How's that for a Calvinist Quote?
From the office of Grand Inquisitioner
The Holy Scriptures have been written in English with the blood of martyrs — if we may so speak the blood of Frith, Tyndale, and Rogers: it is a crown of glory for that translation. At the moment of Tyndale’s perfidious arrest, Rogers had fortunately saved the manuscript of the Old Testament, and now resolved to delay the printing no longer. When the news of this reached the Reformer in his cell at Vilvorde, it cast a gleam of light upon his latter days and filled his heart with joy. The whole Bible, — that was the legacy which the dying Tyndale desired to leave to his fellow-countrymen. He took pleasure in his gloomy dungeon in following with his mind’s eye that divine Scripture from city to city and from cottage to cottage; his imagination pictured to him the struggles it would have to go through, and also its victories. ‘The Word of God,’ he said, ‘never was without persecution — no more than the sun can be without his light. By what right doth the pope forbid God to speak in the English tongue? Why should not the Sermons of the Apostles, preached no doubt in the mother-tongue of those who heard them, be now written in the mother-tongue of those who read them?’ Tyndale did not think of proving the divinity of the Bible by learned dissertations. ‘Scripture derives its authority from Him who sent it,’ he said. ‘Would you know the reason why men believe in Scripture? It is Scripture. — It is itself the instrument which outwardly leads men to believe, whilst inwardly, the spirit of God Himself, speaking through Scripture, gives faith to His children.’
Excerpted from
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE TIME OF CALVIN
by J.H. Merle d’Aubigne
http://www.williamtyndale.com
I love you both as only a confused Arminian Free Methodist can, but I admit to a big coffee spewing snort when I read that LOL
I would kindly ask Papal dispensation to be included in the ping list, to which I promise not to foul with the heretical humanism to which I find my heart strangely warmed (ref Wesley).....not to be confused with alphabet prophets and pedophiles from Upstate NY