Henry Viii And the English Monasteries An Attempt to Illustrate the History of
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But after his death none of the things lie had prophesied came to pass, by which indication it is clear (if we believe Jeremiah) these prophecies were not from God. . . . Jerome himself was, therefore, deceived (as may be seen), although he was a man illustrious in his preaching and life (as far as human judgment can know), not swerving a hair's breadth in his teaching from the orthodox Fathers, except that he despised the excommuni- cation passed against him and taught others also to disregard... it. Wherefore, if so great and Catholic a man could be seduced by revelations, what certainty can we have of the revelations of Luther ? " Assertionum Regis Defensio, Cap. I. , Opera, ed. 1597. P. 109. The Holy Maid of Kent. 1 1 7 treacherous piece of advice. He urged that his best policy was to plead guilty and throw himself on the royal mercy. Fisher's reply is not known to exist ; but the long rejoinder of Crumwell gives us a clear knowledge of the contents of the lost letter. "Where, " writes the minister, "you labour to excuse yourself of your hearing, believing, and con- cealing of the nun's false and feigned revelations and of your manifold sending your chaplain unto her, by a certain intent, which you pretend yourself to have had, to know by 'commonyng' with her, whether her revelations were of God or no, alledging divers scriptures that you were bound to prove them and not to receive them before they were proved ; my lord, whether you have used a due mean to try her and her revelations or no, it appeareth by the proof of your own letters.
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