This work is therefore to us rather “the groaning of this angel,” this
“watchman of the LORD” at the national subjection, the fiery
martyrdoms, “the sobs and tears of the poor oppressed;” than the
expression of any fundamental principle on which GOD has constituted
human society. Intellectually, there is partiality, forgetfulness and
disproportion in the argument. It applies as much to a Man as to a
Woman, and more to a wicked than a good Woman. He started on the
assumption that almost all women in authority were wicked. Time however
alters many things; and he lived to love and reverence Queen ELIZABETH.
So these trumpet notes are the outpouring of a very great nature, if
not of a great thinker; of one whose absolute and dauntless devotion to
GOD, to truth, to right, whose burning indignation against wrong-doing
and faith in the Divine vengeance to overtake it, fitted him to do a
giant’s work in the Reformation, and will enshrine his memory in the
affection of all good men till time shall end.