# Willem De Kleermaecker, A. D. 1560.

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In the year 1560 a brother named Willem de Kleermaecker
was apprehended for the truth, and sentenced
to death, at Antwerp.

Having been brought into the court, he was asked
by the Bailiff, whether he was rebaptized. He replied:
“Why do you ask concerning my baptism,
and not regarding my life and faith; then you could
pass a right judgment upon me, and this people
could follow it?” The Bailiff asked again whether
he was not rebaptized. Willem said: “You want
but one word, and I made a confession before this:
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judge rightly, and once more consider the matter
well. The Bailiff asked whether he was rebaptized.
Willem said: “You alone have asked me until this;
may I not now ask you?” The Bailiff said: “Answer
first; then I shall tell you.” Willem said: “I
wish you would once think of that day that shall
burn as an oven, when the ungodly shall perish like
stubble.” Mal. 4:1. He further said: Mark 16:16
it is written: “He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved.” The Bailiff said: “You are not
asked concerning that.” Willem said: “Infants cannot
believe; therefore I had myself baptized upon
my faith.”

The lords then went in, and Willem said to the
people: “Repent and amend your ways.” The
Bailiff forbade him to speak, but he said: “Do let
me speak; for it cannot last long.” Presently the
lords returned, and Willem said: “My lords, judge
not according to the King’s decree, if you do not
want to be lost; but think of that day which no one
can escape, in which you will regret it, unless you
become converted.” He was then sentenced, and
his sentence read to him; whereupon, though it
was still early in the morning, he was taken to the
market place, and there strangled and burnt at the
stake. Thus he fought his way through as a valiant
soldier of Christ.



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