A PLAIN

AND

CONVINCING PROOF,

FROM THE SCRIPTURES,

THAT

JESUS CHRIST IS THE TRUE, PROMISED, SPIRITUAL DAVID, THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF

LORDS, AND THE TRUE, SPIRITUAL KING OF SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, THAT IS, OF HIS CHURCH

WHICH HE HAS BEGOTTEN AND BOUGHT WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. FORMERLY WRITTEN

TO ALL THE TRUE BRETHREN AND FELLOW‑CHRISTIANS, SCATTERED HITHER AND

THITHER, AGAINST THE ABOMINABLE AND TERRIBLE BLASPHEMY OF JOHN VAN LEY­

DEN, WHO PASSED HIMSELF FOR THE JOYOUS KING OF ALL, AND AS HAVING BE­

COME THE JOY OF THE MISERABLE; HE PLACED HIMSELF IN THE STEAD OF GOD.

BY

MENNO SIMON.

"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ," 1 Cor. 8:11.

ELKHART, INDIANA:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN F. FUNK AND BROTHER.

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