THE
COMPLETE WORKS
OF
MENNO SIMON,

   TITLE PAGE
   PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.
   THE CONVERSION OF MENNO SIMON, AND HIS RENUNCIATION OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, WHEREIN IS BRIEFLY AND PLAINLY NARRATED HOW, AND FOR WHAT CAUSE, HE RENOUNCED POPERY; ALSO HIS SUBSEQUENT CALLING TO THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL.
   AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERE PERSECUTIONS OF MENNO SIMON, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLACE WHERE HE LAST PREACHED THE GOSPEL, DIED AND WAS BURIED.
   A Foundation: Plain Instruction OF THE Saving Doctrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ BRIEFLY COMPILED FROM THE WORD OF GOD. TOGETHER WITH OTHER INSTRUCTIVE TREATISES,
    PREFACE.
    THE DAY OF GRACE.
    SINCERE AND TRUE REPENTANCE.
    FAITH
    A SUPPLICATION TO THE MAGISTRACY,
    CONCERNING BAPTISM,
    COUNTER ARGUMENTS WITH THEIR REPLICATIONS.
    AN ADMONITION ADDRESSED TO THE SCORNERS OF THE WORD CONCERNING BAPTISM.
   THE LORD'S HOLY SUPPER.
    THE CORRUPTION OF THE HOLY SUPPER.
    SHUNNING BABYLON
    SENDING PREACHERS
    THE DOCTRINE OF THE PREACHERS.
    THE CONDUCT OF PREACHERS.
    THE CONDUCT OF PREACHERS.
    COUNTER ARGUMENTS OF BABYLON AND ITS BUILDERS, WITH THEIR REPLICATIONS.
    A CHRISTIAN AND AFFECTIONATE EXHORTATION TO ALL IN AUTHORITY.
    APPEAL TO THE LEARNED.
    APPEAL TO THE COMMON PEOPLE.
    APPEAL TO CORRUPT SECTS.
    TO THE BRIDE, KINGDOM, STATE, CHURCH OF THE LORD, GRACE AND PEACE.
    CONCLUSION OF THIS BOOK.
   THE TRUE CHRISTIAN FAITH WHICH CONVERTS, CHANGES, MAKES PIOUS, SINCERE, NEW, PEACEFUL, JOYFUL AND BLESSED THE HUMAN HEART; WITH ITS NATURAL PROPERTIES, NATURE, OPERATIONS AND POWERS.
   THE PAPISTIC BELIEF.
   THE LUTHERAN BELIEF.
   THE BELIEF OF THE ENGLISH OR ZUINGLIANS.
   THE TRUE CHRISTIAN BELIEF.
   NOAH'S FAITH.
   ABRAHAM'S FAITH AND OBEDIENCE.
   FAITH AND FIDELITY OF MOSES.
   THE FAITH OF CALEB AND JOSHUA.
   THE BELIEF OF THE PIOUS KING JOSIAH.
   THE FAITH OF THE CENTURION OF CAPERNAUM.
   THE FAITH OF ZACCHEUS, THE PUBLICAN.
   THE MURDERER'S FAITH.
   FAITH OF THE SINFUL WOMAN.
   FAITH OF THE WOMAN OF CANAAN.
   TO THE CHRISTIAN READER: CONCLUSION.
   A Fundamental Doctrine FROM THE WORD OF THE LORD, EXHORTING ALL, WHO ARE CALLED AFTER THE NAME OF CHRIST, TO THE HEAVENLY BIRTH AND THE NEW CREATURE, WITHOUT WHICH, NONE WHO HAVE COME TO THE YEARS OF UNDERSTANDING, ARE OR CAN BE A TRUE CHRISTIAN.
   AN EXHORTATION TO THE DISPERSED AND UNKNOWN CHILDREN OF GOD.
   A Consoling Admonition CONCERNING THE SUFFERINGS, OPPRESSIONS AND Persecutions of the Saints, FOR THE WORD OF GOD AND HIS TESTIMONY.
   THE CROSS OF CHRIST
   A PLEASING MEDITATION AND Devout Contemplation TOGETHER WITH CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES FOR A TROUBLED AND ANXIOUS CONSCIENCE, WHICH IS OPPOSED BY THE WORLD, FLESH, HELL DEATH AND THE DEVIL. ON THE TWENTY FIFTH PSALM, CALLED IN LATIN Ad te levani annimam meam EXPLAINED BY WAY OF SUPPLICATION.
