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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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A year before his decease, he was more afflicted with sickness, then all his life time past, and notwithstanding he was never empesched with weightier affairs then at y• instant, for the bot•h which a little before was stopped, then began to break out, & overrunning in worldly his whole body, marvellously weakened his forces extenuated & exhausted with watching. This while he was moved with an incredible solicitude, not only to see the Gospel (which now began to flourish) prosper under him: but also in the broil of civill war, then •yrye hot▪ and among, sects budding and springing one from another, laboriously to do his duty, and serve his call Wherefore having no respect to the1 troublous season, he watched & travailed much more than ever he did, going on foot through the whole circuit of his Church, exhorting his own flock as well as his enemies, & often times grievously and sharply rebuking them, not without great peril of his life, to reduce them to the right way. Briefly he employed himself in all things most faithfully diligently ⟨image 73⟩& with an ardent zeal. Furthermore among so many public & particular affairs, among his ordinary Sermons, he began the Bible, which he was accustomed to read, when his turn was with an other professor of Divinity, & prosecuting daily the exposition of the same, as a true & singular Bishop of Christ, he made an excellent work, bringing to light new & old matters, faithfully & learnedly, through his great know ledge of holy scriptures, & the Greek and Hebrew tongues. This man alone sustained many burdens one whole year together, marvellous patiently with his tedious sickness, when the same inwardly flowed in his members with no less pain, than when it brake out. Besides this he enterprised y• interpretation of two strange tongues: I need not to write with what dexterity. For divers works of Theophi lactus, Cyrillus, & Chrisostomus in that behalf bear luculent testimony, although it is apparent they were hastened to timely to y• Printers press. He added hereunto the expositions of those places which are most difficile, ⟨image 73⟩