4
July 1533 A.D. John Frith, English
Reformer, burned at the stake.
“Trial and death
“Frith was tried before many examiners and bishops, and
produced his own writings as evidence for his views that were deemed as heresy. He was sentenced to death by fire and offered a pardon if he answered
positively to two questions: Do you believe in purgatory, and do you believe in transubstantiation?
He replied that neither purgatory nor transubstantiation could be proven by Holy
Scriptures, and thus was condemned as a heretic and was transferred
to the secular arm for his execution on 23 June 1533. He was burned at the stake on 4 July 1533 at Smithfield, London
for, he was told, his soul's salvation. (King Henry VIII
was excommunicated one week later.)
“Aftermath
“Thomas
Cranmer would later subscribe to Frith's views on purgatory, and
published the 42 articles
which explicitly denied purgatory. Frith's works were posthumously published in
1573 by John Foxe.
The Wikipedia article egregiously
fails to mention that Cranmer denied transubstantiation or any corporal
presence at the Table. Cranmer, like Frith and Tyndale, was not a cannibalist
or Ubiquitarian. These men were
Reformed, not Lutheran, not Arminian and surely not in the TFO-snakepit.
For the context of Frith in relation
to William Tyndale, perhaps the Chief Architect (unwittingly) of the English
Reformation, see: http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2013/12/dr-daniells-bible-in-english-9-tyndale.html
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