# Elizabeth Hilzin, A. D. 1639.

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In the meantime they treated some far more severely
and cruelly than the preceding ones; for they
ceased not with mere imprisonment, but the people
were suffered to die by sheer want, poverty and
misery.

Among those that suffered death, there is numbered
Elizabeth Hilzin, a godfearing woman and
sister of the church, who having been apprehended,
bound, and imprisoned in Othenbach, was there
treated so harshly, that she, from that time on, had
but few well moments.

Nevertheless no mercy or compassion was shown
her, until she, in consequence of all the hardships
suffered, wasted in body, and, having surrendered
her spirit, which she had received from God, back
to him, died. However, the second death shall not
hurt her, according to the promise of the Lord:
“He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second
death.” Rev. 2:11. See above.

Note.—The authorities extorted a fine of five
hundred guilders from the surviving husband of
Elizabeth Hilzin.

Further observations.—About this time, 1639,
there was also apprehended a young man from Horgerberg,
named Hans Aster. He was also taken to
Zurich into Othenbach, fed on bread and water for
a time, stripped in his bonds, etc., but subsequently
helped out, through the assistance of some of his
fellow believers.

When this occurred, he was so miserably crippled
through the severe imprisonment, that he had
to be carried a long distance in the night.

In the meantime, also his wife with her infant
child was apprehended, and confined in Othenbach
for a time, but subsequently, through divine providence,
escaped the enemies’ hands.

The authorities expelled the children into poverty,
and sold their house and homestead (realizing
from it about four thousand guilders), without restoring
any thing.

1054

The parents had therefore to work hard for a living,
having lost every thing; but in this they
trusted in God’s promises. Tract, Jer. and Meyli.



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