   THE TWENTY FIFTH PSALM EXPLAINED BY WAY OF SUPPLICATION.
   A Plain Instruction FROM THE WORD OF GOD, CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, AND NEW OR HEAVENLY BIRTH.
   A PLAIN INSTRUCTION: CONCLUSION
   A Fundamental Doctrine, OR AN ACCOUNT OF Excommunication Ban, Exclusion, OR SEPARATION FROM THE CHURCH OF CHRIST; ITS NATURE, POWERS, TO WHOM IT EXTENDS; ITS REASONS, OBJECTS AND DESIGN, &c. WHY IT WAS TAUGHT AND PRACTICED BY THE APOSTLES, AND COMMANDED THAT WE SHOULD PRACTICE IT. FAITHFULLY COMPILED FROM SACRED SCRIPTURES, FOR THE USE OF ALL LOVERS OF THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL TRUTH, TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN PEACE WITHOUT RESPECT TO PARTY.
   EXPLANATION OF THE TRUE APOSTOLIC SEPARATION OR EXCOMMUNICATION.
   CONCLUSION AND EXHORTATION TO ALL THE PIOUS.
   A PLEASING Instruction and Doctrine HOW ALL PIOUS PARENTS, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, ARE REQUIRED TO GOVERN, CORRECT AND EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN, IN A PIOUS, VIRTUOUS AND GODLY LIFE.
   THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.
   LETTERS WRITTEN BY MENNO SIMON.*
   SECOND LETTER.
   THIRD LETTER.
   FOURTH LETTER.
   INDEX TO BOOK 1
   A REPLY TO A PUBLICATION OF GELLIUS FABER, MINISTER AT EMDEN, WHICH HE PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1562 (IF I MISTAKE NOT), TO SLANDER THE PIOUS CHILDREN OF GOD, AND TO EMBITTER THEIR CROSS; TO ENSNARE AND DECEIVE THE THOUGHTLESS, AND TO COMFORT AND ENCOURAGE THEM IN THEIR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND CORRUPTION.
   REPLY TO A PUBLICATION GELLIUS FABER.
   OF THE MISSION OR CALLING OF THE PREACHERS.
   CONCERNING BAPTISM.
   THE LORD'S SUPPER.
   EXCOMMUNICATION, BAN OR SEPARATION.
   CONCERNING THE CHURCH, AND AN INSTRUCTIVE COMPARISON HOW WE MAY DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, AND THE CHURCH OF ANTI CHRIST.
   THE SIGNS BY WHICH BOTH CHURCHES MAY BE KNOWN.
   CONCERNING SOME ACCUSATIONS AGAINST US.
   THE CONFESSION OF THE LEARNED CONCERNING CHRIST.
   CONCLUSION.
   A VERY HUMBLE SUPPLICATION OF THE POOR, DESPISED CHRISTIANS, TO ALL THE PIOUS, KIND AND REASONABLE MAGISTRATES; CONCERNING THE ABOMINABLE CHARGES, UPBRAIDINGS, BACK BITINGS AND CLAMOR OF THE LEARNED, WHEREBY THEY ARE, ON EVERY HAND, SLANDERED AND TROUBLED, AS MAY BE HEARD AND SEEN.
   A LETTER OF CONSOLATION, ADDRESSED TO AN AFFLICTED WIDOW.
   A BRIEF Complaint or Apology OF THE DESPISED CHRISTIANS AND EXILED STRANGERS, TO ALL THE THEOLOGIANS AND PREACHERS OF THE GERMAN NATIONS, CONCERNING THE BITTER FALSEHOODS, SLANDERS AND ABUSES WITH WHICH THEY, WITHOUT TRUTH, BURDEN THESE SUFFERING CHRISTIANS AND EXILES, TOGETHER WITH A FRIENDLY REQUEST TO HAVE A FREE DISCUSSION OF THE SCRIPTURES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RULES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE.
   DESCRIPTION OF A TRUE PREACHER.
   A TREATISE ON, AND Scriptural Explanation OF EXCOMMUNICATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL PIOUS AND GOD FEARING CHILDREN.
   A CLEAR INCONTROVERTIBLE CONFESSION AND DEMONSTRATION FOUNDED ON THE POWER OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, THAT THE ENTIRE CHRIST JESUS, GOD AND MAN. MAN AND GOD, IS GOD'S OWN, ONLY AND FIRST BEGOTTEN SON; NOT DIVIDED NOR SEPARATED, BUT AN ONLY, UNDIVIDED PERSON, SON AND CHRIST; GOD'S WORD DULY MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH, TOGETHER WITH A THOROUGH CONFUTATION, REPLY TO, AND SOLUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS OF THE DEFENSE OF JOHN A'LASCO AGAINST US.
