John Frith
John Frith (1503-1533) was an English Protestant Reformer and martyr. He supported the principle of religious toleration on a national level, clinging not only to his own convictions, but freely attacking those of others, eventually leading to his martyrdom. He took a specific stand against the Romish doctrines of Purgatory and Transubstantiation.
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The Life And Martyrdom Of John Frith
The subject of our present paper was a bosom friend of William Tyndale, and a very able and clever scholar at Cambridge University. John Frith was the son of an innkeeper at Seven-oaks, in Kent, where he was born about the year 1503. At a very early age he manifested a strong inclination for learning, and his abilities attracted the notice of Cardinal Wolsey, who selected him as one of the new members of his college at Oxford, which he had founded on a very magnificent scale. In the year 1525, Tyndale being in London, Frith paid him a visit; and this appears to have been the time when he was brought, under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and through the instrumentality of Tyndale,…
