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between them; and some lawyers opinions about them. To which the bishop replied; "What your lawyers may "answer I know not; but for my part, to my power, I "will take care that my church shall sustain no loss whilst "I live." What was the event of this, none of them have told us.

Nor was he careful of his own church only, but of the whole English church, as appears by his sermon upon Psalm 1xix. 9. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. Which he preached before the queen and court, as appears by it in several addresses to her in the body of that sermon. In it he hath this observation. "In other coun"tries the receiving of the gospel hath always been the "cause that learning was more set by; and learning hath "ever been the furtherance of the gospel. In England, I "know not how it cometh otherwise to pass, for since "the gospel hath been received, the maintenance for "learning hath been decayed; and the lack of learning "will be the decay of the gospel." And a little after he tells us, "Those that should be fosters of learning, and "increase the livings, had no zeal. What said I, in"crease? Nay, the livings and provisions which were here"tofore given to this use are, (saith he) taken away.” And a little after, "Whereas all other labourers and ar"tificers have their hire increased double, as much as it "was wont to be; only the poor man that laboureth and "sweateth in the vineyard of the Lord of hosts, hath his "hire abridged and abated.” And he applies himself towards the conclusion thus to the great men. "You in"riched them which mocked, and blinded, and devoured "you; spoil not them now that feed, and instruct, and "comfort you."

His WRITINGS which have rendered his name famous, over all the Christian world, are as follow: 1. Exhortatio ad Oxonienses. The substance printed in Humfrey's life of him, p. 35. and seq. edit. 1573, 4to. 2. Exhortatio in collegio CC. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi commemorationem, printed ibid. p. 45, 46, &c. 3. Concio in templo B. M. Virginis, Oxon. 1550, preached for his degree of B. D. it is reprinted in Humfrey, ibid. p. 49. and again in English by R. at London, 1586, 8vo. 4. Oratio in aula collegii CC. His farewel Speech on his Expulsion in 1554, printed by Humfrey, ibid. p. 74, &c. 5. A short tract, De Usura, ibid. p. 217, &c. 6. Epistola ad Scipionem, Partritium Venetum, &c. 1559, and reprinted in the Appendix to Father Paul's History of the Council of Trent, in English, by Brent, third edit. 1629, folio. 7. A Letter

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to Henry Bullinger, at Zurick, concerning the State of Religion in England, dated May 22, 1559, printed in the Appendix to Strype's Annals, No. xx. 8. Another Letter to the same, dated Feb. 8, 1556, concerning his controversy with Hardynge, ibid. No. 36, 37. 9. Letters between him and Dr Henry Cole, &c. London, 1560, 8vo. 10. A Sermon preached at St Paul's Cross, the second Sunday before Easter, an. 1560, London, 1560, 8vo. Dr Cole wrote several letters to him on this subject. 11. A Reply to Mr Hardynge's Answer, &c. London, 1566. fol. and again in Latin, by Will. Whitaker, fellow of Trinitycollege, Cambridge, at Geneva, 1578, 4to. (see his Life, hereafter,) And again, in 1585, in folio, with our Author's Apologia Ecclesia Anglicana. 12. Apologia Ecclesiæ Anglicane. London, 1562, 8vo. it was several times printed in England, and abroad, and a Greek translation of it was printed at Oxford, 1614, 8vo. The English translation by the lady Bacon, wife to Sir Nicholas Bacon, entitled, An Apology, or Answer, in Defence of the Church of England, &c. London, 1562, 4to. This apology was approv ed by the queen, and set forth with the consent of the bishops. 13. A Defence of the Apology, &c. London, 1564, 1567, folio, again in Latin by Thomas Braddock, fellow of Christ's-college, Cambridge, at Geneva, 1600, folio. This was ordered by Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and King Charles, and four successive archbishops, to be read and chained up in all parish churches throughout England and Wales. 14. An Answer to a Book written by Mr Hardynge, entitled, A Detection of sundry foul Errors, &c. London, 1568, and 1570, folio. 15. A View of a seditious Bull, sent into England from Pius V. &c. London, 1582, 8vo. 16. A Treatise of the Holy Scriptures, ibid. 8vo. 17. Exposition on the two Epistles to the Thessalonians, ibid, 1694, 8vo. 18. A Treatise of the Sacraments, &c. ibid. 1583. 19. Certain Sermons preached before the Queen's Majesty, at Paul's Cross, and elsewhere. All these books (except the first eight,) with the Sermons and Apology, were printed at London in 1609, in one vol. folio, with an Abstract of our Author's Life, by Dan. Featly, but full of faults, as Mr Wood says. 20. An Answer to certain frivolous Objections against the Government of the Church of England, London, 1641, 4to, a single sheet. 21. Many Letters in the Collection of Records in Part iii. of Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation. A Letter

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A Letter written to the Reverend Father in God Dr John Jewel, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, by Dr Peter Martyr.

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BY the favour of the bishop of London, (most worthy prelate, and my very good lord,) there was brought me one of your apologies for the Church of England; which neither I nor any others hereabouts before had seen: It is true, in your last letter you rather intimated that it might come out, than signified that it should; but however it came not hither till about the middle of July. And from hence your lordship may consider how much we suffer from the distance of places. It hath not only given me an entire satisfaction, who approve and am strangely pleased with all you do; but to Bullinger and his sons, and his sons in law: And it seems so very wise, admirable, and elegant to Gualter and Wolphius, that they can put no end to their commendations. of it, as not thinking there hath been any thing printed in these times of so great a perfection. I do infinitely congratulate this great felicity of your parts, this excellent edification of the church, and the honour you have done your country; and I do most earnestly beseech you to go on in the same way; for though we have a good cause, yet the defenders of it are few in ⚫ comparison of its enemies; and they now seem so awakened, that they have of late won much upon the igno rant multitude, by the goodness of their style, and the subtilty of their sophistry. I speak this of Staphylus and Hosius, and some other writers of that party, who are now the stout champions of the papal errors. But

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now you have, by this your most elegant and learned Apology, raised such an hope in the minds of all good and learned men, that they generally promise themselves, that whilst you live, the Reformed religion shall • never want an advocate against its enemies. And truly. I am extremely glad, that I am so happy as to live to see that day which made you the father of so illustrious and eloquent a production. May the GOD of heaven of his goodness grant that you may be blessed in time with many more such.'

Zurick, Aug. 24, 1562.

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