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A10780	A frendly farewel which Master Doctor Ridley, late Bishop of London did write beinge prisoner in Oxeforde, vnto all his true louers and frendes in God, a litle before that he suffred for the testimony of the truthe of Christ his Gospell. Newly setforth and allowed according to the order apoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1559 (1559)	STC 21051; ESTC S115942	27,194	106

euer hauing our eyes vpon Iesus Christ the ringleader capitain and profiter of our faith which for to haue the ioy set before him suffered the crosse not passing vpon ignomie and shame therof is set nowe at the righthande of the throne of God Count this y t he suffered such strife of sinners against him self that ye should not geue ouer nor fainte in your mindes As yet brethren we haue not withstād vnto death fighting against sinne Let vs neuer forget deare brethrē for Christes sake that fatherly exhortation of the wise that speaketh vnto vs as vnto his children the godly wisdom of god saying thus My sonne dispise not the correction of the Lord nor fal not frō him when thou art rebuked of him For whome the Lord loueth him dothe he correct scourgeth euery childe whome he receiueth what child is he whome the father doth not chasten If ye be free from chastisement wherof al are partners then are ye bastardes and no children Seing then when as we haue had carnall parents which Christened vs we reuerenced them shall not we be much more subiect vnto our spiritual father and shal liue And they for a little time taughte vs after their own mind but this father teacheth vs to our commoditye to geue vnto vs his holines All chastisement for the present time apereth not pleasant but painful But afterward it rendereth the frute of righteousnesse on them whiche are exercised in it Wherefore let vs be of good chere good brethren and lette vs plucke vp our feble membres that were fallen or began to fainte harte hande knees and all the reaste and lette vs walcke vp a righte and straighte that no Lympinge nor Haulting bring vs oute of the waye Let vs loke not vppon the thinges that be presente but with the eies of our faithe lette vs stedfastly beholde the thinges that be euerlasting in heauen And chose rather in respecte of y e whiche is to come with the chosen members of Christ to beare Christes Crosse then for his shorte life time to enioy all the riches honors and pleasers of the brode world Why shuld we Christians feare death cā death depriue vs of Christ which is all our comfort our ioy our life Nay forsoth But contrary deathe shall deliuer vs from this mortall body whiche lodeth beareth downe the spirite that it can not so wel perceiue heauēly things in the which so longe as we dwell we are absent from God Wherfore vnderstandinge oure state in that we be Christians that if our mortal bodye whiche is oure earthlye house were destroyed we haue a building a house not made with hāds but euerlasting in heauen c. Therefore we are of good cheare and knowe that when we are in the body we are absent from God For we walcke by faithe and not by cleare sighte But we haue fiance and had rather be from the body and present with God wherfore we striue whether we be present at home or absent abrode that we maye alwaies please him And who that hath true faith in our sauioure Christ wherby he knoweth somwhat truely what Christe oure sauioure is that he is the eternall sonne of God life light the wisdōe of the father all goodnes al truth all righteousnesse and whatsoeuer is good that hart cā desire yea infinite plenty of al these aboue that that mans hart can either conceiue or thinke For in him dwelleth the fulnesse of the Godhed corporally And also that he is geuen vs of the father and made of God to be our wisdome our righteousnesse oure holinesse and oure redemptiō who I saye is he that beleueth this in dede that wold not gladly be with his master Christ Paule for this knowledge coueted to haue bene losed from the bodye and to haue bene with Christ For that he compted muche better for him self had rather to be losed then to liue Therfore these words of Christ to the theife on the crosse that asked of him mercye were full of comforte and solace This daye thou shalte be with me in paradise To dye in the defence of Christes Gospell is oure bounden duetie to Christe and also to oure neighbor To Christ for he died for vs rose again y t he shuld be Lord ouer all And seing he died for vs we also saith s. Ihon shuld ieopard yea geue oure life for oure brethren And this kinde of geuinge and losinge is gettinge and winninge in deede For he that geueth or loseth his life thus getteth and winneth it for euermore Blessed are they therefore that dieth in the Lorde And if they dye also in the Lordes cause they are mooste happye of all Lette vs not feare then death whiche can do vs no harme otherwise then for a moment to make the flesh to smart but that our faith which is fast fastned and fixed vnto the word of god telleth vs that we shall be anon after death in peace in the hands of