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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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And now Agathye, if it delight you to hear Zuinglius travails against the enemies of truth, and the attempts of wy•ye workers, we must derive our discourse from a far there and higher beginning.
And nowe Agathye, if it delyghte you to heare Zuinglius trauayles agaynst the enemyes of truth, and the attemptes of wy•ye woorkers, wee must deryue our dyscourse from a far ther and hygher begynnynge.
Albeit that Francis Lambert Friar observant of Anguiō, whose name is well known to the French & Germane nation, ought not to be enrolled among his enemies: yet for that of the first & principal he broached this busyness against Zuinglius, he must not here be buried in the vale of oblivion. He came to Zurick in his Friars weed, & disputed openly against Zuinglius, touching the intercession of Saints, but I cannot tell who pricked him, if it were the truth, or that he set but a face thereon. For after certain propositions, he was contented to be reformed, & gave thanks to God, that he had revealed the truth unto him so plainly by his excellent Organ. Awhile after came John Faber, & Martin Blanshe Preacher of Tiding, addressed thither by Hugo, Bishop of Constance, at the request of the inhabitants of Zurick. And albeit as they reported, they had none other Commission than to understand the cause of the differentes, and endeavour to pacify and end them: Nevertheless occasion so offered, & matters so falling out, they fell into question ⟨image 88⟩of the Gospel, the intercession of saints, human constitutions, and other things in such •ort, that they passed and consumed their whole journey in disputation herein, and not with out emolument, For all the assembly, which was about six hundred parsons considered well, how vile & frail all worldly matters were respect of celestial things. It sufficed not the Bishop to have sent these foresaid parsons. For anon after his Suffragan came to Zuricke in deliberation to persuade them to believe the intercession of Saints, & the sacrifice o the Mass. The which by his book published abroad, and approved by many schools, he hath laboured to confirm. But he lost time: For a certain noble man of illustre family, & magnanimous, being demanded what the Suffragan had gotten, he answered: The Vicar hath driven away the Sow, and we bring the Pigs, or as I mought say: the Suffragan hath beaten the bush, and Zuinglius hath taken the Birds. These things so haply finished by y singular goodness of almighty God, Zuinglius