to read my earlier writings with great caution and with much pity, remembering that I too was once a monk, and one of the right raving and frantic papists. When I took up the cudgels against indulgences [see chap. iii], I was so full and drunken, yea so besotted, with papal doctrine that in my great zeal I would have been ready to do murder, or at least glad to see and help that murder should be done, on all who refused obedience and submission to the pope, even to his smallest word. Such a Saul