being approved and agtced upon by the Government, the So- dety hinder*d the Execution of it till they had obtain*d a new Grant, which fuper- feded the former in fome Articles. To aToid too great Prolixity, I (hall 6nly obferve, that this new Grant fup- pdes it as an inconteilable Truth, that the Dodrines of the Hermhutvrs are fuch as ihsy appeared to be from the above Tef- timooialsf \ '.m^m^ mmmm mmm^msi^S- I 90 3 *' timonials ; wherefore Leaver is given there to the Society, to a£l according to their Cuf- tomsj and that tbtr^Jhall onfy be obliged upon the appointing of a new Ordinary to prefent him to the Government. It is alfo granted them, that no body Jhall dwell among the So- ciety ^ that doth not belong to it; that they Jhall have Liberty to receive or turn out whomfo' ever they think proper^ but Jhall fend in a Liji^ cnce every three Months^ of the Inhabitants at Herrnhaae, excepting therefrom Strangers or Vijiters \ that /ifey have Authority to infliff Punijhments and decide Law-fuits among them of a fmall Value^ determined in the Grants which however could be appealed or .brought to the fuperior Court at Biidingen; that/i&tfy nii^ appoint a Jujiiciary^ who neverthelefs is firft of all to be prefeHted tOy and confirmed by the Regency of that County •, that they were to give a fmall annual Tax for their Protections and Jhould be exempted from all Duties paid by the other Subjects in thefaid Dominions, Count Zinzendorf, who, behind the Cur- tain, had diredbed his Brethren through- out the whole Negotiation, was fo glad at the Advantages the Society had in this Manner obtained, that he could not help in a Letter (i) wrote by him to one of the Members of the Regency, Cwho, in the Name of the Government, had treated with them J to exprefs his Joy^ and to declare^ that .one of his Chief Defires had thereby been fuU filled. And yet the Reader will find after- wards, (\) Dated April 24, 1743. wards, Aat he prricrid^d,. the whole Af- fair had been doiie without his WiU and Knowledge. ; ' * The Government, foon after, found Room to take Umbrage at the ii>mri^^^ t&s: For thofe Manufadhires'pr<>pofed by the Society for increafine the Commerce of the Country, and which were tlie chief Motive of the Grant, were not introduced. The Colonifts, which Ihould confift of 5^- bemians and Moravians, were JPeople of all Countries, that took upon them that Name, and enjoyed full Liberty of Confcience in thofe Places from which they came. The Society changed their Ordinary at Pl-safure without prefenting him, contrary to what had been ftipulated, in Order that Enqui- ry might be made, whether his Dodtrine agreed with the Teftimonials above-men- tioned, and Mechanics and other illiterate People preached among them. They re- fufed to keep to the Liturgy of the reformed Church as they had promifed, and when they were called to an Account for it. Count Z/»2«jic;/threatned (2) that all the Colonifts Jhould remove 5 pretending, that this Demand, though agreeable to their own Stipu- lation, was an Infringment of their Liberty of Confcience; by which it plainly appeared, that they intended to introduce a hew Re ligion. As for political Affairs, they chang- ed according to Count Zinzendorfs Order, their Judiciary atWill,without applying for a Con- f 2 j By a Letter dated /V^r. 12, 1740. •j^m-^msu^tilf^/^m^Ji^f^lW^i ^ Confirmauon, fo that the. Regency never could have an Infight into their civil Af- fairs i chiefly as thev continually removed fome of their People^ and admitted others in their (lead. They publickly avowed, fg) that tb^ knew noiJhf^ of an EcdefiafUcal jOlfcipline^ wbereef fo much Talk was nuuk in the H^orld^ or among other RiUgionft ^ that their Difcipline regarded only dvil Mat' iers % which.in Reality was taking the civil ^ower out of the Hands of the Governr ment. When the lead: Mifunderftanding happened between two or more of their Brethren, they were fent away to different foreign Parts •» none were allowed to go to the City of Biidingen, without the Confent of the Elders, and a Perfon was fent along with them, whom they could rely upon. Thus the real Conftitution of the Hem^ hutersy in Eccleiiaftical and Civil Matters^ remained a Secret to the Government for ,|i long Time, and though it had Room, by what has juft been faid, to exert its Autho* rity, yet It chofe ftill to ufe as much Mo- deration as an Affair of this Nature would admit of This, undoubtedly, muft give to every unprejudiced Reader a favourable Idea of the Condu6b of that Government* elpecially as from Xitne to Time Things came to its Knowledge, which graduaify laid open more and more the Views of its Chiefs. One named Walthery of Sund' haufeny'm 17433 claim^ his Wife and Chil* dren, (I) By a Letter wrote by fofne of their Chiefs. dren, then imotig-^B^t^^tttifittimiii l>aa^y and whm mt Reg^h^tmieref im Eiiquii^ to be ktiide into tM^ Matter,' '^ Society, to dude if^ lent (f&red^ die W^ ftway to HeUoHd. Mr; dejSchi(bmni Maj^ jor in tJic Ahhyof the King ts^PoUmd^ HrW had a Daughter among the fK^MNtf^A tie(^ ing. acquttnted^ that forty Feqife ^i&at Society were to be hiarned l^ l^ot; and afterwards fent isn Pei^mnfH; #|^ed in t745, to the Regency to myejusl)^! ter delivered tip «0 himi %ii^ "tio Ji— ^- cottld be done idkh, as the Chie& hearing of it, Freddy difoatchedhertefaPlacctnit of die Reach of the Government. The Brethren niedled aHb -with the l^emefnei mortgaged to dieir ^brother SMM^Mf, aitdl^ htm tamied out tb'odters, thoiiigh thi» w^ an Afiair that had no Conne<)!khi with their Settlement. SeviraS AAidmbchigbroUkfa|C in 1745 by Poreimers 4^n(t People tmrc lived upon thefe Eftates, the Farm^rd, a$ the Inftigadoh of the Society, prietend^to an Independency, nay, would exercife ft Jurifdidion dwm^ves, ittfiftii^, diat djdb Foreigners Ihould bring theh* 1/3^ be^ them, or appfy to Mr. Bntmit whoih^n lived at A^erdam. ^ '^?^^^-^ ^^ ^^^■' This Independency, *ds plain, <:otlld bt of no Advantage tb die Ktortgagee, i;^o» as has beenfaid, ^vcd at jinfierdam % yet it wais an eficndal Article of the Plan of Count Zfnzendorf^ who endeavoured to ef- tablifi an Empin vntbin imE^l^ti and t(> iiave .1 * if r'''.mmi^ y&rong3?ppos^9ns were made on the Par^ il!»thc^Far|p^l^.p^ the JMiortgage againft the jfiS(ji^Tnm^% COfiperninsthisIndependencyi ijD^ wluqK th^^ moft, artfvil j(J^a3Sw,y hif Dtr^ions, as can be jjrpyedtiy ii|^ ,,own Letters^. , . Hei«j:tlf^ 4^jihor ol'thq Book, of which .•Wc; /ire^givji^g an Abffrad, fays, that at ! 1^. f^fne^^irne. the .abpyfjhientioned Loan 'najd beeti Jr^e to tKe Government pf Bit- 'i3(filgenj mX; Bfmng had alfo advanced a like jSum to ano^r Line of thatHoufe, whicli .nnding itfelf j^y the Mortgage given him, ;^ef Jfi >PHwro,^^ to pay the .Lpaq, or tpjf^e tpe Con|tra<$^ alter*d. Tho* Jthis Triftta6bigi>j fe«n^ in fome Refpedl ^fcjirdgn to the. §«|fin^fs reified ^]i?oye, yet, ^^" Count ^;^^?f^ endcavqured to get jTomMr,Beim Celfion of this Loan, tnc .^utKcJr ^}nlts proper to take Notice of It in this JPlacp^ in Order to fhew, on this Oc- icafioi^, the Count's tnlincerities and Views, }b little becoming hispretendedApoitlefhip, A Letter is ihfertedfi j, in which the Count pretends, that Mr; Beuning had borrowed of bim the grea$efi Part of the Mo?iey he had Advanced on the Mortgage. This, however, appears tp be falfe, by 4 Lettei: j('2J of the ^-"- ;,t,j;.V ., f|, '-^^t.:.,,:^: \ faid (l) Wrote by him Febr. lo, 1 747. ^"' £2) Dated ^r;V 12, 1746. I 95 1 ftid BeUningi to the Peribn who had die Care of the mortgaged Efbtes, where ho fay$, thai behadalwajfj believed, be ougbt toH wry cautious in fueHticningCeunt ZinzendoTp^ itJame \ wberefore be could not imagine^ why hje was defired to fay, he had borrowed a Sum of Money towards the Loan ; tbatbi bddbeen difired to make over bis Rigbt to tbe Mortgage to tbe Mamma, (who is the Coun- tefs ofZinzendorf) but tbat be bad but Httle Jnclination to do it* Another Letter (3) is mentioned, wrote to the fame Perfon by one Wets, who calls himklf Deaconrgeneral of the Hermbuters, and who is the Count's Treafurer, where he fays, tbat be tbougbt it fit, ^Mr, "Btyxmngftiould make tbis Cejfion^ und tbat upon making a Propofal tbereof to Beuning, Wifef» ^/^ Amfterdam, //&« Saviour had-fo far legitimated it, tbat Mr. Beuning gave bis Confent, but tbat be afterwards bad retraSied it; and at lengtbfeemed again fomewbai inclined towards, it. In another Letter alfo Inierted here (4), wrote to the fame Perfon •by; Mr. Beuning, ht fays, tbat tbe Papa, |[who is. Count Zinzendorf) b^d wrote to hiffi to make tbis Cejion, whereupon be bad done iti And yet, adds the Author, notwitb- Jiafiding tbefe plain Proofs of tbe Count* s, bav* ing been tbe Frimum mobile in tbefe Affairs., mtwitbjlanding bis unfair Dealings witb bis Brptber '^tunitig, and tbe felfijh Views be tbereky dif covered, he had the Afiurance in i,}z:. a (l) Dated Sepf. 20, 17^1.5. (/^J DsiUdMardf 7, 1747. ■■'>mrm it'tmmm>m'j! m''m§imim''' t 9f J i Letter (g)^ wroce bjr him to the So^ ceign of tKe County ot BuMnfSMy to ifWi lA . d£nefy tnade the Government n^ore and; mdie feaiv that the Settlement gMuited to this Sed, inftead of becoming advantage- * ous to the Country as hai been imagined, . iroUld rad^ prove dangerous, both to the . ctth^er Inhabitants and to the Govtrniheht . vount Zinzendorfy with whom, in Rea< 1!^, the Government of Budingen had no , Buifinefs, (having only contracted with the .. People at ^^(VTTbM^,) perceiving the Un- . eaiineis of the Government, with^e^ard to diefe JParticuIars, offered < his Mediation % ■■ th6*^ it. was well known, that nothing had; « e^^Teen done by his Followers but by his. Direi6Uons. Several Letters were exchanged v between hitn and one of the Members ojF the Regency. On peruiing tho^ of the Gount's, we find a Flow of Expreflions of ; Difihtereftednefs and Sincerity in every Pa^t. "* of them : . He is ready to grant all that i^:: defired, nay, to facrifice large Sums, lu^t ^ he mt0 frfi cofifider in what Part of bis (E- . conomy be mctf tnifs them kefi» Whenever , he makes Concefilons, they regard only fuch Things as no body <^ares for } and fuqh .aS^7 are required of him, he knows moft art- fully to evade, by laying the Blame, either on the Society or the Untraftablenefs of the Mortgagee. What is moft remarkable H lOK ^r . [[99,1] his chief DefireS had thereby been fulral'^ji fo|nQiin[)^s 'tis^juft th^^conojajy, !Did.