# Valerius Schoolmaster Martyred, A. D. 1568.

1568 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: VALERIUS SCHOOLMASTER MARTYRED, A. D. 1568.

Source heading; not independently verified

A. D. 1568, a godfearing, pious brother, called
Valerius Schoolmaster, having in his time exercised
the functions of schoolteacher at Hoorn, in Holland,
and at Middelburgh in Zealand, was apprehended
for the testimony of Jesus, at Brouwershaven, in
Zealand. He was a zealous follower of Christ, and
would not hide the talent he had received in the
earth, but put it with great diligence out upon
usury; so that in paths and highways, wherever he
saw a fit opportunity, he exhorted the people with
the word of God, threatening the sinner with the
terrible punishment and vengeance which at the
speedy appearance of Christ from heaven will fall
upon all ungodliness; and, again, comforting the
penitent with the great and glorious promises and
rewards which the Lord God at the end of the
world will give to all believers. In consequence of
this he incurred the displeasure of benighted men,
who can neither hear nor endure the light of the
Gospel, so that once he was put in bonds at Goes,
in Zealand, but was released again, keeping his
faith. Finally, however, he was apprehended at
Brouwershaven, in the district of Zierickzee, where
he suffered many assaults and long imprisonment,
but by the grace of God, overcame everything, and
attested and sealed the faith of the truth with his
death and blood, and thus, through grace, obtained
the crown of eternal life.

He also was not idle during the time of his imprisonment,
but wrote two excellent little books,
well worth reading, and sent them from prison.
The first is entitled, Of the Decrease and Decay of
the Apostolical Church; and Of the Rise of Antichrist,
and how the Light of the Gospel is obscured
by him. Written in the sixtieth week of his imprisonment;
together with an earnest exhortation to
apostates from the word of God, that they may seek
the grace of the Almighty betimes, while he is yet
to be found.

The other book bears the title, The Proof of
Faith; in which he teaches with great earnestness,
to count this world and all visible things nothing
but mere loss and dung, so only Christ be won.
Wherefore he exhorts all believers, to become poor
for Christ’s sake, and to expect riches hereafter
with God in heaven. Hence he greatly commends
the poverty and piety still remaining in Menno Simon’s
S. G., and says that herein he puts to blush
many others. We have therefore added here, for
his remembrance, the first part of said book, that
by this little the reader may judge of all the remainder,
which would be too long to adduce here in full.
He wrote it the fourteenth week of his imprisonment.
Read it with attention.

“Natural, impartial reader or hearer, who have
any understanding, you may well know and imagine
that a man that is so depraved and wicked, and
has done so much evil, as to insure his death, in
case he were apprehended, ought to be afraid of
committing any more evil, lest at last he be apprehended
and put to death. But if he do not cease
from evil he may at last be apprehended for his
crimes. Then, when imprisoned, he may reflect and
concern himself night and day, how he may escape
or obtain his liberty, whether by strategy, violence
or breaking out—and all this, that he might prolong
his uncertain life for a little while, which,
though he should escape, he must ultimately relinquish.
And if a poor prisoner cannot help himself,
he may consider whether some good friend cannot
assist him. And if his friend fail him, he may meditate
whether the judges might not be merciful to
him, at whose feet he may fall, and implore them to
spare him in mercy; moreover, he may promise
thoroughly to reform, and that he will commit such
or like misdeeds no more all the days of his life.
And when the prisoner has done this much, yea, all
that he knows to do, and all his plans, and everything
else, prove of no avail, he may in desperation
give up all courage. And when he sees the monk
coming, he may become greatly alarmed, knowing
that his confessor (who with lies and vain consolation
may promise him eternal life, thereby seeking
to assure his soul) is the harbinger of his death; and
when the doomed man hears the court pronounce
his sentence of death, he may become still more
afraid and dismayed. And when at last he is led to
death, and beholds the instrument of his death, the
gallows, wheel, stake, or water, he may most of all
fear and quake, so seized with mortal dread and
horror as though he were dead while still living,
unless he be assured by the priests or some other
liars, of his salvation, in which case he might be of
good cheer—one in this way, another in another
way. And if some one should bring to this doomed
criminal under the sword or at the stake, good news
assuring him of his life, and tell him to arise and
he himself should kneel down in the malefactor’s
stead, how joyfully should the latter with gratitude
accept his transient life! But Christ, who gives redemption
and eternal life by his death, few are willing
gratefully to accept aright and unto repentance.
John 3:16; Col. 1:14; Is. 53:4.

