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For the Faith

CHAPTER XIII: In Prison
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I am sure such matter is not in their thoughts.

And truly, if heresy be so grievous a crime, they have need to look to themselves; for those same three judges before whom ye were brought, Anthony, have committed an act of heresy for which the penalty is the same death with which they have threatened you and others." "What mean you ?" asked Dalaber, with wide-open eyes.
"Marry, this--that when they sought in vain for Master Garret, and were unable to find him, they went themselves to an astrologer, and bid him make a figure by the stars, that he might know whither the fugitive had fled; and he, having done so, declared that Garret had escaped in a tawny coat to the southeastward, and was like to be found in London, where doubtless some of the brotherhood have hid him.

And this they have dared to tell to the cardinal and to the bishop, in no wise ashamed of their own act; whereas the church forbids expressly any such asking of portents from the stars, and it is as much heresy as any deed of which you and your comrades have been guilty." Dalaber broke into a short laugh.
"By the Mass, but in sooth it is so!" he exclaimed, drawing a long breath.

"Shall not the God of all the earth look down and judge between us and our foes?
O Arthur, Arthur, how can one not call such men our foes?
They hunt us down and would do us to death because we claim the right to love and study the Word of God, and they themselves practise the arts of necromancy, which have been from the beginning forbidden as an abomination in the sight of the Lord, and they feel no shame, but blazon abroad their evil deed.

Is it not time that the church were purged of such rulers as these ?" "Perchance it is; but that I hold is to be settled not by us but by God Himself.


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