|)§'has f^qft^d .again^, i^,v iom?time^;tn)8? Sp-; . dfCy , jis ^ il^r^iitt^ Chi^f ch) fotxietimes rf ci« apfJift^tifn?? .^ihey are A^d ^all- diefe Xhi^, ho^ijif >inqonfifteiit focjier . tfif)^ ^86mf to be, Bia^r^ -proved by, his o^Ht Y^^itutg$v: But to re;turn$ thi^ epiuol^)^^ < ^^SQ^^'M^: havings beea carried oiv ior- i^t ^ ^^ij? wid^Qiit. Succafs,. Count l^i^zcnd^rf "^ tl^gh^t proper to . aj^ply to the Sovereiga l|yi>f8if^ by a Let$eE,£i), wherein he makies\ great Sfiew of die U^ightnefs of his Hejut,^ . ^d^a Pfstire of feeing thefe Differences ;,ac- Qoipmodated : The..Letter, which is- very lopgv.is not fufficiendy interelling tbxnake m Abftn^d of it heavs neceffjiry 5 but I ^an.not avoid taking Notice, that he makes y^ .there of a very pecuUar Argument, to iij4yce jhat, Sovereign ,to think favourably »f the fmall Taxes the Herrnhuters paid in " ^orppai-ifon of thofe paid by the other In- ^ 5 ■■^- ^ , • ■ habiiant* .Ji) Dated /V^. 10,1247. " ~ - K. 4kmitbAi he ttMf himfti^Owneir of two Eng- WtkJUorJ^s^ (BtitoHm) for thooneof which "ho gM AfUHtmfy n& more than a white RofOy ^ifi^m^e dil the other Duties bad been compre^ iMkdin thi Purchafe-Mamy he had given fifr iik» Lordjhip ; and us t;■' { lool * Cndeayours to get Footing all oyer (h^ County, and manag^ their Affairs at Hermhaag in fuch a manner as if they were independent, not allowing the Regenqy to come at, the Bottom of their Tran&dtions i for which Reafon,. he offer*d that^che S07 vtreign ihould appoint a Peribn he coul^ confide in, to refide, xm lus Part, ^t Hermbaagy who at the fame Time was to atteft the Truth of the Lifts the Soci?^ gave in of the Inhabitants at that Place. Sutras to the firft Article, the Cou^t laid all the Blame on the Mortgagee, though ^it was known that he entirely dire^ed hij|i,; and as for the other Propofals, he confined himfelf to Proteftations, that he, entirely .a£ted for the Intereft of the Governnient; thus nothing was concluded m the feveral Meetings held for the adjufiing of thde .r^erences. ■:i Th^l^ fruitlefs Negotiations, however, were To far favourable to the Members of the Regency, that they had Time gra4u* ally to inform themfelves of the Conflitu- tion of the Herrnbuters. Count Zinzeftdcr/^ in the mean-while, was about fetting up a Printing-Office at Herrnhaagj offering a .certain yearly Sum for the Licence > which the Regency oppofed, as having yet no clear Idea or the Dpftrine of the Herrnhu- tersy which they heard was detefted by all Proteftants, and therefore would npt be acceflary to the promulging of them, by granting him this Licence. When the Count .Jiad X %l. i, r^tfi;.; ■•■.M «^'-L' \ 1 .1 f-^--*-. no all be by ount had Ikad Kotice of this Refufal, he, in a Ym^tf ^tnuiii smhrered: thai h bad not ikfirti litm to fit up a Printing Officii that it was igneatb Jnm to ajk fucb Leave ^ hecaufi all fimtbeiontfed to bis PrcfeJ/lony was as mucb frfuilidgea as bimfilf^ wherever be was. This Prii#ng-Ofiice was neverthelefs, as it after-* wards ^ppe^red, fet up by his own Au* thority. t' fShordy after, new PropoTals were made hjt himi the Motive to which (according to his always-boajlsd-of DUintereftednefs) \kt pretended to be, that the Government, by qompi^^iig therewith, might be free from & Engagement with the Mortgagee. His K^quei^ was, that a^arm, n2ancd Leuftadty one.of the Demefnes nfiortgaged to Mr. Beu^ '110^, %>uld be given up to the Count. .This, being refufed him, after repeated So- jiicitations in Writing, which can be pro - 4uced^ will it be believed, that in a Letter directed to one of the Members of the Re- gency (i^, which can alfo be produced, he in expre& Terms declares, that he never had had an Intent to get the Farms, con- cluding with thefe fplemn Words : / de- fine before tbe Saviour y tbat I never intended ity nor do J know for wbat Piirpofi I Jhould defire it. What Judgment, fays the Au- thor of this Treatiie, can we make after this, of the Religion of a Perfon, and a Reformer too, Sat thus trifles with his Saviour ? , H 3 .^'y^r^m.- The (1) pated Junt 50, 1747, \ <^^ ^-Z tmsm^ '' 3 '^' The Reotney, being bf dial Time ti^ cai» Count 'Zimnd^ in tlie Pdleflibtt (^ tbe mortgaged Demefney, and that die true Cseditor had afrea^ inskda W^r hTs Ki^t.to htoi $ btic that iht Cdunt deky^ mwihg uf«^ of the CdikMi, on «ccoCmmI ^ fome iOthercRegtila^ns hft bd^iWa»Wif£ ling to make : Orders were given W^h^ Government, to oblige the Perfoo, ^mtp \t^ dbe Nami of Mr, Biumrigp^t^i,^ mortgaged Eftates, and thow that 'dWeft there, to do Homag^, A%- o^er Sub}<>6ls % the County had doiie, aiitd tO fikijmnf tf>.eih'i to receive no OrckVs fr6di'tl^.irount, or any of. the Chios' at HeH^dg, Thh was immediately exeei^f^ atld "^reby m Stop put to the pi«etended Iikldpehdyncf Of the Poi&^ of thefe Eftttt^^} :Als!iMh^ howei^riwasy at the fMBeTimCji -ghi^n Ip him, and to hit Ptinctpil'ikji^^d^y'^^ well as:to Count ZfXK^if^r/, th^t pe Mbkt^ gagce Ihould in noManher be dt^^bed & receiving the Rents of thole BflatesWkidl were ^lortgaged to him* -"-^ ' • ^'^^->'\<'-^^^ *=; /Tis remarkable, thit Mr. Seunkf^i ikt only "Perfon the Govcrriment had tO d6 with concerning- the 'Mpitgage, imiiiedi* atcly declared hf a Ligttef, m Anfwer to the Notice given hifti of tfife Meafurcs tafeert, and afcove related, '9'b^ bi was entjar^ly coH^ Um tbtre'UHth. This De^faratien, undoubc*;^ edly, proceeded from his being therii* at yiinfierdam^ and ha^Fing^ho Opportunity to % imi trtUL. by ^therc,^Mevqjres rcmi ^ -^ ^^J^fc Wed iSlciiirfs^'iii to MJh«^ . dfiiVia^ii VtKe.^e^«y, in the m«ie S" II hJm^f tfoe iii^^Naitie-of '.the i^^^ *** I 'and aToii^di ^^*^ng Wml^fliJ " BtO^^^rhbod. , 1^ fofTMdfible Bof^l M> ' th|s Wtitnig declat^d, that they Wci:^ Gfe^ift ta1(£n by -the Govcmmpnt with r^gajcd tb • tte -ptctqiided in^petifitJifiCy! -— ^ On this Occ^^ij'^the'Auti^dr Mkes fome Obfet^ yatSttto,"to put the leader ift Mind, tJut iofc^^bf thfe'Folloivlfeirs of ^ermbuHfin i% " fit of his own,, let him be of what 'Ajge ht "M i. but th^t the Chkh^ Ondet ^ ^ ' • n 4 the .■•W,'«>r«|»»»«»»B)«!f„V-VV ' t , jeiStljr ip^a^^ In it, ain^ npne ^ rs/ qsKDuatb, but Bsu" ^c . t;fifcfs/ He iJfe qHOtps e . fnftapces ; , rf the ^ilH«^«^ their .p]:ptendea]^upus, and pamjvt^thpfe {^tr^je^not of -their Seft. ,1' l^allj only m^UOfi one of tEi^ iaft $Qrt,i_ wUidcC is« th^t; 1^9 above {ka^on-Genei^ Ixaving Ieani*4r ^^t the GMpyietiiment wa|$ i^bte^: chel^OFt^agee, ini$Qadbf i^i^^.Cen$^2X'- towed^bim, n[iade fnpre thaii^6 or 7, Ipr the ttfebt. the £ftacei$i,'anGi fearing that tw in time tpisht be looked into, deiire^pir th^ J'c^oi} t£at !u4 the Care of them, to^kee{^ jthe 4<^c6unts infuch A Manner, as tb pre-; yent Its being fOMfid oqt, as appeals b| hi^ JLettcr to the 'fame of 7«;^^ j;);, 17^5 abd when this Man, .who feems to have been more hbneft than tb!e Chiefs, and i^n-^ veiling to falfify the Books, made Scruple of dpiiig it, he in another I^ettjs^ :^o lilm, '0Yerhn^eni(1)y a Letter, pn,I!i^r. Bmr '.ffin^% aqqilfefciiij^ with "the Steps* taken .jby' ;ti' lie affo'gave .to undefftahd,' fKat his Stay i ... .. .^: T Sta^'fUi % l^unty of,Jf«4^^ ^uld not tq iong»j. "W^l^ ^.VP«14: remove tho [intin^QIBce. toe Kegeocy, .wiiich to t^b jujif *nad ic^plov'd itielT in liu|ui|pcs about - Conduit ot Vif}HerrrJliitPerfy now bq^ to.jpbnfidie]) tha^ I^J^^ big^ T^inc .to ^t Bpnn^^tq thCfEnGro^chmcpa of thu So^ ^t,^2»r^^« ind tO; it)quife more narrowly> in»9 ip .$yltoiii9 botK as to Sjpiritualjii^ and !£emn)]^il. r ]^r this Pu]]P^ inade die foUow^i[ig;R)E|)prt to tJwir'^oveiie^ r That mfmf^Cirutnf^anc^, w^ had i iCPme; ^ th|P;|tjiowledge m^^ Boards ^rvsimlii^ i&ki a pommiiOion * ihould |:|e:iflu(:d^ to inquirr into the Af- V fairs c^ps Soqety;' but tjiat there weto ^s many Coniideraoons which put Obftaclea ^ almoft infuperabie In th^^^ay. In die .f firft Flfice, Men fuffidently. capable .of I executing fudi a Coinbuj^on, bo^ .^; among ^ic.Ckrgy and I^ty, were not .^ ;Wy to be found in this jpqu^try, and if 5 taere were fome that coi^d. undertake it^ f , tbeir ordinary Ofzpupadons would hinder } them from e^^uting it in tKe Manner it *- ou^t to be. Secondly, 'J'be Hermkutirs f would reprefcnt thete Comtniflaries as ^ partial, wnerefore, in C^fe ^ Commifliqn ■* ihould take Place, one qr more Perfons^ ! that had no Connexion with the County * QtBudingftti muit be required to aifift at f it. Thiixily, TJie Iflue of fuch a Comi. i Qii0iQQ would be very uncertain, and , . ♦ there «fy." i . .■.mrimt^-- T f 166} ^ ^ *- fc Bto«tttmi«f their Hffeit5f^F«r,^»t^ *:fetlrti ahioii^4hfeA*^tb? p^/"^^ cbnfi < tfnue fp^airtVTiinei^ !Tfi%,ii»«l «* «^awiy . ittanf rf^ their Pe^lerta^ w^ife ^ »d»!y fei^hj^ febte ; thfcjt Wifld'tfirtJMtiiy ^^fbnlAofmWW^ Is^tfVbttfrf-be .-,-<:; «... _ _^ T, r • J..-. .-I ,i».^,-iir r. ' ••♦• * < * *^of D»lna*irif' that ^^1^, *' toerhii*%3iiiait?H!kHctee# .^ _ .^ . _„^„_, i^' the CofhmrflSiSb^ tm 'ii'c|ai»5ftt. bf vtTlfcir , ^^^lank^^ana^ 'fcfaft ^-to-aiifweiS' ^^^c^ *- did, ki^«u|a^,iti focK^^Jitibffiif 1?cfths* * «cc6rdin6:^Wttefr ' lB^oSrf''€:uftt#-of ^i ^ng( ifi ^(fe of Appt^ncb^ ta ijftif ♦^ AfaiSl-'^thattRfe moft cdrff«?Haf(t-i^^^^ •^ arid this wotild Imppch^Jo'iiftiSH^hinntore » 'w Ijiofe; T^d, had ' thdh- Di^rfiiif W^u! «^afl6i»-to ^lid and-tbiild-^.fj^^ <^^ miich Time te'iiiquirc-mBd'fc^i'M^ ♦^ AW * the J)iiAcipalPbints*th«r Wan *: Ihbold yet itmdii, tiwdiltdvfepdi' 'Ail ^•^wouFd' fn^-the ?*fatti?r wBiTc iffll;-^^ t^ Wiac the' 'Herfrnbuiers >ovftf''roittipvrally i-^bp^ t>f%'and frcmi Btl^^toffipf^n I' i" m < Ihjr themfdves'inore firmly, ahd incr^r * ing the tJimjlxi of thttf S«;a; 'T% ' lU^tj in(J(Kbai?lie told, thatfcommiflJtrie^ f \7^i« to heiapbointed, Wldch aiit> cbd4 < !)e4<>»^i^wiioiik tovinq\|ih; into, ^ ii^d noVto^teiinine Matters rdatiiig to ^' tHd ^dcty^, atfd by'i/i^ltin|j;'tWitq * ^h^Vone li^jjht'di&ver^^ iia4 * Wfajr to If; , fitot tkcfe wits a Mcthb4 \.