4 March 1554. On this day, Queen Mary 1 issued her edict:
• Anglo-Italian worship shall be reinstated in England
• Protestantism is full of heresies
• The Edwardian and Cranmerian Book of Common Prayer is full of “heresies” (note the plural, “heresies,” a system of thought).
The story is told on pages 127-128 in Rusten, E. Michael and Rusten, Sharon. The One Year Christian History. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Christian-History-Books/dp/0842355073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393302630&sr=8-1&keywords=rusten+church+history.
Backstory.
Mary was born in 1516 to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, herself the daughter of a Spanish King, Ferdinand II. She was raised a full Romanist under Anglicanism 1.0—that is, Anglicanism in full communion with Rome. Henry VIIIl had initiated Anglicanism 2.0, that is, Anglicanism without the Pope but with Roman doctrine.
As King Henry VIII’s reprobatish and multiple matrimonial disputes emerged, daughter-bastard Mary was separated from her mother, Catherine of Aragon. Both went in different directions and never saw one another again. It’s a sad family picture.
Imagine the bitterness and anger!
Mary was declared a bastard by her Royal father. Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury (the church controlled family courts), complied. So did the Parliament. Henry’s marriage to Catherine was declared null. That made the daughter a bastard, a legal term and category in family law.
But, as history moved forward, Mary was in and out of the dynastic will. Old Henry rewrote the will in 1544 to arrange for a new dynastic succession: Edward VI (a son by another Henrician arrangement), Mary (by Catherine) and then Elizabeth (a daughter by another Henrician arrangement). If one of these three offspring had issue, then the issue would accede to the throne. If one of the offspring had no issue, it went to the next Tudor.
Edward VI, the first in the 1544 will, came to the throne. Rusten oddly claims—wihout support—that he died of “congenital syphilis” (127). Protestant reforms were implemented during Edward’s reign including the Reformed Book of Common Prayer. He died young and had no issue, so the second came to the throne.
The second to the throne, Mary, fleeted up. Rusten again claims that Mary had “congenital syphilis” resulting in chronic headaches, bad eye sight, rhinitis and bad breath.” She had more than bad breath, however.
Mary abhorred the Protestant heretics and their heresies. She:
• Reinstated the Romanist Mass in Latin
• Outlawed the heretics
• Revived the 1401 law revived (De Haeretico Comburendo)--the one authorizing the burning of heretics
• Burned close to 300 Protestants at the stake.
• Cleansed England of Reformed Churchmen, forced about 800 Protestants to flee England for the Continent (which was a blessing in one sense...they received further education in theology and established salutary connections).
• Died on time in 1558.
A few questions:
• For Mr. Jorge (Pope Francis 1) Bertoglio, what say you of this? Didn’t Mr. Carol (Pope JP2) Wotyla issue a vague statement in Czechoslovakia over the Huss’ burning? Is that it? Is this story told in your RCIA courses? Is the story told in RCIA courses on the English Reformation? Should Rome be called upon to issue a full report along with institutional mea culpas?
• For ACNA, Pope Leo XIII declared in 1896 that Anglican orders are invalid? What say you Bishops? Have you confronted this and commented on it?
• Should this story be told or forgotten?
• What do the Tracto-friend operatives say about this?
• How should this affect ecumenical discussions? Paper-overs? Fly-byes? Excision from text-books?
• Has God forgotten what happened? If God has forgotten the story, shouldn’t we forget it?
• Does this story get told by Romanists, Anglicans or American evangelicals?
Revelation 6: 9-17
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
9 [a]And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained.
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Lord, which art holy and true! dost not thou judge and avenge our blood on them, that dwell on the earth?
11 And long [b]white robes were given unto every one, and it was said unto them, that they should rest for a little season until their fellow servants, and their brethren that should be killed even as they were, were [c]fulfilled.
12 [d]And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the Sun was as black as [e]sackcloth of hair, and the Moon was like blood.
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig-tree casteth her green figs, when it is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And heaven departed away, as a scroll, when it is rolled, and every mountain and isle were moved out of their places.
