# “God shattered that man” by Franciscus Junius

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- Published: 2019-05-27T16:00:24-05:00
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“On Friday the eighteenth of October I held our first assembly among the residents
of Limburg in a field not far from Herve, along the road that leads to Liège.

The crowd was large enough. There a certain man positioned himself behind me, armed
with a hunting spear and having sworn before that he would kill me if he could get
within a spear’s length of me.

God shattered that man, though leaving his spear intact, to such an extent that 
he listened calmly and with a peaceful mind to the Word of the Lord.”

–Franciscus Junius, [_A Treatise on True Theology: With the Life of Franciscus Junius_](https://amzn.to/2Ctilje),
trans. David C. Noe (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 1594/2014), 61-
62.

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