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A famous and godly history containing the lives a[nd] acts of three renowned reformers…A famous and godly history contaynyng the lyues a[nd] actes of three renowmed reformers…
A famous and godly history containing the lives a[nd] acts of three renowned reformers of the Christia[n] Church, Martin Luther, John Ecolampadius, and Huldericke Zuinglius. The declaration of Martin Luther's faith before the Emperor Charles the fifth, and the illustre estates of the empire of Germany, with an oration of his death, all set forth in Latin by Philip Melanchthon, Wolfgangus Faber, Capito. Simon Grineus, [and] Oswald Miconus, newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian.A famous and godly history contaynyng the lyues a[nd] actes of three renowmed reformers of the Christia[n] Church, Martine Luther, Iohn Ecolampadius, and Huldericke Zuinglius. The declaracion of Martin Luthers faythe before the Emperoure Charles the fyft, and the illustre estates of the empyre of Germanye, with an oration of hys death, all set forth in Latin by Philip Melancthon, Wolfgangus Faber, Capito. Simon Grineus, [and] Oswald Miconus, newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian.
London: printed by John Awdely, 1561London: printed by Iohn Awdely, 1561
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Ecolampadius was borne in Germany, in the year of our Lord. 14•2.1 in a little Village called Viesperg in that Territory which the ancient latins called Cherusci. •ys Parents according to the Country, very rich, his Mother much renowned for her integrity of life, and holiness. Who for her liberality towards the poor, and good nature, was well regarded and reported among her neighbours. And when God had reft them of all their Children saving this, they endeavoured with all sedulity & diligence to have him instructed, and from the very breast nourished in learning and godly fear. Being grown somewhat elder, his Father determined to ⟨image 62⟩make him a Merchant, but his Mother procured longer exhibition for his continue in study. When he learned his ru[…]me•ts being very young, he represented such a token of towardness, that all those that knew him, marvelled much thereat, for y• Lord ripened him the ry•e••er, y• he might employ him in his service. Which was the cause his Father, either overcome with his Wives prayer, or won with the towardness of the Child, forced for no charges. After he had tasted the first foundations of learning, his Father sent him to Helteprune, & Heidelberg, to advance him to the study of the liberal sciences. There he profited so well, that at the .xii. year of his age he wrote commendable Verses, and within two years after he obtained the degree of Bachelor, as they term it. And this while be fructified no less in y• fear of God, and innocency of life, then in2 g•od literature. Being graded Master of Art, he went to Boulogne in Italy, according to his fathers mind, to study the Civil law, under a Reader thereof for his excellency in that ⟨image 63⟩