- First: He maintains that faith alone justifies.
- Second:He maintains that to believe in the forgiveness of sins and to embrace the mercy offered in the Gospel, is enough for salvation.
- Third: He avers that human traditions cannot bind the conscience, except where their neglect might occasion scandal.
- Fourth: He denies the freedom of the will.
- Fifth: He denies that there is any purgatory.
- Sixth: He affirms that neither the Virgin nor the Saints pray for us in their own person.
- Seventh: He asserts that neither the Virgin nor the Saints should be invoked by us.
The Result:
Foxes' Book of Martyrs...
He was condemned by virtue of the emperor's decree, made in the assembly at Augsburg. Brought forth to the place of execution, he was tied to the stake, strangled by the hangman, and afterwards consumed with fire, at the town of Vilvorde, A.D. 1536; crying at the stake with a fervent zeal, and a loud voice, "Lord! open the king of England's eyes."
Do we have men like that today ?
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