god in ioy in solace and that frō deathe we shall go straighte vnto life For Ihon saieth he that liueth and beleueth in me shall neuer die and in an other place he shall depart from death into life And therefore thys deathe of the christian is not to be called deathe but rather a gate or entraunce into euerlasting life Therefore Paule calleth it but a dissolution and resolutiō And both Peter and Paul a puttinge of this Tabernacle or dwelling house meaning thereby the mortall bodye as wherein the soule or spirite dothe dwell here in this world for a smal time Yea this death may be called to the Christian an ende of all miseries For so long as we liue here we must passe through many tribulations before we can enter into the kingdome of heanen And now after that death hath shot hys bolt all the Christian mannes ennemies haue don what they can and after that they haue no more to do What could hurt or harme poore Lazarus that laye at the ritch mannes gate his former penury and pouerty his miserable beggery and horrible sores sicknes For so sone as death had strickē him with his dart so sone came the angels and caried him vp into Abrahams bosome what lost he by death who from misery and paine is set forth by the ministery of Angels in a place both of ioye and solace Farewel deare brethren farewel and let vs comfort our hartes in all troubles and in deathe with the worde of God For heauen and earth shal pearishe But the worde of God endureth for euer Farewel Christes dere beloued spouse here wādring in this world as in a straunge lande farre from thine own country and compassed about on euery hand with deadlye enemies which ceseth not to assalt the euer seking thy destruction Farewel farewel O ye the hole and vniuersall congregation of the chosen of God here liuinge vppon earth the true Church militant of Christe the true misticall bodye of Christ the very houshold familye of God and the sacred temple of the holy ghost Farewel Farewel O thou little flock of y e high heauenly pastor christe for to thee it hath pleased the heauenlye father to geue an euerlastinge aud eternall kingdome Farewell Farewel thou spiritual house of God thou holye and royall priesthode thou chosen generation thou won spouse Farewel Farewell N. R. FINIS

God I am cōptable that ye neuer swarue neither for losse of life or worldly goodes frō Gods holy word and yeld vnto Antichrist wherupon must nedes follow the great displeaser of God and the losse of your bodies souls into perpetuall dampnation for euermore Now that I haue gon through the places wher I haue dwelt any space in the time of my pilgrimage here vpō earth Remembring that for the space of Kinge Edwardes reigne whiche was for the time of mine Office in the Seas of London and Rochester I was a mēber of the higher house of the parliamente Therefore seinge my God hathe geuen mee laysoure and the remembraunce thereof I will bid my Lordes of the temporaltie farewel They shal haue no iust cause by Gods grace to take it that I entend to say in ill part As for spirituall prelacy that now is I haue nothing to say to them excepte I shoulde repeate agayne a greate parte of that I haue saide before now all readye to the Sea of London But to you my Lordes of the tēporalty vnderstand ye thys firste That when I wrote this I loked daily when I should be called to y e chaunge of my life And thought y t that this my writinge shoulde not come to your knowledge before the time of the dissolucion of my bodye and soule shoulde be expired and therfore know ye that I had before mine eies only the feare of God Christian Charitie towarde you whiche moued me to write for of you hereafter I looke not in thys world other for pleaser or displeaser if my talke shal do you neuer so much pleasure or profit you cā not promote me Nor if I displese you ye can not hurt me or harme me For I shall be oute of your reache Nowe therefore if you feare God and can be content to heare the talk of him that seketh nothing at your hands but to serue God and to do you good herkē what I say I say vnto you as S. Paul saieth to the Galathians I wonder mi Lordes what hathe bewitched you that ye so sodēly are fallen frō Christ vnto Antichrist frō Christes gospel vnto mens tradicions from the Lord that boughte you vnto the Bishop now of Rome I warn you of your pearill be not deceiued except you will be found willingly consenters vnto your owne deathe For if ye thincke thus we are lay men thys is a matter of Religion we follow as we are taughte and led if oure teachers and gouernors teach vs and leade vs amisse the faulte is in them they shall beare the blame My Lords this is true I graunt you that both the false teacher and the corrupt gouernoure bothe shal be punished for the deathe of theyr subiecte whome they haue falselye taughte and corruptlye ledde And his bloud shall be required at their handes But yet neuerthelesse shal that subiecte die the death him self also that is he shal also be dampned for his owne sinne For if the blind leade the blinde Christe saithe not the leader only but he saithe bothe shall