# Hans De Ruyter, With His Wife And Daughter, A. D. 1577.

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At Antwerp there was imprisoned for the sake of
his faith, with his wife and daughter, in the year
1577, the brother Hans de Ruyter, a minister of
the church of God, and a very experienced man in
the Scriptures. But when he was assailed with
many severe trials, and many fair promises of release
and other things were held out to him, he
suffered himself to be moved to renounce his faith;
yea, so that he even exhorted his wife thereto; but
hearing afterwards, that he should have to die nevertheless,
it produced such terror and dismay in
him (seeing how he had suffered himself to be seduced
with lies by the blind leaders, he who ought
to have been a leader of others), that with a distressed
heart and anxious mind (perceiving whereunto
he had suffered himself to be brought, and
what was approaching him), he turned himself to
the Fountain of grace, and prayed with scalding
tears, from the bitterness of his soul, that this apostasy
from, and denial of his Lord, might be forgiven
him, and he be received back into favor, with the
prodigal son; and he would steadfastly adhere
thereto all the days of his life, and suffer nothing
again to turn him away therefrom. This he not only
promised with words, but also proved it indeed, for
whatever temptation, pain, or torture was afterward
inflicted upon him, he steadfastly adhered to
his reaccepted faith, so that he was finally burnt for
it, with his wife and daughter; and they are now
waiting under the altar, till the number of their
brethren is fulfilled.

Note.—In the beginning of the preceding year,
1577, we showed the perverse zeal of certain followers
of the Calvanistic doctrine, who, at Middelborgh
in Zealand, had obtained so much, that the
Anabaptists, who having fled out of the Romish
Babylon, and settled there, were prohibited from
exercising their temporal occupation or trade by
which they had to sustain their life: and this, because
they refused the swearing of the civil oath,
and the use of external weapons of war.

Thereupon, as shown in that place, the Prince
of Orange commanded the magistrate of said city,
to allow the aforementioned people to live in quietness,
and not to oppress their consciences.

But the magistrates there, instead of heeding this,
as coming from high authority, acted entirely contrary;
insomuch that the Anabaptists that lived
there, and especially those in the country, were
compelled again to betake themselves with an humble
supplication to the Prince, to obtain their religious
liberty; who thereupon, the second time, wrote
and sent the following charge to said magistracy:



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