%brtr feft'toqoflifc at Ac B^ttoiiSof then? * Cbhf^h^jw^ dfiotigh'it would fiafiitt 9, ' liitSed to 1ia.V«! ah Iiifij^r^iito; a«d tq ^ ^fch has a ^confidcrablt} ' Number of Wfembers, who ii;^ all Mfean» * to become powerful and fo^midablej a *■ Oovcrnment muft^ be looked^dpbn as not « tinderftahdijfig^lts Intereli, in Cafe k doth ^ * not fo ftr'tSmtne into the'Pbtindatton ' " . . 'of y >^ [ iq8 ) of fuch a Society* its Views, the Means it tnak<:s IJfe of, and its Tranfadliopsf little or great, tha^ it inf^y rdy on 4ta Members, and accorduigly take its Mea* fures tri the Governii^ ofa State. Thi& was the more ncciflaiyjo bpobreryed wkh Regard to.'thc Society 6i ^'Har^^tqrs^ as it was kpipwn from I^iitorir, hpW o^en Societies had introduced themfelves under iht {acred and refpeftableNaipe of^R^t . gion, which afterwards had ,mo£bly! cofi > tributed to the Ruin pf a Sitatf!, fa at leafk ciuredjInHnite Troubles andPifturbanc^Si. .whereof the Qoi^tutipn/itff the Htrm^ buters at U^nbM^ ^aa^mw^ .\^6^f:ii^ fcyeral Inftaiices! The (oltowihg Me-, thod for an* Inquiry a^arcd the nipft eligible. An honeft*. confckiitious and learned Man, that nas' no Connexion with* the H(?rr»&«/^j> ' nor is of their .Church, ought to be placed at ^errn^aag4. Xht^ Society Js to be enjoined under a certain Pcoalg, to have no Meetings,* about eit^ifir^cclefia^cal or Temjporai Maitiers,^ eitrtr by Pay or Night, with*"* out his Prefencc, That the Henrnbuters^ ''nf^ayn'siye ^o OccaHon to complain of an Infrih^^^cht of Liberty'of; Confcicnce^ he ou^t?;to have no- Vote in thcir.So-. ciety in Eccleiiaftical Matters, but he isj to De inilruAed, to fet down his Obfer*3 / "Nations concerning their Doctrines, t^ tur^5 interior and exterior Conftitutioa in Church Affairs^ and tbfen^ ia thefQ ^'v ■" .,. -•:■ .'■■••■ • rob. I 10$ ] Obi^rvationi once every Week^ he alfd ought to enjoin the Htrmkutirs not t6 mix Temporal Matters with their Cttr6 of Souls undor any Pretence whatfoever, nor thereby make it a Plea to exempt themfelves from Subje^on to the Go- vernment in fuch Ecdefiafbcal Afikirs* as do not concern Confcience and Theo* logical Do^ines. In Political Matters he. ought to have a Vote, or at leaft ib much Audiority as that he may recprd whatever is tranfa^ed, and no Tranfac- don in Civil Affairs, made in his Ab* fence and not recorded hy him, ought to be of any Validity. Without his Pre- fence ana Conient, and without having previoufly made a fuificient Inquiry, no rerfon once received, ought to be lent from Herrnbaag^ and none to be re- ceived, unlefs qualified according to the Conftitution of the Country. None are to. be married till both Parties have been firft heard, and the Queitions propofed to them with their Anfwers, are likewife recorded. No body is to be permitted ', to remain at Herrnhaag above fix Weeks, ' unlefs he fettles there as an Inhabitant, ' or enters into fome Service *, mean while ^ he is bound in the fame Subje^ion with ^ the reft of the Inhabitants or that Place ^ (x). Thofe that are Houfekeepers at ' ' Herrn" * (i) The Count pretended, that every one Aat had not been % Twelve-Month at H$milHit«t ihould be • . • look'd a, ^w (^ HtUfnkS^rMr^ to be iK>OMi«ed GUiinttk ^ ;ans to OrplMOS^. of wklbic Subftanoe Itfk f-. rentodf s.afe to be tdcen> tnd what be^ f jongi lo tbcm i» fiuthfuUx <^ ^ P>^^ f iervedv.aiicl ooi » ba deliTer*4 iito the f Hands of the Society or their Diie6toi^, * who ntvcr cOntiiaiie lonci in. one PfaKr. 5 All dSoatri^ WUIsrand Doaadeoa, att i» either fco Ift made in the iame Manner f at hti» been uied hitherto^: or at hdtlStf f tijncr previous Inouiry, to be confirmed .* A Regifter of ail the Inhabitants, ctf* •' Births and Burials, is every Year to ?bb ^ :fent in; aiid no bodijr is to be allowed; 5 of what Condition ioiever, to make any f Relation at Hermbasg^ unlcfs it bb ]■ firft approved by the Sovereign. Tht * Perfon that is- to refide at Hermbaag oh 5 the Part of the Government, is to ordct ^ the Taxes to be levied, that are to b^ T^.patd. . Thus a thorough Infbrmatiot^ * will be got of the Conititudon. of thfc ^ Hermbuttrs in Spiritual and Tempord :* Matters, ^e, ■ ' . The Sovereign agreed to evdy Point df jthis Opinion, offering to pay a Sallary tb .the Pofon that was to refide at //i!rr«l>a0^, «id ordered thefe feveral Articles to be >rtf- duoed into an Ordinance. But before thi^ could be done, Coiint Zittxcndorf renewed Jus Corre^ndence, wherein ha contefted ►n . ... - ' the ildolc^d upon as a Forenfis, and not b^ fubjeft to^ tiie .Laws of the Countiy;.and as he continuall/ changed ilig Peopk,^ there were Tn Really feW JnhalSitajio ^ttlcould be called Subje^. ^ B^aitaC) ;whic)vwastbj()aspoii ^ jajmiijg^ry at IJurnhMg, :^&i^tSQ!^ ^t%f OMttvy tp the Gra|i( ^yeik tjbeniK never preienced the Perfon that was to ezey cute that Offio^the Go^^ernnioiiha^^e ^ 7 i^c , beforei in^matcd to hioiy that]Khetf«' VQuld bd a perfon aippointed fto fay, fuch liters as I iha^l. think proper to let hin\ know, . Hece. the Author obierves^ that ic is the Cuftom of the Count, to ce^ him^ iblf always to foreign Places and Cu^tpmsv thcN^atare of which, he is very vfel^ a^ured» th^fe Peribns he oreats. with« lia^e^no In-. %ipa^on pf •» .that hn ende.4vpurs.t0- fcreea; himfelf thereby from a thorough ExvOH nation of the Bu&iefs he propofes, and that he is extremely fondof c^itipg ^ Mift!befoit) Peoples -Eyes, by producing Writings and ^Qis, and. 'I>eftimQnials from foreign Places* though it ^iQr^lKM^9;pf^v^^x}mS\¥^.» g*ve *^' A^i^* f tii f gaVifc hirti thefc Vouchers wcrt iftijidicd bpon by him in the fame Manner, as - h^* impofes upon them to whom he (hews thefe' Writings. -• - * .^, . An<^ef Pdiht %aj debited at this Time, ? which concerned the Prefentation of the Ordinary at • Hermhaag^ and which the' Count eluded by appointing Vice-Ordi- ■ naries, who were changed from Time tou Time. Upon the whoie^ the Count could no longer deny, that he, and the Society,^ had in many Refpeds a6ted againft the; Grant. However, he had a Plea at Hand,^ which was to juftify his Conduft at once^ 'y« a perfonal Fault of mney fays he in a Letter to the'Sovereignof 5«^i;;g^ r^rolvcd,r5:ti)i^ it was Ferfe^tlpiH"'' < th^niie People ifhfiyld ^^1 TciiliQvpi "'^^j^lW .^ fhe K^folution t^kt^n %th^ Goy;erii5fj^i>^; * ^Yftf ft Sign cad^mif eftlej^ afraid of fti), \|of the Refolutioii that had been taken i t .the .Saviour would punifh him' for -it^ 5r^4^^ that had a Hand in it, wpuld ^ neirier have any Reft.' With many other ExpreflSbhis that betrayed a vindidtiye Spirit^ which 'the Deputy^ without Interruption, fufferedhi^ to vent ; and upon the Count's Sf|ence» anfwcred : *> that he was not * iifed to hear fuch Sallies of PaflTion,-— he 1 knew that he ^uft give an Account of ^.hi& Actions to the Almighty, but that 'lie: had mote Faith in him, than he had 1 ^Reaibn to believe the Count had; that *»he aHmrred Hypocrify and aded upon * ConYi^iDn ; that God looked into the ^.moft.. Hidden Things, and judged ac- '• GQtdioig; to Truth, and not by outward *r A|:qiesraiice : That he now had a true ^ Idea, of the Count, and muft needs ac- ^ knowledge all that had been wrote a * gainlb 'hhn to be true, which hitherto he ^ had moclLdoubted.' The Conference thus beboniing too ferious, the Deputy thought prcq)crtx) withdraw, which, when the Count perceived, he chknged his Tone, and be- gan; to ifpeak in fo different a Stile from whaft he had done before, that the Deputy grew quite aftonifhcd at his fudden Tranf- rormation. The Count with great Pro- lixity now endeavoured to inftil into his Mind a favourable Opinion of the Society, telling him, that there was a great Unani- mity among the Brethren^ and excellent .v^hr^ I 2 good \. — i 116 ] gpod Order obfcrved by thern^ Infer- ring thence, that there was no Neccflity of appointing any Perfon to refide it HetTn-^' kaag on the Part of the Gi)vernmentv that fuch a Perfon would be dangerous to the Society, and occafion all its Menibers to withdraw, and thuis in a IhortTime the place would become uninhabited, totiie no fmall Lofs of the Government. At length Count Zinzendorf propofed, that in cafe' it abfolutely was infilled upon that a Perfon* ihould be appointed, he might refide in the next Village, which being denied him, the Conference ended to the Satisfadron of neither Party. — Here the Author mentis ons, that the Count, looking upon that Deputy, as a Man of great Influence with the Government, had endeavoured at fevc- ral Times to bribe him, whereof he relates the Particulars. When this failed, he had offered him a lucrative Employment from' the Society, according to which he ihould give them his Advice when Occafion requi- red, but at the fame Time remain .in the Service of the Government; and this be- ing again reje(5led, had fought to engage him in the Service of a Relation ofhis. Thefe, fays the Author, are, Artifices, which in fome Refpeft might be overlook-, ed in a Negotiator, but are unworthy of a Perfon, that fets up for a Reformer, and who ought to convince only by Strength of Argument and not by Corruption. » *.: *i To give the Reader an Idea of the Sta- ^;->,-; i. * tutes. t 117 1 •• - / J ,,;,, -If.. tutes, which Count Zinz^ndoff pr^^okd to the Gk)vernment, and which to the Number of iSycnty-fix are at length inicited here, we ihill, for Brevity fake, only mention the' Heads of the moft material, and the Subi)^C9 of the Remarks made; on every one .of them. The firft regards Liberty of Confcience and the Church Difcipline of the; Herrni^uferSf whicl^ they defire to have cpnfirnicd anew. As to Liberty of Con- Xcippice, /obferves the Author) *tis a Point innqcf nt in itfejif and cannot be denied ; Be^ and Confcience being not fubjed to the Civil Power. But then, Count Zin- zaiaor/ will not determine, what he would haveunderflood by it. As nothing is more eafy than to make any Thing a Cafe of dofjfcience ; the Government had experi- enced, already too often, that the Count comprehended political Matters under that Denomination, and that, according to him, triJHng Matters areyftentimes C^fus AsLnn^ & cadentis Ecclefiae, that he therefore can' not always demonftrate, why. he has brought fitch Matters in the general Compuitum of Liberty of Confcience^ and not rather fpecified them y that is to fay, he cannot, or rather will not demonftrate, why fuch and fuch a Cafe is a Cafe of Confcience ; he will not fpecify, or in more plain Words, he will not admit that this Article Ihall be examined. Thus, whenever he Ihould think himfelf ftrong enough, he need but tell his un advifed Flock, that to fuffcr fuch I ^ and t»8l fthd Tuch THines from the Glovtt»hiiieAfc^ ft ft Gafc of Cortfdencef, ^gainft theirljSfcfeitt erf Gonfdencei that, Jy !