who had recently come from the town of Chur and who had just become prominent, proposed to Grebel and Manz, who, as Zürich burghers, had not been exiled, to formally proclaim re-baptism a solemn duty for all Brethren. This was done on the historical occasion referred to in the passage from the “Geschichtsbücher” quoted earlier in this chapter. At this meeting, as we have already seen, Blaurock rose and called upon Grebel to baptize him in the true Christian Faith, which ceremony having been accomplished,
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