17th century (source section) · Source account
Further Observation.
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Whether this decree by those of Groningen and Sneeck caused any serious oppression, then or about that time, by way of banishment or the like, to those baptized according to Christ’s ordinance, we have not been able to learn; but that they afterwards in those places proceeded much more severely than the decree justified, by hard imprisonment, etc., against those people, we have found only too much to have been the case; however to the great good and happiness of those who suffered 1044 this for the testimony of the Lord and his holy truth.
Moreover, said year did not end without the shedding of blood of the saints, and the spoiling of their goods, in the parts of Witgensteyn, as will appear from the following account.
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FURTHER OBSERVATION.
Second Part. · AN ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO SUFFERED IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,
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