Marginalia1555. Iuly.then onely Gods mercy and truth, then might you well be sad, heauy, and stand in a doubt: but in that it hangeth onely vpon these two, MarginaliaHow to answere to Sathan, when he moueth vs to doubt of Gods fauour.tell Sathan he lyeth when he would you to stand in a mammering by causing you to MarginaliaHow to looke vpon Christ.cast your eyes (which onely in this case should be set on Christ your swete Sauiour) on your self. MarginaliaHow to looke vpon our selues.In some part in deede looke on your selfe, on your faith, on your loue, obedience, &c. to wake you vp frō securitie, to styrre you vp to diligēce in doing the things appertayning to your vocation: but when you would bee at peace with God, and haue true consolation in your conscience, MarginaliaIn case of iustificatiō let no man looke vpon him selfe, but only vpon the goodnes of God in Christ.altogether looke vpō the goodnes of God in Christ. Thinke on this commaundement which precedeth all other: that you must haue no other Gods but the Lorde Iehouah, which is your Lord and God: the which he could not be if that he did not pardon your synnes in very deede. Remember that Christ commaundeth you to call him father for the same intent. And hereto call to mynde all the benefites of God hetherto shewed vpon you: and so shall you feele in very deede, that which I wishe vnto you now, and pray you to wish vnto me. Farewel or Welfare in the Lord Iesus, with whom he graunt vs shortly to meete as his childrē, for his name and mercies sake, to our eternall welfare, Amen.

MarginaliaA letter of Maister Bradford to Maister Saunders.MY good brother, I beseech our good and gracious Father alwayes to continue his gracious fauour and loue towards vs, and by vs, as by instruments of his grace, to worke his glory and the confusion of hys aduersaryes. Ex ore infantiū & lactētium fundet laudē ad destruēdum inimicū. &c. Amen. i. Out of the mouth of infantes and babes he will shewe forth hys praise to destroy the enemy. &c.

I haue perused your letters to my self, and haue red them to others. For answer wherof, if I should write what D. Taylor, and M. Philpot doe thinke, then must I say that they thinke þ^e salt sent vnto vs by your *Marginalia* This frend moued thē to subscribe to the Papistes articles with this conditiō: so farre as they were not agaynst Gods word, being in dede cleane contrary to it: and yet shortly after he valiantly suffred death for refusing the same. frend is vnseasonable. And in deede I thinke they both will declare it hartely if they should come before them. As for me, if you would know what I thinke (my good & most deare brother Laurence) bicause I am so sinfull and so conspurcate (the Lord knoweth I lye not) with many greuous sinnes, (which yet I hope are washed away Sanguine Christi nostri) I neither can nor would be consulted withall, but as a siphar in Agrime. How be it, to tel you how and what I minde, take this for a summe: I pray God in no case I may seeke my selfe: and in deede ( I thanke God therefore) I purpose it not. Quod reliquum est domino Deo meo committo, & spero in illum, quòd ipse faciet iuxta hoc: Iacta in Dominum curam. &c. Omnis cura vestra coniecta sit in illum, &c. Reuela domino viam tuam & spera. &c. Sperantem in domino misericordia circundabit. i. MarginaliaPsal. 54.That which remaineth, I commit to my Lord God: and I trust in him, that he will do according to this: Cast thy care on the Lord. &c. MarginaliaPsal. 36.Cast all your care vppon him. &c. Reueale vnto the Lorde thy way, and trust. &c MarginaliaPsal. 31.Who that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compasse him about. I did not nor doe not know but by your letters, quòd cras we shall come coram nobis. Mine owne hart, sticke still to MarginaliaMath. 10. 1. Cor. 2. 2. Pet. 1. Nahum. 1.dabitur vobis. Fidelis enim est dominns, dabit in tentatione euentum quo possimus sufferre. Nouit dominus pios e tentatione eripere. &c. O vtinā pius ego essem. Nouit Dominus in die tribulationis sperātes in se. &c. i. It shall be geuē you. &c. For the lord is faithfull. He wil in tentatiō make a way that ye may be able to beare it. The Lord knoweth how to rid out of tentatiō the godly. &c. O would God I were godly. The Lord knoweth how to deliuer out of tentation such as trust in him. &c. I can not thinke that they will offer any kind of indifferent or meane conditions: for if we will not adorare bestiam, we neuer shalbe deliuered but agaynst theyr wil, thinke I. God our father & gracious Lord make perfect the good he hath begon in vs. Faciet mi frater, charissime frater, quem in intimis visceribus habeo ad conuiuendum & commoriendum O si tecum essem. He will doe it my brother, my deare brother, whom I haue in my inward bowels to liue and die with. O if I were with you. Pray for mee mine owne hart roote in the Lord.

