# A Letter From Jerome Segers To His Wife. · Page 2 of 2

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My dearly beloved, let us therefore firmly trust
the Lord, and patiently wait for his promises, even
as the husbandman waits for his fruits; and let us
not forsake him, and he will not forsake us. I have
committed us both and also the fruit into his hands,
to do his divine will with us, that his name may be
glorified thereby, and that it may tend to the salvation
of our souls, and to the consolation and joy of
all that fear the Lord, and I firmly trust him, and
doubt not, that he will preserve us as his sons and
daughters, yea, as the apple of his eye. Know, that
I rejoiced greatly, when I read your letter and that
you write, that you pray the Lord with weeping
eyes, to make you fit to suffer for his name. My
beloved, be not anxious, but pray the Lord with a
humble heart, to give us what is best for our souls,
which he will doubtless do, and will not tempt us
above that we are able. May he keep us in all
righteousness, holiness and truth, unto the end.

Know also, my beloved, that they greatly tortured
me, to find out the midwives where our sisters
lay in child-bed; but the Lord, who kept my lips,
was stronger than all their tortures. Eternal praise
and glory be to the Lord, who does not forsake
his own. They obtained no names from me, save
one or two, which they had read to me from a letter,
and which I told them, to see what they would say.
But they asked me whether I was making sport of
them, and tortured me still more, demanding that I
should tell them concerning the women, and others,
or they would torture me till the next morning, and
stretch me a foot longer than I was. They told Gileyn
to rack, and his assistant racked vigorously,
and Gileyn poured my body full of water. They had
me lying stark-naked on the bench, with nothing
but the shirt to cover my shame. I was bound to
the bench with four cords, so that it seemed to me,
as though my head and legs were severed; but they
obtained nothing more, praise and glory be to the
Lord. When they released me, two or three of them
had to lift me from the bench, and dress me; yea,
it would not have been possible to endure the pain
without the help of the Lord. They told me to consider
the matter, and become a good son of the
Roman church, and that I should indicate all those
whom I knew, or they would deal more severely
with me. I replied that I had not erred, and would
far rather die than forsake my faith. They then
said that they would come again; but they can do
no more than the Lord permits them. John 19:11.
Eternal praise to the Lord, who has made us fit for
this, may he further fit us to become children of his
Kingdom. Amen. My beloved wife, I commend
you to the Lord and to the word of his grace.



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