Alice Benden, Or the Bowed Shilling, And Other Tales
Alice Benden, Or the Bowed Shilling, And Other Tales
Charlotte Elizabeth
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But I don't believe that a mere opinion about it, or any thing but her loving God above all — above her own life — would have enabled her to bear such long and dreadful cruelties, and to go at last to be burned alive, when she might so easily have avoided it' ^ Besides,' said ^rank, * Alice could have ; dissembled. She might have gone to the mass, without really worshiping the idol; and so on with the rest of the outside ser- vices. I am sure she must have realty and with all her heart believed... the awful threat- ening of our Lord Jesus Christ, and depend- ed entirely upon his promise, which none can do without the gift of faith.' * What threat, and what promise, do yoa 0)eaa« Thomas t' Digitized by Google 100 AJJCE BBNDXNv * 1 mean those words in the tenth of Mat- thew, '^Whosoeyer, therefore, shall confess me hefore men, him will I confess aim) be- fore my Father which is in Heaven: hot whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." It seems that Alice and^ the other martyrs knew it would be mockizfg Ood to pretend any fellowship with his ene- mies.
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