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Marginalia1555. Maye.At length Cardmaker departed from the Sheriffes, and came towards the stake, and (in his garments as he was) kneeled downe, and made a lōg prayer in silence to him self: yet the people confirmed them selues in their fantasie of his recantyng, seeing him in his garmēts praying secretly, & no semblance of any burnyng.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaIohn Cardmaker standeth constantly to the fire.His prayers beyng ended, he rose vp, put of hys clothes vnto his shyrt, went with bold courage to the stake, and kissed it sweetly: MarginaliaCardmaker and Warne ioyne hands.he tooke Warne by the hand, and comforted hym hartily, and so gaue him self to be also bound to the stake most gladly. The people seeing this so sodenly done, contrarye to their fearfull expectation, as men deliuered out of a great doubt, cried out for ioy (with so great a shoute as hath not lightly bene heard a greater) saying: MarginaliaThe reioycing of the people at Cardmakers constancy.God be praised, the Lord strengthen thee Cardmaker, the Lord Iesus receiue thy spirite.
CloseThe Venetian ambassador observed that crowd at Cardmaker's execution sympathised with the martyr (C.S.P. Ven., VI, I, pp. 93-94).
CloseFoxe apparently had a copy of this document when he was writing the Rerum, since he states that Warne wrote such a confession of faith on p. 443. If this is the case, than Warne's confession circulated among Marian protestants and was notobtained from an official record.
I beleue in God the father almighty maker of heauen and earth.
CloseAs is usual when dealing with the literary remains of the martyrs, Foxe's glosses are supportive rather than interventionist or critical; he draws out the basic issues and examples without comment, although there may be something artful in the highlighting of Christ's triumph over death in 'The triumphāt victory ouer death'.
[Back to Top]And in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lord.
The eternall worde, perfect God with his father of equall power in all thinges, of the same substance, of like glory, by whom all thinges were made, and haue life, and without whom nothing liueth: he was made also perfect man, and so being verye God, and verye man in one person, is the onely Saueour, Redeemer, and Raūsomer of them which were loste in Adam our forefather. He is the onely meane of our deliueraunce, the hope of our health, the suretie of our saluation.
[Back to Top]Whiche was conceyued by the holy Ghost, borne of the virgin Mary.
CloseThis point, that Christ was born of Mary, is particularly important because it establishes that the martyr was not an Anabaptist. Orthodox protestants, like Foxe, would have been eager to make this point.
According to the fathers most mercyfull promise, this eternal sonne of God, forsaking the heauēly glory, humbled himselfe to take fleshe of a virgin, according to the Scriptures, vniting the substance of the Godhead, to the substāce of the manhead, which he tooke of the substaunce of that blessed virgin Mary, in one person, to become therin the very Mashiach, the annoynted king & priest, for euer appoynted to pacifie the fathers wrath, which was iustly gone out against vs al for our sinne.
[Back to Top]Suffered vnder Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, & buried, and descended into hel.
He was arraigned before Pontius Pilate the Ruler of Iewrie, and so vniustly accused of many crimes, that the Ruler iudged hym innocent, and sought meanes to deliuer hym: but contrary to knowen iustice he did let goe Barrabas, which had deserued death, & deliuered Christ to be crucified, who deserued no death: which doth declare vnto vs manifestly that he suffered for our sinnes, and was buffeted for our offences, as the prophetes do witnes: therby to haue it manifested to all men, that he is that Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world. Therefore sufferyng for our sinnes, he receiued and did beare our deserued condemnation, the paines of death, the taste of abiection, the very terror of hel, yeelding his spirit to his father, his body to be buried in earth.
[Back to Top]The third day he rose againe from death to life.
To make full and perfect the whole woorke of our redemption and iustification, the same crucified body whiche was laide in the graue, was raised vp againe the third day from death, by the power of his Father, and glorye of his Godhead: he became the firste fruites of the resurrection, and got the victorie of death, that all by hym might be raised vp from death. Through whom all true penitēt sinners may nowe boldly come vnto the father, and haue remission of their sinnes.
[Back to Top]He ascended into heauē, and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almighty.
After that in his death and resurrection he had conque-
red, sinne, death, and the deuil, & had bene conuersant fourty dayes in the earth, being seene of the Apostles, & more then fiue hundred brethren at once, in the same body in which he wrought the woorke of our saluation, he ascended into heauen with eternal triumph, for MarginaliaThe triumphant victory ouer death.the victorie ouer death, sinne, and hel, leauing the passage open, by which al true beleuers may & shal enter into his kyngdōe, where he now sitteth at his fathers right hand, that is to say, in power & glory equal in maiestie coeternal.
