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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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There was also a treaty of peace made to the great discomfort and hea vines of such as unfame••ye feared God. These doleful & miserable mishaps, abased the courages of all men, when either through pe•••lent air, wherewith the City & his house was infected, or through the scab which corrupted & putrefied his inward parts, there appeared a b•tch upon his huckle bone, where all the bones assemble, and immediately after inflamed his body with a most vehement heat, no doubt it was a Carbuncle. His colour was pale and earthy, and as hot as fire, and notwithstanding all these common and private diseases, he omitted not to preach, write and read Lectures: but as a worthy soldier hardened and patient in his pains, abandoned not his standing, until the violence of his malady enforces him to keep home, and rest on his bed, setting all busyness aside. We that were his friends reasoned and conferred with the Physician, then after with the Chirurgeon, as well of the nature as regiment of his sickness, and even the the Physician gave ⟨image 74⟩us faint hope of his recovery, partly considering the nature of his disease, & partly the weakness of his body, but when he he had considered allthings, he wrought the best & readiest help for his redress. A day or. 2. after, his heat began meanly to assuage by art & order of the Physician, & the botch being ripened, ministered ease for the vehement heat to respire, so that now we began to hope of his health. And albe it he took in good part the travail and service of his friends: yet he prayed them not to take so great pains, for that he was assured he should not escape this sickness. And this while1 his friends of all estates, & the godly and grave Counsellors of the City visited him, offering to gratify, and declared their faithful and loving hearts towards him. It was also by decree of the Senate ordained that the Physicians should employ their whole knowledge and endeavour to entreat him well. You should have seen such confluence of brethren, and devout persons to visit, comfort and watch with him, that where many before frequented his house, now a whole ⟨image 75⟩world seemed to occupy the same. His malady still continued at one stay, the eight day passed, the Physicians agreed not in their consultations, although alike they did their duties as friends in all diligence and fidelity.