# Pieter Saymer, A. D. 1588.

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In the year 1588, Pieter Saymer was apprehended
at Freiburg in Bavaria; having staid there over
night, in an inn, with a landlord, and about to
proceed on his way in the morning, a beadle seized
and apprehended him. He was then conducted to
Berckhausen, and very briefly examined, and continuing
steadfast, was taken back to Freiburg. The
third day after, the judge himself had him brought
out of prison, and advised him to renounce. But
he answered: “I cannot renounce the true faith in
Jesus Christ, nor the keeping of God’s commandments,
though it should cost me body and life.”
Then his end was announced to him, and the staff
broken over him, which caused his heart to leap for
joy, and he greatly thanked and praised God, saying
then: I have one head, and if I had two, or still
more, I would rather suffer them all to be cut off,
than to renounce my faith.

There was much people present, and some wept
over him when he was led out; but he said: “You
need not weep over me, for I am of good cheer in
God;” and he sang for joy, which the priests
would not tolerate, neither the actuary. There
came a simple man, a fisherman, to him and said:
“Dear Pieter, renounce, and spare yourself.” But
he said: Be silent, you neither know nor are able
to comprehend what there is at stake for me. He
then knelt down and offered up his prayer to God
in heaven, and while he thus kneeling performed
his prayer, the executioner struck off his head,
which when it fell down to the ground, rolled about
wonderfully, and finally lay still with the face turned
toward the executioner, at which the people greatly
marveled.

Thus, he testified with his blood to the faith and
the divine truth, and obtained the crown of eternal
life, which occurred on the 8th of July, 1588.



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