was so famous that many Princes Noblemen and young Gentlemen came from forreign Countries to see and hear him And this Grynaeus worthy was likewise That wee his Noble name should memorize Who was a rare Divine in Germany And made a Doctor in Divnity At Tubing and to Basil sent for thence To be Professour where with diligence And profitable pains and in that while The differance he did reconcile 'Twixt the Basilian Church and Tigurine At last his labour made his health decline And in his Pastorall Charge in Basil he Ended his dayes in sweet tranquility ROBERT ABBAT The Life and Death of Robert Abbot THis learned and humble man succeeded Doctor Holland in the Chaire at Oxford and herein exceeded him that although they were both of extraordinary sufficiency and vast if not immense reading yet as Augustus spake of Cassius ingeniâ—â— habet inâ—â—â—â—rato so it mâ—y be trâ—ly said of Abboâ— variam lectionem habuit in numerato he had the command of his learning and the sum of his readings upon any point which offered it selfe to his handling cast up to his hand the other had not so Whence it came to passe that the diligent hearers of the one received alwayes from him that which they expected the Auditors of the other seldome received what they expected or expected what they received from him yet alwayes went away well satisfied from his full table And I conceive the reason hereof may be this Abbot desired rather multum legere than multa Holland rather multa than multum the meditation of the one wrought upon his reading the reading of the other wrought upon his meditation and us it surcharged his memory so it over-ruled his invention also Let both have their due praises Et viridi cingantur tempora lavro For Abbot envy it selfe will afford him this testamoniall that if his tongue had been turned into the pen of a ready writer or all that hâ— wrote upon the History of Christs passion and the Prophet Esay and the Episâ—le to the Romans had seene the light he had come near unto if not over taken the three prime worthies of our Vniversity Iewel Bilson and Reynoldâ— for he gave to W m Bishop as great an overthrow as Iewell to Harding Bilson to Allen or Reynolds to Heart He was borne at Gilford in Surry of honest and industryouâ— Parents who lived fifty years together in wedlock and because they preserved that sacred bond so entire and kepâ— the marriage bed so undefiled God powred the dew of his blessing upon it and made them very happy in the fruit of their body especially in three of their children whereof the first was Bishop of Sarum the second Archbishop of Canterbury the third Lord Mayor of London In the Catalogue of all the Bishoâ—s of England onely Seffred sometimesâ— Bishop of Chichester was consecrated by his brother Archbishop of Canterbury Abbot had this happinesse and more for of two of his younger brethren one of them was advanced to the highest place in the Church and the other to the highest place in the City under his Majesty the youngest of them Maurice Abbot had the honour to be the first Knight who was dub'd by his Majesties royall sword the elder of them had yet a greater to annoynt his sacred Majesty and set the Crown upâ—n his royall head but I leave the two other to a better Herald to blazen their vertues Of this our Robert I will endeavour with my pensill to draw the lineaments whose silver pen I more highly esteeme then the silver Mace of the one or golden of the other He was not as Saint Ierome writeth of Hillarion a rose growing from a thorne but rather a province or double rose growing from a single for his Parents embraced the truth of the Gospell in King Edwards dayes and were persecuted for it in Queen Maries raigne by Dâ—ctor Story of infamous memory and notwithstanding all troubles and molestations continued constant in the profession of the truth till their death and all their children treading in their holy steps walked with a right foot to the Gospell and were zealous professors of the reformed Religion especially George and this our Robert whose zeale for the truth accompaned with indifatigable industry and choyce learning preferred him without any other friend or spokesman to all the dignities and promotions he held in the University and Church He was another Hortensius his eminent parts were seen and allowed yea and rewarded to upon the first glympse of them For upon an Oâ—ation made by him the seventeenth of November the day of Qâ—een Elizabeths inauguration he was chosen Schollar of Baliâ—l Colledge upon the first Sermon he Preached at Worster he was made Lecturer in that City and soon after Rector of All Saints there upon a Sermon Preached at Pauls Crosse Master Iohn Stannop one of his hearers having a benefice of great valew in his gift Bingham by name in Nottinghamshire tooke a resolution upon the next voydance of it to conferre it upon him and the Incombent not long after dying sent of his owne accord the Presentation to him upon a Sermon Preached before his Majesty King Iames in the month he waited at Court In the year 1612. newes being brought of Doctor Hollands