John Foxe: Acts and Monuments: Winchester Interrogates Ferrar, 7.23.



Queen Mary 1’s Winchester, Worcester and Durham, among others, head up the rather rude interrogation of Bishop Robert Ferrar. Ferrar gives his answers (22). Feb 1555. There are several examinations of Dr. Robert Ferrar, the Bishop of St. David’s. After the examinations, he will be burned in the market-cross of Caermarthen, 30 Mar 1555. The articles against him are: First, That he willed him, being a priest, to abrenounce matrimony. Secondly, To grant the natural presence of Christ in the sacrament, under the forms of bread and wine. Thirdly, That the mass is a propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead. Fourthly, That general councils lawfully congregated never did, nor can err. Fifthly, That men are not justified before God by faith only ; but that hope and charity are also necessarily required to justification. Sixthly, That the catholic church, which only hath authority to expound Scriptures, and to define controversies of religion, and to ordain things appertaining to public discipline, is visible, and like unto a city set upon a mountain for all men to understand (7.23). A few certain letters of the Bishop of St. David's, written alike, to the Lord Chancellor, Dr. Goodrick (26). The above story ministers strength as veritable opposition to Satan's City of Man is waged. We're at war and there is no peace with the City of Man. We soldier on!

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