Een liedtboecxken, tracterende van den offer des Heeren.

I would live and die with them,
For I heard with clear certainty
That the Scripture says nothing else.
I was astonished beyond measure
At the talk of these young men.

A fine confession they have made,
And confessed their faith,
In every matter according to the Scripture’s admonition,
Forward to the other generation on the spot,
Mat. 28. b. 18.

† Mt. 26. f. 25

1. Cor. 11. c. 22

Than Baptism and the Sacrament
Imprinted in the heart by God’s spirit;
For of that which they were full,
They gave out without sparing.

Judge us rightly, they said,
And will you now give a verdict
If that faith is right and good
For which we give our lives,
And we will not waver from it?
And that all to the Lord’s praise,
‡ Who has not forsaken us

Eccl. 2. b. 11

When we sat in darkness.

They brought many scriptures forward,
That here is too long to read,
And all who have heard that
Gave it to be the same.
Then the brothers spoke thus:
How are you so wicked
That you go and teach
The way of the Lord so wrongly?

Further, what a Sophist said

That comes from such plagues,
In no * stone-root A likely reference to a lack of foundation or "rock" in their faith. will we
* solidity

Be struck with you now.
Over seven or eight years’ time
I will still do profit,
Then I will spread the truth.
But soon he departed from here.

Alas (this was the brothers’ admonition),

• You have neither evening nor morning.
  Prov. 27. a. 1.

Jacob. 4. b.

You acknowledge: we have done no wrong,
Why do you want to strangle us?
Then the whole Council spoke:
That is what the Emperor’s edict The official imperial decree prohibiting Anabaptist activities. does;
He has commanded thus,
So we must kill you.

Call freely for the Edict in the judgment quickly,
See what it will profit you,
Whether it will then justify you well;
I fear you shall be forsaken.
Through that, the Prophets were killed,
And the old Eleazar, great,
2. Mac. 6. c. 18

‡ 2. Mac. 7. a. 1

‡ The mother with her seven sons

Are thus deprived of life.

When now the hour had come,
They have arisen together,
All to the Town Hall, where the sheep, quickly,
Are sentenced to death,
By condemnation without cause,
To burn each at a stake,
Thus is that verdict given.