death the King most gratiously nominated him his successour and lastly upon the â—ame of his incomparable Lectures read in the University de suprema potestate regia contra Bellarminum Suaâ—ezium and the perusall of his Antilogia adversus apolâ—giam Garnetti the See of Sarum falling voyd his Majesty sent his Congedelire for him to the Deane and Chapter Thus as he set forward one foot in the temple of vertue his other still advanced in the temple of honour A curious English Poet making use rather of licencea poetiâ—a than libertas grammatica deriveth Robertus our Divines Christan name from three Monesillibles ros ver â—hus though this etimoligy be affected and constrained yet I will make use of it to branch the History of his life into three parts and first I will consider him as he was ros in his Countries cure secondly as he was ver in his University preferment thirdly as he was thus in his episcopall See First I will speake of him as he was ros Ros signifieth dew which name very fitly agreed unto him whilst for twenty years he lived obscurely in the Country for as dew doth much good to the place where it fals and yet makes no noyse so his paines were very profitable in his private Cures yet was not his fame cryed up nor made any noise in the world secondly as dew dropping on mowen grasse refresheth it and maketh it spring anew so his labors in his Pastorall charge much refreshed the consciences of true converts which had felt the cythe of Gods judgements and made them spring up in hope and newnesse of life thirdly as dew distilling in silver drops mollifieth the parched ground so his heart melting into teares in many
Stratsburge and because poverty twharted the good will of his Parents so that they could not afford him â—uch maintenance as they were willing he framed himselfe unto the teaching of Youth during his abode in that place by which meanes he defended himselfe from that miserablâ— condition which was likely to ensue and also furnished himselfe with money for the procuring of such Bookes as he had most use of for his Studies About this time the study and profession of the tongues began to appeare and to shew it selfe in Germanie and Wolfangus Capito set forth two Bookes containing solid instructions for the obtaining of knowledge in the Hebrew language a thing worthy of admiration in those times and there were also some Iewes who wandring up and downe did impart the grounds of that knowledge unto many in Germanie Fagius laying hold upon this opportunity gave himselfe wholly unto the study of this tongue and for that cause he happily insinuated himselfe into the familiarity of Capito Hedio Bucer Zellius and other learned Professours who were the first planters of the Church of Christ in those places Having here indifferently furnished himselfe with learning and with the knowledge of the tongues in the yeere 1527. he left Strasburge and betooke himselfe unto Isna a towne in Algaria being thereunto constrained with his poverty and also with the small regard that those people had of learned men where by the intreaty and furtherance of his friends he underwent the painfull office again of a Schoolemaster wherein he used such diligence that he gained the love of all that knew him but finding within himselfe a naturall inclination unto the Ministery he left his Schoole and returned againe unto Strasburge to furnish himselfe with sufficient knowledge for the discharge of that function here he continued for the space of two yeeres spending them altogether in the study of Divinity at the end whereof he was called from Ssasburge by the Senate of Isna to undergoe a Pastorall office in the same towne which he performed for the space of five yeers with the great approbation of his Auditors when he gave himselfe again unto the study of the Holy tongues wherin in short time he proceeded beyond expectation so that he was adjudged to be the most absolutest in those dayes for the attayning unto this perfection he used the helpe of Elias Livita a most learned Jew Petrus Buflerus one of the Senators of Isna having notice of his perfection in the holy tongue and of his naturall inclination unto the Arts at his owne cost and charge he erected a Printing house to the end that Fagius might publish som works for the futur good of that Nation for the credit and good fame of himself but the event not answering their expectation Fagius came at last to be deeply indebted unto his friend Petrus whereby he was dishartned and kept from proceeding any further which being perceived by Buflerus he incouraged him againe to goe forward and for that cause he lovingly forgave him all the debt which amounted unto the summe of one thousand Crownes and more But he finding by experience that Isna was not a place for his purpose he resolved to remove and opening the same unto the Inhabitants they seemed unwilling yet afterwards they consented receiving Iohannes Marbachius into his roome Before his departure the towne was greatly afflicted with the Pestilence and he understanding that many of the wealthiest of the Inhabitants