# Mr. Jelis Matthijss, Put To Death For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, At Middleborgh, In The Year A. D. 1564.

1564 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: MR. JELIS MATTHIJSS, PUT TO DEATH FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AT MIDDLEBORGH, IN THE YEAR A. D. 1564.

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A letter of Mr. Jelis Matthijss, written in prison,
at Middleborgh , A. D. 1564, where he laid
down his life for the name of the Lord.

The foundation of God standeth sure.—2 Timothy
2:19.

Grace, peace, and the abundant love of our God,
with the deep and unspeakable love of his Son, our
Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen gift of faith, are
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revealed to us by God, the merciful dear Father,
through Christ Jesus, and given to his saints, whom
he, through his fatherly love, has now chosen, called
and ordained thereto, yea, delivered from the chains
and heavy bonds of the perpetual darkness of unbelief,
with which this evil, wicked and perverse world
is bound; and has, according to his fatherly mercy,
begotten us again unto a living, saving hope, and
translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, in
whom we have the forgiveness of our sins through
his blood, that we my dear sheep, should henceforth
serve him without fear in all obedience, righteousness
and holiness, all the days of our life, 1 Peter
1:3; Col. 1:13,14; Luke 1:74,75. To this end
may the merciful dear Father help and strengthen
us with the power of his holy Spirit. Amen.

Since you people have requested me, through
your letter, and through greetings heard from you
at different times, as also previously, by the letter
of your dear wife, who also requested the same of
me [to write], know that I have frequently purposed
in my heart to do so according to my little gift, although
I trust it is not really necessary, yet I hope
that it will nevertheless assure and confirm you the
more. But as I had rather much writing to do, and
was engaged also with other matters, I could not
very well attend to it; yet I have constantly cherished
a father’s care for you, frequently beseeching
my God with a fervent heart, according to my
weakness, that he would preserve you both, under
the shadow of his wings, in this horrible and perilous
time full of all wickedness, and fill you more
and more with his Holy Spirit, and open the eyes
of your understanding, that you, my dear sheep,
may learn to know well the snares and outspread
nets of the devil, which he now in so manifold ways
daily lays for the regenerated, though you are not
ignorant of them partly, well knowing his devices;
wherefore you have watched until the present time,
in which I greatly rejoice, as also in this, that your
faith grows and increases in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ, unto whom I have begotten you
and the others, in my bonds, by tears, with the
power of the Holy Ghost. And you became followers
of me, and of the Lord, and received the word
of the Gospel of the cross of Christ with much sighing
and godly sorrow, and have obeyed it from the
heart, in the form of the doctrine wherein you now
stand, so that you have became ensamples to all
those in Middelborgh, who want to amend their
lives, and take up the cross of the Lord. 1 Thessalonians
1:6,7. Not only these, but many saints are
made to rejoice, beholding your obedience and humility
in the fear of your God, which, I hope will
increase and become manifest still more from day to
day, so that, my dear sheep, it may be clearly evident,
that you are truly born again from above, of
God the Father, and renewed by the renewing of
your mind. Rom. 12:2. Remember that your conversation
must be heavenly, namely, according to the
new man, who after God is created in all manner of
righteousness and holiness; for since he who has
called and chosen you to this service is holy, you
must also according to your ability, lead a holy,
chaste and godly life in the fear of your God.
Eph. 4:24; 1 Peter 1:15. For to whom we have
yielded ourselves, his servants we are, as the apostle
says: whether of sin unto death, or of obedience
unto life. Rom. 6:16. God be praised and thanked
forever, my dear sheep, that you were the servant
and handmaid of sin, but are now washed and
cleansed with me, by the washing of regeneration,
and renewing of the Holy Ghost, whom God the
Father shed on us abundantly through Christ our
Savior, not for the works of our righteousness
which we had done; for we were by nature the
children of wrath, even as others; but God, the merciful,
dear Father, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us, when we were
dead in sins and unrighteousness, quickened us together
with Christ, or by Christ, his dear Son,
through faith. Tit. 3:5; Eph. 2:3, etc.

