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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

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

very short w t me mi mind was to haue don you good yet you caught in that litle time a losse But I trust it shalbe recompēced as it shal plese almighti god Farewel al my whole kindred countrymen Farewel in Christ altogether the Lord which is y e searcher of secreates knoweth that according to my harts desire mi hope was of late y t I shuld haue come among you and to haue brought w t me aboundaunce of Christes blessed Gospel accordinge to the duty of that office and ministery where vnto amōg you I was chosen named and appoynted by the mouthe of that oure late piereles Prince and king Edward And so also denounced openly in his court by his preuy counsaile I warne you al my welbeloued kinsfolkes and contreimen that ye be not amased or astonied at the kind of my departure or dissolutiō For I ensure you I thincke it the most honor that euer I was called vnto in all my life And therfore I thancke my Lord God hartely for it that it hathe pleased him to call me of his greate mercye vnto this highe honor to suffer deathe willinglye for hys sake and in hys cause vnto the which honor he called the holye Prophets and his dearely beloued Apostels and his blessed chosen martirs For knowe ye that I doubt no more but that the causes wherefore I am put to death are Gods causes and of truthe then I doubte that the Gospel which Ihon wrote is the Gospell of Christ or that Paules Epistles are the verye word of God And to haue a harte willinge to abide and stand in Gods cause and in Christes quarrell euen vnto deathe I ensure the O man it is an in estimable and a honorable gift of God geuen only to the true electes and dearly beloued childrē of God and inheritoures of the kingdome of heauen For the holye Apostle and also martyr in Christes cause Saint Peter saith If ye suffer rebuke in the name of Christ that is in Christes cause and for his truthes sake then ye are happye and blessed for the glory of the spirit of God resteth vppon you If for rebuke sake suffred in christes name a mā is pronoūced by the mouth of y e holy Apostle blessed and happye how much more happy and blessed is he that hathe the grace to suffer death also Wherfore al you that be my true louers and frēdes reioyse and reioyse with me againe And render with me harty thanckes to God oure heauenly father that for his Sonnes sake my Sauioure redeamer Christ he hath vouchsaued to call me beinge els without his gratious goodnesse in my selfe but a sinfull and a vile wretche to cal me I say vnto this high dignitie of his true Prophets and of his faithfull Apostles and of his holye elected and chosen Martyrs that is to die and to spende this Temporall life in the defence and maintenaunce of his eternall and euerlastinge truthe Ye knowe that be my Countrye men dwellinge vppon the Borders where alas the true man suffereth oft-times muche wronge at the theues hande if it chaunce a manne to be slaine of the theefe as it oft chaunceth there whiche wente oute with his neighboure to healpe hym to rescue his goodes againe that the more cruellye he be slaine and the more stedfaste hee stooke by hys neighboure in fighte agaynste the face of the theefe the more fauour and frendship shall all his posteritie haue for the slaine mans sake of all them that bee true as longe as the memorye of hys facte and hys Posteritye dothe endure Euen so ye that be my Kinsfolke and Countrye men knowe ye howe so euer the blinde ignoraunte and wicked worlde hereafter shall raile vppon my Deathe which thing they can not do worse then their fathers did of the death of Christ our sauioure of his holye Prophets Apostles and martirs Know ye I say that bothe before God and al them that be godlye and that truelye knoweth and followeth the lawes of God ye haue and shall haue by Gods grace euer cause to reioyse and to thanck God highly and to thinke good of it and in god to reioyse of me your fleshe and blud whome God of his gracious goodnes hath voutchsafed to associate vnto the blessed cōpany of his holy martirs in heauē I doubt not in the infinite goodnesse of my Lorde God nor in the faithfull fellowship of his electe chosen people but at bothe thier handes in my cause ye shall rather finde the more fauor grace For the Lord saith that he will be both to them and theirs that loueth him the more louinge againe in a thousand generacions The Lord is so full of mercy to them I saye theirs which do loue him in dede And Christe saithe againe that no man can shewe more loue then to geue his life for his frende Nowe also know ye all my true louers in God my kinsefolke and Countrymē that the cause wherfore I am put to death is euen after the same sorte and condicion but touchinge more nie Gods cause and in more weighty matters but in the generall kinde al one for both is Gods cause bothe is in the maintenance of righte bothe is for the commen wealth and both for the weale also of the Christian brother although yet there is in these two no small difference both concerning the ennemies the goodes stollen and the maner of the fight For know ye al as there when the pore true mā is robbed by y e thefe of his own goods truely gotten wherupon he hys houshold shuld liue is greatli wrōged and the thefe in stealing robbing with violence the pore mans goodes doth offend God doth trāsgresse his law is iniurious both to the pore man and to the commen welth so I say know ye al that euē here in the cause of my deathe the Church of England I meane the congregation of the true chosē children of God in this realm of England which I knowledge not only to be my neighbors but rather the congregation of my true spirituall brethren and sisters in Christ yea members of one body wherein by Goddes grace I am and haue ben grafte in Christe Thys Churche of Englande had of late of the infinite goodnesse and aboundaunte grace of almightye God greate substaunce greate ryches of heauenlye treasure greate plentye of Goddes true and sincere woorde the true and wholesome administracion of Christes holye Sacramenes the hole profession of Christes religion truelye and plainlye sette forth in Baptisme the plaine declaration and vnderstandynge of the same taught in the holy Cathechisme to haue ben learned of al true Christians This church had also a true and sincere forme and manner of the Lordes Supper wherin according to Christes own ordinaunce and holy institucion Christes commaundements were executed done For vpō the bread and wine set vpō the Lordes table thākes wer geuē the cōmemoration of the Lordes deathe was had the bread

