History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

a sweet sleep, without any motions or convulsions
of his head and body, or contortions of his eyes.
This was the end of John de Bakker, the first
martyr in Holland for the doctrine of Luther. The
next clay Bernard the monk, Gerard Wormer,
William of Utrecht, and perhaps also Gnaphaeus
himself, were to have been put to death, had not the
constancy of our proto-martyr softened a little the
minds of his judges."[17]
Footnotes:
1. Gerdesius, tom. 3., pp. 23 -- 25.
2. "Totum peccatum tolerans et tollens."
(Gerdesius, tom. 3., Appendix, p. 18.)
3. Gerdesius, tom. 3., pp. 28 -- 30.
4. See ante, vol. 1, bk. 9., chap. 6, p. 506.
5. "Dirutum est penitusque eversum." (Gerdesius
tom. 3., p. 29.)
6. See ante, vol. 1., bk. 9., chap. 3, p. 490.
7. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 45.
8. Gerdesius, tom. 3., p. 37. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 51.
9. Gerdesius, tom. 3., p. 39.
10. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 56. Gerdesius, tom. 3., p. 56.
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