MarginaliaAnno. 1555. Nouember.confesse) to buyld his popery vpō, as he thought should haue stande for euer & a day. But (as I said before) of vncertain things I can speake but vncerteinly. Wherfore as touching the maner and order of his death, how riche he died, what woordes he spake, what litle repentaunce hee shewed, whether hee died with his tongue swolne and out of his mouthe, as MarginaliaTho. Arundell Archbyshop of Canterbury.Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Caunterb. pag. 567. or whether he stonke before he died, as Cardinall Wolsey did, reade before pag. 970.MarginaliaRead before pag. 970. or whether hee dyed in dispayre as Latomus  

and others did. &c. All this I referre either to their reportes of whō I heard it, or leaue it to the knowledge of them whiche know it better.

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I could name the man (but I abstain from names) who being then present, and a great doer about the said Winchester, reported to vs concerning the said bishop, that when Doctor Day Bishop of Chichester came to hym, and began to comfort him with woordes of Gods promise, and with the free iustification in the bloud of Christ our Sauiour, repetyng the Scriptures to him. Winchester hearing that, what my Lord (quoth he) wil you open that gappe nowe? then farewell altogether. To mee and suche other in my case you maie speake it: but open this window vnto the people, then farewell altogether.

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Moreouer, what D. Boner then saw in him, or what he heard of hym, and what words passed betwene them about the tyme of his extremity, betwixt hym & hym be it. If Boner did there behold any thing whiche might turne to his good example, I exhort him to take it, & to beware in tyme, as I pray God he may.  

Here I could bring in the friuolous Epitaph which was made of his death, deuised of a Papist for a popish Bishop, but I pretermit it, and in stede thereof I haue here inferred certaine gatheringes out of his Sermons, woordes and writinges, wherein may appeare first what an earnest and vehement enemye hee was to the Pope if hee would haue bene constant in him selfe: then howe inconstantly he varied from himselfe: and thirdly how he standyng vpon a singularity of his own wit, wauereth also frō other Papists in certaine pointes. In the gathering whereof albeit there be some paines, and tediousnes also in readyng: yet I thought not to pretermit the same vppon certaine considerations, namelye for that so many yet to this day there bee, which sticke so much to Gardiners wit, learnyng, and religion, taking him for such a doughty piller of the Popes church. To the intent therfore, that such as hetherto haue bene deceiued by hym may no longer bee abused therein, if they will either credit his owne words, workes, Sermons, writinges, disputations: or els will be iudged by hys owne witnesses of his owne party producted, wee haue here collected such manifest probations, which may notoriously declare how effectuously first he withstode the Popes supremacie: and likewise afterward may declare manifest contrariety & repugnance of the said Gardiner, first with other writers, and lastly with him selfe: firste beginnyng with his Sermon preached before Kyng Edward. The summe and effect of whiche Sermon briefly collected by M. Vdal, here vnder foloweth to be seene.

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MarginaliaThe effect of Steuen Gardiner Byshop of Winchesters Sermon.MOst honorable audience, I purpose by the grace of God to declare some part of the Gospell that is accustomably vsed to be read in the Church as this day. And for because that without the speciall grace of God, neither I can speake any thing to your edifying, nor yet receaue the same accordingly, I shall desyre you all, that we may ioyntly pray altogether for the assistance of his grace. In which praier I commend to almighty God, your most excellēt Maiesty our soueraigne lord, King of England, France and Ireland, and of the church of Englād and Ireland next and immediatly vnder God here on earth the MarginaliaSupreame head.supreme head, Queene Katherin Dowager, my Lady Maries grace, my Lady Elizabethes grace your Maiesties most deare Systers, my Lord Protectors grace, with all others of your most honorable Coūsail, the spiritualtie and temporaltie, and I shall desire you to cōmend vnto God with your prayer, the soules departed vnto God in Christs fayth, and among these most specially our late soueraigne Lord K. Henry the eight, your maiesties most noble father. For these and for grace necessary I shall desire you to say a Pater noster, and so forth.

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The Gospell beginneth: Cum venisset Iesus in partes Cæsareæ Philippi. &c.  

