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MarginaliaAnno. 1555. October.ly, but he said it to all) MarginaliaMath. 16.whosoeuer wil folow me, let him forsake or denie himselfe, and take vp his crosse and folowe mee: for whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it (he meaneth whosoeuer will, to saue his life, both forsake or leaue hym and his truth): and whosoeuer shall loose his life for my cause, and the Gospels sake, shall saue it: For what shall it profite a man if he shall winne the whole worlde and lose his owne soule? his owne life? or what shall a man geue to recompence that losse of his owne life, and of his owne soule? Whosoeuer shalbe ashamed of me and my words (that is to confesse me and my gospell) before this adulterous and sinfull generation, of hym shall the sonne of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his father, with the holy Angels.MarginaliaMark. 8. Know thou O man of God, that all things are ordained for thy behoufe, and to the furtherance of thee, towardes thy saluation. All thinges (saith Paul) worketh with the good to goodnes, euen the enemyes of God, and suche kind of punishmentes whereby they goe about to destroy them, shall be forced by Gods power, might, & fatherly prouidēce, for to do them seruice.
[Back to Top]It is not as the wicked thinketh, that pouertie, aduersitie, sicknes, tribulation, yea painfull death of the godly, be tokens that god doth not loue them: but euen cleane the contrary, as all the whole course of scripture doth euidently declare: for then hee woulde neuer haue suffered his moste derely beloued the Patriarkes to haue had suche troubles, his Prophetes, his Apostles, his Martyrs and chiefe Champions and maintainers of his truthe and Gospell, so cruellye of the wicked to haue bene murdered and slaine. Of the whiche some were racked (as the Apostle saith) and woulde not bee deliuered,MarginaliaHeb. 11.that they might receiue a better resurrection. Some were tried by mockynges and scourginges, yea moreouer by bondes and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were hewen and cut asunder, they were tempted, they were slaine with the sworde, they wandered vp and doune in sheepe skinnes & Goates skinnes, beyng forsaken, afflicted & tormented: suche men as the world was not worthy to haue, wandryng in wildernesse, in mountaines, in dennes and caues of the earth. Al these were approued by the testimony of faith, and receiued not the promise, because god did prouide better for vs, that without vs they should not be cōsummated. They tary now for vs vndoubtedly, longing for the day: but they are commaunded to haue pacience yet (saithe the Lord) a little while, vntill the number of their fellowe seruauntes be fulfilled, and of their brethren which are yet to be slaine, as they were.
[Back to Top]Now (thou O man of God) for our Lordes sake, let vs not for the loue of this life, tarye them to long, and be occasiō of delay of that glorious cōsummation, in hope and expectation whereof they departed in the Lord, and the whiche also the liuing endued with gods spirite, ought so earnestlye to desire and to grone for with all the creatures of GOD. Let vs all with Iohn the seruaunt of God, crye in our hartes vnto our Sauiour Christ: MarginaliaApocalip. 22.Veni domine Iesu,
Veni domine Iesu come Lord Iesu come [etiam venio cito amen] veni Domine Iesu. [Accurate citation.]
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Who or what then shall let vs to ieoparde, to ieopard?
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of God) all thinges shall be forced to serue, & to worke with thee vnto the best before god. O be not afraid and remember the ende.
All this whiche I haue spoken for the comfort of the lamentable case of the manne whom Christ calleth the greate bellied woman, I meane to bee spoken likewise to the captiue and prisoner in Gods cause: for suche I count to bee as it were already summoned and prested to fight vnder the bāner of the crosse of Christ, & as it were Souldiers allowed and taken vp for the Lords warres, to do to their Lorde and Maister good and honorable seruice, and to sticke to hym, as men of trusty seruice in his cause, euen vnto death, & to thinke their life lost in his cause, is to win it in eternall glory for euermore.
[Back to Top]Therefore, now to conclude and to make an end of this treatise, I say vnto all that loue God our heauenly father: that loue Christ Iesus our redemer and Sauiour: that loue to folowe the waies of the holye ghost whiche is our comforter and sanctifier of all: vnto all that loue Christes spouse and body, the true catholick church of Christ, yea that loue life and their owne soules health: I say vnto all these, hearken my deare brethren and sisters, all you that be of God, of all sortes, ages, dignities, or degrees: harken to the worde of our Sauiour Iesus Christe spoken to his Apostles, and meant to all his in S. Mathewes Gospell: MarginaliaMat. 10.Feare not them which kill the body, for they cannot kill the soule: but feare hym more whiche may destroy and caste both body and soule into hell fire. Are not two small Sparrowes sold for a mite, and one of them shall not fall or light vppon the ground without your father? All the heares of your head be numbred. Feare them not, you are much more worth then are the little Sparrowes. Euery one then that confesseth mee before menne, hym shall I likewise confesse before my father whiche is in heauē. But whosoeuer shal deny me before men, I shal deny him likewise before my father which is in heauen.
[Back to Top]The Lorde graunte vs therefore of his heauenlie grace and strength, that here we may so confesse him in this world amongst this adulterous and sinfull generation, that he may confesse vs againe at the latter day before his father whiche is in heauen, to his glory and our euerlastyng comfort, ioy and saluation.
[Back to Top]To our heauenly Father, to our Sauiour and redemer Iesus Christ, and to the holy ghost, be all glory and honour now and for euer. Amen.
Thus with the death and Martyrdome of these two learned Pastors, and constant Souldiers of Christe, M. Latimer, and B. Ridley, you haue diuers of their letters and other writyngs of theirs expressed, with the Farewels also of B. Ridley, wherin he toke his leaue of the worlde, takyng his iourney to the kingdome of heauen. Diuers and sondry other treatises of his remaine also in my hande both in Latine and Englishe, whereof ye shall see (GOD willing) the effect and contents, in the forepromised Appendix, which I purpose by the Lords grace after the finishyng of these stories, to adioyne.
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CloseThe account of Gardiner's character and career first appeared in the 1563 edition along with Ridley's treatise on the theological differences between Gardiner and other catholics. In the 1570 edition, Foxe expanded this account with a diatribe of his own on Gardiner's inconstancy. He also moved Gardiner's sermon from Book IX, where it had been placed in the 1563 edition, to here. He also added quotations from Gardiner's works which appeared to attack catholic doctrines, and William Turner's attack on Gardiner. Enzinas?s letter describing Gardiner's hostile reception at Louvain was also moved from Book IX, where it had been printed, to this section of the book. There was no changemade to this material in 1576, but in 1583, material was added to show Henry VIII's distrust of Gardiner. Another account of Stephen Gardiner's death was also added to this edition.
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The death of Steuen Gardiner, enemie to Gods word.
Nouember.THe next moneth, after the burnyng of Doct. Ridley and M. Latimer, which was the moneth of Nouember, Stephen Gardiner Bishop and Chauncellour, a man hated of God and all good men, ended his wretched lyfe. Concernyng the qualities, nature, and disposition of which man, for somuch as somewhat hath bene declared before in the story of Kyng Edwards reigne, I shall neede therfore the lesse now to stand greatly vppon the same. Firste, this Vipers byrde crept out of the town of Bery in Suffolk, brought vp most part of his youth in Cambridge, his wit, capacitie, memory, and other induments of nature not to bee complained of, if he had well vsed and rightly applied the same: wherein there was no great want of gods part in him, if he had not rather hym self wanted so þe goodnes of his giftes. Through this promptnes,
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MarginaliaThe vices of Winchester described.To these giftes and qualities were ioyned agayne as great or greater vices, which not so much followed