The remarkable story of King Edward VI, the young prince who became king when he was only nine years old. He was soon known among the people of the nation as “The British Josiah” not only because of his age (like the biblical king Josiah, who became king at age 8) but also because of his desire to seek after the Lord while still very young. He died when he was only sixteen, and his cousin, Lady Jane Grey, was given the throne. She was Queen for only nine days when Edward’s cousin, known as “Bloody Mary,” was given the throne in her place. An excerpt from The British Josiah, as sixteen-year-old Lady Jane was about to be beheaded for refusing to embrace Catholicism reads: “From the scaffold she spoke earnestly to spectators: ‘Good people, touching the procurement of the crown on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof before God. I did not desire it….I do look to be saved by no other means, but by the mercy of God in the blood of His only Son Jesus Christ…and I confess when I did know the word of God, I neglected the same, loved myself and the world, and thereby this…punishment is worthily happened to me, and yet I thank God that in His goodness He hath thus given me time to repent.’ Kneeling down, she asked permission and quoted all of Psalm 57 [1]....Laying her head on the block, she said, ‘Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit.’”
- Title: The British Josiah
- Item#: B00455
- ISBN: 9-781880-960455
- Size: 208 pp
- Length: 8.50
- Width: 5.50
- Weight: 0.9
- Copyright: 2001