# Simon The Shop-Keeper, A. D. 1553.

1553 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: SIMON THE SHOP-KEEPER, A. D. 1553.

Source heading; not independently verified

About the year 1553 there was at Bergen op
Zoom, in Brabant, a shop-keeper, named Simon,
who stood in the market place, to sell his wares.
When the priests passed him with their idol, this
Simon did not dare give divine honor to this idol
made by human hands (Dan. 3:18), but, according
to the testimony of God presented in the holy
Scriptures, would worship and serve only the Lord
520
his God. He was therefore apprehended by the
maintainers of the Roman antichrist, and examined
in the faith, which he freely confessed, rejecting
their self-invented infant baptism together
with all human commandments, and holding fast
only to the testimony of the word of God; hence
he was sentenced to death by the enemies of the
truth, and was thus led without the city, and burnt
for the testimony of Jesus. Many of the people
present were therefore greatly astonished when they
beheld the great boldness and steadfastness of this
pious witness of God, who thus through grace obtained
the crown of eternal life.

The Bailiff who had him executed, on returning
home from this deed, was laid upon a bed of severe
sickness, and constantly exclaimed with sorrow and
remorse: “O Simon, Simon!” and although the
priests and monks sought to absolve him, they
were nevertheless not able to give him the least
comfort, but he soon died in despair, an instructive
and memorable example to all tyrants and persecutors.
2 Macc. 9:9,28; Acts 12:23.





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