# Pieter Van Oosthove, A. D. 1564.

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Pieter Floriss, called of Oosthove, a native of
Nipkerke in Flanders, was apprehended for the
divine truth, at Armentiers, A. D. 1564, and,
through many solicitations and sufferings, was prevailed
upon to apostatize from his faith, induced by
the promise that he should not die, and be released.
But when again in his prison, and coming to himself,
he reflected how greatly he had suffered himself
to be deceived, for though he should escape temporal
death for a little while, he should therefor
have to taste eternal death. This produced in him
such an agonizing sorrow, that he, like Peter, betook
himself with earnest supplication to Almighty God,
and besought him with scalding tears for forgiveness
for the great offense he had committed, and for a
more steadfast mind than he had shown before.
His prayer was not left unheard, for when he was
brought before the authorities again, he utterly renounced
his apostasy, and thenceforth boldly confessed
his faith, and steadfastly adhered to it, so
that he was finally sentenced to death, to which he
went with glad constancy, and was thus strangled,
and burnt.



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