One of the sixteenth century's most complete defences of the Anabaptist understanding of believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper, now available in a new English translation for the first time in decades.

Pilgram Marpeck (c. 1495-1556) was a mining engineer, a city leader, and one of the most formidable theological minds of the Radical Reformation. Against both Rome and the Protestant reformers, he insisted that baptism belongs to believers alone, those who have personally confessed faith, died to sin, and pledged a new life in Christ. The Admonition is his masterwork: a thorough, patient, and deeply scriptural examination of baptism, the Lord's Supper, and the nature of the visible church.

In this book, Marpeck addresses: