# Hans Jacob Hess, With His Wife, A. D. 1639.

1639 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: HANS JACOB HESS, WITH HIS WIFE, A. D. 1639.

Source heading; not independently verified

Among those who suffered in the Swiss persecution,
there was none of the least Hans Jacob Hess,
a chosen and confirmed minister of the Christian
church.

He was apprehended for the third time in the
year 1639; for from the two preceding imprisonments,
the first of which had occurred already, in
the year 1637, the Lord, beyond all expectation,
had remarkably delivered him, through the aid of
those that were imprisoned with him; as also out of
this third imprisonment. The first lasted nineteen
days, the second, eight weeks, the third, eighty-three
weeks, or more than a year and a half.

But in the meantime his life was made very bitter
and vexatious: for he was stripped, and, together
with some of his fellow-believers, put in iron bonds,
sixteen weeks, which he nevertheless patiently bore
with a steadfast mind, until the time of his deliverance.

While this was taking place, namely in the same
year, also his wife was apprehended, who was first
imprisoned in the council house, and then in Othenbach,
where, through bad treatment and unfit food
and drink, for sixty-three weeks, she was so impaired
in her constitution, and weakened, that she was
seized with consumption, and after suffering much
misery, died in prison.

This then was the end of this pious heroine of Jesus,
who, to receive the eternal, blessed life, because
of the uprightness of her faith, chose to die a lingering
death rather than enjoy the temporal rest and
pleasure of this life; wherefore the gracious God shall
hereafter crown and reward her, with all those that
have valiantly suffered and fought for his name’s
sake, with the unfading crown of honor. (1 Peter
1:4.) Tract, Jer. Mang., fol. 16, A. B., and fol. 17,
A., etc.

Note.—The property of Jacob Hess was seized
by the authorities, who realized from the sale of it
4000 guilders, without restoring anything of it to
those who remained. O great injustice! How will
they be able to account for this before the righteous
judgment seat of Jesus Christ?





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