intended to forsake the place without having any respect or care of such as laboured with that disease and that the houses of such as were infected were commanded to be shut up by the Magistrate he openly admonished them either to continue in the towne or liberally to bestow their almes before their departure for the reliefe of such as were sicke and during the time of the visitation he himselfe in person would visâ—â— those that were siâ—ke he would administer Spirituall comfort unto them pray for them and would be present with them day and night and yet by the providence of God he remayned untouched and was preserved by the alpowerfull hand of God At the same season the Pestilence was hot in Strasburge and with many others it tooke away Wolfangus Capito by reason whereof he was called by the Senate and designed to be his successour in the same City where he continued Preaching untill the beginning of the Germain warres for then Fredecicus Secundus the Prince Elector Palatnie intending a reformation in those Churches which were subject to him he called Fagius from Strasburge unto Heidelberge being then reputed to be a most eloquent and learned man and constituted him the publicke Professor in the same place but the Emperour prevailing against the Elector triumphing in Germany that which was begun in Germany touching reformation fell againe to the ground and became extinct during his residence here he set forth many books but more especially such as he adjudged would be most profitable for such as intended to study the Hebrew tongue which were so approved of by Bucer Martyr and Hedio then ordinary professors of Divinity that he was advanced to the reading of a Divinity Lecture on the week dayes and designed to discharge their Pastorall functions in case they were restrained either with sicknesse or any other serious imployments and in this course he remained for the space of six yeeres At the end of which time the Church was greatly afflicted in Germany and banishment was threatned unto such as would not adhaere unto the doctrine of the Church of Rome and in the beginning of these troubles it pleased God to stirre up Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Metrapolitan of England to call for him out of Germany who together with Bucer was honorably entertained by the said Arch-bishop and disposed of c. vide Bucer He died in Cambridge in the yeere 1550. and was honorably buried in the Church of Saint Michael his bones together with Bucers in the dayes of Queene Mary were diged up and burned because he was condemned of haeriâ—ie Amongst many Epitaphs which were set forth in the commending of this man that of Gulielmus Day deserveth impression that his worth might be manifested unto future times Bucero primas dedimus tibi Paule secunda damur Haebreae gloria prima scholae Hoc uno inferior Bucero Paule fuisti Quod prior extremum cernis adesse diem Verum illo major Bucero Paule fuisti Quod prior aeterno jussus adesse Deo In reliquo similem duxisti tempor vitam Ambo salutiferi buccina fida dei Ambo stilliferi sparfistis semina regni Semina proventu non caritura suo Vnde utrumque Deus mogno dignatus honore Vâ—rumque ad superi transtulit astra poli Felices animae superas licet iistis ad oras A nobis vestrum nomen abrie negint Eximia semper viretis laude perennes Quam canit Aoniis nostra Thalia modis Our first applauses unto
there afterwards for falling not long after into a very dangerous sicknesse whereof he hardly recovered the Fathers of his Order in a generall Assembly shortly after his recovery supposing that the ayre of that City did not so well agree with him made him their Generall Viâ—iter when he had been yet but three yeeres at Naples In which imployment supported by the Cardinall Gonzagâ— the Protector of their Order he so carryed himselfe suppressing some that carryed themselves tyrannously in their places severely chastising others that lived loosly leudly that though he gained much grace and credit to the Order no lesse love and affection to himselfe from the better minded among them yet incurred he withall much envy ill-will from those that were otherwise disposed It is a point of divellish policy too oft practised under a sembleance of honour to prefer men to such places as may prove prejudiciall to them and become a meanes of their overthrow Some of these Machiavilians therefore in a generall meeting of the Fathers of the Order at Manâ—ua knowing a deadly fewd and inveterate hatred to intercede betweene the Inhabitants of Luca and those of Florence our Martyrs Country move to have him made Pryor of Saint Fridian in Luca a place of great esteem for that the Pryor of that House hath Episcopall Jurisdiction over the one moity of the City hoping that for Countries sake he should there find opposition and molestation more then enough The motion was on all hands soon assented unto but the event answered not their expectation For by his wise kind and discreet carryage among them he gained so much good will and esteeme with them that they affected him no otherwise then as if he had been