# Prijntgen And Martijntgen Maelbouts, In The Year 1564.

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On the 12th of November A. D. 1564, there was
beheaded with the sword, at Ghent in Flanders, one
Prijntgen Maelbouts, widow of Jacob de Backer,
brother of Pauwels van Meenen, and with her, her
sister, Martijntgen Maelbouts, a young girl, a native
of Thielt; not for any reported evil deeds, but simply
for the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a
good conscience, since they, according to the teaching
of the holy Scriptures, had separated from the
papal church of antichrist—as being polluted with
much uncleanness of the impure works of darkness,
and the doctrines and commandments of men, militating
against the holy word of the Lord—and
united with the true members of Christ, and sought
with them, according to their weak ability, to observe
the commandments and ordinances of their
Lord. On this account the persecutors and enemies
of the truth deprived them of their lives, which, to
please their Lord and redeemer, they willingly resigned,
in the living hope and firm faith, that at the
resurrection of the just, they should receive back
into great glory these their corruptible members,
which they here resigned for his name’s sake, and
reign with God and his saints in eternity. 2 Maccabees
7:11,14; 1 Cor. 15:43.



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