Identifier: illustratedchris1854spar (find matches)
Title: The illustrated Christian martyrology : being an authentic and genuine historical acount of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Sparry, C
Subjects: Persecution Martyrs Torture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Leary & Getz
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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e, thatexample of the thief on the cross, encour- s it may be glorified thereby, and for thy dear !aged him not to despair, since he was re- > Son, Jesus Christs sake. And now, there-turned, though late, into the bosom of the I fore, Our Father, etc., church. lie also assured him, that dirges I He then rose up, exhorted thf people to/ and masses should be said for his soul in s a contempt of this world, to obsdience to/ all the churches of Oxford. their sovereign, and to mutual love and As soon as the archbishop perceived, charity. He told them, that being now on\ from Coles sermon, what was the bloody ; the brink of eternity, he would declare untoI decree, struck with horror at the base in- them his faith, without reserve or dissimula-\ humanity of such proceedings, he gave, by tion: he then repeated the apostles creed, and\ all his gestures, a full proof of the deep < professed his belief thereof, and of all things\ anguish of his soul. i contained in the Old and New Testament
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MARTYRDOM OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER. Page 11> S~ THE CHRISTIAN MARTYROLOGY. 8199 \ By speaking thus in general terms, theattention of the audience was kept up ; butamazement continued that attention, whenthey heard him, instead of reading his re-cantation, declare his great and unfeignedrepentance, for having been induced tosubscribe the popish errors ; he lamented,with many tears, his grievous fall, and de-clared that the hand which had so offended,should be burned before the rest of his body. He then renounced the pope in most ex-press terms, and professed his belief con-cerning the eucharist to be the same, withwhat he had asserted in his book againstGardiner. This was a great disappointment to thepapists : they made loud clamors, andcharged him with hypocrisy and falsehood :to which he meekly replied, that he wasa plain man, and never had acted the hypo-crite, but when he was seduced by them toa recantation. He would have gone on further, but Colecried, Stop the heretics mouth, and

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