a native and by a solemn embassage made suite to the Principall of the Order that Peter Martyr might not be removed againe from them Here to advance both Religion and Learning among them he procured learned men of great note to read to the younger sort the tongues one Latine and the other Greeke and a third which was Emmanuell Tremellius the Hebrew He himselfe daily read to them some part of Saint Pauls Epistles in Greek and examined them in the same to the whole Company before supper he expounded some Psalme to which exercise diverse learned of the Nobility and Gentry did also usually resort and every Lords day he preached publikly to the People By which his godly labours many attained to much knowledge as appeared afterward by the number of those who after his departure thence sustained exilement for the truth among whom that famous Zanchie one These his good proceedings his adversaries much maligning held a meeting at Genoa and convented him thither But he having intellidence of their complotment and taking warning by their late dealings with a godly Eremite of the same Order resolved to decline them and to betake himselfe to some place of better safety Having therefore committed to his Deputy the charge of the Monastery and his Library his onely wealth to a trusty friend in Luca to be sent after him into Germany he left the City secretly and from thence travelled first toward his owne Country to Pisa where meeting with certaine religious Noble men he celebrated together with them in due manner the Lords Supper and from thence by letters both to Cardinall Poole and to those of Luca he rendred a reason of his departure from them After that coming to Florence but making no long stay there he departed from thence for Germany and passing the Alpes came into Switzerland wher he arrived first at Zurick and passing thence to Basil was by Bucers procurement called over to Strasbourge where for the spâ—c of five yeers with much amity and agreement they joyned together in the Lords worke during which time he expounded the Lamentations of Ieremy the twelve lesser Prophets Genesis Exodus and a good part of Leviticus Here he tooke him a wife one of a religious disposition and in all respects a meete match for one of his ranke and profession who lived with him eight yeeres died in England at Oxford where she had lived in great repute with the best for her singular piety and with the most for he charity corrrespondent thereunto though after her decease in Queen Maries dayes her remaines were inhumanely digged up againe and buried in a dunghill but in Queen Elizabeths dayes restored to their former place of Sepulture againe For after that our Martyr had spent those five yeeres at Strasbourge he was through the procurement of Archbishop Cranmer sent for by letters from King Edward into England and made Reader of Divinity in the University of Oxford There in his readings to which those of the Popish faction also resorted he expounded the first of Saint Paul to the Corinthians and though much envying and stomaking him yet with some patience they his Popish hearers endured him untill he came to handle the Doctrine of the Lords Supper but then they began to breake forth into some outrage to disturbe him in his Lectures to set up mâ—licious and scandalouâ— schedules against him to challing him to disputes which he waved not but maintained first in private in Doctor Cox the Vice chancellors house and afâ—er in publike before his Majesties Commissioners deputed to that purpose where with what strength of Argument and authorty of Scripture he convinced his Antagonists the Acts yet extant may evidently shew This way little prevailing they stirred up the seditious multitude against him by reason whereof he was compelled to retirâ— him to London untill that tumult was supprest Then returning againe for his better security the King made him a Canon of Christs Chuâ—ch by meanes whereof he had convenient housing within the Colledge with more safety Thus setled the second time he proceeded in his wonted employmâ—nt opening now also the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans and being in times of vacation called up to London by the Archbishop for his aid and advice in Ecclesiasticall affaires and in composing of Ordinances for the government of the Church And in this course he continued being never out of action untill by the decease of thâ—t our English Phaenix so much admired in his life and bewailed at his death not with ours at home but by others also and that of a divers religion abroad upon the succession of his sister Queen Mary one of a contrary disposition his employment surceased and with somewhat adoe he gat liberty and departed the land and though being way-laid which he had notice of both on this side and beyond the seas yet by Gods good providence and protection he passed unknown and undiscovered through Brabant and other Popish territories and gat in safety to Strasbourge Thither returning he was received with the greater joy in regard of the dangers he had past and escaped and was restored to his professors place againe Therein being resetled he read upon the booke of Iudges and because the Senate