Therefore, my affectionately beloved sheep, in
Christ Jesus, whose souls I love from the heart, and
for whom I have a fatherly and godly care, I admonish
and beseech you as a prisoner in the Lord,
frequently to call to remembrance the day in which
the merciful dear Father had compassion upon you,
and took the vail from your eyes and hearts, which
still hangs before the eyes and hearts of so many
thousands, who walk such hard ways and know not
the way of the Lord, because they are drunken with
the wine of the Babylonian whore, namely, the
false doctrines, by which the whole earth is covered;
but you, my sheep, have become sober, and come
out of her, and I also hope that you will no more
touch her uncleanness, lest you perish with her
plagues. 2 Cor. 3:16; Wis. 5:7; Rev. 17:2; 18:4.

Hence watch sharply in righteousness, so that
you, my dear sheep, be not put to confusion after
my departure in this horrible and perilous time, for
you can plainly see and hear that now is certainly
the time of which Christ Jesus and his holy apostles
have so diligently warned us, even as Christ himself
said that the love of many should wax cold. But he
that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved. Matt. 24:12,13. O my dear sheep, ponder
the words of Christ, and let them lodge in your
hearts. It is indeed not spoken with regard to the
world; for in the world the love of God cannot wax
cold, since it has not received it, neither knows it;
but it is spoken with reference to the true Israelites,
and you see that this happens abundantly among
them, which is certainly a lamentable matter, as that
the devil and spirit of the old serpent has gained
such strength and power in the present time,
through the manifold, subtle and dexterous snares
which he daily lays, to capture anew in his net of
unbelief the souls of the regenerated, who have
escaped him through the knowledge of God,
whom he does capture again, my dear sheep, some
of them through false doctrine, not only through
the Roman antichrist, since now there are many antichrists
in the world. For this reason he has put
on another cap, which is no longer like the Roman,
well knowing that his game with it will soon be
played; hence he has transformed himself, and appears
now as an angel of light, and does his diligence
to mingle with the children of light, there to
set forth his wares anew. For, my dear sheep in the
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Lord, formerly he came with human ordinances
and commandments, but now he knows that men
want to hear Scripture; hence he now comes adducing
many Scriptures, so that it seems to be all
right, even as he presumptuously did with Christ,
quoting to him from the prophet David, that it was
written that he [God] should send his angels, who
should bear him up in their hands, lest he should
dash his foot against a stone. Matt. 4:6; Ps. 91:12.
See, my dear sheep, he did indeed quote Scripture,
just as it read; but it had not been spoken or prophesied
with any such meaning; thus these also,
though they quote many Scriptures, and presumptuously
say: Thus it is certainly written; by which he
easily captures in his outspread net the wavering
and those whose ears itch to hear something new.

Others he gets through deceitful riches that come
to them, which bring men into destruction and perdition,
since covetousness is the root of all evil.
1 Tim. 6:9,10. Nevertheless, some yet desire that
their temporal possessions increase, and are so
busily engaged therewith, that in the meantime they
forget the exercise of godliness, and bring upon
themselves many sorrows. Alas, my dear lamb, it
shall go with them as it went with certain of the
Israelites; they that had gathered much had nothing
over; and they that had gathered little had no lack.
Ex. 16:18. Hence, if we have food and raiment, O
that we could therewith be content; for we brought
nothing into this world, and it is certain we can
carry nothing out. 1 Tim. 6:7. For we see, dear
sheep, that the words of our dear Lord Jesus Christ
are true, namely, that the deceitful riches choke and
suppress the good seed, namely, the word of God,
whereby many also come to shame.

The third class [he deceives], through the loss or
spoiling of their goods, who do not rightly consider
that, like the merchant-man, they have found the
most beautiful pearl, which is certainly well worthy
of all this, and far above comparison with it. The
fourth, through crosses and suffering, namely, persecution.
The fifth, through the entreaties and solicitations
of father and mother, friends and relatives.
The sixth, through wife and children. The
seventh, by their own evil, subtle flesh. The eighth,
because they become weary of the way of righteousness,
and turn back to Egypt and Sodom, to live
at ease and peace for a short time with the Babylonian
whore, and afterwards to be tormented with
her in everlasting pain.

