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A pleasant new nosegay full of many godly and sweet flowers, lately gatheredA pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, lately gathered
A pleasant new nosegay full of many godly and sweet flowers, lately gathered by Theodore Basil.A pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, lately gathered by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1543printed for Ioha, 1543
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He is the lawyer, which will expulse the darknesses of mens traditions, that fight with his infallible verity, & bring in the glorious light of his most holy word. To be short, he will detect and overthrow all the ⟨image 8⟩Idols, that obscure his glory, and set up his blessed name to be praised and magnified for ever and ever. So be it.
He is ye lawer, which wyl expulse the darkenesses of mennes tradicions, that fyghte with his infallible verite, & brynge in the glorious lyght of his moost holye worde. To be shorte, he wyll detecte and ouerthrowe all the ⟨image 8⟩Idols, that obscure his glory, and set vp his blyssed name to be praysed and magnyefyed for euer and euer. So be it.
Of this thing have we experience even at this time, in the which that LORD of puissance hath most puissantly by his dearly beloved servant Henry our most virtuous & godly King, subverted, toppled down, and overthrown a great part of Antichrists kingdom, so that by his divine policy & godly enterprise,1 that great whore of Babylon, the mother of all whore dome & abominations of the earth, hath lost her chief glory & renown, & is now become so vile, that she is even made the habitation of devils, & the hold of all foul spirits & a cage of all unclean & hateful birds.2 So that no man now will once by any of her merchandise. And without doubt the time is ⟨image 8⟩at hand,3 that Babylon shall have such a fall, that it shall not be able after this at any time to be repaired. For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it, which is faithful in all his words, & whose trueth abideth for ever & ever. Neither can this prophecy of Christ be made frustrate by any humane policy: