“Roger Hackman, of Oxfordshire, was accused for saying in the county of Norfolk, ‘I will never look to be saved for any good deed that ever I did, neither for any that I shall ever do, unless I have my salvation by petition, as an outlaw pardoned by the king;’ adding, ‘that if he might not have his salvation so, he thought he should be lost.’” If such doctrine as this was condemned, we cannot wonder at hearing of “certain heretical books called the Epistles and Gospels.”
The darkness was indeed thick, but happily the dawning was at hand.
CHAPTER II.
THE SCHOLAR WHO OUTSTRIPPED HIS
TEACHER.
“Meek souls there are who little deem
Their daily strife an Angel’s theme,
Or that the rod they take so calm
Shall prove in heaven a martyr’s palm.”
—Keble.
“The voice of Nature never goes to the heart until it blend with the voice of Scripture.”—Philip.
“It is by celestial observation alone that terrestrial charts can be constructed.”—Coleridge.