# Jacob And Seli His Wife, Of Wormer, A. D. 1542.

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Among many others who voluntarily forsook and
delivered up their property and life for the truth
of the holy Gospel, there were also a brother at Wormer,
in Waterlandt, named Jacob, and his wife Seli.
These sought and also found the pearl of great price,
which was hid in a field and for joy thereof renounced
all earthly riches, the lusts of this world,
and the papal superstitions, which militate against
God, and sought to order and regulate their whole
life according to this precious treasure of the divine
word. Thus it came to pass, that the envious papists,
in order to stop this, apprehended them, and
brought them to Amsterdam, where they had to
suffer much for the truth. And as they could by no
temptation be moved from it, but unto death adhered
to Christ and his holy word, they were condemned
to death at said place, and burned, suffering
it with great steadfastness. Thus they delivered
their bodies up to the fire, and commended their
souls into the hands of God, and are now waiting
under the altar, until the number of their fellow
brethren will be fulfilled.

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