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godlye historye throughout . But
munire , should he omit and let pass certain rites and ceremonies offensive to his conscience . " ( Ridley ' s Life , p . 312- ) In justice to the memory of Ridley , who appeared prominent in this persecution of Hooper , it should be
mentioned that they afterwards became intimate friends as hinted by Fox , before they were united by the sufferings ot martyrdom . The author of Ridley ' s Life ( 1763 , ) quotes the following passage from his letters to Hooper , when they were iC
both in prison . My dear Brother , I understand by your works that we thoroughly agree , and wholly consent together , in those things which are the grounds and substantial points of our religion , howsoever in time past , in smaller matters and circumstances of
religion , your wisdom and my simplicity made us to think differently . " ( p . 324 ) . At page 220 , 1 ven . tured to describe the Reformers , as wanting nothing but a safe opportunity to burn popish idol ators as well as idols . As this is
& hard saying for Protestants , even now , - to hear , I beg leave to sustain my opinion , with a passage which I ¦ have since met with in Bale ' s account of Lord
Cob ham , first published 1544 , of which . I have a reprint in 1729-At the conclusion (? . 109 ) he compliments 4 * Kynge Henry e the VHL now Lyvyng , " who 4 C after the ; most go <} lye example of Kyng * jfosto * , vyayted the temples of his
realme , ' and f * utteriye ^ amonge other , destroyed the 3 yra * eftiU ahryne of Becket . " Bate adds , 4 < If he had upon that and soche other abhoraynable shrynes brent those ; ^ dolatroufle prestes , which w ^ m ^^ laad are yet , ) theyr chefo »» ynteniers , hd hfd fulfylled that
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that which was not than perfourm - ed in hope of theyt amendement , maye by chaunce lyght upon thein herafter , whan no gentyll warnynge will seme to be regarded . "
This priest of the reformation , who had been a protegi of Lord Cromwell , on whose fall he retired into the Low Countries , appears to anticipate a Hecatomb , if I msty be allowed the expression , of
popish victims , as' a burnt-offering to protestant ascendancy , on the accession of Edward . By those who really governed , in the name of that Prince , Bale was recalled , beneficed in England , and at length
made Bishop of Ossery in Ireland ; where , according to Dr . Lei and , the historian , he became * a violent and acrimonious impugnerof popery . '' The advancement of
such an avowed Jierce polemic ^ shews what the papist * would prd ^ bably have suffered from , protestant persecutors , had time and o p ** portunity matured their purpose *
And now , before I return to th ^ sufferers under the commission , aiv account of which concluded HByi last letter , I shaft mention some earlier instances of protestant persecution , which then escaped imp
notice . - During the first year of Edward's reign , there appear to have been , expectation ? of GardinerV eventual conformity to the ftfew faith , which had been established by a new Head of the church . £ t&
was now joined ? with Ridley , in m protestant crusade against the dkxito baptists * Strype ia my authority for this rather curioua faot , in fail Eccles . Mem * ( ii-, 6 d , ) wl >^ re he ohserves , at dieen ^ lici | he year 1 547 * €€ At tl ^ i ^ tHnj ^ Gardsmer mad Ridley , were appointed to d ^ l
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302 Sketch of English Protestant Persecution . Letter III .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/22/
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