# Jan The Ribbon Weaver, Joost The Wheel-Wright With His Wife, Maerten Van Wyjcke With Lijsken His Wife, And Jelis The Mason, In The Year 1570.

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In the year 1570 there were apprehended at Antwerp,
and put to death at the same place for the
testimony of Jesus, the following godfearing persons:
Jan the ribbon-weaver, Joost the wheel-wright
with his wife, Maerten van Wijcke with Lijsken his
wife, and Jelis the mason’s tender. Lijsken, however,
the wife of Maerten van Wijcke, was kept imprisoned
for one year, and then, on the 2d of May,
1571, burnt alive at said place.

Thus these six pious, godly persons were martyred
by the tyrants and blood-thirsty, not on
account of any crime, much less for any heresy, but
only for following the genuine faith of the truth.
Herein the latter followed the footsteps of their forefathers,
the false prophets, who thus persecuted and
killed the upright followers of the truth from the
beginning. Hence, it is to be feared, that they
will repent when it is too late, and will also receive
the same recompense with those whose works they
herein followed. But those who followed the true
prophet Christ Jesus in true obedience and upright
faith, shall, on the other hand, upon mount Zion,
be clothed in white raiment, by their Bridegroom
Christ Jesus for whose sake they suffered this, receive
palms in their hands, and be crowned with
crowns of eternal glory, which no one shall ever
be able to take from them.



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