rather the losse of my worldlye substāce yea and of my life to then to deny his known truth that he will comfort me aid me and strengthē me euermore euen vnto thend and to the yelding vp of my spirite and soule into his holy handes wherof I most hartely beseche his holy sacred Maiestie of his infinite goodnes mercy through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Nowe that I haue taken my leaue of my Countrimen and kinsfolke and the Lord doth lende me life and geueth me laysour I will bid my other good frendes in God of other places also farewell And whome fyrste or before other then the vniuersitie of Cambrige wher as I haue dwelte longer founde more faithfull and harty frendes receiued more benefites the benefites of my natural parents onlye excepted then euer I did euen in my owne natiue countrye wherin I was borne Farewel therfore Cābridge my louing mother nurse If I shuld not acknowledge thy manifold benefits yea if I shuld not for thy benefites at the least loue the againe truely I were to be cōpted vngrate vnkind what benefites haddest thou euer that thou vsest to geue bestow vpon thy best beloued children that thou thoughtest to good for me thou diddest bestow on me all thy scole degrees Of thy common offices the chaplainship of the vniuersitie the Office of the proctorship and of a common reader And of thy priuate cōmodities emolumēts in colledges what was it thou madest me not partner of First scholer then felow after mi departure frō the thou called me again to a mastership of a right worshipful colledge I thāck the my louing kindnes for all this thy kindnes And I pray God y t his lawes and the sincere Gospell of Christe may euer be truely taught faithfully learned in thee Farewel Pembroke hal of late mine own Colledge my Cure and my charge what case thou arte in nowe GOD knoweth I knowe not well Thou wast euer named sithens I knew the which is nowe a .xxx. yeres agoe to be studious well learned a great setter forth of Christes Gospell and of Gods true word so I foūde the and blessed be God so I lefte the in deede Wo is me for the mine owne deare Colledge if euer thou suffer thi self by any meanes to be brought from that trade In thy Orchard y e wals buts and trees if they could speke wold beare me witnesse I learned withoute boke almoste all Paules Epistles yea and I wene all the Canonicall Epistles saue only the Apocalipse of whiche studye although in time a great part did departe from me yet the swete smell therof I trust I shall carrye wyth me into heauen For the profit ther of I thincke I haue felt in all my life time euer after And I wene of late whether they abide there now or no I can not tel ther was that did the like The Lord graūte that this zeale loue toward that parte of Goddes word which is a key a commentary to all holy scripture may euer abide in that colledge so long as the world shall endure From Cambridge I was called into Kent by the Archbishop of Cāterbury Thomas Cranmer y t most reuerend father and man of God And of him by and by sent to be Uicar of Herne in East Kent Wherefore farewell Herne the worshipfull and wealthy parishe the fyrste cure wherunto I was called to minister Gods word Thou hast hard of my mouth ofttimes the word of God preached not after the popiste trade but after Christes Gospell Oh that the frute had answered to the seede And yet I must knowledge me to be thy debtoure for the Doctrine of the Lordes Supper which thē at that time I acknowledge God had not reueled vnto me But I blesse God in al y e godly vertue and zeale of Goddes word which the Lorde by preachinge of his worde did kindle manifestlye both in the hart life and workes of that godly woman there my Lady Phynes God graunte y t his word toke like effecte there in manye other mo Farewell thou Cathedral churche of Canterburye the Metropolitike sea where of once I was a member To speake thinges pleasant vnto thee I dare not for daūger of conscience and displeasure of my Lord God And to say what lieth in my hart were now to much and I feare were able to doe thee now but a litle good Neuerthelesse for the frendship I haue founde in some there and for charity sake I wishe the to be washed cleane of all worldlinesse and vngodlinesse that thou maiste be founde of God after thy name in truth Christes Church in dede Farewell Rochester sometime my Cathedrall sea In whome to say the truth I did finde much gētlenesse and obedience whyche I truste thou wilte not saye the contrarye but I did vse it to Goddes glorye and thine owne profitte in God Oh that thou haddest and mighte haue continued and gone forewarde in the trade of Goddes lawe wherein I did leaue thee Then thy charg and burden shuld not haue bene so terrible and daūgerous as I suppose verelye it is like to bee alasse on the latter daye To Westminster other aduertisemente in God I haue not nowe to say then I haue said before to y e Cathedrall church of Canterbury And so God geue the of his grace that thou maist learne in dede and in truth to please him after his own lawes And thus fare you well Oh London London to whome now may I speake in the or whōe shall I bid farewel shall I speake to the Prebendaries of Poules alas all that loued Goddes worde and were true setters forth thereof are now as I heare saye some brēt and slain some exiled and banished and some holden in hard prisō and appoynted daily to be put to moste cruell deathe for Christes Gospell sake As for the rest of thē I know they coulde neuer broke me well nor I could neuer delight in them Shall I speake to the Sea therof wherein of late I was placed almoste and not fully by the space of iii. yeares But what may I say to it being as I heare say I am deposed and expulsed by iudgemente as an vniust vsurper of that rome O iudgement iudgement can this be iust iudgement to condemne the chief minister of Goddes word the pastor and bishop of the Dioces neuer bring him into iudgemente that he might haue hard what crimes were laide to his charge nor neuer suffer him to haue any place or time to answer for him selfe Thinckest thou that hereafter whē true iustice shall haue place that this iustice can euer be allowed either of God or of man well as for the cause and hole matter of mi deposition and the spoil of my goods which thou possessest yet I referre it vnto God which is a iust iudge And I beseke God if it be his pleasure that that whiche is but my personall wronge be not laid to thi charge on the latter