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A08486	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.; Historia de vita et actis Martini Lutheri. English	Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Bennet, Henry, fl. 1561, compiler and trans.; Capito, Wolfgang, 1478-1541. De vita Oecolampadii. aut; Grynäus, Simon, 1493-1541. De J. Oecolampadii obitu. aut; Mykonius, Oswald, 1488-1552. De H. Zuinglii vita et obitu. aut	1561 (1561)	STC 1881; ESTC S120757	69,569	198

adm●n●●●on was geuen hym of a singular good wyl and great clemency In the shutting vp of hys Oration he added m●na●inges saying that yf he would abyde in hys purposed entent the ●mp●rour would procede further exterminate hym the Empire perswadyng hym deliberatlye to ponder and aduise these and other thynges Martine Luther aunswered Most noble Princes my moste gracious Lordes I render most humble thankes for your benignities and syngular good wylles whence proceedeth thys admonicion For I knowe my selfe to be so base as by no meanes I can deserue a●monicion of so great Princes Then he frankely pronounced he had not reproue● all Councels but onely the Councel of Constance and for this principal cause that the same condempned the word of God whych appeared in the ●●n●empnacion of thys Article proponed by Iohn ●usse The Churche of Christ is the Communion of the P●●●e●●inate It is euident the Counc●l of Const●c● abolished thys article consequently thys article of our faith I beleue the holy Church vniuersall And that he was ready to spend lyfe and bloud s● he were not compelled to call backe the manyfest word of God for in defence therof we ought rather to obey God then men And that in thys he coulde not ad-2noyde the scandale of fayth for there is two scandales or offences to saye of Charity of Fayth The scandale of Charity consisteth in maners in lyfe The scandale of Fayth or doctrine resteth in the word of God as touching thys last he could escape it no maner of wayes for it laye not in his power to make Christ not y● stone of scandale If Christes sh●pe wer fed wyth pure pasture of the Gospell If the fayth of Christ wer sincerely preached if ther were any good Ecclesiastical Maiestrates who duly executed their office we should not nede to charge the Church with mens tradiciōs Further he knew wel we ought to obey the Maiestrates higher powers how vniustly peruers●● so euer they lyued We ought also to geue place to our iudgmet al which he had taught in al hys workes adding further he was ready to obey them in al pointes so that they inforced him not to deny the woord of God Then Luther was byd stand aside and the Princes con●u●●ed what aunswer thei might geue him This done they called him into a Parlour wher as the Doctor of Bade repeated hys former matters admonithyng Luther ●o submyt hys writinges to the Emperour and Empires iudgement Luther aunswered humbly and modestly he coulde not neyther woulde permit that men should say he would thunne the iudgement of the Emperour Princes supreme Estates of the Empyre weying so s●lenderlye their examinacion that he was contented to suffer his writings most diligently to be read ouer considered iudged of the simplest so y● this were done with the authority of the word of God holy scripture And that the word of God made so much for hym and was so manyfest vnto hym that he woulde not geue place vnles they taught sound doctrine then the word of God And y● S. Au●ten wryteth he had learned to geue this honor onely to those bookes which are called Canonicall that he beleued them to be true And as touching the other Doctors albeit in holynes and excellency of learning they passed he would not credit them vnles they pronounced truth Further that Sayncte Paule had wrytten to the Thessalonians proue all things folow that is good And to the Galathians although an Aungel should descend from heauen if he preach otherwyse let him ●e accursed and therfore not worthy to be beleued Finally he mekely besought them not to vrge his conscience fastened with the ●andes of the woorde of God and holy scripture to deny that same excellent word And thus he cōmended hys cause and hym selfe to them and specially to the Emperors Maiestye requiring their helpe he myghte not be compelled to do anye thyng in thys matter agaynste hys conscience And otherwyse he would submyt hym selfe in all causes most obedientlye And answering thus Ioachime Elector Marques of Brandeburge demaunded if he had sayd he would not yelde vnles he were conuinced wyth the scripture Yea trulye ryght noble Lord quoth Luther or els by auncient and euident reasons Thus the assemble brake and the Princes repayred to the Emperours court The Archbishop of Triers abode accompanied with hys Official Iohn Ecke Cochleus cōmaūded Luther to come into hys chamber Ierome Schurff Nicholas Ambsdorff assisted to mayntaine Luthers cause Then the Official began to frame an argument like a Sophist Canonist defending the Popes cause That for the most part at al tymes holy scriptures haue engendred errors as the same of Heluidius the Arian out of that place in the Gospel where is expressed Ioseph knew not his wyfe til she was deliuered of her fyrst chylde Further he grew to ouerthrow thys proposiciō that