“Now, suppose that the doomed criminal were a
filthy, unclean harlot, imprisoned for a crime, or for
having herself alone committed (if it were possible)
all the wickednesses and sins ever perpetrated by
the whole world, for which she were condemned to
the most shameful death that could be devised; and
the King should send his only, beloved son from
his kingdom and glory into great poverty, imprisonment,
suffering and an innocent death, in the
stead of the unclean harlot, who by all manner of
contempt and evil-doing had angered the King,
and merited death a thousand times, but is now
nevertheless, out of grace, through the death of the
King’s son (on condition of her amending) reconciled
to the King, made at peace with him, liberated
from prison, and delivered from death, and remains
alive, a partaker and heir of all the riches of the
King; ought she not to accept this great love and
grace, love the King, amend her ways, and be
greatly afraid of vexing the King any more all her
698
life, who cleansed her, forgave all her evil deeds,
paid all her debts, espoused her as his beloved
queen, exalted her into his glory, and protected her
as himself from all enemies? But if she should not
amend (according to her promise), should again
anger the King, and do worse than before, were
this not great ingratitude, worthy of sorer punishment
than before? Hereby we may prove ourselves,
whether we that are redeemed through the grace of
God, also keep the promise of amendment. And
though all this were to happen thus, a thing which
was never heard of or seen, nor ever occurred;
yet, since it were but temporal and of short duration,
it is not an adequate comparison to that which
is eternal and intransient, namely, the love of God,
which has come to us through Christ his beloved
Son.

“For God so loved the condemned world, his
enemy, steeped as it was in sin, and lying in wickedness,
that he spared not his only Son, but sent
him from his glory in heaven, and delivered him up
to the ignominious and cursed death of the cross,
that whosoever believeth, should not perish or be
condemned, but, through the love, mercy and grace
made manifest through Christ, be acquitted, blessed,
redeemed, cleansed from sin, protected from the
wrath to come, wooed, wedded and exalted as his
chosen bride, obedient wife (Hos. 2:20), and glorious
queen, and his eternal and imperishable kingdom,
and live with joy unspeakable; whereas we
were so unclean in our sins, polluted in our blood,
no one attending to us (Ezek. 16), taken captive
by the devil at his will, and sentenced by God, according
to his justice, to eternal death and damnation.

“Now let us well consider and advise with ourselves,
according to the simile of the criminal, imprisoned
harlot under the sword or at the stake.
Let us well examine ourselves, whether we have
risen from our sins, amended, and still daily amend,
and whether we have rightly accepted, by the faith
which worketh by love, this love, grace and redemption
of God, made manifest through Christ,
and whether we in return love God, keep his commandments,
and are afraid of offending him.

“The world was by nature corrupted by sin, and
judged or sentenced to condemnation, so that Christ
did not come to judge or to condemn that which
was already judged, but to redeem from judgment
and condemnation all those who rightly, by faith,
accept his grace (Tit. 2:11), that is, those who die
unto and forsake their sinful life, repent and amend;
in a word, those who are born again, and live after
the Spirit (John 3; Rom. 8), as the Scriptures
abundantly testify in many places.

“But the others, who do not rightly accept, by
faith, unto the amendment of their entire life, according
to the holy word of the Lord, this love,
grace and redemption, abide notwithstanding, held
captive by their sins, under the condemnation and
wrath of God, and will on account of their unbelief,
impenitence and unrighteousness not see the kingdom
of God, nor inherit eternal life, because they
still continue in sin, and thus cannot receive redemption
and forgiveness of sins; and if they have
once received it, yet, when their new sins exceed
the old ones, it may go worse with them than before,
because they are so ungrateful, and do not
keep their promise of amendment. For Christ bore
our sins in his own body on the tree of the cross
(on this condition of our amendment), that we believers,
being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes we were healed. For
we were as sheep going astray; but are now returned
unto the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls.
1 Pet. 2:24,25. From this we may clearly perceive,
that those who do not die unto their sins, nor live
according to righteousness, are not yet healed or
redeemed by the stripes and death of Christ; for
they are not yet by faith returned unto God, from
their sins, wherein they still live. Hence they in
vain assure themselves, of eternal life, and of their
redemption by the death of Christ, since they are
still bound by their sins. Either they must turn
from their sins to God, obediently to serve him all
the days of their life, in all holiness and righteousness
of faith which is pleasing in his sight; or they
still remain captive, unbelieving and condemned, as
the Scriptures declare more abundantly than I can
designate; for I have never had a Bible in prison.
Let each examine himself. 2 Cor. 13:5.