the Emperour had promulgated a book written concerning Religion called the Interim which he would have to be embraced and confirmed by the States and Cities of the Emprie which when he perceived that it was received by the Senate first he publikly opposed it in the Church and exhorted them to the constant profession of their former doctrine and secondly he told them that he must be compelled to depart from them in case they did refuse his motion but he perceiving no hopes of altering their opinions after that he had taken his supper he left the City being accompanied onely with one Citizen committing his wife and eight children which he left behind him unto the protection of the Almighty and being without the Ports he changâ—d his hablit least through the same he might be discovered by his enemies And having turned a Wagon he went toward Tiâ—urum where he remained a few dayes with Bullinger and from thence he departed and went unto Basil unto Iohanner Hervagius his wife followed immediatly after him not knowing where to find him unlesse at Basil wherefore when she came to Constance for her assuâ—aÌ„ce she sent letters by a trusty friend whom she desired to certifie her husband of her aboade at Constance the messenger finding Musculus at Basil delivered the letters and forthwith returned unto Constance where he found his wife and children upon the Lords day following he preached twice in the City taking for hiâ— text those words in Iohn the 6. ver 66. From that time many of the Disciples went back and walked no more with him Then said Iesus unto the twelve I will yet also goe away c. from which place of Scripture he shewed unto them how greatly those Cities did offend which did fall from the truth of Christ for the favour of mâ—n and withall he earnestly exhorted the people of Constance not to follow the examples of such but constantly to adhaere unto the truth taught by Christ in his Word and this was the last Sermon that was Preached in the peaceable state of the Commonwealth for the day following the Spanish Forces under the conduct of Alfonsus Vives beleagured the City during the Siedge by the perswasion of Ambrosius Blavrerus a reverend Pastor Musculuâ— with his wife and children were conveyed out of the City with safety and they escaped the fury of the enemies intending to goe for Tigurum but by reason of sicknesse which seized on his wife he was compelled to remain at Sangallum after her recovery he went unto Tigurum where he was joyfully received of the Inhabitants with whom he continued six months before he was called to performe his Ministeriall function in which vacancy he was called by Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury into England but in regard of his owne age as unfit for travell and in respect of the weaknesse of his wife and the many children which he had he modestly refused Not long after the Inhabitants of Berne were destitute of a Divinity Lecturer for their Schooles wherefore he was called by the Senate unto that profession which indeed was most welcome unto him partly for the excellency of that Church and Commonwealth and partly for the renewing of his acquaintance with his old friend Iohannes Hallerus He entred upon this Lecture in the year 1549. and constantly continued in it for the space of fourteen years to the exceeding benefit of the Church of Christ opening in that space unto his Auditours almost the whole Bible He naturally detested Contraversies and would write his minde without the injury or contempt of others so that his Workes were opposed by no man in publicke during his life onely those two Sermons excepted which he Preached before the Princes at Wormes which were opposed by Cochlaeus The great love which he carried towards the Inhabitants of Berne appeareth in this that he refused great honour and ample Revenues which were profered unto him during his Lectureship at Berne for he was thrice called into England seconded with large rewards also the Inhabitants of Auspurge having againe obtained their former liberty amongst other banished Ministers they first recalled Musculus He was againe desired by the Inhabitants of Strasburge invited by Otho Henricus and Fredericus Prince Elector Palatine and by the Land grave of Hassia many times but he modestly refused all these though honourable calings intending to performe his best service unto the end of his dayes unto that City who had shewed and vouchsafed him such kindnesse in his greatest extremity which indeed was truly performed Not long before his death he was sickly partly by reason of his years his body being spent with infinite cares and labours partly by reason of a vehement cold which did much afflict him whereby he gathered that he was to leave that house of clay and therefore setting all other things aside he entred into a heavenly meditation of death the sum of which he hath left unto the world being written by himselfe before his death Nil super est vitae frigus praecordia