[1] Along with Walter Deloenus, he was named by royal charter a pastor of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars in London in 1550.
He served until 1553, when he was forced to flee as a result of the Marian persecution.
He was then minister of the Dutch Reformed congregation in Norden, Lower Saxony, from 1554 to 1559, when he died from the plague.
In 1554, he published De christlicke ordinancien der Nederlantscher ghemeynten Christi, in which he promoted expository preaching: "the Scriptures are not expounded in sermons on isolated pericopes, as in the practice among the papists.
Instead, we take some book of the Bible, either from the Old or the New Testament, and we expound it from the beginning to the end.