Behold, my most chosen and beloved sheep, all
this is wrought and set in motion by a single spirit,
the old serpent, who neither sleeps nor slumbers,
but constantly walks about us, seeking whom he
may devour. 1 Pet. 5:8. Hence resist him manfully
and with a believing heart, and let it not terrify you,
though they so lightly forsake the commandments
of the Lord. O, regard not the negligent, slothful
and unfaithful; but let all faithless servants and
false disciples forsake their Lord and Master, yet
we hope nevertheless to adhere to him, and you
with me, and are ready to suffer whatever he imposes
upon us. Ah! what should we do or undertake,
if we should forsake his commandments?
whither should we flee, where he should not find
us? Oh! heaven and earth must obey him with
trembling; mountains and caverns must quake before
him, and can not stand in his presence; how
much more the children of men, who dwell in
houses of clay. Ps. 114:7; Job 4:19. O my dear
sheep, wherewith shall they excuse or justify themselves
when he shall visit them, who now so unfaithfully
depart from him?

Alas! alas! it is indeed a lamentable matter, that
they have conceived such a loathing for the noble
heavenly bread, and that the only medicine by
which all the souls of the regenerated have been
restored, is become such a deadly enemy to them.
Yea, my dear sheep, we may well sigh and lament
with the prophet over the destruction of Israel, and
over Jerusalem the fair city of God, and this the
more because so many Israelites drift into the wilderness
of this wicked world, and are again destroyed
and slain by the subtle spirit of the serpent.
Also, because some of the watchmen are become
apostates, and the citizens of Jerusalem, too, are becoming
slothful and drowsy, though he who walks
around the camp neither rests nor pauses, but diligently
seeks day and night, whom he may find idle
or sleepy, to sow his tares into the field of the heart,
even as he, alas! did not a little in my time, and
will still do, the longer the more, according to my
opinion. For the more the people of God increase,
the more will he reign among them; nor will he
rest until he succeed in getting some of them to
submit to his will again; and God permits him to
torment the pious, and also to seduce them, that
the others may be tried. See, my dearest and much
beloved children in the Lord, it is therefore my fatherly
entreaty and humble request of you, for the
sake of the eternal salvation of your souls, that you
will henceforth exercise great care that you may
remain in the way of righteousness, and always be
mindful how you from this time on ought to walk in
the house of God, which is the church of God, unto
which you have come, whereof I was very glad,
when I heard it, and thanked and praised my God
for his great fatherly goodness and grace which he
has shown you, and has received you as his son and
daughter, yea, as heirs of his heavenly riches, on
which account you have so voluntarily betaken
yourselves under the yoke and rod of the cross,
and, with the holy apostle Paul, counted your gain
loss, that you might gain your souls in Christ, even
as you have done. Hence, take heed to yourselves,
and depart or waver neither to the right nor to the
left, lest you fall from your own steadfastness, and
eternal fire be your inheritance; but as you, my
dear sheep, have now put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
so continue to walk in him, and remain firmly established
and rooted in his doctrine, lest you wax
cold or lukewarm in love, and thus lose what you
have received and so willingly accepted. 2 Peter
3:17; Col. 2:6; 1 Cor. 4:7.

