Anabaptists, (“Der Wiedertäufferen Ursprung, Furgang, Secten, Wesen,” etc., pp. 17–55), the first edition of which was published in 1531, and the second in 1560, enumerates thirteen distinct sects, as he terms them, within the Anabaptist body. The general tenets of the organization he gives in the form of twenty-five propositions, which may be summarized as follows:—They regard themselves as the true Church of Christ well pleasing to God; they believe that by re-baptism a man is received into the