# Govert Jaspers, Put To Death A. D. 1558.

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About this time a lay brother by the name of
Govert Jaspers, with two others, left the monastery
of the Cross-brethren at Goes. However, they did
not continue together long; for one of them utterly
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forsook the good way, and accepted the love of this
world; the other, from fear of persecution, went to
Friesland, where he became a brother in the church,
and died a pious man; but this Govert Jaspers was
apprehended by the bailiff, soon after he left the
monastery, as he was sitting in the field, reading in
a Testament. He was brought to the city of Brussels,
in Brabant, where he had to suffer much, yea,
finally even death, for the testimony of the truth, in
which he steadfastly persevered, and thus, as a valiant
soldier of Jesus Christ, pressed through the
strait gate, in order to take by force the kingdom of
God, which he had preferred far above all the kingdoms
of this world.



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