I also beseech you, by the mercy of our dear
Lord Jesus Christ, that you neglect not, to thank
and praise God the merciful dear Father day and
night, through Christ his dear Son, for the great,
unspeakable benefits which he has shown us poor,
miserable creatures; and has foreseen and chosen
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us from our mother’s womb, and this to the end
that we should truly live and confess his name
among this wicked and adulterous generation, and
thus may hold fast unto the end, the beginning of
the Christian life. For though, my dearest sheep
and much beloved children, you are now become
true heirs of eternal life, through obedience to the
Gospel, and are written with me and all saints in
the book of life, yea, have been brought to an innumerable
company of angels, yet, O my dear
sheep, he can soon blot us out again, and write our
apostate names in the earth (Jer. 17:13), if we do
not faithfully, according to our weakness, walk in
God’s commandments unto the end of our lives;
for we know that the glorious promises given to
the pious, and the crown of eternal life, lie neither
in the beginning nor in the middle; but he that endures,
and continues faithful unto the end, shall
receive the same from the hand of the Lord. For it
is evident, that it availed the outward Israel (in
whom we have a clear example) nothing, my dear
sheep, that they by the strong hand of the Lord,
had been delivered out of Egypt from the service
and bondage of Pharaoh: yea, all the benefits shown
them on the way by the faithful, merciful, dear Father,
were certainly for the most part lost or in vain.
Though he fed them with angels’ food, and gave
them all that their soul desired, yet they became
impatient and murmured, and did not receive their
trial in the fear of God, or in patience, wherefore
the Lord was wroth, and destroyed twenty-three
thousand at one time. O, my dear, chosen sheep,
think on it; it certainly occurred for our instruction
and admonition, as the holy apostle says, that
we should not fall into the same example of unbelief;
for what could it avail us, that we have now
also gone out from spiritual Egypt and Sodom, and
been delivered from the service of the hellish Pharaoh,
through the Red Sea of the blood of Christ
Jesus, and been baptized in the name of the Father,
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, upon the confession
of our faith, and have thus, having renounced
our own selves, entered into the true Noah’s ark—Christ
Jesus. O my dear sheep, it all cannot avail
or save us, if we do not observe the fulfilling of the
commandments of our God; for the apostle John
says: “He that saith, I know God, and keepeth not
his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in
him.” 1 John 2:4. But you, my most beloved,
have always obeyed not only in my presence, but
much more in my absence; therefore work out your
salvation with fear, and constantly walk as becomes
the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, after my departure,
that you may always stand fast in one
spirit and mind; and be not terrified in any wise by
your adversaries, whether from within or without,
which is to them an evident token of perdition, but
to you of eternal salvation, and that of God. For,
my dear sheep, it is not enough that you believe on
Christ, but you must also suffer for his name, if not
in bonds or imprisonment, then in the daily conflict
and temptations, which at the present time arise in
many and various forms, and may come upon you
still more. Phil. 2:12; 1:27. For God proves and
tries his chosen in manifold ways. Bonds and imprisonment
are regarded as the greatest trials of
faith; but, my dear lamb, I write and confess to you
at this time, that to me it is the least, compared
with the perils and temptations I tasted and met
with in the wilderness of this world, or which I saw
before me, so that I often did not know which way
to turn, for anxiety of heart and spirit, and sighed
and wept to my God on account of the manifold
subtle and adroit snares which the old serpent is
now laying, fearing that I might yet become entangled
in her snares of human weakness, and of the
wisdom of my own flesh, because I saw and heard
that such high, strong and firmly rooted trees were
completely torn up by the roots, and such lofty
mountains brought low most miserably. Besides, I
felt that in me there dwelt no good thing; moreover,
I considered that at his righteous day much
chaff will be found, when he will look over his own.
O then he will see those who will not have on a
wedding garment.

