My heart bleeds when I think of him." "Why, then, is he accounted heretic and excommunicate ?" "You may well ask.

I have asked myself that same question, for, as one of the canons of this college here, he is to me as a son.

I was wroth at the first when it was told that here in this place we had a nest of pestilent heretics; but since I have come to know more of John Clarke, the more do I grieve that such doctrine as he holds should be condemned as heresy.

It is true that he is unsound on some points--that I may not deny; but he is so full of sweetness, and piety, and the love of God and of the church, that I would hold his errors lightly and his graces and gifts in esteem.

But alas! the bishop has heard much about his readings and his expounding of the Scriptures.