Lives of the Elizabethan Bishops of the Anglican Church
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" 2 The Christian courage of Bentham was shown not only by his ministering to his flock, but by attending to the stake such of them as were called upon to seal their faith with their blood. The queen's procla- mation forbade this, under pain of death, but Ben- tham defied it, and so " godlye comforted " his 1 Foxe's "Acts and Monuments, " vol. Viii. Pp. 443, 454, 459. 2 Strype's " Memorials, " III. I. 133. Date, July 17, 1558. THOMAS BENTHAM. 139 people in their agonies "that the adversaryes th...em- selves were astonyed. " It was to no purpose that the sheriffs officers sought to check him ; he would not be restrained. " We know, " he replied, with noble boldness, " they are the people of God ; and therefore we cannot but choose to wish well to them and say God strengthen them. " Then, turning to the stake when the faggots had just been lighted below the seven martyrs brought out to die that July morning, he prayed that God, for Christ's sake, would give them grace to bear their sufferings.
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