William van Louvain, in the Year 1554

In the year 1554, a pious witness of God named William Van Louvain, the grandfather of Jan Doom, was put to death at Ghent, in Flanders, for the testimony of the truth. He did not suffer for any crime or heresy, but only for the testimony of the truth, in a good conscience, having renounced the Babylonian whore, together with her lovers, and all her false worship, and united himself with Christ, following Him with his whole heart in the regeneration, and through faith overcoming this world with all that is in it. So he finally, through grace, obtained the end of the faith, that is, eternal salvation, through Christ Jesus.