&>/&/, tliey^qii^ht not to giv« Taxes to the Gov'erntt^ot, Ipfe he affinni in his HoMiKi» in the 'Wound-if- tofit^ ( I ) » . and the iirtphadetit Pe6ttlfc' ^ll foot! (hake off their Obedience, de^fbhfe Princes and gain that by Force,^ li»liicK"hfe now endeavours td gjet by Ci^ft. ' '^Thik Judgment is not too fevere (ot one \niXKiVi^x. iiu>re tkan.wa? n^ful for hiak» hei jvdged f V^tjr wifelv of evervf Thing, he knew i«in6dU>f ^jr to • fticdbttiodate himfelf fb Urcumftajices ; .fqr fnitance, iJuBiaid, W« fhouId_/J)» night pajr no Trilimcf/but thejr ;,ds«nand it, they will h^veit, give it them. %t ftifthei^ ©&kh^ddh arid Eriduity:' td c6n- ifriW' m pkHiiMi k it w4 khAwh, 'that te^t'hh Pebfid Ik a- UM bb^(l%rfce aiid ■*%irt-;"aK6ti onlf'ldft^'tli^ fedvefnitient tfc •Sfi^Sk^ -ofa' CiM.foi^i^thatfe j^re"- 4:diicfe(3 4 tirtlitfiif^tl^erty of fcon^i^hc^, M riBMMi ifiBlf kftetfa^' ?b?vcr over ffi!eQ)tiftknd^ oiMfhllia^m, ^ctf e tliah '^*^t^tRet?htik^of i^«)^^fea(iaMim6iJ: ^one of th^ wheaficlc' ti^^re'^tj Liber^jr'fb rehd W ytdli th^'M (!*itlfidenCe in;i mi^rned ^PMfe;'^ .tkotlgh Afey ha4 livedfcv^fal' Yeaf s hV m#^k, athdjilid <:Aildren «-6wn, vi^, ^Wefl^nbt' Iddked jttjxjfi ^s fawfui^ marrie^, 'ijhlefS t% perfbmied ffe^ cohjuga?^ t)utics 1h ift^ l^refeto 4?t^e .eiders, wfiiyi' tquja be pVoVed by Afifefavits madei'h'i;li*4^(iour^ • ' The ferJorid Stto^ feTaM h^'eV implies, th4t ail' Huffeafid 61* Fa;ther filaitnot be in- tided tb clainfi his Wife or Children from ■the l^etfnhitkr^. 'f h*6 AU^or IKewi, here thrd^ri2?rt)ils C6hfe(jijdn£es'of tucKa fta- ttit^, . vmtch, fhoM' if pafs, 'M tierrn- i^f^i Wi6)c^,have\k^^ l*pwer «> dif- ittntil'IViPdrtiagesVittd bre^^ the Tie's be- t<{^eArt ^krents atif Childrerv whe^ri^ver thcJy jilekfej aild, to do that under ,Coro)4i: of Ailthotity, what th^y had already dope of thyiit.Wh Accord. He further fayf, that *tis rior th» Care for thek' Sours", as they I 4 pre- I "•■'■ [ 120 ] pretend, that makes them tdelire fuch a Statute, but worldly Vi^ws. The Sub- ilance of fuch Wives and Children, > and what they inherit, comes into the liiah^js of the Chiefs, who never continue long in ont Hace, and the poor Owners are tent into ail Parts of the World,, accordiogtbt^eir Cuftpni. Thus they lofe Aeir Property : And as for fuch Children as are,po^r^ th^ Society has this Advantage over them, that having brought them up in their prrors from their Infancy, there is aq Likelihood jthcy will ever quit them* - ' By the fourth, fifth, and fixth Articlca ;of thefe Statutes, whereby the Hermhuiers 'pretend to be of the yiui/hurg^Co^fj^oHy thp Author obferves,, that the Count's Tiew by this Pretence was, in all Appearance, no other, than to have a frelh Document in his Hands, in Cafe he Had obtained the 'Confirmation of thefe Statutes, to fhewtp the World, that his Seft were Lutherans. This is the fly Courfe he fteers, in order to conceal his Do^lrines, and his Refpublica deficalisy which are fo repugnant to that Confefll6n. But thefe Endeavours proved 'fruitlefs, as the Government already knew, that he made ufe of Denomihations juft as his Convenience required. Beficfcs, Peo- ple of ail;Religions were promifcuoufly ad- mitted into the Society, and fufi^er'd to |"e- main in the Opinions they had brought along with them, provided the^ conformed to the Count*s'Plan, by obeying his Qrders, I or • ( 121 3 or thpfc of the pthcr Chiefs he had^tde Partakers of his Authority. ^Ehe^e very ^eopleii who would pafs^here for Li^therans, afterwards .abfolutely deni^edthcmielves to Be fucKi and it has been already/obferved from die Count's owq Letters, '\that he Ictsi^etknes called then} Rfformedy and at others Aiiftnonijis, Diffiients from Luther- -mfatf ^c. which-lhci^s,: that the fupreme )5iftiM> , pr fapa^ under whofe Direftion, ^or <^ Heirnhahr, WlQ^ Rajueft l»«igl^K^. .. . ^ trji.'o 'i:he Teiidi'Artkl«' flie#«'fomd}iifii»3^^ the 0BcbfU>mie«^'CdhlV}t(itibM'*df the hM^ btaers. Ac«6r LaW-fbft; ivhiih ^6 h^ ki '^«V j^^, #6 declatfed; ^that this Gin&atueti'' ^'i^ ■ Mi^r '^^^'^ opoiV \t4lf ib b^ iriofe*3cfweiWf;'than the gtkmpvktii^ 'Gemohj. vShdnM the Herrfihhtirsi or jra,- ther thefe States General of all, theirs little Re* puses' h^ptttmM to carry oii*iftejrM^ar * Aggran(Jiie)mCrtl, chiefly' althfe?rSchenai *.ift carried oil under ch^liaffe tof K.cffr ^-^the Elefchth AtticK off,:ja^ W : Statutes, the HerrnkUtrrs' Amrcy that rip Regulation fhall be mzdQ9.tIiterrnhaa^\ Without the Concurrency of f his General DeacQviftnp* Hereby like wife they put tht Prerogativies of the Sovei'^ign in Con*;- titition with^ a foreign and an iinknow^ Oi^y, that' , pretended to Independency^. They left ind&id the Na^ie of ; Sovereign tc^'him, in whole Dominions they dweju bttt then "they refufcd fei^g ^cjepende^t on hiim, 'ejtceptirtg fuch Cafes where their l^eaders (hould- be cOiiferitlhgr 'Cer* tainly, II 024 1 (ainlyy no* better Gontrivanee coidd hava been framed for concealing their Coniflit^ tution. * A^ Richelieu^ a Mazarin^ lays * the Au$hor>' pever laid ainore Hrm Plaiif * for aggrahdlziog the Crown of France^ * nor have their Succellors Ihewed more * Attention io executing their Projed?. * than are made Ufeof by the Chiefs of * the Herrnbutfrsy in laying their Pl^ * for a temporal Government and rembv'j * ing all Ooftacles that mipht thwart ic * 0/ quantum reti^io potutt fuadert m^ « lorum, .,.Cj * The Fbyrtecnth Statute concerns their Myftery . in matrimonial Affairs, whicit they endeavour, by the Propofals made here, to' conceal. But the Government iieither could, nor wouldcomply with this ^Article, as i^thought it to be, its Duty .to have Matters of fuch Confeqiience thorough* ly inquired into, that no Body be foi'ced into Wedlock by their Lots^ nor the Auy thority of Parents be injured, who by Na» ture have a Right to concern themfelves vik the Marriages of their Children.- In the Fifteenth Article, the Chiefs of the Herrnhuters reprefent their two Choirs of unmarried People as^ Cc^^, defiringthey may be treated as fuch, and that no En*' quiry be made about xhtiT going in and com* hig out, looking in general on uieir Method x>f feading People away, as a Principium fiantis ^ cadentis Eccltfta. \^^ : ,a [I25V By theTwcnty -third and Twenty-fourth Articles, they endeavour ilill more to efta- bliih the Authority of their College of Deaeonlkip^ by infifting, that this indepen- dent Body, (hould have the Decifion of Matters concernine the Revenues, the Go- vernment was intitled to from its Subjedls, the Hermhuters^ that lived at Herrnhaar, A darins Demand, indeed, but not to be wondred at, if we eonfider, that the Herm- buters pretend to a Theocracy, as appears by the Count's own Letter dated January the fifth 1748, and thofe of his Brethren, fent to the Regency of Budingeny wherein 'tis faid in plain Terms : that all the So- vereigns on Earth, either muft confent to the Theocra^ in the Moravian Brotherhood, or have no Brethren in their Dominions. -> Our Author, having related the above' projetfted Statutes, and made his Remarks thereupon, refumes his hiftorical Account of what further happened between the Go- vernment and tht Herrnhuters. As the Count, in the Conference held with the De- puty of the Government concerning thefe Statutes, (whereof a Detail has been given above) had too much expofed himfelf, he now thought proper not to be fo bufy him- felf, but adt his Part by Means of the In- habitants of Herrnhaag. A Memorial was given in by them, wherein they pretended to be ignorant of what had happened be- tween the Count and the Government, *l' "'■ and tipnuigtwe yer]^ Tir^faidltioh^ that |>ad pafv ^. T419' inlwjiaite^Ji^^ . that ^iii^hf & fall oiit, thaViii^y ihoij^^;«m»]^^ u>qi^r^j>iiUQ,4J^r Alfalir|^,an4 prpfKi^i}; thj^ {oj^\4f ^ Mem%f ,^f the R^ftcy Jfhould be ordered to treat ^ith ;heir Pet puties about reg^ulating the Points fin Difr pute. ipq which this Aj^fwf^r wai^ ^vers of the Re- j^ricy, R petiwi ; wlwirepf wo^W oc too tcdU o^f ^ over the Qoh Ygrnm^t : by Pro(poijils of increafing \tf JUvefi^Cj ^^ % other adva^tfigieous O^ fes: Bji^t; ^s In^er^ was not what the Oor Vfqim^t aimed at, and as it ww refolved 19 do it^ Ij)i4ty, ap4 be cQnviitiqcd that nor tfcrjg paPod at fierrnbaag tut what could bn juftifiedftthefr Overtures, how craftily feeve^ ijKy. we^e contrived, t^ade no Im-» ^^ioft,uport it, Here ;he Author obt lirves, that Mr* <^^ D^^wi/z in one of the ^bovf -mei^t^e^'d I-etters, dated\Z)*f^. 30, 1747 avers, that the Church of tjie /f30 hr Yfuc«, lafted no longer than till OSIoh^ 1 749,- when the Sovereign of BUdingen died, ^d his Son inherited his Dominions. On this Occailon, the Hermhuters that lived at Uermbaagy likd all other Subjedls of that Count/) were lummon'd to take the Oath iof Alliance and Fidelity; which in the Main they did not refiife to comply with, hut made Exception againft a Claufe con^ ■' .'( ^ C^fttfit jSinttendwfi, they tefbi^d av«ri{n| j( in (ui aythentic and kgal Manner. \ i. Timcj however, was givenl them tO tfJsiS &6ir Anal Rerolution, and it being pel> ^ved» that all the Lenity th^y were treattd mithy could not bring them to a jSenfeof $heir Duty* the Government found itfell^ at Len^f obliged to ilTue a Proclamation* dated F(?^. 12, 1750, Whereby they 'vredB •enjoined to withm'aw from its DominioiiSy within the Space of three Y^ars*. and i« the mean while to diipofe of their Eife^bs^ which Time, joined to the two Yeats» duir ring which they.had.already been liolerate^ via, from Ffk. 1748,, make oiat juft the jive Years Toleration formerly granted them. Jn this Proclamation aU the Tran^ 4^ons that had happened w^ Regard t6 ^ HerrtthuterSf and the Conduct of their Chiefs, from the Beginning of their Rd^ ception in the County oi Mdingen^ are ?