[ XC] God brings good out of evill, for his People's good.
RObert Holgate,* 1.1 who was sometimes Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, because he could not peaceably enjoy his small Living in Lincolnshire, in regard of the litigiousnesse of a neighbouring Knight, comming to London to right himself, he came into the favour of King Henry the Eighth,* 1.2 and so got by degrees the Arch-Bishoprick of York; he thought he got well, by the quarrelling of this wrangling Knight. So let every man say of that strife and contention, that disorder and confusi∣on, that it is foelix contentio, & foelix confusio, a happy contention, a happy disorder, when the strifes of men shall put him upon those providences and duties, which shall be so blessed unto him, as to forward his getting into the favour of the most high God, and the enjoyment of peace, and to the admiring of his free grace, who hath brought him into so great a good from so great an evill.