# Jan Hulle, At Ypres, A. D. 1561.

1561 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: JAN HULLE, AT YPRES, A. D. 1561.

Source heading; not independently verified

As it is found that the wolf will generally follow
his innate ravenous nature, and therefore the sheep
can make no firm compact with him, but stand in
constant danger of being devoured by him, so it
appeared in the year 1561 in the city of Ypres, in
Flanders, where a godfearing lamb of Jesus Christ,
namely, an old man named Jan Hulle, was seized
and apprehended by these devouring wolves. He
there had to undergo and endure many severe conflicts
with them, not on account of any crime, but
only for living according to the word of God, from
which they by tyranny sought to draw him and
make him apostatize. But as he, as behooves an
obedient follower of Jesus Christ, had yielded himself
under the voice of his only Shepherd, he fled
from these strangers, and would not hear them.
On this account he was condemned to death by the
lords of this world, and was thus burnt at said place.
In all this he, as a valiant soldier of Jesus Christ,
armed himself with patience, and, through faith,
steadfastly endured all these sufferings inflicted upon
him. And as he herein was not ashamed of Christ
and his truth but openly confessed him before lords
and princes, and testified and confirmed it with his
death and blood; therefore Christ, when he comes
in the clouds of heaven, in the glory of his Father,
will not be ashamed of him, but confess him before
his Father, and set him on his right hand, and bid
him with all the blessed to enter into the kingdom
prepared for them from the beginning, that is,
into the eternal glory of heaven.





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