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Title: Christian heroes and martyrs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: (Foster, William A.) (from old catalog)
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at madness, said they, hath brought thee again into this error, by which thou wilt drawmany souls with thee into hell ? To them he answered nothing, butaddressed all his talk to the people. In a little while he came to thestake: it was the place where the martyrs, Latimer and Ridley, hadbeen burned, and there kneeling down he prayed to God. But nottarrying long at his prayers, he arose, and taking off his garments tohis shirt, he prepared himself for death. His shirt was made long,down to his feet, which were bare. His face, haggard from longimprisonment, was covered by a beard, and his reverend countenancemoved the hearts of both his friends and enemies. Then the Spanish friars, of whom mention has been made before,began to urge him again to recant, but Cranmer with steadfast pur-pose refused to listen, turning from them and giving his hand to certainold men, and others that stood by, bidding them farewell. But when heoffered his hand to one of these men, whose name was Ely, Ely drew
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CRANMERS CONFESSION 506 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. back his hand, saying it was not lawful to take the hand of a heretic,and especially such a one as falsely returned unto the opinions that hehad forsworn. This Ely was a student of divinity in the college atOxford. Soon an iron chain was brought, and put around Cranmer, fasten-ing him to the stake. Then when the fagots had been piled up thesheriff ordered fire to be brought. And when the wood was kindled,and the fire began to burn near him, he was seen by all who stoodthere, to stretch forth his right hand, with which he had signed hisrecantations, and to hold it in the flames. There he held it sounflinchingly that all the people saw it burned, before his body wastouched by the fire. So patient and steadfast was he in the midst ofthis extreme torment, that he uttered no cry, and seemed to move nomore than the stake to which he was bound. His eyes were lifted upto heaven, and often he repeated, This was the hand that wrote it,— th

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