MarginaliaGardiners report.(sayth Gardiner) Barnes could not aunswer, but desired to be spared that night, and the next morning he would answer hys arguments.MarginaliaDisputation betwene Barnes & Gardiner. In the morning Gardiner with þ^e hearers being againe assēbled, D. Barnes, according to the appoyntment, was present who then went about to assoyle hys argumentes. To his solutions Gardiner againe replied. And thus continued they in this altercation by the space of two houres.MarginaliaSteuen Gardiner in his preface to George Ioye. In the ende of this Cockfight Winchester thus cēcludeth hys glorious tale, and croweth vp the triumph, declaring how Barnes besought hym to haue pity of hym, to forgeue hym, and to take hym to be hys scholer,MarginaliaSteuen Gardiner offereth to Doct. Barnes xl. pounde a yeare. whom then the sayd Winchester (as he confesseth himselfe) receiuyng, not as hys scholer, but as his companion, offred to hym a portion out of hys liuyng, to the summe of xl. li. a yeare. Which if it be true, as Ste. Gardiner hymselfe reporteth, why then doth this glorious Cockatrise crowe so muche agaynste Barnes afterward, and cast hym in the teethe, bearyng all the worlde in hande, that Barnes was hys scholer, where as he hymselfe here refuseth Barnes to bee hys Scholer, but receyueth him as hys companion fellowlike? But to the story.

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This done, the kyng beyng aduertised of the conclusion of this matter betwene Barnes and Winchester, was content that Barnes should repaire to the Bishoppes house at London, the Monday folowing. Which he did, with a certaine other companion ioyned vnto him. Who he was, Winchester there doth not expresse, only he saith, that it was neither Hierome nor Garret. In this next meeting betwene Barnes and the bishop vpon the foresaid Monday  

the sayd bishop studying to instruct Barnes, vttered to him certain Articles or conclusions, to the number of x. the effect wherof here followeth.

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MarginaliaWinchesters articles agaynst Doct. Barnes.
1. THe effect of Christes passion hath a condition. The fulfilling of the condition diminisheth nothyng the effecte of Christes Passion.

Marginalia2. They that will enioy the effect of Christes passion must fulfill the condition.

Marginalia3. The fulfillyng of the condition requireth first knowledge of the condition, which knowledge we haue by fayth.

Marginalia4. Fayth commeth of God, and this fayth is a good gift. It is good and profitable to me: it is profitable to me to doe well, and to exercise this fayth: Ergo, by the gift of God I may do well before I am iustified.

Marginalia5. Therfore I may do well by the gift of God before I am iustified, towardes the attainment of iustification.

Marginalia6. There is euer as much charitie towardes god, as faith, And as faith encreaseth, so doth charitie encrease.

Marginalia7. To the atteinment of iustification is required fayth and charitie.

Marginalia8. Euery thing is to be called freely done, wherof the beginning is free and at libertie without any cause of prouocation.

Marginalia9. Faith must be to me the assuraunce of the promises of God made in Christ (if I fulfill the condition) and loue must accomplish the condition: wherupon followeth the attainment of the promise according to Gods truth.

Marginalia10. A man beynge in deadly sinne, may haue grace to doe the workes of penance, wherby he may attaine to his iustification.

MarginaliaThe aunswere and the reioynder of George Ioye agaynst Winchester. These Articles for so much as they be sufficiently aunswered and replied vnto by George Ioy in his Ioynder  

, and Reioynder   against Wynchester, I shall not neede to cumber this worke with any new adoe therwith, but only referre the reader to the bookes aforesayd: where he may see matter enough to aunswer to these popish Articles.

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I told you before how the king was contented þ^t Barnes should resort to the house of the bishop of Winchester, to be traded and directed by the bishop, which Barnes then hearing the talke of the people, and also hauyng conference with certaine learned men, within two dayes after his commyng to the bishops house, waxed wery therof,MarginaliaDoct. Barnes refuseth to come to Gardiner, to be instructed of hym, but onely to conferre with hym. and so commyng to the Bishop, signified vnto hym, that if he would take him as one that came to conferre, he would come still, but els he would come no more, and so cleane gaue ouer the Bishop.

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This beyng knowen vnto the kyng, thorough sinister complaintes of popish Sycophantes, Barnes agayne was sent for, and conuented before the king, who greuously beyng incensed against him, enioyned both him, Hierome, and Garret, at the solemne Easter sermons at S. Mary spittle, openly in writyng to reuoke the doctrine which they before had taught. At which sermons Ste. Gardinar also himselfe was present to heare their recantation.