fall in the ditche Shall the Sinagoge and the Senate of the Iewes trow ye whyche forsooke Christe and consented to his Deathe therefore be excused because Annas Caiphas with the Scribes and Phariseis and their cleargy did teach them amisse yea and also Pilate theyr gouernoure and the Emperoures Lieuetenaunte by his tirranny did withoute cause put him to deathe Forsothe no my Lordes no but notwithstanding that corrupt doctrine or Pilates washinge of hys handes neither of both shal excuse other that sinagoge and seigniour or Pilate But at the Lordes hand for the effusion of that innocentes blud on the latter dai al shal drink of the deadlye whip Ye are wittye and vnderstand what I meane Therefore I will passe ouer thys and return to tel you howe you are fallen from Christe to his aduersarye the Bishyp of Rome And least my Lordes I maye peraduenture thincke me thus barely to call the Bishop of Rome Christes aduersarye or to speake it in plain termes to cal him Antichrist that it is don in mine anguish and that I do but rage and as a desperate man do not care what I say or vpon whome I do raile Therfore that your Lordships may perceiue my minde and vnderstande that I speake the words of truthe and of sobriety as S. Paule saide vnto Festus Be it knowne vnto your Lordships al that as concerning the bishop of Rome I nether hate the person nor the place For I ensure your Lordships y e liuing Lorde beareth me witnesse before whome I speake I doo thincke manye a good holy manne manye martirs and Saintes of God hath set and taught in that place Christes Gospel truely whiche therfore iustlye maye be called Apostolici that is true Disciples of the Apostles And also that Church and cōgregacion of Christians Apostolicke Church yea and that certaine hundreth yeares after y e same was first erected builded vpon Christ by the true Apostolicall Doctrine taught by the mouthes of the Apostles them selues If ye will know how long that was and how manye hundreth of yeares to be curious in poyntinge the precise nomber of yeres I wil not be to bold but thus I say so lōg and so manye hundred of yeres as that sea did truely teach and preach that gospel that religion exercised that power ordered euery thing by those lawes and rules whyche that sea receiued of the Appostles and as Tertulyan saithe and the apostles of Christe and Christe of God so long that Sea myght wel haue bene called Peter and Pauls chair and Sea or rather Christes Chaire and the Bishop thereof Apostolicus or a true Disciple of the Apostles and a minister of Christ. But since that time that Sea hath degenerated frō that trade of truth and true Religion whyche it receiued of the Apostles at the beginning and hathe preached a nother Gospell hathe sette vp an other Religion hathe exercised an other power and hath taken vpon it to ordre and rule the Churche of Christe by other straunge lawes Cannons and rules then euer that Sea receiued of the Apostles of Christe whyche thinges it dothe at this daye and hathe continued so doinge alasse alasse of to to lōg a time From time I saye that the state and condition of this Sea hathe thus bene chaunged In truthe it oughte of dutye and of righte to haue the names chaunged bothe of the Sea and of the sitter therein For vnderstande my Lordes it was neither for the Priuilege of that place or Persone thereof that that Sea and Bishop thereof wer called Apostolicke but for the true trade of Christes Religion whiche was taught and maintened in that Sea at the firste and of those godlye menne And therfore as truely and iustlye as that Sea then for that true trade of Religion and cōsanguinitie of Doctrine wyth the Religion and Doctrine of Christes Apostles was called Apostolick So as truely as iustly for y e

the world and to ioyn them vnto him self In whose cause we must if we wilbe his forsake father and mother and stycke vnto hym if we forsake hym or shrinck frō him for trouble or deathes sake whiche he calleth his crosse he wil none of vs we cannot be his if for hys cause we shal lose oure temporall liues here we shall find it again and enioy it for euermore but if in his cause wee will not be contented to leaue nor lose it here then shal we lose it so that we shall neuer finde it againe But in euerlasting death What though our troubles here be painful for the time and the stinge of death bitter vnpleasant yet we know they shal not laste in cōparisō of eternity no not the twinkling of an eie And that they pacientlye takē in Christes cause shal procure get vs vnmesurable hepes of heuēly glory vnto the which these tēporal pains troubles of death cōpared are not to be estemed but to be reioysed vpon Wonder not saith S. Peter as thoughe it were anye straung matter that ye are tried by fire he meaneth of tribulaciō whiche thing saith he is done to proue you Nay but in y t ye are partners of Christes afflictions reioyse y t in his glorious reuelacion ye mai reioyse w t mery harts If ye suffer rebukes in Christes name happy are for the glory of the spirit of God resteth vpon you Of thē God is reuiled and dishonored but