A Short History of Freethought, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from A Short History of Freethought, Vol. 2 of 2: Ancient and Modern While France was thus passing from general fanaticism to a large measure of freethought, England was passing by a less tempestuous path to a hardly less advanced stage of opinion. It was indeed a bloody age, and in 1535 we have record of nineteen men and live women of Holland, apparently Anabaptists, who denied the "humanity" of Christ and rejected infant baptism and transubstantiation, being sentenced to be burned alive - two suffering at Smithfield, and the rest at other towns, by way of example. Others in Henry's reign suffered the same penalty for the same offence, and in 1538 a priest named Nicholson or Lambert, refusing on the Kings personal pressure to recant, was "brent in Smithfield" for denying the bodily presence in the eucharist. The first decades of Reformation in England truly saw the opening of new vials of blood. More and Fisher and scores of lesser men died as Catholics for denying the Kings supremacy in religion, as many more for denying the Catholic tenets which the King held to the last, and not a few by the consent of More and Fisher for translating or circulating the sacred books. Latimer, martyred under Mary, had applauded the burning of the Anabaptists. One generation slew for denial of the humanity of Christ, the next for denial of his divinity. Under Edward VI there were burned no Catholics, but several heretics, including Joan Bocher and a Dutch Unitarian, George Van Pare, described as a man of saintly life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.