the Catholik Church is the Cōmunion of Sayntes presuming also of Cocle to make wheat of bodily excremēts to cōpact mēbers Martin Luther Ierome Schurffe reproued these folyes other vaine and ridiculous matters whych Ecke brought forth but modestli as things not seruing to the purpose Somtyme Cochleus would entermedle his murmuring chattes and laboured to perswade Luther to desist from hys purpose vtterly to refraine thenceforth to wryte or teach so they departed About euening the Archbyshop of Triers aduertised Luther by Ambsdorff the Emperours promise made vnto him was prolonged two daies in the meane season he would conferre wyth him the next daye and for that cause he woulde sende Doctour Peutinger the Doctor of Bade the morrow after to hym and he himself would also talke with hym The Friday then that was Saynt Markes day Peutinger the Doctor of Bade trauailed in the forenone to perswade Luther simply and absolutely to submit the iudgement of his writinges to Themperor Empire He aunswered he would do submyt any thing they woulde haue hym so they grounded with the authoritye of holy scripture otherwyse he woulde not consent to do any thing For god sayd by his Prophet saith he Trust ye not in Princes nor in the children of men in whom there is no health Also cursed be he that trusteth in me And seyng them vrge him more vehemently he aunswered We ought to submit no more to the iudgement of men then the word of God doth So they departed and prayed hym to aduise for better aunswer and said they would returne after Dynner After Dynner they returned exhortyng as before but in vayne They prayed him at the least he would submit his writyng to the iudgement of the next general Councel Luther agreed therunto but wyth this condicion that they them selues shoulde present the Articles collected out of his bookes to be submitted to the Councel in this maner notwythstandyng that the sentence awarded by the coūcel should be authorised by the scripture

❧ A famous and godly history contaynyng the Lyues Actes of three renowmed reformers of the Christiā 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 ▪ wyth an Oration of hys death all set forth in Latin by Phillip Melancthon Wolfangus Faber Capito Simon Grineus Oswald Miconus Newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian ⸫ ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely dwellyng in lytle Brittaine Streete by great Saint Bartelmewes ▪ Anno ▪ 1561. ¶ Encomy of Martine Luther A head where Pallas misteries wer fraight A face where ●oumy brigh●lye dyd appeare An eye that could discerne ech mynde ● sleight And eares contēpning priuate ●au● to heare A tong that dyd pronounce the sacred truth A prareirs pen that paynted well the same A zeale that moued Tigrish hartes to ru●he And could to vertue mild●●s mindes enflame A mynde aspiring ay to wysdomes throne A hart that neuer drad the Tirantes might A rocke that wold remoue from truth for none Disdayning death in quarell of the ryght These golden gifts in Luther shined bright For which he now receiues immortal light ¶ Psalme .cxvi. ¶ The death of the iuste is precious before the syght of God To the right honorable ▪ and his syng●good lord Thomas Lord Wentworth prosperous health and perpetual fel citye ⸫ NOT without immortal prayse euerlasting renowme ar the actes and monumentes of learned men cōmended to posterity For if life wtout litterature is as Seneca sayth a death or sepulture of the lyuely man the body as Plato wytnesseth no body but a sepulture cohibiting the minde from hys natural vigour how much excelleth he ryght honorable and my syngular good Lord in thys frayle estate who wyth studies of humanitye garnished wyth diuine knowledge adorned hath not onely enriched his natural vnderstāding but also made the same almost equiualent to Aungels comprehēding the glorious misteries of the eternal Father and his Sonne Iesus Christ Among these how much Martine Luther excelled his holy woorkes prophane monumentes besides the learned testimonies of many famous Clarkes abundantly deciare Reading therefore of late tyme the history of hys Lyfe and Actes setfoorth by the incomparable ornament of good learnyng Phillyp Melanethon I was therein maruaylously delighted efrsones perusing the same I was rauished with incredible desyre to bestow somtime in the translation therof Many vrgent causes moued me whereof y● principal be these Fyrst hys integrity of life godly conuersacion zelous affection towardes the propagacion of Gods holy word Secondly his animosity professyng Christ hys Maister hys learned conference wyth the temporall Ecclesiastical Estates of Germany his contempt of al worldly felicitye transitori pompe in respect of Christ hys Maister whom he purely professed and sincerely preached Lastly y● lamentable verses funerall Oracions of diuers bewayling the losse of this pearle of Christianity the traduction of this present historye into the Germaine Frenche Spanish Italian tonges by certayn godly persons exiled their natural country and dispersed in sundry Christian Territories wher Gods word is purely preached and all papistrye abolished By whyche it appeareth he was no lesse treasure and glory of hys Countrye spectacle and absolute Image