From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

they have bowed to the authority of the Gospel,
and consecrated their lives to its service. In
England the Lollard movement, which appeared to
have gone to sleep with the ashes of its martyrs, is
awakening from slumber, and girding itself for a
second career more glorious than the first. In
Scotland the light of the new day is gladdening the
eyes, and its breath stirring the souls of men.
Luther's tracts and Tyndale's New Testaments
have entered that country. In 1528 the die is cast,
and Scotland is secured for the Reformation; for
now Patrick Hamilton is burned at the stake atSt.
Andrews, and his martyr-pile becomes the funeral
torch of the Papacy in that country. So wide is the
sphere which thirteen short years have sufficed to
fill with the light of Protestantism.
Nor must we omit to note that in the midst of
the German nation, like a pillar of light, now stands
the German Bible. The eye that sees this Light
rejoices in it; the ear that hears this Voice blesses
it. In the presence of this Divine teacher, human
authority, which had so long held the
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