. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. kle city was blown about with o every wind of changing doctrine, and its magistrates had actually begun to treatwith Philips governor, when the earnest remonstrances of those of Brussels andAntwerp, of Orange and the States-General, brought them to their and entreaty, which had been liberally showered upon them, wereenforced by the detection of Imbize in a plot to sieze Dendermonde, midwaybetween Ghent and Mechlin. Ryhove, whom we remember as the execution
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. kle city was blown about with o every wind of changing doctrine, and its magistrates had actually begun to treatwith Philips governor, when the earnest remonstrances of those of Brussels andAntwerp, of Orange and the States-General, brought them to their and entreaty, which had been liberally showered upon them, wereenforced by the detection of Imbize in a plot to sieze Dendermonde, midwaybetween Ghent and Mechlin. Ryhove, whom we remember as the executionerof Hessels, happened to be in command there and to get notice of the attemptin time; it no doubt gave him pleasure to arrest his ancient rival and hand himover to the hangman, this time through due process of law. Ghent saw theexecution and profited by it, and Parmas plans in Flanders received a check,except at Bruges, which Chimay made over in May, 1584. The traitor wasdeserted by his wife, who had been the wealthy widow of young Berlaymont:she became a Calvinist and took refuge in Holland. Conversions of this kind. 620 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 621 among the nobles were at this time rare ; the tide had for years been settingthe other way. Ypres, in the southwest part of Flanders, fell after a long siege, and affordeda curious example of Catholic zeal. The bones of the Reformed, that they mightno longer pollute the earth, were dug up and hanged in their coffins. LivingProtestants were obliged to leave the town at once. The fagot and the stake werehappily out of date ; but no one knew when Spain might bring them in again. MURDER OF ORANGE. The price set by Philip on Williams head had inspired various assassinswith the complex purpose of serving at once the king, the Church, and their ownpockets. Besides those already mentioned, two missionaries of the ban had beenexecuted in 15S3-84 ; and a Frenchman had been released by his captors on prom-ising to do what he never inte
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