“Mark now, how poor mankind receive redemption
and salvation, as they think. One hears and
sees openly enough that almost the entire population
of Europe are called believing Christians,
though by their wicked works they hardly show
that they are natural men, since they live more unnatural
than irrational beasts. Nevertheless, they
are taught by their teachers, that they are called
children and heirs of God (Ezek. 13:10), which
they also claim they are, being so firmly persuaded
of and settled in it, that there are very few of them
who can be turned, advised, helped or drawn out of
the prison, water, or fire of damnation (Jude 23);
for they are already too wise in themselves, already
helped, and delivered from death as they think and
say, though in this their sinful life and ungodliness,
they lie enveloped in perdition; and clothed with a
beautiful name, being called Christians and children
of God, though they lead a worse life than do Jews,
Turks, or Saracens, who do not pretend to be Christians,
as these, who so openly and shamelessly forsake
Christ, in idolatry with wood and stone, which
they call an excellent worship; in avarice which
they style only industry; in pride, which with them
is only neatness; in lasciviousness and adultery,
which they term only friendship; in drunkenness,
which they call enjoyment, pleasure, glee, good naturedness,
or good cheer, even as they know how to
name and varnish over every form of wickedness
and sin, as though they were nothing but virtue and
righteousness. As though they were blameless,
many of them are not willing to be reproved for the
lusts of their flesh, in dicing, gambling, singing,
jumping, dancing, strutting, boasting, in order to
be nowhere the least, but everywhere the first, if
possible; in vain, false, and renowned arts of earthly
worldly and carnal wisdom; in litigating, sueing,
swearing; in subtle, fraudulent, wicked inventions
and traffics; in lying, cheating, quarreling, cursing,
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fighting, and killing, if not in deed, then with the
heart; in hatred and envy, defaming, backbiting,
foolish talking, jesting, joking, unprofitableness, impropriety,
in all manner of lustfulness and wantonness.
This is nearly everywhere as common as daily
bread; herein and herewith they spend, abuse and
fritter away, to the perdition of their souls, the precious
time of grace, their life, and every good creature
of God; which good gifts of God we have received
from his grace for our good, thereby obediently
to serve our God and Creator blessed forever,
to the honor of God, the salvation of our souls, and
the edification and love of our neighbor. For God
is not willing that any should perish, neither has he
pleasure in the death of sinners; but he is longsuffering,
and waits for all to repent and will have all
men to come to the knowledge of the truth, and be
saved. 2 Pet. 3:9; Ezek. 33:11; 18:32; 1 Timothy
2:4.

“What more should our Lord God do for man,
than he has done? Does not then men’s condemnation
proceed from their unbelief, disobedience, neglect,
abuse, guilt, sin, obduracy, and ingratitude,
because they will not by faith unto repentance accept
this grace and incomprehensible love of God?
But they reject this repentance, and would still enjoy
this grace and salvation in their sinful life, from
which they do not turn.296 For since men have also
the freedom to abuse themselves or their own life,
and every creature of God, though this is not the
will of God, only he permits it, therefore men, by
their first birth, live contrary to the word and will
of God, hence, unnaturally, disobediently, ungratefully,
unreasonably, heedlessly, according to the
will of the devil, are devilishly and carnally minded,
covetous and ambitious, unmannerly, immodest,
faithless, perjured, hateful, envious, unmerciful,
without compassion, impatient, morose, cruel, and
revengeful; in short, had men the power of wealth,
and of their body, and were there no human authority
which they fear and dread more than God, men
might live in such an inhuman manner that we
might almost have a hell upon earth; for though
now men are feared more than God, still it is altogether
too bad.297

