# Hans Peltner, A. D. 1574.

1574 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: HANS PELTNER, A. D. 1574.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the year 1574, Hans Peltner, a tailor, at Rottenhosen
in Imtal, was apprehended for his faith,
and the divine truth, who had to endure many disputations
and temptations, from the priests as well
as others, all of which he very valiantly resisted,
and with the word of God testified to the truth, to
which he by the help of God would adhere unto
death. On this account he was finally sentenced to
death, and conducted forth to the place of execution,
where he exhorted the people to desist from
sin and repent. He then kneeled down, turning his
face to the east, or the rising of the sun, lifted up
his hands to heaven, and poured out an earnest
prayer to God his heavenly Father, thanking
and praising him for all the grace and benefits
shown him and that he had made him worthy to
suffer for his name: He also prayed for all men
who were worthy, that God would put repentance
and amendment into their hearts. Finally he commended
his spirit into the hands of God, for whose
name he was willing to offer up again his life
and body (which he had received from him), and to
testify to his truth even to his last drop of blood, as
he had promised him in baptism, and would thus
expect to be received of him into his gracious
arms.

This prayer was too long for the executioner’s
patience, for he wanted him to shorten it; but the
judges said that he should let him pray to his
heart’s content, since it was his last time.

When he had finished praying, he rose and went
boldly toward the executioner, so that neither his
face nor his color changed, but he knelt down
again so intrepidly, that the executioner was consternated
by his valiant praying and undaunted
mind, and became afraid to execute him.

When the executioner removed the collar from
his neck, previous to seizing his sword, he asked
him once more, whether he would renounce; but he
would not. Thereupon the executioner proceeded,
beheaded him, and then burned his dead body.
Thus this Christian hero freely testified to the truth
with his blood, and in no wise suffered himself to be
separated from the way of eternal life in Christ.
Hence the Lord, the Judge of the living and the
dead, who holds in his hand the judgment and the
souls of them that have died for the faith, shall raise
him up at the last day, and cause him to appear before
him, where he shall inherit a martyr’s crown
and all that God has promised his own.





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