Jan Hulle, at Ypres, in the Year 1561

As it is found that the wolf will generally follow his inborn ravenous nature, and that the sheep can therefore make no firm agreement with him, but stand in constant danger of being devoured by him, so it appeared in the year 1561 in the city of Ypres, in Flanders, where a God-fearing lamb of Jesus Christ, namely, an old man named Jan Hulle, was seized and arrested by these devouring wolves. There he had to undergo and endure many severe conflicts with them, not for any crime, but only for living according to the Word of God, from which they sought by tyranny to draw him away and make him apostatize. But since he, as befits an obedient follower of Jesus Christ, had yielded himself to the voice of his only Shepherd, he fled from these strangers, and would not listen to them. For this reason he was condemned to death by the lords of this world, and was thus burned at that place. In all this he, as a valiant soldier of Jesus Christ, armed himself with patience, and through faith steadfastly endured all these sufferings inflicted on him. And since in this he was not ashamed of Christ and His truth, but openly confessed Him before lords and princes, and testified and confirmed it with his death and blood, therefore Christ, when He comes in the clouds of heaven, in the glory of His Father, will not be ashamed of him. He will confess him before His Father, and set him on His right hand, and bid him enter with all the blessed into the kingdom prepared for them from the beginning, that is, into the eternal glory of heaven.