The Complete Works of Menno Simons, vol. 1
Overview
First ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, Menno Simons later rejected the Catholic Church and joined with the Anabaptists in 1536. For the next 25 years, Menno’s writings and sermons on adult baptism, piety, and nonviolence would become so influential, other leaders began referring to the Dutch Anabaptists as Mennonites.
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- Provides an overview of the life of Menno Simons
- Details Simons’ fundamental doctrinal views and his conversion from Catholicism
- Includes thoughts, meditations, notes, and more on the practices of Church
- Renunciation of Popery
- Foundation and Plain Instruction
- The True Christian Faith
- Concerning the New Birth
- Cross of Christ
- Pleasing Meditation on the Twenty-Fifth Psalm
- The Spiritual Resurrection
- Excommunication
- The Education of Children
- Letters Written by Menno Simon
Top Highlights
“But since the enemies of Christ have possessed the cathedral for so many years, they have, as the Scriptures teach, altered the laws of the Most High, and instead thereof, instituted their abomination of desolation, and corrupted the Holy Supper with their councils, violence and false doctrine, till, alas! it retains but the shadow, and the mere name, and this they did to destroy and corrupt the true, eternal offering of Christ, which alone avails with God, and changed it into a daily offering for sin, as we may plainly read in the canons of the mass; which undoubtedly is an abomination of abominations; for thereby, Jesus Christ, the all-sufficient and eternal offering, is entirely renounced and made of no effect, as the Propitiator and Mediator of the New Testament.” (Page 47)
“Behold, beloved reader, I admonish and advise you, if you seek God with all your heart, and do not wish to be deceived; depend not upon men and their doctrine, no matter however old, holy and excellent they may be esteemed; for the divines, both ancient and modern are opposed to each other; but put your trust, alone in Christ and his word, in the sure instruction and practice of his holy apostles, and you will through the grace of God, be perfectly safe from all false doctrines and the power of the devil; and may walk with a free and pious mind before God.” (Page 37)
“Through him only we glory to have obtained grace, favor and the forgiveness of our sins with God our Father; and not through baptism, whether we are children or believers; for if redemption, and the washing away of original sin, were through baptism, and not by the blood of Christ alone, then would the sweet smelling sacrifice, which is of eternal worth, have been in vain, and without effect, or, there would be two remedies for our sins.” (Page 32)
- Title: The Complete Works of Menno Simons, vol. 1
- Author: Menno Simons
- Publisher: John F. Funk & Brother
- Publication Date: 1871
- Pages: 288