William Gurnall Quotes
Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
Gurnall, William. The Christian in Complete Armour. Thomas Tegg, 1845.
The Christian Crusaders and the Muslim extremists through this day are not the only peoples who described atrocities as “Holy war.”
The Papacy was at one of it’s lowest points. Two men, Clement and Urban, both claimed the Papacy and each had raised an army to fight the other. Each was promising indulgences to those who would fight, and in a modality similar to the Muslim terrorists of the 21st century, the soldiers were promised ascendancy to Heaven if they fell in battle for such a holy cause. The armies of the popes marched under the cross as their banner, and Wycliffe found that obscene and actually wrote a treatise saying so. See {618087}.
Marqués de Valdegamas. He was a descendant of the conquistador, Hernando Cortez.
William Gurnall was an English author and Anglican clergyman born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he was baptised on 17 November 1616.
