hd 
While living, rich'in theologic lore, 
With: Granta’s and with Oxford’s fons he 
{trove ; 
Yet are there, who fhall Prieftley’s lofs de- 
: plore, 
And give—what well he earn’d — their 
praife and love. 
For now the fhrewd polemic fleeps in death, 
So prompt in thought, and dext’rous to 
contend ; 
And fome, as mortal, 
breath, 
In judgment differing, but alike their end. 
have refign’d their 
No more divine enleagu’d againft divine, 
Each warm for truth, maintains his favou- 
"rite plan ; 
But, jut to all, the wreath of praife we 
twine— 
For worth is glory, and the mind is man, 
But not that Prieftley néeds this humble 
Wreath; |: | : 
Science itfelf fhall be his golden crown ;* 
The fame his glory, now-he fleeps in death, 
As did, while living give him fair re- 
nown.f 
NO. CCXIII.—-ARCHBISHOP CRANMER. 
This eminent man received his Art 
education under a parifh-clerk, at Affac- 
ton, in Nottinghamfhire. He entered of 
Jefus College when he was but fourteen— 
ftudents entering then much fooner than 
_ Now—and afterwaris became fellow.— 
- He devoted himfelt, till he was two-and- 
twenty, to the monkifh, fcholaftic learn- 
ing of thofe times, in which he becamea 
great adept. Afterwards he applied him- 
{elf to other branches of learning, but 
principally to theology. Marrying a 
lady of Cambridge, he confequently loft 
his fellowfhip ; but his wife dying foon, 
he was permitted to enjoy his fellowfhip 
again, He was afterwards made doctor 
in divinity, and a reader of theological 
le&turesin his own college. His celebrity 
as a cafuift and a divine gave preat . 
weight to his opinions; and having, as 
Henry VIII. expreffed it, «* taken the faw 
by the right ear,” that is, having efpouf 
ed that fide of the queftion which was ta« 
vourable to the king’s divorce, he was 
faifed to be Archbifhop of Canterbury. 
If any proof were required that Cran- 
Mer was a Calvinift, it would be fufficient 
to refer to Biflop Ponet’s Catechi{m—to 
the fanétion of which Cranmer fub{cribed 
his mame—and to the Homilies, which 
a Ee Oe OTE A ET I a OL OO OO 
* H Mada optoa ess yedow cepaves® 
Science is like a golden crown. - 
; DEMOPHILWS. 
’ ‘$ Four lines are here in the tranflation; to 
~ ‘Which sothing an{wers in the original, 
Cantabrigianas 
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were compofed by him, aflifted by Ridley, 
Latimer, and others: more Calviniltie 
performances than-thefe were never writ- 
ten. He died a martyr, as every body 
knows, to the Proteftant doftrines. - 
NO. CCXIV.—-BISHOP RIDLEY. 
_ Nicholas Ridley was Bifhop of Lons 
don in 31547, tranflated to London in 
1550, and burnt at Oxford, at the fame 
ftake with Bifhop Latimer, in 1555. 
Ridley was one of the moft learned of 
the reformers, and undoubted teftimonies 
remain of his having been a Calvinift in 
Fox’s Martyrology. He received the rus 
diments of his education in Northumber. 
land, and wasentered of Pembroke Hall, 
‘Cambridge, of which fociety he was firft 
. Fellow, and afterwards Matter. 
In the 
garden belonging to tnat college he learn- 
ed by heart almoft all Paul’s Epiftles in 
Greek. Thefé memorable words are re- 
corded of this pious man, by Fox, as 
written a little before his martyrdom :—= 
s¢ Farewell, Pembroke Hall, of late my 
own college, my cure, and my charge.—« 
What cafe thou art now in, God know. 
eth: I know not well. Thou waft ever 
named, fince I knew thee, which is not 
thirty years ago, to be ftudious, well- 
learned, and a great fetter-forth of 
Chrift’s gofpel, and of God’s true words 
Sol found thee, and, bleffed be God, fo I 
left thee, indeed. Woe is me, for thee, 
my dear College, if ever thou fufer thy~ 
felf by any means to be brought from 
that trade. In thy orchard (the walls, 
butts, and trees, if. they could fpeak, 
would bear me witnefs) I learned without 
book almoft ail St. Paul’s Epifties, yea, 
and, I ween, all the Canonical Epifiles, 
fave only the Apocalypfe; of which fudy, 
theugh in time a great part did depart 
from me, yet the {weet {cent thereof, I 
traft, I fhall carry to heaven with me.— 
The profit thereof, I think, Ihave felt im 
all my lifetime ever after.” 
No. CCXV.—-MARTIN BUCER, AND FA- 
GiuUs. 
Martin Bucer was born in Germany in 
the year’ 1491, and there received his edus 
cation, He was invited by Edward VI. 
to England, and appainied divinity pro- 
feffor at Cambridge, as Peter Martyr was 
at Oxford. Fagius, invited by the fame 
authority, accompanied* Buccr to England, 
and fettled alfo at Cambridge. He was 2 
man of acknowledged talents and learn. 
ing ; and ample proofs of his bemga 
Calvinift may be feen in his Latin writ- 
‘ings. Large extracts from thefe. are made 
by Mr. Toplady, in his Hiforic Proof, 
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