Letter to Thomas Müntzer
A letter written at Zurich in September 1524 by Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz and others to Thomas Müntzer. It sets out their views on the Lord’s Supper, baptism and the sword four months before they began to baptise adults.
Conrad Grebel and five named companions, Felix Manz among them, wrote to Thomas Müntzer as to a brother whose pamphlets had encouraged them. They ask him to drop the singing and the remains of the mass, to keep the Supper with ordinary bread and the words of Scripture only, and to stop baptising infants, which they call contrary to all Scripture. They tell him that the gospel and its adherents are not to be protected with the sword and that true Christians are sheep among wolves.
The letter states the group’s beliefs a few months before the first adult baptisms at Zurich. It blames the evangelical preachers, their own among them, for sparing old customs. Whether it reached Müntzer is not known, as the editors of the site linked here note.
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- 21 January 1525, firm date