Absalom van Tomme, or the Singer, in the Year 1558

All who would follow Christ must take His cross upon them; this was experienced by one brother, Absalom van Tomme, or the Singer, who was arrested for the truth at Kortrijck, in Flanders, in the year 1558. After he had been examined, and had made confession of his faith, he was severely assailed with threats and tortures, to make him apostatize; but he remained steadfast in everything, and firmly trusted in God, so that he was sentenced to death, and burned, showing himself a good disciple or servant of Christ, who did not want to be above his Master, but like Him, so that he might enter into the kingdom of God, even as Christ had to suffer to enter into His glory.