of godly wysedome then terrour to all Papisme and such as builded the laud of theyr lyfe on the s●nde of ambicious seekyng My rude translacion symple trauayle I dedicate vnto your good Lordship as to the very Patron and fauourable Mecenas of all poore Studentes Whose honorable personage to pouder with condigne praise ●● a thing more due to your desertes the easy for my rude pen and more appertaineth to my duty then it stādeth wyth myne ability For who knoweth your Lordship and is ignoraunt of the rare gyftes that harbor in your head of the natural bountye that so brightly shineth in your countenaūce Who hath not hearde the renowmed brute of your constancye in Christian religion euen in these late wretched dayes whose noble hart neither tedious and long imprisonment neyther flowing heapes of worldly aduersity could fraight with feare or mooue to deflect to any sinister way and whose vertuous mynde in greatest troubles euermore aspired to the hygh temple where God in glorye is in throned I passe in silence your bounty towards al such as professe God vnfaynedly publishe abroade the fruites of theyr studies All which most heauenly desertes do not onely merite to be registred in the booke of Fame but also ministre ample occasion for your honorable personage whē the fatal Ladies shal spyn out the thre● of mortal life to be calendred in the Catalogue of those vertuous wyghtes Who for sundry their prowesses woorthye exploictes goodly graces and syngular giftes were by antiquitye consecrate to immortality And though your honour whose lyfe lightneth hys profession and whose profession purelye aduaunceth the glory of God and his sacred word disdayneth to be setforth wyth my rude penne yet your Lordshyp must beare with him that of good wyl pronoūceth this of your good deseries I coulde wade further in your honours commendacion but that I haue a certayn reuerence to trouble wyth my prolixitye your grauer affaires And partlye feare pulleth me back least I be spoiled with the nose of adulacion whose honorable eares abhorres to hear your proper praise and whose iudgement woulde condempne my temerarious attēpt herein Therefore sparing to speake that inwardly I conceiue I remyt this argument of blasing your heroiacal vertues to such excellent Rethoricians as far surmounting me in eloquence good lytterature as Phebus wyth hys bryght beames the lesser celestiall bodyes Thus humbly besechyng your honour to take in good parte the base and symple trauayle of a poore Callisian and also vouchsafe the Patronage of thys Christian history or rather myrrour of Christian lyfe Vnder whose protection I publyshe the same abroade I beseche the eternall God and hys Sonne Iesus Christe to preserue your Lordshyppe and the ryght honourable and vertuous Lady your Wyfe sende ye encrease of muche honour and graunt ye the accomplishment of your gentle hartes desyre From London thys ●● of Nouember 1561. ⸫ ¶ Your honours most humble Oratour Henry Bennet ❧ The hystory of the Lyfe and Actes of Martine Luther Doctour of Diuinitie Faythfully set foorth by Phillip Melan●thon ¶ THE reuerende Father Martin Luther promised in hys fatall tyme to publyshe aswell the discourse of hys lyfe as causes of hys conslicts whych he resolued to do yf death to greedy of her pray had not reft vs the society of hym and the heauens accelerated to place thys incomparable Iewell among the elect organes and vessels of God the father Therefore I iudge it necessary that the consideracion of hys particular lyfe be luculently set forth Since the same aboūded with manye good examples that may corroborate in syncere mindes the fear of god not

Emperial Maiesty and the natural bounty of other woulde not haue suffered the rest that be sounde to be persecuted wyth fire But thou resuscitatest and bryngest to lyght al that the general councel of Constance hath condempned the whych was assembled of al the nacion of Germany requirest to be conuinced with scriptures wherin thou errest greatly For what a●ay●eth it to renue disputacion of thinges so long tyme past condempned by the Church and Councels vnles it shoulde be necessarye to geue a reason to euery man of euery thyng That if all suche as impugne that which was decreed by the Churche and Councels may once get thys aduauntage to be cōu●nced by the scriptures we shall haue nothyng certain and established in Christendome And th●s is the cause wherfore the Emperial Maiesty requireth of thee a symple aunswer either a negatiue or an affirmatiue if thou wilt defend al thy workes as Christian or no Then Luther besought the Emperial Maiesty not to cōpell him to yeld against his conscience cōfirmed w●th the holy scriptures without manifest argumentes alledged by hys aduersaries declared his answer was not crooked but symple and direct further he had not to say then he aduertised before that if his enemies could not extricate wyth sufficient argumentes hys conscience occupyed as they sayd with errours he was not able to ryd hym self out of the snares wherin he was entangled And wheras the general Councels haue ordeyned certain thynges those therefore not to be tru for that thei haue erred often tymes gaynsayd them selues for thys cause the enemyes argument was of no solidity Further