Given one last chance to recant and escape the fire, she replied, came not here to deny my Lord and Savior.”
“I am not come here to deny my Lord and Master.”
— Anne Askew, 25, having been tortured at the Tower of London was burnt at the stake for the gospel in London on this day, 479 years ago. (16 July 1546)
Anne Askew (1521-1546) was a Protestant Reformer whose opposition to the Roman doctrine of Transubstantiation resulted in her martyrdom under the reign of Henry VIII. She recorded the events surrounding her persecution along with a statement of her faith, published as The Examinations by John Bale, which was republished in 1563 by John Foxe in his Acts and Monuments.
Before her death, Anne wrote out the following prayer:
“O Lord! I have more enemies now, than there be hairs on my head; yet, Lord let them never overcome me with vain words, but light thou, Lord, in my stead; for on thee cast I my care. With all the spite they can imagine, they fall upon me, who am thy poor creature. Yet, sweet Lord, let me not set by them that are against me; for in thee is my whole delight. And, Lord, I heartily desire of thee that thou wilt of thy most merciful goodness forgive them that violence which they do, and have done unto me. Open also thou their blind hearts, that they may hereafter do that thing in thy sight, which is only acceptable before thee, and to set forth thy verity aright, without all vain fantasies of sinful men. So be it, O Lord, so be it!”
“I am not come here to deny my Lord and Master.”
— Anne Askew, 25, having been tortured at the Tower of London was burnt at the stake for the gospel in London on this day, 479 years ago. (16 July 1546)
Anne Askew (1521-1546) was a Protestant Reformer whose opposition to the Roman doctrine of Transubstantiation resulted in her martyrdom under the reign of Henry VIII. She recorded the events surrounding her persecution along with a statement of her faith, published as The Examinations by John Bale, which was republished in 1563 by John Foxe in his Acts and Monuments.
Before her death, Anne wrote out the following prayer:
“O Lord! I have more enemies now, than there be hairs on my head; yet, Lord let them never overcome me with vain words, but light thou, Lord, in my stead; for on thee cast I my care. With all the spite they can imagine, they fall upon me, who am thy poor creature. Yet, sweet Lord, let me not set by them that are against me; for in thee is my whole delight. And, Lord, I heartily desire of thee that thou wilt of thy most merciful goodness forgive them that violence which they do, and have done unto me. Open also thou their blind hearts, that they may hereafter do that thing in thy sight, which is only acceptable before thee, and to set forth thy verity aright, without all vain fantasies of sinful men. So be it, O Lord, so be it!”
Given one last chance to recant and escape the fire, she replied, came not here to deny my Lord and Savior.”
“I am not come here to deny my Lord and Master.”
— Anne Askew, 25, having been tortured at the Tower of London was burnt at the stake for the gospel in London on this day, 479 years ago. (16 July 1546)
Anne Askew (1521-1546) was a Protestant Reformer whose opposition to the Roman doctrine of Transubstantiation resulted in her martyrdom under the reign of Henry VIII. She recorded the events surrounding her persecution along with a statement of her faith, published as The Examinations by John Bale, which was republished in 1563 by John Foxe in his Acts and Monuments.
Before her death, Anne wrote out the following prayer:
“O Lord! I have more enemies now, than there be hairs on my head; yet, Lord let them never overcome me with vain words, but light thou, Lord, in my stead; for on thee cast I my care. With all the spite they can imagine, they fall upon me, who am thy poor creature. Yet, sweet Lord, let me not set by them that are against me; for in thee is my whole delight. And, Lord, I heartily desire of thee that thou wilt of thy most merciful goodness forgive them that violence which they do, and have done unto me. Open also thou their blind hearts, that they may hereafter do that thing in thy sight, which is only acceptable before thee, and to set forth thy verity aright, without all vain fantasies of sinful men. So be it, O Lord, so be it!”
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