events ensuing first, when looking every hour to he delivered up to the cruel butcher Bonner, and to be slaughtered at his shambles, he went on foot in a snowy winter's night towards London, and was in the way found by Bernher, Latimer's servant, starved with cold, and faint with weariness, lying on the ground panting and labouring for life, or rather for death and afterwards being fled from his native soil, he wandered beyond the sea, disappointed of all friends and means to procure him so much as a lodging.

14. But the calamities of his threefold banishment came not so thick one upon the other, but that there was a breathing-place between them, in which some memorable occurrences are not to be overpassed. After his expulsion, lamentable and very disgraceful in the manner, but happy and glorious in the cause, he stayed himself a while at Broadgate's Hall, where fame of his learning drew many scholars unto him. The President also, and whole society whence he was expelled, in a short space out of their frantic fit, be'gan to feel pain for the loss of so principal a member, so necessary for conveyance of life and blood to the inferior parts, which now became faint and feeble in itself.

15. Neither was their unjust ejection of him punished only with loss, but with disgrace also, when M. Welchey, Dean of the college (who had a hand, or rather a shoulder in thrusting out Jewell), bragged of their wisdom and devotion before D. Brooks, B. of Gloucester, and D. Wright, Archdeacon of Oxford, that their college alone, among all the universities, had kept their church treasure and ornaments entire, closely laid up in their vestry. "Ye have so done indeed," saith D.Wright, "but you have wilfully lost one ornament and great treasure, far more precious than any of them ;" meaning Jewell, whom most ignominiously and injuriously they had cast out of

their college. Here I cannot forget that speech (which they should have remembered) of Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, who, when a matron of Campania, her noble guest, laid out before her peer> less pearls, and all her costly attire and furniture; held her in talk till her sons came home, and then pointing to them, "Hæc sunt, inquit, ornamenta mea."" See here my jewels," saith she; "these are my only treasure."

16. Thus the college his stepmother ought to have esteemed, and the university, as a natural mother, did worthily value him, gracing him in what she eould, and choosing him, in this shipwreck of his estate, to be her orator. In whose name he curiously penned a gratulatory letter to Queen Mary, consist+ ing of exclamations of grief for the late funeral of King Edward, and acclamations of joy for her happy coronation, expressing in it. the countenance of the Roman senators in the beginning of Tiberius' reign, exquisitely tempered and composed to keep out joy and sadness, which both strove at the same time to display their colours in it, the one for dead Augustus, the other for reigning Tiberius...

By this letter of the university, it is evident Mr. Jewell and others conceived good hopes that Queen Mary would not altogether change the religion, as many of her nobles avouched at Oxford, and herself (as it was said) promised to the gentlemen of Norfolk and Suffolk, who rescued her in her greatest danger. This her promise, and her nobles' protestations, stayed Jewell so long in Oxford, till the inquisition caught him, urging upon him subscription, under pain of proscription and horrible tortures.

17. Here Jewell, brought into such straits, having no other counsellors in this heavy encounter than horror without, and frailty within, saying to them, "Do you desire to see my hand, and will you

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try how well I can write?" took the pen, and unwillingly and hastily wrote his name, whereby he seemed to approve some articles of Popery. Howbeit, this subscribing, as it much obscured the glory of his persecutions, so it nothing procured his safety, because his familiar conversing with Peter Martyr was evidence enough against him; and D. Martial, Dean of Christ's Church, had certainly caught him in a snare laid for him, had he not, by the special providence of God, gone that very night, when he was sought for, a wrong way to London, and so escaped their hands (as we read of St. Augustine, that by the error of his guide leading him out of the way, he avoided the Cire cumcellian Donatists, who laid wait to kill him) in the usual way. Yet as now, by going out of the way, he found the safest way, so before, by taking the safest way in the judgment of fleshly wisdom, he went very far out of the way, and his faith and fame was more stained with this foul dissimulation than was the vir gin paper with the ink he wrote with.

18. I would most willingly have laid my finger upon this foul scar, but the truth of love must not prejudice love of truth; and I verily think, the wisdom of God, who draweth good out of man's evil, so ordered this matter; for among the fathers, St. Augustine was most famous for many his works, but especially two, to wit, his Retractations (which are the confessions of his errors), and Confessions (which are retractations of his life), where we find this modest and religious admonition to the readers of those his books: "He who, after thy calling, O Lord (saith he), hath followed thy voice, and avoided these enormous crimes which he readeth me here confessing, let him not laugh at me, seeing it was the only preservative of the same Physician's grace that kept me from these dangerous diseases, which now it hath cured in me: in whom the spirit is

strong, the flesh is weak; and where the flesh falleth through weakness, the spirit is ready to raise it up again."

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19. The church of God hath had many a Castus and Emilius foiled in the first combat, yet conquerors in the second. "Et fortiores ignibus facti sunt, qui ante ignibus cesserunt, et unde superati sunt inde superarunt ;" that is, overcame the violence of fire, by fear whereof they had been overcome. St. Peter recovers the field, with a threefold promise of love, which he had lost by a threefold denial of fear. Pope Marcellinus washed out his stain of idolatry with tears of repentance and blood of martyrdom. Christian soldiers under Julian the Apostate expiated the burning incense, which their hands had offered up unto idols, by offering their whole bodies to be burnt for the wickedness of their hands. Cranmer purged the polluted hand that had subscribed, with fire, before he was made an holocaust. Origen and Jewell repealed their public subscription by public confession and contrition. Origen being requested to preach at Jerusalem, and choosing for his text those words in the 50th Psalm," But unto the ungodly, saith God, Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth?" had no sooner read them, but he sat down and shut the book, and commented upon them only with sighs and tears.

20.Jewell also, almost as soon as he came to Frankfort, made an excellent sermon, and in the end of it openly confessed his fall in these words: "It was my abject and cowardly mind and faint heart, that made my weak hand to commit this wickedness;" which when he had brought forth with a gale of sighs from the bottom of the anguish of his soul, and had made humble supplications for pardon, first to Almighty. God, whom he had offended, and afterwards to his church, which he had scandalized, no man was found

in that great congregation who was not pricked with compunction, and wounded with compassion, or who embraced him not ever after that sermon, as a most dear brother, nay, as an angel of God. So far was this saint of God from accounting sophistry any part of the science of salvation, or justifying any equivocating shifts, which are daily hatched in the school of antichrist.

21. But I leave these Priscillianists, who belie the truth; nay, which is worse, make truth itself a liar, that they may make lying a doctrine of truth, and come to Jewell's holy conversation with Robert Horne, afterwards Bishop of Winchester, D. Sands, Bishop of London, Sir Francis Knowles, Privy Counsellor, and afterwards Treasurer, and his eldest son, and divers other noble confessors at Frankfort. From hence he was often invited by many kind letters of Peter Martyr to Argentine, where he met with J. Poynet, late Bishop of Winchester, Edmund Grindall, Archbishop of York, Sir Edwin Sands, J. Cheekė, Anthony Cooke, and divers other knights and gentlemen, who had forsaken their native soil, the seat of their estate, the place of their honour, the bosoms of their dearest friends and kindred, for the testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

All these were partakers of the spiritual food which Peter Martyr set before them out of the book of Judges; but Jewell he invited also to his common table, and used his help in the edition of those commentaries; and when he was sent for by the senate of the Tigurines, to succeed Pelican in the Hebrew lecture and exposition of holy Scripture, he took Jewell with him, accompanied also with many other English exiles, who were maintained by the charitable devotion of the Londoners, till Stephen Gardner, having notice of it, by casting in prison and impo