In 1526, Felix Mants, the anabaptist, is drowned at Zurich, in obedience to Zwingli's pithy formula--'Qui iterum mergit mergatur'.

Thus the anabaptists, upon their first appearance, were exposed to the fires of the Church and the water of the Zwinglians.
There is no doubt that the anabaptist delusion was so ridiculous and so loathsome, as to palliate or at least render intelligible the wrath with which they were regarded by all parties.

The turbulence of the sect was alarming to constituted authorities, its bestiality disgraceful to the cause of religious reformation.

The leaders were among the most depraved of human creatures, as much distinguished for licentiousness, blasphemy and cruelty as their followers for grovelling superstition.

The evil spirit, driven out of Luther, seemed, in orthodox eyes, to have taken possession of a herd of swine.