For this reason also I was in great anxiety, fearing
that through my daily mistakes and polluted walk
I should not be able to stand at his coming; hence
I often besought him with tears, that through his
fatherly mercy he would make me, poor, miserable
man, fit, that I might suffer for his name’s sake, to
go into bonds and imprisonment, and even into
death, for his holy testimony;—then I should be
sure of my soul’s salvation, and not fear to come to
shame in the day of his wrath,—whereto he, through
his fatherly mercy, has now chosen me and made
me worthy, to declare his holy testimony before this
evil and adulterous generation, in my bonds; on
which account I am greatly rejoiced in my soul,
and sincerely regret that I cannot thank or praise
my and our merciful dear Father enough for his
unspeakably great benefits which he has shown and is
still daily showing me miserable creature; for I trust
in his fatherly grace and mercy, that he will further
fit me and make me worthy to go into death for his
holy testimony; for he knows that I have for a long
time longed to be at home, and this on account
of the manifold dangers I behold in the way. Hence,
my affectionately beloved sheep in the Lord, as I
still have a fatherly care for you, and love you with
a godly love, I cannot forbear, seeing I am still in
this tabernacle for a little while, to admonish you
a little by my writing, praying you not to think that
I rule over you; but I seek to build you up with
all kindness unto the full stature of the fullness of
Christ, so that you, my dear sheep, may be found
a true letter of Christ, not written with ink on paper,
but by the Holy Spirit of the living God, whereby
you are also sealed unto the day of your redemption,
who has written God’s statutes and laws into
your hearts and minds, whereby you are now become
an epistle of Christ, which is seen and read by
all men who behold your holy, chaste conversation
in the humility of your heart and depreciation of
yourselves. 2 Cor. 3:2; 1 Pet. 3:2.

Therefore, my dear lamb, I beseech you once
more, though you are humble, humble yourselves
still more; though you are clean, cleanse yourselves
yet more; yea, though you have become holy,
sanctify yourselves yet more and more, that you
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may be found pure and blameless, the children of
God, in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation,
among whom you shine as lights in the
world, holding forth the word of life; that I may
rejoice in the day of Christ, so that I may not have
labored in vain with you; for though I am to be
offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand,
yet I joy and rejoice in my heart, on your account,
and of the others whom I have begotten in my
bonds, who in time past were unprofitable to the
house of God, but are now useful and profitable,
whom I love for the truth’s sake, and desire that
they shall also have a part herein, hoping that it
will also rejoice them in the spirit and faith, for an
assurance and confirmation of all your minds in
Christ Jesus. John 15:3; Rev. 22:11; Philip. 2:15;
2 Tim. 4:6; Phil. 10:11; 2 John 1,2. Hence, my
final and affectionate request to you all is, that you
love one another with a pure heart fervently, being
born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
namely, by the living, powerful and saving
word. John 13:34; 1 Pet. 1:22,23. And remember
the words of Paul our fellow brother, where he
says: The end of the commandment is charity out
of a pure heart, and of a good conscience; yea, it is
the bond of perfectness. 1 Tim. 1:5; Col. 3:14. O
how blessed is he who is truly girded about with this
bond; for he does not live unto himself, but unto
his Lord; and he observes the words of Christ in
everything, also where he says: “Be merciful, as
your heavenly Father also is merciful.” Luke 6:36.

Hence, my dear sheep, I beseech you yet, by the
mercy of our dear Lord Jesus Christ, and also for
the sake of the eternal salvation of your souls, that
you forget not to do good and to communicate; for
the administration of this service supplieth not only
the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God; for by such offerings God
is pleased. 2 Cor. 9:12. Remember also the words
of the wise man, where he says: “He that hath
pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that
which he hath given will he pay him again.” Proverbs
19:17. He further says: “He that giveth unto
the poor shall suffer no sorrow; but he that turneth
away his eyes shall decrease.” 28:27. “The righteous
useth his wealth to life, but the wicked useth it
to sin.” 10:16. He also says: “There is that
scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that
withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to
poverty.” 11:24. Tobit, also, commands his son to
remember the poor, saying: “Turn not thy face
from the poor, and the face of God shall not be
turned away from thee. Wherever thou be able,
help the needy. If thou hast abundance, give alms
accordingly; if thou have but little, give according
to that little with a faithful heart.” and he adds:
“For alms deliver from death, and blot out sin.”
Tob. 4:7. With regard to this, also Sirach says:
“Alms maketh an atonement for sin.” Sir. 3:30.
Alms also preserve the giver in everlasting habitations;
wherefore Christ commanded: “Make to yourselves
friends of the mammon of unrighteousness;
that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting
habitations.” Luke 16:9.

