# Heyndrick Van Eckelo, A. D. 1572.

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In the year 1572 there was also imprisoned at
Ghent in Flanders, for the testimony of Jesus, a
young man by the name Heyndrick the Shoemaker,
because he had turned his ear to the voice which
calls, saying: “Come out of her, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4. Hence he separated
from Babylon, and united with Christ, in
consequence of which he was tried with very many
odious and severe threats by the ministers of Babylon
or antichrist. But the trial of his faith, being
thus purified, was found much more precious than
of gold which perisheth, though it be tried with fire
(1 Pet. 1:7); so that he patiently bore all for the
name of Jesus. And as no tortures could move him
to apostatize, for he was founded upon the rock, he
was therefore put to death with the sword at said
place, in the Friday market, and thus died steadfastly,
and, through grace, obtained the crown of
eternal glory, and now rests under the altar, Christ
Jesus.

This hero and warrior of Jesus Christ composed in
his bonds the beautiful hymn which is found in the
Tafereel hymn-book, and commences thus:

“Since nature this doth teach me.”



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