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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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¶ The history of the death of John Ecolampadius, set forth by Simon […] (⸫)
¶ The history of the death of Iohn Ecolampadius, setforth by Simon 〈…〉 (⸫)
¶ Simon Grineus wisheth long health, to his friend Wolfangus Fa•er Capito.
¶ Simon Grineus wysheth long health, to his friend Wolfangus Fa•er Capito.
I Understand by your letters, that many as well in France, as in other1 places, have written unto you the horrible brute flown in to foreign Coū tries of the departure of our good friend John Ecolampadius a man of much innocency, as though he had destroyed him self or his friends secretly made him away, and that this rumour is authorised by certain books published, so that many far distant hence, persuade this to be no fable. And thereupon you earnestly require me (yea truly me) that have […] present in all these affairs, observed the sequel thereof more circus sp••t•y ⟨image 71⟩then other, upsucked his last sighs, & closed my friends eyes: in consideration of our mutual acquaintance long time confirmed, I would gratify the deceased with relation of the truth, removing all suspicion from the virtuous & godly, & confounding the sycophancy and slander of the perverse and malicious rabble, in sort, that the utility which the wise & earn have reaped of his monuments, continually may increase in thee, & his excellent works be purged of the sacrilegious accusations of the malignant. Al be it (dear friend Capito) thanks be given to God, I never yet