# Thirty-Six Persons Called Waldenses, Burnt For The Faith, At Bingen, A. D. 1390.

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The holy apostle Paul very aptly wrote (2 Tim.
3:12), “And all that will live godly in Christ
Jesus shall suffer persecution;” for this appeared,
A. D. 1390, in the case of certain pious Christians,
who, being citizens of the city of Mentz, in Germany,
had not less their citizenship in the new and
heavenly Jerusalem; having accepted the faith and
doctrine of the Son of God, whereupon they, as
obedient followers of Christ (as may be inferred) had
been baptized according to the confession of the
Waldensian brethren, in order thus to work out, in
the footsteps of faith, their salvation with fear and
trembling, according to the rule, Phil. 2:12.

But since the rulers of darkness could not bear
this light of truth, it came to pass, in the city of
Bingen, that thirty-six (not of the least) of said children
of light, were apprehended, and, refusing to
depart from the truth once confessed, were condemned
to death, namely to be executed with fire;
that is, to be burnt alive; which was also done with
them, and thus they, through fire, offered up a living,
holy sacrifice acceptable unto God.

Concerning the offering of these people, mention
is made in the 2d book of the Hist. of the Persecutions,
fol. 505, col. 3, ex Matth. Flacc. Illyr. Catal.
Test. Ver. Said Illyricus also confesses that at that
time (A. D. 1390) thirty-six citizens of Mentz were
burnt alive at Bingen, for the faith of the Waldenses.

Note.—Some one may ask himself, whether
these martyred persons, who were called citizens of
Mentz, and were put to death at Bingen, were not
the same martyrs spoken of in a certain place in the
preceding century; since it is also stated of them,
that they were inhabitants of Mentz, and lost their
lives at Bingen; however, this cannot well be reconciled,
since there is a great discrepancy, in regard
to the time, as well as the number of the persons.
For as regards the time, the former lived one hundred
and eighty-seven years earlier than the latter;
as they were dead already in the year 1212 (according
to the account of Bruschius, in his History of
the German Monasteries; also, A. Mell., fol. 457,
col. 3); but these last mentioned ones were put to
death A. D. 1390, as has been shown. Regarding
the number of persons, that of the former is given
as thirty-nine, but that of the latter as thirty-six—a
discrepancy of three. As to their citizenship or residence
at Mentz, which is stated of both, as well as
that they were both put to death at Bingen, are
facts that need not cause any one to think, that because
there is an agreement in these respects, that
the same people have been noticed twice by the
writers; for it may be, that at that time those of
Mentz had no court of their own, or power to pronounce
sentence of death, and that, hence, they had
to deliver those of their prisoners who were confined
for capital crimes, to those of Bingen, or at least
had to bring them to trial there, as is customary,
even at the present day, in many other cities.

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