# Sander Wouterss, Of Bommel And Evert Hendricks, Of Warendorp, Both Burnt Alive For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ At Amsterdam, On The 3d Of September, A. D. 1575.

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The misery of the beloved children of God had
not come to an end yet at this time, since the words
spoken by the Lord: “They shall put you out of
the synagogues; yea, the time cometh, that whosoever
killeth you will think that he doeth God service,”
were still being fulfilled, which, among many
other instances, also appeared in the year 1572, on
the third day of September, at Amsterdam, in the
case of two pious and valiant champions of Jesus
Christ, named Sander Wouterss, of Bommel and
Evert Hendricks of Warendorp, both of whom at
that time, voluntarily exchanged their life for death,
and surrendered it to the Lord as a burnt sacrifice,
the Romanistic rulers effecting this through their
malice, with fiery flames in the place of execution
in front of the city hall at Amsterdam.

But between those who did this, and the others
who suffered it, there shall hereafter be a great difference,
when there shall be said to those who
suffered it: “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world,” but to those who did it (if they
have not sincerely been converted from this wickedness);
“Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels,” Matt. 25.
O, what an exceeding great difference! our reason is
utterly powerless to grasp this, our mortal and frail
tongue cannot express it.

Note.—The sentence of death of the aforementioned
two persons was sent us from the original
book of criminal sentences of said city, through the
instrumentality of the clerk of the court there: hence
we will add the same here, just as it reads; in it may
be seen how perfidiously the papistic rulers of that
time misinterpreted the good confession of the pious
witnesses of Jesus Christ, and how dreadfully and
horribly they proceeded against and dealt with
them.



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