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GLEANINGS; mnf SEJLECTlOlyrS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IK A COCTKSE Of GE^TEItA.'t HEADING.
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I No , 90 . An Englishman the jtr $ t Protest * ant victim of the Inquisition in Spain . * Thfe first that suffered martyrdom in Spain for being a Pro - testant , fhart we read of , was Mr .
Nicholas Burton , an Mnghsh factor who was burnt at Seville in the reign df Queen Mary , ofEng-Imd . Mr . Burton ' goods and notes having been all seized when be was apprehended ^ the merchants « f London- to -whom those
goods and notes belonged , sent one Mr . Frarnpton to recover them and dispose of them ; But the Inquisitors , after having baffled Mr . Frampton for softie
months with frivolous pretences , did put a full stop to feis negocialion , by imprisoning him oil suspicion of heresyJ *—Geddes Tracts * i . 456 .
In the same volume ( p . 406 ) is a passage worthy of being quoted , especially as the author witnessed tlie scene which he describes . Having mentioned the treatment of prisoners that are to be burnt * Uve , " how " if they offer to speak any thing in defence of the doctrines they are going to suffer death for professing , they are immediately gagged ; '' he add s , uv This I saw done to a prisoner ,
presently after he came out of the gates of the Inquisition , upon his having looked up to the sun , which « e had not seen before in several years and eryed out in a rapture , « gw is it possible for people that bmoldtkat glorious body to worship *« y being tut him that created it !*'
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No . $ 2 . Martyrdom and Truth not iogL gically connected . Savonarola , a most pious and learned monk of the J 5 th century , preached with great force and eloquence in Italy , against the
corruptions df the court of Rome , and the flagitipus life and practices of Pope Alexander the 6 th > who not being able to silence him , condemned him to be hanged : of whom Dr . Jer . Tayloi * tells the following story : Ci
Two Franciscan ^ friars offered themselves to the fire , to prove Savonarola to be an heretic . But a certain jacobin offered hiftu self to the fire , to prove that Savonarola had true revelations ,
Gleanings; Mnf Sejlectlolyrs And Reflections Made Ik A Coctkse Of Ge^Teita.'T Heading.
GLEANINGS ; mnf SEJLECTlOlyrS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IK A COCTKSE Of GE ^ TEItA . ' t HEADING .
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No . 9 i ? Unitarian Fund . It is the fashion to praise Edmund Burke . Even those that cannot forget his apostacy or his pension , are forward to celebrate his divine eloquence * Let him then for once be heard in favour
oi the Unitarian Fund ; an institution which , last of all . might be expected to receive countenance from his writings . Speaking of the men of light and leading in England , he says ,
" They have been taught that the circumstance of the gospel ' s being preached to the poor , was one of the great tests of its true mission . They think , therefore , that those do not believe it , who do not take care it should bt preached to the poor . "—Reflect . 351 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/47/
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