captat Sed in Christe mihi vita parennis ad es Quid crepidas anima ad sedes abitura quietis En tibi ductor adest Angelus ille tuus Lingua domum hanc miseram nunc in sua fata ruentem Quam tibi fida Dei dextera restituet Peccasti scio sed Christus ardentibus in se Peccata expurgaâ—sanguinâ— cuncta suo Horribilis mors est fateor sed proxima vita est Ad quam te Christi gratia câ—rta vocat Praesto est de Satana peccaâ—a est morte triumphâ—s Christus ad hunc igitur lâ—â—a alacrisque migra This life is done cold Death doth summon me A life eternall I expect from thée My Saviour Christ why dost thou fear my Dove He will conduct thée to his throne above Forsake this body this corrupted creature Thy God will change it to a better nature Dost thou abound with sin I do confesse That thou art guilty and dost oft transgresse But Christ his blood doth wash and cleanse all those That can themselves in him by Faith repose Doth Death appeare an object full of horror Both ugly ghastly and not wanting terror I do confesse it but that life againe Which followes death doth take away that paine Unto which life we called are by Christ Then do no longer O my soule resist But yéeld thou with all chéerfulnesse to dwell With him triumphing or'e Death Sin and Hell Afterwards the strength of his sicknesse did increase by the addition of an Ague wherby he was brought so weak that he was not able to sit up right in his bed wherefore he sâ—nt unto Master Iohannes Allerus and other Ministers unto whom he declared the Faith which he dyed in and withall committed the care of his Wife and Children unto thâ—m who told him that they would not bâ— deficient in any thing wherein they might shew themselves beneficiall and helpfull unto them As he was a man endewed with an
eyes of the most renowned Doctor of the Chaiâ— Peter Martyr by whom he was presented Batchelour of Divinity and now nothing seemed to stand in his way from orderly ascending to higher degrees and preferment in the Church But the face of the skye is not more changeable then the condition of our estate in this world all the fair weather we spake of but now was overcast in a moment for by the untimely death of Edward the sixt and by the succeeding advancement of Queen Mary to the Crown a bitter storm of persecution fell upon the newly reformed Church of England and blew away many of our prime Doctors and other men of eminent worth and among them our Iewel who now banished from his native Soyl found yet great comfort in conversing first at Frankeford with Sir Francis Knowls and his eldest Son Robert Horn and Edward Sands and afterwards at Argentine with Iohn Poynet Edmund Grindall Iohn Cheek Anthony Cook Richard Morison Peter Carew Thomas Wroth and divers others These noble Confessors deserve rather the naming because in this their retiring they seemed as it were to fetch their fees to make the greater leap in England where after their return they were highly preferred Grindall to the Archbishop first of York then of Canterbury Sir Francis Knowls to be privy Councellour and Lord Treasurer Robert Lorne to the Bishoprick of Winton Sands of London Poynet of Worcester and the rest all of them to eminent places in the Church and Commonwealth to set off their future glory their present poverty and misery served as a foyl It was yet for the present lamentable to see these men of worth who had change of houses in their own Country hardly getting a shed to shelter them from wind weather in forreign parts they who opened the fountain of their bounty to other men in England were now constrained in Germany to fetch waters of Comfort drop by drop from others Conduits At the first the pious charity of the Londoners be it spoken to the honour of that City was as an unexhausted mine to them till by Stephen Gardner it was discovered and the rich vein stopt by the imprisonment of their chief Benefactors And now these servants of Christ of whom England at this time was not worthy were putt o many difficult plunges yet partly by the comfortable letters of Zuinglius Peter Martyr Calvin Melancthon Pelican Lavater Geznar and other privy Pastours of the reformed Churches beyond the Seas they were held up by the chin and partly by the charitable contributions of Christopher Prince of Wittenberg and the Senators of Zurick they were so kept above water as it were with bladders that none of them utterly sunk in their hope And for Iewell in particular though he were tossed from pillar to post and sometimes dashed upon one rock and sometimes upon another yet in the end he found safe harbour in Peter Martyrs house first in Argentine and after in Tigury where it is hard to say utrum Euripides ex Archelai an Archelai ex Euripides familiaritate fama magis incluruerit Whether Iewel gave more luster reputation to his Host or his Host to him certain it is Iewel assisted Peter Martyr in setting forth divers Books and by name his learned Comentaries upon the Iudges And very fortunate to the Church oâ— God was the conjunction of these two Stars of the first magnitude for from them had we the first light to find the