# Trijnken Keuts, A. D. 1559.

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Trijnken Keuts was a widow who lived in the city
of Maestricht. Having come to the knowledge of
the divine truth through the holy gospel, she in her
simplicity laid the matter to heart, and continued
day and night in earnest prayer, until the Lord
further enlightened her with the clear, shining light
of his divine grace, and endowed her with power of
faith, so that she, believing and penitent, had herself
baptized, upon the true faith, in the name of
Jesus Christ, a member of the body and church of
Jesus Christ; and as she lived according to her faith
and no longer resorted to the papal idolatries, but
abstained from every abomination, and entered upon
a new life, the venomous beast could not endure
this, and she was therefore accused and reported as
a heretic to the authorities of said city. Thereupon
the burgomasters cited her to appear in the Landtskroon
(the house in which the burgomasters and
the council hold their court). When she received
this summons, through a servant of the burgomasters,
she went to the Landtskroon. Arriving there,
she was asked and examined by the burgomasters,
in regard to what had been reported to them, as to
whether it was so with her; and when she frankly
answered them, and confessed the truth, they imprisoned
her there. Having been confined for a
time, in the meanwhile undergoing many importunities
and conflicts, she was finally caused to be rigorously
examined by the priests (one of whom was a
Dominican monk), before whom she freely confessed
her faith. When asked whether she was rebaptized,
she replied: “I was baptized upon my faith according
to the doctrine of Christ;” in regard to which
they had yet many more words together; but she
adhered to the truth. The priests also questioned
her concerning the sacrament, whether she did not
believe that when the priest had pronounced five
words over the bread, Christ was present in it, essentially
with flesh and blood, just as he had hung
on the cross. Trijne said that she believed that
Christ had ascended to heaven, and was sitting
on the right hand of God, his heavenly Father.
And she asked, saying: “How should he come into
the bread?”

When she thus steadfastly adhered to the truth,
these priests condemned her to be burnt to ashes
here, and to burn forever in hell. Trijne said:
“When you, in a few days, will follow me before
the judgment seat of God, you will find it to be otherwise.”
Upon this judgment, Trijne was delivered
to the Bailiff and the Judges, by whom she was
sentenced, that she should be led forth, according
to the imperial mandate, and be burnt to ashes;
which Trijne gratefully received, willingly submitting
to it. She was therefore, with her mouth gagged,
led to the Vrijthof, where she put off her tabernacle,
and was burnt to ashes, having commended her
soul into the hands of God. 1 Pet. 1:14. This occurred
in the year 1559, on Palm-eve, in Lent.

It was currently reported as true, that one of the
aforementioned priests, namely, the Dominican
monk, three days after Trijnken was offered up and
burnt, was unexpectedly (he not having been
known to be sick), and secretly found dead in his
cell, and that he was being eaten up by lice; but
what part God had in this matter, this we leave to
his righteous judgment, who will give to every one
his merited reward.



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