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    endoe libertatis a ^ parabantur intercedtnle uj > ud Ducissam jt ) . ^ r < - tectons Joanna ilia Cqntigna , quce turn frequehs ei in careere tnip , is r travit .

    Thus this excellent woman went about dtiirig good , till sbe bec arpe herself a prisoner ; being brougjnt before the Commissioners in Mary * s CkaptLSt . Paul ' s , April 30 , 1540 , Tfee process against her , which would now be a curiosity , I have

    not been able to discover . Bur * next ( ii Rec . 1 ^ 2 . ) has preserved the sentence and the report to the king . The Commissioners whose names have incurred an indelible disgrace , \> y their presence on this occasion ; were ^ Cranmer , LatimeT ,, who now resided with the Archbishop as his confidential associate ^ Sir Thomas Smith , Cook , Doah of Arches , and Lyall , Doctor of Laws .

    Joan Bocher has been considered as an Arian Anabaptist , but what were her peculiar sentimentb upon various points of theology , it is now in vaii ) to enquire . The only heresy imputed to her was an abstruse metaphysical nation

    respectijtig the nature of Christ , which she appeared disposed io honour tp 4 an uqscriptural excess , such as the evident ardoui c ^ fyet piety might not allow her , to pejreeive . "Fox describes hei . eiror as , re . * spectiiig the humanity of yC J ^ ri ^ t ? wtiLch she believed to b $ t dexpended

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    i * y } fX Latin , ; ac , cor < jing-tp theth ^ n prevailing custooi . . It ijs addressed to the prisoner ^ y ibe ^ Co ^ mmission * ers , whqinyojee ^ thena / ne of Christ , and profess to present him as God alQne ^ before their eyes . Christi nomine invocatp 9 qc ipsvtm solum Deum prasjoculis nostris habtntes *

    She is reminded of having maintained , before the Commissioners , iu frequent confessions and declarations , a certain wicked and intol - erable error , damned heresy and scandalous opinion * Hefandum

    et tntolerabilem err or em , hocresi r ^ damnatam et scandalosam opinioncm subscriptam * Then follows a description of the heresy , , in plainer terms than would now be

    justifiable , but which you may probably be inclined to excuse , for the sake of preserving verbal exactness , in an important historical document . Viz * That you believe * that the word wa £ made

    Jiesh in the Virgin ' s belly $ s but that Christ took Jiesh of the Virgin f you believe not ; because thp < flesh of the Virgin , being the pptzvard man , was sinfully gotten , jandhorn in sin ; but the voQrdy bythecpji ^ sent of the inward man ufjtf ^ e Kit " gin , was made flesh . For this opinion

    the prisoner is excommunicated , as an obstinate heretic , and deli T veered over to the secular arm ^ her judges satisfying themselves ,, that they performed this strange \ york for men bearing the jpame of Christian , with grief of soul and bitterness of heart ; cum animi dolore et Gdjrdis amaritudine . . i w

    . Orj receiving this sentence , Joau ( M Bpcher is M repojtsd , according tQ Stfjpe ^ « m . iiV . 3 . 14 . ) m : htef * thus addressed her judges i * ' ft is a g 0 ^^ m atter fo consider yo ^ r ignorance . I * wm not > long agp sinp © you burned _ Ann # J [ scue ftwr

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    364 Sketch of English Pxq $ e $ tant £ er&ectytio % z ~ r-LeU < er IK

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/20/