Note 132 — SCHWENKFELDERS.

This title was probably not in former times their chosen name. In a little inartistic aria, near the close of the Erläuterung, they are twice called die Stillen, or the quiet ones. Looking in a German dictionary for this word, I find “die Stillen” is rendered Quakers. In the same aria they are called die Friedlichen, or the peaceful ones. One of Schwenkfeld’s volumes, a collection, states that they were gathered and put in order by the fellow-confessors and lovers of the glories and truth of Jesus Christ.