verishing their benefactors, stopped the current of their bounty."

22. Yet (that we may learn to cast the burden of our cares upon divine Providence, which in greatest wants is not wanting to his), in this their extremity they were bountifully relieved by Christopher Prince of Wittenberg, who invited many of them unto him, and the Tigurine senators, who, at the proposal of Bullinger, opened the treasury of their liberality unto the rest. Neither these only, but also Calvin, Zuin glius, Melancthon, Pelican, Lavater, Gesner, and all the greatest ornaments of religion and learning in all the reformed churches, were very kind and courteous to the English exiles, sending them daily most comfortable letters, and omitting no duty of love or humanity towards them all the time of their banishment, the greatest part whereof Jewell spent in the house and company of Peter Martyr, bettering him, and being bettered by him, and employing all the spare time from his more necessary studies, in seeking to appease, by word of mouth and epistle, the contentions among his brethren, arising from difference of opinion concerning ceremonies and church discipline, which they brought not with them from England, but, like scattered seed, they received from the nature of the place and soil where they were dispersed.

These small jarring strings, which have so much. troubled the sweet harmony of our church, he then sought, by all means, to put in tune, exhorting them, as brethren, to lay aside all strife and emulation, especially about such small matters; lest thereby they should greatly offend the minds of all good men; which thing, he said, they ought to have a principal care of; and if he heard any more grievously than others groaning under the burden of his affliction, and seeking to cast it off, he persuaded him to pa

tience, admonishing him that he ought not to leap from the smoke into the fire; that we all ought to bear a part of Christ's cross, by whomsoever it be imposed; that now, when our brethren suffer extreme tortures in England, we must not look to live deliciously in banishment; shutting up all with that sweet close often repeated by him," Hæc non durabunt ætatem."-" Bear a while, these things will not endure an age."

23. Neither did they. For Queen Mary's religion (as her child with whom she long travailed) came to nothing, and proved in the end but a wind which breathed out its last breath with hers. The blessed spouse Christ could no longer endure to hear his beloved calling for food in her starved, or sighing for home in her banished, or groaning for ease in her burdened, or mourning for liberty in her imprisoned, or crying for pity in her tortured, mangled, scourged, scorched, and burnt members; when he beheld her black and blue with buffets and stripes, and not so much sick of love as even dead for his love, he, after a short trial of her constancy, cheers her up again, embraceth her with the arms of compassion, kisseth her with the kisses of his lips, who is the word of truth; sends his anointed, Lady Elizabeth, to be a tender nursing mother of this his spouse; her mother delivers her out of prison; to set this free, crowns her; to advance this, blesseth her with peace and plenty all her days; to nourish this starved, to revive this languished, to supple this wounded, to loose this fettered, and to bind up this broken one, and to restore not so much preachers to the Gospel, as Gospel to the preachers and hearers of it, whom, after their bloody trial,. he crowned with gladness, for the which, we, his people, and sheep of his pasture, will give him thanks for ever, and will be always

shewing forth his praise from generation to generation.

24. We are now come to the happy catastrophe in the state not only of Jewell, but also of the church and commonweal. All the learned preachers, which were set in Geneva, Frankfort, Argentine, and other reformed cities, as so many nursery-gardens for England, were now transported into their own garden, et Jewellus iterum gemmat. Jewell appears as the first and fairest primrose in this late spring of the church; for very shortly after his safe return, he was sent for to a disputation held at Westminster; the tenets were these: 1. That it is repugnant to the word of God, and custom of the primitive church, that church service and liturgy should be performed in an unknown tongue. 2. That every church hath power to alter rites and ceremonies for her better edification. 3. That the propitiatory sacrifice of the mass for quick and dead hath no warrant in the word of God. Will ye know the end? The Papists, like Verres in Tully, non quid responderent. sed quemadmodum non responderent laborabant. They shrink from the conditions of disputation agreed upon, and (as the Dohatists in Augustine's time) when all men solicitously expected what would be done at such an assembly, are very instant that nothing be done; so by their tergiversation, the disputation was broken off, and all things referred to the ordering and determination of the Parliament; where, by the singular consent of all states assembled, and royal approbation, it was appointed and enacted, that popish tyranny being banished out of the realm, and idolatry out of the church, the true honour and worship due to Almighty God, lawful power to the Prince, holy use of the Scriptures, and prayers in the mother-tongue to the people, should be restored and established.

25. These things thus concluded by Parliament, the Queen's Majesty (seeking by all means to bring her kingdoms to the obedience of the Gospel) decreed a general survey of the whole land, and visitation of all the churches within her dominion, to root out profane superstition, and plant true religion, in which Jewell was appointed for the western circuit, and so it fell out very fitly, that he presented the first→ born of these his labours in the ministry, after his return, in Devonshire, and parts adjacent, there first breaking the bread of life, where first he received the breath of life, and travailing, as it were, in childbirth there, till Christ were formed in them.

After which visitation, he was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury, with much reluctancy, often repeating the sentence of the blessed Apostle, "He who desireth a bishopric, desireth a work." And surely, if ever to any, then unto him his bishopric was a continual work of ruling and governing, not only by the pastoral staff of his jurisdiction in his consistory, but also in the court of men's consciences, by the golden sceptre of God's word preached.

The memory of his assiduity in preaching, carefulness in providing pastors, resoluteness in reforming abuses, bounty in relieving the poor, wisdom in composing litigious strifes, equity in judging spiritual causes, faithfulness in keeping, and sincerity in bestowing church goods, is as an ointment poured out, and blown abroad through the diocese of Sarum, by the breath of every man's commendation.

26. When a courtier went about to let a prebend given to him, to another lay person, acquainting Bishop Jewell with the conditions between them, and some lawyers' opinions about it; "What," saith he,

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 while I live."

And, lest by the negligence or corruptions of officials, great abuses might grow even in the reformation of abuses, (for it is not always an idle interrogation, Quis custodes custodiet ipsos?) he sat often himself with his chancellor, and was president in his consistory; where though he were a strict executer of ecclesiastical laws, yet, no doubt, he tempered severity with that lenity, which he exhorted the Bishop of Norwich, D. Parkhurst, unto, in a letter unto him: "Let your chancellor," saith he, " be harder, but you easier; let him wound, but do you heal; let him lance, do you plaster. Wise clemency will do more good than rigid severity; one man may move more with an engine, than six with the force of their hands."

27. It is almost incredible, that any oppressed with such variety of business, either necessarily imposed upon him by his calling, or voluntarily undertaken by himself for the good of others, in so short time of his bishopric, should read so much, write so exactly, preach so often at the court, at Paul's Cross, and in all parts of his diocese.

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Which over-heavy burden of ruling and instructing every particular church therein, when his friends admonished him to lighten by substitutes and coadjutors, he replied, Unlearned men can do me no good, and to the learned I can do no good. I have no benefices in my gift to maintain and nourish them. Capon, my predecessor, hath devoured all;" for this Capon, unhappily understanding those words of St. Paul, as one is said to have read them (Qui desiderat episcopatum bonum, opes desiderat), made havoc of all the good livings in his diocese; and as Varus is said by Valerius to have entered poor into the rich province of Syria, but at his departure to have left it poor, himself being enriched by it; so he made a profitable kind of exchange, taking away all the