“Many that are poor refrain from drunkenness
because they have no money or pledge, while the
rich may refrain from it on account of their honor
or pride, or because they have no company according
to their liking, or because they wish to preserve
their health and mind; and for such reasons also
lasciviousness is avoided. Men often refrain from
stealing on account of the gallows, and from murder
because of the wheel; in short, every sin is
left uncommitted more on account of constraint,
shame, and fear of men, than from voluntary goodness
for the Lord’s sake. And though men are so
devoid of shame and given up to evil that they
openly keep brothels, and live far more detestably
than beasts; they are nevertheless called Christians,
and claim to be children and heirs of God by grace.
How much more then those who manage it a little
more decently and secretly, as they think, though
they frequently are much worse? Can one do worse,
than those who without shame live in adultery and
other secret sins, when God the Lord knows every
secret of the heart? Rev. 2:23; 16:7. O if men’s
sins were written on their foreheads, how constantly
would they keep in the house, and conceal themselves
in corners, holes and dens, so as not to be
seen by men.

“But they are not ashamed before God, nor
afraid of him, from whom they cannot hide; and
who can kill the body, and cast both it and the soul
into the fire of hell. Intelligent and impartial reader
or hearer, prove whether these false Christians in
this their improper and unchristian life can be saved
through God’s mercy and the death of Christ, or
not? even as they presumptuously say, that the
kingdom of heaven is for them, and not for the
beasts, and besides utter so much nonsense, as
though they were raving, as they also are, so that
a true Christian may well be ashamed and afraid to
see or hear their madness and their unrighteous
works. 2 Pet. 2:8.

“O depraved and wanton men! Though the Jews,
because they were called Abraham’s seed, claimed
to be God’s children, Christ showed them that a
thief, liar and murderer from the beginning, even
the devil, was their father, because their works were
evil. John 8:44. This may have seemed strange to
them, even as it may seem strange to those who
obey not the Gospel of Christ, that according to the
testimony of the holy Scriptures they are called, and
are servants of sin (Rom. 6:20), an evil and perverse
generation of serpents, vipers and adders
(Matt. 3:7), the seed of the devil, children and heirs
of wrath (Eph. 2:3), accursed and of eternal damnation,
seed of Cain, Ishmaelites, filthy swine, devouring
dogs, ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing
(Matt. 7:15), that is, under the cloak of sanctity,
uncircumcised, gentiles, aliens and strangers from
the covenants of the promise of eternal life, who
have no part in the kingdom of God, though they
entertain a vain hope of it; without God, without
Christ, godless and idolatrous in the world. These
evil works are the nets, snares, fetters, blocks,
chains, bonds, and imprisonments, with which the
prince of this world, the devil, who works in the
children of disobedience holds men captive, blinded
and bound at his will. Eph. 2:2; 2 Tim. 2:26. And
so long as the false Christians go or creep about
bound by their sins, and entangled in their unrighteousness,
they boast in vain and heap one great lie
on top of another, when they boast that through
Christ they are redeemed and freed from their sins,
when they still live in their toils, and because of
their unbelief and disobedience are predestinated
unto eternal damnation, unless they turn from their
sins to God, and by faith rightly receive his grace
unto repentance; whereby they will not perish, but
are predestinated to eternal life, and become vessels
of honor prepared unto glory, according to my simple
view. Rom. 9:23.

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“Mark what Christians these are, because they say
that there is a gracious God, which the devil also
believes, and trembles; moreover, they say that they
are sorry for their sins, and still they go on in them,
the longer the more, the older the worse, and under
the cloak of the grace of God commit all kinds of
sin, the one in this, another in that, so that no wickedness
is left undone. Let every one search the secrecy
of his heart, and he will better understand
and find what I, prisoner, here write. One man
cannot alone commit all these sins, for his life is too
short and insufficient. For it is generally seen that
sins leave men when sickness or old age comes,
which, however, does not tend to their repentance,
amendment, or salvation, though many who are robust
and healthy abandon and deceive themselves,
saying: I shall repent when I am old, when I lie
upon my death bed, or I care not longer to serve
the world; if any one sorrows for his sins then, and
the end is good, all is well.