tract of those who in the former Ages and purest time walked with a right foot to the Gospel and professed the Doctrine of the reformed Churches Although we must acknowledge our Churches very much indebted in this kind to Reynolds Whitaker Bilson Abbot CaÌ„mier Morney and Chemitius yet it cannot be denied that these later tinded their candles at these Torches for Peter Martyr had cleered the judgement of Antiquity in the point of the Sacrament and some other controversies between us and the Church of Rome and Iewel in all before Chemitius took Andradius to task or Bilson Allen or Reynolds Hart or Whitaker Stapleton or Abbot Bishop or Morney Perrane or Camier Bellarmine our Iâ—wel was the first who made a publick challenge to all the Papists in the world to produce but one cleer and evident testimony out of any Father or famous Writer who flourished within five hundred yeers after Christ for any one of the many Articles which the Romanists at this day maintain against us and upon good proof of any such one allegation to yeeld them the bucklers and reconcile himselfe to Rome and although Harding and some others undertooke him and entered into the lists with him about the controverted Articles yet they came off so poorely and Iewel on the contrary so amazâ—d and confounded them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question that aâ— Bishop Godwine upon good ground affirmeth no one thing in our age gave the Papacy so deadly a wound as that challenge at Pauls Crosse so confidently made and bravely maintained But this challege was not now made in the time of Iewels banishment but after his returne into England at this time he and many other cleare lights of the Church were hid under a Bushell till the fire of persecution of England in which not onely many faithfull bretheren but diverse reverend Fathers as Latimer Cranmer Ridley and Hooper were burned to ashes for the testimony of the truth was laved out partly by the teares of compassionatâ— Confessors povring out their souls to God in publick and private but especially by the blood of so many Noble Martyres But as soone as God in justice looked upon the persecutours of the truth and called Queen Mary and thoâ—e who diped their hands in his Saint blood to his tribunall and set Queen Elizabeth upon her sisters throne that mirrour of Princes and parragon of her sex and phaenix of her age restoring at the same time preachers to the Gospell and Gospell to the preachers themselves in the first year of her Raigne commanded a survey to be taken of the whole Realme and finding in many parts palpable Egyptian darkenesse sent for all these concealed lights above mentioned and after they were fetcht from under the bushels which had covered them she set them in golden candlesticks in all the Counties within her Dominions and among them Iewell in the diocesse of Sarum Where he shined most brightly for eleaven years and after his extinction by death left a most sweet smell behind him the savour of a good name much more pretius then oyntment for his Apostolick doctrine and Saintlike life and prudent government and incorrupt integrity unspotted chastity and bountifull hospitality In his first visitation he began and in his last he perfected such a reformation not onely in the Cathedrall and Parochiall Churches but in all Courts of his jurisdiction that even those who before esteemed not so well of Iewell as Bishops yet now were brought to have a reverend opinion
Peter Martyr's tomb he was of a very loving and gentle nature free from passion very charitable spending all his Patrimony upon the poor and strangers and such as came thither to study he entertained them in his house and often feasted his friends with whom he would be very merry otherwise he was very sparing of speech He delighted much in history he had two wives the first of which was Bullinger's daughter who dyed without issue by the second he had three sons and one daughter He was a man whose life and conversation Furnish'd both eyes and eares with admiration He was so pithy in his speech that those Which heard him gave a plaudit to his close He alwayes meditated how to be A perfect Scholler in Divinity He liv'd in Peace his heart was still contented His life was well belov'd his death lamented The life and death of Immanuall Tremelius who dyed Anno Christi 1580. IMmanuell Tremelius was born in Ferara having a Jew to his father who so educated him that he was very skilfull in the Hebrew tongue He was converted by Peter Martyr and went with him to Lucca where he taught Hebrew from thence he went with him also to Argentine and from thence into England under King Edward the sixt after whose death he returned into Germanie and in the Schoole â—f Hornback under the Duke of Bipont he taught Hebrew fâ—om thence he was called to Heidleberg under Frederick the third Elector Palatine where he was professor of the Hebrew tongue and translated the Syriack Testament into Latine There also he set upon the translation of the Bible out of Hebrew and associated to himselfe in that worke Francis Iunius From