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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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After this he began to expound th• Epistle to the Romans, & consequently the Psalms. But how? he declared them so divinely, that it seemed i• the judgement of all faithful & learned men, he was a shining light, • bright Phoebus, that began to clea• after a long cloudy and obscure sky• ⟨image 12⟩There he showed the difference betwixt the law and the Gospel. He also confounded the error that reigned then in schools and Sermons, the which error taught, that men merit remission of since by their proper works, and that they be just before God, by outward discipline, as the Pharisees taught. Luther diligently reduced the minds of men, to the Son1 of God. And as John Baptist demonstrated the Lamb of God that took away the since of the world: even so Luther expressly showed that sins are freely remitted, for the love of the Son of God, and that we ought faithfully to embrace this bountiful gift. He also illustrated diu••s other points of ecclesiastical doctrine.
After this he began to expound th• Epistle to the Romains, & consequētly the Psalmes. But howe? he declared them so diuinely, that it semed i• the iudgement of al faythfull & learned men, he was a shyning lyght, • bright Phebus, that began to clea• after a long cloudy and obscure sky• ⟨image 12⟩Ther he shewed the differēce betwixt the law and the Gospel. He also confounded the errour that raygned then in schooles and Sermons, the whych errour taught, that men merite remission of synnes by their proper woorkes, and that they be iust before God, by outward discipline, as the Phariseis taught. Luther diligentlye reduced the myndes of men, to the Sonne