&• lated in a fummary Manner, in Order to make the World fenfible of the ptrmcious Schemes <^ this Set of People, and the Indulgence that had been ihewn them« JHowever, Liberty to remain at Hermbaag Is there granted to all, that had never ierved any OiEce (ij in the Bn>therhood^ (i) Tliis Claure was thought to U abfolateljr hecdrary: For, fuch as ferve Offices, are akcady in. •ftrufted, cither in Part or in the Whole, in the Plaa #f ^ Society, and have receired thdr Orders hovir IBid wore drilling to taks die Oith of Al]^ giatice limiDed tft the Mumtt as above, ainl leave the $e£t» or would be oootent \nxk exeitiruig their Worihipj m {wivatei tfae^^ their Servants and Families. They are^ mofeover» aflyred, that tbnr Br^^ iiave iuB Liberty of Conicieoce^ 'ji ^. -NK^te^fosd ugainft the Artifices of their Leaaers. The Govenuneitt Jbavijng alfo recerved Intellii geQCe> that the ClaiSs ufed unlawful Means to make thoTe among them^ that weie nek yet entirely j&^o/ into fhar Plan (as thijy liCually lexprefs it) remaiii in the Society^ hf debarring them from t^jat& 4tnd Pafiim/^ wiuofa is ^ PliraJe of the Society, and in^ plies, a Denial of Necefiaiiesy and Com^ municaHioh with odiers of the Society; a &cond Proclamation yras ilTued, in whidi fo behave fiom the Chiefs of the Sodetjr, the Gmttai tfeaedtf/Bif and the reft of thefe Heads that form c ^tate ivifkiii a Stttte^ Now ^ the)r have as ittucA Regard for fudi Orders as for the Go^l, it Woali baV« been in^ffible, to puTge tke 9fatt /rem aw^ ther Sitae growing up in it, by leaving thefe People thefe. Theh' Churdi-Oovernment and chief Plair iMttld have remained unaltered ^ 'long as theft lemaitied ztd had ConimanicuitiOn With the Ibtm^. buttrs. Thus thofe that had feryed Offices were ezr fluded from having Liberty to remain; and 'tis well known, and appears by feveral lullances in this Treatife, that thefe People can fpeak of, and pre- tend to, whatever they pleafe and Convenience fog^ § efts to them. Had diey even complied with tak{nc le Oath of Allegiance, the Government nevertheleu would not havel)een in Safety, and perhaps H/if toft $vU b^ itea wor/e than the JirJK ' [ '34 ] the Chiefs were admoni(h*d to abftain ffoilf jiifurping any fuch like Power orer their ■Flock; and thofe that had Room to com« plain ^ere advifed to make their Applica^' ;iion, with Promife, that, impartial Jqftice jChbuld be'adiminifter'd them^ whether they chofe to reiriam: at i/ifrriii&Ai^ or not. L There is no Doubt, but the Leaders of this Society, on the Publication of theft Orders, were artful enough, to maketheii: Followers believe, that this Step taken by the Government, was a real Perfecution* .which, as Martyrs, they ought ^o fuf&r |br Cbrift^s. -fake;^ for, it appears by the Account given us in this Book, that the deluded People at Herrnbaag publickly j-ejoiced at thefe Injundtions. They alfo delivered ia an Inftrument, made before a j^otary-Public and Witnefles, wherein they declared, *hat, Jbould_ thty renounce Count 'Zinzendorfi" they would fall under the Cenfuri pf.thefe IVords of Scripture, whoever denies me before Men, him will I alfo deny before my Father wMch is in Heaven ; and that fhould the Count himfelf grue' up his Office and Care of them, quoad ecclefiaftica et oecono- mica, ihey could not pqffihly confent to it.—'l fliall beg Leave to offer here to the Reader a few Remarks, which the above-cited Autkor has fcattered here and there in different Parts of his Performance. ' It * has been already obferved, fays he, that • the Chiefs of the Hennhuters, by whoni ''•"■■■■ ■ ■"■.•.■..., V.-r.., 1 thefts m^ lore ited in ihefc PeoJ>lc were fct on to give In this' Declaration, ftick at nothing, provided' it fuits their Convenience. This Inftru- ment, among the many Inftances^bove given, ferves as artother Proof for mak-' ing good the Truth of this Aflcrtion. As tneir Plan is only founded upon' worldly Views, which they cover with the Cloke of Religion, the Scripture it-* felf is not facred endugh in their Eyes, to hinder them' frdm making a bad life' of it, nor do they fcruple to lead their People to an idolati'ous Veneration of the Count. No body defired of them,' that they ihould deny God, Chrift, or' any other t'ruth or Doftrine, contained' : in the Scripture. But their Chiefs infill: ' that they mall be ruled by the Decifions ' of the Count, according to his Views and' ' Plan for eftablifhing his Supremacy -, and! ' upon the Government's endeavouring to' ' hinder it, they make them believe, that" ' this is a Requeft, which, fhould they ' comply with it, would be denying God. ' —'It appears alfo by this Declaration,' ' that they allow fuch a Right to the Count * in ecclefiajiicis fcf oeconomicis, as he himfelf ' cannot give up, that is to fay, they will in * thefe Points be ruled by him alone and' * thofe that depend on him, which is the' * College of thie General Deaconjhip^ that pre- ' * tend to Independency wherever they are, < as has been above obfcrved. The Count cGm- [ 13^- 1 emptebmds sti Mai$€r4 itndir IJbtHif t^ Confcmces ^nd his Difdpline rek$0s f no* tbiug but tmpoT'^ljffairfi he exerciies niv unlimited Power «ver his Followers, pre-' tending fometimfS to a ^JbiQtracyf iome- cimes to a Hierarchy in htf Church, smd this excludes all Civil Governments wbat- foever. Nay, ^he Event kas (hewed, how great and indiflbhible the Tye is be- tween him and his Followers, 9fi they chofe to quit the Country rather than give up their Dependency on him. Let us fu{^re, a Prince makes himielf Mailer of a Country, which was under the Subjection of another. The Con- queror requires of the Inhabitants, that they fhall uke the Oath of Allegiance,' and commands thofe that do hot incline to give up their Fidelity to the former Mailer to quit the Countrv. Is it to be believed^ that many will withdraw ? Hiftory evi- dences the contrary, and at the fame Time Ihews, that the Inhabitants of a con- quered Province* in fuch Cafes, loofc upon the Bonds which held them to their former Mafter as diffolved, and enter in- to new Engagements with the Conqueror; Now, the Herrnbuters are defired to give up their Dependency on the Count; this is demanded of them by a Government, whofe fupreme Power they acknowledge by Words, and to whom they profefs, they are obliged to be obedient and fubje^t; ' and f : %*4niyit their AaioB^ ^ W^i^bg9*(he# ^ ihk ctontmry i th^ rather chufe to quit ^ the Country than^ve Proofs of thdr Al« ^ lcgiiu^^asotKerSubje£biii that Country ^ d£ :- It it ngti hence incooteftabljs^ that *^ islie fHrnnAiitefs are made more .iubje£| to * >lAr IIM e^^M* €dim4i>, than to the Go- *' verninenty whole fupreme Power they j^ \ 'V^n^i Acknowledge $ and that thetfObe* \ dibn^ to a Government lafts only fo long •'^^$hif Mead of their Church Will have it. * Ijoekei that great Champion for Tolera- ^-tlonv judges fuch People lunworthy of ^ beivffitoltrated. It is his Opinion, that a *^ 'Churchi can haVe no Right nor pretend ^IK^l^e^ tolerated, which debars the Prince ^ ofl^ Part of his Jurifdidbion,. Power ^abdt Right in temporal and civil Matters ^ over its Members^ and in which fuch aa ^ goover to it, put themfelves under the Pro^ < teuton of 'another Prince, and bteome ^' obedient' td him in Matters concerning * their Life and Condud, infuchaMan-^ *- ner as to allow • a greater Power iind Dif- ^^^fal^in thefeMatters to the Hc»d(^ their ^ Church than to ithe Government they live * Id,- ^d dare not be obedient to the lattec * any further than this Head will ^llow. ^^ , • it 01^^ not, however, to be fuppofe4 that Count ZifiTSendorfy ifcer fo inuch Vexation^ cdufed to the Government aiBiidingem eafily relinquifh'd hi» Profpedb of ^ftabliih* ing thcife a State> within a State, Accord- h in§ Ing to ouir Author, he afllimcd all Mlnner of Shapes, to retrieve this Lo^. In his Let-' ters fent from London to the Governmeht** he endeavoured with ail his Might, ta have thefe Proclamations reptakd^ ana to this End, fometimes ufed Menaces, fay- ing, that he had kept fomcthihg in Refenre, and thkt tht Celiegium Jdvoeaiue Unitatis^ (which - 1 fuppofe is that formidable Body- called the General Deacenjbipf tlnm^ed by him) fhould meddle in the Affair, and at other Times made Offers of a pecuniary Kind. But the GoveMment was i^ncon- cerned at his Threatning, as Juftice.was on its Side, and as for Intercft, it had al-> ready fhewn, that this was the leaft Point it had in View, otherwifc it would not lUve taken a Step, whereby it was fure to be- come a confiderableLoier. Thus theCount's Endeavours for repealing the Proclamations, (which woul4 have furniflied him with a new Voucher of the pretended Orthodoxy of his ScO:) proved, fruitlefs and abortive. ^ The Author ends his Treatife, with ap* pealing to every unprejudiced Reader, to judge from the whole TranfaAion, whe- ther a Government could poflibly have (hewed greater Lenity to the Herrnbuters^ than4ihat of Budingen has made appear, and whether it could have'chofena milder Way to extricate itfelf from their Chiefs, than by enjoining their Society to emigrate'^ chiefly as^ Count Zinzendorf had fo often before :yu .^ threat- • { [ 139 1 threatned an Emgration, His Wifhes in the Preface are, ' that God mav prefervc all States from beine involved, in the Man- ner the Houfe oiBudinfen had been with the HerrnbuterSf which, however, adds he, can be no Blemilh to its Honour, as it had no fooner got an Iniight into their dan- gerou:: Conftitution, than it difinungled itfelf from them, even at the Expence of temporary Advantages, and the Lofs of a Revenue from a Place inhabited by them; and thus preferedthe public Good to private Intereft. He alfo wifhes, that Gcxl may open the Eyes and Underibmd- ing of every Body, to enable him to dif- cover, that the interiour State of the Brotherhood doth not agree with the ex- ternal Appearance it makes, and that their Conftitution is fo artfully contrived, that it may, with very good Grounds, be reckoned among the political Evils ', in the fame Manner as their DoArines have long fince been accounted among the Evils of the Churchy by Divines of the greateft Integrity, and that upon very good Grounds.* I ' ,c -'-^ ■!►■-; '"i" Ui-;- .%; ■•V, ^:^:^.^ -4"- Oi^i'. If •'.I'W ;."''