   A CLEAR, INCONTROVERTIBLE CONFESSION, &C. PART FIRST.
   OUR CONFESSION. PART SECOND.
   THE CONFUTATION, PART THIRD.
   SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES UPON THE FOREGOING SUBJECT.
   CONCLUSION.
   A CONFESSION OF THE Triune, Eternal and True GOD, FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST.
   A CONFESSION OF THE TRIUNE, ETERNAL, AND TRUE GOD, FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST.
   AN EXPLANATION OF Christian Baptism IN THE WATER, FROM THE WORD OF GOD. IN WHAT MANNER IT WAS COMMANDED BY CHRIST JESUS, AND HOW IT WAS TAUGHT AND PRACTICED BY HIS HOLY APOSTLES.
   PREFACE.
   CHRISTIAN BAPTISM.
   TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES CONCERNING BAPTISM IN THE WATER.
   HOW THE HOLY APOSTLES PRACTICED BAPTISM IN THE WATER.
   A LETTER OF CAUTION ON DISCORD.
   ANOTHER LETTER
   THE REASON MENNO SIMON DOES NOT CEASE TEACHING AND WRITING. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
   A FUNDAMENTAL CLEAR CONFESSION OF THE POOR AND DISTRESSED CHRISTIANS CONCERNING JUSTIFICATION, THE PREACHERS, BAPTISM, THE LORD'S SUPPER, AND THE SWEARING OF OATHS; ON ACCOUNT OF WHICH WE ARE SO MUCH HATED, SLANDERED, AND BELIED, FOUNDED UPON THE WORD OF GOD.
   HEARING THE PREACHERS.
   OF BAPTISM.
   INFANT BAPTISM.
   THE LORD'S HOLY SUPPER.
   THE SUPPER OF THE PREACHERS.
   THE SWEARING OF OATHS.
   CONCLUSION.
   CONCLUSION.
   A THOROUGH ANSWER TO THE SLANDER, DEFAMATION, BACKBITING, UNSEASONED AND BITTER WORDS OF ZYLIS AND LEMMEKES, CONCERNING OUR FOUNDATION AND DOCTRINE, FULL OF INSTRUCTION AND ADMONITION, WHICH DOCTRINE IS (IN OUR OPINION) THE UNADULTERATED FOUNDATION AND DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY APOSTLES, CONCERNING THE BAN, SEPARATION OR SHUNNING.
   A HUMBLE AND CHRISTIAN JUSTIFICATION AND REPLICATION, CONCERNING THE BITTER, ENVIOUS LIES AND FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF OUR ENVIERS, ON WHOSE ACCOUNT WE ARE, WITHOUT ANY COMPASSION AND MERCY, SO LAMENTABLY HATED, BELIED, SLANDERED, UPBRAIDED AND PERSECUTED UNTO DEATH, AS MAY, ALAS, BE WITNESSED DAILY IN MANY CITIES AND COUNTRIES.
   A HUMBLE AND CHRISTIAN DEFENSE.
   CONCLUSION.
   A BRIEF AND CLEAR CONFESSION AND SCRIPTURAL DEMONSTRATION, FIRST, OF THE INCARNATION OF OUR BELOVED LORD JESUS CHRIST. SECONDLY, HOW BOTH THE TEACHERS AND THE CHURCH OF CHRIST SHOULD BE MINDED ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES. WRITTEN TO John A' Lasco and his Fellow laborers at Emden.
   A TRUE CONFESSION AND SCRIPTURAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE MOST HOLY INCARNATION OF OUR BELOVED LORD JESUS CHRIST. WRITTEN TO JOHN A'LASCO AND HIS FELLOW LABORERS AT EMDEN.
   OBJECTIONS.
   AN ADMONISHING CONFESSION AND CLEAR DEMONSTRATION TO THE LEARNED JOHN A'LASCO, ARCHBISHOP AT EMDEN, EAST FRIESLAND
   CONCLUSION.
   A VERY PLAIN AND POINTED REPLY TO THE ANTI CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND FALSE ACCOUNT BY MARTIN MICRON CONCERNING HE DISCUSSION BETWEEN HIM AND MYSELF, BEFORE MANY WITNESSES, HELD A. D., 1553, CONCERNING. THE INCARNATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH AND POWER OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, TOGETHER WITH A SINCERE EPISTLE OR ADMONITION TO HIM, TO LEARN TO KNOW HIMSELF, TO REPENT AND BE SAVED.
