The Trials of a Mind in Its Progress to Catholicism: a Letter to His Old Friends
The Trials of a Mind in Its Progress to Catholicism: a Letter to His Old Friends
L Silliman Levi Silliman Ives
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And what more fearful ever proceeded, even in rumor, from the Spanish Inqui- sition? "Alas!" I said to myself, "is this the boasted change from the tyranny of Kome to the freedom of "Protestant England, so eagerly sought and so gloriously achieved ? " That precious " liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, " trumpeted far and wide as the golden fruit of the Reformation under Henry and Cranmer ! I could not repress within me feelings of indignation as I read for the first time the following :... "If any man shall teach or maintain any matter contrary to the Godly instructions and determinations which have * Stat, of Realm, iii. 783. SUBMISSION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, &C. 143 been or shall be thus set forth by his majesty, he shall, in case he be a layman, for the first offence, recant and be imprisoned twenty days ; for the second, adjure the realm ; and for the third, suffer the forfeiture of his goods, and imprisonment for life ; but if he be a clergyman, he shall for the first offence be permitted to recant ; on his refusal or second offence, shall abjure, and bear a fagot ; and on his refusal again, or third offence, shall be adjudged a heretic, and suffer the pains of death by burning, with the forfeiture to the Icing of aP his goods and chattels.
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