. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . ies against her. Do you know, said Latimer, who is the most diligentbishop in England? I see you listening and hearkeningthat I should name him. I will tell you. It is the is never out of his diocese; you shall never find himidle. Call for him when you will, he is ever at home, he isever at the plow. You shall never find him remiss, I war-rant you. Where the devil is resident, there away withbooks, and up with candles; away with Bibles, and up withbeads; away with the light of the gospel, and up with
. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . ies against her. Do you know, said Latimer, who is the most diligentbishop in England? I see you listening and hearkeningthat I should name him. I will tell you. It is the is never out of his diocese; you shall never find himidle. Call for him when you will, he is ever at home, he isever at the plow. You shall never find him remiss, I war-rant you. Where the devil is resident, there away withbooks, and up with candles; away with Bibles, and up withbeads; away with the light of the gospel, and up with thelight of wax tapers, yea, at noonday; down with Christscross, up with the purgatory pick-purse; away with clothingthe naked, the poor, the impotent; up with the decking ofimages and the gay garnishing of stones and stocks; downwith God and his most holy Word; up with traditions,human councils, and a blinded pope. Oh that our prelateswould be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine asSatan is to sow cockle and darnel! The grand principle maintained by these reformers—the. ENGLISH MARTYRS UNDER QUEEN MARY. LATER ENGLISH REFORMERS. 249 same that had been held by the Waldenses, by Wycliffe, byJohn Huss, by Luther, Zwingle, and those who united withthem—was the infallible authority of the Holy Scripturesas a rule of faith and practice. They denied the right ofpopes, councils, Fathers, and kings, to control the consciencein matters of religion. The Bible was their authority, andby its teaching they tested all doctrines and all claims. Faith in God and his Word sustained these holy men asthey yielded up their lives at the stake. Be of good com-fort, exclaimed Latimer to his fellow-martyr as the flameswere about to silence their voices, we shall this day lightsuch a candle in England as, I trust, by Gods grace shallnever be put out. In Scotland the seeds of truth scattered by Columba andhis co-laborers had never been wholly destroyed. For hun-dreds of years after the church
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