“O vain consolation! for what kind of repentance
can that be, when one is no longer able to commit
sin and wickedness? it is nothing but mocking the
Lord, sinning presumptuously, and rejecting his
grace. O that all men captive in sin at the will of
the devil (2 Tim. 2:26), would always consider this,
and thus give the more diligence, so that through
grace their souls might become disengaged and free
from the snares of the devil, or sin; even as a prisoner
according to the body gives diligence to obtain
his liberty, so as to escape bodily death for a brief
and uncertain time yet, though he ultimately cannot
escape it. If men believed that God is just, and
that he will not suffer any evil to go unpunished in
impenitent sinners, they would be terrified, and
through fear of God’s righteous judgment forsake
their sins; but now they are comforted in their misfortune
by their preachers, with flattering words and
soothing sermons, with grace, peace, mercy and salvation;
whereas they ought to be reproved for their
sins, and threatened with the anger, wrath, fury and
displeasure of God (Rom. 2:8), and eternal damnation,
so that they might repent while the door of
grace is open for a little while yet. 2 Cor. 6:2.

“I know of nothing that so securely and firmly
holds men in the sleep of sin till the Lord comes as
a thief in the night, as to call good evil (Isa. 5:20),
the Gospel a sect (of which all manner of evil and
falsehoods are spoken), and to change the truth into
lies. The Christians are called heretics and deceivers;
every good work, virtue and righteousness is
so misnamed, perverted, painted in such abominable
colors, and the worst construction put upon them,
so that men are afraid of them, as though they
would be led astray by the truth, and of God. The
devil, on the other hand does not appear half so
ugly as he is represented and I have here described
him, but disguised by a beautiful semblance of love,
and changed and transformed into an angel of light,
as though he were sent of God, and were himself
God. 2 Thess. 2:4. Then are his lies called nothing
less than Gospel and truth; Babylon is called the
church of God; idolaters are styled my lords; lying
and cheating are termed prudence and cleverness;
fighting is called valor, and murder, simply misfortune;
and thus, many like shameful deeds, upon
which an honorable construction is put, so that evil
is called good. But woe unto such, as Isaiah says.
Is. 5:20. Thus, the ministers and children of the
devil know how to change, gloss over, name, and
construe in the most favorable light into good works
virtues, and all manner of righteousnesses, all their
evil works, vices, sins, and manifold unrighteousnesses;
as, avarice into industry and pride into neatness.

“Who can reprove them therein? And therewith
the devil blinds them so artfully and firmly to his
will, so that they think themselves to be pious
Christians, and are not willing to be reproved by
the truth for their sins, but claim to be unblamable
children of God; moreover, they say, like Christ’s
disciples: “Our Father, etc.” But let every one
examine himself, whether he is born of God, because
he knows how to palliate his sins; and whether
he so sanctifies and adorns the name of God, and
does his will, and whether he carries himself before
God as an obedient child before his father; otherwise
he joins lie upon lie in his prayer, which in that
case is a curse and an abomination before God. In
short, he that committeth sin is born of the devil,
and knoweth not God, John 8:44; 1 John 3:8; and
they that are carnally minded cannot please God.
Hence, mark whom impenitent sinners call upon
as their father. Blind indeed must he be who
cannot perceive this, and hardened he that is not
willing to repent.

“O dear reader or hearer, if I may pray you, it is
my heartfelt desire of you, that you would always
consider (and regulate yourself accordingly,) that
men shall give an account of every idle word they
have spoken; how much more then of their deeds.
And every one shall receive the things done in his
body, according to that he hath done, whether it be
good or bad; namely, before the righteous judgment
of God, where anger, hatred, envy, yea, not loving
in deed and in truth, speaking scornfully or spitefully
to one’s brother, Raca, thou fool, or offending
him, will be deemed and judged murder, worthy of
the council, of judgment, and of hell fire. Matthew
5:22; 1 John 3. In like manner, disobedience will
be regarded as witchcraft; to look upon a woman to
lust after her, as adultery; and any other evil which
is desired with the heart, and consented to with the
will (though the power for, and the commission of
it be wanting), will be judged and punished as an
accomplished evil work. 1 Sam. 15:23; Matt. 5:28.
Not to keep his word, will be considered lying and
perjury, and a good oath, so called, will be as severely
recompensed as a bad oath; for Christ has
prohibited all swearing; Matt. 5, as also to hate
one’s enemies, and not to love them like one’s
friends; and many like things. Now mark how
adultery was punished under the law by the judges;
for those who committed adultery were stoned to
death. Lev. 20:10. And it is daily seen, how
witchcraft, homicide or murder are punished by the
secular lords with fire or the sword unto death.
Mark, how Adam, for one sin, likewise Cain, then
the whole world, with the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah,
and the adjacent cities, with fire and brimstone,
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Egypt, and afterwards the idolaters in Israel
and murmurers against Moses, were punished according
to the justice of God, for our example. Of
how much sorer punishment then are they worthy
who murmur against Christ, change his truth into
lies, and do not receive his grace and redemption
by faith, unto the amendment of their life, but reject
the same, living presumptuously in their sins.
Heb. 10:29; Rom. 1:25. God who did not spare
the angels who had sinned, will also not spare those
who through unbelief are unrighteous and false
Christians, but punish them with a sorer punishment
than Sodom and Gomorrah, which were turned
into ashes and condemned and overthrown for an
example unto all them that commit ungodliness, and
do not repent. 2 Pet. 2:4,6; Jude 6; Matt. 11:24;
2 Pet. 3.

