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Heyndrick then said to the people: “Dear citizens,
repent, for it is more than time. Live according
to God’s commandments and the words of the
holy Gospel.” And he called again with a loud
voice: “This is the narrow way, and the strait
gate;” and named the chapters where it was written,
and many other Scriptures having the same
bearing. He then stepped of his own accord, with a
glad heart, upon the bench where he was to be
strangled and burnt, and said again: “This is the
strait gate, press through it; through this pressed
the men of God, for he that fights steadfastly unto
the end shall be saved; of this I have no doubt.”
With great courage he put his body and neck to
the stake, and said again with a joyful heart: “Dear
citizens, repent; believe the Gospel and not men;
for this is the narrow way which a Christian must
walk.” The executioner then took a chain, putting
it around his body, and fastened a little bag of gunpowder
to his neck, so that it hung over his breast.
Heyndrick spoke boldly to the very last, but his
words could not be understood very well, for the
executioner took a cord, laid it around his neck,
and twisted it tightly. Heyndrick closed his eyes,
just as though he had fallen into a swoon, and he
was not seen to move any more, save that he cast
up his eyes to heaven once more, and then immediately
lost consciousness. Thereupon the executioner
drew away the bench from under his feet, and seizing
a fork, thrust the same into a bundle of straw
and held the latter to a pot with fire standing on the
scaffold, until it caught fire, whereupon he applied
it to the gunpowder. The blaze flashed up to his eyes
but did not burn his hair. He lifted up his hands to
heaven once more, after which he showed no further
sign of life.

Thus did Heyndrick Eemkens offer up his sacrifice,
as a valiant witness of the Lord, on the 10th of
June 1562, about between 10 and 11 o’clock, A. M.

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