Says Foxe: “At last, after much reasoning, where no reason would serve, although he deserved no death, he was condemned by virtue of the Emperor’s decree, made in the Assembly at Augsburg, and, upon the same, brought forth to the place of execution, was there tied to the stake, and then strangled first by the hangman, and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning, at the town of Filford, 25th of October A.D. 1536; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and loud voice, ‘Lord! open the King of England’s eyes!’” Concerning Tyndale himself Dr. Stoughton justly remarks: “Tyndale was eminently a great man, great in mind and heart and enterprise. His intellectual endowments were of an order to render him a match in controversy with no less a personage than the illustrious Sir Thomas More. The qualities of his heart were as remarkable as those of his head. He combined a calm and steady heroism with a childlike simplicity. No man was ever more free from duplicity, more full of meekness, and at the same time more elevated in soul by a manly courage. Ever as in his great Taskmaster’s eye, he pursued his labours in obscurity and exile, reaping no earthly benefit whatever, and looking for no reward but the smile of his Heavenly Father.” Nothing need be added to these generous and just sentences, except that Tyndale’s full merit will only be known and confessed when the secrets of all hearts are opened. He professed himself to be ready to wait for his reward until the great day of God, and then it will be seen that William Tyndale has not been far behind the apostles of the Lamb:-- “How our hearts burnt within us at the scene! Whence this brave bound o’er limits fixed to man? His God sustains him in the final hour! His final hour brings glory to his God! Sweet peace, and heavenly hope, and humble joy, Divinely beam in his exalted soul; Destruction gilds, and crowns him for the skies With incommunicable lustre bright.” --YOUNG. THE END. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON. FOOTNOTES: [1] Demaus’ “William Tyndale, a Biography.” [2] Demaus. [3] History of the Bible. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized or underlined text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.