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Sandy,
Thanks for sharing this mini bio of Taylor. I was struck while reading it that we often make much of the great theologians, and preachers (and rightly so). However was reminded through that we should also make much of faithful brothers and sisters who strive to make much of God through how they live and serve his people.
Thanks Sandy - I always love hearing about the martyrs. Keep it coming.
And Andrew Atherstone is a top notch evangelical historian - I’d read anything by him, especially on the 19th century.
Thank you Sandy.
I often find it more encouraging and spurring to read stories of the little man. I doubt I’ll ever be a Wilberforce, Wesley or Whitfield. But I could be a Rowland Taylor.
It’s my pleasure, and I am really only harvesting the fruit of the experts work, although when time and access allows I try to read a little of the primary sources.
Hi Sandy,
Thanks for Rowland Taylor’s mini Bio, I’ll have to go and find more out about him now.
I did find it curious that you stated that Tyndale was burnt by Henry VIII, as isn’t that historically incorrect?
Tyndale was betrayed by Henry Phillips, & David Daniell’s Tyndale bio on p363 says that Phillips was reported as a traitor & that he detested Henry VIII, so I find it difficult to think Phillips would have worked at Henry’s behest.
Isn’t it more generally considered that Phillips may have been working for Stokesley, the Bishop of London, rather then Henry?
Hugh
P.S. I love the Tyndale story, and think today’s Christian do not value our English translation as highly as they ought. Its marvellous how God ensures his word is accessible to everyone he calls.
Hello Hugh, thanks for your encouragement. I recommend the Atherstone article. You might also try J. C. Ryle’s lecture, Why were our Reformers Burned?.
I am a reader of history not an expert, and I certainly didn’t focus on Tyndale in preparing this article. The family connection just seemed like a bit of human interest to me.
In regards to your question, my phrasing was careless and ignorant. I now realise I should have said Tyndale was burned on the Continent, during the reign of Henry VIII.
However I do understand the following is correct…
(i) When Tyndale wanted to translate the Bible into English, the Church, under Henry, did not support him, and he had to go to continental Europe to carry out the task. (Of course, after Tyndale’s death, Henry did permit an English Bible to be published, which was indebted to Tyndale.)
(ii) Tyndale’s publication in 1530, The Practyse of Prelates, opposed Henry VIII’s divorce on the grounds that it was unscriptural. The King did not like this and asked the emperor Charles V to have the writer apprehended and returned to England. Tyndale and Sir Thomas More then carried on a debate in their writings about this and other matters, with More claiming Tyndale was a heretic and traitor.
(iii) The Phillip’s betrayal was the actual occasion for his arrest in Antwerp in 1535 and his trial at the castle of Vilvoorde in what we now call Belgium. So clearly I was wrong to say he was burnt by Henry, when he was outside England. I don’t know about Henry’s relationship with Phillips.
(iv) Actually it may be more correct to say Tyndale was strangled at the stake and then his dead body was burned there.
(iv) Foxe reports Tyndale’s final words as “Lord! Open the King of England’s eyes.” Clearly Tyndale thought Henry VIII was not yet on the same page as him!
Hugh, thanks for your correction. I have learned something more.
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