[37] Acts and Mon. Ed. 1579, p. 1735. Ed. 1684, vol. iii. 589, col. 2. The diction and orthography of the earlier of these editions is here preserved.
[40] Toplady, in his “Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England,” adduces the testimony of these men as contained in this last article. Toplady’s Works, ed. 1825, vol. ii. p. 42.
[41a] Tradition assigns as the immediate scene of this, in every view, execrable affair, the ground eastward of the town, and now called the Fair close. A statue, or an obelisk, has often marked a spot far less worthy of being had in remembrance by the friends of protestantism and religious liberty.
[41b] Prior to the reign of Henry VIII. the sheriff had been allowed to burn heretics without the writ de hæretico comburendo. It was rendered necessary by stat. 25. Hen. VIII. cap. 14. Neal’s Puritans, vol. i. pp. 7, 13. The writ was abolished by 29 Car. II. c. 9.
[44] Quarterly Review, (Dec. 1836,) vol. lvii. p. 366.
[45] “I may grow rich by an art that I take not delight in; I may be cured of some disease by remedies that I have not faith in; but I cannot be saved by a religion that I distrust, and by a worship that I abhor. . . . Faith only, and inward sincerity, are the things that procure acceptance with God.”—Locke’s third Letter concerning Toleration, 4to, pp. 26, 27.
[48a] See Locke’s third Letter on Toleration, 4to, p. 105. “He that would vex and pain a sore you had, with frequent dressing it with some moderate, painful, but inefficacious plaister, that promoted not the cure, would justly be thought not only an ignorant, but a dishonest surgeon.”—Ibid. p. 124.
[48b] Like the prudent monk, who, when Satan would have drawn him into heresy, by asking him what he believed of a certain point, answered, Id credo quod credit ecclesia. But, Quid credit ecclesia? said Satan; Id quod ego credo, replied the other.—Dr. Jortin’s Preface to his Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, pp. 27, 28.
[49] Rev. Samuel Charles Wilkes. See Binney’s “Dissent not Schism,” p. 44.
[50] Stanzas prefixed to the Bible, 1598.