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enemy_n	battle_n	great_a	slaughter_n	1,027	5	9.5987	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17087	A briefe treatise concerning the burnynge of Bucer and Phagius, at Cambrydge, in the tyme of Quene Mary with theyr restitution in the time of our moste gracious souerayne lady that nowe is. Wherein is expressed the fantasticall and tirannous dealynges ofthe [sic] Romishe Church, togither with the godly and modest regime[n]t of the true Christian Church, most slaunderouslye diffamed in those dayes of heresye. Translated into Englyshe by Arthur Goldyng. Anno. 1562. Read and iudge indifferently accordinge to the rule of Gods worde.; Historia vera: de vita, obitu, sepultura, accusatione haereseos, condemnatione, exhumatione, combustione, honorificaque tandem restitutione beatorum atque doctiss. theologorum, D. Martini Buceri et Pauli Fagii. English. Selections.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1562 (1562)	STC 3966; ESTC S106051	49,264	190

hast dispatched an innumerable company of mē secondlye thuntimelye death of our most noble kinge Edwarde the syxth whose life in vertue surmounted thopinion of al men and seemed worthy of immortality happened contrary to mens expectacion in that age in the vnlesse violence be vsed fewe do dye The conuersion of religion or rather the euersion turning therof into papistrie The incursion domination of straūgers vnder whose yoke our neckes were almost subdued The importunate crueltye of the byshoppes agaynst the Christians which executed that wickednes for making satisfaction wherof we ar gathered together thys day These are the thinges that ensued after his death but after his burninge ensewed yet greuouser thinges Namelye newe kinde of plagues and contagious diseases vnknowen to the very Phisitians whereby either euery mans health was appayred or els they were brought to theyr graues or els very hardly recouered blouddy battels with out victorye whereof the profite redounded to the enemie and to vs y e slaughter with great losse The which thinges do euidentlye declare that God is tourned from vs and angrye with vs and that he geueth no eare to our prayers and that he is not moued wyth our cries sighes but that he loketh that this our meting and assembly should be to this ende that forasmuche as we haue violated theyr coarses we should do thē ryght againe so that the memoriall of these most holy men may be commended to posteritie vnhurted and vndiffamed Wherfore amende yet at length my brethren whiche hitherto by reason of the variablenesse and vnconstancye of the times haue bene wauering and vnstedfast in your heartes shewe your selues chearefull and forwarde in making satysfaction for thiniurye you haue done to the dead whom wyth so greate wickednesse of late ye endomaged and defiled not by sensinge thē with the parfumes of those odours and spices now worne out of vre put to flight but with a true and vnfayned repentance of the hart and with praier to thentent that the heauenly godhead prouoked by our doinges to be our enemye may by our humble submission be entreated to be fauorable agreable to all our other requestes When Acworth had made an ●nd of his Oration M. Iames Pilkington the Quenes reader of the diuinitye lecture goynge vp into the pulpit made a Sermon vpō y e C.xi. Psalme the beginning whereof is Blessed is the man that feareth the lord c Where intending to proue that the remembraunce of the iust man shall not peryshe and that Bucer is blessed and that the vngodly shal freat at the syghte thereof but yet that all their attemptes shall be to no purpose to thentent this sayinge may be verified I will curse your blessinges and blesse your cursings he tooke his beginninge of hys owne person that albeit he wer both ready and willinge to take that matter in hand partlye for the worthinesse of the matter it selfe and inespecially for certain singular vertues of those persons for whom that congregation was called yet notwithstandinge he sayde he was nothing meete to take that charge vpon hym For it were more reason that he whiche before had done Bucer wrong should nowe make hym amendes for the displeasure As for his owne parte he was so farre from workynge anye euell agaynste Bucer eyther in worde or dede that for their singular knowledge almoste in all kinde of learninge he embraced both him and Phagius with all his heart But yet he somewhat more fauoured Bucer as with whom he had more familiarity and acquaintaunce In consideracion wherof although that it was scarce conueniente that he at that time shoulde speake yet notwithstandinge he was contented for frendeshippe and courtesye sake not to ●ayle them in this theyr businesse Hauynge made this preface he entered into the pith of the matter wherein he blamed greatlye that barbarous crueltye of the Courte of Rome so fierslye extended against the dead He sayd it was a more heinous matter thē was to be borne wyth to haue shewed such extreame cruelnesse to them that were aliue but for anye man to misbehaue him selfe in suche wise toward the deade was suche a thinge as had not lightly bene heard of Sauynge that he affirmed this custome of excommunicating and cursynge of dead folks to haue come first from Rome For Euagrius reporteth in his writinges that Eutichius was of the same opinion induced by thexample of Iosias who slewe the priestes of Baall and burnte vp the bones of theym that were deade euen vpon thaltars Whereas before the time of Eutichius this kinde of punishement was wel nere vnknowen neyther afterward vsurped of any man that euer he hearde of vntill a nyne hundred yeares after Christ. In the latter times the whyche how much the further they wer from that golden age of thapostels so much the more they wer corrupted this kinde of cruelnesse beganne to creepe further For it is manifestlye knowen that Stephen the sixth Pope of Rome digged vp Formosus his last predecessour in that sea and spoyling him of his Popes apparayle buried him agayne in laye mannes apparayle as they call it hauinge first cutte of and throwen into Tyber his twoo fyngers with which according to theyr accustomed maner he was wonte to blesse and consecrate The whyche his vnspeakable tyrannye vsed agaynste Formosus within sixe yeares after Sergius the third encresed also againste the same Formosus For taking vp his deade bodye and setting it in a Popes chayre he caused his heade to be smiten of and his other thre fingers to be cut from his hande and his body to be cast into the ryuer of Tiber abrogating and disanulling all 〈◊〉 decrees whiche thing was neuer done by any man before y t day The cause why so great cruelty was exercised by the report of Nauclerꝰ was this bycause that Formosus had bene an aduersarye 〈◊〉 Stephē Sergius when they sued to be made bishoppes This kinde of crueltye vnheard of before the Popes a while exercised one agaynst another But nowe or euer they had sufficientlye felte the smart thereof thē selues they had ●ourned the same vpō our neckes Wherfore it is to be wished that seinge it began among them it myght haue remayned still with thautours therof and not haue bene spred ouer thence vnto vs. But such was the nature of all euell that it quickly passeth into example for others to do the like For about the yere of our Lord 1400. Iohn Wicklyfe was in lyke maner digged vp burnte into ashes and throwen into a brooke that runneth by y e town where he was buryed Of the which selfe same sauce tasted also William Tracye of Gloucester a man a of worshipful house bicause he had writtē in his last will that he should be saued only by faith in Iesus Christe and that there neded not the helpe of anye man thereto whether he were in heauen or in earth and therfore bequeathed no legacye to that purpose as all other men were accustomed