Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'" --Jeremiah 6:16

 

13 July, 2007   comments: (0) Wonderful Plan?   Beliefs That Were More Important Than Life, Part 2    Quoting Beeke, Spaans . . . They were then marched off to prison to join the other "Gospellers," who also had been arrested. When Rose Allen was placed at the bar before her judges, she answered their questions not only with spirit but with true wisdom, positively turning their questions into ridicule. They asked her what she had to say about the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the answer she gave was more than emphatic, but in those rugged times it would be understood more than we perhaps do in these more polite days. She said, "I say it stinketh in the face of God! and I dare not have to do therewith for my life." "Are you not a member of the Catholic church?" "I am not a member of yours, for ye be members of Antichrist, and shall have the reward of Antichrist." "What say you of the See of the Bishop of Rome?" "I am none of his. As for his See, it is for crows, kites, owls and ravens to swim in, such as you be; for by the grace of God I will not swim in that See while I live here, neither will I have anything to do therewith." Rome had only one answer to such talk - Rose Allen must burn if she would not turn, and so against this girl of sixteen was pronounced the terrible sentence of death by fire. But even that did not frighten the brave girl, for passing down the steps that lead to the dungeon, she began singing - "Yea though I walk through death's dark veil, Yet will I fear none ill. Thy rod, Thy staff, doth comfort me. And Thou art with me still." She did not suffer alone, for from two prisons in Colchester two batches of prisoners were led out to suffer for Jesus' sake. If we could have seen them pass along we would have noticed that they were quite ordinary sort of people - a few countrymen, an old woman of seventy, named Agnes Silverside, and two girls, named Elizabeth Foulkes and Rose Allen. As they passed through the streets the crowds greeted them with loud cries: "The Lord strengthen them! the Lord comfort them! the Lord pour His mercies upon them!" Rose Allen went to the fire "calling upon the name of God, and exhorting the people earnestly to flee from idolatry;" and so, amid songs of victory, their fiery chariot carried them into the presence of the King. Rose's life was a short one, but it was lived to some purpose, and her death, though a fiery one, was but a going home to receive a crown. It is very sad to read of the suffering and tragic death of Rose Allen and so many of the noble martyrs in Queen Mary's reign; but as the church of Rome still persecutes in one way or another where she has power, it is well we should know why the martyrs suffered in those dark and gloomy days. When you are older and can find time, you must read a big, thick book called the "Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church," by a good man named John Foxe. It is the book from which "Foxe's Book of Martyrs" is taken, and it gives all the details of the examinations of the Marian Martyrs. you will find that they were all condemned because they would not believe in the false doctrines of Rome. . . . Return to The First Post in This Series From:  Religious Stories for Young and Old, Vol 1   Posted by: Jim B.   Link: http://www.oldtruth.com/blog.cfm/id.2.pid.728   Be the first to post a comment about this article        Home  |   About  |  Videos   |  Calvinism