"...crying with a Loud Voice, 'This hand hath offended.' As soon as the fire got up, he was very soon dead, never stirring or crying all the while.His Catholic executioners surely thought Cranmer was making satisfaction to his Protestant God. Yet his doctrine of repentance would have taught him otherwise, for the God he served saved the unworthy.Having believed in his own justification by faith, Cranmer would have thought he could fall totally but not finally. As God's child, the burden of all the multitude of his sins was no cause for him to distrust or dispair of help at his Father's hand; for the incredible richness of God's merciful love for him would never have shone brighter than on that cloudy day, precisely because he, the chief promoter of the new faith, had fallen so far as to become a declared enemy of the Gospel. To Cranmer, his hand in the fire would have been an act of loving service of a heart turned back to God by the power and promise of His immeasurably loving grace. His final resolve would have been a joyous confirmation that he was indeed one of the elect in whom there would be no fault found in the end."
Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance, by Ashley Null.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;
Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.
Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.
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