In Honey Lane, a narrow thoroughfare adjoining Cheapside, stood the old church of All Hallows, of which Robert Forman was rector. His curate was a plain man of lively imagination, delicate conscience, and timid disposition, but rendered bold by his faith, to which he was to become a martyr. Thomas Garret, for that was his name, having believed in the Gospel, earnestly called his hearers to repentance;[584] he urged upon them that works, however good they might be in appearance, were by no means capable of justifying the sinner, and that faith alone could save him.[585] He maintained that every man had the right to preach the word of God;[586] and called those bishops pharisees, who persecuted christian men. Garret's discourses, at once so quickening and so gentle, attracted great crowds; and to many of his hearers, the street in which he preached was rightly named Honey Lane, for there they found the _honey out of the rock_.[587] But Garret was about to commit a fault still more heinous in the eyes of the priests than preaching faith. The Hanse merchants were seeking some sure place where they might store up the New Testaments and other books sent from Germany; the curate offered his house, stealthily transported the holy deposit thither, hid them in the most secret corners, and kept a faithful watch over this sacred library.[588] He did not confine himself to this. Night and day he studied the holy books; he held Gospel meetings, read the word and explained its doctrines to the citizens of London. At last, not satisfied with being at once student, librarian, and preacher, he became a trader, and sold the New Testament to laymen, and even to priests and monks, so that the Holy Scriptures were dispersed over the whole realm.[589] This humble and timid priest was then performing alone the biblical work of England. [584] Earnestly laboured to call us to repentance. Becon, iii. p. 11. [585] Quod opera nostra quantumvis bona in specie nihil conducunt ad justificationem nec ad meritum, sed sola fides. (Foxe, Acts, v. p. 428.) Because our work, however good in appearance are of no avail to justification or to merit, but faith alone can save. [586] Every man may preach the word of God. Ibid. [587] Psalm lxxxi. 16. [588] Having the said books in his custody. Foxe, Acts, v. p. 428. [589] Dispersing abroad of the said books within this realm. Ibid. p. 428. See also Strype. _Cranmer's Mem._ p. 81. [Sidenote: WHAT MEN FOUND IN THE SCRIPTURES.]