Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – The ascension of English Royalty after William Tyndales Death PART 7 of 11

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  · Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives The ascension of English Royalty after Tyndales Death PART 7 of 11

History records on January 8th, 1547 that King Henry VIII at the age of 55 filled with paranoia, manipulation and tyranny died from complications of OBESITY. He had quite a few medical problems but all were associated with his glutinous appetite that resulted in extreme obesity. It is estimated that 57,000 people were executed by the killer king during his 36 yr. reign of terror:• Accusations ranged from heresy, to treason or simply denying his Supremacy as the Head of the Church of England.• Henry had only one surviving son by his third wife, Jane Seymour. Thus entering on the world stage at the age of NINE comes the British Isles new king; Edward the VI, who would eventually become the 1st Protestant king of England. Keep in mind Henry’s Church of England was like walking into an RCC service, there was very little difference; only a change in Vicars. But on July 6, 1553 King Edward VI at tender age of 16 passed away from tuberculosis & succeeded by his step-sister & “god-mother” Queen Mary I (daughter of Catherine of Aragon Henry’s 1st wife).One of Protestant King Edward VI greatest fears was coming to pass when “Bloody” Mary a staunch Roman Catholic reinstituted Catholicism as the state government religion. The blood thirsty, book-burning Catholics were back in business! The persecuted Protestants fled to Geneva, Switzerland in droves and a few years later in 1560 the Geneva Bible was birthed; the 5th in line of English bibles.Interestingly approx. 80% of this edition relied on Tyndale’s work albeit it somewhat more independent version, the footnotes were from a distinct what we would now call a Calvinist perspective. John Knox, who founded the Scotland Presbyterian Church in 1560, was on the Geneva Bible translation team along with John Calvin, as well as Miles Coverdale and other reformers. After Bloody Mary’s 5 yr. reign of terror the Reformed Protestants brought the Geneva Bible back to the UK. In which we find Mary unwittingly played her part in spreading Augustine’s “REFORMED THEOLOGY.” The notes in the Geneva Bible are decidedly “Calvinist.”And we know in studying history that Calvin studied Augustine; the author of many false doctrines; many adopted by the RCC. One of Augustine’s false doctrines developed into the TULIP theory by Calvin.Both Luther & Calvin studied the works of Augustine of Hippo, a prolific writer who laid the roots of much Roman Catholic theology. It was Augustine’s writing in “Rebuke and Grace” that influenced the spread of Reformed theology to the Protestant daughters.Prepared by Thomas E. Kresal from my sermons on Wm. Tyndale