Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
Ver. 39. Therefore they sought again to take him] They could not answer his arguments, they turn them therefore to a course of violence, wherein they doubted not but to be too hard for him. Thus they dealt with Ridley and Latimer at Oxford; thus with other martyrs, who yet overcame them by the blood of the Lamb, yea, were more than conquerors, Romans 8:37. A fagot will make you recant, saith the Bishop to Mr Hawks, martyr. No, no, said he, a point for your fagot; you shall do no more, and your master to help you, than God permits you. In the year 1166, the synod at Oxford burned in the foreheads, and afterwards banished out of the realm, thirty Dutch doctors that taught here the right use of wedlock and the sacraments. (Alsted. Chronol.)