>H< *-«i^'0'fs^ ■A * \ '¥lM;%m^ **fe ■i\.c. i t i J 'i •■ "k-^A- fe APPENDIX* N* ,;;;'j:%r-^; ■ikV Proxima Theologorum inAcademia T^ubtn-^ ga Celeberrimorum contra Comitem de Zinzendorf'LiTT'EKMKESFousoRijEf ; Wurtembergicorum Duci SereniJfimOy . ejufdem Imperio j/iufpicioque oblatay nunc autem^ certis de cauJpSy iifque kgitimisy ex Lingua teutonica tran-^ Jlata in Latinam^ SereNISSIME Dux, -i;:jic:;i " ; ..:ai;.; .i Princeps acDomine longe clementiflimel NU P E R clementiffime nobis demandafti, ut: quia Comes de ^inzendorf litteris Mariaebornx datis, occafione fynodi ge- neralis ibidem habendae, quosdam ex noftratibus ad follemnem ecclefiarum ibi colled^arum luftrati- onem commendarit, refque fe eo habeat loco, ut fimul et Facultatis Noft^rae Theologicap et Mem. brorum ejusdem nonnullorum prsefertim cauflk pe- f ricliuri u A P P EN D I X. riclitari videatur, prxterea autem ex aliquo tem- pore per fe plures ejus rei prodant magni moment! cdhfequutiones, nos ex Ubellis et fcriptis eum in imem nobifcum clementiflime communicatis plu- raedo£li, fententias, eaquadecet, obfervantia et fabpiiffione inter nos coUatas, una cum iis, qux ^g^sme^ ipfis hac de re innotuerint, Senatui Re- giminis Tui, Sereniffime Princeps, intimo, exhi- beremus. Quae quum ita fmtj nos, Facultatis Theologi, debito etobfequiofo ftudioflatim congregati deli- berationes cauti circumfpeftique fufcepimus, re- ^.usque ftudiofe et communi confilio iterum ite- rumque confideratis, banc praecipuorum cauflae longe graviffimx momentorum delineationem, om> ni, qua fieri potuit, foUertia et religione litteris confignatam, Tibi, Dux fereniflime, fubmifTe ob oculos ponere, noil^ranmi eile partium, duximus. ■ - Neceflaria licet, commoda et praeftans commen- • data publicae luftrationis via per fe videri poflet, maxime in ejusmodi rebus circa fidem et religio- nem verfantibus, quae tarn late adhuc repferunt, et in tantas tamque captiofas conti'overfias, quibus omnis ecclefia dlilrida tenetur, abjerunt: non pofTumus tamen non fateri, quod in applicatione hujus confilii ad res Herrnhutanas, et proefertim ad coram fynodum generalem propediem inftituenr dam, dubitandi rationed impedlsnt longe graviffi- mas, quo mijius iila in concreto et in materia fub- jftrata neceflaria poffit efle, congruens et utilis; quaeque timorem facile injiciunt, ne ecclefia noftra faciTIimo negbtio momentofum et irreparabile de- trimentum ex difquifitione male finita capiat, Suuni e contrario, qui ab Herrnhutenfiumpartibus ant, more ipfis coiifueto, fic fibi profpicient, et tantamadhibebuntcOntinentiam, ut, quemcumque demum res habiturafitexitumj ingens et nonfper- nendum if APPENDIX. nendum emolumentum inde fibi queant polliceri. I. Primum ejusmodi follemnis et a prxfentibus habenda inveftigatio minus neceflariae circuidonis notam praefe ferat, necefle eft, quia hujus rei ca- pita et momenta ex impreifis utriufque partis publi- cis et authenticis A6):is fatis jam perfpicue, fuffici- cnter et penitus peripici pofTunt et dijudicari, idque longe melius et certius, quam ex colloquiis omni- bus coram et inter prxientes habitis, qualia haec propediem inftituenda efTe futura, quisque videt. £x Herrnhutanae enim focietatis parte monumenta ipforum authentica, qux fua efle vix ac ne vix quidem ibunt inficias, in omnium funt manibus, ut e, g. ill. Comitis doftrinarum fynopfis, {Lehr- hiichlein,} plures et nunc maxima ex parte typis cxfcriptae & in volumina quaedam colledae ejus- dem condones [Gemeinreden ,"] accumulatae canti- ones, et fic ab ipfis didas Cantatae, Colle^liones Budineenfes, Refponfa et Epiftolae, libelli Sieg- fried, Regnum crucis, [Creutxreich] nuncupati, et noviffimum a quodam Albino Sincero editum, fcriptum, cujus rubro : Se D. Baumgarten, ut ad fe rediret, faculam praetulifle, ja^f> cantionum XIT, p. 1999. Hx f}IO(.$!9rMipf^<^ipuse dicendi formulae: [Chrtfius cruet adfixus unlverfo eruditorum cortui 4iefpeiiui ejletludibrio.Theohgi, qui mundoadhuc ^-^verbadedernjpretervi/unt et impudentes, Omnes . ■ his rnortui adfenfum quinque Chrijii vulnerum ru- . ^bicundorum. Sapient ia nos nunc ad unum omnes antecellimus nojiris olim doSforibus.] ,; " r. 7. Das*' [nemUch Chrijius crucifixus'] « iji .-f dergfintzen gelehrten %unft beyder vermeint-^ . , ^* iichan Welt Vernunfi, ietzo Jo yerdchtlich vnd ** thoricht warden, dafsfaji kein einiger aus ihrem. ; <* Orden as nennen mag*\ ^' V* 8. Ihr philofiphifcbes Hertze macht, dafs .; *« auch ihr Kopf nur dariiber lacht ; vndweils V" f demonjlriren dazu nichts nutzet, fiuchet das r " Hertz, wenn der K^pf gejiutzety baym preut- r-^fzes-Gott/*^ " K 9. Doch das iJi nicht ohne Ausnahm wahr ■j'f}\ hey der Philojhpher kleinenSchaar, diemach '-u\-r\ - " rejonabk APPENDIX. Cc nfiiuthUy [iS/B] die Theologen, wekhe Ju Welt •• bt$ daher bitrogen, fmdvwuerfchamt" «* f^ 10. Sie nuMgelnerftlich des wahren Lichts^ **VHd glaubin felber ins Gantze nichtsvon dem^ ** wasju Uhren, es ware derm einer^vndder ge- ** witzigten Kop/e keiner^ der ddchte er glaubt,** « r. II. Dieandern" [NB] ^'allefmd zwey- **maltodtzum Gefiihlfeiner fiinfWunden rotb; ** drohn noch uber diefa nut Fluch vnd Banne^ ^^fo bald fich einer nur gantz zum Manne am « Creutz bekermt." ' "F. 12. So dafs es klar in die Augenfdllt^ zwey ** Religionenftndin der Welt } denn man ijl entwe- ** der ein Atheijle^ ader ein wahrer vnd felger «« Chrijie vom Pels gehdun:* " ^ 13. [^J5] Wirfind nun weifer, alsalzu- •* mal vnferer ehmaligen Lehrer zahl, [* J weil ** wir aus den Narben an Hand vnd Fiijfen, vnd ** aus der Seite auf Gott zu fchliejfen nun aucb «< gelerut" t - / . (*) Pfalm cxix, 99. m:-n>,^i< ,.'■'' Et Ix [t] Tranflatcd, Verfe 7. Chri/l crucified is become fo defpicable to the whole learned Tribe ^ that fear ce one of them cares to name him, Ver. 8. Their Philofophical Hearts make them laugh at this SubjeSl \ and, as Demonflration can be of no Vfehere, the Heart curfes when the Head is at ajland, with refpeSt to the God on the Crofs! Verf, 9, However, this is not univerfalfy true among the little Number ofPhilofophersi they are reafonable. [NB] The Divines, who to this Time have deceived the World, are impudent. Verfe 10. In the firji Place, they want the irt*( Light', and upon the whole^ don't believe thtm* appendix: Et iterum ex novohymno, n. 2246. additant. n. adpendic. XII. aeque ac praecedens, n. 2127* in Seminarii ipforum honorem compoflto : [Profejfores pios metbodisfuis confervajft iwittra* ta Rhapfadiarumjitrcora.^ m^i-^^.. " Vnd durch ein Pra£licum ins leer gewordene ** Luterthum den Reformations fpiritum tvieder " inJliUiren, Allein der Mufen S'ohne betaubte *• Sinnen warn nocb zu ftttmpf der falfch he- **riihmten Kiin/ie Dumpf war mch zujiarck^ ** vnd die Methodien der frommen Profejforn '* erhielten der Rhapfodien verlegenen ^arck, [* J *^/o dafs die St. Thomas-Mohren noch ehe Jah^n ** das Gluck der Zeugen-fFelck, vnd viel Studen- •« ten-Volck verlohr den erjien Blick:* [ff J ^ . (*) Phil, iii, 8. (rxu|3aXa. Et hxc funt didteria univerfis infimae etiaih fortis Herrnhutenfibus, et de Theologis et Pafto- ribus confueta, ita, ut vel vocabulum paftoris feu Presbyterii pii (frommer Pfarrer) apud illos defpec- tui fit factum,. et ex ipforum mente hominem, qui animas themfelves what they teach j unlefs it be one, not of the moji acute J who imagines he believes. Ver'fe 11. the others^ [-^^^] ^^^ ^^^ *^*^^ dead, to the Senfe of his five red Wounds j and moreover threaten with Curfes and ExeommuHica' tions, en one^s acknowledging wholly the Main on the Crofs. Verfe 12. So that it is evident^ there are hut two Religions in the World; for a Perfon is either ein Atheijl or a true Chrijiian, cut from the Rock. Verfe 13. We are now wifer, than alt our former Teachers were., without Exception ', be- caufe we have learned to judge of God, by the Scars on Hands and Feet, and from the Side. (ft) The Senfe of this Paragraph is intirely comp rifed in the Latin that is at the Head of it. APPENDIX; animas ad fummum excitare, nequaquam vera ad^ falvatorcm ulque perducere poflit, indicet, &;c.' hujufcemodi tiiimen condit'ionis caetus, una cvtti" ejus Diiedorio ccclefia Evangelicae ut adfcribatur^. •poftulet, ct Theologis, propter ipronim convehieh- tiam, quia e re Aia non eft, aliter refpondere, id ' oneris, ut ipforum vifitatores fiant, imponat^ quorum tamen fidem, quicudique demum flht^'- averfo ab ill is animo damnant. Ht^us autem ge- '- iieris teftimonia ex ipforum ore repetere, etcbnffir-' mata reportare, idem eilbt, ac xmm agere, quod'( tamen fine dubio cfllcnt a^uri, qui talia ipiis ^x^ - probrare excerpta, et ipfi tamen ne, horum (jPiidqn errorcs fateri vellent. ' ftHiw*®* «. X ,v^h\ Hue referri quoque pofllint declaratlones aper*'*' tXf quae ab iftis hominibus deecclefia noftra Lu- i therana, cujus tamen membra lacertis et viribtw' contendunt fe efie, faepiflime fa£be funt. Herm>-' huta, quum unlca et prima hujus ccetus eflet fedes, - et tamquam filia fe ad ecdeflam Lutheranam Ber-^ thelsdorfenfem, ejufque- Minifterium adplicaret; id ad eximii meriti, quavis oblata publica occafi- one, oftentaticnem, et magnam fpeciem {guee ad refponfum quoque hie coftcedendum multum va- lutt) ufurpabant, quam finceri eflent Lutheraniy et quam bene Evangelico Lutherana? ecclefhe vel«> lent. Sed non omnt aurum, quod aurefcthat* Conies ill. ante unum aut duo annos, quam veni- ' ebat primum' Tubingam, Joanni FridericoRockeny Infpirato, dileAo tunc temporis firatri, ** fe qui- *■*• dem, ait, ecclefiae adhuc, tamquam jugo, efle •* fubjc£los, cui tamen venenum demfifle crede- " ret." V.'Extr. Diarii Infpir. p. ii6. autp. 121. edit. Winckleri. Cum ecelefia Berthclsdor- fiana Ele^loralis Saxonici Regiminis jufTu potius erat hStz conjun^io, quam adfociatione fponta- ncn, qualis quidemhodienumrei eft conditio, licet eorum 9^ , APPEND IX. ' eorum privilegia alibi ipfis concefla valde Tint auc- ta, et) quod rem expeait, illud, prouti ipfi excipi- U|tt» ad nerrnhutam privative, non autem ad reli- quas fratrum ecclefias, fpedtat. In epiftola quadam, ab ill. Comite pod earum emiflionem {ihrer Elegirung) data etex infpe^tione oculari nonnuUis ex nobis cognita, rerum Herrn- hutenfiuin ftatum, praecipue, ut videtur, propter coad^am cum Lutheranorum Liturgia connexio- nem, tamquam ItMum