# George Wagner A. D. 1527.

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George Wagner, of Emmerich, was apprehended
at Munich, in Bavaria, on account of four articles
of the faith. First, That the priest cannot forgive
sins. Secondly, That he does not believe that a
man can bring down God from heaven. Thirdly,
That he does not believe that God or Christ is
bodily in the bread which the priest has upon the
altar; but that it is the bread of the Lord. Fourthly,
That he did not hold to the belief that water baptism
possessed any saving power. As he would not
renounce these articles, he was most severely tormented,
so that the prince felt great compassion for
him, and personally came to him in the prison, and
earnestly admonished him thereto, promising that
he would call him his friend all his lifetime. Thus
also the tutor of the prince, earnestly admonished
him to recant, and likewise made him many promises.
Ultimately his wife and child were brought before
him in prison in order, on this wise to move
him to recant. But neither was he to be moved in
this way; for he said that though his wife and child
were so dear to him that the prince could not buy
them with all his dominion, yet he would not forsake
his God and Lord on their account. Many
priests and others also came to him, to persuade
him; but he was steadfast and immovable in that
which God had given him to know. Hence he was
finally sentenced to the fire and death.

Having been delivered into the hands of the executioner,
and led into the middle of the city, he
said: “To-day I will confess my God before all the
world.” He had such joy in Christ Jesus, that his
face did not pale, nor his eyes show fear; but he went
smilingly to the fire, where the executioner bound
him on the ladder, and tied a little bag of powder
to his neck, at which he said: “Be it done in the
name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost;”
and having smilingly bid farewell to a Christian,
who was there, he was thrust into the fire by the
executioner, and happily offered up his spirit, on
the eighth day of February, A. D. 1527. The sheriff
however, surnamed Eisenreich von Landsberg,
while returning home from the place of execution,
traveling on horseback; purposing to apprehend
others of the brethren, died suddenly in the night,
and was found dead in his bed in the morning,
having thus been removed through the wrath of
God.

Note.—It is known that Balthasar Pacimontanus
opposed infant baptism, and was therefore burned
at Vienna, A. D. 1527. See second part of Jacob
Mehrning’s History of Baptism, page 777, ex Bellarm.,
Tom. 3, lib. 1, de Bapt., cap 8.



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