Martyrs Mirror 392THEIR ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS RESPECTING THEIR FAITH

The king, not willing to release or to punish them unheard, convened, on this account, a council at Oxford; where the most learned of the prisoners, namely, Gerard, being solemnly interrogated concerning their religion, answered in the name of all, saying: "That they were Christians, and regarded the doctrine of the apostles." And when they were properly questioned respecting all the articles of the faith, they answered well with regard to the nature of the supreme Physician; but as regards the means with which he has been pleased to heal our weakness, that is, respecting the divine sacraments, "they," says the papistic writer, "judged

* Vignierus, in Hist. Eccl.

** The papistic writer says: "From an unknown author." The Calvinistic Mellinus, however says: "But perhaps from Peter de Bruis, Henry of Toulouse, or Berengarius himself." Secound book fol. 439. col. 4, m the margin.

perversely. For they aspersed baptism (he means infant baptism, for this was the baptism then held in esteem by the Roman church) and also the thankoffering (the mass)."