# John Knel Or Buchner, And Anna Cantiana, A. D. 1550.

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In the year 1550, there were imprisoned in the
city of London, in England, two pious witnesses
of Jesus, a man by the name of John Knel or Buchner,
and a woman named Anna Cantiana; who,
among other things, believed and confessed with
Menno Simon and all true believers, that the Son of
God became man for our sakes, and that he did not
receive his humanity from Mary or any other source,
but that the eternal Word, or Son, became himself
flesh or man. As the aforementioned could by no
means be brought to apostatize, but would firmly
adhere to the truth accepted, they, after suffering
many torments, were condemned to death at said
place. John Knel was burned the second of May,
A. D. 1550. Anna Cantiana was also burned to
ashes the same year. According to the testimony
of John Fox she was ever ready to render service
to others especially to those who were in bonds and
imprisonment, with whom she constantly was, to
minister to them. And as these above mentioned
martyrs suffered all this for the testimony of Jesus,
and not on account of any crime, and steadfastly
died for the truth, and were not ashamed of Christ
and his word; in this life, before men, he shall also
not be ashamed of them before his Father, but, out
of grace, bestow upon them and all the blessed, the
kingdom prepared for them from the beginning.

Concerning this, see preface to the old Offerboeck
of the year 1616, letter J, other side.



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