# Heyndrick Arents, A. D. 1568.

1568 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: HEYNDRICK ARENTS, A. D. 1568.

Source heading; not independently verified

Among many other true believers baptized according
to the command of Christ, who were everywhere
persecuted, expelled and put to death, also
one Heyndrick Arents of Briel, about the year 1568,
fell into the hands of these persecutors. The circumstances
that led to his imprisonment were as follows:
A vessel having cast anchor in the roadstead off Briel
on account of a leak which it had sprung, and said
Heyndrick Arents being a ship-carpenter in Briel,
those of the vessel requested him to calk the craft.
While he was thus with them, the Lords of Rotterdam
learned that said vessel was a pirate, and sent
thither a detachment of soldiers. These captured
the vessel and conducted said Heyndrick Arents
and the pirates to Delft as prisoners. And as those
of Delft refused to take them in, they were forthwith
taken to Rotterdam, where they, on account of
their misdeeds, were soon sentenced to be hanged.
When Heyndrick Arents perceived this, he asked:
Whether he had come into a city of justice, or of
violence—why they wanted to condemn the innocent
with the guilty? and said that he had not been
apprehended on account of any crime. If they
would inquire concerning him and his faith, they
would find it to be so. Sus. 53; Ex. 23:7; 1 Peter
4:15.

Hearing this, the Governor asked: What does he
say? what sort of a heretic is this? if he is one of
the Anabaptists he shall not be hanged, but burned.
Thus, he was examined concerning his faith, and
freely confessed that he had been baptized upon his
faith, according to the command of Christ; and, on
the other hand, rejected usurping infant baptism and
all papal errors, but confessed the ordinances of
Christ and his apostles (which were observed by him
and his fellow believers.) Thereupon they sentenced
him, and, after an imprisonment of two weeks, he
707
was burnt at said place, in great constancy, and
confirming the faith of the truth with his death and
blood.





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