Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny, Book 11 · Part 31 – Part 34
Derick Caruer, Iohn Launder.
CAruer was of Brighthamsted in Sussex, and Launder was of Godstone in Surrey, that together with Thomas …ueson and William Veisie, with others to the number of twelue, being together at prayers, and saying the seruice as in King Edwards time, in the house of Dericke, they were apprehended by one Master Edward Gage.
Dericke was condemned by Bonner for saying that after consecration of the Sacrament there remaineth Bread and Wine, and not the flesh and bloud of Christ naturally, and that there is no sacrifice nor saluation to a Christian in the Masse, except it were said and vsed in the mother tongue, and likewise also that the ceremonies of the Church are not profitable for a Christian. And as touching Auricular confession, he said it was necessary to goe to a good Priest for counsaile, but the absolution and laying handes on a mans head by the Priest, as it is now vsed, is not profitable, and that the faith and doctrine now taught is not agreeable to GODS word, and that Hooper, Cardmaker, and others of their opinion which were late burned, were good Christians, and did preach the doctrine of Christ.
Iohn Launder was coudemned by the said Bonner for affirming that whosoeuer doth teach or vse any other Sacraments then the Lords Supper and Baptisme, or any other ceremonies, he beleeueth that they were not of the Catholique Church, but abhorreth them, and that he himselfe is a member of the true Catholique Church: he denied the reall presence in the Sacrament, but he beleeueth that when he receiueth the materiall Bread and Wine it is in remembrance of Christs death, and that he eates Christs body and bloud by faith, and no otherwise, and that the Masse is naught and abominable, and directeth against Gods word, and that the gloria in excelsis, the Creed, Sanctum, Pater noster, Agnus and other parts of the masse be of themselues good, yet being vsed amongst other things, are naught also, and that auricular confession is not necessary to be made to a Priest, but to God, and that none but Christ hath authoritie to absolue sinnes.
Derick being asked whether he would recant: your doctrine, quoth he, is poyson and sorcerie: if Christ were here you would put him to a worse death then he was put to before. You say you can make a God, you can make a Pudding as well: your ceremonies in the Church are beggerie, and poyson, and auricular confession is poyson and against Gods word: so they were condemned and burned. Derick was rich, but the ra…eners made such hauocke thereof, that his poore wife and children had little or none thereof: he was olde and past learning, yet when he was put into prison being ignorant of any letter in his booke, he could before his death reade perfectly.
When he was burned they threw his booke into a barrell that he was burned in to be burned with him, but he threw it amongst the people, and the Sherife commanded vponupon paine of death, in the King and Quéenes name to throw it into the fire againe: then he said, Deare brethren and sisters, as many as beleeue in the Father, the Sonne, and holy Ghost vntounto euerlasting life, see you doe thereafter; and you that beleeue in the Pope or any of his lawes, you beleeue to your vtter destruction, for except the great mercy of God you shall burne in hell continually.
The Sherife said, if thou dost not beleeue in the Pope thou art damned, therefore speake to thy God that he may deliuer thee now, or else to strike me downe to the example of this people; but he said vntounto him, The Lord forgiue you that which you hauehave said.
THOMAS IVESON.
THis Iueson was condemned by the said Bonner for saying the Sacrament of the Altar is a very Idoll, and detestable before GOD as it is now-a-dayes ministred, and that the Masse is naught, and that auricular confession is not necessary, for that a Priest cannot forgiue sinnes, that baptisme is a token of Christ, as circumcision: he beléeueth his sinnes are not washed away therby, but only his body washed, and his sinnes washed only in Christs bloud, and that there is but two Sacraments, Baptisme and the Lords Supper, which now are not rightly vsed in England, & that all the ceremonies now vsed in the Church are superfluous and superstitio…s: and being earnestly labored withall to recant, said, he would not forsake his beléefe for all the goods in London. I doe appeale to Gods merciemercy, and will be none of your Church: and if there came an Angell from heauen to teach me other doctrine then that which I hauehave now, I would not beleeue him, whereupon he was burned.
IOHN ALEWORTH.
HEe died in prison at Reading for the testimonie of the truth, whom the Catholike Prelats, as their vse is, did exclude out of Catholike buriall.
IAMES ABBES.
THis Abbes be…ng examined by the Bishop of Norwich, he relented at their naughty perswasions: now when he was dismissed, and should go from the Bishop, he gaue him some money; but after he was pittiously vexed in conscience, he went againe to the Bishop and threw him his said money which he had receiued, and said, it repented him that euer he had consented to their wicked perswasions: then the Bishop and his Chaplains laboured a fresh to win him againe, but in vaine, and so he was burned at Berry.