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1043

Herewith this whole work, and consequently the
whole Book of Martyrs, is abridged and concluded.]

This century will be brief, and extend not over
much more than half a century. Neither will the
martyrizations that occurred in it be so severe as
those in any of the preceding centuries. Beheading
people, or suffering them to die of want in prison,
will be the severest punishments that were inflicted
according to the body upon the following witnesses
of the Lord. In the meantime, when the north
wind of persecution began to blow its fiercest, according
to the course of the times, the pleasant
south wind of rest and liberty from persecution intervened.
The most, however, mischief in this brief
century, in the parts of Zurich and Berne, was
caused by such as called themselves Reformed;
others, who bore the same name, and especially the
rulers of the United Netherlands (as being friends
of peace, and enemies of constraint of conscience),
opposed it, and kindly and in a fatherly manner
protected the innocently persecuted ones, according
to all their ability.

This work begins with Groningen and Sneeck
in Vriesland, and ends with Zurich and Berne, in
the confines of Switzerland. This is the order which
we shall follow.



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