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Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs…Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs…
Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs of Christ, D. Nicolas Ridley late Bishop of London, and M. Hugh Latimer sometime Bishop of Worcester, during the time of their imprisonments. Whereunto is added. A treatise against the error of transubstantiation, made by the said reverend father D. Nicolas Ridley. M.D.LVI.Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs of Christe, D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London, and M. Hughe Latymer sometyme Bysshoppe of Worcester, during the tyme of their emprysonmentes. Whereunto is added. A treatise agaynst the errour of transubstantiation, made by the sayd reuerende father D. Nicolas Rydley. M.D.LVI.
Strasbourg: printed by the heirs of W. Rihel, 1556
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Sir I beseech you / let your servant read this my babbling unto you / and now and then / as it shall seem unto you best / let your pen run on my book / spare not to blot my paper I give you good leave.
Syr I beseche you / let your seruaunt reade this my bablinge vnto you / and nowe and then / as it shall seme vnto you beste / let youre penne runne on my booke / spare not to blotte my paper I geue you good leaue.
As touching this Antoniane / whom I have here made mine adversary / lest peradventure any imagination might carry you amiss / and make you think otherwise then I meant: Know you that I have alluded to one Antony a most cruel Bishop of the Arians / and a very violent persecutor of them that were Catholic / 1and of a right judgement. To whom Hunericus a Tyrant of the Vandals / knowing Antonies fierceness committed his whole authority / that he should ⟨image 36⟩either turn the Christians which believed well / unto his false Religion / or else to punish and torment them at his pleasure. Which thing Antonius toke in hand to do / and executed the same against a great number / but specially against two most godly Bishops / and most constant in the doctrine which was according to godliness.2 The name of the one was Eugenius an aged man / the other was named Habet deum. This Latter as it appeareth by Victors History of the persecutions of the Vandals booth the Tyrant / and the false counterfeit Bishop desired much to have turned unto their most pestilent heresy. This Habet deum / was bisshope of the City Tamallune / where Antony had ben bishop before. And when Antony had vexed him (as the story sayeth) with diverse and sundry persecutions / and had found the soldier of Christ always constant in his Confession / it is said / that at length in a great rage he swore / and said to his friends on this wise: if I make him not of our Religion / then am I not Antony: it is incredible what harms and troubles he put him to / what cruelty he practised against him / and it were to long now / to describe the same unto you. But the man of god stood always unmoveable / and in the confession of Christs faith remained ever unto the end / the constant and unfoiled soldier of Christ. This good Bisshoppe Habet deum / I praye to god our heavenly father to give me grace that