# Christiaen Rijcen, A. D. 1588.

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This Christiaen Rijcen lived still in these latter
days as a faithful witness, at Hontschoten, in Flanders,
where he, as a true Christian, was imprisoned
for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus
Christ, in December of the year 1587. And after
suffering much trial and temptation there, he was
very cruelly tortured and burned to ashes there, the
seventh day of April, 1588, under the bloody tyranny
and reign of the Prince of Parma. And thus
he steadfastly delivered over unto death his corruptible
body, for the truth of Christ, and expects now
a new house in heaven, which God shall prepare for
him, that it shall endure forever. 2 Cor. 5:1.

1008

Of this friend of God a book has been published,
containing fifteen letters, with some hymns, which
this true witness wrote from prison to his wife and
his friends, for comfort and encouragement; of
which the following few are here communicated to
the reader.



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