History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

The same city and the same convent furnished
another Reformer yet more intrepid than Spreng.
This was Henry of Zutphen. He, too, had sat at the
feet of Luther, and along with his doctrine had
carried away no small amount of Luther's dramatic
power in setting it forth. Christ's office as a Savior
he finely put into the following antitheses: -- "He
became the servant of the law that he might be its
master. He took all sin that he might take away
sin.[2] He is at once the victim and the vanquisher
of death; the captive of hell, yet he it was by whom
its gates were burst open." But though he refused to
the sinner any share in the great work of expiating
sin, reserving that entirely and exclusively to the
Savior, Zutphen strenuously insisted that the
believer should be careful to maintain good works.
"Away," he said, "with a dead faith." His career in
Antwerp was brief. He was seized and thrown into
prison. He did not deceive himself as to the fate
that awaited him. He kept awake during the silent
hours of night, preparing for the death for which he
looked on the coming day.
Suddenly a great uproar arose round his prison.
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