For euer your own, Ioh. Bradford.

MarginaliaAn other letter of Maister Bradford to the sayd Maister Saunders.GOds sweete peace in Christ be with you, my good brother in the Lord Iesus, and with al your cōcaptiues, Amen.

I was letted this morning from musing on that which I was purposed to haue thought on by reason of you, against whom I vow my selfe gilty of negligēce euen in this poynt that I would not wryte. I should say, that I had not written vnto you as yet: therefore out of hand in maner I prepared my selfe to purge my selfe hereof, not that I will go about to excuse my fault (for that were more to loade me) but by asking both God and you pardon, to get it no more layde to my charge. Now thē as I was thus purposing and partly doing, commeth there one with a letter from you, for the which as I haue cause to thanke God & you, (howbeit not so that you shold thynke I geue not the whole to God) so MarginaliaM. Bradford accuseth him selfe of negligence. &c.I see my selfe more blame worthy for this long holding my peace. Howbeit good brother, in this I haue geuen a demonstration to you, to behold my negligence in all other things, and especially in praying for you and for the Church of God, which for my sinnes and hipocrisy (hipocrisy in deede euen in this wryting, God deliuer me from it) haue deserued to be punished. Iust is God, for we haue deserued al kindes of plagues at his hands: but yet mercifull is he that will on this wise chastise vs with thys world, ne cum mundo condemnemur. i. That vve shoulde not bee condemned vvith the vvorlde. Hee might otherwise haue punished vs, I meane, he might haue for other causes cast vs in prison, me especially, then for his gospell and words sake: Praysed therfore be his name which voucheth vs worthy this honor. Ah good god, forgeue vs our synnes, and worke by this thy fatherly correctiō on vs, on me especially, effectually to loue thee and thy Christ: and wyth ioyfulnes vnto the end, to cary thy crosse through thicke and thinne. Alwayes set before our eyes not this gallowes on earth if we will sticke to thee, but the gallowes in hell if we deny thee, or swarue from that we haue professed.

Ah good brother, if I could alwayes haue God, his maiesty, mercy, heauen, hell. &c. before mine eyes, then should I obdurare, as Paule wryteth of Moses. Heb. 11. obdurauit inquit, perinde quasi vidisset eum qui est inuisibilis. i. He endured (sayth he) as he that saw him which is inuisible. Pray for me, as I know you do, and geue thankes also, for in Domino spero: non nutabo. Si ambulauero per vallem vmbræ mortis, non timebo quia tu Domine mecum es. &c. Amen. i. MarginaliaPsal. 22.In the Lord I trust: I shall not vvauer. If I walke by the valley of the shadow of death, I will not feare, for thou art with me O Lord. I thinke we shall be shortly called forth: for now legem habent, & secundum legem. &c. otherwise wil they not reasō with vs: and I thinke their shootanker wil be, to haue vs to subscribe. The which thing if we doe, though with thys condition: [so farre as the thing subscribed to, repugneth not agaynst Gods worde] yet this will be offēsiue. Therfore let vs vadere plane & so sane, I meane, let vs all cōfesse that we are no chaungelings, but reipsa are the same we were in religion, and therefore can not subscribe, except we wil dissemble both with God, our selues, and the world. Hæc tibi scribo frater mi charissime in domino. Iam legam tuam epistolam. i. These things I wryte to you deare brother in the lord. Now I will read your Epistle. Marginalia1. Ioh. 13.Ah brother that I had practicā tecum scientiam in vite illa quam pingis: roga dominum vt ita verè sentiam, Amen. i. The practicall vnderstanding with you in that vine which you describe. Pray the Lord that I may so thinke in deede. God make me thankefull for you. Salutant te omnes concaptiui & gratias domino pro te agunt: idem tu facies pro nobis & ores vt. &c. i. All our fellow prisoners salute you, and geue thankes to God for you. The same doe you for vs, and pray that. &c.

Your brother in the Lord Iesus to liue
and die with you, Iohn Bradford.

MarginaliaAn other letter of Maister Bradford to D. Cranmer, D. Ridley, & M. Latymer.IEsus Emanuell. My deare fathers in the Lord, I besech God our sweete father through Christ, to make perfect the good he hath begon in vs all, Amen.

I had thought that euery of your staues had stand next the dore, but now it is otherwise perceaued. Our deare brother Rogers hath broken the Ise valiantly, and as this day (I thinke) or to morrow at the vttermost, harty Hoper, sincere Saunders, and trusty Taylour ende theyr course and receiue theyr crowne. The next am I, which hourly loke for the porter to open me the gates after them, to enter into the desired rest. God forgeue me mine vnthankefulnes for this exceedyng