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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                                         Appendix
                   to  the  Fleet-prison,  and,  after  eighteen


               months’  confinement,  was  tried  for  heresy,


               and  condemned  to  the  flames  in  1555.  He


               endured  the  agonies of  the  stake with great


               fortitude,  though  they  were  unusually


               protracted  on  account  of  the  use  of  green



               wood.



               John Rogers, the first of the many who were


               martyred  during  Queen  Mary’s  reign,  was


               born  about  1500.  He  was  educated  at


               Cambridge,  receiving  holy  orders,  and  was


               afterward  chaplain  to  the  English  factory  at


               Antwerp, where he became acquainted with


               Tyndale  and  Coverdale,  and  by  their  aid


               published  a  complete  English  version  of  the


               Bible.  Removing  to  Wittenberg,  he  became


               pastor  of  a  Dutch  congregation;  but  when


               Edward VI came to the throne, he was invited
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