Posted on 11/22/2022 5:40:56 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date 470 years ago, John Lambert was burned to death at London’s Smithfield market for heresy.
One possible way to read the early progress of the English Reformation is as an initial flowering of Protestantism followed — after the execution of Anne Boleyn — by a reactionary crackdown by the monarch.
In this telling, John Lambert (born John Nicolson or Nicholson) marks the turning point, the man in whose blood Henry VIII etched his warning against doctrinal liberality.
John Lambert cooked his goose by picking a theological dispute with a pastor in London. He didn’t buy into transubstantiation, the Catholic doctrine (still extant today) that the bread blessed on the altar became the literal body of Christ.
Though the Anglican church would ditch this belief soon thereafter, it came down hard on Lambert in a show trial attended by Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cranmer, and all the Tudor big wheels whose heads were at that point attached to their shoulders....
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—> He is said to have continued to call out the inspirational last words, “None but Christ! None but Christ!”
Amen!
Most big wheels are Fordors.
As much as it is tragic to see people burned at the stake for some belief concerning the nature of the Eucharist, I would prefer it to the persecution occurring today towards those who stand against promoting pedophilia in advertising, or gender mutilation of children, or trumpeting the destruction of marriage as God intended.
Yeah, amen!!!!
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