 | George Fox Bridges - England - 1908 - 344 pages
...he were once a professed friar. His own account of himself is : " I was as obstinate a Papist as any in England, insomuch that when I should be made Bachelor of Divinity my whole oration went against Philip Melanchthon and his opinions. Bilney heard me, and perceiving that I was zealous... | |
 | Gordon Crosse - Church history - 1912 - 702 pages
...by a sermon against Melanchthon. Bilney ' was the instrument by which God called me to knowledge ; for I was as obstinate a Papist as any was in England. Bilney heard me at the time and perceived that I was zealous without knowledge ; and he came to me... | |
 | James Gairdner - Lollards - 1908 - 604 pages
...seriously disturbed his repose in conventional orthodoxy. " I was as obstinate a papist," he said, " as any in England, insomuch that, when I should be made bachelor of divinity, my whole oration went against Philip Melancthon and against his opinions. Bilney heard me at that time, and I perceived... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - Europe - 1920 - 460 pages
...that suffered death for God's word sake; the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge; for I may thank him, next to God, for that...I was as obstinate a papist as any was in England, in so much that when I should be made a bachelor of divinity, my whole oration went against Philip... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1922 - 280 pages
...that suffered death for God's word sake, the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge; for I may thank him, next to God, for that...should be made bachelor of divinity, my whole oration went against Philip Melanchthon and against his opinions. Bilney heard me at that time, and perceived... | |
 | Gideon David Hagstotz, H. Hagstotz - History - 1996 - 328 pages
...he failed to pay his fees, the degree was never conferred. Of himself at this period he later said, "I was as obstinate a papist as any was in England,...should be made bachelor of divinity, my whole oration went against Philipp Melanchthon and against his opinions."— Hugh Latimer, Works, vol. i, p. 334.... | |
 | John Beadle, Germaine Fry Murray - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...suffered death for God's word sake — the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge. For I may thank him, next to God, for that knowledge that I have in the word of God" (Allan G. Chester, ed., Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer, Charlottsville: University Press of Virginia,... | |
 | J.R. Broome - England - 1998 - 32 pages
...cross-bearer in the religious processions of the University. Later in life, in one of his sermons, he said, "I was as obstinate a Papist as any was in England,...should be made Bachelor of Divinity, my whole oration went against Philip Melancthon and his opinions." One of Latimer's contemporaries at Cambridge was... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 1998 - 418 pages
...suffered death for God's word sake — the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge; for I may thank him, next to God, for that knowledge I have in the Word of God. For I was as obstinate a papist as any was in England ... he came to me... | |
 | Brian Raynor - Christian martyrs - 2000 - 440 pages
...changed Latimer's life. Later he was to write: 'Master Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge; for I may thank him next to God for that knowledge that I have in the Word of God'.8 Hugh Latimer became a renowned preacher of the Reformation truths. Perhaps his best known 'sermon'... | |
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Master Bilney, or rather Saint Bilney, that suffered death for God's word sake ; the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge ; for I may thank him, next to God, -for that knowledge that I have in the word of God. 
