216 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. " of the house be bound unto. I have also skewed Mr. " Cheek your request, and have as yet no answer from him. " Your letters of news written to all the fellows of St. " John's, are as yet reserved there, and come not as yet a unto my sight. As touching the imprisonment of the " Duke of Somerset and his wife, the Earl of Arundel, the " Earl Paget, Lord Gray and others, that be lately put " into the Tower, other men that know more than I do " may write unto you better than I can. The bishoprics of " Lincoln, Rochester and Chichester, be as yet void, and " appointed as yetcertainlyto no man for as much as I know. " Mr. Home is dean of Durham, Dr. Redman is deceased, " and Dr. Bill by the king is appointed master of Trinity. " college, Cambridge, and I to succeed him in the master- " ship of St. John's. Dr. Redman being in a consumption " did look certainly for death, and did ever talk of religion " as one who had clean forsaken, the world, and look and " desire to be with God. I will shew you part of such talk " as Mr. Young of Cambridge did hear of Dr. Redman " himself, and did shew unto me afterwards. First, Dr. " Redman being desired to answer to questions of religion " his judgment, (lid say, that he would answer betwixt God " and his conscience, without any worldly respect.. Then " being demanded what he thought of the see of Rome, he " said, it was the sink of iniquity : but do not youalso think " that we have a stinking pump in the church of England? " Tothe demand of purgatory, he said, there wasno such pur- " gatory as the schoolmen do imagine ; but when Christ shall " come surrounded with fire from heaven, then all meeting " him shall there be purged, as I think, said he, and as " many authors do take it. And to make the mass a " sacrifice for the dead, is to be plain against Christ. And cc to the proposition, faith only justffieth, he answered, that " was a comfortable and sweet doctrine, being rightly under- " stood of a true and lively faith, and that no works could cc deserve salvation ; no, riot the works of grace in a man " that is justified. Whenhe was asked what he thought of c4 transubstantiation, he said, he had studied that matter " these twelve years, and did find that Tertullian, Irenwus cc and Origen, did plainlywrite contrary to it, and in the other " ancient writers it was not taught nor maintained. There- " fore, in the schoolmen, he thought he should have found " plain and sufficient matter for it ; but in them there was " no good ground, but all was imaginations and gross errors. cc Concerning the presence, he said, that Christ was in the
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