# Of A Certain Writing From Switzerland, Touching The Threats Made By Those Of Berne Against The Anabaptists In Those Parts, A. D. 1645.

1645 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF A CERTAIN WRITING FROM SWITZERLAND, TOUCHING THE THREATS MADE BY THOSE OF BERNE AGAINST THE ANABAPTISTS IN THOSE PARTS, A. D. 1645.

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Now when some brethren and sisters in the Swiss
dominions had died in prison, of misery, want, hunger
and grief, but five still lived in confinement, the
remaining ones who were yet out of bonds, when
they were threatened, especially by those of Berne,
that they should expel them all from the country,
and seize their goods, and sell them, had recourse,
next to God, with an humble and friendly letter, to
their fellow believers in Holland and elsewhere in
1063the Netherlands, requesting that they should everywhere
fervently call upon God the Lord in their
behalf, for comfort and grace, to the end that they
might patiently endure that which might come upon
them according to the flesh, for his holy name’s
sake.

This letter was written the 22d of July, old style,
in the year of our Lord 1645, and was signed by

Hans Duster, at Baltzen, an elder
 in the word of the Lord.

 From the Berne jurisdiction.

Ruth Kunstel, at Muchem,
 a minister in the word of the Lord. 

Ruth Hagen, an elder.

 From the Zurich jurisdiction.

Hans Mully, a minister.

Hans Stuss, a minister.

What followed therefrom, and how it subsequently
went with those who were imprisoned, can be seen in
a subsequent account, in a marginal note, in connection
with Ully Wagman.

But as to how the poor wanderers that were not
imprisoned managed in their misery and poverty,
we have received no clear information, but it can
be sufficiently inferred from the sad condition of
affairs.

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