JAN MATHIAS

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

Hubert, the blacksmith here has been led terribly astray by an evil spirit, reaching such a pitch of madness that in public, he dared to despise the Prophet [Mathias himself] sent to you for your salvation—to revile him with unspeakable bitter and scurrilous jibes. From this it is clear that he is an impious disturber of the general peace. This man must be quashed, to be removed from the pious, to be pulled up by the roots

Every book in the City other than the Bible shall be burned..

So that true Christians can serve God, the Father, without hindrance, The Father demands the purification and the cleansing of his new Jerusalem. Our republic cannot tolerate the confusion sewn by impious sects. I advise that we slaughter without delay the Catholics and Lutherans and all those who are not of the right faith. None may remain alive in Zion, but those who offer the Father a pure and pleasing worship … the only way to protect the pious from the impure is to sweep the impure from the face of the earth.

So that true Christians can serve God, the Father, without hindrance, The Father demands the purification and the cleansing of his new Jerusalem. Our republic cannot tolerate the confusion sewn by impious sects. I advise that we slaughter without delay the Catholics and Lutherans and all those who are not of the right faith. None may remain alive in Zion, but those who offer the Father a pure and pleasing worship … the only way to protect the pious from the impure is to sweep the impure from the face of the earth.

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

Every book in the City other than the Bible shall be burned..

Hubert, the blacksmith here has been led terribly astray by an evil spirit, reaching such a pitch of madness that in public, he dared to despise the Prophet [Mathias himself] sent to you for your salvation—to revile him with unspeakable bitter and scurrilous jibes. From this it is clear that he is an impious disturber of the general peace. This man must be quashed, to be removed from the pious, to be pulled up by the roots