LEVER. 917 " sacrament really and corporally, as Mr. Young told me ; " and yet being askedwhether that was Christ's body which 44 we see the priest lift up, he said that Christ's body 44 could neither be lifted up, nor down ; and carrying it " about to be honoured, he said, was an evil abuse. Also, 44 he said, that evil men do not receive Christ's body, but " the sacrament thereof. He advised Mr. Young to study " the scriptures, and to beware of men. He said also that "the book which my lord of Canterbury last set forth ." of this matter, is a wonderful book, and willed Mr. " Young to read it with diligence. Mr. Young said to me, '" that whereas he was aforetime as ready and willing to 44 have died for the transubstantiation of the sacrament, as " for Christ's incarnation ; he is now purposed to take " deliberation, and to study after a more indifferent sort, to " ground his judgment better than upon a common consent " of many that have borne the name of Christ. I trust that " not only Mr. Young, but many others are drawn from " their obstinacy unto more indifferency, by Dr. Redman's " communication. 44 If I be master of St. John's college, I shall be desirous 44 to have you at home, and not unwilling that you should '" have and enjoy any privilege that may encourage you to `44 a better knowledge of the Greek tongue.. Since I wrote 44 last, there be dead of your acquaintance Dr. Neveyear, "44 Dr. Redman, and Dr. Bell the physician. All other your " friends and acquaintance are in good health. When you " talk with God in meditation and prayer remember me. " Consider ; be vigilant ; pray, pray, pray. Scribbled at 44 London, 13 November. 44 Faithfully yours, " THOMAS LEVER." On the death of King Edward, and the return of popery and persecution, Mr. Lever withdrew from the storm, fled beyond sea, and was involved in the troubles at Frankfort. It does not, however, appear that he took any activepart in Roger Ascham,to whom this epistle was addressed, was one of the brightest geniuses and politest scholars of his age. He was public orator of the university of Cambridge, and Latin secretary to Edward VI., Queen 'Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, the last of whom he taught to write a fine hand, and instructed in the Greek and Latin languages, of which he was a consummate master. His letters are valuable both for style and matter, and are almost the only classical work of the kind written by an English- man ; yet withall his learning and refinement, he was extravagantly fond of archery, dicing and cockfighting;-Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. i. p. 695. Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. i. p. 276.
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