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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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This their corrupt & perverse judgement gave him occasion to write unto me one little treatise entitled, the •asti••• of passover▪ ⟨image 65⟩wherein be expressed his mind •••ye learnedly, and (as I […] ▪ not▪ […] ▪ years past. Then I […] with all sedulity to allure such a companion of study and godliness to Basi••, judging it unworthy that such a toward wit, and hope of Christian Religion, should l••ke in a s•••et […] of his Country. I entreated Christopher of V••nhim, Bishop of Ba•••• ▪ 1to send for him, and to •••owe him with par••h•all […] of the Cathedral Church. He brought with him si•e Christian Tra[…]s, I remember not y• arguments of them all, but of one (••••s I •rr•) written of the Virgin Mary. And these Tragedies pleased well the judgement of all learned Readers. He gave him self much to write Greek and Latin verses. The arguments of his Tragedies were not conformable to the rule of faith, for that he wound him self out of the errors used in the Church slowly and deliberately, obeying rather the judgement of an apparent & established religion, then the vain affections of other, which was the cause his Tragedies were not imprinted.