An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . unning and their power) to[ac]knowledge prudently the truth of GODs Word! when,where, and to whom that they think their [ac]knowledgingmay profit. Yea, and though therefore, persecution come tothem, in one wise or another, certes, they patiently take it!knowing their conversation to be in heaven. It is a high reward and a special grace of GOD for tohave and enjoy as the everlasting inheritance of heaven, forthe suffering of one persecution in so short a time as is theterm of this life. For, lo, this heavenly heritage and end-les
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . unning and their power) to[ac]knowledge prudently the truth of GODs Word! when,where, and to whom that they think their [ac]knowledgingmay profit. Yea, and though therefore, persecution come tothem, in one wise or another, certes, they patiently take it!knowing their conversation to be in heaven. It is a high reward and a special grace of GOD for tohave and enjoy as the everlasting inheritance of heaven, forthe suffering of one persecution in so short a time as is theterm of this life. For, lo, this heavenly heritage and end-less reward is the LORD GOD Himself! which is the bestthing that may be. This Sentence witnesseth the LORDGOD Himself, whereas He said to Abraham, I am thy mede!And as the LORD said He was, and is the mede of Abraham;so He is of all His other saints. This most blessed and best mede He grant to us all I for His holy name, that made us of nought, and sent His only most dear worthy Son, our Lord Jesu Christ, for to redeem us with His most precious hearts blood. I07 [Cfje examination of sirlililltam of Cljorpe.] NowN be it to all men that read or hearthis Writing beneath, that on the Sundaynext [August yth] after the Feast of St. Peterthat we call Lammas [August ist], in theyear of our Lord a thousand four hundredseventh year, I, William of Thorpe, beingin prison in the castle of Saltwood [nearHythe, in Kent], was brought before ThomasArundell, Archbishop of Canterbury, and [Lord] Chan-cellor then of England. And when that I came to him, he stood in a great chamber,and much people [were] about him; and when that he sawme, he went fast into a closet [private room], bidding allsecular men [laymen] that followed him, to go forth from himsoon; so that no man was left then in that closet, but theArchbishop himself, a physician that was called Malveren[, John Malverne, ], Parson of St. Dunstans[Church, in Tower Street] in London, and two other personsunknown to me, which we
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