Nothing need be added to these generous and just sentences, except that Tyndale’s full merit will only be known and confessed when the secrets of all hearts are opened. He professed himself to be ready to wait for his reward until the great day of God, and then it will be seen that William Tyndale has not been far behind the apostles of the Lamb:—
“How our hearts burnt within us at the scene!
Whence this brave bound o’er limits fixed to man?
His God sustains him in the final hour!
His final hour brings glory to his God!
Sweet peace, and heavenly hope, and humble joy,
Divinely beam in his exalted soul;
Destruction gilds, and crowns him for the skies
With incommunicable lustre bright.”
—Young.