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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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Let us render thanks unto God, the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath pleased by the Ministry of Divine and godly Luther, too purify the Evangelical ⟨image 23⟩fountains of all ordure and papistical1 infection, and restore sincere doctrine to the Church, whereof minding evermore, we may conjoin our lamentable petitions, and with zealous affection beseech God to con ••rine that he hath achieved in us, for his holy Temples sake. Th•s is thy voice and promise living and just God, eternal father of our Lord Jesus Christ, creator of a• things, and of the Church: I will have compassion on you, for my names sake. I will do it for my se••e, yea truly for my self, that I be not blasphemed. I beseech thee with ardent affection, that for thy glory, & the glory of thy Son Jesus Christ, thou wilt collect unto thy self in the voice of thy Gospel, among us, one perpetual Church, and that for the d•are love of thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ our mediator & intercessor thou wilt govern us by thy holy Gho••, that we unfeignedly may call upon thee, and serve thee justly. Rule also the studies of thy doctrine, govern and conserve the policies and discipline of the same, which be the Nur••s of thy Church & schools. And ⟨image 23⟩sith thou hast created mankind that thou mayest be known & invocated of the same, and that for this respect thou hast revealed thy self by many c••are testimonies, permit not this small number and selected ••ocke (that profess •ny sacred w•or•) to be defaced and overcome. And the rather, for that thy Son Jesus Christ ready to fight against death, hath p•ayed in this manner for us: Father, sanctify them in verity, thy word is verity. We conjoin our prayer with the prayer of this our hoye Prest, & we make petition wth him, that thy doctrine may the among m, and that we may be directed by the same. We heard Luther evermore pray in this wise, and so praying, his innocent Ghost peaceably was separated from the earthy corps, when he had lived all most thee score and three years.