fpeiuncamA^cxvfffxXi ex qua, ppftquam fatis diu indufi fuiflent, nunc tandem aliqvan^o in ampliora erumpendi fpatia, tempus inftaret. ~ <- Laodiceas appellatione, refpectu eccleftx noftrae, nihil eft iftis familiarius, quum femet ipfos ex op- poftto P.hiladelphiam nuncupent, et adeo loco quo- dam : ecclefiam noftram tunc penitus, fi meliorem ex Speneri et Franckii principiis formatam nancif- ceretur difciplinam, in perfectam evafuram efte La- odiceam, fcripfit ill. Comes. . Nee etiam, quod cordati Theolod illif jam ex- probravere : apcrtae nimirum Hermnutanas inter et noftras ecclefias feparationis fpeciem jam pridem iatcrefle, plane de nihilo eft } uti etiam rei natura, ct magnum inter utriufque partis inftituta difcri- men non aliter Tecum ferunt. Quis igitur umquam fibi perfuadere poflit, quod cjufmodi focietas, quae ita de ecclefiis noftris Lu- theranis fentit, finceram cum his, et candidam habere qucat communioncm, nifi omni ex fcopo abforptivo et tinctorio, ut nonnulli jam loquuti iunt, agerentur, ad concedendum faciliorem et ex- . peditiorem ipfis aditum, ad laborem eum in finem omnibus in locis perficiendum, quum omnino ma- nifeftum funplicitatis et imprudentiae eilet indici- um, fi ex ipfa ecclefiarum Lutheranarujn parte manus iftis praebere vellemus, ,-, ' ' Quodfi APPENDIX. Quodfi fundamento non caret, quod huic foci- etati, atque ipfius Diredorio acriter jam et faepe eft obje£tunri, quodnempefibi partim infallibilitatis ipeciem ipfi attribuant, partim ex antefienanis ip> forum quidam, (nulla tamen ad hancobje£tionem publicam hucusque data refponsione) palam illi earn ..dfcripferint : tnveftigatio ab hominibus, qui- bus ei rare humanum, fufcepta, apud eos, qui in rebus faltem magnt momenti falli nequeunt, fru- flranea efTet res ac fuperflua. lUud ex parte, ex abfoluta et caeca obedientia, quae ab omnibus veris integrifqueHermhutanae ec- clesiae membris praeftari et debet et folet, et quae pro obedientiaerga fofpitatoris praecepta vendita- tur, (ut mille exempla probant) evinci voluity. neque minus inde, quod ad omnia nomine abu- tanturfalvatoris, cui a focietate aut ejus antiftiti- bus a tain captiofse atque explofse, insiftit iU. APPENDIX. jll. Comes, cujus pofterior editio priori pejor efle dicitur et peftiientior, quam nos tamen nondum vidimus. • Exftat hac de re fcriptum Bengelii Praepositi, tef- timonium, qui iftos deprehenfos sic dijudicavit : , ** Plafchnigium nobiliorisjuventutisPrelbytenim „H "exexperientiasicteftari, quodifti facraslitte- . ** ras unicam vitae ac fidei normam habeant, '* ** (cui tamen egregie adferto contradicit Frefe* ** nius Pallor in notaadfcripta)**Argumentum ve- •' roearum iis, quos hucufque cognovi, fatis in- ** cognitum eft." Loc, cit. pag 272. Quern fupra nominavimus, Sutor, qui complures annos inter eos eft verfatu§,**multos inter Herrnhu- "tenfesvitam sine Bibliis confumere, et, qui . '* habent, eadem vendere, aut vel aliis dono dare, •* teftatur. N. B. Hoc, inquit, fat multis exem- 5 •* plis probari poteft. Primi ordinis quofdam, qui ^ ** adhuc in vivis funt, et plurimum in hac ecclesia " auftoritate valentjfe, dum vixerint,Biblia non- ** dum legiffe, gloriarites audii. Cum ejusmo- - *' di homunculis faciliimum eftnegotium" Loc. « cit pag. 706." Regnier, (teftis valde memorabilia,) quondam apud coUaboratorem (Jrheiter) Kuhn (nonex pof- tremis) ad facras provocans litteras, banc ab eo accepit refponfionem : '* nihilo melius eft, quod " cuique Biblia liceat legere, improbi enim pro- « be ad eadem femper provocate norunt.** Loc. ** cit. pag, 428. Plura hujus generis loca oc- currunt, e. g. pag. 475. " Plus fimplici vice ** mihidixerunt, confcientise libertatem effe per- ** niciofam, neque conducere, quod Biblia in, " cujusvis fmt manibus." D. Baumgarten in refponforum Theolo^corum XXIV fedione, qua ad Siegfridi coUuftrationem • (Beleuchtung) refpondet , varias adfert et baud negligendas gbfervationes, quas, ab ^Ubino Since-^ XV I I XVI A P P E N D I X. rO) Herrnhutanorum apologeta noviffimo, exami*-^ nari et refutari magis meruiflcnt, quam plurima eonim, quibus contra D. Baumgarten immora- tur. Hie ita : " huj us fadtionis adfeclarum, fi iills ** et Paulli loca opponuntur, eorum dogmatibus '* aut fie didtae methodo (de lege et evange- *' lio,) contraria, confueta refponfio et tergi- •* verfatio haec eft : quod» in hiscafibusPauTlo *< cum Judaeis rem fuiile, prodant, apud quos •* aliter de lege loquutus, eaque majori cum *' emolumento effet ufus, quam apud Chrifti- •* anos fieri poffit et debeat. Quid ? quod hu- " jus kdix emiflariorum nonnulli eo procefle- *« runt;,, ut libere contenderint, Apoftolis, ex- *« ceptis Paullo et Joanne, Sanguinis Theolo- ** giani et Agnum non xque innotuifle, ac De- *« us in his poftremis temporibus revelare apud " animum conftituifTet : utrumque inde, ut et «« Chriftum- ipfum, temporis fiii rationem ha- «« buifle, et methodum eorum neutiquam pro- «« ponendae hujus Sanguinis Theologiaecfle ex- « emplum,'* loc. cit. pag. 629. Nifi amen- tes ftatim et imprudentes habeamus omnes, qui modo contra Herrnhutanos quidquam refe- unt aut dieunt, ejusmodi teftimonia debitam omnino attentionem merentur et confiderati- onem. Ad dodtrinam de myfterio fanftae Trinitatis & de Chrifto quod attinet j ex fcriptis Herrnhutano- rum ejufmodi excerpta funt dogmata, & publice refutata, ut certe, iter ad eos inftituere, eofque coram interrogare, non opus fit, fed, quxnam res, & quale de ea pro veritate, & Evangelicae noftrae ecclefiae Theologia, ferendum fit judicium, in apricoeft. -J - Legi merentur, quze de hac materia graviHlma jam pridem, pnicipug ex oratione de officio ChrijU ^ A P t' E N t) I X. fatemo[Fater'Jmt]gn\[teT et modefte publicae dif- quisitioni propofuit Frefenius Paftor in lafciculo colleftionum pnmo pag. 144. et quod Ul. Comes, etiam rogatus, ut aperte, et religiofe mentem ex- primeret. parutn aut plane nihil, idque confulto, regeflerit, quod, si Comes meliora et haud indigni- ora ad defensionem fuam, et adreligioforum homi- num animos tranquiilandos proferre potuerit, nul* lo modo excufari poteft. Quae, qualis Theologia de maximis facrofanflae Trinitatis myfteriis, de creatione, de principio De- um cognofcendi, deChriftoj quze unica ifta tan- tum cantione contenta, et num. 2i88additament. I. append. XII. pag. 2067 feqq. ita quam abfur- diflime eft exprefla ? , 4.- XVll .. \ cc cc «c (C y. 3. Jls Gott dein Sohn und dein Gemahljicb einmal heilig kii/ien, v'lelUicht bey iljrem Liebes- Mahl, und Gott gelajfen liiJFten^ der Ur-Gott aber gottlich fchlief^ formirt fich eine PerfpeSiiv (*) von taufend IVeltgerUften. (*) Aujftchty anmuthige Landfchaft, V. 4. Das war vertnuthlich anzufeh n vom Schop- *' ferUr Jlands-Zinnnen^als ivennfo hintenLich- ter Jithn in einem Winckel drinnen^ fo whs an einem Feyertag ein Dorf zufammen bringei mag, viely aber le'tcht vnd diinne. V. 5. In einem dieter Zt'dubelein erfchten ein roth Gefiinckel, vnd nach vnd nach aus f einem *« Schein vnzehlb're winz*ge Fiinkel j der JVieder- ** fchein in der Perfon des Shopfers, (der i/i Gctt " der Sohn.,) vereinzelt iedes Piindei. «* F. 6. So brachte der JVelt-ArchiteSf ("f j die ** Zeit vnd Ewigkeiten in einen moglichen Profpe^i i( « « . ( xvnt A PP ENp 1 )f. (C hahl'\ matrem Chrifti & rioftram. Moribundis quum br.nedi6lionem impertire vo- luerunt, cantantes his usi funt verbis : Deus vobi» feenedicat Patercuius, bcnedicat vobis Mater- Filium, (juod fibi humanam induendi naturam, et ex Divinitate' prodeundi data fit poteftas, tamquam gratiam reputafle, Ipfilm nbn ut Deum, fed ut hominem, iifdemj q^ibus nos viflpriam confequimur, viribus deviciflt:. Patrem ipfi opem tulifle, ipfum nobis ferre. NB. Ipfi baud phis dignitatis, quam nobis concedit, fu- ilie. etc. Ipfum divinitatem fuam exuifle, eadem, qua homa potcft, ratione, miracula edidifle. Ejnfmodi loca in concionibus maximc reperiun- tur, et, quoad fingula verba, fuo quidem loco re- linquenda, tales autem continent dodrinas, et do- cendi methodum, quales cxcufari nequeunt. Graviflimum porro ex gravaminibus dogmatlcis fiiit, fiiperflua et.noxia doitrinae ecclefiae noftrae, de legis et evangclii ulu, mutatio, quae non e fmgu- iis tantum membris, fed tota Herrnhutana focietatc, tamqua*n cauffa principalis, habita eft et defenfa. Veiun; I . ' A P P E N D I X, Verum enim veroiiecad banc penitus et plane per- ipiCiendam nova quadam.eta'praefcnubus haben« dainveftigationeopus eft; ted tarn ab ipforum fo« fiiSi quam a nbjllris Theologis haec materia ita jpmjam eft expoflta^ vetus quoque dodrina et prax-^ is ecclefiae noftrae firmilTimis fic defenfa eft argu* mentis, ut iis, quorum intereft, ad informationem fufficere queat. £x Theolosjis infuper noftraePa- cuitatis quidam non longe abhinc in duabus difpu- tationibus! de fuperflua etnoxiamutationedodtri^ nae ecclefiae noftrae deLege et Evangelio, et rur- fus: d« uAi legitimo Legis ab omni conatuet ef- kQ.u juftitiae propriae alieniilimo, fua contulit. Scd loqu^ntur et fcribant Theologi licet, quae vo- lunt, faciunt j quum antiquas tamen de Antinomif- mo tantum recoquant controverfias, et ad Caute Eliftin(Sa^ et conTideiate. conceptas Theolo^orum iremonftratione^ hac in caufTa animum hucufque -plane non attenderint ; veritates etiam interfperfas, jalHs, fup^rfluis et fundamentp deftituti» addita- imentis, ad Ihultorum bonorum confufionem ma- gisperverterint, quamreddiderint utiles. Quinim- mo baud eruSefcunt, egregiam et folidam Lutheri et Melanchthonis hujus ret explicationem, (Luthe- ri prvaefertiiA) ab univerfanof^raecclesia adoptatam Etque ad^batam nafb adunco traducere, et ina- nes^ad^ifillitaf e fpeculatioiles, quibus non necelTario fit f^Wcribcndum, et his non obftantibus inculpa- ta Ausuftanac confeilionis membra fe manece cohtendunt. Quaenam doiSbina et do£lrInae methodus Heitn- hutanae focietatis fit de fic di^* V ■_ I A P P E N D I X. certare falvatorem pro Ulo> & quantulum quoque \\>i\ cum iataila aut mundo intercedat certaminis, id plane exigui, &c nomine tantum taleefle } quod- Ti vero per fafvatorem liceat^ ut .malum ex corde qiiidem demtum, in homine autem adhuc, feu, ut alias die itur, in carne redduum rurfus fefe exfcrat, juvc'ncm io Chrifto hoc probe fentire, et de eo dolere, ex (bfpitatoris autem verbo quoque edoc« tum, quomodo huic rel medendum fit, ftatim ob* fervare ubivis,.pcccatum efle damnatum, non in- plius efle refiftendo [Partie egale]t'OmnQ plane jur ()ote(late & facultate efle deftitutum; omne .. membris conamen, pulicis inftar, ftatim a^ fen- titur, nulla prorfus ipfl data vel facultate v el li- centia reslftendi, necari pofle. '' Quid ? quod in concionibus & orationibus (y- hodalibus in hunc modum funt loquuti : <* Nullum .