# Janneken And Noele, A. D. 1558.

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There was also a young maiden named Janneken
apprehended for her faith, at Antwerp; who, when
she appeared before the lords, freely confessed her
faith. The Margrave said: “Janneken, if you will
renounce, I will show you favor; do according to
my will, and I will give you your life.” But she replied:
“The life that you would give me, I desire
not; for your promises are vain and as wavering
as a reed, and would only bring me into greater
sorrow: cursed is every one that trusts in man.”
Jer. 17:5.

There was a preacher named Balthazar, who endeavored
to make her believe that God was in the
sacrament; however, she would not confess it, but
said: “You thus disgrace God in your body; but
read the Lord’s Prayer once.” And when he read
it, she said: “There, you see, you read that he is
in heaven, and how dare you say then, that he is
in the sacrament?”

In the court she was asked by the Bailiff, whether
she was rebaptized. She said: “Question me in
regard to my faith, and I will freely confess it to
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you; or are you ashamed of it? I confess one baptism,
which must follow faith, and does not pertain
to infants, but requires previous amendment of life.”
The Bailiff said: “We have done enough to gain
you; if you had suffered yourself to be prevailed
upon to recant, you should have done well.” She
replied: “You have loved my flesh, but not my
soul, which you would have gladly devoured; but
God will receive it as a child, and make it an heir.
And though you are now a Bailiff in your glory,
you will deplore it in the judgment of God, and
wish that you had rather been a herdsman[272](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/part-16/#Footnote_272) in the
fear of God”. Thereupon she was sentenced to death,
and, having commended her spirit into the hands
of God, was drowned in a tub, together with another
woman, named Noele.



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