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two other godly men , were all brought forth together ; who all constantly adhering to the truth , were condemned , and carried lo to the place of their martyrdom .
By the way they said divers psalms . Roper , at the stake , putting off his gown , fetched a great leap . And so they all three were consumed in the flames , at Canterbury , abiding their torments moat patiently , and rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christ's gospel sake . " These were probably Anabaptists , and two of them might be those with whom Gardiner and
Ridley were appointed to deal , in 1547 . There was , about the same time , one Robert Cook , expressly called an Anabaptist , by Strype , who iC denied original sin , and con - cerning the LoVd ' s Supper dispersed divers odd things , " by which he " created trouble to
Paikhurst and Coverdale . " By the assistance of the same industrious enquirer , Strype , I find that in the next year , 1548 , an attempt was made to engage the growing mind of the young king , now eleven years of age , on the
side of persecution . " William Thomas , Esq . ( afterwards execu . ted for treason in the reign of MaryX' drew up for the special use of Edward , a large collection of thoughts , on civil and ecclesiastic
t ? 8 ti government , entitled " Quesw tio&s of State Policy . " Of these * , the following is the tenth / " Whe . th ^ k ^ religioiv , beside the honour of God : be not also the greatest stay of civil order , and whether the
unity thereof be not to be preserved with the sword and rigour ? ' * ( M . ii . 101 . ) This useful hint was soon flowed by a proclamation et forth , mast consistently by a
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protestant council , who , as Luther said of himself , should be always learners , " to put an end to all controversies in religion . " We presently find a goodly com - pany of Protestant persecutors , among whom were Cranmer , Latimer and Sir Thomas Smith ,
sitting in judgment , April 27 , 1548 , " in the chapel of the blessed Mary in St . Paul ' s , " upon one John Champnies , of Stratford on the
Bow , in the county of Middlesex . This clergyman appears , by Strype ' s narration of his opinions , to have refined upon the doctrines of grace , as the harsh and exclusive
dogmas of Calvin are improperly called , till he published a took in favour of the system called Anti-Twmian . He was , however , now brought fc utterly to abjure the
said errors , and airother heresies , false doctrines , and damned opinions contained in his bookj and all other Anabaptists * efrors , arid all other heresies in general , contrary to the faith of Christ . "
Jortin has remarked ( Eccl . Hfst . Pref . )> a * quoted by Wafciefield ( Mem . 1 . 123 ) , "Men will coiripel others , not to think with them , for that is impossible , but to say tktp dft , upon which they obtain full leave not to think or reason at all ; and this is called
Unity S * Vlfrth such unifyi p £ rsefeut 6 fi * df every agte arid discrfptfon ftaVe bfeeh obliged t 6 be coriten «; tb cm ^ h no doufbh : they haVe often tegrttfed the irafeerfeMbtoof "hqmiri'htifi ?
that ; as ^ Y&tfftg * re \ V fe ^ tatift * if , th ^ y cannot « ¦ « take vetjjgeaik : epn the miritif Cranmer and hw 4 fsociateis accepted the submission of their prisoner , imposing the f 6 U lowi ^ ^ iiffe *^ ffat nifiiMi * bitiow td ^ pM ^ mm ^ : & ^ h ^
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SO 4 Sketch of English Protestant Persecution . Letter III
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/24/
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