[Back to Top]Frō thence he shall come to iudge the quicke & the dead.
He shal appeare againe in great glory to receiue his elect vnto hym selfe, and to put his enemies vnder his feete, chaunging all liuyng men in a moment, and raising vp all that be dead, that all may be brought to his iudgement. In this shall he geue eche man according to his deedes. They which haue folowed hym in regeneration, which haue their sinnes washed away in his bloud, and are clothed with his righteousnes, shall receiue the euerlasting kingdome, and reigne with him for euer: and they whiche after the race of the corrupt generation of Adam haue folowed flesh & bloud shal receiue euerlasting damnation with the Deuyl and his angels.
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CloseThis point establishes that Warne, unlike some Marian protestants, believed in the Trinity. Again, Foxe would have been happy to record Warne's orthodoxy on this issue.
I do beleue that the holy ghost is God, the third person in Trinitie, in vnitie of the Godhead equal with the father & the sonne, geuen through Christ to inhabite our spirites, by which we are made to feele & vnderstand the great power, vertue, & louing kindnes of Christ our Lord. For he illumineth, quickeneth and certifieth our spirit, that by him we are sealed vp vnto the day of redemption: by whom we are regenerate & made new creatures, so that by him & thorow him, we do receiue all the abundant goodnes promised vs in Iesus Christ.
[Back to Top]The holy Catholike Church.
Which is an holy number of Adams posteritie elected, gathered, washed, and purified by the bloud of the Lambe from the beginning of the worlde,MarginaliaThe Church. and is dispersed through the same, by the tyrannie of Gog and Magog, that is to say, the Turke and his tyrannie, and Antichrist, otherwise named the Bishop of Rome and hys angels, as this day also doth teach.
[Back to Top]The Communion of saintes.
Whiche most holy Congregation (being as Paul teacheth, builded vppon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophetes, Christ being the head corner stone) though it be by the tyrannie of Satan and his Ministers persecuted, some by imprisonment, some by death, and some by other afflictions and paynful tormētes: yet doth it remaine in one perfect vnitie both in faith and felowship: which vnitie is knyt in an vnspeakeable knot, as well of them whiche are departed from this mortal life, as of them which now be liuing, and hereafter shalbe in the same, and so shall continue vntill they al do meete in þe kyngdome, where the head Iesus Christe, with all his holy members (of whiche number through Christ I assuredly beleue that I am one) shalbe fully cōplete, knit, & vnited together for euermore.
[Back to Top]The forgeuenes of sinnes.
I do beleue that my sinnes and all their sinnes whiche doo rightly beleue the holy Scripture, are forgeuen onely through that Iesus Christ, MarginaliaRemission only through Christ.of whom onely I doo professe that I haue my whole and full saluation and redemption, which saint Paul saith, commeth not through our workes and deseruinges, but freely by grace, least any should boast hym selfe. Through the bloud of his Crosse all thinges in heauen and earth are reconciled, and set at peace with the Father: without hym no heauenly lyfe is geuen, nor sinne forgeuen.
[Back to Top]The resurrection of the body.
I do beleue, that by the same my sauyour Christ, I, and all men shal rise againe from death: for he, as Paul saith, is risen againe from the dead and is become the first fruits of them which sleepe.MarginaliaResurrection. For by a man came death, and by a man commeth the resurrection from death. This man is Christ, through the power of whose resurrection, I beleue that we al shal rise again in these our bodyes: the elect clothed with immortalitie to liue with Christ for euer: the reprobate also shall rise immortall to liue with the diuell & his aungels in death euerlastyng.
[Back to Top]And the life euerlasting.
Through the same Iesus & by none other, I am sure to haue life euerlasting. He only is the way & entrance into the kingdome of heauen. MarginaliaIohn 3.For so God loued the world, that he did geue hys only sonne Iesus Christe, to the ende that so many as do beleue in hym, might haue euerlasting lyfe.MarginaliaLife and Saluation onely by fayth in Christ. The which I am sure to posses so sone as I am dissolued, and departed out of this tabernacle, & in the last day shal both body and soule possesse the same for euer: to the which God graunt al men to come.
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