This is the Story of how a Man was killed for his faith in Jesus Christ. Never Forget what God has done for you. God is good, all the time.
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“Purified Seven Times” The Miracle of the English Bible by Bill Bradley. It is a true story from the 14th century (1555) about a man who was martyred for his faith.
This was during the days when owning an English copy of the Bible was a death sentence.
Most people, even if they could read, did not have access to a Bible.
I hope I never forget the price this man paid and others like him. They paid it for me so that I could have a Bible I can understand. A Bible I can read. A Bible, God’s holy word, to help me understand God.
Excerpt from “Purified Seven Times” Pages 77-78
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“John Hooper was moved by a fervent love of the Holy scriptures, and an insatiable desire to know and understand them.
In his sermons, he corrected sin, and sharply inveighed against the iniquity of the world, and the corrupt abuses of the Roman Catholic Church.
The people in great flocks and companies daily came to hear his voice, and the church would be so full that none could enter farther than the doors thereof.
In his doctrine, he was earnest, in tongue eloquent, in the Scriptures perfect, in pains indefatigable, in his life exemplary.
Inevitably he was arrested and brought before the bloodthirsty
Bishop Bonner, where he was summarily condemned to death.
Gloucester being fixed upon as the place of his martyrdom, he rejoiced very much, giving thanks to God that he might be permitted to confirm with his death the truth which he had preached.
At eight o’clock on February 9, 1555, he was led forth to his execution in the presence of many thousands of people who had assembled.
He would sometimes lift up his eyes to heaven and look very cheerfully on those whom he knew in the crowd.
He was never known to look with so cheerful and ruddy a countenance as he did at that time.
When he came to the place appointed where he should die, he smilingly beheld the stake and preparation made for him.
He went up to the stake, then, lifting his eyes and hands to heaven, he prayed in silence.
The reeds were cast up, and he received two bundles, placing one under each arm, and showed with his hand how the others should be bestowed, and pointed to the place where any were wanting [lacking].
"Hey, fellas, you missed a spot over there. There is a bare spot over here. Put some of that wood and straw over on this side."
Command was now given that the fire should be kindled. He began to pray with a loud voice, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit! Lord Jesus have mercy on me!"
These were the last words he was heard to utter.
But when he was black in the mouth, and his tongue swollen that he could not speak, yet his lips went till they were shrunk to the gums, and he knocked his breast with his hands until one of his arms fell off, and then knocked still with the other, while the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his fingers' ends, until his strength was gone, and his hand clave fast in knocking to the iron upon his breast.
Then immediately bowing forwards, he yielded up his spirit.
Thus he was three quarters of an hour or more in the fire; even as a lamb, patiently bearing the extremity thereof, neither moving forwards, backwards, nor to any side: but having his nether parts burned, and his bowels fallen out, he died as quietly as a child in his bed; and he now reigns as a blessed martyr in the joys of heaven, prepared for the faithful in Christ before the foundation of the world.”
Purified Seven Times by Bill Bradley - paperback
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12 июн 2024
