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damps and putrefaction ; pale , torpid , spiritless and helpless ;
and were at last whelmed in pits , without notice and without remembrance . Yet from £ very tin fee ling passage in Latimer * s 4 th sermon , preached before King Edward VK it may be inferred that even the executions were not few . He says , ' the Anabaptists that were burnt here , in many towns in England , as I heard of credible men , I saw them not myself , went to their death , as we will say , without any fear in the world , cheerfully . Well ^ let them go / 9 Latimer then compares them to ( g anotherkind of poisoned heretics , called Donatists , " who < 6 went to their execution , as though they
should have gone to some jolly recreation or banquet , to some belly cheer , or to a play / ' Latimer ' * Sermons , 17 ^ 8 , ii . 140 . The records preserved of prosecutions and sentences under this
commission are , however , very scanty , yet considering the impending fate of the principal commissioners themselves , and their zeal for God , though not
according to knowledge ^ we may consider them as strikingly exhibiting ,
according to Shakespeare , Man ! proud man , Drest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he ' s most assured . f have pursued a more' circuitous course than I expected , and must again propose in another letter to conclude the sketch of
Protestant persecution in England during the reign of Edward . R . G . S .
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Unitarians in Transylvahta . Sir , ' I lament that the inquiries of Senex (]>» 92 ) have not called f 6 rfh
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Secondarily , that the said Champjfiees with all speed convenient , and with all his diligence , procure as many of his books as are past forth in his name , to be called in
again and utterly destroyed , as much as in him shall lie . " Next appears their Christian method of restoring a brother in the spirit of meekness . ' * Thirdly , that the Said Champnees , on Sunday next ,
shall attend at Paul's cross upon the preacher , all the time of the sermon , and there penitently stand before the preacher aforesaid with a faggot on his shoulder . '* ( Con . cil . Mag , Brit . iv . 39 ) .
We are now arrived again at the year 1549 , where 1 find contemporary with the commission for Protestant persecution , a session of Parliament ending with iS an act of grace and general pardon , " 4
excepting those who said C that infants were hot to be baptized , and if they were baptized , that they ought to be rebaptized when they come to lawful age—that
Christ took no bodily substance of our blessed lady . " Strype , from whom I quote this passage ( Ec . Mem . ii . 189 ) adds , " Those who held these tenets were those
called Anabaptists , whereof several were now in prison / 5 ' These prisoners must have been confined to await the ^ sentence of the so often mentioned commission .
The names and stories of very few of them have been preserved , though they were probably numerous . For the well-known passage of Johnson on war may , with a slight alteration of terms , * be applied to
persecution . x < Of the thousands and tens of thousands that perish * ^ ed , a Very small part ever Teh the stroke of an executioner , v Th 6 res t languished in dungeons * amidst
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/25/
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