“If then we are to be saved through God’s mercy,
we must repent, must be obedient children of God,
born again of him, and must follow Christ in the regeneration
and the footsteps of faith, through the
narrow way unto eternal life; nor are we then saved
through the merit of good works, but by the grace
which came through Christ. Eph. 2:5. For though
we lived holy, blameless, and perfect in all righteousness
(as the Scriptures require), and suffered
for the truth a death more bitter than that of Christ
which with us men is impossible, yet we could not
be saved through our own good works, but only
by God’s mercy, and the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who alone has wrought out our salvation.
And if we sought or placed our salvation in our good
works or our sufferings, we should commit idolatry,
and we were our own idol, if we trusted in ourselves.
But now our salvation depends only on the mercy
of God, and not on our running and following after.
Rom. 9:16. Though we should run and follow after
ever so well (which is our bounden duty), so that we
attained, and already had, the perfection (that for
which we are apprehended of Christ), and had done
all those things which are commanded us, and
which it is our duty to do, we were yet only unprofitable
servants. Philip. 3:12; Luke 17:10. How much
more unprofitable then are we now, with our many
defects, though we willingly strive after and should
gladly perform that which is good, and are sorry
that we are not perfect298. Hence we have great
reason, and are in duty bound, to humble ourselves
very low under the abundant grace of God, and to
pray; for eternal life is a gift of God, and not a debt
or reward proceeding from our labor, merit, or good
works; for we are God’s workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus, unto good works, which God hath before
prepared that we should walk in them (Ephesians
2:10), as is our duty to do, in the least as well
as in the greatest. But the wages of sin is death;
hence we must hate and fear sin, that we do not
consent to or commit it, if we want to be saved by
the grace and gift of God. Thus, we are delivered
through Christ from the bonds of the devil, or sin;
let therefore no one say or hope that he is saved by
his good works, which are far too insufficient.
That, also, no one say: “Should we not take
thought, should we not gain a livelihood, else on
what should we live? except to them who say that
one is not to support himself by the labor of his
hands, but to go idle.” Matt. 6:25; Luke 12:22;
Eph. 4:28. And that, also, no one say: “No man
knows the hour and the day of the Lord, except
to those who have set the hour and the day, from
doing which may the Lord keep me.” Mark 13:32;
Matt. 24:42; Luke 12:40. Beware of frivolous babblers,
for scorners will speedily come to an end.
1 Cor. 15:33. And if, when you speak your mind,
or reprove with meekness that which does not meet
your approbation, and one resist you in the good,
be silent instantly, that you may retain your peace
and the tranquillity of your conscience. If it vex
you, do nevertheless not engage in contention, that
you may be found in peace when the Lord comes.
2 Pet. 3:14. We must here at any rate suffer violence
and wrong; but it will not last long; hence, let
us possess our souls in patience. Luke 21:19.

“The fourteenth week of my imprisonment, the
first day of January, so called, A. D. 1568. I trust
that the present year will not pass like the former.
Watch and pray, for you know neither the day nor
hour; but the godfearing may consider whether this
is the year in which the Lord will deliver his elect
and believers; let every one take warning.”





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