*' eft peccatum, nulla mall fpecies, quae non ' •' palex inftar, poteft propelli. Ilium, qui, k(e "/ ** a' peccato non pofle expedire, dicat, mente ** efle captun}. Si perfect evadere volumus, ** [minime ut fandtiilimi ilamus, & ab omni *< abftineiamus peccato, quippe quod minu- ~ << tioris curx eft,] quales nempe Paullus nO' ' " minat perfedlos, Phil, iii* adprehendamus '. •«« myfterium hoc necefle eft, &c. Nos concu- ' *« pifcentia non amplius turbare, fuperbia non *< amplius vexare, neque cruciare poteft avari- <« tia,&c." Quum denique Theologorum do cauflam Vice-Chrifti, Vice-inariti, ^f*k ai CKrt^i Procuratorc^iinrinfie conjtife^ ^ •* rfdndt^ms' ad fe acceifaf, uf hoftiines ad ia ''t ^ praficfemft^tbs, uf in itnpWii fub dontii^ :*'«« (qua ditei\^i fdxfmk utffM'ur faepifSme,) "^■f< qUod! arf'ftrtai^e^n / r ti . ^* Q^od eo ipfo moiHento, quo atter in nonim| ^* Domini lefu largityr^ .^tcf?i Ul nomine ^c-^ ^* clesiee acci|Ht femen ipsi des^natum terren^ni ** quident, attamen fuBcruientum, ea NB. om- ** nia iunt j^n£^a, & conrecrat3» non impura, ** nort cominiinla, minime^ in4"*rP^"^^"s, ^ si alludquid a^iint, imago cr^^turae in Vicer xxvu hoc coi^iubtum huic r(^ietati s^t:re(irvatun>, ** extra eani Vero conju^umadjbup! nihil aliu^, " nisi adulterimn, fuifle : {Fi^M^a^it^m' It -Yj ^* 2163. V, 15. /. 2^4^.) quod plenarianij 55 " ad omnes cafus. formatam de ejufmodi aitu, *« conjugali infliru^onprn conjugium inevnti-; *< bu» a ^aviiSmis quoque in ecclesia viri^ #( dari opofteat j quod fuh titulo facrutarumi t.uni est, 4e gravibus erroriliu9i haud leviter e^ fentiendum. ■ In reliquis vera c^U^arym & clwfiiwn. cccle- r;,arum cpn{iitui:iQmbM6» quas taoti facLunt| & jqut- bus tantum tribuunt^ b^cjam Aint ta^ata.' Q^od illas, maxiiQ^ni partem npviter inventaa, & ab iis latas, qui h.i9 ,j(ii\^ujgrjibus ccetibus for- mam dare VQluerunt prppjiam, prq ycterilpius fra- trum Maravicijiirum cpnftitu^iwibus venditent. Quod e^rum nimia fit ^ fuperflua multitudo*; qux, utomnes^x intentioiier|tee](erce^tur, mu^ riorum quoque if perfonarum muItijpUcatipines re* quirunt. I Qi^od iifi^em inter fe & aliast ecclefias, quap, ejufmodi res fibi imponi, aut, quum eastantinoni aeftiment, indighe haberi ii diiudicari» fe obftric^ t»s efle npn pHti^n(;» pernicipjum fchUina, ii Ai^ perfluum cauiTentur fspimentum. Qupd propter eafdem, qus^i Appftolicas cpnfti* tutiones, al ii^ fe pr^rant; licet de earum pau^; ci^itiiis, eas jjam Appftplprum tqqippre in ufu> apud ecclefias primas fuiilej poffitprobari. ' Qijipd citra omnem neceflitatem ex conununi-^ bus Chriilianorum erga fe invlcein officiis pecu- . liaria, pro cujufyis donis & fi^cult^tibus, conftitu^ ant munera ac hegptia, quae miruna praeterea in mpdunH) uti jam <^ixiniuS} multipUcantur, & in- commoda ^ttrahimt baud eyigua, quae fatis de-> monftrari poiTunt. Q^od prp rebiis hab^nt ecdenaftiGis, quae in. Dei verbp numquam ejs funt deqiaratae, e. g., quum in facra fcriptura liberoruin imraediata edu- catio non ecclefije fit, fed parentibus demandata; in hac nova oecoiiomia parentibus id juris eripere, & per homines ab ecclefia cooftitutos exercere, fibi adrogantr Quod 1 I e- \1 * • wk in. n a; #1 Qy«9j^ In )M9tfit» ad aperieoda amiiiorum interion i^di^tis viaiA.fi^i. in bacecclefa ad ejufmodi cot' dium & rerun^ oinhiuin fcnitinia parent, quai. m^r«m» iqiijuii'FiQntifidQkuitt aunqulares confef- fiones, creaotitt(4ei^iam. •i.^t.^ «,* C^odafia^cmisiTpeciendiper pEseterxfa Semina- ria forment, quorum ufus longepatfct lateque, aK- is aii^ad^iijuis t^9!^aMpeiR\1[m^ ftitdium excitatisr Xu^icionem de^ ffcdejiip ooflme minifterio inj icit, abatienationem jcaui&tur it nau- feaio), ut aoipG^ fk pajlolbiua KQftns l^are recufent, ad hoc yero fom^narivun ^ aUi^ue rationibns in)p\i(iii» magao numejro & ad ingens «cclesiarum noftrarum detrimentum conftuant, poftea vero od noftra eccLesJtaftica inftituta reddaotur iautiles. Q^od crebriores eonun ki omnes partes emif- siones ila4)endQS excitarint in ecdesiis evangelioia motus, quiby» Aibinde nujar hominum numems in- confftriiiitm iUonim tramtur, de quo nuperrime Theologus in jSilesia QelehecrinKus ita ad certum quemdam retulit : ■' « Q^Qt j5diffimorum hominum hac Occasion ** aaf aJ) und^que vagantibus If ennhutans fo- ** cietats tm lod 1 i : xndi A JPi* EN I^I*: ''^ detat'is emiflilriis contra ztktitizhxhi etianl ^* ** ftores fideliffimos, cam modo ob caufam^ " quia Paftores funt, concitati, a religionis ':■. , - *^ evangelicae cultu recedant^ quinirtuno non- \ *' nulli quasi furibundi & amentes [Kridres doc-' *' tores & fidei focios infedientur, verbis ex- > - << primi nequit, & lacnmarum flumine fads ; cc deplorari, &c. quemadmodum (hipenda Be* • <' rolinoquoque de rebus Heftnhutonsium ibt- ' « dem erumpentibus refcruntuF." Qux vere omnia eo minorem injiciunt admira- < tlonem, quo odiosius & ludicrius hi homines: Te- quentem in modum nostras depirigunt ecclesias, '■ j fuam vero fummis efFenint laudibus :' , *' Sie reijffen eine HiitUentzwey, in ihrtr Mit' " i ' ** te-t dajiehet fie ohne Dach, vnd ehne Seiten- • «' Wande^ vnd hat damit ein Ende \ das ijl fit \ ** ihr extent Sacb** ■ ' *' Die nackte Kinder bebenf die ohne Hiitten le^ *' benyfind fehnen fich fitfehr nach einem andern •* Haufiy weilfie vor Sturm vnd Braujefich of- ** ters kaum bejtnnen mehr" " ^'^ JlleinfiemUjfenhdrenydasdiefes %u geWeh' ** ren^ was h'khfi gefdhrliehs fey^ - vnd da^ im «« Hauffe fitzen^ vnd fich vartH Wlnde fchutzeny <* nichtsfey alsture Sclaverey. " Wenn lejus ruft ihr Mattent kommt unter *« meinen Schatten^ ihr KUchlein kriecht herein^ fit *^fchreyenfie im Grimme^ dis iji nichtlefus Stim- «* me, ins IVetter hinaus ihr KUcheUin.** *' IVenn aber hier vnd dorte an einem wiijien *^ Orte manch armes Schdfiein iaufcht, vndzit- *' tert vnd erkdlt fich, vnd ivimmert wohl, vnd ** meldtfich, wenns ihm/o um die Ohren raufcht.** " So denck ich ohne Fragen, ich darf den ** Schafgen fagen, kom herein und leg dich her^ ^' ''" .das.'' $. ^ '.■;f "S?^ A P Pfe NDI X. ' ** dasLdffmy Shi Mch- erkaufety vnd in feln Blut •* gttaufiti dds hole deirus gleiehen mebr,*** - Qood^onstitutrontun ipfonim principaliumcomhic ccetus jam olim Principum gratiam, quavis oblata occasione, cap< tare confuevit, et nihil aliud, quam horum edidtis politicis et decisionibus os omnium privatorum, np ' amplius mutire audeant, obftruerc, ftudet. Vn. Qua; in A6lis dcnique nobi^cum clemen- > tiiEme communicatis tam impune rclata legimus: ' fe probare pofle, quod nos aut hujus fadtionis fyfte- ' ma adprobare, aut Donatifmi reos nosfacereopor- teret: item, annon adveffariorum imputationes contra Herrnhutanam ecclesiam aeque, ac olim Pietifmus, sint fabula ? porro, num Herrnhuten- sium inilituta aliud quid prae fe ferant, quam con- tinuationem confiliorum olim a beate defundo Spenero initorum de emendanda nofta ecdefia f ad haec momenta refpondere non difficile eft. Qui hac in re Donatifmi maculam aliis adfper- gere minatur, ipfe, quid Donatifmus olim fuerit, et adhuc fit, plane ignorat. Quatenus olim Pietif- mus idem fuit, quoa pietatis nominis abufus ad propagandas varias erroneas dodlrinas et praxes, aeque minus fabula fuit, quam Herrnhutanifmus praefens, quatenus jisdem gaudet anomaljis. Ho- dierna Herrnhutanorum inftituta nihil minus fpec- tant, quam Spenerianorum confiliorum continua- tionem, et pie hujus defun^i viri vix umquam mens fuit, in emendanda ecclefia avangelica eodem proccdere modo, qui in principjis et praxibus cha- ra^erir !r ■•■ '^ I Jt f B E N D L^ n^terifticis fodetttis Hermhutajue iam Qbfervatury ct multo minus, qui in pofterum oDfervabitur. £t hxc funt, quae ex mandato Tikh Screniffi- me Dux, dementiffimo, in hac re graviffima cir- cuqifpeda et de falute evangelicae noftne, et im- primis Wurtembe{|ipe ecdSise follicita mente omni, qua fieri debet, fubmimone, deferre, flmul et illam, spropter metuenda multa neque facile evitanda incommoda. quas ex eiusmodi luftratione follemni) qualis -^^haea futuni eile yj^^tyr, ecdqte Wunembergicae ifl^meneB^nt^ (^q^il oua defq( yeneratione fvibmii^ deprecan voli^jnjus qebuimua| Deum ix juiioio pjrecantes, i^^ ime hiuc reCjnede^ atur beniKnll^e,. ut,^'quae vere K>na ifuntyfi^^r ine procedere'|u)ieat, et contra^eaV quae non cfaj|^ iiialttiofQ iblum.'et plumbeo rnqdoy'^quo nd^tua qupqiie tempbribus. plurea eccle&in invadunt] {^ fup yaria etiam veiae ieligjonis etcultus divini ipfe- cic detrimento etno^ elle poilent^ averUtr poten^ tiifimc. . ^ ■- Quod reliquum eft, perpetual Tua» clementue ^t fummae benevolentiae, omni, quapportet,.ani-} fui reverentia nos commendantes ad qneres ufquf) fumu9, ,.,' * Serenimme Dux, . Princeps npft^r ac J^oxniji^ longc ],■, dementiffiiw,. n^: » mm^ )^ I -i' Tanti Nominisi Tubinga d. viii. Maii CIOIOCCXXXXVI^ ':h i- cultores fubje£HfCmi obedlentifnmiqu^ Cancellarius, Decanus et ProfelTores totius . Facultatis Theologies. :>! '.'■£'^:'}:ki f^mfy •'■♦• hm^ A:e E E N D I X. f. "i t ' 1^. if'*-.'' ■ m- N« n. ,.V.T , . f '■ ■■ f M inia, quod -^ ^ , , _- — ___ ZinzendoN Fict^tate Theolo^ca mmdtnR^ menfe lil^o Alini 1735* eX|fM0[iatuf ftierit^ |l* €>raiO(ik»aiBi Teftimomwfn impmi^eHt, (iiuefit itlUa^ sunn i^ ita fe habeat ? an sfihus ? Qiia- ^"^-^- aaity wfusimM nee TiftimoiikHU unfuam da- , nee $rfiitu$ttm examenneeMtinfttuAreturL madyiacuhatisnejira neHHim petv^ f^ fe^ttm i fuumque iUuftfUBmuL & excellent tfftflliis S* R* X Comes a ^StoUbeig hoc tpfum* l^oblico & Imtimo teftimdtUb ci^i&niarerfius. txpeciverity o^ciinoftri efletdtixiiiitify nihil dii- 4iatthK> ^ jmblici potius teftiaionii fide, quod firttiii «ft> pramtffi» Havnue, d. 8 April, 1 747. IB^AKVI* SEKXOR9 DOCTORES & PkOPEi* S6&I8 FaCULTATIS TilSOLOGlCiB XH RsoiA Univsrsitatb Havniensi. 'V Sub Szoxllo Facult. Tmbol, (X. S.) / The END. W"'--