MarginaliaMath. 16.When Iesus was come into the parties of Cesaria a citie that Phillippus builded, he asked his disciples and sayd: whom do men say that the sonne of man is? They sayde, some saie that thou art Iohn the Baptist, some that thou art Elye, some that thou art Ieremy or some of the Prophets. He sayd to them: but whom say ye that I am? Then aunswered Simon Peter and sayd, thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God. &c. I cannot haue time I thinke to speake of the Gospell throughly, for other matters that I haue here nowe to saye, but I shall note vnto you suche thinges as I may, and first of the diuersity of opinions concerning Christ, which were among the people variable: but among his, that is the disciples of Christes schoole, there was no varietie, they agreed altogether in one truth, and among them was no varietie. For when Peter had for all the rest, and in the name of all the rest made his aunswere that Christ was the sonne of God, they all with one consent confessed that he had spoken the truth. MarginaliaDiuers iudgemēts of Christ.Yet these opiniōs of Christ that the people had of him, though they were sundry, yet were they honorable and not sclaunderous: for to say that Christ was Elie and Iohn the Baptist, was honorable. For some thought him so to be because he dyd frankely, sharply, and openly rebuke vice. They that called him Ieremy, had also an honorable opinon of him, and thought him so to bee because of his great learnyng which they perceiued in him, and marueiled where hee had it. And they that sayd he was some of the Prophets, had an honorable opinion of him, and fauoured him and thought well of him.

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But there was an other sort of people that spake euill of him, and sclaundered him, and rayled on him, saying that hee was a glotton, and a drinker of wyne, that hee had a deuil in him, that he was a deceauer of the people, that he was a Carpenters sonne, as though hee were the worse for his fathers craft. But of these he asked no questiō: for among these none agreed with the other. Wherin ye shall note that man of his owne power and strength can nothing doe, nor nothing that good is he can do of his own inuention or deuise, but erreth aud faileth when he is left to his owne inuention, he erreth in his imagination.MarginaliaMan cā do nothing of himselfe.So proud is man, and so stout of his owne courage, that he deuiseth nothing wel when soeuer he is left to him selfe, without God, and then neuer doe any such agree in any truth, but wander and erre in all that they do. MarginaliaDisagrement amongst men of law.As men of law, if they be asked their opinion in any point touching the law, ye shall not haue two of them agree in opinion: in any point touching the law, ye shall not haue two of them agree in opinion one with the other. If there be two of three of them asked their opiniō in any matter, if they should aunswer all one thing, they feare lest they should be supposed and thought to haue no learning. Therefore be they neuer so many of them, they will not agree in their aunsweres, but deuise ech man a sundry aunswer in any thing that they are asked.

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MarginaliaDisagrement among Philosophers.The Philosophers that were not of Christes schoole, erred euery one in their vayne opinions, and no one of them agreeth with the other.

MarginaliaDisagrement among simple people.Yea, men of simplicitie, though they meane well, yet beyng out of Christes schoole, they agree not, but vary in their opinions: As these simple people heere spoken of, because they were not perfect disciples of Christes schoole, they varied and agreed not in their opinion of Christ, though they thought well of him. Some sayd he was Iohn, some Elie, some Ieremie, but none made the right aunswere. He that aunswered here, was Symon the sonne of Ionas, and he sayd: Thou art CHRIST the sonne of the lyuing God.

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Where ye shall note the properties that were in Peter. He was called Symon, MarginaliaSimon signifieth obedience.which is obedience, and Ionas is a doue,MarginaliaIonas signifieth a doue.so that in him that is of Christes schoole, must be these two properties, obedience and simplicitie. MarginaliaSimplicitye.He must be humble and innocent as a doue that will be of Christes schole. Pryde is a let of Christes schole, for as the wise man saith: God resisteth the proud, and giueth grace vnto the humble and meeke.MarginaliaSimplicitie.And according to the same, doth Christ in the Gospell say: O father, I confesse vnto thee, that is: I laude & magnifie thee, for that thou hast hidden these thinges from the wise, and hast opened them vnto the litle ones. Wherupon sayth S. Augustine, that the giftes of learnyng and knowledge of sciences, are no let to Christes schole, but a furtherance therunto if they be well applied and vsed as they ought to be: but he that is proude, & fedeth him selfe with his owne conceate and opinion of him selfe and abuseth the gifts of

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