What makes this question really difficult is the lack of seperation between church and state that renders any attack on the church as also an attack on the secular order.

The major beef that the reformers had with the anabaptists was not (in isolation) the credo baptism aspect but the rejection of the physical church and its authority.

Anabaptists were seeking to destroy the existing soial order and as such they were treasonous. Protestants were happy to remain subjects of their Roman Catholic lords, that is why their persecution was religious not civil.

The Commune of Munster cannot be ignored when one considers attitudes to the anabaptists.

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Mike
London City Presbyterian Church
London
England

"Surely, we wish to be orthodox, but we must first learn what real orthodoxy is. Surely, we wish to be progressive, but we must first have a basis to progress from."