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Doctor Barnes, accordyng to his promise made to the king, solempnely and formally beganne to make hys recantation, which done, he with much circumstaunce and obtestationMarginaliaD. Barnes desired Winchester at his sermō to hold vp hys hand. called vppon the Byshop (as is aboue touched) and asking of hym forgeuenes, required hym in token of a graunt to holde vp his hand, to the entent that he there openly declaring his charitie before the worlde, the Byshop also would declare his charitie in like maner. Which when þ^e bishop refused to do at the first, as he was required, Barnes agayne called for it, desiring hym to shewe his charitie, and to holde vp his hand. Which when he had done with much a do, wagging his finger   a litle: then Barnes entring to his Sermon after hys prayer made, beginneth the processe of a matter, preaching contrary to that, which before he had recanted.MarginaliaThe Maior of London ready to trouble D. Barnes for his sermon. In so much, that the Maior, when the Sermon was finished, sitting with the Bishop of Winchester, asked hym whether he shoulde from the pulpitte sende hym to warde, to be forth comming for that his bold preaching contrary to his recantation. The like also did Hierome, and Garret after him.

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The king had appointed before certaine to make report of the sermons. Besides them there was one who writing to a frend of his in the Court, in the fauour of these preachers, declared how gayly they had all handled the matter, both to satisfie the recantation, and also in the same Sermons to vtter out the truth, that it might spread wythout let of the world. Wherfore partly by these reporters, & partly by the negligent looking to this letter, which came to the Lord Cromwels handes (sayth Gardiner)MarginaliaBarnes, Garret, and Hierome committed to the Tower. Barnes with hys other fellowes were apprehended, and committed to the Tower. Steuen Gardiner in hys foresayde booke agaynst George Ioye woulde needes cleare hymselfe, that he was in no part nor cause of their casting into the tower, and geueth this reason for hym,MarginaliaSte. Gardiner had no accesse to the kinges counsell a yeare & more before the L. Crōwels fall. for that he hadde then no accesse ne hadde not after, so long as Cromwels tyme lasted, to the kyngs secrete Counsaile: yet notwithstanding  

the said Gardiner can not persuade vs to the contrary, but that hys priuie complayning to the king and his secrete whisperinges in hys frendes eares, and his other workings by his factours about the kyng, was a great sparcle to set theyr faggottes a fire.

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Thus then Barnes, Hierome, and Garret being committed to the Tower, after Easter, there remayned tyll the xxx. day of Iulye, which was two dayes after the death of the Lord Cromwell.MarginaliaProcesse agaynst Barnes, Hierom and Garret. Then ensued processe agaynst them by the kinges Counsell in the Parliament  

, to the which processe Gardiner confesseth himselfe that he was priuie amongest the rest. Wherupon all these three good saintes of God, the xxx. day of Iuly, not comming to any aunswere, nor yet knowing any cause of their condemnation, without any publike hearing, were brought together from the Tower to Smythfield, where they preparing themselues to the fire, had there at the stake diuers and sundry exhortations, amongest whom D. Barnes first beganne wyth thys protestation following.

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MarginaliaThe protestation of Doct. Barnes at the stake. I am  

come hether to be burned as an hereticke, and you shal heare my beliefe, whereby you shall perceiue what erroneous opinions I hold. God I take to record, I neuer (to my knowledge) taught any erroneous doctrine, but onely those thinges which scripture lead me vnto, and that in my sermōs I neuer maintained any errour, neither moued nor gaue occasion of any insurrection.MarginaliaD. Barnes falsely sclaundered. Although I haue bene sclaundered to preach that our Lady was but a saffrō bag   , which I vtterly protest before God, þ^t I neuer ment it nor preached it: but all my study & diligēce hath bene vtterly to confound & cōfute all mē of that doctrine, as are þ^e Anabaptistes, which deny that our Sauiour Christ did take any fleshe of the blessed virgin Mary, which sects I detest and abhorre. And in this place there hath bene burned some of them, whom I neuer fauored, nor maintained, but wyth all diligence euermore did I studie to set forth the glory of God, the obedience to our soueraigne Lord the king, and the true and sincere religion of Christ. And now harken to my faith.

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MarginaliaD. Barnes confession. I beleue in the holy and blessed Trinitie, three persons, and one God, that created and made all the world, and that this blessed Trinitie sent downe the second person Iesu Christ into the wombe of the most blessed and purest virgin Mary. And here beare me recorde, that I do vtterly condemne that abhominable and detestable opinion of the Anabaptistes, which say that Christ tooke no fleshe of the virgine. For I beleue that without mans will or power, he was conceiued by the holy Ghost, and tooke flesh of her, and that he suffered hnnger, thirst, colde, & other passions of our body (sinne except) according to the saying of S. Peter: He was made in all thinges like to his brethren, except sinne.  

And I beleue that this his death and passion was the sufficient raunsome for the sinne of all þ^e world. And I beleue that through his death, he ouercame sinne, death, & hell, and

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