By Thieleman Van Bragt, Joseph F. Sohm
Classic picture debts of greater than 4,000 Christians who persisted pain, torture, and a martyr's dying as a result of their easy religion within the gospel of Christ. comprises greater than 50 finely unique etchings via famous Dutch artist Jan Luyken. Songs, letters, prayers, and confessions seem with the tales of many defenseless Christians who have been in a position to love their enemies and go back sturdy for evil.
This enormous ebook calls believers to stick with Jesus in all components of existence, even unto loss of life. someway, real Christian dedication calls for perfect discipleship and steadfast adherence to the lessons modeled via Jesus and his apostles.
Written and released in 1659 by way of a Dutch Mennonite, Thieleman J. van Braght, to bolster the religion of his fellow believers, and translated into German in 1748 on the time of the French and Indian battle for a similar cause. In 1886 Martyrs replicate used to be translated into English to problem generations of Christians in North America.
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O corroding and cankering luxury, that draggest after thee such a train of unspeakable miseries! Help, Lord, that our soul be delivered from all these dangers. But what danger would there be, if none but the open enemies of God and His holy truth were guilty in this matter? What harm could be done, if they alone, and no others, would arouse and call down upon themselves the wrath of God? For then every pious and serious soul would beware of their example as of a savage beast, venomous serpent, or deadly basilisk.
For Thine, O God, is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. T. J. VAN BRAGHT. Dort, July the 23rd, 1659. -The ADVERTISEMENT by the Dutch Publishers is omitted, as we deem it irrelevant to the present Edition. -Translator. * What is said of Onesiphorus according to the body, we have experienced in the spirit. " II Tim. 1:16. Page 6 AUTHOR'S PREFACE To My Beloved Friends and Companions in Christ Jesus Our Saviour Next to God we are joined to our fellow-believers who have received the same faith with us; and we shall therefore address ourselves to them.
35:2; Zeph. 1:8; Isa. 3:16-24. The giving and attending great dinners, lavish banquets and wedding-feasts (though one may never be found in taverns or tippling-houses), where everything is in profusion, and where the beneficent gifts of the Lord which should not be used otherwise than with great thankfulness, and of which a portion naturally belongs to the poor, are squandered and consumed without the least necessity, even by those who are considered sober and temperate, is an incontrovertible evidence of a sensual and wanton heart; and proves also that those who have much to do with these things, cannot be exculpated from living after the flesh; for which carnal life certainly has no promise of salvation, but on the contrary, many severe threatenings of the wrath and displeasure of God, nay, of eternal damnation, are recorded in the blessed leaves of the Word of God, which contains nothing but the truth.
