# Louwerens The Shoemaker, A. D. 1576.

1576 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: LOUWERENS THE SHOEMAKER, A. D. 1576.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the year 1576, at the time of the Spanish Fury
(on the 4th of November), there was in confinement
at Antwerp a godfearing, pious brother, named
984
Louwerens the Shoemaker, for no other reason,
than that he would not follow the world and all its
false inventions and wickedness (in which she lies),
but forsook it, and sought with the people of God
to lead a godly life, and to follow Christ in the regeneration.
He was therefore apprehended and
tormented with great and dreadful tortures, by the
enemies of the truth, the blood-thirsty papists.
They tortured him in such an unchristian-like and
tyrannical manner, that his body was completely
crippled, for in the Spanish Fury the prisons were
opened, and the prisoners ran out, so that the jailer
said: “Louwerens, run out too.” He answered:
“Whither shall I run? for I am so crippled, that I
cannot earn my bread.” And remaining thus in
confinement, he was, after the Spanish Fury was
over, brought forth, and confirmed the faith of the
truth with his death and blood, at said place.
Therefore, at the glorious appearing of Christ from
heaven, he shall receive the glorious crown, which
no man shall ever take from him; and having been
thus planted with Christ in the likeness of his death,
he shall also forever be a partaker with him of the
glorious resurrection. Rev. 20:4; Acts 1:11; 2
Thess. 1:10; 2 Tim. 4:8; John 16:22; Rom. 6:5.





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