of you he is glorified Let no mā be ashamed in y t he suffereth as a christian and in Christes cause For now is y e time y t iudgement gods correctiō must begin at y e house of God And if it begin first at vs what shalbe thend of those thinke ye which beleue not y t gospel And if the righteous shal be hardly saued the wicked and the sinner wher shal he apere wherfor they which are afflicted accordinge to y e wil of God let thē lay downe cōmit their souls to him by wel doing as to a trusty faithfulmaker this as I said may not seme straūg to vs. For we know y t al y e hole fraterniti of christes cōgregatiō in this world is serued w t the like by the same is made perfect for y e feruent loue y t the appostles had vnto their master christ for y e great cōmodities increse of al godlines which they by their faith to ensue of afflictiōs in Christes cause thirdlye for the heapes of heauenly ioyse which the same do get vnto the godly whyche shal endure in heauē for euermore For these causes I sai the apostles of their afflictions did ioy reioysed in that they wer had accompted worthy to suffer contumelies rebukes for christes name Paul as he glorified in the grace and fauoure of God whereunto he was brought and stode in by faith so he glorified in his afflictions for the heauenli spiritual profits which resteth vppon them yea he was so much in loue wyth that y t the carnal mā lothe the so much y t is with Christes crosse that he iudged hym self to know nothing els but christ crucified he wil glori he saith in nothing els but in Christes crosse yea he blesseth al those as thonli true Israelites and elect people of god with peace and mercy which walketh after y e rule after none other O Lord what a wonderfull spirite was that that made Paule in setting forth of him self against the vanitie of Sathan his Pseudo postels and in his claime ther that he in Christes cause did excell passe them all what wonderful Spirite was that I say that made hym to recken vp all his troubles his labors his beatings his whippings his scourginges his shipwrackes his dangers and pearils by water and by lande his famine hunger nakednes and cold with many mo and the daily care of al the congregacions of Christ. Among whome euery mannes paine did pearse his hart and euery mannes grief was greuous vnto him O Lord is this Pauls primacy wherin he thought so muche good of it that he did excel other Is not this Paules sayinge vnto Timothy his owne schollers and doth it not pertaine to whosoeuer will be Christes true souldiour bere thou saith he the afflictiōs like a good souldioure of Iesu Christ. This is true if we die with him he meneth Christ we shall liue with him If we suffer with him we shal reigne with him If we deny him he shall denye vs if we be faithlesse he remaineth faithfull he cannot denye him self This Paule woulde haue knowen to euery body For ther is none other wai to heauē but Christ and his waye And al that wil liue godlye in Christ shall saith Saint Paule suffer persecution By this waye wente to heauen the Patriarckes the Prophetes Christe oure master his Apostles his Martirs and all the Godlye since the beginning And as it hath bene of olde that he whyche was borne after the fleshe persecuteth him which was borne after the spirite So it was in Isaackes time so said Saint Peter it was in his time also And whether it be so or no nowe let the spirituall man the manne I meane that is indued with the spirite of God let him be iudge Of the crosse of the Patriarckes if ye reade the booke of Genesis ye shall perceiue Of other Saint Paule in fewe words comprehendeth much matter speaking in a generalitie of the wonderfull afflictions death and tormentes whiche the men of God in Goddes cause and for the truth sake willingly did suffer after muche perticuler rehearsall of manye he saith Other were racked and dispised to be redemed that thei might obtain a better resurrection Other again were tried with Mockinges and scourginges and moreouer wyth bondes and imprisonmēt they wer stoned hewen insunder teinted fel and were slain vpon the edge of the sworde some wandred to and fro in shepes pilches in gotes pilches forsaken oppressed afflicted such godlye men as the world was vnworthy of wandering in wildernes in mountains in caues and in dens And all these were commended for their faithe And yet they abide for vs the seruauntes of God those their brethren which are to be slain as they were for the word of Gods sake that none be shut out but that we may all go together to mete our maister Christ in thair at his comminge so to be in blisse with him in body and soule for euermore Therfore seing we haue so much occasion to suffer and to take afflictions for Christes name sake paciently so many commodities therby so waighty causes so manye good examples so great necessity so sure promises of eternall life and eternall ioyes of him that can not lye Let vs throwe away what so euer might let vs all burden of sinne all kinde of carnalitie And paciētly and constantlye let vs ronne for the best game in this race that is set before vs