Lippijntgen Stayerts, in the Year 1569

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Lippijntgen Stayerts, in the Year 1569

In the year 1569 there was put to death, at Ghent, in Flanders, by the maintainers of the Roman antichrist, for the genuine truth and the practice of it, a woman by the name of Lippijntgen Stayerts, the wife of Pieter Stayerts, about Saint Peter's day, not because of any crime, but only for the sure truth, since she had renounced the world and all its false, invented lies, and had submitted herself to the prince of truth, Christ Jesus, listening with obedient ears to the blessed voice of truth, and shunning all strangers contrary to it. Therefore she shall also, with all the obedient sheep that have heard and followed this voice, at the revelation of His glory, hear the words: "Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning." Matthew 25, verse 34.