Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution .. . eply of the shrewd merchant, what of that ?The bishop will burn them anyhow, and it is best that you shouldhave the money to print others instead. And so the bargain was made: The bishop had the books,Pakington had the thanks, and Tyndale had the money. I am the gladder, quoth Tyndale, for these two benefits shallcome of it: I shall get money to bring myself out of debt, and thewhole world will cry out against the burning of Gods word. Theoverplus of the money
Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution .. . eply of the shrewd merchant, what of that ?The bishop will burn them anyhow, and it is best that you shouldhave the money to print others instead. And so the bargain was made: The bishop had the books,Pakington had the thanks, and Tyndale had the money. I am the gladder, quoth Tyndale, for these two benefits shallcome of it: I shall get money to bring myself out of debt, and thewhole world will cry out against the burning of Gods word. Theoverplus of the money that remains shall enable me to correct thesaid New Testament, and then newly to print the same again, andI trust the second will be much better than ever was the first thatI printed. After this the newly printed Testaments came thick and fast intoEngland. The bishop then sent for Pakington again, and asked howit came that the books were still so abundant. My lord, repliedthe merchant, truly I think it were best for you to buy up thestamps too by which they are imprinted. That this advice was notfollowed it is needless to BURNING TYNDALES TESTAMENTS AT ST PAULS. LONDON. 356 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. Tyndales Enemies say His Book is Full of Errors. The enemies of Tyndale began at last to see that a Testamentwhich was set in type and continually printed was beyond their powerto destroy. Bishop Tonstal profited by his lesson, and instead ofbuying and burning any more of the books, he preached a famoussermon at Pauls Cross, declaring its naughtiness, and assertingthat he himself had found in it more than two thousand errors, andat the close of his sermon he hurled the copy which he held intoa great fire that blazed before him. Sir Thomas More, whose influence was deservedly great in Eng-land, followed up the attack. To study to find errors in Tyndalesbook, he said, were like studying to find water in the sea. It waseven too bad for revising and amending, for it is easie
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