15 [f]And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and among the rocks of the mountains,
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, [g]Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
17 For the great day of his wrath is come, and who can stand?
Footnotes:
a. Revelation 6:9 The fifth sign is that the holy martyrs which are under the altar, whereby they are sanctified, that is, received into the trust and tuition of Christ (into whose hands they are committed) shall cry out for the justice of God, in an holy zeal to advance his kingdom and not of any private perturbation of the mind, in this and the next verse, and that God will, in deed, sign and word comfort them, verse 11.
b. Revelation 6:11 As before 3:4.
c. Revelation 6:11 Until their number be fulfilled.
d. Revelation 6:12 The sixth sign, the narration whereof hath two parts, the sign, and the event. The sign is, that the earth, heaven, and the things that are in them for the horror of the sins of the world upon those most heavy foretellings of God, and complaints of the Saints shall be shaken most vehemently, trembling in horrible manner, and losing their light in this verse: falling from on high, verse 13, withdrawing themselves and flying away for the greatness of the trouble, verse 14. So boldly do all creatures depend upon the will of God, and content themselves in his glory.
e. Revelation 6:12 So they called in old time those woven works that were of hair.
f. Revelation 6:15 The event of the sign aforegoing: that there is no man that shall not be astonished at that general commotion, fly away for fear and hide himself in this verse, and wish unto himself most bitter death for exceeding horror of the wrath of God, and of the Lamb, at which before he was astonished. Now this perplexity is not of the godly, but of the wicked, whose portion is in this life, as the Psalmist speaketh, Ps. 17:14. Not that sorrow which is according unto God, which worketh repentance unto salvation, whereof a man shall never repent him, but that worldly sorrow that bringeth death, 2 Cor. 7:9, as their wishings do declare: for this history is of the whole world, severed from the history of the Church, as I have showed before, Rev. 4:1.
g. Revelation 6:16 These are words of such as despair of their escape: of which despair there are two arguments, the presence of God and the Lamb provoked to wrath against the world in this verse, and the conscience of their own weakness, whereby men feel that they are no way able to stand in the day of the wrath of God, verse 17, as it is said, Isa. 14:27.
• Anglo-Italian worship shall be reinstated in England
• Protestantism is full of heresies
• The Edwardian and Cranmerian Book of Common Prayer is full of “heresies” (note the plural, “heresies,” a system of thought).
The story is told on pages 127-128 in Rusten, E. Michael and Rusten, Sharon. The One Year Christian History. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Christian-History-Books/dp/0842355073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393302630&sr=8-1&keywords=rusten+church+history.
Backstory.
Mary was born in 1516 to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, herself the daughter of a Spanish King, Ferdinand II. She was raised a full Romanist under Anglicanism 1.0—that is, Anglicanism in full communion with Rome. Henry VIIIl had initiated Anglicanism 2.0, that is, Anglicanism without the Pope but with Roman doctrine.
As King Henry VIII’s reprobatish and multiple matrimonial disputes emerged, daughter-bastard Mary was separated from her mother, Catherine of Aragon. Both went in different directions and never saw one another again. It’s a sad family picture.
Imagine the bitterness and anger!
Mary was declared a bastard by her Royal father. Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury (the church controlled family courts), complied. So did the Parliament. Henry’s marriage to Catherine was declared null. That made the daughter a bastard, a legal term and category in family law.
But, as history moved forward, Mary was in and out of the dynastic will. Old Henry rewrote the will in 1544 to arrange for a new dynastic succession: Edward VI (a son by another Henrician arrangement), Mary (by Catherine) and then Elizabeth (a daughter by another Henrician arrangement). If one of these three offspring had issue, then the issue would accede to the throne. If one of the offspring had no issue, it went to the next Tudor.
Edward VI, the first in the 1544 will, came to the throne. Rusten oddly claims—wihout support—that he died of “congenital syphilis” (127). Protestant reforms were implemented during Edward’s reign including the Reformed Book of Common Prayer. He died young and had no issue, so the second came to the throne.
The second to the throne, Mary, fleeted up. Rusten again claims that Mary had “congenital syphilis” resulting in chronic headaches, bad eye sight, rhinitis and bad breath.” She had more than bad breath, however.
