_Oliph._ What think you of a priest's marriage? _Mill._ I think it a blessed bond ordained by God, and approved of by Christ, and free to all sorts of men; but ye abhor it, and in the meanwhile take other men's wives and daughters: Ye vow chastity, and keep it not. _Oliph._ How sayest thou that the mass is idolatry? _Mill._ A lord or king calleth many to dinner, they come and sit down, but the lord himself turneth his back, and eateth up all; and so do you. _Olip._ Thou deniest the sacrament of the altar to be the real body of Christ in flesh and blood? _Mill._ The scriptures are to be understood spiritually and not carnally, and so your mass is wrong, for Christ was once offered on the cross for sin, and will never be offered again, for then he put an end to all sacrifice. _Oliph._ Thou deniest the office of a bishop? _Mill._ I affirm that those you call bishops do no bishop's work, but live after sensual pleasure, taking no care of Christ's flock, nor regarding his word. _Oliph._ Thou speakest against pilgrimage, and sayest, It is a pilgrimage to whoredom? _Mill._ I say pilgrimage is not commanded in scripture, and that there is no greater whoredom in any place, except in brothel-houses. _Oliph._ You preach privately in houses, and sometimes in the field? _Mill._ Yea, and on the sea also when sailing in a ship. Then said _Oliphant_, "If you will not recant, I will pronounce sentence against you." To this he replied, "I know I must die once, and therefore as Christ said to Judas, _What thou dost, do quickly_: you shall know that I will not recant the truth, for I am corn and not chaff: I will neither be blown away by the wind, nor burst with the flail, but will abide both." Then Oliphant, as the mouth of the court, was ordered to pronounce sentence against him, ordaining him to be delivered to the temporal judge, and burnt as an heretic. But they could not procure one as a temporal judge to condemn him. One Learmond, then provost of the town, and bailie of the bishop's regality, refused it, and went out of town; the people of the place were so moved at his constancy, and offended at the wrong done to him, that they refused to supply ropes to bind him, and other materials for his execution, whereby his death was retarded for one day. At last one Somerville, a domestic of the bishop, undertook to act the part of temporal judge, and the ropes of the bishop's pavilion were taken to serve the purpose.