# Their Conduct Toward The Fathers In The Council In Oxford, And What The Council Did In The Matter.

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We return to the papistic author, to hear from
his own lips, how they dealt with these upright and
simple people. “When the fathers of the council,”
he writes, “admonished them to do penitence and
manifest sorrow for their belief, that they might be
united with the (Roman) church, they despised this
advice, as well as the threats with which they were
menaced in order that they, through fear, if by no
other means, might be driven to conversion; yea,
they scoffed at them, saying: ‘Blessed are they
which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’ ”

“In order, then,” he writes, “that the poison of
their heresy might not spread further, the bishops
publicly pronounced them heretics, and delivered
them over to the Catholic prince, for corporal punishment.
The latter commanded that they should
be branded on their foreheads, as an infamous mark
of their heresy, and publicly, in the sight of all the
people, scourged out of the city, strictly prohibiting
any one from taking them into his house, or affording
them the least comfort or assistance.” From
William Neubrig. Hist. Engl., lib. 2, cap. 13.



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