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only by the termination of the Church. And in deed except we do constitute the Church our foundation, stay, and judge, we can have no end of controversies, no end of disputations. For in that we all bring Scriptures and Doctors for the probation of our assertions, who should be Judge of this our controversy? If we our selves, then be we singular and wise in our own conceits, then can not we avoid the woe that the Prophet speaketh of. It remaineth therefore that we submit our selves to the determination and arbitrement of the Church, with whom God promised to remain to the worlds end, to whom he promised to send the holy Ghost which should teach it the trueth. Wherefore M. Ridley, if you will avoid the woe that the prophet speaketh of, be not you wise in your judgement: if you will not be wise and singular in your own judgement, captivate your own understanding, subdue your reason, and submit your self to the determination of the Church. This is briefly the sum of the Oration of the Bishop of Gloucester, by the which he endeavoured in many mo words, amplifying and enlarging the matter eloquently with sundry points of Rhetoric, to move affections, to persuade Master Ridley to recant and forsake his Religion. To whom M. Ridley answered in few words,¹ that he said most truly with the Prophet, woe be to him which is wise in his owe conceit, but that he acknowledged no such singularity in him, ne knew any cause why he should attribute so much to him self. And where as he ⟨p. 1766⟩said Master Cranmer leaned to him, that was most untrue, in that he was but a young Scholar in comparison of Master Cranmer: for at what time he was a young Scholar, then Master Cranmer a Doctor, so that he confessed that M. Cranmer might have ben his Schoolmaster these many years. It seemed that he would have spoken more, but the Bishop of Gloucester interrupted him, saying.

onely by the termination of the Church. And in deede except we do constitute the Churche our foundation, stay, and iudge, we can haue no ende of controuersies, no ende of disputations. For in that we all bryng Scriptures and Doctors for the probation of our assertions, who shoulde be Iudge of this our controuersie? If we our selues, then be we singular and wise in our owne conceites, then can not we auoyde the woe that the Prophet speaketh of. It remayneth therefore that we submitte our selues to the determination and arbitrement of the Churche, with whom God promised to remayne to the worldes ende, to whom he promised to sende the holy Ghost which shoulde teache it the trueth. Wherefore M. Ridley, if you will auoyd the wo that the prophet speaketh of, be not you wyse in your iudgement: if you wyll not be wyse and singular in your owne iudgement, captiuate your owne vnderstanding, subdue your reason, and submit your selfe to the determination of the Church. This is briefly the summe of the Oration of the Byshop of Glocester, by the which he endeuored in many mo woordes, amplyfiyng and enlargyng the matter eloquently with sundry poyntes of Rethoricke, to moue affections, to perswade Maister Ridley to recant and forsake his Religion. To whom M. Ridley aunswered in few wordes,