he was able to prooue and would constantly stand to the tryall the Councels had erred and it was not meete for hym to reuoke and dysanull that which is manifest and diligently set forth in the Scripture Wherunto the Offical aunswered simply to purpose and said No man could proue the Councell had erred but Luther alledged he could promysed to proue And now nyght approching the Lordes rose and departed And after Luther had taken hys leaue of the Emperour diuers Spaniards scorned scoffed the holy man in his way to his lodging hallowing hoopyng after hym a ●on● whyle The Fridaye following after the Princes Electours Dukes other Estates were assembled the Emperour sent to al them that were deputed Counseillors one letter contayning thys that foloweth Our Predecessors who truely were Christian Princes wer obedient to the Romish Church which Martine Luther presently impugneth And for as muche as he is not determined to call backe his errors in any one point we cānot without great infamy● and stayne of honor degenerate from the examples of our Elders but wyl maintayn the auncient fayth and geue ay●e to the sea of Rome And further we be resolued to pursue Martin Luther and his adherentes by excommuncacions and by other meanes that may be deuised to extinguish his doctrine Neuertheles we wyll not violate our fayth which we haue promised him but meane to geue order for hys safe returne to the place whence he came The Princes Electors Dukes and y● other Estates of the Empire sat cōsulted vpon this sentence Friday all the after noone and Saturdaye the whole day so that Luther yet had no aunswer of the Emperour During this tyme diuers Princes Earles Barons Knyghtes of the order Gentlemen Priestes Monkes with other the La●tye and common sort visited hym All these were present at all houres in the Emperours court and could not be satisfied with the sight of hym Also ther were hyls set vp one against Luther the other as it semed with him Notwithstanding many supposed especiallye such as wel conceiued the matter y● this was subtilly done by hys enemies y● therby occasiō might be offred to infringe the safeconduct giuen him the which the Romayne Embassadours with al sedulity endeuoured to bring to passe The monday folowing before supper the Archbyshop of Triers aduertised Luther that on wednesday next he should appeare before him at syxe of the clocke before Dynner assigned hym the place On Saint Georges day the Archbishoppe of Triers great Vicar about Supper tyme cam to Luther by the commaundement of hys Prynce sygnifieng that at the houre and place prescribed he muste the morrow after haue accesse to hys Mayster The morrow after S. Georges day Luther obeying the Archbishops commaundement entred his palaice beyng accompanied thyther wyth hys said great Vicar and one of the Emperours Herauldes and such as cam in hys companye out of Saronye to Wormes with other his chiefe friends Where as Doctor Voeus the Marques of Bades Chaplein began to de clare and protest in the presence of the Archbishop of Triers Ioachyme Marques of Brandeburge George Duke of Sarony the Byshoppes of Ausburg Brandeburge the Earle George Iohn Back of Strasburge Verdeheymer Peutinger Doctors that Luther was not called to be conferred with as of a different or disputacion but onelye that the Princes had procured licence of Themperors Maiesty through Christian charity to haue liberty graunted vnto the to exhort Luther benignely brotherly He said further that albeit the Coūcels had ordeyned diuers thinges yet they had not determined contrarye matters And albeit they had greatly erred yet their aucthoritye was not therfore abased or at the least not so erred that it was lawfull for euerye man to impugne their opinions Further he alledged certayne thinges of Zacheus the Centurion of the decrees and tradicions of men of the ceremonies ordeined affirmyng that al these were established to repres the vices according to the quality reuolucion of tymes and that the Church could not be destitute of humayn constitucions Further that the tree is knowen by the fruit the lawes haue much profited and S. Martin Saint Nicholas and many other Sayntes haue assisted the Councels Moreouer that Luthers bokes wold brede great tumult incredible troubles that be abused the cōmon sort wyth hys booke of Christian liberty encouraging them to shake of theyr ●oke and to confirme in them a disobedience That presently the worlde was at an other stay ●he when y● beleuers wer a● of one ha●t soule therfore it was expedient to haue lawes Thys was worthye consideracion that albeit he ha● wry●t● many good thynges and dout●es wyth a goodly spirit as of Triple Iustice and other yet now the deuil attempted by wyly meanes that al hys workes for euer more should be cōdempned and that by these hys last workes it is easye to knowe the ●re● by the fruite and not by the blossome Here he added somethynge of the noone Dyuell of the Spirite commynge in the darke and of the fliyng arrowe All hys Oracion was exhortatorye full of common places of Rethoricke of honesty of vtility of lawes of the daungers of conscience and of the common and particular healthe repeatyng oft thys sentence in the Proeme myddle and ●p●●o●● of hys Oration That thys