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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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I remit you to the book, fearing is lose time. For what persuasion will avail him, that in the same treatise of the Supper of our Lord, will not perceive and learn the truth? Hitherto we have treated of the pains and travails he sustained to defend the verity, and now we will declare the perils he incurred for the same.
I remyt you to the booke, fearing is lose tyme. For what perswasion wyl auayle hym, that in the same treatise of the Supper of our Lorde, wyll not perceyue and learne the truth? Hytherto we haue treated of the paynes and trauayles he sustayned to defend the verity, and nowe we wyll declare the peryiles he incurred for the same.
After that the Priests and Monks were expulsed their Cloisters, and other1 Religious houses, and sentence definitive pronounced against them, that received Princes pensions, they attempted divers ways to destroy him. I will write of them that be notoriously know, and pass in silence his secrete and lurking enemies. ⟨image 94⟩At a certain time there knocked one at his door after my▪ night, and prayed him to come and visit one nigh dead. His Deacon answered, y• he would not awaken his Master, but repair to the sick him self. The other importunately refused, so as he bewrayed his wretched intent, wherefore y• Deacon feigning he would go and awaken his Master, shut the door closely, and suffered the Caitiff to tarry there at his pleasure. And when it was day, Zuinglius had intelligence, this was a subtle sleight. First, to take him so daynlye, then to snaffle his mouth, & stop his speech, and so to carry him away in a boat. Awhile after, they had prepared a horse secretly, for the like purpose. Further, we have sent an espial wandering up and down in the Town, & wearing a long sword hired to encounter Zuinglius, & then to murder him. Likewise two Inhabitants of Zurick, whom I will not name, came one night when they we well whittled, and assailed Zuinglius house, threw stones, brake the windows, belched out railing words, so insolently demeaned them selves