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with two Anabaptists of Kent . — So at the same time that Ridley exhorted Gardiner to receive the
true doctrine of justification , against which he was very refractory , he prayed him to be very diligent id confounding the Anabaptists in his diocese ; and that he would be steady in the defence of the sacrament against them . " Thus Pilate and Herod were made
friends , that Jesus might be effectually persecuted . This coalition of papist and protestant , was surely nothing better than an union of guides , alike blind to the rights of conscience and the requirements
of religion . . These scrupulous , and probably conscientiouschurchmen , could warmly differ , in expounding a conundrum of the schools , and yet cordially agree to persecute—strain out a gnat and
swallow a camel ; violate mercy one of the weightier matters of the law , and yet pay tithe of mint and ani&q and cummin * . The Anabaptists who were thus subjected to the ecclesiastical
censures of Gardiner and Ridley , appear to have professed more rational and truly scriptural views of that religion usage , unhappily entitled the sacrament , than even the latter prelate entertained . Ridley ^ had , in 1544 , been converted from a belief in traiisubstantiation ,
chiefly by meeting with u the Book of Bertram , or Ratramaus , priest * uid monk of * Corbey , concerning tfc& body and blood of the Lord 5 " M ^ ritten in lati n , about 840 , a translation of whiclj ^ by Ridley , or
und ^ his direction , was printed in idU ^ yi , SBfeiis * . as Strype remarks , ^ though ftidtey wens not for that Sjpas \ corporal ^ presence in the sactmvki ^ pydtiihe approved of t h reat-% m $ tet ^ wmmy ^ ktW M& 4 «*
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votion and honour , and affirmed that in it there was truly and verily the body and blood of Christ , effectually by grace and spirit . " Rid . ley ' s biographer , the Rev . Glocester Ridley , even writing so lately as 1 7 ^ 3 , commends the bishop ( P . 664 , ) for having < c always believed and maintained a real
presence by grace to faith , and not a mere figure only : although there were some English fanaticks , such as John Webb , George Roper , and Gregory Paske , who believed that
the sacrament was only a bare sign of Christ's body and nothing more than a remembrance of it ; " the very doctrine maintained with great ability , but I know not with what
consistency , by a late successor of Ridley ' s colleague , in the see of Winchester . I refer to Bishop Hoadley ' s Plain Account of the Noture and Design of the Lord ' s Supper * It will here be not
uninteresting to add , that these three English fanatics , as to whom bigotry and superstition may still account their > lives madness ^ and their end without honour , after escaping the
fire of protestant persecution , were burned together at Canterbury , in the reign of Mary , Clarke , in bis Martyrologie , ( P . 159 , ) having mentioned the bifrning of Ridley and La timer , in 1555 ; says ,
< About the same time , Jehu Webb % was brought before the Bishop of Dover , Doctor Harpsfield , and some others , where euch common articles were objected to him as against others , tQ whioh he
answered that he did belie , v § that the sacrament of the Lord's < Supper , was left in CQimunein ^ ra - tion of lujp death , and not tUaC it was transubstantiated into ^ iapbo ^ 4 y . ; . After which , he ^ witb f qqmg && rh 9 M& @r * g * ny PmfajmQMk
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Sketch ef English Protestant Persecution . Letter III . 3 ^ 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/23/
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