# Maerten Zaeywever, Joris Oudkleerkooper, Willem Droogscheerder, Victor And Pieter De Backer, A. D. 1557.

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The bloodthirsty constrainers of conscience, not
yet satiated, apprehended at Antwerp, in the year
1557, five pious Christians, namely, Maerten Zaeywever,
Joris Oudkleerkooper, Willem Droogsheerder,
Victor and Pieter de Backer, whom they assailed
with many wiles, threats and tortures, in order
to rob them of their precious treasure, which
they so faithfully kept in earthen vessels, to the
honor of God, that it could not be taken from them;
on which account the others were so filled with
envy, that they inflicted an ignominious death upon
them, publicly in the market place; but God will
crown them, together with his faithful servants, with
great honor and joy, when the others will have to
go with shame into everlasting misery.



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