Christ has well said: “For the poor always ye
have with you.” John 12:8. Hence he shall say
at his righteous day: All that ye have done unto
the least of these my brethren, ye have done unto
me. Matt. 25:40. From this it follows, my dear
sheep, that the words of Paul will also be verified,
namely: He which soweth sparingly (here) shall reap
also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully
shall reap also bountifully . . . for God loveth a
cheerful giver. 2 Cor. 9:6,7. My affectionately beloved
sheep in the Lord, though I thus write, I nevertheless
know that you are taught of God and his
Holy Spirit, and that this will do more for you than
all I can write; yet, from heartfelt Christian love, I
write it to you; for the reason, that you may remember
the former times, when you were so diligent
in all manner of unrighteousness, sparing no
expense in the way of numerous costly banquets or
feasts, yea, in pomp and display, which God abominates.
O think once, my dear sheep, what delight
you then took [in these things]. O, should you
now not give the much more diligence in the things
which God has commanded you, to lay up treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt.
O we should be able now to spare a bit of
money occasionally, to give to poor saints, just as
easily as we formerly could provide large amounts,
to spend in unrighteousness. O my dear, beloved
children, I do not write this to oppress your hearts,
but that your love may increase yet more and more
from day to day: For you know not how much time
you will have yet, or when robbers may get possession
of your treasure. Further, my faithful sheep,
it is my fatherly request, that you live together in
peace, harmony and unity. Help to bear in love
one another’s burdens, since you know not how
long you will live together; and remember that you
are called children of peace, since your King and
Prince is the King and Prince of Peace (Is. 9:6);
hence you must be found children of peace, as I also
trust you are, though I thus write.

Herewith I will commend you to the great Shepherd
of the sheep, who, I faithfully trust, will keep
you under the shadow of his wings; if you only continue
in his statutes and commandments, and depart
on no account out of his hand, then I am certain
that no one shall pluck you out of his hand. Once
more I beseech you, and this by the wounds of our
dear Lord Jesus Christ, and also for the sake of the
eternal salvation of your souls, that you will take to
heart my letter and faithful admonition written at
the close of my life; and do not let it lie unused
among you after my departure, nor look upon it
then as a dead history or fable; but receive it as a
testament, and let it be a perpetual memorial to you,
and remember me by it, how I was an example unto
you, according to my weakness, and follow my
footsteps which I trust to walk before you through
the power of my God, namely, to adhere to the
truth unto the end, to testify to you and to all who
seek to fear God with a pure heart, that this is the
true grace of our God, as Peter says, yea, the sure
road and highway to eternal life; wherein you now
stand. 1 Pet. 5:12; Ps. 25. Hence, let no one divert
you from your present purpose, or cause you to
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waver, but give more and diligence to make your
calling and election sure. O, if you do these things,
my dear sheep, you shall never fall; but an entrance
shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter
1:10,11. Watch rigidly therefore in righteousness
all the days of your life; for it is necessary indeed. I
also kindly request that you receive this prescription
in love; for I have certainly written it out of Christian
love. Herewith I want to bid you all adieu, until
in eternity. Amen.

Furthermore, my affectionately beloved sheep in
the Lord, as regards how it is with me and my fellow
combatants, know that it still tends to the promotion
of the Gospel. Know also, that the Lord
faithfully succors me in my conflict and defense, and
has given me strength to gain the victory, and delivered
me out of the mouth of hell, and the teeth of
the lions. I believe I have been in combat with
them ten or twelve times; the others, however, they
did not torment so much. In short, I hope that the
fight is fought, the course finished, the life [faith]
kept. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown
of glory, which, I hope, no creature shall ever take
from me; for faithful is he that has begun this good
work in me; he will doubtless help me finish it, according
to the good purpose of my heart, so that I
may pass through Jordan unharmed. Philip. 1:6.
May God grant us his grace. Amen.

Communicate this among yourselves, commend
it to God, meditate upon it diligently, understand it
wisely. O, if you do this, it will be evident that
you seek your salvation and esteem my letter.

Finished the 6th of October, in the twenty-third
month of my imprisonment. Once more, my dear
children, valiantly adhere together to the cross of
Christ, and do not depart from it.





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