# Jan Jans Brant, A. D. 1559.

1559 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: JAN JANS BRANT, A. D. 1559.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the year 1559, on the 9th of November, it happened
that a brother by the name of Jan Jans Brant,
594
was apprehended for following Christ and the gospel,
at Geervliet, in South Holland. When he was
examined by the learned, he steadfastly adhered to
his faith, and confessed it freely, saying further:
“This is the true way to eternal life, which is found
by so few, and walked by a still smaller number; for
it is too narrow for them, and would cause their
flesh too much pain.” On account of these and like
words, they became embittered against him more
than against any malefactor, so that they would
have made away with him in a fortnight, had not
his life, through the intercession of certain persons,
been spared a little longer, so that in all, he lay in
prison one month. Afterwards they sentenced him
to be drowned in a sack, for which he was well
prepared. The executioner tied him into a sack,
and cast them from the high Hofbrugh.279 The sack
bursting open, the executioner struck him with a
stick on his body, so that he called from the water:
“O how you murder me!” Many were moved to
pity, that he had to die so miserably. Thus he
offered up his sacrifice, and rests now from his labor,
and is awaiting the glorious Sabbath spoken of
in Isaiah, yea, the rest with Christ in Paradise.
Philip. 2:17; Rev. 14:13; Luke 23:42.





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