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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 15)
RIDLEY AND LATIMER On September 30, 1555, Ridley and Latimer appeared together in Oxford before a panel of bishops to answer the charges of heresy that had been brought against them. Ridley was examined first. The bishop of London began by urging Ridley to recant and submit himself to the pope. “If you will renounce…
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YE SERVANTS OF GOD, YOUR MASTER PROCLAIM
Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 … salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb. (Revelation 7:10) The proclamation of the gospel requires a devoted, zealous spirit. The real purpose of this proclamation is to affect a personal conversion in the hearer, and this experience implies a radical change of…
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Morning & Evening
Angels are the unseen attendants of the saints of God; they bear us up in their hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone. Loyalty to their Lord leads them to take a deep interest in the children of his love; they rejoice over the return of the prodigal to his father’s house below,…
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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 14)
THE GLOVERS John, Robert, and William Glover were brothers living in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. John, the eldest, was a gentleman, the heir to his father’s estate in the town of Manchester. He had inherited a considerable amount of land and money but was made even richer in God’s graces and virtues when…
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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 13)
CHRISTOPHER WAID Christopher Waid was a linen weaver from Dartford, Kent, condemned by Maurice, the bishop of Rochester. On the day of his execution in July, the stake, reeds, and wood for the fire were taken out to Brimth, a gravel pit outside the village of Dartford. At ten that morning, Waid and Margery Polley,…
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RESCUE THE PERISHING
Amazing Grace Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives … (Isaiah 61:1 KJV) One of the most tragic words in our…
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Morning & Evening
Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there. Here we are weary and toilworn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall…
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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 12)
THOMAS WATTS Thomas Watts of Billericay, Essex, was a linen draper. Knowing he would soon be arrested, he sold all the cloth in his shop, gave almost everything he owned to his wife and children, donated the rest to the poor, and saited. On April 26, 1555, Watts was arrested and brought before Lord Rich…
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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 11)
GEORGE MARSH George Marsh lived quietly for many years with his wife and children on a farm in the countryside. When his wife died, he attended the University of Cambridge to become a minister, serving for a while in Lawrence Sander’s curate. Marsh preached for some time before being arrested and imprisoned for four months…
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LORD, SPEAK TO ME
Amazing Grace Frances R. Havergal, 1836–1879 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20) As Christ’s personal ambassadors, we should be people of double resolve: To hear what God has to say to us and then…
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