Mary abhorred the Protestant heretics and their heresies. She:
• Reinstated the Romanist Mass in Latin
• Outlawed the heretics
• Revived the 1401 law revived (De Haeretico Comburendo)--the one authorizing the burning of heretics
• Burned close to 300 Protestants at the stake.
• Cleansed England of Reformed Churchmen, forced about 800 Protestants to flee England for the Continent (which was a blessing in one sense...they received further education in theology and established salutary connections).
• Died on time in 1558.
A few questions:
• For Mr. Jorge (Pope Francis 1) Bertoglio, what say you of this? Didn’t Mr. Carol (Pope JP2) Wotyla issue a vague statement in Czechoslovakia over the Huss’ burning? Is that it? Is this story told in your RCIA courses? Is the story told in RCIA courses on the English Reformation? Should Rome be called upon to issue a full report along with institutional mea culpas?
• For ACNA, Pope Leo XIII declared in 1896 that Anglican orders are invalid? What say you Bishops? Have you confronted this and commented on it?
• Should this story be told or forgotten?
• What do the Tracto-friend operatives say about this?
• How should this affect ecumenical discussions? Paper-overs? Fly-byes? Excision from text-books?
• Has God forgotten what happened? If God has forgotten the story, shouldn’t we forget it?
• Does this story get told by Romanists, Anglicans or American evangelicals?
Revelation 6: 9-17
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
9 [a]And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained.
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Lord, which art holy and true! dost not thou judge and avenge our blood on them, that dwell on the earth?
11 And long [b]white robes were given unto every one, and it was said unto them, that they should rest for a little season until their fellow servants, and their brethren that should be killed even as they were, were [c]fulfilled.
12 [d]And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the Sun was as black as [e]sackcloth of hair, and the Moon was like blood.
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig-tree casteth her green figs, when it is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And heaven departed away, as a scroll, when it is rolled, and every mountain and isle were moved out of their places.
15 [f]And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and among the rocks of the mountains,
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, [g]Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
17 For the great day of his wrath is come, and who can stand?
Footnotes:
a. Revelation 6:9 The fifth sign is that the holy martyrs which are under the altar, whereby they are sanctified, that is, received into the trust and tuition of Christ (into whose hands they are committed) shall cry out for the justice of God, in an holy zeal to advance his kingdom and not of any private perturbation of the mind, in this and the next verse, and that God will, in deed, sign and word comfort them, verse 11.
b. Revelation 6:11 As before 3:4.
c. Revelation 6:11 Until their number be fulfilled.
d. Revelation 6:12 The sixth sign, the narration whereof hath two parts, the sign, and the event. The sign is, that the earth, heaven, and the things that are in them for the horror of the sins of the world upon those most heavy foretellings of God, and complaints of the Saints shall be shaken most vehemently, trembling in horrible manner, and losing their light in this verse: falling from on high, verse 13, withdrawing themselves and flying away for the greatness of the trouble, verse 14. So boldly do all creatures depend upon the will of God, and content themselves in his glory.
e. Revelation 6:12 So they called in old time those woven works that were of hair.
f. Revelation 6:15 The event of the sign aforegoing: that there is no man that shall not be astonished at that general commotion, fly away for fear and hide himself in this verse, and wish unto himself most bitter death for exceeding horror of the wrath of God, and of the Lamb, at which before he was astonished. Now this perplexity is not of the godly, but of the wicked, whose portion is in this life, as the Psalmist speaketh, Ps. 17:14. Not that sorrow which is according unto God, which worketh repentance unto salvation, whereof a man shall never repent him, but that worldly sorrow that bringeth death, 2 Cor. 7:9, as their wishings do declare: for this history is of the whole world, severed from the history of the Church, as I have showed before, Rev. 4:1.
g. Revelation 6:16 These are words of such as despair of their escape: of which despair there are two arguments, the presence of God and the Lamb provoked to wrath against the world in this verse, and the conscience of their own weakness, whereby men feel that they are no way able to stand in the day of the wrath of God, verse 17, as it is said, Isa. 14:27.
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