   A VERY PLAIN AND DISCREET ANSWER TO MARTIN MICRON'S ANTI CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, AND UNTRUE ACCOUNT OF THE DISCUSSION OF 1553, ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH AND POWER OF THE HOLY, DIVINE SCRIPTURES.
   HOW THE ENGLISH CAME INTO DISCUSSION WITH US.
   DISCUSSION BETWEEN HERMAN AND MYSELF.
   HOW PARTIALLY MICRON NARRATED OUR FIRST DISCUSSION; HOW SILENT HE IS ON THE PRINCIPAL POINTS; HOW HE GARBLES MY WORDS AND HOW HE ADORNS HIS OWN.
   HOW AND WHAT MICRON CONFESSED DURING OUR SECOND DISCUSSION, AND HOW UNFAITHFULLY HE HAS NARRATED IT.
   THIRTY ONE ARTICLES AHD DIFFERENCES, PRESENTED TO THE READER, TO SHOW THAT MICRON SAYS THIS, WITHOUT THE SCRIPTURES, AND WE THAT, ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE.
   FORTY FIVE UNSCRIPTURAL CONFESSIONS, EXPLANATIONS, FALSE GLOZINGS, ADULTERATED AND GARBLED SCRIPTURES, PRESENTED TO THE READER FOR THE EXPLANATION OF THE MATTER.
   CONCLUSION.
   FOURTEEN INCONSISTENCIES, WHICH MUST RESULT AND FOLLOW FROM THE FOUNDATION AND DOCTRINE OF OUR OPPONENTS.
   THE FOUNDATION AND FAITH OF OUR OPPONENTS CONCERNING CHRIST JESUS, TOGETHER WITH THEIR PROPER CONTENTS, FRUITS, ENDS, AND PROMISE.
   OUR DOCTRINE AND FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, TOGETHER WITH THEIR PROPER CONTENTS, FRUITS, END, AND PROMISE.
   OF GEN. 3:15, "I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN THEE AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN THY SEED AND HER SEED."
   MICRON'S CONFESSION, IN HIS NARRATIVE, THAT CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD, AND OF MAN.
   HOW CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, IS ALSO THE SON OF ABRAHAM AND DAVID, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES.
   CONCERNING THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST, HOW IT SHOULD BE RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES.
   THAT GOD THE FATHER IS THE TRUE FATHER OF THE WHOLE CHRIST, HIS SON; AND THAT THE WHOLE CHRIST IS A TRUE SON OF GOD, HIS FATHER, WHICH MICRON CONTRADICTS IN MANY PLACES, AND SAYS THAT IT IS NOT SO.
   HOW THE DIVINE WORD, IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, WAS MADE FLESH.
   CONCLUSION.
   A VERY SINCERE EPISTLE TO MARTIN MICRON
   A HUMBLE PRAYER TO THE READER.
   A PLAIN AND CONVINCING PROOF, FROM THE SCRIPTURES, THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE TRUE, PROMISED, SPIRITUAL DAVID, THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS, AND THE TRUE, SPIRITUAL KING OF SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, THAT IS, OF HIS CHURCH WHICH HE HAS BEGOTTEN AND BOUGHT WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. FORMERLY WRITTEN TO ALL THE TRUE BRETHREN AND FELLOW CHRISTIANS, SCATTERED HITHER AND THITHER, AGAINST THE ABOMINABLE AND TERRIBLE BLASPHEMY OF JOHN VAN LEYDEN, WHO PASSED HIMSELF FOR THE JOYOUS KING OF ALL, AND AS HAVING BECOME THE JOY OF THE MISERABLE; HE PLACED HIMSELF IN THE STEAD OF GOD.
   AN ADMONITION OR INSTRUCTION FROM THE WORD OF GOD, HOW A CHRISTIAN SHOULD BE DISPOSED; AND CONCERNING THE SHUNNING AND SEPARATION OF THE UNFAITHFUL BRETHREN AND SISTERS, EITHER DECEIVED BY HERETICAL DOCTRINE, OR LEADING A CARNAL, SHAMEFUL LIFE.
   A LETTER.
   PROVIDENTIAL DELIVERANCES OF MENNO SIMON.
   INDEX, TO PART II.