thence also he removed to Seden at the request of the Duke of Bulloin to be the Hebrew-Profesâ—sor in his new University where he dyed Anno 1580. and of his Age seventy This rars Hebritian though at first confâ—n'd To Iewish principles at last inâ—lin'd Himselfe to goodnesse and imploy'd his heart To trace and follow a diviner art And so improv'd himselfe that he became From a small sparke a most aspiring flame And at the last he lay'd his â—empels downe In Abr'ams bosome and receiv'd a Crowne The Life and Death of Peter Boquine who dyed Anno Christi 1582. PEter Boquinus was borne in Aqritane and being in his youth brought up in learning he entred into a Monastery in Biturg where afterwards he was made the Prior and was very much beloved of all the Covent But it pleased God in the midst of all his riches and honors to discover the Truth to him and thereupon after the example of Luther Bucer Oâ—colampadius and Peter Martyr he resolved to leave all and to follow Christ whose example divers of the Fryars also followed From thence he went to Wittenberg travelling through Germany and by the way he went to Basil where he wintered by reason of the Plague very rise at that time in many Countries there he diligently heard the Lectures of Myconius Caralostadius and Sebastian Munster from thence he went to Lipswich where he stayed three weeks and so went to Wittenberg coming thither he had some converse with Luther but more with Melancthon and whilst he was there Bucer â—ent to Melancthon to request him to send an able man to Argentine to supply Calvins place who was now gone backe to Geneva whereupon Melancthon requested Boquine to goe thither which he accordingly did and began to read upon the Epistle to the Galatians Shortly after Peter Martyr came thither also But Boquine finding that the Ecclesiasticall and Scholasticall affaires went but slowly forward in that place upon the request of a friend he resolved to goe backe into France and so taking Basil in his way he went to Geneva where he heard Cavin preach and from thence to Biturg where hoping that the French Churches would have been reformed he began to read Hebrew and to expound the Scriptures About that time Francis King of France being dead the Queen of Navar came into those parts about the marriage of her daughter to whom Boquine went and presented her with a booke about the necessity and use of the holy Scriptures whereupon she undertooke his Patronage and allowed a yeerly stipend appointing him to Preach a publicke Lecture in the great Church in Biturg which place he continued in so long as he had hope of doing any good but when he saw that there was no hope of any further Reformation and that his enemies lay in wait for his life he gave it over of his own accord yet the Fryars and Papists would not let him alone but cited him to the Parliament at Paris and afterwards brought him before the Archbishop of Biâ—urg so that he was in great perill of his life but God raised up some good men to stand for him whereby he was delivered from the present danger then he resolved to flye into England but hearing of King Edward's death he altered his purpose and by the perswasion of a friend he resolved to return to his people in Germanie and so accordingly he went to Argentine and when he had scarce beene there a moneth it so fell out that the French Church in that place wanted a Pastor and chose him to that office yet for sundry reasons he refused to accâ—pt of it till by the perswasion of Iohn Sturmius and some other friends he was content to preach to them till they could provide themselves of another In the year 1557. he went from thence to Heidleberg being sent for by Otho Henrie Prince Elector Palatine who was about to reform his Churches there he was made the publicke Professor of Theologie and met with much oppositions and manifold contentions in that alteration which he bore with much prudence there he continued in the execution of his place twenty yeares under Otho and Frederick the third after whose death in 1576. by reason of the prevalency of the Heterodox party he with other Professors and Divines was driven from thence and it pleased God that immediately he was called to Lusanna where he performed the part of a faithfull Pastor so long as he lived In the year 1582. on a Lords day he preached twice and in the evening heard another Sermon then supped chearfully and after supper refreshed himself by walking abroad then went to visit a sick friend and whilest he was comforting of him he found his spirits to begin to sinke in him and runing to his servant he said unto him Praie saying further Lord receive my soule and so he quietly departed in the Lord in the year 1582. This loyall convert carefully did strive To make Religion and true vertue thrive By his example many Fryars went To séek for Christ and leave their discontent They banish'd former erroâ—s to imbrace The truth and fill themselves with heav'nly grace But sudden death made Bâ—quines heart to faint He liv'd a Convert and he dy'd a Saint WILLIAM GRINDALL The Life and Death of William